June 19

Events 
 Up to 1950 
 936 – Louis IV of France is crowned as the West Frankish King in the city of Laon.
 1179 – Battle of Kalskinnet in takes place outside Nidaros (present-day Trondheim). Earl Erling Skakke is killed, as the battle changes the progress of the civil wars.
 1269 – Louis IX of France orders that all Jews in public in France without their yellow badge should be fined 10 livres of silver.
 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
 1770 – Emmanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ is his work True Christian Religion.
 1815 – A day after the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Wavre is fought, as the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars.
 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
 1821 – The Coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom takes place in London. The expensive (costs a lot of money) coronation banquet is the last-to-date at the crowning of a British monarch. 
 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries the future King Charles XIII of Sweden.
 1862 – US Congress prohibits Slavery in US territories.
 1865 – Slaves in Galveston, Texas, are informed of their freedom, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Texas and thirteen other US states celebrate this as "Juneteenth".
 1867 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico is executed by a firing squad.
 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
 1910 – The first Father's Day is observed in Spokane, Washington. In some Western countries, including the US and UK, it is still observed on the third Sunday in June.
 1911 – Norwegian football club Molde FK is founded.
 1913 – The Natives' Land Act in South Africa is introduced.
 1936 – Max Schmeling defeats Joe Louis to win the World Heavyweight Boxing title.
 1938 – In France, the Italy national football team wins the FIFA World Cup for a second time, defeating the Hungary national football team 4–2.
 1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

 1951 – 2010 
 1953 – After being convicted of espionage, Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg are executed in New York City.
 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the UK.
 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved in the US.
 1965 – In Algeria, President Ahmed Ben Bella is removed in a military coup, and replaced by Houari Boumedienne.
 1970 – The Patent Convention Treaty is signed.
 1976 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
 1978 – Jim Davis' comic strip about a lazy and overeating cat named Garfield is published for the first time.
 1982 – The body of "God's banker" Roberto Calvi is found hanging at the Blackfriars Bridge in London.
 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its worst terrorist attacks, on a supermarket in Barcelona.
 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, the Indigenous Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
 1991 – In the Croatian War of Independence, the Battle of Dubrovnik starts.
 1991 – Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
 1992 – In Heavyweight Boxing, Evander Holyfield becomes world champion, defeating Larry Holmes.
 1999 – The computer game Counter-strike is released.
 1999 – In Seoul, South Korea, it is announced that Turin, Italy, is to host the 2006 Winter Olympics.
 2002 – Steve Fossett starts his round-the-world journey in a hot-air balloon.
 2006 – Prime Ministers of several Northern European countries participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway.
 2007 – The Al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad kills 78 people.
 2009 – Mass riots involving thousands of civilians and police officers break out in Shishou, China, after the unexplained death of a local chief.
 2010 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden marries Daniel Westling.

 From 2011 
 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asks for asylum in Ecuador at the country's embassy in London.
 2013 – At 10pm, Singapore's 3-hour PSI reading set an all-time high record of 321 in the Hazardous range, surpassing the previous record of 226 during the 1997 haze. This is the first time that Singapore's PSI has entered the Hazardous range.
 2014 – King Felipe VI of Spain ascends to the throne after the abdication of his father, King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
 2016 – Virginia Raggi, of the Five Star Movement, is elected as the first female Mayor of Rome.
 2017 – 2017 Finsbury Park attack: A van is driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers in London's Finsbury Park area, causing several injuries; the attacker is arrested by police.
 2018 – The United States pulls out of the United Nations Human Rights council.
 2018 – Canada decides to legalise the recreational use of cannabis.
 2019 – Four men are named as suspects in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Eastern Ukraine in 2014, in which 298 people were killed.

 Births 
 Up to 1900 
 1301 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese Shogun (d. 1333)
 1566 – King James VI of Scotland (James I of England) (d. 1625)
 1595 – Guru Hargobind, Indian religious figure (d. 1644)
 1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
 1701 – François Rebel, French composer (d. 1775)
 1717 – Johann Stamitz, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1757)
 1731 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan national hero (d. 1850)
 1771 – Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
 1790 – John Gibson, Welsh sculptor (d. 1866)
 1792 – Gustav Schwab, German writer (d. 1850)
 1795 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon (d. 1860)
 1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
 1816 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (d. 1899)
 1842 – Carl Zeller, Austrian jurist, politician and composer (d. 1898)
 1846 – Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
 1850 – David Jayne Hill, American diplomat and historian (d. 1932)
 1854 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (d. 1893)
 1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British field marshal and soldier (d. 1928)
 1861 – Jose Rizal, Filipino national hero (d. 1896)
 1865 – May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
 1871 – Alajor Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper and physician (d. 1932)
 1874 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941)
 1877 – Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
 1878 – Yakov Yurovsky, Russian Bolshevik, chief executioner of the Tsarist family (d. 1938)
 1880 – Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Icelandic playwright and poet (d. 1919)
 1884 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French artist and writer (d. 1974)
 1891 – John Heartfield, German painter and photomontage artist (d. 1968)
 1893 – Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1940)
 1896 – Wallis Simpson, American, Duchess of Windsor through marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII (d. 1986)
 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist (d. 1967)
 1897 – Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
 1900 – Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)

 1901 – 1950 
 1901 – Piero Gobetti, Italian journalist, intellectual and activist (d. 1926)
 1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1979)
 1903 – Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
 1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
 1903 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
 1905 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist, won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
 1907 – Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
 1909 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
 1909 – Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist (d. 1985)
 1910 – Sydney Allard, English racing driver (d. 1966)
 1914 – Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
 1914 – Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1979)
 1915 – Julius Schwartz, American publisher, writer and editor (d. 2004)
 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician (d. 1999)
 1919 – Pauline Kael, American writer and critic (d. 2001)
 1920 – Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (d. 2002)
 1921 – Doris Sands Johnson, Bahamian teacher, suffragette and politician (d. 1983)
 1921 – Louis Jourdan, French actor (d. 2015)
 1922 – Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 2009)
 1923 – Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, President of Paraguay (d. 1997)
 1926 – Anneliese Rothenberger, German soprano (d. 2010)
 1928 – Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist
 1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
 1931 – Sudarshan Agarwal, Indian politician (d. 2019)
 1932 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
 1932 – Marisa Pavan, Italian actress
 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
 1934 – Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician
 1934 – Terence Clark, English diplomat
 1936 – Zacharias Heinesen, Faroese painter
 1937 – André Glucksmann, French philosopher (d. 2015)
 1938 – Jean-Claude Labrecque, Canadian director and cinematographer
 1938 – Karl Moik, Austrian entertainer (d. 2015)
 1939 – Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
 1940 – Paul Shane, English actor (d. 2013)
 1941 – Vaclav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic
 1944 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter and poet
 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician and pro–Democracy campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner
 1945 – Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian-Serb politician, on trial for war crimes
 1946 – Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, English diplomat
 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian-born writer
 1948 – Nick Drake, English musician and singer (d. 1974)
 1948 – Phylicia Rashad, American actress
 1949 – Hassan Shehata, Egyptian football manager
 1950 – Ann Wilson, American singer

 1951 – 1975 
 1951 – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
 1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (al-Qaeda)
 1952 – Bob Ainsworth, British politician
 1953 – Larry Dunn, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress
 1955 – Don McCarthy, British businessman (d. 2018)
 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Foreign minister (d. 2003)
 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Soviet ice hockey player
 1959 – Anne Hidalgo, French politician, Mayor of Paris
 1959 – Christian Wulff, former President of Germany
 1959 – Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpeter
 1959 – Sophie Grigson, English cookery writer and chef
 1961 – Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 2nd President of Nepal
 1962 – Masanao Sasaki, Japanese footballer
 1962 – Paula Abdul, American dancer and singer; American Idol judge
 1962 – Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
 1964 – Boris Johnson, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 1965 – Sadie Frost, English actress
 1967 – Bjorn Daehlie, Norwegian skier
 1967 – Mia Sara, American actress
 1969 – Yoshiaki Sato, Japanese footballer
 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
 1970 – Quincy Watts, American athlete
 1970 – Brian Welch, American musician
 1972 – Jean Dujardin, French actor
 1972 – Brian McBride, American soccer player
 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actress
 1972 – Ilya Markov, Russian athlete
 1972 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
 1972 – Dagur B. Eggertsson, Icelandic politician, Mayor of Reykjavik
 1973 – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer and actress
 1973 – Yasuhito Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
 1973 – Nadiya, French singer
 1975 – Hugh Dancy, British actor

 From 1976 
 1977 – Rebecca Loos, Dutch model
 1977 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (d. 2007)
 1977 – Sacha Modolo, Italian road-racing cyclist
 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
 1978 – Maria Maestro, Argentine actress and singer
 1979 – José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
 1980 – Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
 1980 – Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer
 1982 – Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
 1982 – Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
 1983 – Mark Selby, British snooker player
 1983 – Macklemore, American rapper
 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor
 1984 – Helen George, English actress
 1985 – Kajal Aggarwal, Indian actress
 1985 – Chikashi Masuda, Japanese footballer
 1986 – Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
 1986 – Marvin Williams, American basketball player
 1986 – Marie Dorin Habert, French biathlete
 1986 – Ragnar Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
 1987 – Beattie Edmondson, English actress
 1987 – Miho Fukuhara, Japanese singer
 1990 – Moa Hjelmer, Swedish athlete
 1992 – Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (d. 2014)
 1995 – Blake Woodruff, American actor
 1996 – Larisa Iordache, Romanian gymnast
 1998 – Atticus Shaffer, American actor

 Deaths 
 Up to 1900 
 1027 – Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
 1179 – Earl Erling Skakke, Norwegian nobleman
 1205 – Roman the Great, Russian prince (b. 1151)
 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn the Last (b. 1252)
 1542 – Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
 1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
 1584 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
 1715 – Nicolas Lemery, French chemist (b. 1645)
 1747 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
 1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
 1820 – Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
 1850 – Margaret Fuller, American writer and journalist (b. 1810)
 1865 – Evangelos Zappas, Greek patriot, philanthropist and businessman (b. 1800)
 1867 – Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (b. 1832)
 1884 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine politician and writer (b. 1810)
 1897 – Charles Boycott, British land owner in Ireland (b. 1832)

 1901 – 2000 
 1902 – Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
 1903 – Herbert Vaughan, English archbishop (b. 1832)
 1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1874)
 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish writer (b. 1860)
 1939 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
 1940 – Maurice Jaubert, French composer (b. 1900)
 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1915)
 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1918)
 1957 – Karl Plagge, German army officer and humanitarian (b. 1897)
 1968 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
 1975 – Sam Giancana, American mafioso (b. 1908)
 1977 – Olave Baden-Powell, founder of the Girl Guides (b. 1899)
 1979 – Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar (b. 1888)
 1981 – Lotte Reiniger, German illustrator (b. 1899)
 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
 1986 – Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
 1986 – Coluche, French comedian and actor (b. 1944)
 1993 – William Golding, British writer (b. 1911)
 1995 – Peter Townsend, British military officer (b. 1914)
 2000 – Christiane Herzog, First Lady of Germany (b. 1936)

 From 2001 
 2003 – Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
 2007 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican actor, singer, producer and screenwriter (b. 1919)
 2007 – El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1937)
 2009 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man at the time of his death (b. 1895)
 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
 2010 – Carlos Monsivais, Mexican writer (b. 1938)
 2012 – Nobert Tiemann, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
 2013 – Slim Whitman, American country music singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
 2013 – Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
 2013 – James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
 2014 – Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
 2014 – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
 2014 – Alan Moller, American meteorologist, storm chaser and photographer (b. 1950)
 2015 – Phil Austin, American comedian, writer and musician (b. 1941)
 2015 – Jack Aeby, American photographer (b. 1923)
 2015 – James Salter, American writer (b. 1925)
 2015 – Harold Battiste, American jazz and R&B composer (b. 1931)
 2015 – Fredrik Fasting Torgersen, Norwegian convicted murderer (b. 1934)
 2015 – Wendell Holmes, American musician (b. 1944)
 2016 – Götz George, German actor (b. 1938)
 2016 – Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (b. 1989)
 2017 – Brian Cant, English actor and television presenter (b. 1933)
 2017 – Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (b. 1936)
 2017 – Otto Warmbier, American student (b. 1994)
 2017 – Tony DiCicco, American soccer player and coach (b. 1948)
 2017 – Tabaré Hackenbruch, Uruguayan politician (b. 1928)
 2017 – Mustafa Tlass, Syrian military officer and politician (b. 1932)
 2018 – Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (b. 1926)
 2018 – Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (b. 1935)
 2018 – Koko, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (b. 1971)
 2018 – Ivan Drach, Ukrainian poet and screenwriter (b. 1936)
 2018 – Hubert Green, American golfer (b. 1946)
 2018 – Paul John Marx, French-born Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1935)
 2019 – Peng Xiaolian, Chinese film director (b. 1953)
 2019 – Rafael de la Sierra, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
 2019 – Dmytro Tymchuk, Ukrainian politician, military expert and blogger (b. 1972)
 2019 – Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
 2020 – Ian Holm, English actor (b. 1931)

 Observances 
 Day of Independent Hungary
 Juneteenth (United States)
 Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
 Never Again Day (Uruguay)
 World Sickle Cell Day

 References 

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