Events

Pre-1600

• 618 Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.

• 656 Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.

• 860 Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople.

• 1053 Battle of Civitate: Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.

• 1155 Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick Barbarossa as Holy Roman Emperor.

• 1156 The treaty of Benevento between Pope Adrian IV and William I of Sicily is concluded.

• 1264 The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.

• 1265 A draft Byzantine–Venetian treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, but is not ratified by Doge Reniero Zeno.

• 1391 Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.

• 1429 Charles VII's army defeats an English army under John Talbot at the Battle of Patay during the Hundred Years' War. The English lost 2,200 men, over half their army, crippling their efforts during this segment of the war.

1601–1900

• 1633 Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.

• 1684 The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.

• 1757 Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.

• 1778 American Revolutionary War: The British Army abandons Philadelphia.

• 1799 Action of 18 June 1799: A frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith.

• 1803 Haitian Revolution: The Royal Navy led by Rear-Admiral John Thomas Duckworth commence the blockade of Saint-Domingue against French forces.

• 1812 The United States declaration of war upon the United Kingdom is signed by President James Madison, beginning the War of 1812.

• 1815 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, forcing Napoleon to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.

• 1822 Konstantinos Kanaris blows up the Ottoman navy's flagship at Chios, killing the Kapudan Pasha Nasuhzade Ali Pasha.

• 1837 St. Joseph Mutiny: African soldiers in the 1st West India Regiment – led by former slave trader Daaga – launch a rebellion in the British colony of Trinidad in an attempt to escape to Africa.

• 1858 Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.

• 1859 First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.

• 1873 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.

• 1887 The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.

1901–present

• 1906 Sultan Abdelaziz of Morocco ratifies the agreement reached in the Algeciras Conference in a personal decree.

• 1907 Most resistance societies in Santiago return to work, bringing an end to the 1907 Chilean general strike.

• 1908 Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.

• 1908 The University of the Philippines is established.

• 1920 The Troubles in Ulster (1920–1922) begin with a week of sectarian violence in Derry.

• 1928 Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).

• 1935 Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.

• 1940 World War II: Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle.

• 1940 World War II: The "Finest Hour" speech is delivered by Winston Churchill.

• 1945 William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.

• 1946 Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa.

• 1948 Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

• 1948 Britain, France and the United States announce that on June 21, the Deutsche Mark will be introduced in western Germany and West Berlin. Over the next six days, Communists increasingly restrict access to Berlin.

• 1953 The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.

• 1953 A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.

• 1954 Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.

• 1958 Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde premieres at the Aldeburgh Festival.

• 1965 Vietnam War: The United States Air Force uses B-52 bombers to attack guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.

• 1972 Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen people are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes minutes after takeoff from London's Heathrow Airport.

• 1979 SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.

• 1981 The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.

• 1982 Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.

• 1983 Space Shuttle program: STS-7, astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

• 1983 Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran, over her religious beliefs.

• 1984 A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of striking miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.

• 1994 The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

• 1998 Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec, Canada, killing 11.

• 2006 The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1, is launched.

• 2007 The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire kills nine firefighters in Charleston, South Carolina.

• 2009 The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.

• 2018 An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.

• 2023 Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, implodes in the North Atlantic Ocean while attempting to view the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board, including OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1269 Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (died 1298)

• 1318 Eleanor of Woodstock (died 1355)

• 1332 John V Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (died 1391)

• 1466 Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (died 1539)

• 1511 Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor, designed the Ponte Santa Trinita (died 1592)

• 1517 Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan (died 1593)

• 1521 Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu (died 1577)

1601–1900

• 1667 Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (died 1750)

• 1673 Antonio de Literes, Spanish composer (died 1747)

• 1677 Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (died 1726)

• 1716 Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter and educator (died 1809)

• 1717 Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (died 1757)

• 1757 Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French pianist and composer (died 1831)

• 1757 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine lawyer and politician 1st Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (died 1833)

• 1769 Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (died 1822)

• 1799 William Lassell, English astronomer and merchant (died 1880)

• 1812 Ivan Goncharov, Russian journalist and author (died 1891)

• 1815 Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (died 1881)

• 1816 Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, French daughter of Napoleon (died 1907)

• 1816 Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepali ruler (died 1877)

• 1833 Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and President (1880-1884) (died 1893)

• 1834 Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher and academic (died 1895)

• 1839 William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (died 1920)

• 1845 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1922)

• 1850 Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (died 1914)

• 1854 E. W. Scripps, American publisher, founded the E. W. Scripps Company (died 1926)

• 1857 Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Folger Shakespeare Library (died 1930)

• 1858 Andrew Forsyth, Scottish-English mathematician and academic (died 1942)

• 1858 Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (died 1927)

• 1862 Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet (died 1942)

• 1863 George Essex Evans, English-Australian poet and author (died 1909)

• 1868 Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (died 1957)

• 1870 Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1954)

• 1877 James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (died 1960)

• 1881 Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer (died 1956)

• 1882 Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian compositor and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (died 1949)

• 1884 Édouard Daladier, French captain and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1970)

• 1886 George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (died 1924)

• 1886 Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (died 1978)

• 1887 Tancrède Labbé, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1956)

• 1896 Blanche Sweet, American actress (died 1986)

• 1897 Martti Marttelin, Finnish runner (died 1940)

• 1900 Vlasta Vraz, Czech-American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser (died 1989)

1901–present

• 1901 Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918)

• 1901 Llewellyn Rees, English actor (died 1994)

• 1902 Louis Alter, American musician (died 1980)

• 1902 Paavo Yrjölä, Finnish decathlete (died 1980)

• 1903 Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (died 1965)

• 1903 Raymond Radiguet, French author and poet (died 1923)

• 1904 Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (died 1991)

• 1904 Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (died 2003)

• 1905 Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (died 1982)

• 1906 Kay Kyser, American bandleader and radio personality(died 1985)

• 1907 Frithjof Schuon, Swiss-American metaphysicist, philosopher, and author (died 1998)

• 1908 Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (died 1969)

• 1908 Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (died 1997)

• 1908 Nedra Volz, American actress (died 2003)

• 1910 Dick Foran, American actor and singer (died 1979)

• 1910 Avon Long, American actor and singer (died 1984)

• 1910 Ray McKinley, American singer, drummer, and bandleader (died 1995)

• 1912 Glenn Morris, American decathlete (died 1974)

• 1913 Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon (died 2005)

• 1913 Sammy Cahn, American pianist and composer (died 1993)

• 1913 Sylvia Porter, American economist and journalist (died 1991)

• 1913 Françoise Loranger, Canadian playwright and producer (died 1995)

• 1913 Robert Mondavi, American winemaker and philanthropist (died 2008)

• 1913 Oswald Teichmüller, German mathematician (died 1943)

• 1914 E. G. Marshall, American actor (died 1998)

• 1914 Efraín Huerta, Mexican poet (died 1982)

• 1915 Red Adair, American firefighter (died 2004)

• 1915 Robert Kanigher, American author (died 2002)

• 1915 Alice T. Schafer, American mathematician (died 2009)

• 1916 Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (died 2005)

• 1917 Richard Boone, American actor, singer, and director (died 1981)

• 1917 Jack Karnehm, English snooker player and sportscaster (died 2002)

• 1917 Erik Ortvad, Danish painter and illustrator (died 2008)

• 1918 Alf Francis, West Prussia-born, English motor racing mechanic and race car constructor (died 1983)

• 1918 Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

• 1918 Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2003)

• 1919 Jüri Järvet, Estonian actor and screenwriter (died 1995)

• 1920 Ian Carmichael, English actor and singer (died 2010)

• 1920 Aster Berkhof, Belgian author and academic (died 2020)

• 1922 Claude Helffer, French pianist and educator (died 2004)

• 1924 George Mikan, American basketball player and coach (died 2005)

• 1925 Robert Beadell, American composer and educator (died 1994)

• 1926 Philip B. Crosby, American businessman and author (died 2001)

• 1926 Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist (died 2010)

• 1926 Tom Wicker, American journalist and author (died 2011)

• 1927 Eva Bartok, Hungarian-English actress (died 1998)

• 1927 Paul Eddington, English actor (died 1995)

• 1928 Michael Blakemore, Australian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2023)

• 1928 David T. Lykken, American geneticist and academic (died 2006)

• 1929 Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher (died 2026)

• 1929 Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2015)

• 1929 Björn Lüning, Swedish chemist (died 2024)

• 1931 Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazilian sociologist, academic, and politician, 34th President of Brazil

• 1932 Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1932 Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic (died 2016)

• 1933 Colin Brumby, Australian composer and conductor (died 2018)

• 1933 Tommy Hunt, American singer (died 2025)

• 1934 Brian Kenny, English general (died 2017)

• 1934 Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese author and illustrator (died 2004)

• 1934 Barack Obama Sr., Kenyan economist (died 1982)

• 1936 Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (died 1992)

• 1936 Ronald Venetiaan, Surinamese politician, 6th President of Suriname (died 2025)

• 1937 Del Harris, American basketball player and coach

• 1937 Jay Rockefeller, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of West Virginia

• 1937 Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and historian (died 2006)

• 1937 Vitaly Zholobov, Ukrainian colonel, engineer, and astronaut

• 1938 Kevin Murray, Australian footballer and coach

• 1939 Lou Brock, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2020)

• 1939 Jean-Claude Germain, Canadian historian, author, and journalist

• 1939 Brooks Firestone, American businessman and politician

• 1941 Roger Lemerre, French footballer and manager

• 1941 Paul Mayersberg, English director and screenwriter

• 1941 Delia Smith, English chef and author

• 1942 John Bellany, Scottish painter (died 2013)

• 1942 Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (died 2013)

• 1942 Pat Hutchins, English author and illustrator (died 2017)

• 1942 Thabo Mbeki, South African politician and 2nd President of South Africa

• 1942 Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1942 Richard Perry, American record producer (died 2024)

• 1942 Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (died 1980)

• 1942 Nick Tate, Australian actor and director

• 1942 Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (died 2004)

• 1943 Barry Evans, English actor (died 1997)

• 1943 Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, and actress (died 2021)

• 1943 Éva Marton, Hungarian soprano and actress

• 1944 Bruce DuMont, American broadcaster and political analyst

• 1944 Sandy Posey, American pop/country singer

• 1946 Russell Ash, English journalist and author (died 2010)

• 1946 Bruiser Brody, American wrestler (died 1988)

• 1946 Fabio Capello, Italian footballer and manager

• 1946 Maria Bethânia, Brazilian singer

• 1946 Gordon Murray, British automobile designer

• 1947 Ivonne Coll, Puerto Rican-American model and actress, Miss Puerto Rico 1967

• 1947 Bernard Giraudeau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2010)

• 1947 Linda Thorson, Canadian actress

• 1948 Philip Jackson, English actor

• 1948 Sherry Turkle, American academic, psychologist, and sociologist

• 1949 Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator

• 1949 Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Poland

• 1949 Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (died 2010)

• 1950 Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer and producer (died 2014)

• 1950 Annelie Ehrhardt, German hurdler

• 1950 Mike Johanns, American lawyer and politician, 28th United States Secretary of Agriculture

• 1950 Jackie Leven, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)

• 1951 Mohammed Al-Sager, Kuwaiti journalist and politician

• 1951 Miriam Flynn, American actress and comedian

• 1951 Ian Hargreaves, English-Welsh journalist and academic

• 1951 Stephen Hopper, Australian botanist and academic

• 1951 Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (died 2014)

• 1952 Tiiu Aro, Estonian physician and politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs

• 1952 Denis Herron, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1952 Carol Kane, American actress

• 1952 Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1952 Lee Soo-man, South Korean singer and businessman, founded S.M. Entertainment

• 1953 Peter Donohoe, English pianist and educator

• 1955 Ed Fast, Canadian lawyer and politician

• 1956 Brian Benben, American actor and producer

• 1956 John Scott, English organist and conductor (died 2015)

• 1957 Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish footballer and manager

• 1957 Richard Powers, American novelist

• 1958 Peter Altmaier, German jurist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany

• 1958 Gary Martin, British voice actor and actor

• 1959 Joe Ansolabehere, American animation screenwriter and producer

• 1960 Barbara Broccoli, American director and producer

• 1960 Steve Murphy, Canadian journalist

• 1961 Oz Fox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1961 Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1961 Angela Johnson, American novelist and poet

• 1961 Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter

• 1962 Lisa Randall, American physicist and academic

• 1963 Dizzy Reed, American keyboard player and songwriter

• 1963 Bruce Smith, American football player

• 1964 Uday Hussein, Iraqi commander (died 2003)

• 1964 Patti Webster, American publicist and author (died 2013)

• 1966 Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater, choreographer, and sportscaster

• 1966 Troy Kemp, Bahamian high jumper

• 1966 Dexter Romweber, American musician (died 2024)

• 1967 Clifton Campbell, American sprinter

• 1968 Frank Müller, German decathlete

• 1969 Haki Doku, Albanian cyclist

• 1969 Christopher Largen, American journalist and author (died 2012)

• 1970 Katie Derham, English journalist

• 1970 Ivan Kozák, Slovak footballer

• 1970 Greg Yaitanes, American director and producer

• 1971 Kerry Butler, American actress and singer

• 1971 Jason McAteer, English-Irish footballer and manager

• 1971 Nathan Morris, American soul singer

• 1971 Nigel Owens, Welsh rugby referee and TV presenter

• 1972 Anu Tali, Estonian pianist and conductor

• 1972 Wikus du Toit, South African actor, director, and composer

• 1973 Julie Depardieu, French actress

• 1973 Stephen Thomas Erlewine, American author and music critic

• 1973 Ray LaMontagne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1973 Alexandra Meissnitzer, Austrian skier

• 1973 Matt Parsons, Australian rugby league player

• 1973 Gavin Wanganeen, Australian footballer and coach

• 1974 Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer and manager

• 1974 Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer and coach (died 2015)

• 1975 Marie Gillain, Belgian actress

• 1975 Aleksandrs Koliņko, Latvian footballer

• 1975 Martin St. Louis, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1976 Blake Shelton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1978 Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player

• 1978 Tara Platt, American actress, producer, and screenwriter

• 1979 Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress and singer

• 1979 Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress

• 1980 Antonio Gates, American football player

• 1980 Sergey Kirdyapkin, Russian race walker

• 1980 Craig Mottram, Australian runner

• 1980 Antero Niittymäki, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1981 Scooter Braun, American music executive

• 1981 Clint Newton, American-Australian rugby league player

• 1981 Marco Streller, Swiss footballer

• 1982 Nadir Belhadj, French-Algerian footballer

• 1982 Marco Borriello, Italian footballer

• 1982 Nathan Cavaleri, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

• 1983 Billy Slater, Australian rugby league player

• 1983 Cameron Smith, Australian rugby league player

• 1984 Nanyak Dala, Canadian rugby player

• 1985 Chris Coghlan, American baseball player

• 1985 Alex Hirsch, American animator and television producer

• 1986 Edgars Eriņš, Latvian decathlete

• 1986 Richard Gasquet, French tennis player

• 1986 Richard Madden, Scottish actor

• 1987 Omar Arellano, Mexican footballer

• 1987 Moeen Ali, English cricketer

• 1988 Elini Dimoutsos, Greek footballer

• 1988 Josh Dun, American musician

• 1989 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, French-born Gabonese footballer

• 1989 Chris Harris Jr., American football player

• 1990 Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1990 Sandra Izbașa, Romanian gymnast

• 1990 Derek Stepan, American ice hockey player

• 1990 Christian Taylor, American triple jumper

• 1993 Dennis Lloyd, Israeli musician, producer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist

• 1994 Sean McMahon, Australian rugby player

• 1994 Takeoff, American rapper (died 2022)

• 1995 Maxim Kovtun, Russian figure skater

• 1996 Alen Halilović, Croatian footballer

• 1996 Niki Wories, Dutch figure skater

• 1997 Katharina Hobgarski, German tennis player

• 1997 Latrell Mitchell, Australian rugby league player

• 1999 Choi Ye-won, South Korean singer and actress

• 1999 Trippie Redd, American rapper

• 2001 Evan Mobley, American basketball player

• 2004 Gabi Moura, Brazilian influencer

• 2005 Kane Parsons, American YouTuber and filmmaker

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 741 Leo III the Isaurian, Byzantine emperor (born 685)

• 908 Zhang Hao, general of Yang Wu

• 1095 Sophia of Hungary (born c. 1050)

• 1164 Elisabeth of Schönau, German Benedictine visionary (born c. 1129)

• 1234 Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (born 1218)

• 1250 Theresa of Portugal, Queen of León

• 1291 Alfonso III of Aragon (born 1265)

• 1333 Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria (born 1312)

• 1464 Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (born 1400)

• 1588 Robert Crowley, English minister and poet (born 1517)

1601–1900

• 1629 Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch admiral (born 1577)

• 1650 Christoph Scheiner, German priest, physicist, and astronomer (born 1575)

• 1673 Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (born 1606)

• 1704 Tom Brown, English author and translator (born 1662)

• 1726 Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (born 1657)

• 1742 John Aislabie, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1670)

• 1749 Ambrose Philips, English poet and politician (born 1674)

• 1772 Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German jurist and scholar (born 1706)

• 1772 Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician and reformer (born 1700)

• 1788 Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (born 1714)

• 1794 François Buzot, French lawyer and politician (born 1760)

• 1794 James Murray, Scottish-English general and politician, 20th Governor of the Province of Quebec (born 1721)

• 1804 Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma (born 1746)

• 1815 Thomas Picton, Welsh-English general and politician (born 1758)

• 1833 Robert Hett Chapman, American minister, missionary, and academic (born 1771)

• 1835 William Cobbett, English farmer and journalist (born 1763)

• 1860 Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (born 1783)

• 1866 Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1864)

1901–present

• 1902 Samuel Butler, English novelist, satirist, and critic (born 1835)

• 1905 Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (born 1830)

• 1916 Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot (born 1890)

• 1917 Titu Maiorescu, Romanian critic and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (born 1840)

• 1921 Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri, Indian Islamic scholar and author (born 1867)

• 1922 Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1851)

• 1926 Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Queen consort of the Hellenes (born 1851)

• 1928 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer (born 1872)

• 1936 Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1868)

• 1937 Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (born 1863)

• 1942 Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, bandleader, and politician (born 1870)

• 1943 Elias Degiannis, Greek commander (born 1912)

• 1945 Florence Bascom, American geologist and educator (born 1862)

• 1945 Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (born 1886)

• 1947 Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (born 1898)

• 1948 Edward Brooker, English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (born 1891)

• 1959 Ethel Barrymore, American actress (born 1879)

• 1963 Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (born 1912)

• 1964 Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (born 1890)

• 1967 Geki, Italian race car driver (born 1937)

• 1967 Beat Fehr, Swiss race car driver (born 1942)

• 1971 Thomas Gomez, American actor (born 1905)

• 1971 Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)

• 1974 Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and academic (born 1896)

• 1974 Georgy Zhukov, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (born 1896)

• 1975 Hugo Bergmann, German-Israeli philosopher and author (born 1883)

• 1978 Walter C. Alvarez, American physician and author (born 1884)

• 1980 Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter (born 1904)

• 1980 André Leducq, French cyclist (born 1904)

• 1982 Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright (born 1892)

• 1982 John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (born 1912)

• 1982 Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor and director (born 1915)

• 1984 Alan Berg, American lawyer and radio host (born 1934)

• 1985 Paul Colin, French illustrator (born 1892)

• 1986 Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American journalist (born 1921)

• 1989 I. F. Stone, American journalist and author (born 1907)

• 1992 Kofoworola Abeni Pratt, the first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria (born 1910)

• 1992 Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1944)

• 1992 Mordecai Ardon, Polish-Israeli painter and educator (born 1896)

• 1993 Craig Rodwell, American activist, founded the Oscar Wilde Bookshop (born 1940)

• 1996 Endel Puusepp, Estonian-Soviet military pilot and politician (born 1909)

• 1997 Lev Kopelev, Ukrainian-German author and academic (born 1912)

• 1998 Felix Knight, American actor and tenor (born 1908)

• 2000 Nancy Marchand, American actress (born 1928)

• 2003 Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (born 1923)

• 2005 Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (born 1914)

• 2005 Manuel Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic (born 1914)

• 2006 Vincent Sherman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906)

• 2006 Joseph Zobel, Martinique-French author (born 1915)

• 2007 Bernard Manning, English comedian and actor (born 1930)

• 2007 Hank Medress, American singer and producer (born 1938)

• 2007 Georges Thurston, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1951)

• 2008 Jean Delannoy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1908)

• 2008 Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (born 1915)

• 2008 Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (born 1928)

• 2010 Trent Acid, American wrestler (born 1980)

• 2010 José Saramago, Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)

• 2010 Okan Demiriş, Turkish composer (born 1942)

• 2011 Yelena Bonner, Russian activist (born 1923)

• 2011 Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (born 1943)

• 2011 Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist (born 1942)

• 2012 Horacio Coppola, Argentinian photographer and director (born 1906)

• 2012 Lina Haag, German author and activist (born 1907)

• 2012 Tom Maynard, Welsh cricketer (born 1989)

• 2012 Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín, Peruvian general and politician, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (born 1919)

• 2012 Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and manager (born 1934)

• 2012 William Van Regenmorter, American businessman and politician (born 1939)

• 2013 Brent F. Anderson, American engineer and politician (born 1932)

• 2013 Alastair Donaldson, Scottish bass player (born 1955)

• 2013 Garde Gardom, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (born 1924)

• 2013 Michael Hastings, American journalist and author (born 1980)

• 2013 David Wall, English ballet dancer (born 1946)

• 2014 Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer (born 1923)

• 2014 Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (born 1928)

• 2014 Claire Martin, Canadian author (born 1914)

• 2014 Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (born 1957)

• 2014 Horace Silver, American pianist and composer (born 1928)

• 2015 Phil Austin, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1941)

• 2015 Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman, co-founded Comcast (born 1920)

• 2015 Danny Villanueva, American football player and broadcaster, co-founded Univision (born 1937)

• 2015 Allen Weinstein, American historian and academic (born 1937)

• 2016 Jeppiaar, Indian educationist, founder and chancellor of Sathyabama University (born 1931)

• 2018 XXXTentacion, American rapper (born 1998)

• 2018 Big Van Vader (also known as Vader) American professional wrestler (born 1955)

• 2018 Jimmy Wopo, American rapper (born 1997)

• 2020 Vera Lynn, English singer who was the "Forces' Sweetheart" in World War II (born 1917)

• 2022 Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Danish politician, minister of foreign affairs (born 1941)

• 2022 Adibah Noor, Malaysian actress, singer, master of ceremonies (born 1970)

2023 Notable victims of the Titan submersible implosion:

• Shahzada Dawood, Pakistani-British businessman (born 1975)

• Hamish Harding, British businessman (born 1964)

• Paul-Henri Nargeolet, French navy commander and explorer (born 1946)

• Stockton Rush, American businessman, CEO and founder of OceanGate (born 1962)

• 2024 James Chance, American musician (born 1953)

• 2024 Anouk Aimée, French actress (born 1932)

• 2024 Yoyong Martirez, Filipino basketball player (born 1946)

• 2024 Willie Mays, American baseball player (born 1931)

• 2026 Tay Keith, American record producer (born 1996)

Holidays and observances

• Autistic Pride Day (International)

Christian feast day:

• Bernard Mizeki (Anglican and Episcopal Church)

• Elisabeth of Schönau

• Gregorio Barbarigo

• Leontius, Hypatius and Theodulus

• Marina the Monk (Maronite Church, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

• Mark and Marcellian

• Blessed Osanna of Mantua

• June 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Foundation Day (Benguet)

• Human Rights Day (Azerbaijan)

• National Day (Seychelles)

• Queen Mother's Birthday (Cambodia)

• Waterloo Day (United Kingdom)

References

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