# June 19

**June 19** is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining until the end of the year.

## Events

### Up to 1950

* 936 – Louis IV of France is crowned as the West Frankish King in the city of Laon.
* 1179 – Battle of Kalskinnet in takes place outside Nidaros (present-day Trondheim). Earl Erling Skakke is killed, as the battle changes the progress of the civil wars.
* 1269 – Louis IX of France orders that all Jews in public in France without their yellow badge should be fined 10 livres of silver.
* 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
* 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
* 1770 – Emmanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ is his work *True Christian Religion*.
* 1815 – A day after the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Wavre is fought, as the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars.
* 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
* 1821 – The Coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom takes place in London. The expensive (costs a lot of money) coronation banquet is the last-to-date at the crowning of a British monarch.
* 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
* 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries the future King Charles XIII of Sweden.
* 1862 – US Congress prohibits Slavery in US territories.
* 1865 – Slaves in Galveston, Texas, are informed of their freedom, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Texas and thirteen other US states celebrate this as "Juneteenth".
* 1867 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico is executed by a firing squad.
* 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
* 1910 – The first Father's Day is observed in Spokane, Washington. In some Western countries, including the US and UK, it is still observed on the third Sunday in June.
* 1911 – Norwegian football club Molde FK is founded.
* 1913 – The Natives' Land Act in South Africa is introduced.
* 1936 – Max Schmeling defeats Joe Louis to win the World Heavyweight Boxing title.
* 1938 – In France, the Italy national football team wins the FIFA World Cup for a second time, defeating the Hungary national football team 4–2.
* 1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

### 1951 – 2010

* 1953 – After being convicted of espionage, Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg are executed in New York City.
* 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the UK.
* 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved in the US.
* 1965 – In Algeria, President Ahmed Ben Bella is removed in a military coup, and replaced by Houari Boumedienne.
* 1970 – The Patent Convention Treaty is signed.
* 1976 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
* 1978 – Jim Davis' comic strip about a lazy and overeating cat named Garfield is published for the first time.
* 1982 – The body of "God's banker" Roberto Calvi is found hanging at the Blackfriars Bridge in London.
* 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its worst terrorist attacks, on a supermarket in Barcelona.
* 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, the Indigenous Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
* 1991 – In the Croatian War of Independence, the Battle of Dubrovnik starts.
* 1991 – Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
* 1992 – In Heavyweight Boxing, Evander Holyfield becomes world champion, defeating Larry Holmes.
* 1999 – The computer game Counter-strike is released.
* 1999 – In Seoul, South Korea, it is announced that Turin, Italy, is to host the 2006 Winter Olympics.
* 2002 – Steve Fossett starts his round-the-world journey in a hot-air balloon.
* 2006 – Prime Ministers of several Northern European countries participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway.
* 2007 – The Al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad kills 78 people.
* 2009 – Mass riots involving thousands of civilians and police officers break out in Shishou, China, after the unexplained death of a local chief.
* 2010 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden marries Daniel Westling.

### From 2011

* 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asks for asylum in Ecuador at the country's embassy in London.
* 2013 – At 10pm, Singapore's 3-hour PSI reading set an all-time high record of 321 in the *Hazardous* range, surpassing the previous record of 226 during the 1997 haze. This is the first time that Singapore's PSI has entered the *Hazardous* range.
* 2014 – King Felipe VI of Spain ascends to the throne after the abdication of his father, King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
* 2016 – Virginia Raggi, of the Five Star Movement, is elected as the first female Mayor of Rome.
* 2017 – 2017 Finsbury Park attack: A van is driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers in London's Finsbury Park area, causing several injuries; the attacker is arrested by police.
* 2018 – The United States pulls out of the United Nations Human Rights council.
* 2018 – Canada decides to legalise the recreational use of cannabis.
* 2019 – Four men are named as suspects in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Eastern Ukraine in 2014, in which 298 people were killed.

## Births

### Up to 1900

* 1301 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese Shogun (d. 1333)
* 1566 – King James VI of Scotland (James I of England) (d. 1625)
* 1595 – Guru Hargobind, Indian religious figure (d. 1644)
* 1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
* 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
* 1701 – François Rebel, French composer (d. 1775)
* 1717 – Johann Stamitz, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1757)
* 1731 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
* 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan national hero (d. 1850)
* 1771 – Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
* 1790 – John Gibson, Welsh sculptor (d. 1866)
* 1792 – Gustav Schwab, German writer (d. 1850)
* 1795 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon (d. 1860)
* 1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
* 1816 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (d. 1899)
* 1842 – Carl Zeller, Austrian jurist, politician and composer (d. 1898)
* 1846 – Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
* 1850 – David Jayne Hill, American diplomat and historian (d. 1932)
* 1854 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (d. 1893)
* 1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British field marshal and soldier (d. 1928)
* 1861 – Jose Rizal, Filipino national hero (d. 1896)
* 1865 – May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
* 1871 – Alajor Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper and physician (d. 1932)
* 1874 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941)
* 1877 – Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
* 1878 – Yakov Yurovsky, Russian Bolshevik, chief executioner of the Tsarist family (d. 1938)
* 1880 – Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Icelandic playwright and poet (d. 1919)
* 1884 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French artist and writer (d. 1974)
* 1891 – John Heartfield, German painter and photomontage artist (d. 1968)
* 1893 – Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1940)
* 1896 – Wallis Simpson, American, Duchess of Windsor through marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII (d. 1986)
* 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist (d. 1967)
* 1897 – Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
* 1900 – Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)

### 1901 – 1950

* 1901 – Piero Gobetti, Italian journalist, intellectual and activist (d. 1926)
* 1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1979)
* 1903 – Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
* 1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
* 1903 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
* 1905 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
* 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist, won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
* 1907 – Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
* 1909 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
* 1909 – Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
* 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist (d. 1985)
* 1910 – Sydney Allard, English racing driver (d. 1966)
* 1914 – Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
* 1914 – Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1979)
* 1915 – Julius Schwartz, American publisher, writer and editor (d. 2004)
* 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician (d. 1999)
* 1919 – Pauline Kael, American writer and critic (d. 2001)
* 1920 – Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (d. 2002)
* 1921 – Doris Sands Johnson, Bahamian teacher, suffragette and politician (d. 1983)
* 1921 – Louis Jourdan, French actor (d. 2015)
* 1922 – Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 2009)
* 1923 – Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, President of Paraguay (d. 1997)
* 1926 – Anneliese Rothenberger, German soprano (d. 2010)
* 1928 – Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist
* 1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
* 1931 – Sudarshan Agarwal, Indian politician (d. 2019)
* 1932 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
* 1932 – Marisa Pavan, Italian actress
* 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
* 1934 – Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician
* 1934 – Terence Clark, English diplomat
* 1936 – Zacharias Heinesen, Faroese painter
* 1937 – André Glucksmann, French philosopher (d. 2015)
* 1938 – Jean-Claude Labrecque, Canadian director and cinematographer
* 1938 – Karl Moik, Austrian entertainer (d. 2015)
* 1939 – Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
* 1940 – Paul Shane, English actor (d. 2013)
* 1941 – Vaclav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic
* 1944 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter and poet
* 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician and pro–Democracy campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner
* 1945 – Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian-Serb politician, on trial for war crimes
* 1946 – Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, English diplomat
* 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian-born writer
* 1948 – Nick Drake, English musician and singer (d. 1974)
* 1948 – Phylicia Rashad, American actress
* 1949 – Hassan Shehata, Egyptian football manager
* 1950 – Ann Wilson, American singer

### 1951 – 1975

* 1951 – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
* 1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (al-Qaeda)
* 1952 – Bob Ainsworth, British politician
* 1953 – Larry Dunn, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
* 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress
* 1955 – Don McCarthy, British businessman (d. 2018)
* 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Foreign minister (d. 2003)
* 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Soviet ice hockey player
* 1959 – Anne Hidalgo, French politician, Mayor of Paris
* 1959 – Christian Wulff, former President of Germany
* 1959 – Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpeter
* 1959 – Sophie Grigson, English cookery writer and chef
* 1961 – Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 2nd President of Nepal
* 1962 – Masanao Sasaki, Japanese footballer
* 1962 – Paula Abdul, American dancer and singer; *American Idol* judge
* 1962 – Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
* 1964 – Boris Johnson, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* 1965 – Sadie Frost, English actress
* 1967 – Bjorn Daehlie, Norwegian skier
* 1967 – Mia Sara, American actress
* 1969 – Yoshiaki Sato, Japanese footballer
* 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
* 1970 – Quincy Watts, American athlete
* 1970 – Brian Welch, American musician
* 1972 – Jean Dujardin, French actor
* 1972 – Brian McBride, American soccer player
* 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actress
* 1972 – Ilya Markov, Russian athlete
* 1972 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
* 1972 – Dagur B. Eggertsson, Icelandic politician, Mayor of Reykjavik
* 1973 – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer and actress
* 1973 – Yasuhito Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
* 1973 – Nadiya, French singer
* 1975 – Hugh Dancy, British actor

### From 1976

* 1977 – Rebecca Loos, Dutch model
* 1977 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (d. 2007)
* 1977 – Sacha Modolo, Italian road-racing cyclist
* 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
* 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
* 1978 – Maria Maestro, Argentine actress and singer
* 1979 – José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
* 1980 – Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
* 1980 – Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer
* 1982 – Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
* 1982 – Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
* 1983 – Mark Selby, British snooker player
* 1983 – Macklemore, American rapper
* 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor
* 1984 – Helen George, English actress
* 1985 – Kajal Aggarwal, Indian actress
* 1985 – Chikashi Masuda, Japanese footballer
* 1986 – Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
* 1986 – Marvin Williams, American basketball player
* 1986 – Marie Dorin Habert, French biathlete
* 1986 – Ragnar Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
* 1987 – Beattie Edmondson, English actress
* 1987 – Miho Fukuhara, Japanese singer
* 1990 – Moa Hjelmer, Swedish athlete
* 1992 – Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (d. 2014)
* 1995 – Blake Woodruff, American actor
* 1996 – Larisa Iordache, Romanian gymnast
* 1998 – Atticus Shaffer, American actor

## Deaths

### Up to 1900

* 1027 – Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
* 1179 – Earl Erling Skakke, Norwegian nobleman
* 1205 – Roman the Great, Russian prince (b. 1151)
* 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn the Last (b. 1252)
* 1542 – Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
* 1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
* 1584 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
* 1715 – Nicolas Lemery, French chemist (b. 1645)
* 1747 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
* 1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
* 1820 – Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
* 1850 – Margaret Fuller, American writer and journalist (b. 1810)
* 1865 – Evangelos Zappas, Greek patriot, philanthropist and businessman (b. 1800)
* 1867 – Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (b. 1832)
* 1884 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine politician and writer (b. 1810)
* 1897 – Charles Boycott, British land owner in Ireland (b. 1832)

### 1901 – 2000

* 1902 – Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
* 1903 – Herbert Vaughan, English archbishop (b. 1832)
* 1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1874)
* 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish writer (b. 1860)
* 1939 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
* 1940 – Maurice Jaubert, French composer (b. 1900)
* 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1915)
* 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1918)
* 1957 – Karl Plagge, German army officer and humanitarian (b. 1897)
* 1968 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
* 1975 – Sam Giancana, American mafioso (b. 1908)
* 1977 – Olave Baden-Powell, founder of the Girl Guides (b. 1899)
* 1979 – Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar (b. 1888)
* 1981 – Lotte Reiniger, German illustrator (b. 1899)
* 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
* 1986 – Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
* 1986 – Coluche, French comedian and actor (b. 1944)
* 1993 – William Golding, British writer (b. 1911)
* 1995 – Peter Townsend, British military officer (b. 1914)
* 2000 – Christiane Herzog, First Lady of Germany (b. 1936)

### From 2001

* 2003 – Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
* 2007 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican actor, singer, producer and screenwriter (b. 1919)
* 2007 – El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1937)
* 2009 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man at the time of his death (b. 1895)
* 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
* 2010 – Carlos Monsivais, Mexican writer (b. 1938)
* 2012 – Nobert Tiemann, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
* 2013 – Slim Whitman, American country music singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
* 2013 – Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
* 2013 – James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
* 2014 – Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
* 2014 – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
* 2014 – Alan Moller, American meteorologist, storm chaser and photographer (b. 1950)
* 2015 – Phil Austin, American comedian, writer and musician (b. 1941)
* 2015 – Jack Aeby, American photographer (b. 1923)
* 2015 – James Salter, American writer (b. 1925)
* 2015 – Harold Battiste, American jazz and R&B composer (b. 1931)
* 2015 – Fredrik Fasting Torgersen, Norwegian convicted murderer (b. 1934)
* 2015 – Wendell Holmes, American musician (b. 1944)
* 2016 – Götz George, German actor (b. 1938)
* 2016 – Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (b. 1989)
* 2017 – Brian Cant, English actor and television presenter (b. 1933)
* 2017 – Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (b. 1936)
* 2017 – Otto Warmbier, American student (b. 1994)
* 2017 – Tony DiCicco, American soccer player and coach (b. 1948)
* 2017 – Tabaré Hackenbruch, Uruguayan politician (b. 1928)
* 2017 – Mustafa Tlass, Syrian military officer and politician (b. 1932)
* 2018 – Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (b. 1926)
* 2018 – Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (b. 1935)
* 2018 – Koko, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (b. 1971)
* 2018 – Ivan Drach, Ukrainian poet and screenwriter (b. 1936)
* 2018 – Hubert Green, American golfer (b. 1946)
* 2018 – Paul John Marx, French-born Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1935)
* 2019 – Peng Xiaolian, Chinese film director (b. 1953)
* 2019 – Rafael de la Sierra, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
* 2019 – Dmytro Tymchuk, Ukrainian politician, military expert and blogger (b. 1972)
* 2019 – Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
* 2020 – Ian Holm, English actor (b. 1931)

## Observances

* Day of Independent Hungary
* Juneteenth (United States)
* Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
* Never Again Day (Uruguay)
* World Sickle Cell Day