June 9



Events

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)

1801 to 1900 
 1810 – Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor (d. 1849)
 1812 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic (d. 1910)
 1835 – Ramón Barros Luco, President of Chile (d. 1919)
 1836 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and politician (d. 1917)
 1837 – Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, English author (d. 1919)
 1842 – Hazard Stevens, American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer (d. 1918)
 1843 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
 1845 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier, academic, and politician, 36th Governor-General of India (d. 1914)
  1845   – Frank Norton, American baseball player (d. 1920)
 1849 – Michael Ancher, Danish painter and academic (d. 1927)
 1851 – Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American lawyer and politician, 46th United States Attorney General (d. 1921)
 1861 – Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician, and historian (d. 1916)
  1861   – Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (d. 1938)
 1864 – Jeanne Bérangère, French actress (d. 1928)
 1865 – Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator (d. 1914)
  1865   – Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1931)
 1868 – Jane Avril, French model and dancer (d. 1943)
 1874 – Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter and wrestler (d. 1930)
 1875 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
 1879 – Harry DeBaecke, American rower (d. 1961)
 1882 – Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (d. 1963)
 1885 – Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Polish general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1962)
 1890 – Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer (d. 1952)
 1891 – Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
 1893 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player and coach (d. 1963)
 1895 – Archie Weston, American football player and journalist (d. 1981)
 1898 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
 1900 – Fred Waring, American singer, bandleader, and television host (d. 1984)

1901 to 1925 
 1902 – Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1969)
 1903 – Felice Bonetto, Italian race car driver (d. 1953)
  1903   – Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (d. 1996)
 1906 – Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice (d. 1997)
 1908 – Luis Kutner, American lawyer, author, and activist (d. 1993)
  1908   – Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (d. 1970)
 1910 – Robert Cummings, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1990)
  1910   – Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (d. 1984)
 1912 – Ingolf Dahl, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1970)
 1915 – Jim McDonald, American football player and coach (d. 1997)
  1915   – Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)
 1916 – Jurij Brězan, German soldier and author (d. 2006)
  1916   – Siegfried Graetschus, German SS officer (d. 1943)
  1916   – Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2009)
 1917 – Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (d. 2012)
 1918 – John Hospers, American philosopher and politician (d. 2011)
 1921 – Arthur Hertzberg, American rabbi and scholar (d. 2006)
  1921   – Jean Lacouture, French journalist, historian, and author (d. 2015)
 1922 – George Axelrod, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
  1922   – John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Chinese-American pilot and poet (d. 1941)
  1922   – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (d. 1988)
 1923 – Gerald Götting, German politician (d. 2015)
 1924 – Tony Britton, English actor (d. 2019)
 1924 – Ed Farhat, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)
 1925 – Keith Laumer, American soldier and author (d. 1993)
  1925   – Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (d. 2014)

1926 to 1950 
 1926 – Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, American singer and bass player (d. 2010)
  1926   – Mona Freeman, American actress and painter (d. 2014)
  1926   – Happy Rockefeller, American philanthropist, 31st Second Lady of the United States (d. 2015)
 1927 – Jim Nolan, American basketball player (d. 1983)
 1928 – R. Geraint Gruffydd, Welsh critic and academic (d. 2015)
 1929 – Johnny Ace, American singer and pianist (d. 1954)
 1930 – Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
  1930   – Jordi Pujol, Spanish physician and politician, 126th President of the Generalitat de Catalonia
 1931 – Jackie Mason, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
  1931   – Nandini Satpathy, Indian author and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Odisha (d. 2006)
  1931   – Bill Virdon, American baseball player, coach, and manager
 1932 – Denise Robertson, English television personality (d. 2016)
 1933 – Al Cantello, American javelin thrower and coach
 1934 – Michael Mates, English colonel and politician
  1934   – Jackie Wilson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
 1935 – Dutch Savage, American wrestler and promoter (d. 2013)
 1936 – Mick O'Dwyer, Irish Gaelic footballer and manager
  1936   – George Radda, Hungarian chemist and academic
 1937 – Harald Rosenthal, German hydrobiologist and academic
 1938 – Jeremy Hardie, English economist and businessman
  1938   – Giles Havergal, Scottish actor, director, and playwright
  1938   – Charles Wuorinen, American composer and educator (d. 2020)
 1939 – Ileana Cotrubaș, Romanian soprano and actress
  1939   – Eric Fernie, Scottish historian and academic
  1939   – David Hobbs, English race car driver and sportscaster
  1939   – Dick Vitale, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
  1939   – Charles Webb, American author
 1940 – André Vallerand, Canadian businessman and politician
 1941 – Jon Lord, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2012)
 1942 – Anton Burghardt, German footballer and manager
  1942   – Nicholas Lloyd, English journalist
 1943 – John Fitzpatrick, English race car driver
  1943   – Charles Saatchi, Iraqi-English businessman, co-founded Saatchi & Saatchi
 1944 – Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon, English accountant and politician
  1944   – Wally Gabler, American football player and sportscaster
 1946 – Deyda Hydara, Gambian journalist and publisher, co-founded The Point (d. 2004)
  1946   – James Kelman, Scottish author and playwright
  1946   – Peter Kilfoyle, English politician
  1946   – Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, Italian politician and diplomat, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
 1947 – Robert Indermaur, Swiss painter
  1947   – Robbie Vincent, UK disc jockey and radio presenter
 1948 – Jim Bailey, American football player
  1948   – Gudrun Schyman, Swedish social worker and politician
 1949 – Kiran Bedi, Indian police officer and activist
 1950 – Trevor Bolder, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 2013)
  1950   – Fred Jackson, American football player and coach
  1950   – Giorgos Kastrinakis, Greek-American basketball player

1951 to 1975 
 1951 – Michael Patrick Cronan, American graphic designer and academic (d. 2013)
  1951   – James Newton Howard, American composer, conductor, and producer
  1951   – Dave Parker, American baseball player and coach
  1951   – Brian Taylor, American basketball player
 1952 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
  1952   – Billy Knight, American basketball player
 1953 – Ken Navarro, Italian-American guitarist and composer
 1954 – Pete Byrne, English singer-songwriter (Naked Eyes)
  1954   – Paul Chapman, Welsh guitarist and songwriter (d. 2020)
  1954   – Gregory Maguire, American author
  1954   – Elizabeth May, American-Canadian environmentalist, lawyer, and politician
  1954   – George Pérez, American author and illustrator
 1956 – Berit Aunli, Norwegian skier
 1956  – Patricia Cornwell, American journalist and author
 1956  – Marek Gazdzicki, Polish nuclear physicist
 1956  – Joaquín, Spanish footballer
 1956  – John Le Lievre, British squash player
 1956  – Kayhan Mortezavi, Iranian director
 1956  – Francine Raymond, French Canadian singer songwriter
 1956  – Nikolai Tsonev, Bulgarian politician
 1956  – Rudolf Wojtowicz, Polish footballer
 1957 – Randy Read, English crystallographer and academic
 1958 – David Ancrum, American basketball player and coach
  1958   – Tony Horwitz, American journalist and author (d. 2019)
 1959 – Peter Fowler, Australian golfer
  1959   – Benny Gantz, Israeli politician
 1960 – Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist and author
 1961 – Thomas Benson, American football player
  1961   – Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author
  1961   – Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer, and playwright
 1962 – Yuval Banay, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
  1962   – Ken Rose, American football player
  1962   – David Trewhella, Australian rugby league player
 1963 – Gilad Atzmon, Israeli-English saxophonist, author, and activist
  1963   – Johnny Depp, American actor
  1963   – David Koepp, American director, producer, and screenwriter
 1964 – Gloria Reuben, Canadian-American actress
  1964   – Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and bass player (d. 2009)
 1967 – Rubén Maza, Venezuelan runner
 1968 – Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper and coach
 1969 – André Racicot, Canadian ice hockey player
  1969   – Eric Wynalda, American soccer player, coach, and sportscaster
 1971 – Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer and sportscaster
  1971   – Jean Galfione, French pole vaulter and sportscaster
  1971   – Jackie McKeown, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1972 – Matt Horsley, Australian footballer and coach
 1973 – Aigars Apinis, Latvian discus thrower and shot putter
  1973   – Tedy Bruschi, American football player and sportscaster
  1973   – Frédéric Choffat, Swiss director, producer, and cinematographer
  1973   – Grant Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
 1974 – Samoth, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1975 – Otto Addo, German-Ghanaian footballer and manager
  1975   – Andrew Symonds, English-Australian cricketer

From 1976 
 1977 – Usman Afzaal, Pakistani-English cricketer
  1977   – Paul Hutchison, English cricketer
  1977   – Olin Kreutz, American football player
  1977   – Peja Stojaković, Serbian basketball player
 1978 – Shandi Finnessey, American model and actress, Miss USA 2004
  1978   – Miroslav Klose, German footballer
  1978   – Heather Mitts, American soccer player
  1978   – Hayden Schlossberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter
 1979 – Dario Dainelli, Italian footballer
  1979   – Amanda Lassiter, American basketball player
 1980 – D'banj, Nigerian singer-songwriter and harmonica player
  1980   – Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
  1980   – Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
  1980   – Lehlohonolo Seema, South African footballer
 1981 – Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
 1982 – Yoshito Ōkubo, Japanese footballer
  1982   – Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer-songwriter
 1983 – Firas Al-Khatib, Syrian footballer
  1983   – Josh Cribbs, American football player
  1983   – Dwayne Jones, American basketball player
  1983   – Danny Richar, Dominican-American baseball player
 1984 – Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
  1984   – Jake Newton, Guyanese footballer
  1984   – Asko Paade, Estonian basketball player
  1984   – Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
  1984   – Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
 1985 – Richard Kahui, New Zealand rugby player
  1985   – Sonam Kapoor, Indian model and actress
  1985   – Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
 1986 – Doug Legursky, American football player
  1986   – Yadier Pedroso, Cuban baseball player (d. 2013)
  1986   – Ashley Postell, American gymnast
 1987 – Jaan Mölder, Estonian race car driver
 1988 – Jason Demers, Canadian ice hockey defenseman
  1988   – Sara Isaković, Slovenian swimmer
  1988   – Mae Whitman, American actress
 1989 – Dídac Vilà, Spanish footballer
  1989   – Tanya Burr, English YouTuber
 1990 – Matthias Mayer, Austrian skier
  1992   – Zach Hyman, Canadian ice hockey player
 1992 – Yannick Agnel, French swimmer
  1992   – Boyd Cordner, Australian rugby league player
 1993 – George Jennings, Australian rugby league player
 2000 – Laurie Hernandez, American artistic gymnast

Deaths

Up to 1900 
 AD 68 – Nero, Roman emperor (b. 37)
 373 – Ephrem the Syrian, hymnographer and theologian (b. 306)
 597 – Columba, Irish missionary and saint (b. 521)
 630 – Shahrbaraz, king of the Persian Empire
 889 – Aimoin, Frankish monk and archivist
 908 – Yang Wo, Prince of Hongnong
 1075 – Gebhard of Supplinburg, Saxon count
 1087 – Otto I of Olomouc (b. 1045)
 1238 – Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester
 1252 – Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 1348 – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1290)
 1361 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet (b. 1291)
 1563 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1506)
 1572 – Jeanne d'Albret, Navarrese queen and Huguenot leader (b. 1528)
 1583 – Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1525)
 1597 – José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1534)
 1647 – Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1606)
 1656 – Thomas Tomkins, Welsh-English composer (b. 1572)
 1716 – Banda Singh Bahadur, Indian commander (b. 1670)
 1717 – Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (b. 1648)
 1834 – William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
 1870 – Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (b. 1812)
 1875 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (b. 1795)
 1889 – Mike Burke, American baseball player (b. 1854)
 1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (b. 1863)

1901 to 2000 
 1901 – Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (b. 1842)
 1923 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (b. 1846)
 1927 – Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (b. 1838)
 1929 – Louis Bennison, American stage and silent film actor (b. 1884)
  1929   – Margaret Lawrence, American stage actress (b. 1889)
 1942 – František Erben, Czech gymnast (b. 1874)
 1952 – Adolf Busch, German-Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1891)
 1953 – Ernest Graves, Sr., American football player, coach, and general (b. 1880)
 1954 – Alain LeRoy Locke, American writer, professor and philosopher (b. 1885)
 1956 – Chandrashekhar Agashe, Indian industrialist and lawyer (b. 1888)
 1956 – Hans Bergsland, Norwegian fencer (b. 1878)
 1956 – Thomas Hicks, Australian tennis player (b. 1869)
 1956 – Ferdinand Jodl, German general (b. 1896)
 1958 – Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
 1959 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
 1960 – Harry S. Hammond, American football player and businessman (b. 1884)
 1961 – Camille Guérin, French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872)
 1963 – Jacques Villon, French painter (b. 1875)
 1964 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1879)
 1968 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
 1972 – Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1940)
 1973 – Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach (b. 1907)
  1973   – John Creasey, English author and politician (b. 1908)
  1973   – Erich von Manstein, German general (b. 1887)
 1974 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
 1979 – Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (b. 1884)
 1981 – Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
 1984 – Helen Hardin, American painter (b. 1943)
 1989 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
 1991 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist and educator (b. 1903)
 1993 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1921)
 1994 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
 1997 – Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1908)
 1998 – Lois Mailou Jones, American painter and academic (b. 1905)
 2000 – John Abramovic, American basketball player (b. 1919)
  2000   – Jacob Lawrence, American painter and academic (b. 1917)

From 2001 
 2004 – Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
  2004   – Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist, co-founded J-FLAG (b. 1945)
 2006 – Drafi Deutscher, German singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
 2007 – Frankie Abernathy, American purse designer, cast-member on The Real World: San Diego (b. 1981)
 2008 – Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American author and critic (b. 1931)
  2008   – Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian and author (b. 1919)
 2009 – Dick May, American race car driver (b. 1930)
 2010 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (b. 1908)
 2011 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (b. 1915)
  2011   – Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
  2011   – Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (b. 1956)
 2012 – Régis Clère, French cyclist (b. 1956)
  2012   – John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (b. 1943)
  2012   – Ivan Minatti, Slovene poet and translator (b. 1924)
  2012   – Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (b. 1939)
  2012   – Abram Wilson, American-English trumpet player and educator (b. 1973)
 2013 – Iain Banks, Scottish author (b. 1954)
  2013   – Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (b. 1926)
  2013   – John Burke, English rugby player (b. 1948)
  2013   – Walter Jens, German philologist, historian, and academic (b. 1923)
  2013   – Zdeněk Rotrekl, Czech poet and historian (b. 1920)
 2014 – Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (b. 1926)
  2014   – Reinhard Höppner, German politician (b. 1948)
  2014   – Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1958)
  2014   – Elsie Quarterman, American ecologist and academic (b. 1910)
  2014   – Alicemarie Huber Stotler, American lawyer and judge (b. 1942)
  2014   – Gustave Tassell, American fashion designer (b. 1926)
  2014   – Bob Welch, American baseball player and coach (b. 1956)
 2015 – Pumpkinhead, American rapper (b. 1975)
  2015   – James Last, German musician and bandleader (b. 1929)
  2015   – Fred Anton Maier, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1938)
  2015   – Pedro Zerolo, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1960)
 2016 – Hamza Ali, English cricketer (b. 1996)
 2017 – Adam West, American actor and investor (b. 1928)
  2017   – Natig Aliyev, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1947)
  2017   – Andrzej Baturo, Polish photographer (b. 1940)
 2018 – Fadil Vokrri, Kosovo Albanian football administrator and player (b. 1960)

 2018 – Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander and politician (b. 1913)
 2019 – Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (b. 1966)
  2019   – Erich Iltgen, German politician (b. 1940)
  2019   – Juhani Wahlsten, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1938)
  2019   – William D. Wittliff, American screenwriter (b. 1940)
 2020 – Parviz Aboutaleb, Iranian footballer (b. 1942)
  2020   – Paul Chapman, Welsh musician (b. 1954)
  2020   – Pau Donés, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1966)
  2020   – Simon Henshaw, American politician
  2020   – Ain Kaalep, Estonian novelist, poet and editor (b. 1926)
  2020   – Kim Chang-sop, North Korean politician (b. 1946)
  2020   – Nemir Kirdar, Iraqi-British banker (b. 1933)
 2022 – Matt Zimmerman, Canadian actor (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances
 Anniversary of the Accession of King Abdullah II (Jordan)
 Autonomy Day (Åland Islands)
 Christian feast day:
 Aidan of Lindisfarne (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
 Bede (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
 Columba
 Ephrem the Syrian (Roman Catholic Church and Church of England)
 José de Anchieta
 Primus and Felician
 June 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 Coral Triangle Day
 La Rioja Day (La Rioja)
 Murcia Day (Murcia)
 National Heroes' Day (Uganda)

References

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