June 16

### 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.

### 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

### 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)