June 22

Events 
 Up to 1950 
 217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
 816 – Pope Stephen IV is elected.
 1593 – Battle of Sisak: Slovene – Croat troops defeat the Turks.
 1622 – Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion at the Battle of Macau during the Dutch-Portuguese War.
 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
 1634 – Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn marries Saskia van Uylenburgh.
 1675 – The Greenwich Royal Observatory is founded.
 1774 – The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules for governance of the colony of Quebec in what was then British North America.
 1783 – The poisonous cloud from the erupting Laki volcanic crater in Iceland reaches Le Havre, on France's English Channel coast.
 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans to carry out a surprise attack on the Beavers Dams, Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn James FitzGibbon.
 1825 – British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
 1866 – Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
 1870 – The United States Congress creates the United States Department of Justice.
 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
 1898 – Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
 1906 – The Flag of Sweden is adopted as the country's official national flag.
 1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
 1911 – George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII, who had died in 1910.
 1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 people and injures 127 in Hammond, Indiana. 
 1919 – Law student Jens Oliver Lisberg first raises the current Flag of the Faroe Islands in the village of Famjin.
 1922 – Herrin massacre: 19 strikeboarders and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
 1936 – Austrian philosopher Moritz Schlick is murdered by a former student at the University of Vienna.
 1937 – Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1940 – France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.
 1941 – Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
 1941 – First Croatian anti-fascist armed unit (partisans) founded near Sisak, Croatia.
 1941 – June coup in Lithuania against the Soviets starts.
 1942 – Erwin Rommel is promoted to the rank of Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk, in Libya.
 1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.
 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
 1950 – The longship replica Ormen Friske , en route from Birka to Rotterdam, broke apart in the North Sea because of improper construction. All 15 crew members drowned.

 1951 – 2000 
 1955 – The Disney film Lady and the Tramp has its premiere.
 1957 – The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time.
 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113
 1963 – Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals.
 1964 – François Duvalier (Papa Doc) is officially declared "President for Life" in Haiti.
 1974 – In Hamburg, during the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the East Germany national football team defeats the West Germany national football team 1–0 in a Group Stage match, with the goal scored by Jürgen Sparwasser.
 1976 – Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
 1978 – Pluto's moon Charon is discovered.
 1984 – William Schnoebelen and his wife Sharon are "saved" by a tract from Chick Publications. There is some debate over the reliability of this, however.
 1986 – Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scores the Hand of God goal and the "Goal of the Century" against England during the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
 1989 – Dublin City University and University of Limerick are established in Ireland.
 1990 – Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin is removed.
 1993 – Dr. Charles Epstein of Tiburon, California, United States is injured by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber.
 1996 – The Quake computer game is released.
 2000 – A ferry sinking on the Yangtze River in Sichuan province, China, kills 131 people.

 From 2001 
 2002 – An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people
 2003 – The largest hailstone ever recorded falls from a thunderstorm in Aurora, Nebraska, United States.
 2004 – In Belgium, Marc Dutroux is sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and murdering young girls.
 2006 – At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo of Brazil equals Gerd Müller's overall World Cup goal-scoring record of 14. He beats the record five days later.
 2008 – Filipino ferry Princess of the Stars runs aground in a typhoon, killing around 800 people.
 2009 – Two Washington, DC metro trains collide, killing 9 people.
 2010 – The longest match in professional tennis history begins at Wimbledon, in which John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut 70–68 in the fifth, and deciding, set two days later.
 2012 – President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and is succeeded by Federico Franco.
 2012 – A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter airplane is shot down by Syrian Armed Forces, killing both pilots on board. This worsens the already strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
 2019 – Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is elected President of Mauritania, in what would be the country's first peaceful transfer of power since gaining independence from France in 1960.
 2022 – June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake occurs, killing at least 1000 people.

 Births 
 Up to 1900 
662 – Emperor Ruizong of Tang of China (d. 716)
1000 – Robert I, Duke of Normandy (d. 1035)
1680 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
1684 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
1738 – Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
1757 – George Vancouver, English navigator, naval surveyor (d. 1798)
1767 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
1792 – James Baeumont Neilson, Scottish inventor (d. 1865)
1805 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian jurist and activist (d. 1872)
1820 – James Hutchison Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (d. 1909)
1821 – Theodor Möbius, German philologist (d. 1890)
1830 – Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, professor and composer (d. 1915)
1837 – Ernst Ziller, German architect (d. 1923)
1837 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
1845 – Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906)
1856 – H. Rider Haggard, writer (d. 1925)
1861 – Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)
1864 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909)
1871 – Arthur Wynne, English-American inventor of the Crossword (d. 1945)
1871 – William MacDougall, English psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
1874 – Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, shooter, gymnast and athlete (d. 1930)
1874 – Walter F. Otto, German scholar (d. 1958)
1876 – Gwen John, Welsh painter (d. 1939)
1879 – John J. Dempsey, American politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico (d. 1958)
1880 – Johannes Drost, Dutch backstroke swimmer (d. 1954)
1884 – James Rector, American sprinter (d. 1949)
1885 – Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
1887 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
1888 – Harold Ritz Burton, 45th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1964)
1890 – Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and politician (d. 1970)
1892 – Emil Telmanyi, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 1988)
1896 – Leonard W. Murray, Canadian admiral (d. 1971)
1897 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990)
1898 – Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
1899 – Michal Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970)
1899 – Artur Kukk, Estonian wrestler (d. 1958)
1899 – Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer (d. 1980)
1900 – Oskar Fischinger, German animator, filmmaker and painter (d. 1967)

 1901 – 1930 
1902 – Marguerite De La Motte, American movie actress (d. 1950)
1903 – Carl Hubbell, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1988)
1903 – John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
1906 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer and aviator (d. 2001)
1906 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-born director (d. 2002)
1907 – Marta Colvin, Chilean sculptor (d. 1995)
1909 – Buddy Adler, American film producer (d. 1960)
1909 – Katherine Dunham, American dancer (d. 2006)
1909 – Mike Todd, American movie and theatre producer (d. 1958)
1910 – John Hunt, Indian-British mountaineer (d. 1998)
1910 – Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
1910 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)
1912 – Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
1919 – Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
1920 – Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist (d. 1986)
1920 – Jovito Salonga, Filipino politician (d. 2016)
1921 – Joseph Papp, director, producer (d. 1991)
1922 – Osvaldo Fattori, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
1924 – Géza Vermes, Hungarian-British scholar (d. 2013)
1926 – Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer and filmmaker (d. 2015)
1926 – Rachid Solh, Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2014)
1928 – Steingrimur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 2010)
1928 – Ralph Waite, American actor (d. 2014)
1929 – Bruce Kent, British social activist
1930 – Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
1930 – Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and young victim of crime (d. 1932)
1930 – John Joseph Scanlan, Roman Catholic prelate
1930 – Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer (d. 2011)

 1931 – 1950 
1932 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
1932 – Prunella Scales, British actress
1932 – Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Queen Consort of Iran (d. 2001)
1933 – Dianne Feinstein, United States Senator and former Mayor of San Francisco
1933 – Libor Pesek, Czech conductor
1936 – Kris Kristofferson, American country music singer, songwriter and actor
1936 – Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian composer and musician
1936 – Izatullo Khayoyev, Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d. 2015)
1937 – Bernie McGann, American musician (d. 2013)
1938 – Virginio De Paoli, Italian footballer (d. 2009)
1939 – Robert Kramer, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1939 – Ada Yonath, Israeli chemist, Nobel Prize winner
1940 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1940 – Esther Rantzen, British television presenter
1941 – Marco Aurélio Garcia, Brazilian politician (d. 2017)
1941 – Ed Bradley, American journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent (d. 2006)
1943 – Brit Hume, American FOX News anchor and commentator
1943 – Eumir Deodato, Brazilian pianist, composer and producer
1943 – Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
1944 – Helmut Dietl, German movie director (d. 2015)
1944 – Gérard Mourou, French physicist
1945 – Rainer Brüderle, German politician
1946 – Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
1946 – Józef Oleksy, Polish politician (d. 2015)
1947 – Octavia E. Butler, American science fiction author (d. 2006)
1947 – David Lander, American actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
1947 – David Landau, British-Israeli journalist (d. 2015)
1947 – Bruno Latour, French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist
1947 – Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana (d. 2020)
1948 – Todd Rundgren, American singer, songwriter and recording producer
1949 – Meryl Streep, American actress
1949 – Lindsay Wagner, American actress
1949 – Alan Osmond, American singer
1949 – Larry Gunstrom, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949 – Elizabeth Warren, American politician
1949 – Carlo Petrini, Italian journalist, activist and writer
1950 – Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
1950 – Adrian Nastase, Romanian politician

 1951 – 1970 
1951 – Craig Gruber, American musician (d. 2015)
1952 – Graham Greene, Canadian actor
1952 – Alastair Stewart, English journalist and newsreader
1953 – Cyndi Lauper, American singer
1953 – Wim Eijk, Dutch archbishop
1954 – Wolfgang Becker, German film director and writer
1954 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
1956 – Wang Guozhen, Chinese poet (d. 2015)
1956 – Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani politician
1956 – Derek Forbes, Scottish musician (Simple Minds)
1957 – Danny Baker, English comedy writer, journalist, DJ and screenwriter
1957 – Arkadi Ghukasyan, former President of Nagorno-Karabakh
1958 – Bruce Campbell, American actor
1960 – Erin Brockovich, American activist
1960 – Tracy Pollan, American actress
1961 – Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician
1962 – Bobby Gillespie, Scottish singer and musician
1962 – Clyde Drexler, former NBA player
1962 – Campino, German singer
1962 – Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress and musician
1963 – Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
1964 – Amy Brenneman, American actress
1964 – Miroslav Kadlec, Czech footballer
1964 – Dan Brown, American writer (The Da Vinci Code)
1964 – John Penrose, English politician
1965 – Uwe Boll, German director
1965 – L'ubomir Moravcik, Slovakian footballer
1968 – Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player
1968 – Melinda Nadj Abonji, Hungarian-Swiss writer and musician
1970 – Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician and businessman
1970 – Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)

 1971 – 1985 
1973 – Carson Daly, American talk show host, MTV VJ
1974 – Jo Cox, British politician (d. 2016) 
1974 – Joseph Vijay, Indian actor
1974 – Sabina Nore, Austrian artist
1974 – Donald Faison, American actor
1976 – Gordon Moakes, English singer and musician
1978 – Champ Bailey, American football player
1978 – Dan Wheldon, British IRL race car driver (d. 2011)
1979 – Jai Rodriguez, American television personality
1979 – Leire Martinez, Basque singer and songwriter
1980 – Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
1981 – Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2017)
1981 – Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist (Editors)
1981 – Monty Oum, American animator (d. 2015)
1982 – Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
1984 – Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian tennis player
1984 – Giorgos Apostolidis, Greek basketball player
1984 – Dustin Johnson, American golfer
1984 – Ruben Ivan Martinez, Spanish footballer
1985 – Sofaklis Schortsanitis, Greek basketball player
1985 – Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress
1985 – Scott MacIntyre, American singer-songwriter and pianist

 From 1986 
1986 – Dwayne Anderson, American basketball player
1986 – Ramin Ott, American Samoan footballer
1987 – Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer
1987 – Danny Green, American basketball player
1987 – Cory Gunz, American rapper and songwriter
1987 – Lee Min Ho, South Korean actor, model and singer
1988 – Portia Doubleday, American actress
1989 – Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean musician, singer and songwriter
1989 – Andreas Mikkelsen, Norwegian rally driver
1989 – Karla Crome, British actress
1989 – Cédric Mongongu, Congolese footballer
1990 – Sebastian Jung, German footballer
1991 – Giuseppe De Luca, Italian footballer
1991 – Katie Jarvis, English actress
1991 – Emil Larsen, Danish footballer
1993 – Caydee Denney, American figure skater
1993 – Loris Karius, German footballer
2006 – Anna Hursey, Welsh table tennis player

 Deaths 
 Up to 1950 
431 – Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet
1276 – Pope Innocent V (b. 1225)
1429 – Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1535 – John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill (b. 1469)
1691 – Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
1699 – Josiah Child, English merchant, economist and politician (b. 1630)
1727 – King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1813 – Anton Graff, Swiss painter (b. 1736)
1868 – Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (b. 1801)
1872 – Rudecindo Alvarado, Argentine general (b. 1795)
1874 – Howard Staunton, English chess player (b. 1810)
1892 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
1896 – Benjamin Bristow, American politician (b. 1832)
1905 – Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1913 – Stefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)
1925 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1931 – Armand Fallières, President of France (b. 1841)
1933 – Henry Birkin, English racing driver (b. 1896)
1935 – Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
1936 – Moritz Schlick, German philosopher (b. 1882)
1942 – August Froehlich, German priest and Resistance activist (b. 1891)
1945 – Isamu Cho, Japanese general (b. 1895)
1945 – Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (b. 1887)
1945 – Jambyl, KazakhstanI folk singer (b. 1846)

 1951 – 2000 
1956 – Walter de la Mare, English author and poet (b. 1873)
1959 – Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
1961 – Maria of Yugoslavia, Romanian-born Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
1965 – David O. Selznick, American movie producer (b. 1902)
1969 – Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
1974 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
1977 – Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1978 – Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1914)
1979 – Louis Chiron, Monegasque racing driver (b. 1899)
1987 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
1988 – Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
1990 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist (b. 1908)
1992 – Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
1993 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
1995 – Al Hansen, American artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck (b. 1927)
1995 – Yves Congar, French theologian and cardinal (b. 1904)
1997 – Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)

 From 2001 
2001 – Luis Carniglia, Argentine footballer and coach (b. 1917)
2002 – Darryl Kile, American Major League baseball player (b. 1968)
2002 – Ann Landers, American writer (b. 1918)
2004 – Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
2004 – Bob Bemer, American computer pioneer (b. 1920)
2008 – George Carlin, American comedian and actor (b. 1937)
2013 – Allan Simonsen, Danish racing driver (b. 1978)
2013 – Henning Larsen, Danish architect (b. 1925)
2013 – Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish politician (b. 1945)
2014 – Fouad Ajami, Lebanese-American university professor and writer (b. 1945)
2015 – Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (b. 1941)
2015 – James Horner, American film score composer (b. 1953)
2015 – James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, Scottish nobleman (b. 1929)
2016 – Amjad Sabri, Pakistani singer (b. 1970)
2016 – Joan Acker, American sociologist (b. 1924)
2016 – John William Ashe, Antiguan diplomat (b. 1954)
2016 – Vasily Bochkaryov, Russian politician (b. 1949)
2016 – Jim Boyd, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
2016 – Marc Allan Feldman, American physician and politician (b. 1960)
2016 – David J. Hickson, British theorist (b. 1931)
2016 – Harry Rabinowitz, British composer and conductor (b. 1916)
2017 – Gunter Gabriel, German singer, musician and composer (b. 1942)
2017 – Frank Kush, American football player (b. 1929)
2017 – Keith Loneker, American football player and actor (b. 1971)
2017 – Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (b. 1925)
2017 – Nikolai Zhugan, Soviet-Russian pilot (b. 1917)
2018 – Geoff Case, Australian rules football player (b. 1935)
2018 – Nahum Korzhavin, Russian-American poet (b. 1925)
2018 – Dick Leitsch, American LGBT rights activist (b. 1935)
2018 – Deanna Lund, American actress (b. 1937)
2018 – Geoffrey Oryema, Ugandan-born French guitarist (b. 1953)
2018 – Vinnie Paul, American rock music drummer (b. 1964)
2018 – Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician (b. 1926)
2018 – Sally Pierone, American art director and psychiatrist (b. 1921)
2019 – Judith Krantz, American author (b. 1928)
2019 – Leevi Lehto, Finnish poet, translator and programmer (b. 1951)
2019 – Se'are Mekonnen, Ethiopian army officer
2019 – Stepan Shakaryan, Azerbaijani-Armenian composer (b. 1935)

 Holidays 
Roman Catholic Church: Feast day of Thomas More
Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia)
Teachers' Day (El Salvador)

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