June 26

## Events 
### Up to 1950 
* 4 &ndash; Roman Emperor Augustus adopts Tiberius.
* 221 &ndash; Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir.
* 363 &ndash; Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. Troops on the battlefield proclaim Jovian Emperor.
* 687 &ndash; Benedict II becomes Pope.
* 1409 &ndash; Western Schism: The Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
* 1483 &ndash; Richard III becomes king of England.
* 1492 &ndash; Mont Aiguille, in the Western Alps in France is climbed for the first time by Antoine de Ville.
* 1541 &ndash; Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima.
* 1718 &ndash; Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (son of Peter I of Russia) dies mysteriously after his father sentenced him to death for plotting against him. (occurred on July 7 in the Gregorian calendar)
* 1723 &ndash; After a siege, and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
* 1740 &ndash; A combined force of Spanish, free Blacks, and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine, Florida in the War of Jenkins' Ear.
* 1819 &ndash; The bicycle is patented.
* 1830 &ndash; King George IV of the United Kingdom dies. His brother succeeds him as William IV of the United Kingdom.
* 1843 &ndash; The Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, effectively giving Hong Kong to the United Kingdom.
* 1848 &ndash; End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
* 1857 &ndash; First Investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
* 1860 &ndash; In Durban, South Africa, Africa's first railway is opened.
* 1870 &ndash; Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the US.
* 1879 &ndash; Egypt sells its parts of the Suez Canal to the United Kingdom.
* 1886 &ndash; Henri Moissan isolates elemental fluorine for the first time.
* 1889 &ndash; Bangui, now-capital city of the Central African Republic, is founded.
* 1905 &ndash; A telegram is sent to Iceland for the first time, from Cornwall.
* 1906 &ndash; The 1906 French Grand Prix is held, as the first Grand Prix motor racing event ever held.
* 1917 &ndash; World War I: US troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany.
* 1920 &ndash; Antonio Maria da Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
* 1924 &ndash; American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
* 1934 &ndash; President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
* 1934 &ndash; Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
* 1940 &ndash; World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
* 1945 &ndash; The United Nations Charter is signed.
* 1945 &ndash; In Germany, the CDU political party is founded.
* 1948 &ndash; The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1954 &ndash; The FIFA World Cup's most goal-filled match occurs in Lausanne, Switzerland, as the Austria national football team wins 7–5 against the Switzerland national football team.
* 1959 &ndash; Ingemar Johansson of Sweden becomes Boxing Heavyweight World Champion when he defeats Floyd Patterson.
* 1959 &ndash; The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
* 1960 &ndash; Former British Protectorate of Somaliland (British Somaliland) gains its independence.
* 1960 &ndash; Madagascar becomes independent from France.
* 1963 &ndash; John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" at a speech in Berlin.
* 1964 &ndash; The Beatles release the album ''A Hard Day's Night''.
* 1966 &ndash; The Basel Canton in Switzerland allows women to vote.
* 1973 &ndash; On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons were killed at an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
* 1974 &ndash; The first retail product (a pack of chewing gum) was sold using a barcode reader.
* 1975 &ndash; Indira Gandhi establishes authoritarian rule in India.
* 1976 &ndash; The CN Tower in Toronto is officially opened.
* 1977 &ndash; The last concert of Elvis Presley takes place.
* 1978 &ndash; Air Canada Flight 221 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine.
* 1979 &ndash; Muhammad Ali retires.
* 1987 &ndash; Convention against Torture entered into force.
* 1991 &ndash; The Yugoslav People's Army  begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia and Croatia.
* 1995 &ndash; Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak survives an assassination attempt in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
* 1995 &ndash; Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani becomes Emir of Qatar after deposing his father, Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani in a bloodless coup.
* 1996 &ndash; Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot dead in Dublin, Ireland.
* 1997 &ndash; Bertie Ahern becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
* 1997 &ndash; The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment.
* 1997 &ndash; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* (*Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' in the U.S.), the first book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular *Harry Potter* series, is published.
* 2000 &ndash; Human Genome Project: The completion of the first rough map of the human genetic code is announced.

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in *Lawrence v. Texas*.
* 2006 &ndash; East Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigns after weeks of political unrest.
* 2007 &ndash; In Zheijiang, China, the Huangzhou Bay Bridge is opened.
* 2007 &ndash; Lina Hahne, a 23-year-old medical student, is crowned Miss Sweden after the original winner was dethroned.
* 2013 &ndash; Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard loses a vote within the Australian Labor Party against previous Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who succeeds her the next day.
* 2014 &ndash; 2014 FIFA World Cup: FIFA hands out its heaviest FIFA World Cup ban to Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini two days earlier. The Uruguayan Football Association appeals the decision.
* 2015 &ndash; Islamist Terror attacks occur in France, Kuwait and Tunisia. A local businessman is decapitated in Southeast France; At least 27 people killed in a bombing at a mosque in Kuwait; A gun attack on foreign tourists in Sousse, Tunisia, kills at least 38 people.
* 2015 &ndash; The Supreme Court of the United States rules that all states of the United States are to recognize same-sex marriage.
* 2016 &ndash; Chile defeats Argentina in the final of the Copa América Centenario. Argentina's Lionel Messi announces his retirement from the national team after the match.
* 2017 &ndash; Theresa May's Conservative Party agrees a deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party in order to stay in power in the United Kingdom.
* 2018 &ndash; The United States Supreme Court, in a majority decision, rules in favour of Donald Trump's travel ban on people from several Muslim–majority countries.
* 2018 &ndash; Activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeats incumbent United States Representative Joe Crowley in an upset victory in the Democratic Party primary for New York's 14th congressional district.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 1501 &ndash; Cho Shik, Korean scholar, politician, educator and poet (d. 1572)
* 1557 &ndash; Leandro Bassano, Italian painter (d. 1622)
* 1575 &ndash; Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)
* 1582 &ndash; Johannes Schultz, German composer (d. 1653)
* 1653 &ndash; Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV (d. 1743)
* 1681 &ndash; Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (d. 1708)
* 1689 &ndash; Edward Holyoke, American clergyman and academic (d. 1769)
* 1726 &ndash; Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (d. 1796)
* 1730 &ndash; Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
* 1741 &ndash; John Langdon, American politician (d. 1819)
* 1753 &ndash; Antoine de Rivarol, French writer (d. 1801)
* 1760 &ndash; Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1836)
* 1786 &ndash; Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (d. 1855)
* 1817 &ndash; Branwell Bronte, English painter and poet (d. 1848)
* 1819 &ndash; Abner Doubleday, American major general (d. 1893)
* 1821 &ndash; Bartolomé Mitre, 6th President of Argentina (d. 1906)
* 1824 &ndash; William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist (d. 1907)
* 1826 &ndash; Adolf Bastian, German polymath (d. 1905)
* 1839 &ndash; Sam Watkins, American Confederate soldier and writer (d. 1901)
* 1854 &ndash; Robert Laird Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937)
* 1865 &ndash; Bernard Berenson, art connoisseur (d. 1959)
* 1866 &ndash; George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
* 1871 &ndash; Johan Anker, Norwegian sailor (d. 1940)
* 1880 &ndash; Mitchell Lewis, American movie actor (d. 1956)
* 1892 &ndash; Pearl S. Buck, American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1973)
* 1893 &ndash; Big Bill Broonzy, American blues musician and composer (d. 1958)
* 1895 &ndash; George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1956)
* 1897 &ndash; Viola Dana, American actress (d. 1987)
* 1898 &ndash; Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
* 1899 &ndash; Maria Nikolaevna Romanova, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna (d. 1918)
* 1899 &ndash; Elvy Kalep, Estonian pilot and artist (d. 1989)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1902 &ndash; Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor (d. 2010)
* 1904 &ndash; Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (d. 1964)
* 1904 &ndash; Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
* 1906 &ndash; Edward Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana (d. 1979)
* 1908 &ndash; Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
* 1909 &ndash; Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
* 1909 &ndash; Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director and producer (d. 1985)
* 1911 &ndash; Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer (d. 1956)
* 1912 &ndash; Jay Silverheels, actor (d. 1980)
* 1913 &ndash; Aimé Césaire, French–Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
* 1913 &ndash; Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (d. 2010)
* 1914 &ndash; Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician (d. 1991)
* 1914 &ndash; Laurie Lee, English poet, novelist and screenwriter (d. 1997)
* 1914 &ndash; Wolfgang Windgassen, German tenor (d. 1974)
* 1916 &ndash; Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (d. 2010)
* 1919 &ndash; Richard Neustadt, political historian (d. 2003)
* 1920 &ndash; Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian baseball player (d. 2014)
* 1922 &ndash; Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013)
* 1922 &ndash; Dick Smith, American special effects make-up artist (d. 2014)
* 1924 &ndash; Richard Bull, American actor (d. 2014)
* 1925 &ndash; Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1970)
* 1925 &ndash; Wolfgang Unzicker, German chess player (d. 2006)
* 1927 &ndash; Dimitar Iliev Popov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 2015)
* 1928 &ndash; Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
* 1929 &ndash; Milton Glaser, American graphic designer, typographer and teacher
* 1930 &ndash; Jackie Fargo, American professional wrestler (d. 2013)
* 1933 &ndash; Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (d. 2014)
* 1933 &ndash; David Winnick, English politician
* 1934 &ndash; Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist
* 1934 &ndash; Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
* 1936 &ndash; Robert Maclennan, British politician
* 1936 &ndash; Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)
* 1936 &ndash; Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (d. 2014)
* 1936 &ndash; Hal Greer, American basketball player
* 1937 &ndash; Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist (d. 2013)
* 1938 &ndash; Neil Abercrombie, American politician, 7th Governor of Hawaii
* 1939 &ndash; Chuck Robb, American politician, 64th Governor of Virginia
* 1942 &ndash; Gilberto Gil, first Minister of Culture of Brazil, singer, songwriter and musician
* 1944 &ndash; Wolfgang Weber, German footballer
* 1945 &ndash; Dwight York, musician, fashion consultant, cult leader and child molester
* 1947 &ndash; Peter Sloterdijk, German philosopher
* 1948 &ndash; Sergei Bodrov, Russian movie director, screenwriter and producer
* 1949 &ndash; Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist (d. 2015)
* 1950 &ndash; Michael Paul Chan, American actor

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
* 1951 &ndash; Jürgen Rüttgers, German politician
* 1952 &ndash; Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer
* 1952 &ndash; Simon Mann, English mercenary
* 1954 &ndash; Luis Arconada, Basque–Spanish footballer
* 1954 &ndash; Steve Barton, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 2001)
* 1955 &ndash; Mick Jones, British musician, guitarist with The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite
* 1956 &ndash; Chris Isaak, American pop singer and actor
* 1956 &ndash; Patrick Mercer, British politician
* 1957 &ndash; Pietro Paolo Virdis, Italian footballer
* 1957 &ndash; Philippe Mabboux, French organist and composer
* 1957 &ndash; Patty Smyth, American singer-songwriter
* 1958 &ndash; Pedro Cateriano, former Prime Minister of Peru
* 1958 &ndash; Riho Sibul, Estonian singer and guitarist
* 1959 &ndash; Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and screenwriter
* 1960 &ndash; Mark Durkan, Northern Irish politician
* 1961 &ndash; Greg Lemond, cyclist
* 1961 &ndash; Toni Barry, British voice actress
* 1961 &ndash; Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin)
* 1962 &ndash; Jerome Kersey, American basketball player (d. 2015)
* 1963 &ndash; Richard Garfield, American game designer
* 1963 &ndash; Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian CEO of YUKOS Oil Company
* 1966 &ndash; Dany Boon, French actor, director and screenwriter
* 1967 &ndash; Olivier Dahan, French director and screenwriter
* 1967 &ndash; Tarun Sagar, Indian Jain monk (d. 2018)
* 1968 &ndash; Gudni Th. Johannesson, Icelandic historian and academic, 6th President of Iceland
* 1968 &ndash; Jovenel Moïse, President of Haiti (d. 2021) 
* 1968 &ndash; Shannon Sharpe, American football player and commentator
* 1968 &ndash; Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
* 1968 &ndash; Armand de Las Cuevas, French cyclist (d. 2018)
* 1969 &ndash; Colin Greenwood, musician, Radiohead
* 1969 &ndash; Francis Magee, Irish actor
* 1969 &ndash; Geir Moen, Norwegian sprinter
* 1970 &ndash; Paul Thomas Anderson, American director, producer and screenwriter
* 1970 &ndash; Irv Gotti, American record producer
* 1970 &ndash; Sean Hayes, American actor, singer and producer
* 1970 &ndash; Chris O'Donnell, American actor
* 1972 &ndash; Caroline Nokes, English politician
* 1972 &ndash; Jussi Sydanmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
* 1973 &ndash; Gretchen Wilson, American country music singer
* 1974 &ndash; Derek Jeter, American baseball player
* 1975 &ndash; Jean-Paul Abalo, Togolese footballer

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1976 &ndash; Chad Pennington, American football player
* 1976 &ndash; Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist leader (d. 2018)
* 1977 &ndash; Kubo Tite, cartoonist
* 1979 &ndash; Ryan Tedder, American singer, musician and producer (OneRepublic)
* 1980 &ndash; Jason Schwartzman, American actor
* 1980 &ndash; Michael Vick, American football player
* 1981 &ndash; Paolo Cannavaro, Italian footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Felipe Melo, Brazilian footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Raymond Felton, American basketball player
* 1984 &ndash; Deron Williams, American basketball player
* 1984 &ndash; Priscah Jeptoo, Kenyan runner
* 1984 &ndash; Aubrey Plaza, American actress
* 1985 &ndash; Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor
* 1985 &ndash; Daniela Sabatino, Italian footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader
* 1986 &ndash; Xisco, Spanish footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Samir Nasri, French footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Amanda Marchant, English singer
* 1988 &ndash; Sam Marchant, English singer
* 1988 &ndash; Dakota L. Meyer, American soldier
* 1990 &ndash; Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner
* 1992 &ndash; Joel Campbell, Costa Rican footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Melanie Amaro, British-American singer
* 1992 &ndash; Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer
* 1993 &ndash; Ariana Grande, American actress and singer
* 2005 &ndash; Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

## Deaths 
### Up to 1950 
* 363 &ndash; Julian, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 331)
* 1291 &ndash; Eleanor of Provence, queen of Henry III of England
* 1541 &ndash; Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru (murdered)
* 1718 &ndash; Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (b. 1690), died on July 7 in the Gregorian calendar
* 1784 &ndash; Caesar Rodney, 4th Governor of Delaware (b. 1728)
* 1808 &ndash; Ludwik Tyszkiewicz, Polish poet and politician (b. 1748)
* 1810 &ndash; Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)
* 1830 &ndash; King George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
* 1836 &ndash; Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (b. 1706)
* 1856 &ndash; Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806)
* 1870 &ndash; Armand Barbès, French revolutionary (b. 1809) 
* 1878 &ndash; Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain (b. 1860)
* 1883 &ndash; Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist and ornithologist (b. 1788)
* 1918 &ndash; Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (b. 1843)
* 1922 &ndash; Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1841)
* 1938 &ndash; Daria Pratt, American golfer (b. 1859)
* 1939 &ndash; Ford Maddox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
* 1943 &ndash; Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868)
* 1945 &ndash; Emil Hacha, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
* 1946 &ndash; Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1880)
* 1947 &ndash; Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
* 1949 &ndash; Kim Gu, Korean politician (b. 1876)

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1951 &ndash; Frank Ferera, Hawaiian musician (b. 1885)
* 1955 &ndash; Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895)
* 1956 &ndash; Clifford Brown, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1930)
* 1957 &ndash; Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
* 1957 &ndash; Malcolm Lowry, English poet and author (b. 1909)
* 1958 &ndash; Andrija Štampar, physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
* 1958 &ndash; George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
* 1964 &ndash; Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888)
* 1975 &ndash; St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (b. 1902)
* 1979 &ndash; Akwasi Afrifa, Ghanaian politician (b. 1936)
* 1990 &ndash; Anni Blomqvist, Finnish writer (b. 1909)
* 1993 &ndash; William H. Riker, political scientist (b. 1920)
* 1996 &ndash; Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
* 1997 &ndash; Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (born 1959)

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
* 2002 &ndash; Arnold Brown, 11th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1913)
* 2003 &ndash; Sir Denis Thatcher Bt., husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
* 2003 &ndash; Strom Thurmond, United States Senator (b. 1902)
* 2003 &ndash; Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1975)
* 2004 &ndash; Yash Johar, Indian movie producer (b. 1929)
* 2005 &ndash; Richard Whiteley, British game show host (b. 1943)
* 2007 &ndash; Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born fashion designer (b. 1929)
* 2007 &ndash; Jupp Derwall, German footballer and manager (b. 1927)
* 2010 &ndash; Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian President (b. 1932)
* 2011 &ndash; Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer (b. 1948)
* 2012 &ndash; Nora Ephron, American writer, screenwriter and movie director (b. 1941)
* 2013 &ndash; Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman (b. 1934)
* 2013 &ndash; Bert Stern, American photographer (b. 1929)
* 2013 &ndash; Kimberly McCarthy, American murderer (b. 1961)
* 2014 &ndash; Ivan Plyushch, Ukrainian politician (b. 1941)
* 2014 &ndash; Howard Baker, American politician and diplomat, United States Senator for Tennessee (b. 1925)
* 2014 &ndash; Wolf Koenig, German-born Canadian filmmaker (b. 1927)
* 2014 &ndash; Ron Hall, Australian rules footballer (b. 1945)
* 2015 &ndash; Yevgeny Primakov, former Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1929)
* 2015 &ndash; Richard Matt, American murderer and prison escapee (b. 1966)
* 2016 &ndash; Austin Clarke, Canadian novelist (b. 1934)
* 2016 &ndash; Barbara Goldsmith, American author (b. 1931)
* 2016 &ndash; Ryan Jimmo, Canadian mixed martial artist (b. 1981)
* 2016 &ndash; Kim Sung-min, South Korean actor (b. 1973)
* 2016 &ndash; Kavalam Narayana Panicker, Indian dramatist, theatre director and poet (b. 1928)
* 2016 &ndash; Rostislav Yankovsky, Belarussian actor (b. 1930)
* 2017 &ndash; Desh Bandhu Gupta, Indian businessman (b. 1938)
* 2017 &ndash; Doug Peterson, American yacht designer (b. 1945)
* 2017 &ndash; Habib Thiam, Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1933)
* 2017 &ndash; Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister, Swedish countess (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Claude Fagedet, French photographer (b. 1928)
* 2018 &ndash; Andrey Dementyev, Russian poet (b. 1928)
* 2018 &ndash; Henri Namphy, President of Haiti (b. 1932)
* 2018 &ndash; Daniel Pilon, Canadian actor (b. 1940)
* 2018 &ndash; Big Bill Bissonnette, American jazz trombonist (b. 1937)
* 2018 &ndash; Ignatios Lappas, Greek Orthodox bishop (b. 1946)
* 2018 &ndash; Phil Rodgers, American golfer (b. 1938)
* 2019 &ndash; Georges Brossard, Canadian entomologist (b. 1940)
* 2019 &ndash; Douglas Fielding, British actor and narrator (b. 1946)
* 2019 &ndash; Manuel Real, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
* 2019 &ndash; Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov, Russian historian (b. 1930)
* 2019 &ndash; Max Wright, American actor (b. 1943)

## Observances 
* Independence Day in Madagascar
* Flag Day (Romania)
* Army and Navy Day (Azerbaijan)
* International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
* International Day in Support of Victims of Torture