June 19

## Events 
### Up to 1950 
* 936 &ndash; Louis IV of France is crowned as the West Frankish King in the city of Laon.
* 1179 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Louis IX of France orders that all Jews in public in France without their yellow badge should be fined 10 livres of silver.
* 1306 &ndash; The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
* 1586 &ndash; English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
* 1770 &ndash; Emmanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ is his work *True Christian Religion*.
* 1815 &ndash; A day after the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Wavre is fought, as the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars.
* 1816 &ndash; Battle of Seven Oaks between the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
* 1821 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
* 1850 &ndash; Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries the future King Charles XIII of Sweden.
* 1862 &ndash; US Congress prohibits Slavery in US territories.
* 1865 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico is executed by a firing squad.
* 1875 &ndash; The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
* 1910 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Norwegian football club Molde FK is founded.
* 1913 &ndash; The Natives' Land Act in South Africa is introduced.
* 1936 &ndash; Max Schmeling defeats Joe Louis to win the World Heavyweight Boxing title.
* 1938 &ndash; 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 &ndash; World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

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

### From 2011 
* 2012 &ndash; WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asks for asylum in Ecuador at the country's embassy in London.
* 2013 &ndash; 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 &ndash; King Felipe VI of Spain ascends to the throne after the abdication of his father, King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
* 2016 &ndash; Virginia Raggi, of the Five Star Movement, is elected as the first female Mayor of Rome.
* 2017 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The United States pulls out of the United Nations Human Rights council.
* 2018 &ndash; Canada decides to legalise the recreational use of cannabis.
* 2019 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Prince Morikuni, Japanese Shogun (d. 1333)
* 1566 &ndash; King James VI of Scotland (James I of England) (d. 1625)
* 1595 &ndash; Guru Hargobind, Indian religious figure (d. 1644)
* 1606 &ndash; James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
* 1623 &ndash; Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
* 1701 &ndash; François Rebel, French composer (d. 1775)
* 1717 &ndash; Johann Stamitz, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1757)
* 1731 &ndash; Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
* 1764 &ndash; José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan national hero (d. 1850)
* 1771 &ndash; Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
* 1790 &ndash; John Gibson, Welsh sculptor (d. 1866)
* 1792 &ndash; Gustav Schwab, German writer (d. 1850)
* 1795 &ndash; James Braid, Scottish surgeon (d. 1860)
* 1815 &ndash; Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
* 1816 &ndash; William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (d. 1899)
* 1842 &ndash; Carl Zeller, Austrian jurist, politician and composer (d. 1898)
* 1846 &ndash; Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
* 1850 &ndash; David Jayne Hill, American diplomat and historian (d. 1932)
* 1854 &ndash; Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (d. 1893)
* 1861 &ndash; Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British field marshal and soldier (d. 1928)
* 1861 &ndash; Jose Rizal, Filipino national hero (d. 1896)
* 1865 &ndash; May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
* 1871 &ndash; Alajor Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper and physician (d. 1932)
* 1874 &ndash; Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941)
* 1877 &ndash; Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
* 1878 &ndash; Yakov Yurovsky, Russian Bolshevik, chief executioner of the Tsarist family (d. 1938)
* 1880 &ndash; Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Icelandic playwright and poet (d. 1919)
* 1884 &ndash; Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French artist and writer (d. 1974)
* 1891 &ndash; John Heartfield, German painter and photomontage artist (d. 1968)
* 1893 &ndash; Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1940)
* 1896 &ndash; Wallis Simpson, American, Duchess of Windsor through marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII (d. 1986)
* 1897 &ndash; Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist (d. 1967)
* 1897 &ndash; Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
* 1900 &ndash; Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)

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

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

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

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

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

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