Title: June 16 Content: == Events == === Up to 1900 === * 363 - Emperor Julian marches up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal, Roman forces suffer several attacks from the Persians. * 632 - Yazdegerd III becomes Shah of Persia, as the last ruler of the Sassanid Dynasty. * 1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the end of the Wars of the Roses. * 1494 - A tropical storm strikes the island of Hispaniola. It is believed to have been the first Caribbean hurricane to have been observed by Europeans. * 1586 - Mary, Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor. * 1745 – British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada. * 1745 – Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession. * 1746 – War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza * 1755 – French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians * 1774 – Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. * 1779 - Spain declares war on the United Kingdom and the Siege of Gibraltar begins. * 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo. * 1836 – Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement * 1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the post-apostolic papacy. * 1858 – Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois * 1858 – The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny. * 1871 – University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology. * 1883 - The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, North East England, kills 183 children. * 1884 – The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York * 1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister. * 1896 - British passenger steamer Drummond Castle strikes a reef off the French island of Ouessant in deep fog, killing 243 out of the 246 people on board. * 1897 - A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the US is signed. It enters into effect the following year. === 1901 1950 === * 1902 – Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act. * 1903 – Ford Motor Company incorporates. * 1903 – Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway. * 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland. * 1904 – James Joyce uses this day as the setting for his novel Ulysses, a day in the life of Leopold Bloom. Known as Bloomsday. * 1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite struck Earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin, damaging a barn. * 1911 – IBM is founded. * 1915 – Foundation of the British Women's Institute * 1922 – General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-treaty Sinn Féin * 1924 – Whampoa Military Academy is founded * 1925 – Artek, the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, established. * 1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France * 1940 – A Communist government is installed in Lithuania. * 1944 - George Stinney, aged 14, becomes the youngest American to be executed in the 20th century when he is wrongly executed for murder. * 1947 - The Saar Mark is introduced as a currency in Saarland. * 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by the Cathay Pacific airline, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane. === 1951 2000 === * 1954 - The 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland starts. * 1955 – Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón. * 1956 – Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath. * 1958 - Imre Nagy, Pal Maleter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed. * 1960 – Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York. * 1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris. * 1962 – Two U.S. Army officers are killed in Saigon, Vietnam. * 1963 – Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. * 1966 - The ship Texaco Massachusetts, loaded with naphtha, collides with British tanker Alva Cape outside Manhattan, starting a massive fire, killing 33 people. * 1972 – Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in the night on June 17. * 1972 – Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen. * 1972 – Opening of the New York Jazz Museum. * 1972 – Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland. * 1976 – Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children. * 1977 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet Union * 1981 – Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis * 1983 – Yuri Andropov becomes president of the Soviet Union. * 1984 - Cirque du Soleil is founded in Montreal. * 1989 - Imre Nagy is reburied in Budapest. * 1994 – A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160 * 1995 – The Astronomy Picture of the Day begins * 1996 – First round of voting in the Russian presidential election * 1997 – Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed. * 1999 – Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa. * 1999 - Japan allows the contraceptive pill. === From 2001 === * 2001 – George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin meet in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia * 2002 – Politically Incorrect is cancelled (from sponsors dropping the show) after host Bill Maher makes controversial comments on air regarding the integrity of President George W. Bush. * 2003 – The Hatfields and McCoys sign a formal truce. * 2003 - The Church of All Saints is consecrated in Yekaterinburg, on the site of the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were executed in 1918. * 2010 - Bhutan bans tobacco. * 2012 - Liu Yang becomes China's first female astronaut. * 2012 - Aung San Suu Kyi accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in person, having won it in 1991 while she was under house arrest. * 2014 - A terrorist attack in Kenya kills 48 people. * 2014 - It is announced that Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma following his skiing accident on December 29, 2013. He is moved from a hospital in Grenoble, France to Switzerland. * 2015 - Donald Trump announces his intention to run for US President in 2016. * 2016 - British Member of Parliament Jo Cox dies after being attacked in her constituency. * 2018 - Iceland, the least-populated country ever to play in the competition, picks up its first FIFA World Cup point, and scores its first goal in the competition, drawing 1-1 with Argentina. * 2019 - A widespread power outage affects most of Argentina and Uruguay, as well as parts of Paraguay. * 2020 - Twenty Indian soldiers are killed in a border clash with the People's Republic of China. * 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The number of recorded COVID-19 cases worldwide reaches 8 million. == Births == === Up to 1800 === * 1139 - Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155) * 1313 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (d. 1375) * 1332 - Isabella de Coucy, daughter of Edward III of England (d. 1382) * 1514 – John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557) * 1583 – Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654) * 1591 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655) * 1606 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675) * 1612 – Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640) * 1613 – John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658) * 1633 – Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667) * 1644 – Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670) * 1713 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786) * 1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher (d. 1790) * 1738 – Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816) * 1752 - Salawat Yulayev, Russian Bashkir national hero (d. 1800) * 1792 – John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882) * 1792 – Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855) * 1793 - Diego Portales, Chilean politician (d. 1837) === 1801 1900 === * 1801 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868) * 1806 – Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885) * 1813 – Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869) * 1820 – Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875) * 1821 - Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908) * 1826 – Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897) * 1829 – Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909) * 1836 – Wesley Merritt, American soldier (d. 1910) * 1837 – Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885) * 1838 – Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900) * 1838 - Frederic Archer, British composer, conductor and organist (d. 1901) * 1840 – Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913) * 1851 - Peter Adler Alberti, Danish politician and swindler (d. 1932) * 1851 - Georg Jellinek, German public lawyer (d. 1911) * 1858 – King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950) * 1858 - John Peter Russell, Australian painter (d. 1930) * 1862 - Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian rifle shooter (d. 1947) * 1863 - Paul Vidal, French composer (d. 1931) * 1874 – Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960) * 1880 – Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and historian (d. 1963) * 1880 - Alice Bailey, British author (d. 1949) * 1881 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962) * 1882 - Mohammad Mosaddegh, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967) * 1888 - Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925) * 1888 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980) * 1890 – Stan Laurel, British-born actor and comedian (d. 1965) * 1894 - Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956) * 1896 – Murray Leinster, American writer (d. 1976) * 1897 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948) * 1897 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1987) * 1899 - Helen Traubel, American singer (d. 1972) === 1901 1925 === * 1901 - Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist and philosopher (d. 1991) * 1902 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (d. 1992) * 1902 – George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984) * 1903 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972) * 1907 – Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981) * 1908 - Sarit Thanarat, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1963) * 1909 – Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (d. 1987) * 1910 – Juan Velasco, President of Peru (d. 1977) * 1912 – Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998) * 1915 – Mariano Rumor, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1990) * 1916 – Hank Luisetti, American baseball player (d. 2002) * 1917 – Katharine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001) * 1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009) * 1917 – Phaedon Gizikis, Greek army officer and President (d. 1999) * 1917 - Aurelio Lampredi, Italian automobile and aircraft designer (d. 1989) * 1920 – José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004) * 1920 – John Howard Griffin, American writer (d. 1980) * 1920 - Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Bengali singer, composer and producer (d. 1989) * 1922 - Frances Rafferty, American actress and dancer (d. 2004) * 1924 - Faith Domergue, American actor (d. 1999) * 1925 - Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist (d. 2017) * 1925 - Otto Muehl, Austrian artist === 1926 1950 === * 1926 - Efraín Ríos Montt, 26th President of Guatemala (d. 2018) * 1927 – Tom Graveney, English cricketer (d. 2015) * 1927 – Herbert Lichtenfeld, German writer and playwright (d. 2001) * 1927 - Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian playwright and author (d. 2014) * 1928 - Pierrette Bloch, Swiss artist (d. 2017) * 1928 - Annie Cordy, Belgian singer and actress * 1929 – Ramón Bieri, American actor (d. 2001) * 1929 - Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait * 1929 - Pauline Yates, English actress (d. 2015) * 1930 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016) * 1934 – Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress * 1934 - Jane Henson, American puppeteer (d. 2013) * 1934 – William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist * 1935 – Jim Dine, American artist * 1935 - James Bolam, English actor * 1936 - Lincoln Almond, former Governor of Rhode Island * 1936 - Ann Carter, American actress (d. 2014) * 1936 - Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Nigerian cardinal * 1937 – Erich Segal, American writer (d. 2010) * 1937 – Simeon Saxe- Coburg Gotha, Bulgarian royal and Prime Minister * 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist * 1938 - Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2017) * 1940 – Neil Goldschmidt, former Governor of Oregon * 1941 – Lamont Dozier, American record company executive * 1942 – Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist * 1942 - John Rostill, British musician (d. 1973) * 1943 - Joan Van Ark, American actress * 1946 – Rick Adelman, American basketball player and coach * 1946 - Jodi Rell, 87th Governor of Connecticut * 1946 - Derek Sanderson, Canadian ice hockey player * 1947 - Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya * 1947 - Günther Kaufmann, German actor (d. 2012) * 1948 - Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet (d. 2014) * 1950 - Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor * 1950 - Klaus Lage, German musician === 1951 1975 === * 1951 – Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer * 1952 – George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece * 1952 – Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer and songwriter * 1954 - Jeffrey Ashby, American astronaut * 1955 – Laurie Metcalf, American actress * 1955 - Patrizio Sala, Italian footballer * 1957 - Ian Buchanan, Scottish-American actor * 1957 - Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer * 1958 - Darrell Griffith, American basketball player * 1958 - Johannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist and pilot * 1959 - The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler (d. 2014) * 1962 - Femi Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and musician * 1966 – Jan Zelezný, Czech athlete * 1967 - Jürgen Klopp, German footballer and coach * 1967 – John Franklin, American actor * 1968 - James Patrick Stuart, American actor * 1969 - Shami Chakrabarti, British academic and activist * 1970 – Phil Mickelson, American golfer * 1970 – James Shaffer, American guitarist (KoЯn) * 1970 – Cobi Jones, American soccer player * 1970 - Clifton Collins, Jr., American actor * 1971 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (d. 1996) * 1971 – Derek R. Audette, Canadian artist and poet * 1972 - Simon Coveney, Irish politician * 1972 – Hank von Helvete, Norwegian musician * 1972 - John Cho, Korean-American actor and musician * 1973 - Eddie Cibrian, American actor * 1973 - Federica Mogherini, Italian politician, former European Union foreign policy chief * 1974 - Joseph May, Canadian voice actor === From 1976 === * 1976 – Edwin Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer * 1976 - Cian Ciaran, Welsh musician * 1977 – Kerry Wood, American baseball player * 1978 – Daniel Brühl, Spanish-German actor * 1978 - Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player * 1978 - Fish Leong, Malaysian singer * 1980 - Brandon Armstrong, American basketball player * 1980 – Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer * 1980 – Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer * 1980 – Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress * 1980 - Sibel Kekilli, German actress * 1981 – Laron Kevin Mathieu, American poet and world traveler * 1981 - Benjamin Becker, German tennis player * 1982 - Albert Rocas, Spanish handball player * 1983 - Olivia Hack, American actress * 1983 – Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer * 1984 – Steven Whittaker, Scottish footballer * 1985 - Cat Smith, English politician * 1986 – Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer * 1987 - Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer * 1987 – Abby Elliott, American actress and comedienne * 1988 – Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer * 1988 - Banks, American singer and songwriter * 1989 - Jelena Glabova, Estonian figure skater * 1989 - Odion Ighalo, Nigerian footballer * 1989 - Yuichi Maruyama, Japanese footballer * 1990 - John Newman, English singer * 1991 – Joe McElderry, English singer * 1991 - Siya Kolisi, South African rugby union player * 1994 - Caitlyn Taylor Love, American actress and singer * 1995 - Joo Da-young, South Korean actress * 1998 - Lauren Taylor, American actress and singer * 2000 - Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player == Deaths == === Up to 1900 === * AD 1216 – Pope Innocent III * 1397 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358) * 1464 – Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399) * 1468 – Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395) * 1622 – Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555) * 1623 – Christian, Duke of Brunswick- Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599) * 1666 – Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608) * 1671 – Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed) * 1707 – Marie d'Orléans- Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625) * 1712 - Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1657) * 1722 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650) * 1749 – Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672) * 1752 – Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664) * 1752 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692) * 1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709) * 1778 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720) * 1779 – Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712) * 1792 - Benjamin Tupper, American general (b. 1738) * 1804 – Johann Hiller, German composer (b. 1728) * 1817 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (b. 1759) * 1824 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French statesman (b. 1839) * 1849 – Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780) * 1850 - William Lawson, explorer of Australia (b. 1774) * 1855 – John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803) * 1858 – John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813) * 1862 - Hidenoyama Raigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1808) * 1866 – Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798) * 1869 – Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795) * 1872 – Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812) * 1878 – Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815) * 1881 – Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795) * 1885 – Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818) * 1894 – William Calder Marshall, Scottish sculptor (b. 1813) === 1901 2000 === * 1902 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841) * 1925 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870) * 1925 – Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903) * 1929 - Bramwell Booth, 2nd General of the Salvation Army (b. 1871) * 1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (b. 1860) * 1930 – Ezra Fitch, American founder of the Abercrombie & Fitch clothing retailer (b. 1865) * 1939 - Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1905) * 1940 – DuBose Heyward, American writer (b. 1885) * 1944 – Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886) * 1944 - George Stinney, African American wrongly executed for murder (b. 1929) * 1952 – Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist (b. 1861) * 1953 – Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873) * 1958 – Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1896) * 1958 - Pál Maléter, Hungarian revolution leader (b. 1917) * 1959 – George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914) * 1969 – Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891) * 1970 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887) * 1970 – Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943) * 1971 – Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889) * 1973 - Louise Latimer, American actress (b. 1913) * 1976 – Hector Pieterson, South African schoolboy and symbol of anti-Apartheid movement (b. 1963) (shot) * 1977 – Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912) * 1979 – Nicholas Ray, American movie director (b. 1911) * 1979 - Ignatius KutuAcheampong, Ghanaian leader (b. 1931) * 1981 – Jule Gregory Charney, meteorologist (b. 1917) * 1982 - James Honeyman-Scott, British musician (b. 1956) * 1986 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902) * 1988 – Kim Milford, American actor (b. 1951) * 1990 – Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer (of Sylvia Likens) (b. 1929) * 1991 - Vicki Brown, English singer (b. 1940) * 1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913) * 1994 - Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (b. 1967) * 1996 – Mel Allen, baseball announcer (b. 1913) * 1996 – Curt Swan, American comic book artist (b. 1920) * 1998 - Jafar Sharif-Emami, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1910) * 1999 – Screaming Lord Sutch, British musician and politician (b. 1940) * 2000 – Empress Nagako of Japan (b. 1903) === From 2001 === * 2003 – Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916) * 2004 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912) * 2005 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906) * 2008 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer (b. 1921) * 2008 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (b. 1975) * 2010 – Ronald Neame, British cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director (b. 1911) * 2010 - Marc Bazin, 49th President of Haiti (b. 1932) * 2012 - Nils Karlsson, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1917) * 2012 - Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1934) * 2013 - Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924) * 2013 - Hans Hass, Austrian diver (b. 1919) * 2014 - Tony Gwynn, American baseball player (b. 1960) * 2014 - Pierre D'Archambeau, Belgian-American violinist (b. 1927) * 2015 - Charles Correa, Indian architect (b. 1930) * 2015 - Tony Ranasinghe, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1937) * 2016 - Jo Cox, English politician (b. 1974) * 2016 - Bill Berkson, American poet and art critic (b. 1939) * 2016 - Irving Moskowitz, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1928) * 2016 - Pat Suggate, British-New Zealand geologist (b. 1922) * 2016 - Jerome Teasley, American drummer (b. 1948) * 2017 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1930) * 2017 - John G. Avildsen, American film director (b. 1935) * 2017 - Curt Hanson, American politician (b. 1943) * 2017 - Stephen Furst, American actor (b. 1955) * 2018 - Martin Bregman, American film producer (b. 1926) * 2018 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor (b. 1931) * 2019 - Bishop Bullwinkle, American singer and comedian (b. 1948) * 2019 - Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1924) * 2019 - Frank LaMere, Native American activist (b. 1950) * 2019 - Simona Mafai De Pasquale, Italian politician (b. 1928) * 2020 - Mohammad Asghar, Welsh politician (b. 1945) * 2020 - Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., Filipino businessman and politician (b. 1935) * 2020 - Fred Jarvis, English trade union leader (b. 1924) * 2020 - John Madigan, Australian politician (b. 1966) * 2020 - Patrick Poivey, French actor (b. 1948) * 2020 - John G. Richardson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1957) == Observances == * International Day of the African child * Youth Day (South Africa), commemorating the Soweto Uprising * Bloomsday (Ireland), celebrating the work of James Joyce * Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikhism) Category:Days of the year