June 1

### Up to 1900

- 70 BC – An earthquake in Shandong, China, kills 6,000 people.
- 193 – Roman Emperor Marcus Didius is killed in his big house.
- 1204 – King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
- 1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under control of Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending in the Battle of Zhongdu.
- 1252 – Alfonso X of Castile is elected King of Castile and Leon.
- 1283 – Treaty of Rheinfelden – Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
- 1298 – Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian order in the Battle of Turaida.
- 1485 – Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
- 1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 1533 – Henry VIII of England's new wife, Anne Boleyn, is crowned as queen.
- 1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
- 1648 – Second English Civil War: The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone.
- 1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to be the last religious martyr in North America.
- 1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumlog.
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
- 1792 – Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the United States, with Isaac Shelby as its first Governor.
- 1794 – "Battle of the Glorious First of June" is fought, as the first naval battle between Great Britain and France.
- 1796 – Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States.
- 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the United States Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- 1813 – The United States Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate _Chesapeake_, Capt. James Lawrence, said, "Don't give up the ship".
- 1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
- 1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
- 1847 – Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
- 1855 – American adventurer William Walker defeats Nicaragua and brings back slavery.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Fairfax Oaks Court House takes place, in which the first Confederate combat casualty occurs.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Both sides claim victory.
- 1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1869 – Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, received a patent for his electric voting machine.
- 1879 – Eugène Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France is killed in the Zulu Wars.
- 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1898 – The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.

### 1901 – 2000

- 1907 – Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded either for a county cricket match or a single day's bowling, and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
- 1909 – The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world's fair opens in Seattle, Washington.
- 1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the United Kingdom.
- 1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- 1918 – World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins –
- 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills at least 85 people.
- 1922 – Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
- 1925 – Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played the first game in his record streak of 2,130 games in a row, an endurance record in Major League Baseball that stood until Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in 1995.
- 1926 – In Poland, the National Assembly elects Ignacy Moscicki as President.
- 1932 – Franz von Papen becomes Chancellor of Germany.
- 1935 – First driving tests introduced in Britain.
- 1938 – Action Comics issues the first _Superman_ comic.
- 1938 – Protective baseball helmets were worn by people with bats for the very first time.
- 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete ends – Crete gives in to Germany.
- 1943 – A not soldier flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all on the plane, including actor Leslie Howard.
- 1954 – The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time. http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/meet_linus.html
- 1958 – Charles de Gaulle is brought out of resting to lead France by order for six months.
- 1960 – New Zealand's first official television broadcast is transmitted.
- 1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule.
- 1967 – The Beatles album _Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band_ is released.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
- 1973 – The military proclaims Greece a republic.
- 1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal _Emergency Medicine_.
- 1974 – Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK kills 28 people.
- 1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
- 1978 – The 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina begins. The staging of the World Cup in Argentina is controversial, due to the military dictatorship in power at the time.
- 1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, ousting Ian Smith and changing its name to Zimbabwe
- 1980 – The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
- 1988 – A mining accident in Stolzenbach, Hesse, then–West Germany, kills 51 miners. 6 survive and are rescued on June 4.
- 1989 – Oba Chandler murders an Ohio family on their Florida vacation by drowning them in Tampa Bay.
- 1990 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation's stockpiles.
- 1990 – Karl-Marx-Stadt, in then–East Germany, changes its name back to Chemnitz.
- 1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack, west of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, kills 13 people and injures 133, as Serb mortar shells hit during a football game.
- 1994 – South Africa re-joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes at Little Rock National Airport in Arkansas, killing 11 people.
- 2000 – The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.

### From 2001

- 2001 – Several members of Nepal's royal family, including King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, are killed in a massacre. Crown Prince, Dipendra of Nepal, is believed to have carried out the attack, and dies of his injuries on June 4.
- 2001 – A Hamas suicide bombing kills 21 people at a disco in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- 2002 – The Germany national football team scores its highest FIFA World Cup win, defeating the Saudi Arabia national football team 8–0 in a group match.
- 2003 – The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.
- 2005 – Voters in the Netherlands reject the proposed EU Constitution.
- 2008 – A fire at Universal Studios Hollywood destroys 118,000 to 175,000 copies of master tapes.
- 2009 – Air France Flight 447: An Air France plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Brazil, killing all 228 people on board.
- 2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 2011 – Sepp Blatter is controversially re-elected as FIFA President.
- 2014 – FIFA, the governing body of world football, is embroiled in a corruption scandal after reports of irregularities when Qatar won the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup in 2010.
- 2015 – A ship carrying over 458 people sinks on the Yangtze River in Hubei province, China, killing 400 people.
- 2016 – The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world, opens in Switzerland after around 20 years of building work.
- 2017 – President Donald Trump announces the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement.
- 2018 – A coalition government consisting of the Five Star Movement and the League Party takes office in Italy, with Giuseppe Conte as Prime minister.
- 2018 – Mariano Rajoy is removed from office as Prime minister of Spain by a parliamentary vote of no confidence; Pedro Sánchez replaces him.
- 2019 – Nayib Bukele becomes President of El Salvador.
- 2019 – Liverpool F.C. defeats Tottenham Hotspur F.C. 2–0 in the second UEFA Champions League final between two English clubs.

### Up to 1800

- 719 – Yang Yuhuan, Chinese princess and consort (d. 756)
- 1076 – Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
- 1134 – Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (d. 1158)
- 1300 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Salisbury, son of King Edward I of England (d. 1338)
- 1455 – Anne of Savoy (d. 1480)
- 1480 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (d. 1550)
- 1503 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567)
- 1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician (d. 1612)
- 1633 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
- 1637 – Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
- 1754 – Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este (d. 1806)
- 1771 – Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839)
- 1790 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
- 1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French military engineer and physicist (d. 1832)

### 1801 – 1900

- 1801 – Brigham Young, American Mormon leader (d. 1877)
- 1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
- 1814 – Charles Anderson, 27th Governor of Ohio (d. 1895)
- 1815 – King Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
- 1819 – Francis V, Duke of Modena (d. 1875)
- 1825 – John Hunt Morgan, American general (d. 1864)
- 1831 – John Bell Hood, American general (d. 1879)
- 1833 – John Marshall Harlan, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1911)
- 1843 – Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
- 1844 – Vasily Polenov, Russian painter (d. 1921)
- 1850 – Sami Frashëri, Albanian writer (d. 1904)
- 1875 – Carl Severing, German politician (d. 1952)
- 1878 – John Masefield, English novelist and poet (d. 1967)
- 1879 – Max Emmerich, American athlete and gymnast (d. 1956)
- 1882 – Nicolae Bivol, Moldovan politician (d. 1940)
- 1889 – James Daugherty, American painter, illustrator and writer (d. 1974)
- 1889 – Charles Kay Ogden, book writer who created the idea of _Basic English_ (d. 1957)
- 1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
- 1898 – Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992)

### 1901 – 1950

- 1901 – Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
- 1905 – Robert Newton, English stage and movie actor (d. 1956)
- 1907 – Frank Whittle, English aircraft engineer (d. 1996)
- 1912 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1987)
- 1917 – William Standish Knowles, American chemist (d. 2012)
- 1921 – Nelson Riddle, American arranger, composer and bandleader (d. 1985)
- 1922 – Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
- 1922 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1922 – Joan Copeland, American actress
- 1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
- 1926 – Richard Schweiker, American politician (d. 2015)
- 1928 – Bob Monkhouse, British comedian (d. 2003)
- 1928 – Steve Dodd, Australian actor (d. 2014)
- 1928 – Larry Zeidel, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
- 1928 – Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
- 1929 – Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981)
- 1930 – Kei Kumai, Japanese director (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Richard Levins, American scientist (d. 2016)
- 1930 – Edward Woodward, British actor (d. 2009)
- 1931 – Hal Smith, American baseball player (d. 2014)
- 1933 – Sandy D'Alemberte, American lawyer, professor and politician (d. 2019)
- 1933 – Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985)
- 1933 – Charles Wilson, American politician (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Pat Boone, American singer
- 1935 – Norman Foster, British architect
- 1935 – Hazel Dickens, American singer, songwriter and musician
- 1937 – Colleen McCullough, Australian author (d. 2015)
- 1937 – Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
- 1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor
- 1938 – Carlo Caffarra, Italian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bologna and cardinal (d. 2017)
- 1940 – Kip Thorne, American theoretical physicist
- 1941 – Toyo Ito, Japanese architect
- 1941 – Alexander V. Zakharov, Russian physicist and astronomer
- 1942 – Fernando Atzori, Italian boxer
- 1942 – Eric Nagler, Canadian children's musician
- 1944 – Robert Powell, British actor
- 1945 – Frederica von Stade, American operatic mezzo-soprano
- 1946 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor
- 1947 – Jan Harvey, British actress
- 1947 – Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
- 1947 – Ronnie Wood, British musician (Rolling Stones)
- 1947 – Ron Dennis, British businessman
- 1948 – Powers Boothe, American actor (d. 2017)
- 1948 – Aruna Shanbaug, Indian nurse (d. 2015)
- 1950 – Tim Bishop, American politician
- 1950 – Gemma Craven, Irish actress and singer

### 1951 – 1975

- 1952 – Senol Gunes, Turkish football manager
- 1953 – Ronnie Dunn, American country musician
- 1953 – Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, English actor and peer
- 1953 – David Berkowitz, American serial killer (Son of Sam)
- 1955 – Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2016)
- 1955 – Tony Snow, American journalist (d. 2008)
- 1956 – François Chérèque, French labor unionist (d. 2017)
- 1956 – Lisa Hartman-Black, American Actress & singer
- 1956 – Peter Tomka, Slovakian jurist & diplomat
- 1958 – Nambaryn Enkhbayar, 3rd President of Mongolia
- 1959 – Alan Wilder, English singer, musician, producer and composer
- 1959 – Martin Brundle, British racecar driver
- 1960 – Simon Gallup, British musician (The Cure)
- 1960 – Vladimir Krutov, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
- 1960 – Sergey Kuznetsov, Soviet-Russian footballer
- 1960 – Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician
- 1960 – Einar Vilhjálmsson, Icelandic javelin thrower
- 1961 – Paul Coffey, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1961 – Peter Machajdik, Slovakian-German composer
- 1963 – Mike Joyce, British musician (The Smiths)
- 1965 – Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
- 1965 – Nigel Short, British chess player
- 1965 – Olga Nazarova, Russian athlete
- 1966 – Abel Balbo, Argentine footballer
- 1967 – Roger Sanchez, American producer and DJ
- 1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
- 1968 – Karen Mulder, Dutch model and singer
- 1968 – Jeff Hackett, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 – Mathias Rust, German pilot
- 1970 – Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
- 1970 – Andrea Fay Friedman, American actress
- 1971 – Mario Cimarro, Cuban-American actor
- 1971 – Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist
- 1972 – Daniel Casey, English actor
- 1973 – Adam Garcia, Australian actor
- 1973 – Heidi Klum, German model
- 1973 – René Zagger, English actor
- 1974 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
- 1974 – Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
- 1974 – Sarah Teather, British politician
- 1975 – Kate Magowan, American actress
- 1975 – Frauke Petry, German chemist and politician

### From 1976

- 1976 – Marlon Devonish, British athlete
- 1977 – Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
- 1977 – Danielle Harris, American actress
- 1977 – Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
- 1980 – Oliver James, British musician and actor
- 1981 – Amy Schumer, American comedienne, writer and actress
- 1981 – Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan–American baseball player
- 1982 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
- 1983 – Hannah Bardell, Scottish politician
- 1984 – Naidangiin Tuvshinbayar, Mongolian athlete
- 1984 – Jean Beausejour, Chilean footballer
- 1984 – Stéphane Sessègnon, Beninese footballer
- 1985 – Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
- 1985 – José Fernando Cuadrado, Colombian footballer
- 1985 – Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian runner
- 1986 – Dayana Mendoza, Venezuelan model
- 1986 – Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer
- 1987 – Juan Hernández, Mexican footballer
- 1987 – Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
- 1988 – Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
- 1988 – Javier Hernández Balcázar, Mexican footballer
- 1989 – Samuel Inkoom, Ghanaian footballer
- 1990 – Bianca Perie, Romanian hammer thrower
- 1992 – Jenna McDougall, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1992 – Kira Plastinina, Russian fashion designer
- 1996 – Tom Holland, English actor
- 2000 – Willow Shields, American actress
- 2003 – Emjay Anthony, American actor and model
- 2004 – Krisia Todorova, Bulgarian singer

### Up to 1900

- 195 BC – Gaozu of Han of China (born 256 BC or 247 BC)
- 193 – Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
- 657 – Pope Eugene I
- 1432 – Dan II of Wallachia
- 1434 – Wladislaus II of Poland (b. 1362)
- 1571 – John Story, English martyr (b. 1504)
- 1616 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
- 1660 – Mary Dyer, English-born Quaker (b. 1611)
- 1740 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
- 1769 – Edward Holyoke, American clergyman (b. 1689)
- 1795 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
- 1823 – Louis-Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770)
- 1826 – Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
- 1830 – Swaminarayan, Indian Hindu figure (b. 1751)
- 1841 – Nicolas Appert, French inventor (b. 1749)
- 1846 – Pope Gregory XVI (born 1765)
- 1864 – Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1820)
- 1868 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (born 1791)
- 1872 – James Gordon Bennett, American newspaper publisher (b. 1795)
- 1873 – Joseph Howe, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1804)
- 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (born 1848)
- 1879 – Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial of France (b. 1856)
- 1899 – Klaus Groth, German poet and writer (b. 1819)

### 1901 – 2000

- 1904 – George Frederic Watts, English painter (b. 1817)
- 1927 – Lizzie Borden, American suspected murderess (b. 1860)
- 1927 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861)
- 1938 – Odon V. Horvath, Austro-Hungarian writer (b. 1901)
- 1941 – Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English writer (b. 1884)
- 1943 – Leslie Howard, English actor (born 1893)
- 1946 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (born 1882)
- 1948 – Sonny Boy Williamson, American blues musician (born 1914)
- 1952 – John Dewey, American philosopher (born 1859)
- 1955 – Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle (b. 1872)
- 1959 – Sax Rohmer, English writer (born 1883)
- 1960 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1883)
- 1965 – Curly Lambeau, American football player and coach (b. 1898)
- 1966 – Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (born 1873)
- 1968 – Helen Keller, American humanitarian (born 1880)
- 1969 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (born 1904)
- 1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (born 1892)
- 1979 – Werner Forssmann, German physician (born 1904)
- 1980 – Rube Marquard, American Baseball Hall of Famer (born 1886)
- 1981 – Carl Vinson, United States Congressman (born 1883)
- 1983 – Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Belgian royal (b. 1903)
- 1983 – Anna Seghers, German writer (b. 1900)
- 1985 – Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
- 1987 – Rashid Karami, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1921)
- 1991 – David Ruffin, American singer (b. 1941)
- 1994 – Frances Heflin, American soap opera actress (born 1923)
- 1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India (born 1913)
- 1998 – Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (born 1919)
- 1999 – Christopher Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (born 1910)
- 2000 – Tito Puente, American musician and composer (born 1923)

### From 2001

- 2001 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace (b. 1920)
- 2001 – King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945) (shot)
- 2001 – Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949) (shot)
- 2002 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
- 2004 – William Manchester, American biographer and novelist (b. 1922)
- 2004 – Satomi Mitarai, Japanese student, murdered by a classmate
- 2005 – George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
- 2008 – Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
- 2009 – Silvio Barbato, Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer (b. 1959) (Air France Flight 447)
- 2010 – Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (b. 1906)
- 2011 – Haleh Sahabi, Iranian human rights activist (b. 1957)
- 2014 – Ann B. Davis, American actress (b. 1926)
- 2014 – Karlheinz Hackl, Austrian actor (b. 1949)
- 2014 – Jay Lake, American author (b. 1964)
- 2015 – Joan Kirner, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (b. 1938)
- 2015 – Shone An, Taiwanese singer and actor (b. 1983)
- 2015 – Nobutaka Machimura, Japanese politician (b. 1944)
- 2015 – Charles Kennedy, Scottish politician, former leader of the Liberal Democrats (b. 1959)
- 2015 – Jacques Parizeau, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of Quebec (b. 1930)
- 2015 – Nicholas Liverpool, 6th President of Dominica (b. 1934)
- 2015 – Jean Ritchie, American folk singer (b. 1922)
- 2015 – Kirill Pokrovsky, Russian composer (b. 1962)
- 2016 – Razak Khan, Indian actor (b. 1954)
- 2016 – Roger Enrico, American businessman (b. 1944)
- 2016 – Boyce F. Martin, Jr., American judge (b. 1935)
- 2017 – Roy Barraclough, English actor (b. 1935)
- 2017 – Tankred Dorst, German playwright (b. 1925)
- 2017 – Alois Mock, Austrian politician (b. 1934)
- 2017 – Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentine golfer (b. 1923)
- 2017 – Jack McCloskey, American basketball player (b. 1925)
- 2017 – J. B. Dauda, Sierra Leonean politician (b. 1942)
- 2017 – Sonja Sutter, German actress (b. 1931)
- 2017 – José Greci, Italian actress (b. 1941)
- 2017 – Rosa Taikon, Swedish activist, silversmith and actress (b. 1926)
- 2018 – Poldy Bird, Argentine writer (b. 1941)
- 2018 – Jean-Claude Boulard, French politician (b. 1943)
- 2018 – Eddy Clearwater, American blues singer (b. 1935)
- 2018 – Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author (b. 1934)
- 2018 – Hilmar Hoffmann, German film and culture academic (b. 1925)
- 2018 – John Julius Norwich, English historian (b. 1929)
- 2018 – William Edward Phipps, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2018 – Bob Clotworthy, American diver (b. 1931)
- 2018 – Rockin' Rebel, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
- 2018 – Dhiraj Choudhury, Indian painter (b. 1936)
- 2018 – Razan al-Najjar, Pakistani nurse (b. 1996)
- 2019 – Leah Chase, American chef (b. 1923)
- 2019 – John Meyers, English radio executive (b. 1959)
- 2019 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
- 2019 – Michel Serres, French philosopher, theorist and writer (b. 1930)
- 2019 – Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesian First Lady (b. 1952)
- 2023 – Anna Shay, American socialite, businesswoman and television personality (_Bling Empire_) (b. 1961)

## Observances

- International Children's Day
- National Day Against Homophobia (Canada)
- Azores Day
- Independence Day (Samoa)
- President's Day (Palau)
- Victory Day (Tunisia)
- National Tree Planting Day (Cambodia)
- Marine's Day (Mexico)
- Madaraka Day (Kenya)
- Hari Gawai (Malaysia)