June 22

## Events 
### Up to 1950 
* 217 BC &ndash; Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
* 168 BC &ndash; Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
* 816 &ndash; Pope Stephen IV is elected.
* 1593 &ndash; Battle of Sisak: Slovene – Croat troops defeat the Turks.
* 1622 &ndash; Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion at the Battle of Macau during the Dutch-Portuguese War.
* 1633 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn marries Saskia van Uylenburgh.
* 1675 &ndash; The Greenwich Royal Observatory is founded.
* 1774 &ndash; The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules for governance of the colony of Quebec in what was then British North America.
* 1783 &ndash; The poisonous cloud from the erupting Laki volcanic crater in Iceland reaches Le Havre, on France's English Channel coast.
* 1813 &ndash; 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 &ndash; British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
* 1866 &ndash; Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
* 1870 &ndash; The United States Congress creates the United States Department of Justice.
* 1893 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
* 1906 &ndash; The Flag of Sweden is adopted as the country's official national flag.
* 1907 &ndash; The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
* 1911 &ndash; George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII, who had died in 1910.
* 1918 &ndash; The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 people and injures 127 in Hammond, Indiana. 
* 1919 &ndash; Law student Jens Oliver Lisberg first raises the current Flag of the Faroe Islands in the village of Famjin.
* 1922 &ndash; Herrin massacre: 19 strikeboarders and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
* 1936 &ndash; Austrian philosopher Moritz Schlick is murdered by a former student at the University of Vienna.
* 1937 &ndash; Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1940 &ndash; France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.
* 1941 &ndash; Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
* 1941 &ndash; First Croatian anti-fascist armed unit (partisans) founded near Sisak, Croatia.
* 1941 &ndash; June coup in Lithuania against the Soviets starts.
* 1942 &ndash; Erwin Rommel is promoted to the rank of Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk, in Libya.
* 1944 &ndash; Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
* 1950 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 2000 
* 1955 &ndash; The Disney film Lady and the Tramp has its premiere.
* 1957 &ndash; The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time.
* 1962 &ndash; An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113
* 1963 &ndash; Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals.
* 1964 &ndash; François Duvalier (Papa Doc) is officially declared "President for Life" in Haiti.
* 1974 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
* 1978 &ndash; Pluto's moon Charon is discovered.
* 1984 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Dublin City University and University of Limerick are established in Ireland.
* 1990 &ndash; Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin is removed.
* 1993 &ndash; Dr. Charles Epstein of Tiburon, California, United States is injured by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber.
* 1996 &ndash; The Quake computer game is released.
* 2000 &ndash; A ferry sinking on the Yangtze River in Sichuan province, China, kills 131 people.

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people
* 2003 &ndash; The largest hailstone ever recorded falls from a thunderstorm in Aurora, Nebraska, United States.
* 2004 &ndash; In Belgium, Marc Dutroux is sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and murdering young girls.
* 2006 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Filipino ferry *Princess of the Stars* runs aground in a typhoon, killing around 800 people.
* 2009 &ndash; Two Washington, DC metro trains collide, killing 9 people.
* 2010 &ndash; 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 &ndash; President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and is succeeded by Federico Franco.
* 2012 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake occurs, killing at least 1000 people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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