Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
From 1976 
1976 - Jonathan Nolan, British-American author, producer and director
1977 - Bryn Williams, Welsh chef
1978 - Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
1978 – Carl Barat, British singer and guitarist (The Libertines)
1978 – Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988)
1981 - Jackson Vroman, American-Lebanese basketball player (d. 2015)
1983 – Gemma Bissix, English actress
1983 - Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer
1984 – Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer
1984 - Roman Hubník, Czech footballer
1984 - Shannon Stewart, American model
1985 - Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer
1985 - Becky Sauerbrunn, American soccer player
1986 - Bhavana, Indian actress
1986 - Kim Hyun-joong, South Korean singer, dancer and actor
1986 - Junichi Tazawa, Japanese-American baseball player
1987 – Niklas Hjalmarsson, Swedish ice hockey player player for the Chicago Blackhawks
1988 - Maria Alyokhina, Russian singer and activist (Pussy Riot)
1988 - Israel Dagg, New Zealand rugby player
1990 - Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
1990 - Vid Belec, Slovenian footballer
1990 - Ellie Kendrick, English actress
1990 - Ryan Higa, American actor, comedian and YouTube personality
1990 - Rodri, Spanish footballer
1990 - Neha Kakkar, Indian singer
1992 - Hyuna, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, model, dancer and television presenter
1992 - Megumi Murakami, Japanese singer
1995 - Julian Green, American soccer player
Up to 1950 
 1134 - Norbert of Xanten, German bishop and saint (b. 1060)
 1252 - Robert Passelewe, English bishop
 1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)
 1480 - Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor and painter (b. 1412)
 1560 - Joao de Castro, Portuguese seafarer (b. 1500)
 1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese commander (b. 1519)
 1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese daimyo (b. 1556)
 1799 – Patrick Henry, American politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (b. 1736)
 1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
 1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest and saint (b. 1789)
 1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet (b. 1770)
 1861 – Count Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
 1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor (b. 1790)
 1881 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)
 1891 – John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
 1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1861)
 1935 - Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and politician, 12th Governor-General of Canada (b. 1862)
 1941 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American racing driver and businessman (b. 1878)
 1943 - Guido Fubini, Italian mathematician (b. 1879)
 1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist (b. 1862)
 1948 – Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
1951  2000 
 1954 - Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1910)
 1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
 1962 - Yves Klein, French painter (b. 1928)
 1968 – Robert Kennedy, American politician (b. 1925)
 1968 – Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
 1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892)
 1979 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
 1980 - Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player (b. 1918)
 1987 - Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor and playwright (b. 1922)
 1991 - Stan Getz, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
 1992 - Larry Riley, American actor (b. 1953)
 1994 - Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935)
 1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist (b. 1903)
 1996 - Harry Andersson, Swedish footballer (b. 1913)
 1997 - Magda Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1915)
From 2001 
 2003 - Dave Rowberry, English singer-songwriter and pianist (The Animals) (b. 1940)
 2004 - Simon Cumbers, Irish-born journalist (b. 1968)
 2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
 2006 - Billy Preston, American singer and musician (b. 1946)
 2009 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist (b. 1916)
 2012 - Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Japanese royal (b. 1946)
 2012 - Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
 2013 - Jerome Karle, American chemist (b. 1918)
 2013 - Tom Sharpe, English author (b. 1928)
 2013 - Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
 2014 - Ado Bayero, Nigerian chieftain, politician and diplomat (b. 1930)
 2014 - Eric Hill, British author and illustrator (b. 1927)
 2014 - Alexander Shilov, Russian chemist (b. 1930)
 2014 - Lorna Wing, British psychiatrist and Autism researcher (b. 1928)
 2015 - Pierre Brice, French actor (b. 1929)
 2015 - Richard Johnson, English actor (b. 1927)
2015 - Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer, songwriter and activist (b. 1926)
 2015 - Aarthi Agarwal, Indian actress (b. 1984)
 2015 - Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer (b. 1974)
 2015 - Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author (b. 1926)
 2016 - Ayaz Jani, Pakistani poet and journalist (b. 1967)
 2016 - Viktor Korchnoi, Russian-Swiss chess player (b. 1931)
 2016 - Peter Shaffer, English playwright (b. 1926)
 2016 - Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-American mixed martial artist (b. 1974)
 2016 - Steve Pisanos, American air force officer (b. 1919)
 2016 - Theresa Saldana, American actress (b. 1954)
 2017 - Horace Burrell, Jamaican soccer executive (b. 1950)
 2017 - Vin Garbutt, British folk singer (b. 1947)
 2017 - Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman and arms dealer (b. 1935)
 2017 - Latifur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1936)
 2017 - Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (b. 1950)
 2017 - Márta Antal-Rudas, Hungarian javelin thrower (b. 1937)
 2017 - Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad, Norwegian politician (b. 1939)
2017 - François Houtart, Belgian theologian (b. 1925) 
 2017 - Walter Noll, German-American mathematician (b. 1925)
 2018 - Tinus Bosselaar, Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
 2018 - Mateja Matevski, Macedonian poet (b. 1929)
 2018 - Kira Muratova, Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress (b. 1934)
 2018 - Ralph Santolla, American guitarist (b. 1969)
 2018 - Red Schoendienst, American baseball player (b. 1923)
 2018 - Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, British poet (b. 1916)
 2018 - Franz M. Wuketits, Austrian biologist and epistemologist (b. 1955)
 2019 - Dr. John, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
 2019 - Alexander Kuznetsov, Russian-American actor (b. 1959)
 2019 - Johnny Robinson, English footballer (b. 1936)
Observances 
 National holiday (Sweden)
 Birthday of King Albert II of Belgium
 D-Day
 Queensland Day
 Teachers' Day (Bolivia)
 Engineers' Day (Argentina)
 UN Russian language Day

June 06
Up to 1950 
 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome and plunder the city for two weeks.
 1098 – First Crusade: At the end of a siege, Crusade forces take Antioch.
 1676 - Franco-Dutch War: France ensures the dominance of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war, with victory at the Battle of Palermo
 1692 - Bridget Bishop becomes the first person to go on trial in the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. She is found guilty and executed on June 10.
 1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: In present-day Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of Lacrosse, then chasing the ball into a fort.
 1793 - French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat.
 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: A French-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Riot, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
 1835 – P. T. Barnum's circus starts touring the United States.
1848 – The Slavic Congress in Prague begins.
 1855 - The Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
 1858 – Comet C/1858 L1 is discovered by Italian astronomer Giambattista Donati.
 1864 - The Ionian Islands, previously a British protectorate, are given to Greece.
 1876 – Bulgarian revolutionary Hristo Botev is killed.
 1886 – Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom.
 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for the radio.
 1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a third time.
 1910 – Charles Rolls becomes the first person to make a non-stop crossing of the English Channel by aeroplane.
 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set of bombs in eight separate United States cities.
 1924 – US President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act, giving equal citizenship to Native Americans born within the territory of the United States.
 1941 - World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
1951  2000 
 1953 – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
 1953 – The news of the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest reaches the UK.
 1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade Declaration.
 1962 – The most violent match of the FIFA World Cup occurs in Chile as police have to intervene between Chilean and Italian footballers.
 1965 - A cyclone kills over 30,000 people in Pakistan.
 1966 – The Surveyor 1 spacecraft on the Moon.
 1967 – German student Benno Ohnesorg is shot dead by police at a demonstration outside the Iranian Embassy.
 1973 - Amsterdam's Vincent van Gogh Museum opens to the public.
 1974 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck is crowned King of Bhutan.
 1976 - As part of Operation Condor, Bolivian President Juan José Torres is abducted and murdered. It is not known to what extent his successor Hugo Banzer was involved.
1976 - The Third Cod War between the United Kingdom and Iceland ends in a temporary agreement, as the UK recognizes Iceland's claimed fishing zone of 200 nautical miles. 
 1979 – The Uganda-Tanzania War ends, with Ugandan forces under Idi Amin being defeated.
 1979 – Pope John Paul II visits Poland, his native country, for the first time in his papacy.
 1980 - The Rubik's Cube goes on sale in West Germany.
 1983 - After an emergency landing because of an inflight fire, 23 passengers on board Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open.
 1990 - 66 tornadoes hit an area across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, killing 12 people, including 6 alone in Petersburg, Indiana.
 1994 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Java, killing 277 people.
 1997 – Timothy McVeigh is convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing.
 1999 – Bhutan starts television transmission.
From 2001 
 2003 – The Mars Express Space Probe launches from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
 2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning run on the TV game show Jeopardy!.
 2007 - Violence erupts at a demonstration in Rostock, northeastern Germany, while preparations are made for the G-8 summit in nearby Heiligendamm.
 2010 – Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama announces his resignation, less than 9 months after taking office. Naoto Kan succeeds him.
 2010 – Derrick Bird goes on a shooting rampage in Cumbria, England. 12 people are killed and 11 people are injured, before Derrick Bird kills himself.
 2012 – Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison for ordering killings during the 2011 Egyptian protests.
 2014 - In India, Telangana becomes the 29th State, as Andhra Pradesh is officially split in two. Hyderabad, which is in the new state, will serve as capital city of both states until 2024.
2014 - King Juan Carlos I of Spain announces his intent to abdicate (leave) the throne. An official date for the handover is not yet set, as Felipe, Prince of Asturias is to succeed him as King.
 2015 - Sepp Blatter announces his intention to resign as President of FIFA, just four days after his controversial re-election to the post following a corruption scandal.
 2016 - The German Bundestag officially recognizes the Armenian Genocide.
 2017 - Leo Varadkar becomes the new leader of the Republic of Ireland's Fine Gael party, and is therefore set to become the country's next Taoiseach.
Up to 1900 
926 – Emperor Murakami of Japan (d. 967)
1423 - Ferdinand I of Naples (d. 1494)
1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
1699 - Marie-Therese Rodet Geoffrin, French writer (d. 1677)
1731 – Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, first First Lady of the United States (d. 1802)
1737 - Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (d. 1758)
1740 – Marquis de Sade, French writer (d. 1814)
1773 - John Randolph of Roanoke, American planter and politician (d. 1833)
1774 – William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales (d. 1850)
1793 - Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, Belgian painter (d. 1861)
1813 – Daniel Pollen, 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1896)
1815 - Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
1821 - Ion C. Bratianu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1891)
1823 - Gédéon Ouimet, 2nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1905)
1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
1835 – Nikolai Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1881)
1838 - Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (d. 1900)
1840 – Thomas Hardy, English poet, novelist (d. 1928)
1849 - Albert Besnard, French painter (d. 1934)
1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer (d. 1919)
1860 - Roger de Barbarin, French trap shooter (d. 1925)
1861 – Helen Herron Taft, First Lady of the United States, wife of William Howard Taft (d. 1943)
1863 – Felix Weingartner, composer and conductor (d. 1942)
1881 - Walter Egan, American golfer (d. 1971)
1885 – Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, German neurologist (d. 1964)
1887 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
1891 – Takijiro Onishi, Japanese World War II figure (d. 1945)
1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German movie director (d. 1981)
1899 - Edwin Way Teale, American environmentalist and photographer (d. 1980)
1901  1950 
1902 - Giuseppe Lepori, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
1906 - Carlo Scarpa, Italian architect (d. 1978)
1907 – Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
1909 - Rudolf Brandt, German SS officer (d. 1948)
1911 - Joe McCluskey, American runner (d. 2002)
1913 – Barbara Pym, English writer (d. 1980)
1913 - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer-songwriter and playwright (d. 2002)
1913 - Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong social activist (d. 2015)
1915 - Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian activist and agent (d. 1992)
1915 – Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
1917 – Max Showalter, American actor (d. 2000)
1917 - Heinz Sielmann, German photographer, biologist, zoologist and documentary filmmaker (d. 2006)
1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic (d. 2013)
1920 – Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1922 - Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress (d. 2002)
1922 - Charlie Sifford, American golfer (d. 2015)
1923 - Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist (d. 2016)
1925 - M. Caldwell Butler, American politician (d. 2014)
1926 - Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1977)
1926 - Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (d. 2013)
1927 - W. Watts Biggers, American novelist (d. 2014)
1928 – Stig Claesson, Swedish writer and illustrator (d. 2008)
1928 - Rafael Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast (d. 2014)
1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
1930 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
1930 - Vic Firth, American musician and instruments manufacturer (d. 2015)
1931 - Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (d. 2017)
1933 - Horacio Ferrer, Uruguayan writer, poet and tango historian (d. 2014)
1935 – Carol Shields, American-Canadian novelist (d. 2003)
1936 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian race walker and Olympic champion
1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
1937 - Rosalyn Higgins, British jurist
1938 - Cliff Cushman, American hurdler (d. 1966)
1938 - Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverchiöld of Sweden
1940 – Constantine II, former King of Greece
1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
1941 – Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1941 – William Guest, American singer
1941 - Lou Nanne, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 - Crescenzio Sepe, Italian cardinal
1943 - Ilaiyaraaja, Indian singer-songwriter and producer
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer (d. 2012)
1945 - Jon Peters, American movie producer
1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish movie director
1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, British serial killer
1947 - Mark Elder, British conductor
1948 – Todd Rundgren, American singer and producer
1951  1975 
1951 - Larry Robinson, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Arnold Mühren, Dutch footballer
1951 - Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai general (d. 2010) 
1951 - Gilbert Baker, American gay rights activist (d. 2017)
1952 – Pete Farndon, British musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
1953 – Keith Allen, British actor and comedian
1953 – Cornel West, American theologian and activist
1953 – Paul Engemann, American musician
1955 – Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
1956 – Mani Ratnam, Indian movie director
1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and commentator
1958 - Lex Luger, American wrestler and football player
1959 - Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress
1960 – Olga Bondarenko, Russian Olympic gold medalist (athletics)
1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
1963 - Bernard Cazeneuve, French politician
1964 – Caroline Link, German movie director and screenwriter
1965 – Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer
1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
1966 - Pedro Guerra, Spanish singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress
1968 - Jon Culshaw, British comedian and actor
1968 - Beetlejuice, American comedian and actor
1968 - Jason Falkner, American musician, songwriter and producer
1969 - Paulo Sérgio Silvestre do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer
1970 - B-Real, American rapper, producer and actor
1971 - Anthony Montgomery, American actor
1972 - Wayne Brady, American actor, comedian, game show host and singer
1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor
1973 - Carlos Acosta, Cuban dancer
1974 - Gata Kamsky, Russian-born American chess player
From 1976 
1976 - Earl Boykins, American basketball player
1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
1976 – Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
1978 – Dominic Cooper, English actor
1978 – Nikki Cox, American actress
1978 – Justin Long, American actor
1978 - Deon Richmond, American actor
1978 - A. J. Styles, American wrestler
1979 - Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
1980 – Abby Wambach, American soccer player
1981 – Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
1983 – Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
1983 - Leela James, American singer-songwriter
1983 - Brooke White, American singer and actress
1985 – Ana Cristina, American singer and actress
1987 - Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
1987 - Angelo Mathews, Sri Lankan cricketer
1987 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
1988 – Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
1988 – Sergio Agüero, Argentine footballer
1988 - Takashi Inui, Japanese footballer
1989 – Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-born footballer
1990 – Brittany Curran, American actress and singer
1990 - Jack Lowden, Scottish actor
1992 – Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer
1994 - Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress
1995 - Sterling Beaumon, American actor
Up to 1950 
 657 – Pope Eugene I
 829 – Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
 910 – Richilde of Provence, Queen of West Francia (b. 845)
 1418 - Catherine of Lancaster, Queen Consort of Henry III of Castile (b. 1373)
 1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish king (b. 1530)
 1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525)
 1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
 1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
 1754 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
 1761 – Jonas Alstromer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
 1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
 1875 - Jozef Kremer, Polish philosopher (b. 1806)
 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
 1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b. 1807)
 1933 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
 1937 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
 1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1942 - Bunny Berigan, American singer, trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1908)
 1948 - Nazi war criminals executed:
Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
Karl Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1904)
Rudolf Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1909)
Karl Gebhardt, German physician (b. 1897)
Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (b. 1905)
1951  2000 
 1952 - Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1880)
 1956 - Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
 1961 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
 1962 – Vita Sackville-West, English writer (b. 1892)
 1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
 1968 - André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1929)
 1969 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
 1970 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand racing driver and team founder (b. 1937)
 1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
 1970 - Albert Lamorisse, French director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
 1976 – Juan José Torres, President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
 1978 - Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer (b. 1895)
 1981 - Rino Gaetano, Italian singer and musician (b. 1950)
 1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
 1983 – Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
 1987 – Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
 1988 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, movie producer and movie director (b. 1924)
1988 - Horace Hildreth, American politician, Governor of Maine (b. 1902)
 1990 – Rex Harrison, British actor (b. 1908)
 1992 – Philip Dunne, American movie director (b. 1908)
 1994 – Henry Mancini, American composer (b. 1924)
 1996 - Ray Combs, American comedian, actor and game show host (b. 1956)
 1996 - Leon Garfield, English writer (b. 1921)
 1997 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (b. 1908)
 1998 - Junkyard Dog, American wrestler (b. 1952)
 1999 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
From 2001 
 2005 - Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier (b. 1930)
 2006 – Vince Welnick, musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
 2007 – Huang Ju, Chinese Vice Premier (b. 1938)
 2008 – Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
 2008 – Mel Ferrer, American actor and movie director (b. 1917)
 2009 – David Eddings, American writer (b. 1931)
 2010 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian operatic baritone (b. 1916)
 2012 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
 2012 - Richard Dawson, English-American actor, comedian and game show host (b. 1932)
 2013 - Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (b. 1930)
 2014 - Alexander Shulgin, American medical scientist and author (b. 1925)
 2014 - Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (b. 1924)
 2014 - Kuaima Riruako, Namibian politician (b. 1935)
 2014 - Anjan Das, Indian filmmaker (b. 1949)
 2015 - Alberto De Martino, Italian movie director (b. 1929)
 2015 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1926)
2015 - Theo Saat, Dutch Olympic sprinter (b. 1928)
 2016 - Tom Kibble, British physicist (b. 1932)
 2016 - Yevhen Lemeshko, Ukrainian football coach (b. 1930)
 2016 - Abderrahmane Meziani, Algerian footballer (b. 1942)
 2016 - Andrzej Niemczyk, Polish volleyball player and coach (b. 1944)
 2016 - Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
 2017 - Gordon Christian, American ice hockey player (b. 1927)
 2017 - Iakovos Garmatis, Greek-American church leader (b. 1928)
 2017 - Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, Pakistani lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
 2017 - Peter Sallis, English actor (b. 1921)
 2017 - Jeffrey Tate, English conductor (b. 1943)
 2017 - Jack O'Neill, American businessman and surfer (b. 1923)
 2018 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist (b. 1918)
 2018 - Tony Morphett, Australian screenwriter (b. 1938)
 2018 - Bernard E. Trainor, American Marine Corps general, military analyst and journalist (b. 1928)
 2018 - Emil Wolf, Czech-born American physicist (b. 1922)
2018 - Fernando Mazariegos, Guatemalan chemist and inventor (b. 1938)
 2019 - Momtazuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi dramatist and educator (b. 1935)
 2019 - Alistair Browning, New Zealand actor (b. 1954)
 2019 - Donald M. Fraser, American politician (b. 1924)
 2019 - Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer (b. 1937)
 2019 - Alexey Kazannik, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
 2019 - Mart Nutt, Estonian politician and historian (b. 1962)
 2019 - Maciej Parowski, Polish journalist, essayist, science fiction writer, editor and translator (b. 1946)
Observances 
 Republic Day (Italy)
 Hristo Botev Day (Bulgaria)

June 02
Up to 1950 
 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, ending Rome, leading a group of gladiators.
 1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod determines the border between Russia and the Finnmark region of northern Norway.
 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
 1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his 3rd voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
 1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for the New Netherlands.
 1665 - Future-King James II of England/James VII of Scotland defeats the Dutch fleet off Lowestoft, Suffolk, England.
 1769 – At Tahiti, James Cook observes the transit of Venus.
 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett makes a midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Legislature of coming British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.
 1789 – From Fort Chipewyan, a Alexander MacKenzie-led expedition, to find a river link to the Pacific Ocean coast of Canada, sets off.
1839 - In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsu destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium taken from British merchants, providing the United Kingdom with the "casus belli" to begin hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
 1858 – Francis Thomas Gregory climbs the world's biggest monolith (single piece of rock), Mount Augustus in Western Australia. He names the rock after his brother, Augustus Gregory.
 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops defeat Confederate forces in the Battle of Philippi in Virginia.
 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
 1885 - Last military engagement on Canadian soil - Cree leader Big Bear escapes from the North-West Mounted Police.
 1889 – The Transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
 1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, 14 miles (23 kilometres) from a Generator at Willamette Falls in Oregon to Portland, Oregon.
1916 - The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard.
 1937 – Almost 6 months after his abdication as King, Edward VIII of the United Kingdom marries Wallis Simpson.
 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends, as Allied forces retreat.
 1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
 1940 - Franz Redemacher proposes Madagascar as the "Jewish Homeland".
 1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the village of Kandanos, Greece, to the ground, killing 180 of its residents.
 1942 – World War II: Japan begins its Aleutian Islands campaign by attacking Unalaska Island.
 1947 - Viceroy Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma announces the planned Partition of India.
 1950 – Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal climb Annapurna in the Himalayas. It is the first successful ascent of a mountain higher than 8000 metres.
From 1951 
 1959 - Singapore is declared a self-governing state, though remaining within the British Empire.
 1961 - US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna, Austria, for talks.
 1962 – A Boeing 707 plane crashes near Paris, killing 130 people.
 1963 – A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes into the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia, Canada, killing 101 people.
 1965 – NASA Gemini 4 mission: Crew member Edward Higgins White becomes the first American to perform a spacewalk.
 1968 - Valerie Solanas attempts to kill artist Andy Warhol.
 1969 – Off South Vietnam, Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts United States Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
 1973 – The Supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 plane crashes in France, killing 14 people.
 1979 – The Ixtoc I oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to one of the worst-ever oil spills.
 1980 – Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, killing 5 people and destroying many homes.
1982 - Shlomo Argov, Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, is shot and seriously injured in an assassination attempt in London.
 1984 – The Indian government's Operation Blue Star military offensive begins at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
 1989 – The crushing of protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing begins. Hundreds of people are killed.
 1989 – Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini dies.
 1991 – Mount Unzen on Kyushu, Japan, erupts, killing 43 people, all of them researchers or journalists.
 1992 - Aboriginal land rights are granted in Australia.
 1993 - France and Spain recognize the independence of Andorra.
 1998 – A major train derailment occurs in Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
 2003 - A train crash in Chinchilla, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, kills 19 people and injures around 50.
 2006 – Montenegro becomes independent.
 2008 – Barack Obama secures the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States, over Hillary Clinton.
2010 – The name of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada, is officially changed back to Haida Gwaii.
 2012 – Dana Air Flight 997 crashes into a building in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 153 people on board and more than 40 on the ground.
 2017 - The June 2017 London attack is carried out, killing 8 people in a car-ramming and stabbing attack.
 2018 - The Volcan de Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts, killing at least 69 people.
Up to 1900 
 20 BC - Sejanus, Roman political figure (d. 31)
 1537 – John Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554)
 1540 – Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
 1579 - Jens Munk, Danish-Norwegian explorer (d. 1628)
 1635 - Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688).
 1636 – John Hale, American minister (d. 1700)
 1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
 1723 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian naturalist (d. 1788)
 1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
 1770 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician and general (d. 1820)
 1808 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
 1819 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader (d. 1892)
 1832 – Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
 1840 - Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination (d. 1867)
 1843 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
 1844 – Detlev von Lilencron, German poet (d. 1909)
 1844 – Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
1853 – Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
 1864 – Ransom E. Olds, American pioneer (d. 1950)
 1865 – King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
 1872 – Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (d. 1919)
 1873 – Otto Loewi, German doctor, won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961)
 1876 - Nikolay Burdenko, Russian surgeon (d. 1946)
 1877 – Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
 1878 - Barney Oldfield, American racing driver (d. 1946)
 1879 - Alla Nazimova, Russian-American movie and theatre actress (d. 1945)
 1881 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
 1885 – Yakov Sverdlov, Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1919)
 1890 - Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1954)
 1895 – Zoltan Korda, movie director (d. 1961)
 1897 – Memphis Minnie, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 1973)
 1899 – Georg von Bekesy, Hungarian physicist and physiologist (d. 1972)
 1900 - Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
 1901 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese warlord (d. 2001)
 1903 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
 1904 – Charles Drew, American surgeon (d. 1950)
 1906 – Josephine Baker, American-born dancer (d. 1975)
 1910 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
 1910 - Wilfred Thesiger, English explorer and writer (d. 2003)
 1911 – Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
 1913 - Lloyd Percival, Canadian tennis player, boxer, cricketer and coach (d. 1974)
 1917 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
 1922 - Alain Resnais, French director (d. 2014)
 1923 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician (d. 2017)
 1924 - M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 2018)
 1924 - Ingrid Espelid Hovig, Norwegian television chef and cookbook author (d. 2018)
 1924 - Bernard Glasser, American actor (d. 2014)
 1924 - Jimmy Rogers, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
 1924 – Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neuropsychologist and Nobel Prize winner
1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
 1925 – Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (d. 2001)
 1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
 1929 – Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist
 1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (d. 1999)
 1930 - George Fernandes, Indian journalist and politician
 1930 – Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
 1931 – Raul Castro, President of Cuba
 1931 – Lindy Remigino, American athlete
 1933 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, Emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
 1935 - Enzo Jannacci, Italian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2013)
 1936 - Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2017)
 1937 - Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
 1937 – Edward Winter, American actor
 1938 - David L. Mills, American computer engineer
 1939 – Ian Hunter, English musician (Mott the Hoople)
 1940 - Antonio Brack Egg, Peruvian ecologist and politician (d. 2014)
 1940 - Loretta Long, American actress and singer
 1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
1943 - Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
 1944 - Edith McGuire, American sprinter
 1944 - Mary Thom, American feminist
 1945 - Ramon Jacinto, Filipino singer, guitarist and businessman
 1945 – John Derbyshire, British-American mathematician and political commentator
 1945 – Hale Irwin, American golfer
 1946 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (d. 1993)
 1946 - Eddie Holman, American singer
 1946 - Penelope Wilton, English actress
 1947 - Mickey Finn, English singer and musician (d. 1993)
 1948 - Jan Reker, Dutch footballer and manager
 1949 - Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican singer
 1950 - Melissa Mathison, American film and television screenwriter (d. 2015)
 1950 – Suzi Quatro, American rock musician
 1950 - Deniece Williams, American singer
1951  1975 
 1951 - Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United States
 1952 – Billy Powell, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
 1954 - Dan Hill, Canadian singer
 1954 – Bajram Rexhepi, former Prime Minister of Kosovo (d. 2017)
 1956 – George Burley, Scottish football manager
 1956 - Danny Wilde, American singer and guitarist (The Quick and The Rembrandts)
 1957 - Peter de Villiers, South African rugby coach
 1962 – Susannah Constantine, English television presenter
 1963 - Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Wallonia
 1964 – Kerry King, American rock guitarist (Slayer)
 1964 - James Purefoy, British actor
 1965 – Michael Moore, British politician
 1965 – Thomas Ohrner, German actor and television presenter
 1966 – Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
 1967 – Anderson Cooper, American broadcast journalist
 1968 - Saffron, Nigerian singer and dancer
 1970 - Greg Hancock, American motorcycle speedway racer
 1972 - Julie Gayet, French actress
 1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
From 1976 
 1976 - Laila Samuelsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter
 1977 – Cristiano Marques Gomes, Brazilian footballer
 1979 - Christian Malcolm, British sprinter
 1980 – Amauri, Brazilian-Italian footballer
 1980 - Ibrahim Yattara, Guinean footballer
 1980 - Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar
 1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
 1982 - Jodie Whittaker, English actress
 1984 – Emily Scott, Australian model
 1984 – Prince Félix of Luxembourg
 1985 – Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer
 1985 - Papiss Cissé, Senegalese footballer
 1985 - Lukasz Piszczek, Polish footballer
 1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
 1986 – Tomas Verner, Czech ice skater
 1986 - Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
 1987 - Angela Crawley, Scottish politician
 1987 - Michelle Keegan, English actress
 1987 - Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
 1987 – Lalaine, American actress
 1989 – Katie Hoff, American swimmer
 1989 - Imogen Poots, British actress
 1990 – Fabian Götze, German footballer
1992 – Mario Götze, German footballer
 1993 - Otto Porter, American basketball player
 2006 - Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal
Up to 1975 
 628 - Liang Shidu, Chinese rebel leader
 800 - Staurakios, Byzantine general
 1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1350)
 1397 - William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (b. 1328)
 1411 – Leopold IV, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
 1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
 1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
 1657 – William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
 1780 – Thomas Hutchinson, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
 1826 – Nikolai Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
 1858 – Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
 1861 – Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
 1875 – Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
 1882 - Christian Wiberg, German painter (b. 1839)
 1894 – Karl Eduard Zachariae, expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
 1899 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
 1900 – Mary Kingsley, English explorer (b. 1862)
 1906 - John Maxwell, American golfer (b. 1871)
1918 - Ramon Maximiliano Valdes, 7th President of Panama (b. 1867)
 1924 – Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist (b. 1883)
 1928 – Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
 1946 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet-Russian politician (b. 1875)
 1963 – Nazim Hikmet (b. 1902)
 1963 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
 1964 – Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Finnish writer (b. 1888)
 1969 - George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
 1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank under Adolf Hitler (b. 1877)
 1971 – Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
 1975 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1901)
 1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
1976  2010 
 1977 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian movie director, father of Isabella Rossellini, husband of Ingrid Bergman (b. 1906)
 1977 – Archibald Hill, English mathematician, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
 1986 - Anna Neagle, English actress (b. 1904)
 1987 - Will Sampson, American actor and artist (b. 1933)
 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite Islamic leader (b. 1900)
 1990 – Stiv Bators, American musician, punk rock singer with The Dead Boys (b. October 22, 1949)
 1990 – Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
 1991 – Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1942)
 1991 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
 1991 – Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
 1992 – Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
 1994 - Puig Aubert, French rugby player (b. 1925)
 1997 - Dennis James, American actor and game show host (b. 1917)
 2000 - Merton Miller, American economist (b. 1923)
 2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (b. 1915)
2002 - Lew Wasserman, American talent agent and studio executive (b. 1913)
 2003 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
 2004 – Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
 2005 – Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer and lawyer (b. 1945)
 2006 - Johnny Grande, American singer (b. 1932)
 2009 – Koko Taylor, American musician (b. 1928)
 2009 – David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
 2010 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (b. 1937)
 2010 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
From 2011 
 2011 – Jack Kevorkian, American physician and assisted suicide activist (b. 1928)
 2011 – James Arness, American actor (b. 1923)
 2012 – Roy Salvadori, British racing driver (b. 1922)
 2013 - Frank Lautenberg, United States Senator for New Jersey (b. 1924)
 2013 - Jiah Khan, American-born British-Indian actress (b. 1988)
 2013 - Atul Chitnis, German-Indian technician (b. 1962)
 2014 - Gopinath Munde, Indian politician (b. 1949)
 2014 - James Alan Shelton, Australian bluegrass guitarist (b. 1960)
 2014 - Karl Harris, British motorcycle racer (b. 1979)
 2014 - Svyatoslav Belza, Russian scholar, critic and essayist (b. 1942)
 2014 - Virginia Luque, Argentine actress (b. 1927)
 2015 - Avi Beker, Israeli academic (b. 1951)
 2015 - Margaret Juntwait, American radio host (b. 1957)
 2016 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer (b. 1942)
 2016 - Jocelyn Lovell, Canadian cyclist (b. 1950)
 2016 - Sten Lundin, Swedish motocross racer (b. 1931)
 2016 - Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1991)
2016 - Dave Swarbrick, English musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
 2016 - Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen, Dutch malacologist (b. 1929)
 2017 - David Choby, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1947)
 2017 - Niels Helveg Petersen, Danish politician (b. 1939)
 2017 - Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player (b. 1929)
 2017 - John K. Watts, Australian footballer and broadcaster (b. 1937)
 2017 - Vincent Tshabalala, South African golfer (b. 1942)
 2018 - Robert Brylewski, Polish singer-songwriter (b. 1961)
 2018 - Frank Carlucci, American politician (b. 1930)
 2018 - Jerry Hopkins, American journalist and blogger (b. 1935)
 2018 - Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan cardinal (b. 1926)
 2018 - Mario Toros, Italian politician (b. 1922)
 2018 - Georg von Tiesenhausen, German-American rocket scientist (b. 1914)
Observances 
 World Bicycle Day 
 European Bicycle Day 
 Montenegro Independence Day
 Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee)

June 03
Up to 1900 
 411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
 AD 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
 AD 68 – Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
 721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
 747 – Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
 1311 – Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
 1523 – The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.
 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.
1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
 1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
 1762 – British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War.
 1772 – The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.
 1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.
  1815   – Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire.
 1856 – Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.
 1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
 1885 – Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
 1900 – Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies in a British prison of cholera.
1901 to 1950 
 1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the .
 1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
 1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
 1944 – World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
  1944   – World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
 1948 – Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
From 1951 
 1953 – The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
 1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
 1957 – First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
 1959 – The  is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
 1965 – The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
  1965   – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
 1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
 1972 – Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
 1973 – In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
 1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
 1979 – The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
 1983 – Margaret Thatcher's Cosnservative Party is re-elected by a large margin the United Kingdom's general election.
 1999 – Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
 2006 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany begins, with host nation Germany defeating Costa Rica 4-2.
 2008 – Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
2009 – An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
 2010 – At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.
 2019 – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev wins Kazakhstan's Presidential election, having succeeded Nursultan Nazarbayev in March.
Births

Up to 1800 
 1016 – Deokjong of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (d. 1034)
 1424 – Blanche II of Navarre (d. 1464)
 1580 – Daniel Heinsius, Belgian poet and scholar (d. 1655)
 1588 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and theorist (d. 1666)
 1595 – Władysław IV Vasa, Polish king (d. 1648)
 1597 – Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Dutch painter (d. 1665)
 1640 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
 1661 – Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
 1672 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725)
 1686 – Andrey Osterman, German-Russian politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1747)
 1696 – Shiva Rajaram, infant Chattrapati of the Maratha Empire (d. 1726)
 1732 – Giuseppe Demachi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1791)
 1754 – Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, English general and politician, Governor of Barbados (d. 1815)
 1768 – Samuel Slater, English-American engineer and businessman (d. 1835)
 1781 – George Stephenson, English engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (d. 1848)