Events

Pre-1600

• 325 The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.

• 978 Byzantine forces loyal to emperor Basil II under Bardas Phokas the Younger defeat rebel forces under Bardas Skleros in the battle of Pankaleia (approximate date).

• 1306 The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.

• 1586 English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.

1601–1900

• 1718 At least 73,000 people die in the 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake due to landslides in the Qing dynasty.

• 1785 The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, without the Nicene Creed, establishing it as the first Unitarian congregation in the United States.

• 1791 The first New Church place of worship the Birmingham New Jerusalem Temple was dedicated on the 19th day of June, 1791, in Birmingham, England. The auspiciousness of this date was noted at the time.

• 1800 War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria.

• 1811 The Carlton House Fête is held in London to celebrate the establishment of the Regency era.

• 1816 Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

• 1821 Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).

• 1846 The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23–1. Cartwright umpired.

• 1850 Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.

• 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signs the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, which prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories.

• 1865 Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are officially informed of their freedom. The anniversary was officially celebrated in Texas and other states as Juneteenth. On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States.

• 1867 Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.

• 1875 The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.

1901–present

• 1903 Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.

• 1910 The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

• 1913 Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.

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

• 1926 King Roger, an opera about Roger II of Sicily by Karol Szymanowski, is premiered at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw.

• 1934 The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

• 1943 The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.

• 1945 The Smoke Tragedy leaves 355 workers dead in the underground copper mine of El Teniente, Chile.

• 1947 Pan Am Flight 121 crashes in the Syrian Desert near Mayadin, Syria, killing 15 and injuring 21.

• 1953 Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.

• 1960 Charlotte Motor Speedway holds its first NASCAR race, the inaugural World 600.

• 1961 Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.

• 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.

• 1965 Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.

• 1978 Garfields first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.

• 1982 The People's Armed Police is de facto founded; it is officially established 10 months later on April 5, 1983.

• 1985 Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.

• 1987 Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.

• 1987 Aeroflot Flight N-528 crashes at Berdiansk Airport in present-day Ukraine, killing eight people.

• 1988 Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.

• 1990 The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.

• 1990 The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.

• 1991 The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn.

• 2005 Following a series of Michelin tire failures during the United States Grand Prix weekend at Indianapolis, and without an agreement being reached, 14 cars from seven teams in Michelin tires withdraw after completing the formation lap, leaving only six cars from three teams on Bridgestone tires to race.

• 2007 The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.

• 2009 Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.

• 2009 War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

• 2012 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requests asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army; he will remain there until 2019.

• 2018 The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.

• 2018 Antwon Rose II is fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.

• 2020 Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1301 Prince Morikuni, shōgun of Japan (died 1333)

• 1417 Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini (died 1468)

• 1566 James VI and I of the United Kingdom (died 1625)

• 1590 Philip Bell, British colonial governor (died 1678)

• 1595 Hargobind, sixth Sikh guru (died 1644)

• 1598 Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1677)

1601–1900

• 1606 James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (died 1649)

• 1623 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (died 1662)

• 1633 Philipp van Limborch, Dutch author and theologian (died 1712)

• 1701 François Rebel, French violinist and composer (died 1775)

• 1731 Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (died 1822)

• 1764 José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general and politician (died 1850)

• 1771 Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1859)

• 1776 Francis Johnson, American lawyer and politician (died 1842)

• 1783 Friedrich Sertürner, German chemist and pharmacist (died 1841)

• 1793 Joseph Earl Sheffield, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1882)

• 1795 James Braid, Scottish-English surgeon (died 1860)

• 1797 Hamilton Hume, Australian explorer (died 1873)

• 1815 Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (died 1872)

• 1816 William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist, founded the Webb Institute (died 1899)

• 1833 Mary Tenney Gray, American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (died 1904)

• 1834 Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (died 1892)

• 1840 Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz, German entomologist and academic (died 1917)

• 1843 Mary Sibbet Copley, American philanthropist (died 1929)

• 1845 Cléophas Beausoleil, Canadian journalist and politician (died 1904)

• 1846 Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic (died 1928)

• 1850 David Jayne Hill, American historian and politician, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (died 1932)

• 1851 Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (died 1890)

• 1851 Silvanus P. Thompson, English physicist, engineer, and academic (died 1916)

• 1854 Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (died 1893)

• 1854 Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and theorist (died 1933)

• 1855 George F. Roesch, American lawyer and politician (died 1917)

• 1858 Sam Walter Foss, American poet and librarian (died 1911)

• 1861 Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (died 1928)

• 1861 Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist (died 1927)

• 1861 José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (died 1896)

• 1865 May Whitty, English actress (died 1948)

• 1871 Alajos Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper, and physician (died 1932)

• 1872 Theodore Payne, English-American gardener and botanist (died 1963)

• 1874 Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (died 1941)

• 1876 Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (died 1941)

• 1877 Charles Coburn, American actor (died 1961)

• 1881 Maginel Wright Enright, American illustrator (died 1966)

• 1883 Gladys Mills Phipps, American horse breeder (died 1970)

• 1884 Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French painter and historian (died 1974)

• 1886 Finley Hamilton, American lawyer and politician (died 1940)

• 1888 Arthur Massey Berry, Canadian soldier and pilot (died 1970)

• 1888 Frank Johnston, Canadian artist, member of The Group of Seven (died 1949)

• 1891 John Heartfield, German photographer and activist (died 1968)

• 1896 Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (died 1974)

• 1896 Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, American wife of the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, Duke of Windsor (died 1986)

• 1897 Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1967)

• 1897 Moe Howard, American comedian (died 1975)

1901–present

• 1902 Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (died 1977)

• 1903 Mary Callery, American-French sculptor and academic (died 1977)

• 1903 Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (died 1941)

• 1903 Wally Hammond, English cricketer and coach (died 1965)

• 1903 Hans Litten, German lawyer (died 1938)

• 1905 Mildred Natwick, American actress (died 1994)

• 1906 Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)

• 1906 Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (died 1975)

• 1906 Walter Rauff, German SS officer (died 1984)

• 1907 Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 10th General of the Salvation Army (died 1985)

• 1909 Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (died 1948)

• 1909 Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (died 1948)

• 1910 Sydney Allard, English race car driver, founded the Allard Company (died 1966)

• 1910 Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)

• 1910 Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist, associate member of the US Supreme Court (died 1982)

• 1912 Don Gutteridge, American baseball player and manager (died 2008)

• 1912 Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (died 2005)

• 1913 Helene Madison, American swimmer (died 1970)

• 1914 Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (died 2000)

• 1914 Lester Flatt, American bluegrass singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player (died 1979)

• 1915 Pat Buttram, American actor (died 1994)

• 1915 Julius Schwartz, American publisher and agent (died 2004)

• 1917 Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean guerrilla leader and politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (died 1999)

• 1919 Pauline Kael, American film critic (died 2001)

• 1920 Yves Robert, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2002)

• 1921 Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (died 2015)

• 1922 Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)

• 1922 Marilyn P. Johnson, American educator and diplomat, 8th United States Ambassador to Togo (died 2022)

• 1923 Bob Hank, Australian footballer and coach (died 2012)

• 1926 Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician and inventor

• 1927 Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Argentine general and human rights violator (died 2018)

• 1928 Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist (died 2020)

• 1928 Nancy Marchand, American actress (died 2000)

• 1930 Gena Rowlands, American actress (died 2024)

• 1930 Boris Parygin, Soviet philosopher, psychologist, and author (died 2012)

• 1932 Pier Angeli, Italian actress, twin sister to Marisa Pavan (died 1971)

• 1932 José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (died 2011)

• 1932 Marisa Pavan, Italian actress, twin sister to Pier Angeli (died 2023)

• 1933 Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (died 1971)

• 1934 Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti (died 2023)

• 1936 Marisa Galvany, American soprano and actress

• 1937 André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (died 2015)

• 1938 Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (died 2002)

• 1939 Bernd Hoss, German footballer and manager (died 2016)

• 1939 John MacArthur, American minister and theologian (died 2025)

• 1941 Václav Klaus, Czech economist and politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic

• 1942 Merata Mita, New Zealand director and producer (died 2010)

• 1944 Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer, composer, writer and poet

• 1945 Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician and convicted war criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska

• 1945 Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1945 Tobias Wolff, American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist

• 1945 Peter Bardens, British keyboardist (died 2002)

• 1946 Jimmy Greenhoff, English footballer and manager

• 1947 Salman Rushdie, Indian-English novelist and essayist

• 1947 John Ralston Saul, Canadian philosopher and author

• 1948 Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter (died 1974)

• 1948 Phylicia Rashad, American actress

• 1950 Neil Asher Silberman, American archaeologist and historian

• 1950 Ann Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician

• 1951 Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (died 2022)

• 1951 Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist

• 1952 Bob Ainsworth, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence

• 1954 Mike O'Brien, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales

• 1954 Lou Pearlman, American music producer and fraudster (died 2016)

• 1954 Kathleen Turner, American actress

• 1954 Richard Wilkins, New Zealand-Australian journalist and television presenter

• 1955 Mary O'Connor, New Zealand runner

• 1955 Mary Schapiro, American lawyer and politician

• 1957 Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, 39th Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2003)

• 1957 Jean Rabe, American journalist and author

• 1957 Subcomandante Marcos, Mexican insurgent and EZLN leader

• 1958 Sergei Makarov, Russian-American ice hockey player and coach

• 1959 Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player

• 1959 Christian Wulff, German lawyer and politician, 10th President of Germany

• 1960 Andrew Dilnot, English economist and academic

• 1960 Johnny Gray, American runner and coach

• 1960 Luke Morley, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer

• 1960 Patti Rizzo, American golfer

• 1962 Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and presenter

• 1962 Jeremy Bates, English tennis player

• 1962 Ashish Vidyarthi, Indian actor

• 1963 Laura Ingraham, American radio host and author

• 1963 Margarita Ponomaryova, Russian hurdler

• 1963 Rory Underwood, English rugby player, lieutenant, and pilot

• 1964 Brent Goulet, American soccer player and manager

• 1964 Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and former Mayor of London

• 1964 Brian Vander Ark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1965 Sabine Braun, German heptathlete

• 1965 Sadie Frost, English actress and producer

• 1966 Mike Hasenfratz, Canadian ice hockey referee (died 2024)

• 1966 Michalis Romanidis, Greek basketball player

• 1967 Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier and businessman

• 1968 Alastair Lynch, Australian footballer and sportscaster

• 1968 Timothy Morton, American philosopher and academic

• 1968 Kimberly Anne "Kim" Walker, American film and television actress (died 2001)

• 1970 Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician

• 1970 Quincy Watts, American sprinter and football player

• 1970 Brian Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1971 José Emilio Amavisca, Spanish footballer

• 1971 Chris Armstrong, English footballer

• 1972 Jean Dujardin, French actor

• 1972 Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish singer

• 1972 Ilya Markov, Russian race walker

• 1972 Brian McBride, American soccer player and coach

• 1972 Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress

• 1972 Robin Tunney, American actress

• 1973 Jahine Arnold, American football player

• 1973 Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer

• 1973 Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player

• 1974 Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player, coach, and manager

• 1974 Mustaque Ahmed Ruhi, Bangladeshi member of parliament

• 1975 Hugh Dancy, English actor and model

• 1975 Anthony Parker, American basketball player

• 1976 Dennis Crowley, American businessman, co-founded Foursquare

• 1976 Bryan Hughes, English footballer and manager

• 1976 Anita Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1978 Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player

• 1978 Zoe Saldaña, American actress

• 1978 Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player

• 1979 José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer

• 1980 Jean Carroll, Irish cricketer

• 1980 Dan Ellis, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1980 Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer and manager

• 1980 Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer

• 1981 Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi, Saudi Arabian long jumper

• 1981 Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer

• 1982 Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player

• 1982 Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer

• 1982 Michael Yarmush, American actor

• 1983 Macklemore, American rapper

• 1983 Aidan Turner, Irish actor

• 1984 Paul Dano, American actor

• 1984 Wieke Dijkstra, Dutch field hockey player

• 1984 Andri Eleftheriou, Cypriot sport shooter

• 1985 Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer

• 1985 José Ernesto Sosa, Argentinian footballer

• 1985 Dire Tune, Ethiopian runner

• 1986 Aoiyama Kōsuke, Bulgarian sumo wrestler

• 1986 Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter

• 1986 Marvin Williams, American basketball player

• 1987 Rashard Mendenhall, American football player

• 1988 Jacob deGrom, American baseball player

• 1990 Ashly Burch, American actress, writer, and director

• 1990 Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter

• 1990 Xavier Rhodes, American football player

• 1992 Keaton Jennings, South African-English cricketer

• 1992 C. J. Mosley, American football player

• 1993 KSI, English YouTuber

• 1994 Lejla Njemčević, Bosnian cross-country and mountain bike cyclist

• 1998 Atticus Shaffer, American actor and YouTuber

• 1998 Joshua Da Silva, Trinidadian cricketer

• 1999 Jordan Poole, American basketball player

• 2002 Bennedict Mathurin, Canadian basketball player

• 2002 Nuno Mendes, Portuguese footballer

• 2004 Millie Gibson, English actress

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 404 Huan Xuan, Jin-dynasty warlord and emperor of Huan Chu (born 369)

• 626 Soga no Umako, Japanese son of Soga no Iname (born 551)

• 930 Xiao Qing, chancellor of Later Liang (born 862)

• 1027 Romuald, Italian mystic and saint (born 951)

• 1185 Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (born 1147)

• 1282 Eleanor de Montfort, Welsh princess (born 1252)

• 1312 Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English politician (born 1284)

• 1341 Juliana Falconieri, Italian nun and saint (born 1270)

• 1364 Elisenda of Montcada, queen consort and regent of Aragon (born 1292)

• 1504 Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (born 1430)

• 1542 Leo Jud, Swiss theologian and reformer (born 1482)

• 1545 Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian Lutheran lawyer and jurist (born 1509)

• 1567 Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg (born 1507)

1601–1900

• 1608 Alberico Gentili, Italian lawyer and jurist (born 1551)

• 1650 Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and publisher (born 1593)

• 1747 Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer and educator (born 1669)

• 1747 Nader Shah, Persian leader (born 1688)

• 1762 Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (born 1702)

• 1768 Benjamin Tasker Sr., American soldier and politician, 10th Colonial Governor of Maryland (born 1690)

• 1786 Nathanael Greene, American general (born 1742)

• 1805 Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter and educator (born 1724)

• 1820 Joseph Banks, English botanist and author (born 1743)

• 1844 Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French zoologist and biologist (born 1772)

• 1864 Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, American soldier (born 1843)

• 1865 Evangelos Zappas, Greek-Romanian businessman and philanthropist (born 1800)

• 1867 Miguel Miramón, Unconstitutional president of Mexico, 1859-1860 (born 1832)

• 1867 Maximilian I of Mexico (born 1832)

• 1874 Ferdinand Stoliczka, Moravian palaeontologist and ornithologist (born 1838)

• 1884 Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian-French politician and diplomat (born 1810)

1901–present

• 1903 Herbert Vaughan, English cardinal (born 1832)

• 1918 Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (born 1888)

• 1921 Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet and author (born 1888)

• 1922 Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (born 1874)

• 1930 John Mackenzie Moore, Canadian architect (b. 1857)

• 1932 Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (born 1876)

• 1937 J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (born 1860)

• 1939 Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (born 1878)

• 1940 Maurice Jaubert, French composer and conductor (born 1900)

• 1941 C. V. Hartman, Swiss botanist and anthropologist (born 1862)

• 1941 Otto Hirsch, German jurist and politician (born 1885)

• 1949 Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian philosopher and academic (born 1885)

• 1951 Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (born 1884)

• 1953 Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (born 1915)

• 1953 Julius Rosenberg, American spy (born 1918)

• 1956 Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (born 1874)

• 1962 Frank Borzage, American film director and actor (born 1894)

• 1966 Ed Wynn, American actor and comedian (born 1886)

• 1968 James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (born 1898)

• 1973 Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Haitian writer (born 1916)

• 1975 Sam Giancana, American mob boss (born 1908)

• 1977 Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and philosopher (born 1933)

• 1979 Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (born 1888)

• 1981 Anya Phillips, Chinese-American band manager (born 1955)

• 1981 Subhash Mukherjee, Indian scientist and physician who created India's first, and the world's second, child using in-vitro fertilisation (born 1931)

• 1984 Lee Krasner, American painter and educator (born 1908)

• 1986 Len Bias, American basketball player (born 1963)

• 1987 Margaret Carver Leighton, American author (born 1896)

• 1988 Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (born 1922)

• 1988 Gladys Spellman, American lawyer and politician (born 1918)

• 1989 Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (born 1906)

• 1990 George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (born 1911)

• 1990 Isobel Andrews, New Zealand writer (born 1905)

• 1991 Jean Arthur, American actress (born 1900)

• 1993 William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)

• 1995 Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (born 1914)

• 2001 Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1912)

• 2001 John Heyer, Australian director and producer (born 1916)

• 2004 Clayton Kirkpatrick, journalist and newspaper editor (born 1915)

• 2007 Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1919)

• 2007 Alberto Mijangos, Mexican-American painter and educator (born 1925)

• 2007 Terry Hoeppner, American football player and coach (born 1947)

• 2007 Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist and author (born 1932)

• 2008 Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist, founded Bartaman (born 1934)

• 2010 Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (born 1962)

• 2010 Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (born 1925)

• 2010 Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (born 1938)

• 2012 Norbert Tiemann, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (born 1924)

• 2013 Vince Flynn, American author (born 1966)

• 2013 James Gandolfini, American actor (born 1961)

• 2013 Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1932)

• 2013 Dave Jennings, American football player and sportscaster (born 1952)

• 2013 Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1965)

• 2013 Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)

• 2014 Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt, German general (born 1915)

• 2014 Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (born 1939)

• 2014 Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (born 1985)

• 2015 James Salter, American novelist and short-story writer (born 1925)

• 2016 Anton Yelchin, American actor (born 1989)

• 2017 Otto Warmbier, American college student detained in North Korea (born 1994)

• 2018 Koko, western lowland gorilla and user of American Sign Language (born 1971)

• 2019 Etika, American YouTuber and streamer (born 1990)

• 2020 Ian Holm, British actor (born 1931)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Deodatus (or Didier) of Nevers (or of Jointures)

• Gervasius and Protasius (Catholic Church)

• Hildegrim of Châlons

• Juliana Falconieri

• Blessed Michelina of Pesaro

• Rémy Isoré

• Romuald

• Ursicinus of Ravenna

• Zosimus

• June 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• New Church Day

• Day of the Independent Hungary (Hungary)

• Feast of Forest (Palawan)

• Juneteenth (United States)

• Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)

• Laguna Day (Laguna)

• Birthday of Jose Gervasio Artigas (Uruguay)

• World Sickle Cell Day (International)

• Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's commencement of work at the Workers' Party Central Committee (DPRK)

References

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