Events

Pre-1600

• 217 BC Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.

• 168 BC Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.

• 431 The Council of Ephesus, the third ecumenical council, begins, dealing with Nestorianism.

• 813 Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.

• 816 Election of pope Stephen IV following the death of pope Leo III earlier that month.

• 910 The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).

• 1527 Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of Jakarta.

• 1555 A Mughal army under Humayun and Bairam Khan defeats an Afghan army under Sikandar Shah Suri in the battle of Sirhind, allowing Humayun to capture Delhi and reestablish the Mughal Empire in India.

• 1593 Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.

1601–1900

• 1633 The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.

• 1774 The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.

• 1783 A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.

• 1793 Haitian Revolution: The Battle of Cap-Français ends with French Republican troops and black slave insurgents capturing the city.

• 1807 In the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, the British warship attacks and boards the American frigate .

• 1812 France declares war on Russia, starting Napoleon's invasion.

• 1813 War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.

• 1839 Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.

• 1870 The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.

• 1893 The Royal Navy battleship accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

• 1897 British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.

• 1898 Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.

1901–present

• 1907 The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.

• 1911 George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

• 1911 Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.

• 1918 The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.

• 1922 British Army Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson is killed by the Irish Republican Army helping to spark the Irish Civil War.

• 1940 World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918.

• 1941 World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.

• 1942 World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.

• 1942 The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by U.S. Congress.

• 1944 World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.

• 1944 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.

• 1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end with an American flag-raising ceremony.

• 1948 The ship brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.

• 1948 King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India.

• 1962 Air France Flight 117 crashes on approach to Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, killing 112 people.

• 1965 The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed.

• 1966 Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyen Cao Ky crushed the Buddhist Uprising.

• 1969 The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

• 1978 Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.

• 1979 Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.

• 1984 Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.

• 1986 The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century. Argentina wins 2–1 and later goes on to win the World Cup.

• 1990 Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.

• 2000 Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.

• 2002 An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.

• 2007 The small town of Elie, Manitoba is hit by Canada's most intense tornado on record.

• 2009 A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured.

• 2012 Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.

• 2012 A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.

• 2015 The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All six of the gunmen are killed and 18 people are injured.

• 2022 An earthquake occurs in eastern Afghanistan resulting in over 1,000 deaths.

• 2025 The United States conducts airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.

Births

Pre-1600

• 662 Rui Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (died 716)

• 916 Sayf al-Dawla, founder of the Emirate of Aleppo (died 967)

• 1000 Robert I, duke of Normandy (died 1035)

• 1373 Elizabeth Bonifacia, heiress of Poland (died 1399)

• 1427 Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Italian writer and wife of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (died 1482)

• 1450 Eleanor of Naples, duchess of Ferrara (died 1493)

• 1477 Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, English nobleman (died 1530)

• 1593 Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English landowner and Parliamentarian commander (died 1671)

1601–1900

• 1680 Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister and theologian (died 1754).

• 1684 Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1762)

• 1704 John Taylor, English author and scholar (died 1766)

• 1713 John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (died 1765)

• 1738 Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (died 1813).

• 1757 George Vancouver, English lieutenant and explorer (died 1798).

• 1763 Étienne Méhul, French pianist and composer (died 1817).

• 1767 Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher, academic, and politician, Interior Minister of Prussia (died 1835).

• 1792 James Beaumont Neilson, Scottish engineer and businessman (died 1865)

• 1805 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian journalist and politician (died 1872).

• 1820 James Hutchison Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (died 1909).

• 1834 William Chester Minor, American surgeon and linguist (died 1920)

• 1837 Paul Morphy, American chess player (died 1884)

• 1837 Ernst Ziller, German-Greek architect, designed the Presidential Mansion (died 1923)

• 1844 Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (died 1906)

• 1845 Tom Dula, American soldier (died 1868)

• 1845 Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1906)

• 1850 Ignác Goldziher, Hungarian scholar of Islam (died 1921)

• 1855 Samuel Morris, Australian cricketer (died 1931)

• 1856 Henry Rider Haggard, English novelist (died 1925).

• 1861 Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (died 1914)

• 1864 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician and academic (died 1909)

• 1869 Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch Politician and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1944)https://www.uni-muenster.de/NiederlandeNet/nl-wissen/personen/colijn.html

• 1871 William McDougall, English psychologist and polymath (died 1938)

• 1873 Filippo Silvestri, Italian entomologist and academic (died 1949)

• 1874 Walter Friedrich Otto, German philologist and scholar (died 1958)

• 1876 Pascual Díaz y Barreto, Mexican archbishop (died 1936)

• 1879 Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1962)

• 1880 Johannes Drost, Dutch swimmer (died 1954)

• 1884 James Rector, American sprinter and lawyer (died 1949)

• 1885 Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (died 1962)

• 1887 Julian Huxley, English biologist and academic (died 1975)

• 1888 Harold Hitz Burton, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of Cleveland (died 1964)

• 1889 Joseph Cohen, British solicitor, property developer, cinema magnate and Jewish community leader (died 1980)

• 1890 Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1970)

• 1891 Franz Alexander, Hungarian psychoanalyst and physician (died 1964)

• 1892 Robert Ritter von Greim, German general and pilot (died 1945)

• 1894 Bernard Ashmole, English archaeologist and art historian (died 1988)

• 1896 Leonard W. Murray, Canadian admiral (died 1971)

• 1897 Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (died 1973)

• 1897 Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist and philosopher (died 1990)

• 1898 Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss soldier and author (died 1970)

• 1899 Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer, invented Masking tape (died 1980)

• 1899 Michał Kalecki, Polish economist and academic (died 1970)

• 1900 Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract artist, filmmaker, and painter (died 1967)

1901–present

• 1901 Elias Katz, Finnish runner and coach (died 1947)

• 1902 Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (died 1950)

• 1903 John Dillinger, American criminal (died 1934)

• 1903 Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (died 1988)

• 1906 William Kneale, English logician and philosopher (died 1990)

• 1906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American pilot and author (died 2001)

• 1906 Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)

• 1907 Eriks Ādamsons, Latvian writer, poet, and novelist (died 1946)

• 1909 Katherine Dunham, American dancer and choreographer (died 2006)

• 1909 Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Spanish princess and aristocrat (died 2002)

• 1909 Mike Todd, American producer and manager (died 1958)

• 1910 John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Indian-English lieutenant and mountaineer (died 1998)

• 1910 Anne Ziegler, English singer (died 2003)

• 1910 Konrad Zuse, German computer scientist and engineer, invented the Z3 computer (died 1995)

• 1911 Vernon Kirby, South African tennis player (died 1994)

• 1912 Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1983)

• 1912 Raymonde Allain, French model and actress (died 2008)

• 1913 Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet and author (died 1989)

• 1914 Mei Zhi, Chinese author and essayist (died 2004)

• 1915 Dolf van der Linden, Dutch conductor and composer (died 1999)

• 1915 Cornelius Warmerdam, American pole vaulter and coach (died 2001)

• 1915 Randolph Hokanson, American pianist (died 2018)

• 1915 Thomas Quinn Curtiss, American writer, and film and theatre critic (died 2000)

• 1916 Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (died 1982)

• 1916 Richard Eastham, American actor (died 2005)

• 1916 Emil Fackenheim, German Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi (died 2003)

• 1918 Cicely Saunders, English nurse, social worker, physician and writer (died 2005)

• 1918 Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (died 1993)

• 1919 Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (died 1980)

• 1919 Henri Tajfel, Polish social psychologist (died 1982)

• 1919 Clifton McNeely, American basketball player and coach (died 2003)

• 1920 James H. Pomerene, American computer scientist and engineer (died 2008)

• 1920 Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (died 2016)

• 1921 Joseph Papp, American director and producer (died 1991)

• 1921 Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (died 2013)

• 1921 Radovan Ivšić, Croatian writer (died 2009)

• 1921 Barbara Perry, American actress (died 2019)

• 1922 Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Group (died 2002)

• 1922 Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (died 1995)

• 1923 José Giovanni, French-Swiss director and screenwriter (died 2004)

• 1924 Christopher Booth, English clinician and historian (died 2012)

• 1924 Larkin Kerwin, Canadian physicist and academic (died 2004)

• 1926 George Englund, American film editor, director, producer and actor (died 2017)

• 1926 Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (died 2014)

• 1927 Anthony Low, Indian-English historian and academic (died 2015)

• 1928 Ralph Waite, American actor and director (died 2014)

• 1929 Bruce Kent, English activist and laicised Roman Catholic priest (died 2022)

• 1930 Yuri Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (died 1998)

• 1930 Walter Bonatti, Italian journalist and mountaineer (died 2011)

• 1931 Ruby Garrard Woodson, American educator and cultural historian (died 2008)

• 1932 Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Princess of Iran (died 2001)

• 1932 Yevgeny Kychanov, Russian orientalist, historian, and academic (died 2013)

• 1932 Amrish Puri, Indian actor (died 2005)

• 1932 June Salter, Australian actress (died 2001)

• 1932 Prunella Scales, English actress (died 2025)

• 1932 John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, English businessman and politician, Leader of the House of Lords

• 1933 Dianne Feinstein, American politician (died 2023)

• 1934 James Bjorken, American physicist, author, and academic (died 2024)

• 1936 Kris Kristofferson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2024)

• 1936 Ferran Olivella, Spanish footballer (died 2023)

• 1936 Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian accordion player and composer (died 2025)

• 1937 Chris Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records

• 1937 Bernie McGann, Australian saxophonist and composer (died 2013)

• 1939 Don Matthews, American-Canadian football player and coach (died 2017)

• 1939 Ed Paschke, Polish-American painter and academic (died 2004)

• 1939 Ada Yonath, Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (died 2026)

• 1940 Joan Busfield, English sociologist, psychologist, and academic

• 1940 Hubert Chesshyre, English historian and author (died 2020)

• 1940 Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016)

• 1940 Esther Rantzen, English journalist

• 1941 Ed Bradley, American journalist (died 2006)

• 1941 Terttu Savola, Finnish journalist and politician

• 1943 Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor and director

• 1943 Brit Hume, American journalist and author

• 1943 J. Michael Kosterlitz, British-American physicist

• 1944 Peter Asher, English singer, guitarist, and producer

• 1944 Helmut Dietl, German director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)

• 1945 Rainer Brüderle, German economist and politician, German Minister of Economics and Technology

• 1946 Linda Bond, Canadian 19th General of The Salvation Army

• 1946 Sheila Hollins, Baroness Hollins, English psychiatrist and academic

• 1946 Eliades Ochoa, Cuban singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1946 Józef Oleksy, Polish economist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (died 2015)

• 1946 Stephen Waley-Cohen, English journalist and businessman

• 1947 Octavia E. Butler, American author (died 2006)

• 1947 Howard Kaylan, American pop-rock singer-songwriter and musician

• 1947 Bruno Latour, French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist (died 2022)

• 1947 Pete Maravich, American basketball player (died 1988)

• 1947 Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian lieutenant and politician, President of Ghana (died 2020)

• 1948 James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss, Scottish businessman

• 1948 Todd Rundgren, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1949 Larry Junstrom, American bass player (died 2019)

• 1949 Brian Leveson, English lawyer and judge

• 1949 Alan Osmond, American singer and producer (died 2026)

• 1949 Meryl Streep, American actress

• 1949 Luís Filipe Vieira, Portuguese businessman

• 1949 Lindsay Wagner, American actress

• 1949 Elizabeth Warren, American academic and politician

• 1950 Sharon Maughan, English actress

• 1950 Adrian Năstase, Romanian lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Romania

• 1950 Greg Oliphant, Australian rugby league player

• 1950 John Perdue, former West Virginia State Treasurer

• 1950 Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (died 2009)

• 1950 Tom Alter, Indian actor (died 2017)

• 1951 Brian Cookson, British cyclist and sports administrator

• 1951 Craig Gruber, American bass player (died 2015)

• 1951 Humphrey Ocean, English painter and academic

• 1952 Graham Greene, Canadian actor

• 1952 Santokh Singh, Malaysian football player

• 1953 Wim Eijk, Dutch cardinal

• 1953 Mauro Francaviglia, Italian mathematician and academic (died 2013)

• 1953 Cyndi Lauper, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

• 1953 Bruce McAvaney, Australian journalist and sportscaster

• 1954 Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor (died 1977)

• 1955 Green Gartside, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1955 Christine Orengo, British academic and educator

• 1956 Darryl Brohman, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

• 1956 Alfons De Wolf, Belgian cyclist

• 1956 Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani agriculturist and politician, 25th Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs

• 1956 Tim Russ, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1956 Markus Schatte, German footballer, manager, and coach

• 1956 Derek Forbes, Scottish bass player and guitarist

• 1957 Danny Baker, English journalist and screenwriter

• 1957 Garry Gary Beers, Australian bass player, songwriter, and producer

• 1957 Kevin Bond, English footballer and manager

• 1957 Michael Stratton, English geneticist and academic

• 1958 Rocío Banquells, Mexican pop singer and actress

• 1958 – Jennifer Finney Boylan, American author

• 1958 Bruce Campbell, American actor, director, producer and writer

• 1959 Michael Kinane, Irish jockey

• 1959 Nicola Sirkis, French singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1959 Daniel Xuereb, French footballer

• 1960 Erin Brockovich, American lawyer and environmentalist

• 1960 Margrit Klinger, German runner

• 1960 Tracy Pollan, American actress

• 1961 Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter

• 1962 Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1962 Bobby Gillespie, Scottish musician and singer-songwriter

• 1962 Clyde Drexler, American basketball player and coach

• 1962 Gerald Hillringhaus, German footballer

• 1963 Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 61st Yokozuna

• 1963 John Tenta, Canadian-American wrestler (died 2006)

• 1964 Cadillac Anderson, American basketball player

• 1964 Amy Brenneman, American actress

• 1964 Dan Brown, American author and academic

• 1964 Miroslav Kadlec, Czech footballer

• 1965 Uwe Boll, German director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1965 Ľubomír Moravčík, Czech footballer and manager

• 1966 Joanna Kołaczkowska, Polish cabaret performer (died 2025)

• 1966 Michael Park, English racing driver (died 2005)

• 1966 Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress

• 1966 Dean Woods, Australian cyclist

• 1968 Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player and coach

• 1968 Miri Yu, Zainichi, Korean novelist

• 1971 Gary Connolly, English rugby player

• 1971 Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress and comedian

• 1971 Laila Rouass, British actress

• 1971 Kurt Warner, American football player and sportscaster

• 1972 Damien Oliver, Australian jockey

• 1973 Eydís Ásbjörnsdóttir, Icelandic politician

• 1973 Carson Daly, American radio and television host

• 1974 Jo Cox, British politician (died 2016)

• 1974 Donald Faison, American actor

• 1974 Vijay, Indian actor

• 1975 Urmas Reinsalu, Estonian academic and politician, 28th Estonian Minister of Defence

• 1978 Champ Bailey, American football player

• 1978 Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (died 2011)

• 1979 Joey Cheek, American speed skater

• 1979 Thomas Voeckler, French cyclist

• 1980 Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player

• 1980 Stephanie Jacobsen, Hong Kong-Australian actress

• 1981 Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player (died 2017)

• 1981 Aquivaldo Mosquera, Colombian footballer

• 1982 Andoni Iraola, Spanish footballer and manager

• 1982 Ian Kinsler, American baseball player

• 1982 Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model

• 1983 Allar Raja, Estonian rower

• 1984 Dustin Johnson, American golfer

• 1984 Rubén Iván Martínez, Spanish footballer

• 1984 Jerome Taylor, Jamaican cricketer

• 1984 Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player

• 1985 Thomas Leuluai, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1987 Danny Green, American basketball player

• 1987 Lee Min-ho, South Korean actor, singer, model, creative director and businessman

• 1987 Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer

• 1988 Omri Casspi, Israeli basketball player

• 1989 Cédric Mongongu, Congolese footballer

• 1989 Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor

• 1990 Sebastian Jung, German footballer

• 1991 Hugo Mallo, Spanish footballer

• 1992 Ura Kazuki, Japanese sumo wrestler

• 1992 Harry Reid, British actor

• 1993 Loris Karius, German footballer

• 1993 Danny Ward, Welsh footballer

• 1994 Sébastien Haller, French-Ivorian footballer

• 1994 Marnus Labuschagne, South African-Australian cricketer

• 1994 Carlos Vinícius Santos de Jesus, Brazilian footballer

• 1996 Mikel Merino, Spanish footballer

• 1996 Rodri, Spanish footballer

• 1999 Sam Retford, Australian-English actor

• 2001 Luciano Gondou, Argentine footballer

• 2006 Zépiqueno Redmond, Dutch footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 207 BC Hasdrubal Barca, Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War (born 245 BC)

• 431 Paulinus of Nola, Christian bishop and poet (born 354)

• 910 Gebhard, Frankish nobleman

• 910 Gerhard I, Frankish nobleman

• 947 Qian Hongzuo, king of Wuyue (born 928)

• 1017 Leo Passianos, Byzantine general

• 1101 Roger I of Sicily, Norman nobleman (born 1031)

• 1276 Innocent V, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1225)

• 1343 Aimone, Count of Savoy (born 1291)

• 1429 Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Persian astronomer and mathematician (born 1380)

• 1521 Leonardo Loredan, Italian politician, 76th Doge of Venice (born 1436)

• 1535 John Fisher, English bishop and saint (born 1469)

1601–1900

• 1632 James Whitelocke, English judge and politician, Chief Justice of Chester (born 1570)

• 1634 Johann von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (born 1588)

• 1664 Katherine Philips, Anglo-Welsh poet (born 1631)

• 1699 Josiah Child, English merchant, economist, and politician (born 1630)

• 1714 Matthew Henry, Welsh minister and author (born 1662)

• 1766 Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (born 1696)

• 1828 Lars Ingier, Norwegian road manager, land owner, and mill owner (born 1760)

• 1868 Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (born 1801)

• 1872 Rudecindo Alvarado, Argentinian general (born 1792)

• 1874 Howard Staunton, English chess player (born 1810)

• 1892 Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic (born 1819)

• 1894 Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop and missionary (born 1823)

1901–present

• 1905 Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th governor of Texas (born 1815)

• 1913 Ștefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet and translator (born 1875)

• 1925 Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic (born 1849)

• 1928 A. B. Frost, American illustrator and painter (born 1851)

• 1931 Armand Fallières, French politician, 9th President of France (born 1841)

• 1933 Tim Birkin, English racing driver and lieutenant (born 1896)

• 1935 Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (born 1866)

• 1936 Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (born 1882)

• 1938 C. J. Dennis, Australian poet and author (born 1876)

• 1940 Monty Noble, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (born 1873)

• 1942 August Froehlich, German priest and activist (born 1891)

• 1945 Isamu Chō, Japanese general (born 1895)

• 1945 Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (born 1887)

• 1956 Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer and novelist (born 1873)

• 1959 Hermann Brill, German educator and politician, 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (born 1895)

• 1964 Havank, Dutch journalist and author (born 1904)

• 1965 David O. Selznick, American screenwriter and producer (born 1902)

• 1966 Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (born 1883)

• 1969 Judy Garland, American actress and singer (born 1922)

• 1970 Đặng Thùy Trâm, Vietnamese surgeon and author (born 1942)

• 1974 Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator (born 1892)

• 1977 Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (born 1908)

• 1977 Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)

• 1979 Louis Chiron, Monégasque race car driver (born 1899)

• 1980 Joseph Cohen, British solicitor, property developer, cinema magnate and Jewish community leader (born 1889)

• 1984 Joseph Losey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909)

• 1987 Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer (born 1899)

• 1988 Dennis Day, American singer and actor (born 1916)

• 1990 Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)

• 1993 Pat Nixon, American educator, 37th First Lady of the United States (born 1912)

• 1995 Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter (born 1931)

• 1995 Al Hansen, American sculptor and author (born 1927)

• 1997 Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (born 1956)

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

• 2003 Vasil Bykaŭ, Belarusian war novelist (born 1924)

• 2004 Bob Bemer, American computer scientist and engineer (born 1920)

• 2004 Mattie Stepanek, American poet and author (born 1990)

• 2007 Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (born 1964)

• 2008 Natalia Bekhtereva, Russian neuroscientist and psychologist (born 1924)

• 2008 George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author (born 1937)

• 2008 Dody Goodman, American actress and dancer (born 1914)

• 2011 Coşkun Özarı, Turkish footballer and coach (born 1931)

• 2012 Juan Luis Galiardo, Spanish actor and producer (born 1922)

• 2013 Henning Larsen, Danish architect, designed the Copenhagen Opera House (born 1925)

• 2013 Allan Simonsen, Danish race car driver (born 1978)

• 2014 Fouad Ajami, Lebanese-American author and academic (born 1945)

• 2014 Rama Narayanan, Indian director and producer (born 1949)

• 2015 James Horner, American composer and conductor (born 1953)

• 2017 Mao Kobayashi, Japanese newscaster and actress (born 1982)

• 2017 Quett Masire, Botswanan politician (born 1926)

• 2018 Vinnie Paul, American musician (born 1964)

• 2022 Bruton Smith, American racetrack promoter (born 1927)

• 2022 Yves Coppens, French anthropologist (born 1934)

• 2023 Harry Markowitz, American Nobel economist (born 1927)

• 2025 Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor (born 1926)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Aaron of Aleth

• Alban, first recorded Martyr in Britain (commemoration, Anglicanism)

• Blessed Pope Innocent V

• Eusebius of Samosata (Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church)

• John Fisher (Catholic Church)

• Nicetas of Remesiana

• Paulinus of Nola

• Thomas More (Catholic Church)

• June 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia)

• Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War (Belarus)

• Father's Day (Guernsey, Isle of Man, and Jersey)

• Teachers' Day (El Salvador)

• Windrush Day (UK)

References

External links