Events

Pre-1600

• 313 The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.

• 1325 Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years).

• 1381 In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, comes to a head, as rebels set fire to the Savoy Palace.

• 1514 Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.

• 1525 Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.

1601–1900

• 1625 King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.

• 1740 Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.

• 1774 Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

• 1777 American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.

• 1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

• 1850 The American League of Colored Laborers, the first African American labor union in the United States, is established in New York City.

• 1855 Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris.

• 1878 Start of the Congress of Berlin in which the major powers of Europe revise the Treaty of San Stefano, signed on March 3 the same year, that Russia had imposed on a defeated Ottoman Empire.

• 1881 The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.

• 1886 A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

• 1893 Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.

• 1895 Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about .

• 1898 Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.

1901–present

• 1907 The Workers' Federation of Chile declares a general strike in solidarity with a rail workers' strike.

• 1917 World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.

• 1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City.

• 1944 World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.

• 1944 World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.

• 1944 World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.

• 1952 Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

• 1956 Spanish football club Real Madrid CF wins the inaugural European Cup, UEFA's premier club competition, by winning 4–3 against French club Stade de Reims in the final.

• 1966 The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as "Mirandizing").

• 1967 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

• 1971 Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.

• 1973 In a game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium, Los Angeles Dodgers teammates Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell play together as an infield for the first time, going on to set the Major League Baseball record of staying together for years.

• 1977 Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

• 1981 At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

• 1982 Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

• 1982 Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.

• 1983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.

• 1990 First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.

• 1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15billion in damages.

• 1996 The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.

• 1996 Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170.

• 1997 A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

• 1997 The Uphaar Cinema Fire takes place at Green Park, Delhi, resulting in the deaths of 59 people and seriously injuring 103 others.

• 1999 BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans.

• 2000 President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

• 2000 Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

• 2002 The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

• 2005 The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of all charges for allegedly sexually abusing a child in 2003.

• 2007 The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.

• 2010 A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback.

• 2012 A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.

• 2018 Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.

• 2021 A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China, kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.

• 2023 At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.

• 2023 Three people are killed and another three injured in an early morning stabbing and van ramming attack in Nottingham, England.

• 2025 Israel initiates air strikes against Iran, initiating the Twelve Day War.

Births

Pre-1600

• AD 40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (died 93)

• 823 Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (died 877)

• 839 Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (died 888)

• 1367 Taejong of Joseon, third monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea (died 1422)

• 1500 Ernest of Bavaria, pledge lord of the County of Glatz (died 1560)

• 1508 Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (died 1579)

• 1539 Jost Amman, Swiss printmaker (died 1591)

• 1555 Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer (died 1617)

• 1580 Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (died 1626)

• 1595 Jan Marek Marci, Czech medical doctor and scientist (died 1667)

1601–1900

• 1617 Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet, English politician (died 1656)

• 1649 Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (died 1706)

• 1711 Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (died 1773)

• 1752 Frances Burney, English novelist and playwright (died 1840)

• 1761 Antonín Vranický, Czech violinist and composer (died 1820)

• 1763 José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (died 1838)

• 1773 Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (died 1829)

• 1775 Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian composer and politician (died 1833)

• 1786 Winfield Scott, American general (died 1866)

• 1790 José Antonio Páez, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (died 1873)

• 1809 Heinrich Hoffmann, German psychiatrist and author (died 1894)

• 1822 Carl Schmidt, Latvian-German chemist and academic (died 1894)

• 1827 Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (died 1882)

• 1831 James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (died 1879)

• 1840 Augusta Lundin, the first international Swedish fashion designer (died 1919)

• 1854 Charles Algernon Parsons, English engineer, founded C. A. Parsons and Company (died 1931)

• 1863 Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (died 1935)

• 1864 Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and academic (died 1922)

• 1864 Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (died 1939)

• 1865 Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer (died 1932)

• 1865 W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1939)

• 1868 Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic (died 1919)

• 1870 Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)

• 1872 Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1951)

• 1873 Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (died 1942)

• 1875 Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and medical doctor (died 1932)

• 1876 William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (died 1937)

• 1879 Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (died 1941)

• 1879 Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (died 1929)

• 1884 Leon Chwistek, Polish painter, philosopher, and mathematician (died 1944)

• 1884 Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and academic (died 1978)

• 1885 Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (died 1969)

• 1887 André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (died 1978)

• 1887 Bruno Frank, German-American author, poet, and playwright (died 1945)

• 1888 Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (died 1935)

• 1889 Gao Qifeng, Chinese painter (died 1933)

• 1892 Basil Rathbone, South African-born British-American actor (died 1967)

• 1893 Alan Arnold Griffith, English engineer (died 1963)

• 1893 Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (died 1957)

• 1894 Leo Kanner, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and medical doctor (died 1981)

• 1894 Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (died 1986)

• 1897 Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner and coach (died 1973)

• 1899 Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (died 1978)

• 1900 Ian Hunter, British Cape Colony actor of stage and film (died 1975)

1901–present

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

• 1902 Carolyn Eisele, American mathematician and historian (died 2000)

• 1903 Willard Harrison Bennett, American physicist and chemist (died 1987)

• 1905 Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (died 1997)

• 1905 James T. Rutnam, Sri Lankan historian and author (died 1988)

• 1906 Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (died 1985)

• 1909 E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (died 1998)

• 1910 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (died 1999)

• 1910 Mary Wickes, American actress (died 1995)

• 1910 Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (died 2001)

• 1911 Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)

• 1911 Maurice Copeland, American actor (died 1985)

• 1911 Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic (died 1977)

• 1912 Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (died 1943)

• 1913 Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host (died 2005)

• 1913 Yitzhak Pundak, Israeli general, diplomat and politician (died 2017)

• 1914 Frederic Franklin, English-American ballet dancer and director (died 2013)

• 1915 Don Budge, American tennis player and coach (died 2000)

• 1916 Wu Zhengyi, Chinese botanist and academic (died 2013)

• 1917 Teddy Turner, English actor (died 1992)

• 1917 Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (died 2005)

• 1918 Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (died 1996)

• 1918 Helmut Lent, German soldier and pilot (died 1944)

• 1918 Percy Rodriguez, Canadian-American actor (died 2007)

• 1920 Rolf Huisgen, German chemist and academic (died 2020)

• 1920 Iosif Vorovich, Russian mathematician and engineer (died 2001)

• 1921 Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (died 2004)

• 1922 Etienne Leroux, South African author (died 1989)

• 1923 Lloyd Conover, American chemist and inventor (died 2017)

• 1925 Kristine Miller, American actress (died 2015)

• 1926 Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (died 1994)

• 1926 Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (died 1982)

• 1927 Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)

• 1928 Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (died 2015)

• 1928 Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (died 2009)

• 1928 John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)

• 1929 Alan Civil, British French horn player (died 1989)

• 1929 Ralph McQuarrie, American illustrator (died 2012)

• 1929 Robert W. Scott, American farmer and politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (died 2009)

• 1930 Gotthard Graubner, German painter and educator (died 2013)

• 1930 Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel and spy (died 2004)

• 1930 Paul Veyne, French archaeologist, historian, and academic (died 2022)

• 1931 Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (died 2009)

• 1931 Reed Scowen, Canadian politician (died 2020)

• 1931 Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist and academic

• 1932 Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, English politician

• 1932 Bob McGrath, American singer and actor (died 2022)

• 1932 Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach (died 2013)

• 1933 Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Defence

• 1933 Norman Lloyd-Edwards, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan

• 1934 Bill Blakeley, American basketball player and coach (died 2010)

• 1934 Lucjan Brychczy, Polish footballer and coach (died 2024)

• 1934 Manuel Clouthier, Mexican businessman and politician (died 1989)

• 1934 James Anthony Griffin, American bishop

• 1934 Uriel Jones, American drummer (died 2009)

• 1934 Leonard Kleinrock, American computer scientist and engineer

• 1935 Christo, Bulgarian-French sculptor and painter (died 2020)

• 1935 Jeanne-Claude, Moroccan sculptor and painter (died 2009)

• 1935 Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (died 2009)

• 1936 Peter H. Raven, American botanist and environmentalist (died 2026)

• 1937 Eleanor Holmes Norton, American lawyer and politician

• 1937 Erich Ribbeck, German footballer and manager

• 1937 Andreas Whittam Smith, English journalist and publisher, co-founded The Independent (died 2025)

• 1940 Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (died 2017)

• 1940 Gil Gomes, Brazilian journalist and lawyer (died 2018)

• 1940 Dallas Long, American shot putter and medical doctor (died 2024)

• 1941 Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach and manager

• 1941 Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (died 1998)

• 1941 Marv Tarplin, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2011)

• 1942 Yiannis Boutaris, Greek businessman and politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki (died 2024)

• 1943 Harry Collins, English sociologist, author and academic

• 1943 Malcolm McDowell, English actor and producer

• 1943 Jim Guy Tucker, American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas (died 2025)

• 1944 Christine Beasley, English nursing administrator

• 1944 David Curry, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

• 1944 Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

• 1945 Whitley Strieber, American author

• 1946 Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepalese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal

• 1946 Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1946 Gabriel of Komana, Belgian-Dutch archbishop (died 2013)

• 1947 Jerry Nadler, American attorney and politician

• 1948 Garnet Bailey, Canadian-American ice hockey player and scout (died 2001)

• 1948 Joe Roth, American director and producer, co-founded Morgan Creek Productions

• 1949 Ann Druyan, American popular science writer

• 1949 Dennis Locorriere, American singer and musician (died 2026)

• 1949 Ulla Schmidt, German educator and politician, German Federal Minister of Health

• 1949 Red Symons, English-Australian musician, television, and radio personality

• 1950 Nick Brown, English politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

• 1950 Gerd Zewe, German footballer and manager

• 1951 Howard Leese, American guitarist and producer

• 1951 Richard Thomas, American actor, director, and producer

• 1951 Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor

• 1952 Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian martial artist and politician

• 1953 Tim Allen, American actor, comedian, and producer

• 1954 Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (died 2011)

• 1954 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria

• 1955 Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer and sportscaster

• 1955 Leah Ward Sears, German-American lawyer and jurist

• 1956 Blair Chapman, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1956 Sal Paolantonio, American lieutenant and journalist

• 1957 Ron Areshenkoff, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2019)

• 1957 Roy Cooper, American lawyer and politician, 75th Governor of North Carolina

• 1957 Bruce Flowers, American basketball player

• 1957 Andrzej Morozowski, Polish journalist and author

• 1957 Dicky Thompson, American golfer

• 1959 Boyko Borissov, Bulgarian footballer and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Bulgaria

• 1959 Maurice G. Dantec, French-born Canadian science fiction writer (died 2016)

• 1959 Steve Georganas, Australian politician

• 1959 Klaus Iohannis, Romanian educator and politician, 5th President of Romania

• 1960 Jacques Rougeau, Canadian wrestler

• 1960 – Doug Crossman, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1962 Davey Hamilton, American race car driver

• 1962 Glenn Michibata, Canadian-American tennis player and coach

• 1962 Ally Sheedy, American actress and author

• 1962 Hannah Storm, American journalist and author

• 1963 Bettina Bunge, Swiss-German tennis player

• 1963 Sarah Connolly, English soprano and actress

• 1963 Audrey Niffenegger, American author and academic

• 1964 Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian organist, composer and educator

• 1964 Kathy Burke, English actress, director and playwright

• 1964 Piyush Goyal, Indian politician, Minister of Railways

• 1964 Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Lithuanian basketball player

• 1965 Sunny Balwani, Pakistani-American businessman and criminal

• 1965 Infanta Cristina Federica of Spain

• 1965 Vassilis Karapialis, Greek footballer

• 1965 Lukas Ligeti, Austrian-American drummer and composer

• 1965 Maninder Singh, Indian cricketer

• 1966 Henry Bond, English photographer and curator

• 1966 Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician

• 1966 Naoki Hattori, Japanese race car driver

• 1967 Taşkın Aksoy, German-Turkish footballer and manager

• 1968 Fabio Baldato, Italian cyclist

• 1968 Peter DeBoer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1968 Darren Dreger, Canadian sportscaster

• 1968 David Gray, English-Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

• 1968 Denise Pearson, English singer-songwriter

• 1968 Marcel Theroux, Ugandan-English journalist and author

• 1969 Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Spanish actress, director and screenwriter

• 1969 Virginie Despentes, French author, screenwriter and director

• 1969 Laura Kightlinger, American actress, comedian, producer and screenwriter

• 1969 Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian shot putter

• 1969 Søren Rasted, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

• 1970 Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer

• 1970 Rivers Cuomo, American rock musician

• 1970 Shaun Young, Australian cricketer

• 1971 Nóra Köves, Hungarian tennis player

• 1972 Natalie MacMaster, Canadian fiddler

• 1972 Maria Minakowska, Polish philosopher, historian, genealogist

• 1973 Sam Adams, American football player

• 1973 Tanner Foust, American race car driver and television host

• 1973 Mattias Hellberg, Swedish singer-songwriter

• 1973 Stuart Karppinen, Australian cricketer and coach

• 1973 Ville Laihiala, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1974 Valeri Bure, Russian-American ice hockey player

• 1974 Steve-O, American stunt performer

• 1975 Ante Covic, Australian footballer

• 1975 Jeff Davis, American screenwriter and producer

• 1975 Jennifer Nicole Lee, American model, actress and author

• 1975 Jaan Pehk, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1975 Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer

• 1976 Kym Marsh, English singer-songwriter and actress

• 1977 Romain Mesnil, French pole vaulter

• 1977 Earthwind Moreland, American football player

• 1977 Riikka Purra, Finnish politician

• 1978 Ethan Embry, American actor

• 1978 Vishwananda, Hindu guru

• 1979 Esther Anderson, Australian actress

• 1979 Nila Håkedal, Norwegian volleyball player

• 1979 Miguel Pate, American long jumper

• 1979 Ryan Pickett, American director, producer and screenwriter

• 1980 Florent Malouda, French footballer

• 1980 Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (died 2012)

• 1980 Jamario Moon, American basketball player

• 1980 Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player

• 1980 Darius Vassell, English footballer

• 1980 Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver

• 1981 Chris Evans, American actor and producer

• 1981 David Madden, founder and executive director of the National History Bee and the National History Bowl

• 1981 Radim Vrbata, Czech ice hockey player

• 1982 Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian runner

• 1982 Krzysztof Bosak, Polish politician

• 1982 Nate Jones, American football player

• 1983 Steve Novak, American basketball player

• 1983 Jason Spezza, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1983 Rachel Taylor, Welsh rugby union player

• 1984 Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer

• 1984 Kaori Icho, Japanese wrestler

• 1984 Antje Möldner-Schmidt, German runner

• 1984 Luke James, American singer and actor

• 1985 Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver

• 1985 Silvio Bankert, German footballer

• 1985 Pedro Strop, Dominican baseball player

• 1985 Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1986 Kat Dennings, American actress and comedian

• 1986 Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer

• 1986 Jonathan Lucroy, American baseball catcher

• 1986 Ashley Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer and businesswoman

• 1986 Mary-Kate Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer and businesswoman

• 1986 DJ Snake, French DJ and record producer

• 1986 Lea Verou, Greek computer scientist and author

• 1986 Måns Zelmerlöw, Swedish singer

• 1987 Marko Grgić, Croatian footballer

• 1988 Gabe Carimi, American football player

• 1988 Kerttu Niskanen, Finnish cross-country skier

• 1988 Reece Noi, British actor

• 1988 Cody Walker, American actor

• 1989 Ben Barba, Australian rugby league player

• 1989 James Calado, English racing driver

• 1989 Ryan McDonagh, American ice hockey player

• 1989 Daniel Mortimer, Australian rugby league player

• 1989 Andreas Samaris, Greek footballer

• 1989 Tommy Searle, English motocross racer

• 1989 Hassan Whiteside, American basketball player

• 1989 Erica Wiebe, Canadian wrestler

• 1990 James McCann, American baseball player

• 1990 Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player

• 1990 Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor

• 1991 Will Claye, American jumper

• 1991 Ryan Mason, English footballer

• 1991 Kang Si-ra, South Korean singer

• 1992 Semi Radradra, Fijian rugby league player

• 1993 Cansin Köktürk, German politician

• 1993 Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (died 2011)

• 1993 Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (died 2018)

• 1994 Deepika Kumari, Indian archer

• 1994 Atsuhiro Inukai, Japanese actor

• 1995 Emily Fanning, New Zealand tennis player

• 1995 Laura Ucrós, Colombian tennis player

• 2000 Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer

• 2001 Bowen Byram, Canadian ice hockey player

• 2001 Sung Han-bin, South Korean singer

• 2006 Macklin Celebrini, Canadian ice hockey player

• 2006 Pablo García, Spanish footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 220 Xiahou Dun, Chinese general

• 976 Mansur I, Samanid emir

• 995 Fujiwara no Michikane, Japanese nobleman (born 961)

• 1036 Ali az-Zahir, Fatimid caliph (born 1005)

• 1231 Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (born 1195)

• 1256 Tankei, Japanese sculptor (born 1173)

• 1348 Juan Manuel, Spanish prince (born 1282)

• 1432 Uko Fockena, Frisian chieftain (born c. 1408)

• 1550 Veronica Gambara, Italian poet (born 1485)

1601–1900

• 1636 George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (born 1562)

• 1645 Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai (born 1584)

• 1661 Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, English politician (born 1595)

• 1665 Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (born 1604)

• 1762 Dorothea Erxleben, first German female doctor (born 1715)

• 1784 Henry Middleton, American farmer and politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (born 1717)

• 1846 Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer and author (born 1767)

• 1861 Henry Gray, English anatomist and surgeon (born 1827)

• 1881 Joseph Škoda, Czech medical doctor and dermatologist (born 1805)

• 1886 Ludwig II, king of Bavaria (born 1845)

• 1894 John Cox Bray, Australian politician, 15th Premier of South Australia (born 1842)

• 1898 Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (born 1840)

1901–present

• 1904 Nikiforos Lytras, Greek painter and educator (born 1832)

• 1917 Louis-Philippe Hébert, Canadian sculptor (born 1850)

• 1918 Michael Alexandrovich, Russian Grand Duke (born 1878)

• 1930 Henry Segrave, American-English racing driver (born 1896)

• 1931 Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese medical doctor and bacteriologist (born 1851)

• 1939 Arthur Coningham, Australian cricketer (born 1863)

• 1943 Kočo Racin, Macedonian author and activist (born 1908)

• 1943 Sava Kovačević, Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander and People's Hero of Yugoslavia (born 1905)

• 1948 Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (born 1909)

• 1951 Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1885)

• 1957 Irving Baxter, American high jumper and pole vaulter (born 1876)

• 1958 Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (born 1887)

• 1965 Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (born 1878)

• 1965 David Drummond, Australian farmer and politician (born 1890)

• 1969 Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian journalist, director and producer (born 1898)

• 1972 Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

• 1972 Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (born 1891)

• 1979 Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1945)

• 1980 Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (born 1942)

• 1981 Olivério Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and medical doctor (born 1896)

• 1984 António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (born 1944)

• 1986 Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter and bandleader (born 1909)

• 1987 Geraldine Page, American actress (born 1924)

• 1989 Fran Allison, American television personality and puppeteer (born 1907)

• 1993 Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (born 1913)

• 1993 Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot and astronaut (born 1924)

• 1994 Nadia Gray, Romanian-French actress (born 1923)

• 1997 Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer and academic (born 1909)

• 1998 Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (born 1899)

• 1998 Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (born 1911)

• 1998 Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (born 1917)

• 2002 John Hope, American navigator and meteorologist (born 1919)

• 2002 Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author (born 1927)

• 2003 Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1916)

• 2004 Ralph Wiley, American journalist and author (born 1952)

• 2005 Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese academic and politician (born 1913)

• 2005 David Diamond, American pianist and composer (born 1915)

• 2006 Charles Haughey, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (born 1925)

• 2007 Walid Eido, Lebanese judge and politician (born 1942)

• 2008 Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (born 1950)

• 2009 Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (born 1962)

• 2009 Fathi Yakan, Lebanese scholar and politician (born 1933)

• 2010 Jimmy Dean, American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (born 1928)

• 2012 Sam Beddingfield, American pilot and engineer (born 1933)

• 2012 Graeme Bell, Australian pianist, composer and bandleader (born 1914)

• 2012 Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (born 1913)

• 2012 Jože Humer, Slovenian composer and translator (born 1934)

• 2012 Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer for Lollywood (born 1927)

• 2013 David Deutsch, American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (born 1929)

• 2013 Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (born 1930)

• 2013 Albert White Hat, American educator and activist (born 1938)

• 2014 Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (born 1933)

• 2014 Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1926)

• 2014 Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)

• 2014 Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (born 1932)

• 2014 Robert Peters, American poet, playwright and critic (born 1924)

• 2015 Buddy Boudreaux, American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1917)

• 2015 Sergio Renán, Argentinian actor, director and screenwriter (born 1933)

• 2015 Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (born 1940)

• 2021 Ned Beatty, American actor (born 1937)

• 2023 Cormac McCarthy, American author (born 1933)

• 2024 Angela Bofill, American R&B singer (born 1954)

• 2024 Benji Gregory, American child actor (born 1978)

• 2026 Roger Cook, New Zealand-born British investigative journalist (born 1943)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church

• Aquilina

• Cetteus (Peregrinus)

• Eulogius of Alexandria

• Felicula

• G. K. Chesterton (Episcopal Church (USA))

• Gerard of Clairvaux

• Blessed Marianna Biernacka

• Psalmodius

• Ragnebert (Rambert)

• Blessed Thomas Woodhouse

• Triphyllius

• June 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Inventors' Day (Hungary)

• Suleimaniah City Fallen and Martyrs Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

• International Albinism Awareness Day (international)

References

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