June 12



Events

Up to 1950 
 1381 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
 1418 – An Insurrection delivers Paris to control of the Burgundians.
 1429 – Battle of Jargeau: Joan of Arc leads the French army in the capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the battle's second day.
 1550 - Helsinki, present-day capital of Finland and then-part of Sweden, is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
 1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
 1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York.
 1758 - French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg - James Wolfe's attack on Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, begins.
 1775 - American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts.
 1776 - The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted in what would become the United States.
 1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is founded.
 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his Union troops from their positions, handing victory to Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
 1872 – The Royal Mint (where money is made) opens in Melbourne.
 1889 – The Armagh rail disaster occurs in present-day Northern Ireland, killing 78 people.
 1897 – Carl Elsener patents a small pen knife, now called the Swiss army knife.
 1898 – The republic of the Philippines declares independence from Spain.
 1899 – United States: The New Richmond tornado kills 117 people.
 1929 – Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
 1932 - Bayern Munich win the German football championship for the first time.
 1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
 1939 - Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror movie photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
 1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
 1942 – Anne Frank receives her diary for her 13th birthday.
 1943 - Holocaust: Nazi Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in what is now Berezhany, Ukraine. 1,800 Jews are led to the city's graveyard and shot.

1951  2000 
 1962 – The Roraima National Park is created in the border area of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.
 1963 – Civil Rights activist Medgar Evans is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi by Byron De La Beckwith.
 1964 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison.
 1967 – The United States Supreme Court rules in the Loving v Virginia case that US State laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
 1967 – Venera programme: The Venera 4 space probe is launched to Venus.
 1968 - Eddy Merckx wins the Tour de France for the first time.
 1973 - Helmut Kohl is chosen as leader of the CDU, one of the main parties in the Federal Republic of Germany.
 1975 – Indira Gandhi is found guilty of electoral corruption.
 1978 – David Berkowitz is sentenced to 365 years in prison for the six Son of Sam murders in New York.
 1987 – Ronald Reagan makes a speech at the Brandenburg Gate, calling for Mikhail Gorbachev to 'Tear down this wall!'
 1987 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, former self-declared Emperor of the present-day Central African Republic, is sentenced to death.
 1990 – The parliament of Russia declares its sovereignty.
 1991 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia.
 1991 – The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 Tamil civilians in the eastern Sri Lankan village of Kokkadichcholai.
 1993 – Elections are held in Nigeria, but they later annulled by the military government under Ibrahim Babangida.
 1994 – A referendum in Austria supports EU membership.
 1994 – Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson are murdered in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson is later found not guilty of their murders.
 1994 – The Boeing 777 makes its first flight.
 1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
 1999 – A NATO-led UN peacekeeping force enters Kosovo.
 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing a bus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It results in a stand-off in which do Nascimento and one of the hostages die.
 2000 - In the Treaty of Jeddah, Yemen recognizes the determined border with Saudi Arabia.

From 2001 
 2004 – UEFA Euro 2004 in Portugal starts, as the Portugal national football team, hosting the tournament, loses 2-1 to the Greece national football team.
 2009 – A Presidential Election is held in Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims victory over Mir-Hossein Mousavi, in a disputed result. Soon after, protests begin in Tehran against his rule, following the controversial outcome of the election.
 2013 - Jiroemon Kimura dies in Japan. At the age of 116 years, 53 days, he is recognized as the oldest man ever, and the last-surviving man to have been born in the 19th century.
 2013 - The government of Greece shuts down the national broadcaster for a previously undetermined amount of time.
 2014 - The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the 20th edition of the tournament, begins. In the opening game, the Brazil national football team comes from behind to beat the Croatia national football team 3-1.
 2015 - The first European Games begin in Baku, Azerbaijan, lasting until June 28.
 2016 - 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting: Gunman Omar Mateen kills 49 people in a shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida in the worst mass shooting in recent US history.
 2016 - Pittsburgh Penguins win the Stanley Cup by beating the San Jose Sharks 3-1 and winning the series 4-2.
 2018 - 2018 North Korea–United States summit takes place as US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for talks in Singapore.
 2018 - Politicians in the Republic of Macedonia reach an agreement with Greece in a dispute over its name.

Births

Up to 1900 
 950 – Emperor Reizei of Japan (d. 1011)
 1107 – Emperor Gaozong of Song, of China (d. 1187)
 1519 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
 1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss mathematician and astronomer (d. 1643)
 1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant in the Lewis and Clark expedition (d. 1870)
 1777 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
 1795 - John Marston, American sailor (d. 1885)
 1802 – Harriet Martineau, American journalist, political economist, abolitionist and feminist (d. 1876)
 1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American architect (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
 1812 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
 1819 - Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian and novelist (d. 1875)
 1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (d. 1901)
 1831 - Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (d. 1905)
 1843 - David Gill, Scottish astronomer (d. 1914)
 1851 - Oliver Lodge, English physicist (d. 1940)
 1858 - Harry Hamilton Johnston, English polymath (d. 1927)
 1858 - Henry Scott Tuke, English painter and photographer (d. 1929)
 1872 - Emil Hacha, Czech politician (d. 1945)
 1885 – Frank Ferera, Hawaiian musician (d. 1951)
 1888 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
 1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (d. 1918)
 1890 - Théophile Alajouanine, French psychiatrist (d. 1980)
 1892 – Basil Rathbone, British actor (d. 1967)
 1892 – Djuna Barnes, American writer (d. 1982)
 1892 - Apostolos Grozos, Greek Communist politician (d. 1981)
 1897 - Walter Peterhans, German photographer (d. 1960)
 1897 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
 1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist (d. 1986)
 1899 - Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer (d. 1968)

1901  1950 
 1901 - Clyde Geronimi, Italian-American animation director (d. 1989)
 1902 - Hendrik Elias, Flemish politician (d. 1973)
 1903 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
 1905 – Ray Barbuti, American sportsperson (d. 1988)
 1906 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
 1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (d. 2010)
 1908 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian engineer and designer (d. 1988)
 1908 - Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (d. 1975)
 1912 - Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1993)
 1914 - Go Seigen, Japanese Go player (d. 2014)
 1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker (d. 2017)
 1915 - Priscilla Lane, American actress (d. 1995)
 1916 – Raul Hector Castro, American politician, 14th Governor of Arizona (d. 2015)
 1916 - Irwin Allen, American director and producer (d. 1991)
 1917 - Gottfried Honegger, Swiss artist and graphic designer (d. 2016)
 1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
 1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (d. 2004)
 1919 - Ahmed Abdallah, President of the Comoros (d. 1989)
 1921 – Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
 1922 – Günter Behnisch, German architect (d. 2010)
 1922 - Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (d. 2013)
 1924 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (d. 2018)
 1926 - Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine footballer
 1928 – Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician
 1928 - Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2018)
 1928 - Richard M. Sherman, American composer, songwriter and publisher
 1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945)
 1929 - Alberto De Martino, Italian movie director (d. 2015)
 1929 – Brigid Brophy, British writer (d. 1995)
 1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani writer and Urdu language scholar
 1930 - Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
 1930 - Innes Ireland, British racing driver (d. 1993)
 1932 - Mano Wolde, Ethiopian long-distance runner (d. 2002)
 1933 – Eddie Adams, American photographer (d. 2004)
 1937 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (d. 2010)
 1938 - Jean-Marie Doré, Prime Minister of Guinea (d. 2016)
 1938 - Ian Partridge, English tenor
 1941 – Chick Corea, American musician
 1941 - Roy Harper, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet and actor
 1941 - Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
 1942 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist
 1945 – Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer
 1946 - Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player
 1946 - Salman Taseer, Pakistani politician (d. 2011)
 1949 – Jens Boehrnsen, German politician, Mayor of Bremen and former acting President of Germany
 1949 - John Wetton, English singer, bassist and guitarist (d. 2017)

1951  1975 
 1951 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (d. 2007)
 1951 - Bun E. Carlos, American drummer (Cheap Trick)
 1951 – Brad Delp, American musician (d. 2007)
 1952 – Pete Farndon, English musician (d. 1983)
 1952 – Spencer Abraham, American politician
 1953 - Rocky Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1953 - Tess Gerritsen, Chinese-American novelist
 1953 - David Thornton, American actor
 1958 - Rebecca Holden, American actress and singer
 1961 – Hannelore Kraft, German politician, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
 1965 - Vicky Vette, Norwegian-Canadian pornographic actress
 1965 - Cathy Tyson, English actress
 1965 - Gwen Torrence, American athlete
 1967 - Aivar Kuusmaa, Estonian basketball player and coach
 1968 - Manuel Blanc, French actor
 1968 - Htay Kywe, Burmese activist
 1969 - Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
 1971 – Mark Henry, American professional wrestler
 1972 - Sophie Lawrence, English actress, singer and director
 1973 - Jason Caffey, American basketball player and coach
 1973 – Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
 1973 - Darryl White, Australian footballer
 1974 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
 1974 - Jason Mewes, American actor

From 1976 
 1976 – Thomas Sorensen, Danish footballer
 1976 - Antawn Jamison, American basketball player
 1977 - Richard Ayoade, English actor, director and screenwriter
 1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1978 - Lewis Moody, English rugby player
 1978 - Yumiko Shaku, Japanese actress and model
 1978 - Shiloh Strong, American actor, screenwriter, photographer and director
 1979 – Diego Milito, Argentine footballer
 1979 – Robyn, Swedish singer
 1980 – Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player
 1980 - Diem Brown, American television personality (d. 2014)
 1980 - Walter Erviti, Argentine footballer
 1981 - Adriana Lima, Brazilian model
 1981 – Nora Tschirner, German television presenter
 1982 – Jason David, American football player
 1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
 1983 - Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
 1985 - Blake Ross, American software developer
 1985 - Colin Doyle, Irish footballer
 1985 - Dave Franco, American actor
 1985 - Kendra Wilkinson, American model, actress and author
 1986 – Sergio Rodriguez, Spanish basketball player
 1986 – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer
 1986 - Mario Casas, Spanish actor
 1987 – Abbey Lee Kershaw, Australian model
 1987 – Antonio Barragan, Spanish footballer
 1988 – Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
 1988 - Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer
 1989 - Laura Kirkpatrick, American model
 1990 - Jrue Holiday, American basketball player
 1992 – Allie DiMeco, American actress and musician
 1992 - Laura Jones, English gymnast
 1992 - Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer
 1996 - Anna Margaret, American singer, songwriter and actress

Deaths

Up to 1950 
 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
 1020 – Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
 1560 – Imawaga Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
 1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
 1574 - Princess Renée of France (b. 1510)
 1675 - Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
 1758 – Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
 1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion de Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
 1778 - Philip Livingston, American merchant and statesman (b. 1716)
 1816 - Pierre Augereau, French marshal (b. 1757)
 1818 - Egwale Seyon of Ethiopia
 1841 - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist and philologist (b. 1786)
 1878 – George V of Hanover (b. 1819)
 1900 - Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)
 1904 - Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian nobleman, entrepreneur and author (b. 1836)
 1912 – Frédéric Passy, French Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1822)
 1917 - Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan singer, pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1853)
 1929 - Marie Henri Andoyer, French astronomer and mathematician (b. 1862)
 1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
 1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)

1951  2000 
 1952 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (b. 1869)
 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)
 1962 - John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
 1963 – Medgar Evans, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1925)
 1964 – Walter Seifert, German retired World War II veteran, ran amok in a Cologne school (b. 1922)
 1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German composer and conductor (b. 1891)
 1969 - Percival Proctor, Governor of Maine (b. 1876)
 1976 - Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
 1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author and poet (b. 1892)
 1978 - Georg Simenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
 1980 – Billy Butlin, British holiday entrepreneur (b. 1899)
 1980 – Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
 1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist (b. 1886)
 1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
 1987 – Paul Janes, German footballer (b. 1912)
 1990 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill, Northern Irish politician (b. 1914)
 1994 – Ronald Goldman, American waiter and murder victim (b. 1968)
 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (b. 1959)
 1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter, musician and author (b. 1924)
 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian hostage taker (b. 1978)
 2000 - Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, producer and author (b. 1919)

From 2001 
 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
 2006 – Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
 2006 – Nijiro Tukuda, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
 2007 - Guy de Rothschild, French banker (b. 1909)
 2009 – Félix Malloum, President of Chad (b. 1932)
 2012 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist (b. 1933)
 2012 - Henry Hill, American convict (b. 1943)
 2013 - Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest-recorded man ever (b. 1897)
 2014 - Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (b. 1959)
 2014 - Carla Laemmle, American actress (b. 1909)
 2014 - Jimmy Scott, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
 2014 - Khagen Mahanta, Indian folk singer (b. 1942)
 2014 - Joe Pittman, American baseball player (b. 1954)
 2015 - Monica Lewis, American actress (b. 1922)
 2015 - Fernando Brant, Brazilian poet and composer (b. 1946)
 2016 - Omar Mateen, American gunman, perpetrator of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (b. 1986)
 2016 - Donald Carr, English cricketer (b. 1926)
 2016 - Vladimir Dolgopolov, Russian footballer (b. 1961)
 2016 - Alfonso Portugal, Mexican footballer (b. 1934)
 2016 - George Voinovich, American politician, former Governor of Ohio (b. 1936)
 2016 - Janet Waldo, American actress (b. 1920)
 2017 - C. Narayana Reddy, Indian screenwriter, composer and poet (b. 1931)
 2017 - Charles P. Thacker, American computer designer (b. 1943)

Observances 
 Independence Day (the Philippines)
 Loving Day (United States)
 Russia Day
 World Day Against Child Labour
 Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay)
 Dia dos Namorados (Brazil)
 Helsinki Day
 Democracy Day (Nigeria)

Events

Up to 1950 
 1381 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
 1418 – An Insurrection delivers Paris to control of the Burgundians.
 1429 – Battle of Jargeau: Joan of Arc leads the French army in the capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the battle's second day.
 1550 - Helsinki, present-day capital of Finland and then-part of Sweden, is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
 1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
 1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York.
 1758 - French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg - James Wolfe's attack on Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, begins.
 1775 - American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts.
 1776 - The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted in what would become the United States.
 1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is founded.
 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his Union troops from their positions, handing victory to Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
 1872 – The Royal Mint (where money is made) opens in Melbourne.
 1889 – The Armagh rail disaster occurs in present-day Northern Ireland, killing 78 people.
 1897 – Carl Elsener patents a small pen knife, now called the Swiss army knife.
 1898 – The republic of the Philippines declares independence from Spain.
 1899 – United States: The New Richmond tornado kills 117 people.
 1929 – Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
 1932 - Bayern Munich win the German football championship for the first time.
 1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
 1939 - Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror movie photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
 1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
 1942 – Anne Frank receives her diary for her 13th birthday.
 1943 - Holocaust: Nazi Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in what is now Berezhany, Ukraine. 1,800 Jews are led to the city's graveyard and shot.

1951  2000 
 1962 – The Roraima National Park is created in the border area of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.
 1963 – Civil Rights activist Medgar Evans is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi by Byron De La Beckwith.
 1964 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison.
 1967 – The United States Supreme Court rules in the Loving v Virginia case that US State laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
 1967 – Venera programme: The Venera 4 space probe is launched to Venus.
 1968 - Eddy Merckx wins the Tour de France for the first time.
 1973 - Helmut Kohl is chosen as leader of the CDU, one of the main parties in the Federal Republic of Germany.
 1975 – Indira Gandhi is found guilty of electoral corruption.
 1978 – David Berkowitz is sentenced to 365 years in prison for the six Son of Sam murders in New York.
 1987 – Ronald Reagan makes a speech at the Brandenburg Gate, calling for Mikhail Gorbachev to 'Tear down this wall!'
 1987 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, former self-declared Emperor of the present-day Central African Republic, is sentenced to death.
 1990 – The parliament of Russia declares its sovereignty.
 1991 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia.
 1991 – The Sri Lankan Army massacres  152 Tamil civilians in the eastern Sri Lankan village of Kokkadichcholai.
 1993 – Elections are held in Nigeria, but they later annulled by the military government under Ibrahim Babangida.
 1994 – A referendum in Austria supports EU membership.
 1994 – Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson are murdered in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson is later found not guilty of their murders.
 1994 – The Boeing 777 makes its first flight.
 1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
 1999 – A NATO-led UN peacekeeping force enters Kosovo.
 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing a bus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It results in a stand-off in which do Nascimento and one of the hostages die.
 2000 - In the Treaty of Jeddah, Yemen recognizes the determined border with Saudi Arabia.

From 2001 
 2004 – UEFA Euro 2004 in Portugal starts, as the Portugal national football team, hosting the tournament, loses 2-1 to the Greece national football team.
 2009 – A Presidential Election is held in Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims victory over Mir-Hossein Mousavi, in a disputed result. Soon after, protests begin in Tehran against his rule, following the controversial outcome of the election.
 2013 - Jiroemon Kimura dies in Japan. At the age of 116 years, 53 days, he is recognized as the oldest man ever, and the last-surviving man to have been born in the 19th century.
 2013 - The government of Greece shuts down the national broadcaster for a previously undetermined amount of time.
 2014 - The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the 20th edition of the tournament, begins. In the opening game, the Brazil national football team comes from behind to beat the Croatia national football team 3-1.
 2015 - The first European Games begin in Baku, Azerbaijan, lasting until June 28.
 2016 - 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting: Gunman Omar Mateen kills 49 people in a shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida in the worst mass shooting in recent US history.
 2016 - Pittsburgh Penguins win the Stanley Cup by beating the San Jose Sharks 3-1 and winning the series 4-2.

Births

Up to 1900 
 950 – Emperor Reizei of Japan (d. 1011)
 1107 – Emperor Gaozong of Song, of China (d. 1187)
 1519 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
 1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss mathematician and astronomer (d. 1643)
 1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant in the Lewis and Clark expedition (d. 1870)
 1777 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
 1795 - John Marston, American sailor (d. 1885)
 1802 – Harriet Martineau, American journalist, political economist, abolitionist and feminist (d. 1876)
 1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American architect (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
 1812 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
 1819 - Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian and novelist (d. 1875)
 1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (d. 1901)
 1831 - Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (d. 1905)
 1843 - David Gill, Scottish astronomer (d. 1914)
 1851 - Oliver Lodge, English physicist (d. 1940)
 1858 - Harry Hamilton Johnston, English polymath (d. 1927)
 1858 - Henry Scott Tuke, English painter and photographer (d. 1929)
 1872 - Emil Hacha, Czech politician (d. 1945)
 1885 – Frank Ferera, Hawaiian musician (d. 1951)
 1888 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
 1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (d. 1918)
 1890 - Théophile Alajouanine, French psychiatrist (d. 1980) 
 1892 – Basil Rathbone, British actor (d. 1967)
 1892 – Djuna Barnes, American writer (d. 1982)
 1892 - Apostolos Grozos, Greek Communist politician (d. 1981)
 1897 - Walter Peterhans, German photographer (d. 1960)
 1897 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
 1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist (d. 1986)
 1899 - Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer (d. 1968)

1901  1950 
 1901 - Clyde Geronimi, Italian-American animation director (d. 1989)
 1902 - Hendrik Elias, Flemish politician (d. 1973)
 1903 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
 1905 – Ray Barbuti, American sportsperson (d. 1988)
 1906 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
 1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (d. 2010)
 1908 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian engineer and designer (d. 1988)
 1908 - Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (d. 1975)
 1912 - Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1993)
 1914 - Go Seigen, Japanese Go player (d. 2014)
 1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker (d. 2017)
 1915 - Priscilla Lane, American actress (d. 1995)
 1916 – Raul Hector Castro, American politician, 14th Governor of Arizona (d. 2015)
 1916 - Irwin Allen, American director and producer (d. 1991)
 1917 - Gottfried Honegger, Swiss artist and graphic designer (d. 2016)
 1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
 1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (d. 2004)
 1919 - Ahmed Abdallah, President of the Comoros (d. 1989)
 1921 – Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
 1922 – Günter Behnisch, German architect (d. 2010)
 1922 - Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (d. 2013)
 1924 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
 1926 - Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine footballer
 1928 – Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician
 1928 - Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor
 1928 - Richard M. Sherman, American composer, songwriter and publisher
 1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945)
 1929 - Alberto De Martino, Italian movie director (d. 2015)
 1929 – Brigid Brophy, British writer (d. 1995)
 1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani writer and Urdu language scholar
 1930 - Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
 1930 - Innes Ireland, British racing driver (d. 1993)
 1932 - Mano Wolde, Ethiopian long-distance runner (d. 2002)
 1933 – Eddie Adams, American photographer (d. 2004)
 1937 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (d. 2010)
 1938 - Jean-Marie Doré, Prime Minister of Guinea (d. 2016)
 1938 - Ian Partridge, English tenor 
 1941 – Chick Corea, American musician
 1941 - Roy Harper, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet and actor
 1941 - Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
 1942 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist
 1945 – Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer
 1946 - Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player
 1946 - Salman Taseer, Pakistani politician (d. 2011)
 1949 – Jens Boehrnsen, German politician, Mayor of Bremen and former acting President of Germany
 1949 - John Wetton, English singer, bassist and guitarist (d. 2017)

1951  1975 
 1951 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (d. 2007)
 1951 – Brad Delp, American musician (d. 2007)
 1952 – Pete Farndon, English musician (d. 1983)
 1952 – Spencer Abraham, American politician
 1953 - Rocky Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1953 - Tess Gerritsen, Chinese-American novelist
 1953 - David Thornton, American actor
 1958 - Rebecca Holden, American actress and singer
 1961 – Hannelore Kraft, German politician, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
 1965 - Vicky Vette, Norwegian-Canadian pornographic actress
 1965 - Cathy Tyson, English actress
 1965 - Gwen Torrence, American athlete
 1967 - Aivar Kuusmaa, Estonian basketball player and coach
 1968 - Manuel Blanc, French actor
 1968 - Htay Kywe, Burmese activist
 1969 - Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
 1971 – Mark Henry, American professional wrestler
 1972 - Sophie Lawrence, English actress, singer and director
 1973 - Jason Caffey, American basketball player and coach
 1973 – Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
 1973 - Darryl White, Australian footballer
 1974 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
 1974 - Jason Mewes, American actor

From 1976 
 1976 – Thomas Sorensen, Danish footballer
 1976 - Antawn Jamison, American basketball player
 1977 - Richard Ayoade, English actor, director and screenwriter
 1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1978 - Lewis Moody, English rugby player
 1978 - Yumiko Shaku, Japanese actress and model
 1978 - Shiloh Strong, American actor, screenwriter, photographer and director
 1979 – Diego Milito, Argentine footballer
 1979 – Robyn, Swedish singer
 1980 – Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player
 1980 - Diem Brown, American television personality (d. 2014)
 1980 - Walter Erviti, Argentine footballer
 1981 - Adriana Lima, Brazilian model
 1981 – Nora Tschirner, German television presenter
 1982 – Jason David, American football player
 1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
 1983 - Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
 1985 - Blake Ross, American software developer
 1985 - Colin Doyle, Irish footballer
 1985 - Dave Franco, American actor
 1985 - Kendra Wilkinson, American model, actress and author
 1986 – Sergio Rodriguez, Spanish basketball player
 1986 – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer
 1986 - Mario Casas, Spanish actor
 1987 – Abbey Lee Kershaw, Australian model
 1987 – Antonio Barragan, Spanish footballer
 1988 – Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
 1988 - Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer
 1989 - Laura Kirkpatrick, American model
 1990 - Jrue Holiday, American basketball player
 1992 – Allie DiMeco, American actress and musician
 1992 - Laura Jones, English gymnast
 1992 - Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer
 1996 - Anna Margaret, American singer, songwriter and actress

Deaths

Up to 1950 
 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
 1020 – Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
 1560 – Imawaga Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
 1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
 1574 - Princess Renee of France (b. 1510)
 1675 - Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
 1758 – Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
 1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion de Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
 1778 - Philip Livingston, American merchant and statesman (b. 1716)
 1816 - Pierre Augereau, French marshal (b. 1757)
 1818 - Egwale Seyon of Ethiopia
 1841 - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist and philologist (b. 1786)
 1878 – George V of Hanover (b. 1819)
 1900 - Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)
 1904 - Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian nobleman, entrepreneur and author (b. 1836)
 1912 – Frédéric Passy, French Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1822)
 1917 - Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan singer, pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1853)
 1929 - Marie Henri Andoyer, French astronomer and mathematician (b. 1862)
 1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
 1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)

1951  2000 
 1952 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (b. 1869)
 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)
 1962 - John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
 1963 – Medgar Evans, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1925)
 1964 – Walter Seifert, German retired World War II veteran, ran amok in a Cologne school (b. 1922)
 1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German composer and conductor (b. 1891)
 1969 - Percival Proctor, Governor of Maine (b. 1876)
 1976 - Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
 1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author and poet (b. 1892)
 1978 - Georg Simenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
 1980 – Billy Butlin, British holiday entrepreneur (b. 1899)
 1980 – Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
 1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist (b. 1886)
 1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
 1987 – Paul Janes, German footballer (b. 1912)
 1990 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill, Northern Irish politician (b. 1914)
 1994 – Ronald Goldman, American waiter and murder victim (b. 1968)
 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (b. 1959)
 1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter, musician and author (b. 1924)
 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian hostage taker (b. 1978)
 2000 - Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, producer and author (b. 1919)

From 2001 
 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
 2006 – Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
 2006 – Nijiro Tukuda, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
 2007 - Guy de Rothschild, French banker (b. 1909)
 2009 – Félix Malloum, President of Chad (b. 1932)
 2012 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist (b. 1933)
 2012 - Henry Hill, American convict (b. 1943)
 2013 - Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest-recorded man ever (b. 1897)
 2014 - Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (b. 1959)
 2014 - Carla Laemmle, American actress (b. 1909)
 2014 - Jimmy Scott, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
 2014 - Khagen Mahanta, Indian folk singer (b. 1942)
 2014 - Joe Pittman, American baseball player (b. 1954)
 2015 - Monica Lewis, American actress (b. 1922)
 2015 - Fernando Brant, Brazilian poet and composer (b. 1946)
 2016 - Omar Mateen, American gunman, perpetrator of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (b. 1986)
 2016 - Donald Carr, English cricketer (b. 1926)
 2016 - Vladimir Dolgopolov, Russian footballer (b. 1961)
 2016 - Alfonso Portugal, Mexican footballer (b. 1934)
 2016 - George Voinovich, American politician, former Governor of Ohio (b. 1936)
 2016 - Janet Waldo, American actress (b. 1920)
 2017 - C. Narayana Reddy, Indian screenwriter, composer and poet (b. 1931)
 2017 - Charles P. Thacker, American computer designer (b. 1943)

Observances 
 Independence Day (the Philippines)
 Loving Day (United States)
 Russia Day
 World Day Against Child Labour
 Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay)
 Dia dos Namorados (Brazil)
 Helsinki Day

Days of the year