Events

Pre-1600

• 229 Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.

• 1266 War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.

• 1280 The Spanish Reconquista: In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for the Kingdom of Castile.

• 1287 The Aragonese fleet under Roger of Lauria defeats a Angevin fleet in the Battle of the Counts close to Naples.

• 1305 A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.

• 1314 First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.

• 1532 Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign the "Treaty of Closer Amity With France" (also known as the Pommeraye treaty), pledging mutual aid against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

• 1565 Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta.

• 1594 The Action of Faial, Azores. The Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas, loaded with slaves and treasure, is attacked and sunk by English ships with only 13 survivors out of over 700 on board.

1601–1900

• 1683 William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.

• 1713 The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.

• 1757 Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.

• 1758 Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld: British, Hanoverian, and Prussian forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.

• 1760 Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia.

• 1780 American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).

• 1794 Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kyiv.

• 1810 John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.

• 1812 War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.

• 1860 The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.

• 1865 American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.

• 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer".

• 1887 The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

• 1894 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

1901–present

• 1908 The Persian Cossack Brigade bombards the building of the National Consultative Assembly of Iran (Majles), killing hundreds of civilians.

• 1913 Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.

• 1914 Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.

• 1919 Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.

• 1925 Shameen Incident: British Army and French Army soldiers stationed in the concession of Shameen open fire on Chinese protesters, resulting in at least 52 deaths.

• 1926 The College Board administers the first SAT exam.

• 1931 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.

• 1938 The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.

• 1940 Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

• 1941 The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.

• 1942 World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.

• 1944 An F4 tornado tears through the Appalachian Mountains, killing over 100 people in West Virginia, particularly in the town of Shinnston.

• 1946 The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

• 1947 The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.

• 1951 The ocean liner is christened and launched.

• 1956 The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa.

• 1959 Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.

• 1960 The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.

• 1961 The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.

• 1967 Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.

• 1968 Seventy-four people were killed and 150 others injured in a stampede at a football match between Boca Juniors and Club Atlético River Plate in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• 1969 Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.

• 1969 IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.

• 1972 Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.

• 1972 Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.

• 1973 A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.

• 1985 A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo, killing two and injuring four. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.

• 1991 Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise.

• 1994 NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.

• 2001 The 8.4 southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.

• 2005 American social news and discussion site Reddit is founded in Medford, Massachusetts by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian.

• 2012 Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.

• 2013 Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.

• 2013 Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide.

• 2014 The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.

• 2016 Brexit: The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.

• 2017 A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others.

• 2018 Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.

Births

Pre-1600

• 47 BC Caesarion, Egyptian king (died 30 BC)

• 1385 Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (died 1459)

• 1433 Duke Francis II of Brittany (died 1488)

• 1456 Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (died 1486)

• 1489 Charles II of Savoy, Italian nobleman (died 1496)

• 1534 Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (died 1582)

• 1596 Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (died 1641)

1601–1900

• 1616 Shah Shuja, Mughal prince (died 1661)

• 1625 John Fell, English churchman and influential academic (died 1686)

• 1668 Giambattista Vico, Italian jurist, historian, and philosopher (died 1744)

• 1683 Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist and sinologist (died 1745)

• 1711 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Italian instrument maker (died 1786)

• 1716 Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (died 1789)

• 1750 Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist and academic (died 1801)

• 1763 Joséphine de Beauharnais, French wife of Napoleon I (died 1814)

• 1799 John Milton Bernhisel, American physician and politician (died 1881)

• 1800 Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (died 1846)

• 1824 Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1910)

• 1843 Paul Heinrich von Groth, German scientist (died 1927)

• 1858 William Ernest Johnson, British philosopher, logician and economic theorist (died 1931)

• 1859 Édouard Michelin, founder of Michelin (died 1940)

• 1860 Albert Giraud, Belgian poet and librarian (died 1929)

• 1863 Sándor Bródy, Hungarian author and journalist (died 1924)

• 1877 Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and actor (died 1929)

• 1879 Huda Sha'arawi, Egyptian feminist and journalist (died 1947)

• 1884 Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (died 1979)

• 1888 Bronson M. Cutting, American publisher and politician (died 1935)

• 1889 Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet and author (died 1966)

• 1889 Verena Holmes, English engineer (died 1964)

• 1894 Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand military leader, lawyer and Chief Justice (died 1972)

• 1894 Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (died 1956)

• 1894 Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom (died 1972)

• 1898 Winifred Holtby, English novelist and journalist (died 1935)

• 1899 Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French race car driver and sports car manufacturer (died 1979)

• 1900 Blanche Noyes, American aviator, winner of the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race (died 1981)

1901–present

• 1901 Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (died 1962)

• 1903 Paul Martin Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1992)

• 1904 Quintin McMillan, South African cricketer (died 1938)

• 1905 Jack Pickersgill, Canadian civil servant and politician, 35th Secretary of State for Canada (died 1997)

• 1906 Tribhuvan of Nepal (died 1955)

• 1907 Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian actress and singer (died 2008)

• 1907 James Meade, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)

• 1909 David Lewis, Russian-Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1981)

• 1909 Georges Rouquier, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1989)

• 1910 Jean Anouilh, French playwright and screenwriter (died 1987)

• 1910 Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader, 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 2008)

• 1910 Milt Hinton, American bassist and photographer (died 2000)

• 1910 Bill King, English yachtsman, naval commander and author (died 2012)

• 1910 Lawson Little, American golfer (died 1968)

• 1912 Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (died 1954)

• 1913 Helen Humes, American jazz and blues singer (died 1981)

• 1913 William P. Rogers, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (died 2001)

• 1915 Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor (died 2016)

• 1916 Len Hutton, English cricketer and soldier (died 1990)

• 1916 Irene Worth, American actress (died 2002)

• 1916 Al G. Wright, American bandleader and conductor (died 2020)

• 1919 Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician, President of Algeria (died 1992)

• 1920 Saleh Ajeery, Kuwaiti astronomer (died 2022)

• 1921 Paul Findley, American politician (died 2019)

• 1922 Morris R. Jeppson, American lieutenant and physicist (died 2010)

• 1922 Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1998)

• 1923 Peter Corr, Irish-English footballer and manager (died 2001)

• 1923 Elroy Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (died 2013)

• 1923 Doris Johnson, American politician (died 2021)

• 1923 Jerry Rullo, American professional basketball player (died 2016)

• 1923 Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian communist and Partisan (died 1945)

• 1924 Frank Bolle, American comic-strip artist, comic-book artist and illustrator (died 2020)

• 1925 Miriam Karlin, English actress (died 2011)

• 1925 Art Modell, American businessman (died 2012)

• 1925 Anna Chennault, Chinese widow of Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault (died 2018)

• 1926 Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, English microbiologist and parasitologist (died 2017)

• 1926 Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust (died 2021)

• 1926 Annette Mbaye d'Erneville, Senegalese writer

• 1926 Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor (died 2025)

• 1927 Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (died 1987)

• 1927 John Habgood, Baron Habgood, English archbishop (died 2019)

• 1928 Jean Cione, American baseball player (died 2010)

• 1928 Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician

• 1928 Michael Shaara, American author and academic (died 1988)

• 1929 June Carter Cash, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (died 2003)

• 1929 Mario Ghella, Italian racing cyclist (died 2020)

• 1930 Donn F. Eisele, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 1987)

• 1930 John Elliott, English historian and academic (died 2022)

• 1930 Francis Newall, 2nd Baron Newall, English businessman and politician

• 1930 Elza Soares, Brazilian samba and jazz singer (died 2022)

• 1930 Anthony Thwaite, English poet, critic, and academic (died 2021)

• 1930 Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny, former First Lady of Ivory Coast

• 1931 Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (died 1981)

• 1931 Ola Ullsten, Swedish politician and diplomat (died 2018)

• 1932 Peter Millett, Baron Millett, English lawyer and judge (died 2021)

• 1934 Keith Sutton, English bishop (died 2017)

• 1934 Bill Torrey, Canadian businessman (died 2018)

• 1934 Virbhadra Singh, Indian politician (died 2021)

• 1935 Maurice Ferré, Puerto Rican-American politician, 32nd Mayor of Miami (died 2019)

• 1935 Keith Burkinshaw, English footballer and manager

• 1936 Richard Bach, American novelist and essayist

• 1936 Costas Simitis, Greek economist, lawyer, and politician, 180th Prime Minister of Greece (died 2025)

• 1937 Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish captain and politician, 10th President of Finland, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)

• 1937 Alan Haselhurst, English academic and politician

• 1937 Niki Sullivan, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2004)

• 1939 Scott Burton, American sculptor (died 1989)

• 1940 Adam Faith, English singer (died 2003)

• 1940 George Feigley, American sex cult leader and two-time prison escapee (died 2009)

• 1940 Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

• 1940 Wilma Rudolph, American runner (died 1994)

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

• 1940 Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish painter and musician (died 1962)

• 1940 Diana Trask, Australian singer-songwriter

• 1941 Robert Hunter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)

• 1941 Roger McDonald, Australian author and screenwriter

• 1941 Keith Newton, English footballer (died 1998)

• 1942 Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, English cosmologist and astrophysicist

• 1943 Patrick Bokanowski, French filmmaker

• 1943 Vint Cerf, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer

• 1943 Ellyn Kaschak, American psychologist and academic

• 1943 James Levine, American pianist and conductor (died 2021)

• 1945 Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and author (died 2016)

• 1945 John Garang, Sudanese colonel and politician, President of Southern Sudan (died 2005)

• 1946 Julian Hipwood, English polo player and coach

• 1946 Ted Shackelford, American actor

• 1947 Bryan Brown, Australian actor and producer

• 1948 Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

• 1949 Gordon Bray, Australian journalist and sportscaster

• 1949 Sheila Noakes, Baroness Noakes, English accountant and politician

• 1951 Angelo Falcón, Puerto Rican-American political scientist, activist, and academic, founded the National Institute for Latino Policy (died 2018)

• 1951 Michèle Mouton, French race car driver and manager

• 1952 Raj Babbar, Indian actor and politician

• 1953 Armen Sarkissian, Armenian physicist, politician and President of Armenia

• 1955 Pierre Corbeil, Canadian dentist and politician

• 1955 Glenn Danzig, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1955 Jean Tigana, French footballer and manager

• 1956 Daniel J. Drucker, Canadian academic and educator

• 1956 Tony Hill, American football player and sportscaster

• 1956 Randy Jackson, American bass player and producer

• 1957 Dave Houghton, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach

• 1957 Frances McDormand, American actress, winner of the Triple Crown of Acting

• 1958 John Hayes, English politician, Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change

• 1960 Donald Harrison, American saxophonist, composer, and producer

• 1960 Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese composer and programmer

• 1961 Richard Arnold, English lawyer and judge

• 1961 Zoran Janjetov, Serbian singer and illustrator

• 1961 LaSalle Thompson, American basketball player, coach, and manager

• 1962 Chuck Billy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1963 Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer

• 1964 Nicolas Marceau, Canadian economist and politician

• 1964 Tara Morice, Australian actress and singer

• 1964 Joss Whedon, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1964 Lou Yun, Chinese gymnast

• 1965 Paul Arthurs, English guitarist

• 1965 Sylvia Mathews Burwell, American government and non-profit executive

• 1965 Peter O'Malley, Australian golfer

• 1966 Chico DeBarge, American singer and pianist

• 1969 Martin Klebba, American actor, producer, and stuntman

• 1970 Robert Brooks, American football player

• 1970 Martin Deschamps, Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1970 Yann Tiersen, French singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1971 Fred Ewanuick, Canadian actor and producer

• 1971 Félix Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1972 Selma Blair, American actress

• 1972 Louis Van Amstel, Dutch dancer and choreographer

• 1972 Zinedine Zidane, French footballer and manager

• 1974 Joel Edgerton, Australian actor

• 1974 Mark Hendrickson, American basketball and baseball player

• 1975 Kevin Dyson, American football player and coach

• 1975 David Howell, English golfer

• 1975 Mike James, American basketball player

• 1975 KT Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician

• 1976 Wade Barrett, American soccer player and manager

• 1976 Joe Becker, American guitarist and composer

• 1976 Savvas Poursaitidis, Greek-Cypriot footballer and scout

• 1976 Brandon Stokley, American football player

• 1976 Paola Suárez, Argentinian tennis player

• 1976 Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress and singer

• 1976 Patrick Vieira, French footballer and manager

• 1977 Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish footballer

• 1977 Hayden Foxe, Australian footballer and manager

• 1977 Jaan Jüris, Estonian ski jumper

• 1977 Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1977 Shaun O'Hara, American football player and sportscaster

• 1978 Memphis Bleek, American rapper, producer, and actor

• 1978 Frederic Leclercq, French heavy metal musician

• 1978 Matt Light, American football player and sportscaster

• 1979 LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player

• 1980 Becky Cloonan, American author and illustrator

• 1980 Melissa Rauch, American actress

• 1980 Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player

• 1981 Antony Costa, English singer-songwriter

• 1981 Rolf Wacha, German rugby player

• 1982 Derek Boogaard, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2011)

• 1983 Brooks Laich, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1983 José Manuel Rojas, Chilean footballer

• 1984 Duffy, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress

• 1984 Takeshi Matsuda, Japanese swimmer

• 1984 Levern Spencer, Saint Lucian high jumper

• 1985 Marcel Reece, American football player

• 1986 Christy Altomare, American actress and singer-songwriter

• 1987 Alessia Filippi, Italian swimmer

• 1988 Chet Faker, Australian singer-songwriter

• 1988 Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast

• 1989 Lisa Carrington, New Zealand flatwater canoeist

• 1989 Jordan Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1990 Clevid Dikamona, French footballer

• 1990 Vasek Pospisil, Canadian tennis player

• 1990 Laura Ràfols, Spanish footballer

• 1991 Katie Armiger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1992 Luiza Galiulina, Uzbekistani gymnast

• 1992 Nampalys Mendy, French footballer

• 1993 Tim Anderson, American baseball player

• 1993 Marvin Grumann, German footballer

• 1994 Ben Dwarshuis, Australian cricketer

• 1994 Roger Martínez, Colombian footballer

• 2000 Starford To'a, New Zealand rugby league player

• 2006 Eli Junior Kroupi, French footballer

• 2007 Elliana Walmsley, American dancer

• 2008 Lilliana Ketchman, American dancer and YouTuber

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 79 Vespasian, Roman emperor (born AD 9)

• 679 Æthelthryth, English saint (born 636)

• 947 Li Congyi, prince of Later Tang (born 931)

• 947 Wang, imperial consort of Later Tang

• 960 Feng Yanji, chancellor of Southern Tang (born 903)

• 994 Lothair Udo I, count of Stade (born 950)

• 1018 Henry I, margrave of Austria

• 1137 Adalbert of Mainz, German archbishop

• 1222 Constance of Aragon, Hungarian queen (born 1179)

• 1290 Henryk IV Probus, duke of Wrocław and high duke of Kraków (born c. 1258)

• 1314 Henry de Bohun, English knight

• 1324 Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (born 1270)

• 1343 Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi, Italian cardinal (born c. 1270)

• 1356 Margaret II, Holy Roman Empress (born 1311)

• 1537 Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (born 1487)

• 1565 Dragut, Ottoman admiral (born 1485)

• 1582 Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese commander (born 1537)

1601–1900

• 1615 Mashita Nagamori, Japanese daimyō (born 1545)

• 1677 William Louis, duke of Württemberg (born 1647)

• 1686 William Coventry, English politician (born 1628)

• 1707 John Mill, English theologian and author (born 1645)

• 1733 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (born 1672)

• 1770 Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (born 1721)

• 1775 Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and author (born 1692)

• 1779 Mikael Sehul, Ethiopian warlord (born 1691)

• 1806 Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (born 1723)

• 1811 Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, Portuguese poet and author (born 1740)

• 1832 Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist (born 1761)

• 1836 James Mill, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (born 1773)

• 1848 Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Electress of Bavaria (born 1776)

• 1856 Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1806)

• 1881 Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist and academic (born 1804)

• 1891 Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (born 1804)

• 1891 Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer and politician (born 1825)

• 1893 William Fox, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1812)

• 1893 Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (born 1817)

1901–present

• 1914 Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian guru and philosopher (born 1838)

• 1945 Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian journalist and activist (born 1923)

• 1953 Albert Gleizes, French painter (born 1881)

• 1954 Salih Omurtak, Turkish general (born 1889)

• 1956 Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and educator (born 1875)

• 1959 Boris Vian, French author, poet, and playwright (born 1920)

• 1959 Hidir Lutfi, Iraqi poet. (born 1880)

• 1969 Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish runner (born 1907)

• 1970 Roscoe Turner, American soldier and pilot (born 1895)

• 1973 Gerry Birrell, Scottish race car driver (born 1944)

• 1980 Sanjay Gandhi, Indian engineer and politician (born 1946)

• 1980 Clyfford Still, American painter and academic (born 1904)

• 1989 Werner Best, German police officer and jurist (born 1903)

• 1990 Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor, and politician (born 1898)

• 1992 Eric Andolsek, American football player (born 1966)

• 1995 Roger Grimsby, American journalist (born 1928)

• 1995 Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (born 1914)

• 1995 Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (born 1918)

• 1996 Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 174th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)

• 1996 Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer and rugby player (born 1921)

• 1997 Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (born 1936)

• 1998 Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress (born 1911)

• 2000 Peter Dubovský, Slovak footballer (born 1972)

• 2002 Pedro Alcázar, Panamanian boxer (born 1975)

• 2005 Shana Alexander, American journalist and author (born 1926)

• 2005 Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet and critic (born 1925)

• 2006 Aaron Spelling, American actor, producer, and screenwriter, founded Spelling Television (born 1923)

• 2006 – Harriet, Western Santa Cruz tortoise (born c. 1830)

• 2007 Rod Beck, American baseball player (born 1968)

• 2008 Claudio Capone, Italian-Scottish actor (born 1952)

• 2008 Arthur Chung, Guyanese surveyor and politician, 1st President of Guyana (born 1918)

• 2008 Marian Glinka, Polish actor and bodybuilder (born 1943)

• 2009 Raymond Berthiaume, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (born 1931)

• 2009 Ed McMahon, American game show host and announcer (born 1923)

• 2009 Jerri Nielsen, American physician and explorer (born 1952)

• 2010 John Burton, Australian public servant and diplomat (born 1915)

• 2011 Peter Falk, American actor (born 1927)

• 2011 Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican footballer (born 1985)

• 2011 Fred Steiner, American composer and conductor (born 1923)

• 2012 James Durbin, English economist and statistician (born 1923)

• 2012 Brigitte Engerer, French pianist and educator (born 1952)

• 2012 Alan McDonald, Northern Ireland footballer and manager (born 1963)

• 2012 Frank Chee Willeto, American soldier and politician, 4th Vice President of the Navajo Nation (born 1925)

• 2012 Walter J. Zable, American football player and businessman, founded the Cubic Corporation (born 1915)

• 2013 Bobby Bland, American singer-songwriter (born 1930)

• 2013 Gary David Goldberg, American screenwriter and producer (born 1944)

• 2013 Frank Kelso, American admiral and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1933)

• 2013 Kurt Leichtweiss, German mathematician and academic (born 1927)

• 2013 Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (born 1926)

• 2013 Darryl Read, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (born 1951)

• 2013 Sharon Stouder, American swimmer (born 1948)

• 2014 Nancy Garden, American author (born 1938)

• 2014 Euros Lewis, Welsh cricketer (born 1942)

• 2014 Paula Kent Meehan, American businesswoman, co-founded Redken (born 1931)

• 2015 Miguel Facussé Barjum, Honduran businessman (born 1924)

• 2015 Nirmala Joshi, Indian nun, lawyer, and social worker (born 1934)

• 2015 Dick Van Patten, American actor (born 1928)

• 2016 Ralph Stanley, American singer and banjo player (born 1927)

• 2021 John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and businessman, founded McAfee (born 1945)

• 2025 Rebekah Del Rio, American singer-songwriter (born 1967)

• 2025 John Clark, Scottish Footballer and Lisbon Lion (born 1941)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Æthelthryth

• Joseph Cafasso

• Blessed Maria Raffaella Cimatti

• Marie of Oignies

• Thomas Garnet

• June 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Father's Day (Nicaragua, Poland)

• Grand Duke's Official Birthday (Luxembourg)

• International Women in Engineering Day

• International Widows Day (international)

• National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada)

• Okinawa Memorial Day (Okinawa Prefecture)

Saint John's Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations (although this is not the real summer solstice; see June 20) (Roman Catholic Church, Europe):

• Bonfires of Saint John (Spain)

• First night of Festa de São João do Porto (Porto)

• First day of Golowan Festival (Cornwall)

• Jaaniõhtu (Estonia)

• Jāņi (Latvia)

• Kupala Night (Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)

• Last day of Drăgaica fair (Buzău, Romania)

• United Nations Public Service Day (International)

• Victory Day (Estonia)

References

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