June 16

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 363 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Yazdegerd III becomes Shah of Persia, as the last ruler of the Sassanid Dynasty.
* 1487 &ndash; Battle of Stoke Field, the end of the Wars of the Roses.
* 1494 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Mary, Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
* 1745 &ndash; British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
* 1745 &ndash; Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
* 1746 &ndash; War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza
* 1755 &ndash; French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians
* 1774 &ndash; Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
* 1779 &ndash; Spain declares war on the United Kingdom and the Siege of Gibraltar begins.
* 1815 &ndash; Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.
* 1836 &ndash; Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement
* 1846 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois
* 1858 &ndash; The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
* 1871 &ndash; University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
* 1883 &ndash; The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, North East England, kills 183 children.
* 1884 &ndash; The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York
* 1891 &ndash; John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
* 1896 &ndash; 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 &ndash; A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the US is signed. It enters into effect the following year.

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1902 &ndash; Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
* 1903 &ndash; Ford Motor Company incorporates.
* 1903 &ndash; Roald Amundsen commences first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
* 1904 &ndash; Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
* 1904 &ndash; James Joyce uses this day as the setting for his novel *Ulysses*, a day in the life of Leopold Bloom. Known as Bloomsday.
* 1911 &ndash; A 772 gram stony meteorite struck Earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin, damaging a barn.
* 1911 &ndash; IBM is founded.
* 1915 &ndash; Foundation of the British Women's Institute
* 1922 &ndash; General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-treaty Sinn Féin
* 1924 &ndash; Whampoa Military Academy is founded
* 1925 &ndash; **Artek**, the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, established.
* 1940 &ndash; World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France
* 1940 &ndash; A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
* 1944 &ndash; George Stinney, aged 14, becomes the youngest American to be executed in the 20th century when he is wrongly executed for murder.
* 1947 &ndash; The Saar Mark is introduced as a currency in Saarland.
* 1948 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 2000 
* 1954 &ndash; The 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland starts.
* 1955 &ndash; Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón.
* 1956 &ndash; Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath.
* 1958 &ndash; Imre Nagy, Pal Maleter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
* 1960 &ndash; Alfred Hitchcock's *Psycho* opens in New York.
* 1961 &ndash; Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
* 1962 &ndash; Two U.S. Army officers are killed in Saigon, Vietnam.
* 1963 &ndash; Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
* 1966 &ndash; The ship *Texaco Massachusetts*, loaded with naphtha, collides with British tanker *Alva Cape* outside Manhattan, starting a massive fire, killing 33 people.
* 1972 &ndash; Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in the night on June 17.
* 1972 &ndash; Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
* 1972 &ndash; Opening of the New York Jazz Museum.
* 1972 &ndash; Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland.
* 1976 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet Union
* 1981 &ndash; Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis
* 1983 &ndash; Yuri Andropov becomes president of the Soviet Union.
* 1984 &ndash; Cirque du Soleil is founded in Montreal.
* 1989 &ndash; Imre Nagy is reburied in Budapest.
* 1994 &ndash; A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160
* 1995 &ndash; The Astronomy Picture of the Day begins
* 1996 &ndash; First round of voting in the Russian presidential election
* 1997 &ndash; Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.
* 1999 &ndash; Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa.
* 1999 &ndash; Japan allows the contraceptive pill.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin meet in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia
* 2002 &ndash; *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 &ndash; The Hatfields and McCoys sign a formal truce.
* 2003 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Bhutan bans tobacco.
* 2012 &ndash; Liu Yang becomes China's first female astronaut.
* 2012 &ndash; Aung San Suu Kyi accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in person, having won it in 1991 while she was under house arrest.
* 2014 &ndash; A terrorist attack in Kenya kills 48 people.
* 2014 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Donald Trump announces his intention to run for US President in 2016.
* 2016 &ndash; British Member of Parliament Jo Cox dies after being attacked in her constituency.
* 2018 &ndash; 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 &ndash; A widespread power outage affects most of Argentina and Uruguay, as well as parts of Paraguay.
* 2020 &ndash; Twenty Indian soldiers are killed in a border clash with the People's Republic of China.
* 2020 &ndash; COVID-19 pandemic: The number of recorded COVID-19 cases worldwide reaches 8 million.

## Births 
### Up to 1800 
* 1139 &ndash; Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
* 1313 &ndash; Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (d. 1375)
* 1332 &ndash; Isabella de Coucy, daughter of Edward III of England (d. 1382)
* 1514 &ndash; John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
* 1583 &ndash; Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
* 1591 &ndash; Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
* 1606 &ndash; Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
* 1612 &ndash; Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
* 1613 &ndash; John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
* 1633 &ndash; Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
* 1644 &ndash; Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
* 1713 &ndash; Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
* 1723 &ndash; Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher (d. 1790)
* 1738 &ndash; Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
* 1752 &ndash; Salawat Yulayev, Russian Bashkir national hero (d. 1800)
* 1792 &ndash; John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
* 1792 &ndash; Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
* 1793 &ndash; Diego Portales, Chilean politician (d. 1837)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1801 &ndash; Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
* 1806 &ndash; Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
* 1813 &ndash; Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
* 1820 &ndash; Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875)
* 1821 &ndash; Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
* 1826 &ndash; Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
* 1829 &ndash; Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
* 1836 &ndash; Wesley Merritt, American soldier (d. 1910)
* 1837 &ndash; Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
* 1838 &ndash; Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
* 1838 &ndash; Frederic Archer, British composer, conductor and organist (d. 1901)
* 1840 &ndash; Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
* 1851 &ndash; Peter Adler Alberti, Danish politician and swindler (d. 1932)
* 1851 &ndash; Georg Jellinek, German public lawyer (d. 1911)
* 1858 &ndash; King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950)
* 1858 &ndash; John Peter Russell, Australian painter (d. 1930)
* 1862 &ndash; Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian rifle shooter (d. 1947)
* 1863 &ndash; Paul Vidal, French composer (d. 1931)
* 1874 &ndash; Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
* 1880 &ndash; Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
* 1880 &ndash; Alice Bailey, British author (d. 1949)
* 1881 &ndash; Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
* 1882 &ndash; Mohammad Mosaddegh, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
* 1888 &ndash; Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
* 1888 &ndash; Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
* 1890 &ndash; Stan Laurel, British-born actor and comedian (d. 1965)
* 1894 &ndash; Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956)
* 1896 &ndash; Murray Leinster, American writer (d. 1976)
* 1897 &ndash; Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
* 1897 &ndash; Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1987)
* 1899 &ndash; Helen Traubel, American singer (d. 1972)

### 1901 &ndash; 1925 
* 1901 &ndash; Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist and philosopher (d. 1991)
* 1902 &ndash; Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (d. 1992)
* 1902 &ndash; George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
* 1903 &ndash; Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
* 1907 &ndash; Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981)
* 1908 &ndash; Sarit Thanarat, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1963)
* 1909 &ndash; Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (d. 1987)
* 1910 &ndash; Juan Velasco, President of Peru (d. 1977)
* 1912 &ndash; Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
* 1915 &ndash; Mariano Rumor, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1990)
* 1916 &ndash; Hank Luisetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
* 1917 &ndash; Katharine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)
* 1917 &ndash; Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009)
* 1917 &ndash; Phaedon Gizikis, Greek army officer and President (d. 1999)
* 1917 &ndash; Aurelio Lampredi, Italian automobile and aircraft designer (d. 1989)
* 1920 &ndash; José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
* 1920 &ndash; John Howard Griffin, American writer (d. 1980)
* 1920 &ndash; Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Bengali singer, composer and producer (d. 1989)
* 1922 &ndash; Frances Rafferty, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
* 1924 &ndash; Faith Domergue, American actor (d. 1999)
* 1925 &ndash; Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist (d. 2017)
* 1925 &ndash; Otto Muehl, Austrian artist

### 1926 &ndash; 1950 
* 1926 &ndash; Efraín Ríos Montt, 26th President of Guatemala (d. 2018)
* 1927 &ndash; Tom Graveney, English cricketer (d. 2015)
* 1927 &ndash; Herbert Lichtenfeld, German writer and playwright (d. 2001)
* 1927 &ndash; Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian playwright and author (d. 2014)
* 1928 &ndash; Pierrette Bloch, Swiss artist (d. 2017)
* 1928 &ndash; Annie Cordy, Belgian singer and actress
* 1929 &ndash; Ramón Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
* 1929 &ndash; Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
* 1929 &ndash; Pauline Yates, English actress (d. 2015)
* 1930 &ndash; Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
* 1934 &ndash; Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress
* 1934 &ndash; Jane Henson, American puppeteer (d. 2013)
* 1934 &ndash; William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist
* 1935 &ndash; Jim Dine, American artist
* 1935 &ndash; James Bolam, English actor
* 1936 &ndash; Lincoln Almond, former Governor of Rhode Island
* 1936 &ndash; Ann Carter, American actress (d. 2014)
* 1936 &ndash; Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Nigerian cardinal
* 1937 &ndash; Erich Segal, American writer (d. 2010)
* 1937 &ndash; Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Bulgarian royal and Prime Minister
* 1938 &ndash; Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist
* 1938 &ndash; Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2017)
* 1940 &ndash; Neil Goldschmidt, former Governor of Oregon
* 1941 &ndash; Lamont Dozier, American record company executive
* 1942 &ndash; Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist
* 1942 &ndash; John Rostill, British musician (d. 1973)
* 1943 &ndash; Joan Van Ark, American actress
* 1946 &ndash; Rick Adelman, American basketball player and coach
* 1946 &ndash; Jodi Rell, 87th Governor of Connecticut
* 1946 &ndash; Derek Sanderson, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1947 &ndash; Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya
* 1947 &ndash; Günther Kaufmann, German actor (d. 2012) 
* 1948 &ndash; Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet (d. 2014)
* 1950 &ndash; Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor
* 1950 &ndash; Klaus Lage, German musician

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
* 1952 &ndash; George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece
* 1952 &ndash; Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer and songwriter
* 1954 &ndash; Jeffrey Ashby, American astronaut
* 1955 &ndash; Laurie Metcalf, American actress
* 1955 &ndash; Patrizio Sala, Italian footballer
* 1957 &ndash; Ian Buchanan, Scottish-American actor
* 1957 &ndash; Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer
* 1958 &ndash; Darrell Griffith, American basketball player
* 1958 &ndash; Johannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist and pilot
* 1959 &ndash; The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler (d. 2014)
* 1962 &ndash; Femi Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and musician
* 1966 &ndash; Jan Zelezný, Czech athlete
* 1967 &ndash; Jürgen Klopp, German footballer and coach
* 1967 &ndash; John Franklin, American actor
* 1968 &ndash; James Patrick Stuart, American actor
* 1969 &ndash; Shami Chakrabarti, British academic and activist
* 1970 &ndash; Phil Mickelson, American golfer
* 1970 &ndash; James Shaffer, American guitarist (KoЯn)
* 1970 &ndash; Cobi Jones, American soccer player
* 1970 &ndash; Clifton Collins, Jr., American actor
* 1971 &ndash; Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (d. 1996)
* 1971 &ndash; Derek R. Audette, Canadian artist and poet
* 1972 &ndash; Simon Coveney, Irish politician
* 1972 &ndash; Hank von Helvete, Norwegian musician
* 1972 &ndash; John Cho, Korean-American actor and musician
* 1973 &ndash; Eddie Cibrian, American actor
* 1973 &ndash; Federica Mogherini, Italian politician, former European Union foreign policy chief
* 1974 &ndash; Joseph May, Canadian voice actor

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Edwin Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer
* 1976 &ndash; Cian Ciaran, Welsh musician
* 1977 &ndash; Kerry Wood, American baseball player
* 1978 &ndash; Daniel Brühl, Spanish-German actor
* 1978 &ndash; Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
* 1978 &ndash; Fish Leong, Malaysian singer
* 1980 &ndash; Brandon Armstrong, American basketball player 
* 1980 &ndash; Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
* 1980 &ndash; Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
* 1980 &ndash; Sibel Kekilli, German actress
* 1981 &ndash; Laron Kevin Mathieu, American poet and world traveler
* 1981 &ndash; Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
* 1982 &ndash; Albert Rocas, Spanish handball player
* 1983 &ndash; Olivia Hack, American actress
* 1983 &ndash; Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Steven Whittaker, Scottish footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Cat Smith, English politician
* 1986 &ndash; Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Abby Elliott, American actress and comedienne
* 1988 &ndash; Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer
* 1988 &ndash; Banks, American singer and songwriter
* 1989 &ndash; Jelena Glabova, Estonian figure skater
* 1989 &ndash; Odion Ighalo, Nigerian footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Yuichi Maruyama, Japanese footballer
* 1990 &ndash; John Newman, English singer
* 1991 &ndash; Joe McElderry, English singer
* 1991 &ndash; Siya Kolisi, South African rugby union player
* 1994 &ndash; Caitlyn Taylor Love, American actress and singer
* 1995 &ndash; Joo Da-young, South Korean actress
* 1998 &ndash; Lauren Taylor, American actress and singer
* 2000 &ndash; Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* AD 1216 – Pope Innocent III
* 1397 &ndash; Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
* 1464 &ndash; Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399)
* 1468 &ndash; Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
* 1622 &ndash; Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
* 1623 &ndash; Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
* 1666 &ndash; Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608)
* 1671 &ndash; Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed)
* 1707 &ndash; Marie d'Orléans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
* 1712 &ndash; Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1657)
* 1722 &ndash; John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
* 1749 &ndash; Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
* 1752 &ndash; Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
* 1752 &ndash; Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
* 1777 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
* 1778 &ndash; Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
* 1779 &ndash; Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
* 1792 &ndash; Benjamin Tupper, American general (b. 1738)
* 1804 &ndash; Johann Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
* 1817 &ndash; Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (b. 1759)
* 1824 &ndash; Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French statesman (b. 1839)
* 1849 &ndash; Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
* 1850 &ndash; William Lawson, explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
* 1855 &ndash; John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
* 1858 &ndash; John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813)
* 1862 &ndash; Hidenoyama Raigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1808)
* 1866 &ndash; Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
* 1869 &ndash; Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
* 1872 &ndash; Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
* 1878 &ndash; Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
* 1881 &ndash; Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
* 1885 &ndash; Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
* 1894 &ndash; William Calder Marshall, Scottish sculptor (b. 1813)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1902 &ndash; Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
* 1925 &ndash; Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
* 1925 &ndash; Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
* 1929 &ndash; Bramwell Booth, 2nd General of the Salvation Army (b. 1871)
* 1930 &ndash; Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (b. 1860)
* 1930 &ndash; Ezra Fitch, American founder of the Abercrombie & Fitch clothing retailer (b. 1865)
* 1939 &ndash; Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1905)
* 1940 &ndash; DuBose Heyward, American writer (b. 1885)
* 1944 &ndash; Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
* 1944 &ndash; George Stinney, African American wrongly executed for murder (b. 1929)
* 1952 &ndash; Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist (b. 1861)
* 1953 &ndash; Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
* 1958 &ndash; Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1896)
* 1958 &ndash; Pál Maléter, Hungarian revolution leader (b. 1917)
* 1959 &ndash; George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
* 1969 &ndash; Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
* 1970 &ndash; Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
* 1970 &ndash; Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
* 1971 &ndash; Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
* 1973 &ndash; Louise Latimer, American actress (b. 1913)
* 1976 &ndash; Hector Pieterson, South African schoolboy and symbol of anti–Apartheid movement (b. 1963) (shot)
* 1977 &ndash; Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
* 1979 &ndash; Nicholas Ray, American movie director (b. 1911)
* 1979 &ndash; Ignatius KutuAcheampong, Ghanaian leader (b. 1931)
* 1981 &ndash; Jule Gregory Charney, meteorologist (b. 1917)
* 1982 &ndash; James Honeyman-Scott, British musician (b. 1956)
* 1986 &ndash; Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
* 1988 &ndash; Kim Milford, American actor (b. 1951)
* 1990 &ndash; Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer (of Sylvia Likens) (b. 1929)
* 1991 &ndash; Vicki Brown, English singer (b. 1940)
* 1993 &ndash; Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
* 1994 &ndash; Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (b. 1967)
* 1996 &ndash; Mel Allen, baseball announcer (b. 1913)
* 1996 &ndash; Curt Swan, American comic book artist (b. 1920)
* 1998 &ndash; Jafar Sharif-Emami, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1910)
* 1999 &ndash; Screaming Lord Sutch, British musician and politician (b. 1940)
* 2000 &ndash; Empress Nagako of Japan (b. 1903)

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
* 2004 &ndash; Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
* 2005 &ndash; Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
* 2008 &ndash; Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer (b. 1921)
* 2008 &ndash; Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (b. 1975)
* 2010 &ndash; Ronald Neame, British cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director (b. 1911)
* 2010 &ndash; Marc Bazin, 49th President of Haiti (b. 1932)
* 2012 &ndash; Nils Karlsson, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1917)
* 2012 &ndash; Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1934)
* 2013 &ndash; Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924)
* 2013 &ndash; Hans Hass, Austrian diver (b. 1919)
* 2014 &ndash; Tony Gwynn, American baseball player (b. 1960)
* 2014 &ndash; Pierre D'Archambeau, Belgian-American violinist (b. 1927)
* 2015 &ndash; Charles Correa, Indian architect (b. 1930)
* 2015 &ndash; Tony Ranasinghe, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1937)
* 2016 &ndash; Jo Cox, English politician (b. 1974)
* 2016 &ndash; Bill Berkson, American poet and art critic (b. 1939)
* 2016 &ndash; Irving Moskowitz, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1928)
* 2016 &ndash; Pat Suggate, British-New Zealand geologist (b. 1922)
* 2016 &ndash; Jerome Teasley, American drummer (b. 1948)
* 2017 &ndash; Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1930)
* 2017 &ndash; John G. Avildsen, American film director (b. 1935)
* 2017 &ndash; Curt Hanson, American politician (b. 1943)
* 2017 &ndash; Stephen Furst, American actor (b. 1955)
* 2018 &ndash; Martin Bregman, American film producer (b. 1926)
* 2018 &ndash; Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor (b. 1931)
* 2019 &ndash; Bishop Bullwinkle, American singer and comedian (b. 1948)
* 2019 &ndash; Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1924)
* 2019 &ndash; Frank LaMere, Native American activist (b. 1950)
* 2019 &ndash; Simona Mafai De Pasquale, Italian politician (b. 1928)
* 2020 &ndash; Mohammad Asghar, Welsh politician (b. 1945)
* 2020 &ndash; Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., Filipino businessman and politician (b. 1935)
* 2020 &ndash; Fred Jarvis, English trade union leader (b. 1924)
* 2020 &ndash; John Madigan, Australian politician (b. 1966)
* 2020 &ndash; Patrick Poivey, French actor (b. 1948)
* 2020 &ndash; 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)