Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1963  Richard Garfield, American game designer
 1963  Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian CEO of YUKOS Oil Company
 1966  Dany Boon, French actor, director and screenwriter
 1967  Olivier Dahan, French director and screenwriter
 1967  Tarun Sagar, Indian Jain monk (d. 2018)
 1968  Gudni Th. Johannesson, Icelandic historian and academic, 6th President of Iceland
 1968  Jovenel Moïse, President of Haiti (d. 2021) 
 1968  Shannon Sharpe, American football player and commentator
 1968  Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
 1968  Armand de Las Cuevas, French cyclist (d. 2018)
 1969  Colin Greenwood, musician, Radiohead
 1969  Francis Magee, Irish actor
 1969  Geir Moen, Norwegian sprinter
 1970  Paul Thomas Anderson, American director, producer and screenwriter
 1970  Irv Gotti, American record producer
 1970  Sean Hayes, American actor, singer and producer
 1970  Chris O'Donnell, American actor
 1972  Caroline Nokes, English politician
 1972  Jussi Sydanmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1973  Gretchen Wilson, American country music singer
 1974  Derek Jeter, American baseball player
 1975  Jean-Paul Abalo, Togolese footballer
From 1976 
 1976  Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player
 1976  Chad Pennington, American football player
 1976  Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist leader (d. 2018)
 1977  Kubo Tite, cartoonist
 1979  Ryan Tedder, American singer, musician and producer (OneRepublic)
 1980  Jason Schwartzman, American actor
 1980  Michael Vick, American football player
 1981  Paolo Cannavaro, Italian footballer
 1983  Felipe Melo, Brazilian footballer
 1984  Raymond Felton, American basketball player
 1984  Deron Williams, American basketball player
 1984  Priscah Jeptoo, Kenyan runner
 1984  Aubrey Plaza, American actress
 1985  Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor
 1985  Daniela Sabatino, Italian footballer
 1985  Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader
 1986  Xisco, Spanish footballer
 1987  Samir Nasri, French footballer
 1988  Amanda Marchant, English singer
 1988  Sam Marchant, English singer
 1988  Dakota L. Meyer, American soldier
 1990  Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner
1992  Joel Campbell, Costa Rican footballer
 1992  Melanie Amaro, British-American singer
 1992  Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer
 1993  Ariana Grande, American actress and singer
 2005  Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
Up to 1950 
 363  Julian, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 331)
 1291  Eleanor of Provence, queen of Henry III of England
 1541  Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru (murdered)
 1718  Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (b. 1690), died on July 7 in the Gregorian calendar
 1784  Caesar Rodney, 4th Governor of Delaware (b. 1728)
 1808  Ludwik Tyszkiewicz, Polish poet and politician (b. 1748)
 1810  Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)
 1830  King George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
 1836  Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (b. 1706)
 1856  Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806)
 1870  Armand Barbès, French revolutionary (b. 1809) 
 1878  Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain (b. 1860)
 1883  Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist and ornithologist (b. 1788)
 1918  Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (b. 1843)
 1922  Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1841)
 1938  Daria Pratt, American golfer (b. 1859)
 1939  Ford Maddox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
1943  Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868)
 1945  Emil Hacha, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
 1946  Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1880)
 1947  Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
 1949  Kim Gu, Korean politician (b. 1876)
1951  2000 
 1951  Frank Ferera, Hawaiian musician (b. 1885)
 1955  Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895)
 1956  Clifford Brown, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1930)
 1957  Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
 1957  Malcolm Lowry, English poet and author (b. 1909)
 1958  Andrija Štampar, physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
 1958  George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
 1964  Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888)
 1975  St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (b. 1902)
 1979  Akwasi Afrifa, Ghanaian politician (b. 1936)
 1990  Anni Blomqvist, Finnish writer (b. 1909)
 1993  William H. Riker, political scientist (b. 1920)
 1996  Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
 1997  Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (born 1959)
From 2001 
 2002  Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
 2002  Arnold Brown, 11th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1913)
 2003  Sir Denis Thatcher Bt., husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
 2003  Strom Thurmond, United States Senator (b. 1902)
 2003  Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1975)
 2004  Yash Johar, Indian movie producer (b. 1929)
 2005  Richard Whiteley, British game show host (b. 1943)
 2007  Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born fashion designer (b. 1929)
 2007  Jupp Derwall, German footballer and manager (b. 1927)
 2010  Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian President (b. 1932)
 2011  Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer (b. 1948)
 2012  Nora Ephron, American writer, screenwriter and movie director (b. 1941)
 2013  Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman (b. 1934)
 2013  Bert Stern, American photographer (b. 1929)
 2013  Kimberly McCarthy, American murderer (b. 1961)
 2014  Ivan Plyushch, Ukrainian politician (b. 1941)
2014  Howard Baker, American politician and diplomat, United States Senator for Tennessee (b. 1925)
 2014  Wolf Koenig, German-born Canadian filmmaker (b. 1927)
 2014  Ron Hall, Australian rules footballer (b. 1945)
 2015  Yevgeny Primakov, former Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1929)
 2015  Richard Matt, American murderer and prison escapee (b. 1966)
 2016  Austin Clarke, Canadian novelist (b. 1934)
 2016  Barbara Goldsmith, American author (b. 1931)
 2016  Ryan Jimmo, Canadian mixed martial artist (b. 1981)
 2016  Kim Sung-min, South Korean actor (b. 1973)
 2016  Kavalam Narayana Panicker, Indian dramatist, theatre director and poet (b. 1928)
 2016  Rostislav Yankovsky, Belarussian actor (b. 1930)
 2017  Desh Bandhu Gupta, Indian businessman (b. 1938)
 2017  Doug Peterson, American yacht designer (b. 1945)
 2017  Habib Thiam, Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1933)
 2017  Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister, Swedish countess (b. 1926)
 2017  Claude Fagedet, French photographer (b. 1928)
2018  Andrey Dementyev, Russian poet (b. 1928)
 2018  Henri Namphy, President of Haiti (b. 1932)
 2018  Daniel Pilon, Canadian actor (b. 1940)
 2018  Big Bill Bissonnette, American jazz trombonist (b. 1937)
 2018  Ignatios Lappas, Greek Orthodox bishop (b. 1946)
 2018  Phil Rodgers, American golfer (b. 1938)
 2019  Georges Brossard, Canadian entomologist (b. 1940)
 2019  Douglas Fielding, British actor and narrator (b. 1946)
 2019  Manuel Real, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
 2019  Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov, Russian historian (b. 1930)
 2019  Max Wright, American actor (b. 1943)
Observances 
 Independence Day in Madagascar
 Flag Day (Romania)
 Army and Navy Day (Azerbaijan)
 International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
 International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Days of the year
It is the last day of the first half of the year.

Events
Up to 1900 
 350  Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantian dynasty, is defeated and killed by the usurper Magnentius.
 763  A Byzantine army under Emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
 1422  Battle of Arbedo between the Duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
 1521  Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noain during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre. 
 1559  Henry II of France is wounded in a jousting contest against Gabriel de Montgomery.
 1651  Battle of Beresteczko: Victory for Poland-Lithuania.
 1758  Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
 1805  The United States Congress organises the Michigan Territory. 
 1859  French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
 1860  The Oxford Evolution debate takes place  at the Oxford Museum of Natural History.
 1861  A group of 3000 European gold miners attack Chinese miners at Lambing Flat, New South Wales.
1864  Abraham Lincoln grants the Yosemite Valley to California for 'public use, resort and recreation'.
 1882  Charles J. Guiteau is executed for the assassination of US President James A. Garfield.
 1886  The first transcontinental train trip across Canada leaves Montreal. It arrives at Fort Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
 1894  London Tower Bridge is opened to traffic.
 1900  A harbour fire in Hoboken, New Jersey spreads to five German liners, killing 326 people.
1901  2000 
 1905  Albert Einstein publishes the article 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies' in which he introduces Special Relativity.
 1908  The Tunguska Incident occurs, as a large area of forest in Siberia is destroyed. The circumstances have not yet been fully explained, but it is widely believed to have been the explosion of a meteor.
 1912  A deadly tornado hits Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 28 people.
 1917  World War I: Greece declares war on the Central Powers.
 1934  The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's purge of political rivals, begins.
 1936  Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid from the League of Nations after being invaded by Italy.
 1940  World War II: Nazi Germany invades Guernsey in the Channel Islands, English Channel.
 1944  World War II: The city of Cherbourg in Normandy falls to American forces.
 1954  A total Solar eclipse is seen over parts of North America, Europe and Asia.
1956  A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing all 128 people in both airliners.
 1960  The present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo becomes independent.
 1969  Nigeria bans Red Cross aid from Biafra.
 1971  The crew of Soyuz 11 are suffocated when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
 1971  Ohio reduces the voting age to 18.
 1972  The first Leap second is added to the UTC time.
 1975  Muhammad Ali successfully defends his Heavyweight Boxing World title, against Joe Bugner.
 1985  Palau's President Haruo Remeliik is murdered.
 1985  39 American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut, Lebanon, after 17 days.
 1987  The Canadian 1 Dollar coin, the 'Loonie', is introduced.
 1990  East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
 1991  32 miners are killed when a coal mine catches fire in the Donbass region of Ukraine and releases toxic gas.
1996  Germany wins the UEFA Euro 1996 Championship against the Czech Republic, with Oliver Bierhoff scoring the first-ever 'Golden Goal'.
 1998  Joseph Estrada becomes President of the Philippines.
 2000  The Indonesian ferry Chaya Bahara sinks off the island of Sulawesi, killing over 500 people.
From 2001 
 2002  2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and South Korea: Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup for a fifth time, over Germany, with two goals from Ronaldo.
 2005  Spain legalises Same-sex marriage.
 2007  Islamist extremists drive a jeep packed with explosives into the main building at Glasgow Airport in Scotland.
 2009  A Yemenia Airlines plane crashes into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.
 2010  Benigno Aquino III becomes President of the Philippines.
 2010  Christian Wulff is chosen to succeed Horst Koehler as President of Germany.
 2012  Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood is sworn in as President of Egypt.
 2013  The Brazil national football team wins the FIFA Confederations Cup against the Spain national football team.
 2013  A whole entire fire crew in Arizona is killed while battling wild fires.
 2015  A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in Medan, Indonesia, killing a total of 116 people.
2016  Rodrigo Duterte becomes President of the Philippines.
 2017  Germany's Bundestag votes in favour of same-sex marriage by 393 votes to 226.
Up to 1900 
 1470  King Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
 1503  John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (d. 1554)
 1588  Giovanni Maria Sabino, Italian organist, composer and educator (d. 1649)
 1628  Miguel de Molinos, Spanish mystic (d. 1696)
 1685  John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)
 1685  Dominikus Zimmermann, master builder (d. 1766)
 1748  Dominique, comte de Cassini, French cartographer and astronomer (d. 1845)
 1755  Paul de Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
 1768  Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (d. 1830)
 1789  Horace Vernet, painter and graphic artist (d. 1863)
 1807  Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, narrator, lyricist, and philosopher (d. 1887)
 1815  Lysius Salomon, 13th President of Haiti (d. 1888)
 1817  Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist (d. 1911)
 1818  Lysius Salomon, 13th President of Haiti (d. 1888)
 1819  William A. Wheeler, 19th Vice President of the United States (d. 1887)
1824  Antonio Gonzalez de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1908)
 1827  Jacques-Louis Soret, Swiss chemist and physicist (d. 1890)
 1833  Manuel Amador Guerrero, 1st President of Panama (d. 1909)
 1843  Ernest Mason Satow, writer (d. 1929)
 1864  Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect and archaeologist (d. 1945)
 1883  Johan Olin, Finnish wrestler (d. 1928)
 1884  Georges Duhamel, French writer (d. 1966)
 1888  Rudolf Amelunxen, German politician (d. 1969)
 1890  Paul Boffa, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1962)
 1891  Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
 1891  Ed Lewis, American professional wrestler (d. 1966)
 1892  Bo Carter, American blues musician (d. 1962)
 1892  Oswald Pohl, Nazi politician (d. 1951)
 1893  Walter Ulbricht, East German politician (d. 1973)
 1899  Harry Shields, American jazz musician (d. 1971)
 1899  Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
1901  1950 
 1903  Robert E. Hannegan, American politician, 52nd United States Postmaster General (d. 1949)
 1906  Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
 1906  Anthony Mann, American movie actor and director (d. 1967)
 1906  Tribhuvan of Nepal (d. 1955)
 1907  Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
 1908  Winston Graham, English writer (d. 2003)
 1909  Juan Bosch, Dominican Republic politician (d. 2001)
 1911  Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2004)
 1912  Leopoldo Zea Aguilar, Mexican philosopher (d. 2002)
 1912  Avigdor Dagan, Czech-Israeli writer, playwright, translator and diplomat (d. 2006)
 1913  Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, President of Colombia (d. 2007)
 1914  Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese politician (d. 2001)
 1914  Allan Houser, Native American artist (d. 1994)
 1917  Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
 1917  Lena Horne, American actress and singer (d. 2010)
 1919  Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
1921  Oswaldo Lopez Arellano, President of Honduras (d. 2010)
 1926  Peter Alexander, Austrian singer and actor (d. 2011)
 1926  Paul Berg, American biochemist
 1933  Lea Massari, Italian actress
 1933  Derek Bentley, British victim of a miscarriage of Justice (d. 1953)
 1934  Harry Blackstone, Jr., American  magician (d. 1997)
 1936  Assia Djebar, Algerian writer, director and historian (d. 2015)
 1937  Gainan Saidkhuzhin, Russian cyclist (d. 2015)
 1937  Gideon Ezra, Israeli politician (d. 2012)
 1938  Apostolis Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
 1938  Billy Mills, American runner
 1939  John Fortune, British scriptwriter and actor (d. 2013)
 1939  José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican writer (d. 2014)
 1941  Otto Sander, German actor (d. 2013)
 1942  Robert Ballard, American underwater archaeologist
 1943  Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
 1944  Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
 1944  Terry Funk, American wrestler and actor
 1945  Sean Scully, Irish-American painter
1951  1975 
 1953  Hal Lindes, American-born British guitarist (Dire Straits)
 1954  Serzh Sargsyan, President of Armenia
 1954  Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
 1954  Wayne Swan, Australian politician
 1956  David Lidington, English politician
 1958  Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
 1959  Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
 1959  Brendan Perry, English musician (Dead Can Dance)
 1960  James Kwesi Appiah, Ghanaian footballer and coach
 1960  Jack McConnell, Scottish politician, 3rd First Minister of Scotland
 1960  Murray Cook, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
 1962  Tony Fernandez, American baseball player
 1963  Olha Bryzhina, Ukrainian athlete
 1963  Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
 1964  Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, Hong Kong-born former member of the Danish royal family
 1965  Gary Pallister, English footballer
 1965  Mitch Raymond, American basketball player
 1966  Cheryl Bernard, Canadian curler
 1966  Mike Tyson, American world champion boxer
1967  Nitin Ganatra, British actor
 1967  Silke Renk, German athlete
 1968  Philip Anselmo, American musician
 1970  Antonio Chimenti, Italian footballer
 1971  Monica Potter, American actress
 1972  James Martin, English chef
 1973  Frank Rost, German footballer
 1973  Chan Ho Park, Korean baseball pitcher
 1974  Juli Zeh, German writer
 1975  Rami Shaaban, Swedish footballer
 1975  Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver
From 1976 
 1977  Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer
 1980  Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian footballer
 1981  Barbara Spotakova, Czech athlete
 1982  Lizzy Caplan, American actress
 1982  Willam Belli, American actor, drag queen and television personality
 1982  Andy Knowles, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
 1983  Cheryl Cole, British singer, formerly of Girls Aloud
 1983  Marcus Burghardt, German cyclist
 1983  Steve von Bergen, Swiss footballer
 1983  Katherine Ryan, Canadian comedienne
 1984  Dimitry Ipatov, Russian ski jumper
 1984  Fantasia Barrino, American singer
 1985  Michael Phelps, American swimmer
 1985  Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler
 1985  Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
 1985  Charley Uchea, American Reality show personality
 1986  Allegra Versace, Italian heiress
 1986  Fredy Guarin, Colombian footballer
 1988  Jack Douglass, American comedian and actor
 1989  Miguel Vitor, Portuguese footballer
 1989  Asbel Kiprop, Kenyan runner
 1991  Kaho, Japanese actress
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 350  Nepotianus, Roman usurper
 1224  Adolf of Osnabrück, German monk and bishop (b. 1185) 
 1520  Moctezuma II (Montezuma), Aztec ruler (b. around 1465)
 1538  Charles II, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
 1649  Simon Vouet, French painter (b. 1599)
 1670  Henrietta of England, daughter of Charles I (b. 1644)
 1708  Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
 1709  Edward Lhuyd, Welsh botanist, linguist and geographer (b. 1660)
 1785  James Oglethorpe, English general (b. 1696)
 1861  Robert O'Hara Burke, Irish explorer of Australia (b. 1820)
 1882  Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of US President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
 1882  Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
 1898  Siegfried Marcus, English technician and inventor (b. 1831)
 1899  E. D. E. N. Southworth, American author (b. 1819)
1901  2000 
 1919  John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist (b. 1842)
 1932  Bruno Kastner, German actor (b. 1890)
 1934  Night of the Long Knives:
Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
Gregor Strasser, Nazi politician (b. 1892)
Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862)
Karl Ernst, Sturmabteilung leader (b. 1904)
Erich Klausener, German politician (b. 1885)
 1949  Edouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (b. 1868)
 1953  Charles William Miller, British-Brazilian sportsman, considered as the 'father of Brazilian football' (b. 1874)
 1954  Andrass Samuelsen, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1873)
 1959  José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
 1961  Lee De Forest, American inventor (b. 1873)
 1965  Margarete Sommer, German social worker (b. 1893)
 1966  Giuseppe Farina, Italian racing driver (b. 1906)
 1971  Crew of Soyuz 11:
Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
Georgi Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1928)
Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
 1971  Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
 1971  Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
 1973  Nancy Mitford, British writer and biographer (b. 1904)
 1974  Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1905)
 1974  Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
 1984  Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
 1985  Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)
 1993  George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
 1993  Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor (b. 1962)
 1995  Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1921)
 1995  Phyllis Hyman, American singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
 1996  Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer (b. 1932)
From 2001 
 2001  Chet Atkins, American musician and producer (b. 1924)
 2003  Buddy Hackett, American comedian (b. 1924)
 2007  Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
 2009  Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
 2011  Georg Sterzinsky, German cardinal (b. 1936)
 2012  Yitzhak Shamir, former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
 2013  Keith Seaman, Australian politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (b. 1920)
 2014  Frank Cashen, American baseball executive (b. 1925)
 2014  Alvaro Corcuera, Mexican priest (b. 1957)
 2014  Christian Fuehrer, German pastor and activist (b. 1943)
 2014  Alejandra Da Passano, Argentine actress (b. 1947)
 2014  Zeljko Sturanovic, former Prime Minister of Montenegro (b. 1960)
 2014  Pierre Bec, French Occitan language poet (b. 1921)
 2014  Paul Mazursky, American director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1930)
 2014  Frank M. Robinson, American writer and screenwriter (b. 1926)
 2014  Bob Hastings, American actor (b. 1925)
2015  Eddy Louiss, French jazz musician (b. 1941)
 2015  Leonard Starr, American cartoonist (b. 1925)
 2016  Martin Lundström, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1918)
 2016  Geoffrey Hill, English poet (b. 1932)
 2016  Don Friedman, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
 2016  Juan Habichuela, Spanish flamenco guitarist (b. 1933)
 2016  Gordon Murray, English puppeteer and television producer (b. 1921)
 2017  Simone Veil, French politician (b. 1927)
 2017  Barry Norman, English film critic (b. 1933)
 2017  Karunamaya Goswami, Bangladeshi musicologist (b. 1942)
 2017  Darrall Imhoff, American basketball player (b. 1938)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
 Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day
 Army Day (Guatemala)
 Revolution Day (Sudan)
 Navy Day (Israel)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
1098  Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
1243  Innocent IV becomes pope.
1360  Muhammed VI, Sultan of Granada becomes the 10th Nasrid King of Granada after killing his brother, Ismail II, Sultan of Granada.
1389  Ottoman Empire defeats Christian Europe army in Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
1461  King Edward IV of England is crowned.
1519  Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1575  The Battle of Nagashino takes place in Japan.
1635  Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1651  Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts.
1709  Tsar Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1745  War of the Austrian Succession: A New England colonial army captures Louisbourg, New France, after a 47-day siege.
1776  American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island becomes the first decisive US victory of the war, over Great Britain.
1807  Second British Invasion of Rio de la Plata: John Whitelock lands at Ensenada in an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
1811  Napoleonic Wars: French troops storm the city of Tarragona, Spain and carry out a massacre on citizens who offer strong resistance.
1838  In the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria is officially crowned.
1841  Giselle, a ballet by French composer Adolphe Adam, is first performed in Paris.
1859  The first dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1865  In the US, the Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
1880  Ned Kelly, the Australian bushranger, is captured at Glenrowan.
1882  The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
1886  The first passenger train of the Canadian Pacific Railway leaves Montreal, Quebec.
1887  Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city.
1894  Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1895  El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
1896  An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pattston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
1901  2000 
1902  United States Congress passes the Spooner Act, allowing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1904  The Danish ship SS Norge runs aground and sinks off Rockall in the North Atlantic Ocean; 625 people are killed.
1904  Helen Keller completes her studies at Radcliffe College.
1914  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are killed by a Serbian nationalist, the casus belli of World War I.
1919  The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I with Germany.
1921  King Alexander I of Serbia proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1922  The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Irish Free State forces.
1926  Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
1936  The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1938  A 450-tonne meteorite struck the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania
1940  Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
1948  A magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Fukui, Japan, kills 5,390 people.
1950  Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
1960  US-owned oil refineries in Cuba confiscated and nationalised.
1960  A gas explosion in a coal mine in Monmouthshire, Wales, kills 37 miners.
1964  Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1967  Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1969  Stonewall riots in New York city mark the beginning of the modern gay rights era.
1976  An Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda trial.
1978  The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 438 US 265 1978, bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities.
1981  A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republic Party.
1983  The partial collapse of Connecticut's busy I-95 Mianus River Bridge, killing 3 people.
1987  For the first time in military history a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bomb the Iranian town of Sardasht.
1988  Four workers are asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history. A fifth victim dies two days later.
1990  Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
1992  The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
1994  Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan, killing 7 people and injuring 660.
1996  The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
1997  Boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield.
From 2001 
2004  Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the ERM II
2004  Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
2006  Montenegro becomes a member of the UN.
2009  A political crisis lasting several months begins in Honduras, as President Manuel Zelaya is overthrown by Roberto Micheletti.
2011  Google launches Google+.
2016  At least 41 people are killed in a terrorist attack on Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport.
2018  Five people are shot dead in the Capital Gazette shooting at a newspaper office in Annapolis, Maryland, United States.
2019  100th anniversary of the signing the Treaty of Versailles.
2019  France records its hottest-ever temperature, at 45.9 degrees Celsius.
2019  The European Union and Mercosur agree a trade deal.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1170  King Valdemar II of Denmark (d. 1241)
 1243  Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (d. 1304)
 1444  Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1487)
 1476  Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
 1490  Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d. 1545)
 1491  Henry VIII, King of England (d. 1547)
 1503  Giovanni della Casa, Italian author and poet (d. 1556)
 1547  Cristoforo Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599)
 1577  Peter Paul Rubens, German painter (d. 1640)
 1653  Muhammad Azam Shah, Mughal ruler (d. 1707)
 1692  Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart (d. 1718)
 1703  John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
 1712  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
 1719  Etienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician (d. 1785)
 1734  Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French organist and composer (d. 1778)
 1794  John Biscoe, English explorer (d. 1843)
 1806  Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
 1807  Anton Philipp Reclam, German publisher (d. 1895)
1819  Carlotta Grisi, Italian ballerina (d. 1899)
 1824  Paul Broca, French physician (d. 1880)
 1831  Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
 1835  John Young Brown, American politician, 31st Governor of Kentucky (d. 1904)
 1836  Lyman J. Gage, American politician (d. 1927)
 1847  Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Icelandic composer (d. 1927)
 1852  Charles Cruft, English businessman (d. 1938)
 1867  Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist and narrator, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1936)
 1871  Sergei Bulgakov, Russian theologian and philosopher (d. 1944)
 1873  Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1944)
 1875  Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
 1876  Robert Guérin, French sports official, 1st President of FIFA (d. 1952)
 1883  Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
 1884  Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leonean banker and politician (d. 1964)
 1888  George Challenor, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1947)
1890  Howard Drew, American sprinter (d. 1957)
 1891  Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
1901  1950 
 1902  Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
 1906  Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1972)
 1912  Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
 1913  Franz Antel, Austrian movie maker (d. 2007)
 1914  Lester Flatt, bluegrass musician (d. 1979)
 1915  David Honeyboy Edwards, American blues musician (d. 2011)
 1917  Albert De Cleyn, Belgian footballer (d. 1990)
 1918  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1999)
 1921  P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India, 1991  1996 (d. 2004)
 1923  Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
 1923  Conte Candoli, American trumpeter (d. 2001)
 1923  Pete Candoli, American trumpeter (d. 2008)
 1925  Giselher Klebe, German composer (d. 2009)
 1926  Mel Brooks, American actor, director and filmmaker
 1927  Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist (d. 2012)
 1928  Hans Blix, Swedish politician and diplomat
1930  Itamar Franco, former President of Brazil (d. 2011)
 1930  Jack Gold, British movie director (d. 2015)
 1930  William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist and parasitologist
 1931  Hans Alfredsson, Swedish actor, movie director, writer and comedian
 1932  Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
 1934  Carl Levin, United States Senator (d. 2021)
 1934  Georges Wolinski, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
 1934  Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, Irish lawyer and judge
 1935  John Inman, English actor and singer (d. 2007)
 1936  Chuck Howley, American football player
 1938  Moy Yat, martial artist
 1938  Leon Panetta, American politician
 1940  Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
 1940  Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker and economist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
 1941  David Lloyd Johnston, 28th Governor General of Canada
 1941  Joseph Goguen, American scientist (d. 2006)
 1942  Chris Hani, South African politician (d. 1993)
 1942  Rupert Sheldrake, British writer, biochemist and parapsychologist
1943  Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
 1945  Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 1989)
 1946  Gilda Radner, American actress and comedienne (d. 1989)
 1946  Jaime Guzman, Chilean politician (d. 1991)
 1946  John Michael Lounge, American astronaut (d. 2011)
 1947  Mark Helprin, American writer
 1948  Kathy Bates, American actress
 1948  Clarence Thomas, United States Supreme Court justice
 1948  Robin Dunbar, British anthropologist and evolutionary biologist
1951  1975 
 1951  Mark Shand, English conservationist and author, brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (d. 2014)
 1951  Lalla Ward, English actress
 1951  Walter Alva, Peruvian archaeologist
 1952  Ray Ashcroft, English actor
 1952  Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete and politician (d. 2013)
 1952  John Patrick Lowrie, American voice actor, actor, musician and author
 1952  Jean-Christophe Rufin, French physician and author
 1953  Gernot Rohr, German footballer and manager
 1954  A. A. Gill, British journalist, author and critic (d. 2016)
 1954  Alice Krige, actress
 1957  Georgi Parvanov, former President of Bulgaria
 1957  Jim Spanarkel, American basketball player and sportscaster
 1958  Donna Edwards, American lawyer, politician and writer
 1959  Clint Boon, English singer and keyboardist
 1960  John Elway, American football player
 1961  Jeff Malone, American basketball player and coach
 1963  Charlie Clouser, American musician (Nine Inch Nails)
 1964  Mark Grace, American Major League Baseball player
1964  Sabrina Ferilli, Italian actress
 1964  Tommy Lynn Sells, American serial killer (d. 2014)
 1966  John Cusack, American actor
 1966  Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress, director and producer
 1967  Lars Riedel, German athlete
 1967  Leona Aglukkaq, Canadian politician
 1967  Gil Bellows, Canadian actor
 1968  Adam Woodyatt, English actor
 1969  Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
 1969  Stéphane Chapuisat, Swiss footballer
 1971  Sean Dyche, English football manager
 1971  Fabien Barthez, French footballer
 1971  Lorenzo Amoruso, Italian footballer
 1971  Bobby Hurley, American basketball player
 1971  Elon Musk, South African-American entrepreneur
 1971  Louise Mensch, English politician and author
 1972  Ngo Bao Chau, Vietnamese mathematician
 1972  Alessandro Nivola, American actor
 1972  Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
 1973  Adrian Annus, hammer thrower
 1973  André Lange, German bobsledder
 1974  Rob Dyrdek, American skateboarder, actor and producer
From 1976 
 1977  Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
 1978  Simon Larose, tennis player
 1979  Felicia Day, American actress and writer
 1979  Randy McMichael, American football player
 1982  Ibrahim Camejo, Cuban long jumper
 1982  Irakli Garibashvili, Prime Minister of Georgia
 1984  Tamara Ecclestone, British model and television host
 1985  Phil Bardsley, British footballer
 1986  Kellie Pickler, American country music singer and songwriter
 1986  Suzuko Mimori, Japanese voice actress and singer
 1987  Terrence Williams, American basketball player
 1988  Kanon Wakeshima, Japanese singer and cellist
 1989  Lucy Rose, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1989  Mark Edward Fischbach, American actor and comedian
 1990  Nick Purcell, American actor
 1990  Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
 1990  Daisy Turner, English model and actress
 1991  Seohyun, South Korean singer, dancer and actress (Girls' Generation)
 1991  Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer
1993  Bradley Beal, American basketball player
 1994  Anish Giri, Russian-Dutch chess player
 1994  Madeline Duggan, English actress
 1994  Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan
 1995  Kare Hedebrandt, Swedish actor
Up to 1900 
 202  Yuan Shao, Chinese warlord
 548  Theodora I, Byzantine Empress (b. 500)
 572  Alboin, Lombard King (b. 530)
 683  Pope Leo II (b. 611)
 767  Pope Paul I (b. 700)
 928  Louis the Blind, King of Provence and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 880)
 1061  Floris I, Count of Holland (b. 1020)
 1175  Andrey Bogolyubsky, Russian saint (b. 1111)
 1189  Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (b. 1156)
 1194  Emperor Xiaozong of Song of China (b. 1127)
 1385  Andronikos IV Palaiologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)
 1586  Primoz Trubar, Slovenian author and reformer (b. 1508)
 1598  Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer (maker of maps) (b. 1527)
 1716  George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
 1757  Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen of Prussia (b. 1687)
 1813  Gerhard Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b. 1755)
 1834  Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
 1836  James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
1880  Dan Kelly, Steve Hart and Joe Byrne, Australian bushrangers, killed at Glenrowan, Victoria.
 1880  Texas Jack Omohundro, American cowboy and actor (b. 1848)
 1881  Jules Armand Dufaure, 33rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1798)
 1889  Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and Women's Rights activist (b. 1818)
 1892  Harry Atkinson, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1831)
 1892  Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
1901  2000 
 1913  Manoel Ferraz de Campos Sales, President of Brazil (b. 1811)
 1914  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassination) (b. 1863)
 1914  Archduchess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (b. 1868)
 1917  Sven Berggren, Swedish naturalist and botanist (b. 1837)
 1928  Ida Ferenczy, lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth of Bavaria (b. 1839)
 1929  Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (b. 1844)
 1935  Patriarch Meletius IV of Constantinople (b. 1871)
 1940  Italo Balbo, Italian general and politician (b. 1896)
 1942  Yanka Kupala, Belarussian writer (b. 1882)
 1960  Jake Swirbul, co-founder of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
 1962  Mickey Cochrane, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1903)
 1965  Red Nichols, American jazz musician (b. 1905)
 1971  Franz Stangl, Nazi Concentration camp commandant (b. 1908)
 1974  Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
 1975  Rod Serling, American scriptwriter, host of The Twilight Zone (b. 1924)
1976  Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and movie producer (b. 1927)
 1978  Clifford Dupont, President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
 1980  José Iturbi, Spanish musician, conductor (b. 1895)
 1981  Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
 1989  Joris Ivens, movie maker (b. 1898)
 1991  Henri Lefebvre, French philosopher (b. 1901)
 1992  Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
 1993  GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
 1997  Mrs. Miller, singer (b. 1907)
From 2001 
 2001  Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
 2001  Joan Sims, actress (b. 1930)
 2003  Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
 2004  Anthony Buckeridge, writer (b. 1912)
 2007  Kiichi Miyazawa, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
 2008  Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)
 2009  Billy Mays, American pitchman (b. 1958)
 2010  Robert Byrd, American politician, longest-serving United States Senator (b. 1917)
 2011  Michael Wenning, American minister (b. 1935)
 2013  Peter Lehmann, Australian winemaker (b. 1930)
 2014  Meshach Taylor, American actor (b. 1947)
 2014  Brian Roe, English cricketer (b. 1939)
 2014  Jim Brosnan, American baseball player (b. 1929)
 2014  Julio Silva Solar, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
 2015  Todor Slavov, Bulgarian rally driver (b. 1984)
 2015  Jack Carter, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)
 2015  Wally Stanowski, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
 2016  Scotty Moore, American guitarist (b. 1931)
2016  Buddy Ryan, American football coach (b. 1931)
 2016  Pat Summitt, American basketball coach (b. 1952)
 2016  Zurlon Tipton, American football player (b. 1990)
 2017  John Higgins, Scottish footballer (b. 1930)
 2017  Wally O'Connell, Australian rugby league player (b. 1923)
 2017  Ola Mildred Rexroat, American World War II military official (b. 1917)
 2018  Domenico Losurdo, Italian philosopher (b. 1940)
 2018  Rob Hiaasen, American journalist and newspaper editor (b. 1959)
 2018  Denis Akiyama, Canadian actor (b. 1952)
 2018  Christine Nöstlinger, Austrian author (b. 1936)
 2019  Willie Frazer, Northern Irish activist (b. 1960)
Observances 
 Saint Irenaeus
 Soviet Occupation Day in Moldova
 Observed as Tau Day by opponents of Pi (Mathematics)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
678  Pope Agatho is elected.
1358  The Republic of Dubrovnik is founded.
1497  Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
1556  The thirteen Stratford martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
1709  Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1715  In a war with Venice, 40,000 Ottoman soldiers land in the Peloponnese, present-day Greece.
1743  War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen - on the battlefield in Bavaria, King George II of Great Britain leads his troops into battle. It is the last time that a British monarch would command troops  on the field.
1759  General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec.
1760  Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina during the Anglo-Cherokee War.
1806  The British capture Buenos Aires.
1844  Joseph Smith, Jr and his brother Hyrum murdered in Carthage Jail, Carthage, Illinois.
1864  Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the American Civil War.
1867  The Bank of California opens its doors
1893  Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1898  First solo circumnavigation of the globe completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island Nova Scotia.
1899  A. E. J. Collins scores 628 not-out, a record score in cricket.
1901  2000 
1905  Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin.
1927  Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China.
1941  Romanian government forces, supporting Nazi Germany, launch a violent pogrom against the Jewish population of the city of Iasi, Romania; 13,266 are subsequently murdered.
1945  Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard sends memo to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson urging that the United States give "preliminary warning" to Japan before using the atomic bomb on a Japanese target.
1946  The Parliament of Canada establishes the definition (meaning) of Canadian citizenship.
1950  The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1953  Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France.
1954  World's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1954  Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz is removed from power with US assistance.
1957  Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
1963  John F. Kennedy visits his ancestral home in County Wexford, Republic of Ireland.
1966  The military seizes power in Argentina.
1967  World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.
1972  ATARI is established by Nolan Bushnell.
1973  President of Uruguay Juan Maria Bordaberry dissolves parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
1974  US President Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R.
1976  Air France Flight 139 is captured by Palestinian militants and diverted to Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
1977  France grants independence to Djibouti.
1977  Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) becomes a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
1979  Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing.
1980  A commercial DC-9 (Itavia Flight 870) is apparently shot down.
1982  Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
1984  Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
1984  UEFA Euro 1984: France defeats Spain 2-0 to win the tournament.
1985  Route 66 ceases to be an official highway.
1986  International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the Nicaragua v. United States.
1988  In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Mike Tyson becomes Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World, defeating Michael Spinks.
1991  Slovenia, which declared independent two days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft.
1995  Jodi Huisentruit, an anchorwoman in Mason City, Iowa disappears, presumably abducted.
1998  130 people are killed in an earthquake in southwestern Turkey.
From 2001 
2001  International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
2006  2006 FIFA World Cup: Brazil's Ronaldo becomes the highest goalscorer in FIFA World Cup history, with 15 goals.
2007  Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Tony Blair.
2008  In a highly scrutinised election, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe claims a landslide victory, after opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn, citing violence against MDC supporters.
2010  Iceland legalizes same-sex marriage.
2010  2010 FIFA World Cup: Two controversial decisions in Second Round matches prompt discussions about technology in football. Frank Lampard's goal for England against Germany is not given despite crossing the line, and an offside goal by Argentina's Carlos Tévez against Mexico is given.
2013  Kevin Rudd becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a second time, replacing Julia Gillard.
2013  NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
2014  Jean-Claude Juncker is chosen to become President of the European Commission.
2016  UEFA Euro 2016: Iceland defeats England 2-1 in a surprise result in the second round of the tournament.
2017  Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon delays a plan for a second independence referendum.
2017  A vote in the German Bundestag on same-sex marriage is set for June 30 after Chancellor Angela Merkel changes her official position on the issue.
2017  Armin Laschet takes over from Hannelore Kraft as Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most-populous state.
2017  A second Ransomware cyber attack in just over six weeks affects the world's computers, with Russia, Poland and Ukraine among the most-affected countries.
2018  2018 FIFA World Cup: Germany is knocked out of the FIFA World Cup at the first stage for the first time in 80 years, after a 2-0 defeat to South Korea; it is the fourth time in five FIFA World Cups that the previous champion goes out at the group stage.
2018  United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announces his retirement.
Up to 1900 
1040  King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
1350  Manuel II Palaiologus, Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1425)
1462  King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
1550  King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
1682  King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718) (June 17 in Swedish calendar)
1717  Louis Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
1740  John Latham, English physician, naturalist and author (d. 1837)
1805  Napoléon Coste, French composer and guitarist (d. 1883)
1806  Augustus De Morgan, English mathematician (d. 1871)
1821  August Conradi, German organist and composer (d. 1873)
1821  Samuel Washington Woodhouse, American surgeon, explorer and naturalist (d. 1904)
1828  Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (d. 1905)
1838  Paul Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
1838  Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author and poet (d. 1894)
1838  Eugenia Washington, American historian (d. 1900)
1839  George Mary Searle, American astronomer and clergyman (d. 1918)