June 24

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 79 &ndash; Titus becomes Roman Emperor after the previous day's death of his father, Vespasian.
* 109 &ndash; Roman Emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometers northwest of Rome.
* 972 &ndash; Battle of Cedynia: First documented victory of Polish forces takes place.
* 1128 &ndash; Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães. Portuguese forces led by Afonso I beat his mother D.Teresa and D.Fernão Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" in 1143.
* 1230 &ndash; The Siege of Jaén starts in the context of the Spanish Recoquista. 
* 1314 &ndash; End of the Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce beat Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence.
* 1340 &ndash; Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed  by the English fleet commanded personally by King Edward III of England.
* 1374 &ndash; A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aix-la–Chapelle, Prussia, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
* 1441 &ndash; Eton College is founded.
* 1497 &ndash; John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; first European discovery of the region since the Vikings.
* 1497 &ndash; Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London
* 1509 &ndash; Henry VIII is crowned King of England.
* 1534 &ndash; Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
* 1535 &ndash; The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
* 1571 &ndash; Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila.
* 1597 &ndash; The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
* 1604 &ndash; Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford dies. Leading candidate for true authorship of the Shakespeare canon.
* 1622 &ndash; Battle of Macau: The Dutch fail in an attempt to capture Macau.
* 1662 &ndash; The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macao.
* 1664 &ndash; The colony of New Jersey is founded.
* 1692 &ndash; Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
* 1779 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
* 1793 &ndash; First republican constitution in France adopted.
* 1812 &ndash; Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins.
* 1813 &ndash; Battle of Beaver Dams: A British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
* 1821 &ndash; Battle of Carabobo: Venezuela gains total independence from Spain.
* 1859 &ndash; Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in northern Italy.
* 1861 &ndash; Tennessee becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the US.
* 1880 &ndash; First performance of *O Canada*, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
* 1894 &ndash; The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1901 &ndash; First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens.
* 1902 &ndash; King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
* 1910 &ndash; Japan invades Korea.
* 1913 &ndash; Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
* 1913 &ndash; Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
* 1916 &ndash; Mary Pickford becomes first movie star to get million dollar contract.
* 1918 &ndash; First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
* 1918 &ndash; The giant cannon *Big Bertha* begins bombardments on Paris
* 1932 &ndash; A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).
* 1938 &ndash; Pieces of meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it explodes in the Earth's atmosphere, lands near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
* 1939 &ndash; Siam is renamed Thailand for the first time, by Prime Minister Plaek Pibulsonggram.
* 1940 &ndash; France and Italy sign an armistice.
* 1941 &ndash; Government of briefly independent Lithuania conducts its first meeting under prime minister Juozas Ambrazevičius
* 1945 &ndash; The U.S.S.R. capture the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg.
* 1946 &ndash; Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France
* 1947 &ndash; First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, USA, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.
* 1948 &ndash; Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
* 1957 &ndash; The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
* 1963 &ndash; Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK.
* 1967 &ndash; The UK's worst caving disaster kills 6 people at Mossdale Caverns.
* 1974 &ndash; The UPC label is used for the first time to ring up purchases at a supermarket.
* 1975 &ndash; An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
* 1981 &ndash; For what would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, the Humber Bridge, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, opens.
* 1982 &ndash; British Airways flight 9 flies into volcanic ash erupting from Mount Galunggung in Indonesia, causing all four of its engines to fail.
* 1982 &ndash; Jean-Loup Chrétien becomes the first French person to go into space.
* 1983 &ndash; Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
* 1983 &ndash; Yasser Arafat banned from Damascus.
* 1989 &ndash; Jiang Zemin becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
* 1993 &ndash; Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
* 1995 &ndash; South Africa wins the Rugby Union World Cup in front of its home crowd. Nelson Mandela famously hands the trophy to team captain Francois Pienaar.
* 1996 &ndash; Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the 200 metres with a time of 19.66 seconds
* 1999 &ndash; The guitar with which Eric Clapton recorded *Layla* is sold at auction for the astounding price of $497,500.

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281 people.
* 2003 &ndash; Air France's last Concorde flight takes place.
* 2004 &ndash; In the state of New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
* 2005 &ndash; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected to his first term as President of Iran.
* 2007 &ndash; Before becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (on June 27) Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party.
* 2010 &ndash; Julia Gillard becomes the first female Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding Kevin Rudd.
* 2010 &ndash; The longest match in the history of professional tennis ends at Wimbledon, after two days. John Isner beats Nicolas Mahut 70–68 in the deciding set.
* 2012 &ndash; Lonesome George, the last-known surviving Pinta Island tortoise, dies in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, aged around 100. His sub–species is therefore considered to be extinct.
* 2012 &ndash; Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood is declared the winner of the previous week's Presidential election in Egypt.
* 2014 &ndash; Albania officially becomes an EU candidate country.
* 2014 &ndash; Uruguayan footballer Luis Suárez is involved in a biting controversy at the 2014 FIFA World Cup when cameras show him biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during a match. He is suspended from competitive games for four months.
* 2016 &ndash; David Cameron announces his intention to resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after 51.9% of British voters decided to leave the European Union in a referendum.
* 2017 &ndash; 15 people are killed and 93 are missing after a landslide hits Xinmo village in Sichuan, People's Republic of China.

## Births 
### Up to 1800 
* 1244 &ndash; Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (died 1308)
* 1293 &ndash; Joan the Lame, Queen of France (died 1348)
* 1314 &ndash; Philippa of Hainaut, Queen Consort of Edward III of England (died 1369)
* 1343 &ndash; Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (died 1373)
* 1386 &ndash; John of Capistrano, Italian saint (died 1456)
* 1413 &ndash; John IV, Marquess of Montferrat (died 1464)
* 1485 &ndash; Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (died 1558)
* 1519 &ndash; Theodore Beza, French theologian and reformer (died 1605)
* 1532 &ndash; Edzard II, Count of East Frisia (died 1599)
* 1532 &ndash; William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died 1592)
* 1532 &ndash; Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died 1588)
* 1535 &ndash; Joan of Spain, Spanish-born Queen Consort of Portugal (died 1573)
* 1542 &ndash; Saint John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (died 1591)
* 1661 &ndash; Hachisuka Tsunanori, Japanese daimyo (died 1730)
* 1694 &ndash; Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss theorist (died 1748)
* 1704 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French aristocrat (died 1771)
* 1740 &ndash; Juan Ignacio Molina, Chilean naturalist (died 1829)
* 1755 &ndash; Anarchasis Clats, Prussian-born French revolutionary (died 1794)
* 1767 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries, French geographer, author and translator (died 1846)
* 1770 &ndash; Albrecht Berblinger, German inventor (died 1829)
* 1774 &ndash; Antonio González de Balcarce, Argentine military commander (died 1819)
* 1777 &ndash; John Ross, naval officer and explorer (died 1856)
* 1782 &ndash; Juan Larrea, Argentine politician and merchant (died 1847)
* 1784 &ndash; Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan revolutionary and political figure (died 1853)
* 1795 &ndash; Ernst Heinrich Weber, anatomist and physiologist (died 1878)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1803 &ndash; George James Webb, composer (died 1887)
* 1804 &ndash; Willard Richards, American religious leader (died 1854)
* 1811 &ndash; John Archibald Campbell, American jurist (died 1889)
* 1813 &ndash; Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (died 1887)
* 1818 &ndash; Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar–Eisenach (died 1901)
* 1821 &ndash; Guillermo Rawson, Argentine politician (died 1890)
* 1825 &ndash; Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1844)
* 1826 &ndash; George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (died 1898)
* 1833 &ndash; Gustaf Akerhielm, Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1900)
* 1838 &ndash; Jan Matejko, Polish painter (died 1893)
* 1842 &ndash; Ambrose Bierce, American writer (died 1914)
* 1850 &ndash; Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British general, original Order of Merit member (died 1916)
* 1852 &ndash; Victor Adler, Austrian politician (died 1918)
* 1860 &ndash; Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain (died 1878)
* 1869 &ndash; Prince George of Greece and Denmark (died 1957)
* 1869 &ndash; Caroline Furness, American astronomer (died 1936)
* 1880 &ndash; Oswald Veblen, American mathematician (died 1960)
* 1882 &ndash; Carl Diem, German sports scientist and Olympic official (died 1962)
* 1883 &ndash; Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born American physicist (died 1964)
* 1883 &ndash; Frank Venner, American runner (died 1966)
* 1884 &ndash; Frank Waller, American athlete (died 1941)
* 1888 &ndash; Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (died 1964)
* 1893 &ndash; Roy O. Disney, American businessman (died 1971)
* 1895 &ndash; Jack Dempsey, American boxer (died 1983)
* 1898 &ndash; Karl Selter, Estonian politician (died 1958)

### 1901 &ndash; 1925 
* 1901 &ndash; Harry Partch, composer (died 1974)
* 1906 &ndash; Pierre Fournier, French cellist (died 1986)
* 1907 &ndash; Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (died 1989)
* 1908 &ndash; Hugo Distler, German composer (died 1942)
* 1908 &ndash; Guru Gopinath Indian classical dancer (died 1987)
* 1908 &ndash; Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (died 1976)
* 1909 &ndash; Jean Deslauriers, Canadian conductor, violinist and composer (died 1978)
* 1909 &ndash; William Penney, English mathematician (died 1991)
* 1909 &ndash; David Rose, composer, musician (died 1990)
* 1911 &ndash; Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (died 1995)
* 1911 &ndash; Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer and physicist (died 2011)
* 1912 &ndash; Mary Wesley, British writer (died 2002)
* 1913 &ndash; Gustaaf Detoor, Belgian cyclist (died 2002)
* 1914 &ndash; Robert Aickman, writer (died 1981)
* 1915 &ndash; Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and science fiction writer (died 2001)
* 1916 &ndash; William B. Saxbe, 70th United States Attorney General (died 2010)
* 1917 &ndash; David Easton, Canadian political scientist (died 2014)
* 1919 &ndash; Al Molinaro, American actor (died 2015)
* 1922 &ndash; Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (died 1988)
* 1922 &ndash; Jack Carter, American comedian and actor (died 2015)
* 1923 &ndash; Margaret Olley, Australian artist (died 2011)
* 1923 &ndash; Marc Riboud, French photographer
* 1923 &ndash; Cesare Romiti, Italian businessman and economist
* 1923 &ndash; Yves Bonnefoy, French poet (died 2016)
* 1924 &ndash; Thelma Rogers, English actress (died 2000)

### 1926 &ndash; 1950 
* 1926 &ndash; Walter Hirrlinger, German politician (died 2018)
* 1927 &ndash; Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (died 2014)
* 1927 &ndash; James B. Edwards, American politician, 110th Governor of South Carolina and 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (died 2014)
* 1928 &ndash; M. S. Viswanathan, Indian film score composer (died 2015)
* 1928 &ndash; Yvan Delporte, Belgian comics writer (died 2007)
* 1928 &ndash; Wolfgang Altenburg, German general
* 1929 &ndash; Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer
* 1930 &ndash; Claude Chabrol, French movie director (died 2010)
* 1930 &ndash; Dave Creighton, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2017)
* 1931 &ndash; Billy Casper, American golfer (died 2015)
* 1933 &ndash; Sam Jones, American basketball player
* 1937 &ndash; Anita Desai, American novelist
* 1938 &ndash; Lawrence Block, American writer
* 1938 &ndash; Albufaz Elchibey, former President of Azerbaijan
* 1940 &ndash; Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
* 1940 &ndash; Augusto Fantozzi, Italian lawyer and politician (died 2019)
* 1941 &ndash; Charles Whitman, American murderer (died 1966)
* 1942 &ndash; Colin Groves, Australian primatologist (died 2017)
* 1942 &ndash; Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, former President of Chile
* 1942 &ndash; Michele Lee, actress
* 1944 &ndash; Jeff Beck, British guitarist (Yardbirds)
* 1944 &ndash; Chris Wood, British musician (died 1983)
* 1945 &ndash; Colin Blunstone, American musician (The Zombies)
* 1945 &ndash; George Pataki, former Governor of New York
* 1945 &ndash; Betty Stöve, Dutch tennis player
* 1946 &ndash; Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (died 1986)
* 1946 &ndash; Robert Reich, American politician and political commentator
* 1947 &ndash; Clarissa Dickson Wright, English cookery writer and broadcaster (died 2014)
* 1947 &ndash; Mick Fleetwood, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
* 1949 &ndash; Betty Jackson, English fashion designer (born in Lancashire)
* 1949 &ndash; John Illsey, English guitarist (Dire Straits)
* 1949 &ndash; Brigitte Mohnhaupt, German militant, member of the Red Army Faction
* 1950 &ndash; Jan Kulczyk, Polish businessman (d. 2015)
* 1950 &ndash; Wilfried, Austrian singer and actor (d. 2017)
* 1950 &ndash; Moshe Ya'alon, Israeli politician

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Ivar Formo, Norwegian cross-country skier  (died 2006)
* 1951 &ndash; Raelene Boyle, Australian athlete
* 1951 &ndash; Simon Rouse, English actor
* 1952 &ndash; Dianna Melrose, English diplomat
* 1953 &ndash; William E. Moerner, American chemist and physicist
* 1953 &ndash; Garry Shider, musician (P Funk)
* 1954 &ndash; Mark Edmondson, Australian tennis player
* 1956 &ndash; Owen Paterson, British politician
* 1956 &ndash; Joe Penny, American actor
* 1957 &ndash; Astro, English rapper (UB40)
* 1957 &ndash; Mark Parkinson, 45th Governor of Kansas
* 1958 &ndash; Jean Charest, Quebec politician
* 1959 &ndash; Andy McCluskey, British singer, songwriter and musician
* 1960 &ndash; Elish Angiolini, Scottish judge
* 1960 &ndash; Trisha Meili, writer
* 1961 &ndash; Iain Glen, Scottish actor
* 1961 &ndash; Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1963 &ndash; Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (died 2007)
* 1963 &ndash; Preki, Serbian-American footballer
* 1966 &ndash; Adrienne Shelly, American actress (died 2006)
* 1966 &ndash; Milena Bertolini, Italian footballer and coach
* 1967 &ndash; Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German guitarist (Rammstein)
* 1967 &ndash; Sherry Stringfield, American actress
* 1969 &ndash; Nicodemo Gentile, Italian lawyer
* 1969 &ndash; Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
* 1970 &ndash; Glenn Medeiros, Hawaiian singer and songwriter
* 1971 &ndash; Ji Jin-hee, South Korean actor
* 1971 &ndash; Christopher Showerman, American actor
* 1972 &ndash; Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
* 1973 &ndash; Alexander Beyer, German actor
* 1973 &ndash; Jere Lehtinen, Finnish ice hockey player
* 1974 &ndash; Chris Guccione, American baseball player and umpire
* 1975 &ndash; Marek Malik, Czech ice hockey player
* 1975 &ndash; Federico Pucciarello, Argentine-Italian rugby player

### From 1976 
* 1977 &ndash; Dimos Dikoudis, Greek basketball player
* 1978 &ndash; Luis García, Spanish footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
* 1979 &ndash; Petra Nemcova, Czech model
* 1979 &ndash; Dafydd Jones, Welsh rugby player
* 1980 &ndash; Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Minka Kelly, American actress
* 1980 &ndash; John Bryant Davila, American actor
* 1981 &ndash; Siddharth Nair, cartoonist and writer
* 1982 &ndash; Kevin Nolan, English footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Christian Montero, Costa Rican footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1983 &ndash; Rebecca Cooke, English swimmer
* 1985 &ndash; Diego Alves, Brazilian footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Stuart Broad, English cricketer
* 1986 &ndash; Solange Knowles, American actress and singer
* 1987 &ndash; LiSA, Japanese singer and musician
* 1987 &ndash; Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Micah Richards, English footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Rie Kitahara, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
* 1992 &ndash; David Alaba, Austrian footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Raven Goodwin, American actress
* 1992 &ndash; Stuart Hogg, Scottish rugby player
* 1992 &ndash; Sam Morrison, Welsh cyclist
* 1993 &ndash; Piero Barone, Italian singer (Il Volo)
* 1993 &ndash; Beanie Feldstein, American actress

## Deaths 
### Up to 1950 
* 238 &ndash; Maximius Thrax, Roman Emperor (born 173)
* 803 &ndash; Higbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne
* 1195 &ndash; Albert I, Margrave of Meissen (born 1158)
* 1314 &ndash; Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester (born 1291)
* 1314 &ndash; Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (born 1274)
* 1398 &ndash; Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty (born 1328)
* 1439 &ndash; Frederick IV of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
* 1519 &ndash; Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara (born 1480)
* 1520 &ndash; Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (born 1489)
* 1564 &ndash; Rani Durgavati, Indian queen (born 1524)
* 1604 &ndash; Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England (born 1550)
* 1637 &ndash; Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (born 1580)
* 1766 &ndash; Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier and politician (born 1678)
* 1803 &ndash; Matthew Thornton, signer of the US Declaration of Independence (born 1714)
* 1817 &ndash; Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician (born 1769)
* 1835 &ndash; Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (born 1769)
* 1882 &ndash; Joachim Raff, German-Swiss composer (born 1822)
* 1894 &ndash; Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (born 1837)
* 1908 &ndash; Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (born 1837)
* 1909 &ndash; Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (born 1849)
* 1922 &ndash; Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1867, assassinated)
* 1931 &ndash; Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (born 1840)
* 1931 &ndash; Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese Communist politician (born 1880)
* 1935 &ndash; Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer-songwriter (born 1890)
* 1947 &ndash; Emil Seidel, American politician and Mayor of Milwaukee (born 1864)

### From 1951 
* 1953 &ndash; George Herbert Walker, grandfather of US President George H. W. Bush (born 1875)
* 1968 &ndash; Tony Hancock, British comedian (born 1924)
* 1984 &ndash; Clarence Campbell, Canadian president of the National Hockey League (born 1905)
* 1987 &ndash; Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (born 1916)
* 1988 &ndash; Marta Abba, Italian actress (b. 1900)
* 1989 &ndash; Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (born 1937)
* 1993 &ndash; Archie Williams, American sprinter (b. 1915)
* 2000 &ndash; Vera Atkins, Special Operations Executive intelligence officer (born 1908)
* 2000 &ndash; Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine singer-songwriter (born 1973)
* 2002 &ndash; Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (born 1913)
* 2004 &ndash; Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (born 1957)
* 2007 &ndash; Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestler (born 1964)
* 2007 &ndash; Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (born 1967)
* 2007 &ndash; Hans Sturm, German footballer (born 1935)
* 2007 &ndash; Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dance hall artist (born 1924)
* 2009 &ndash; Roméo LeBlanc, Governor-General of Canada (born 1927)
* 2012 &ndash; Lonesome George, Ecuadorean Pinta Island tortoise (born around 1912)
* 2012 &ndash; Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player (born 1926)
* 2012 &ndash; Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (born 1988)
* 2013 &ndash; Mick Aston, British archaeologist (born 1946)
* 2013 &ndash; Emilio Colombo, former Prime Minister of Italy (born 1920)
* 2013 &ndash; William Hathaway, American politician (born 1924)
* 2014 &ndash; Ramón José Velásquez, former Acting President of Venezuela (born 1916)
* 2014 &ndash; Eli Wallach, American actor (born 1915)
* 2015 &ndash; Walter Browne, Australian-American chess player (born 1939)
* 2015 &ndash; Mario Biaggi, American politician (born 1917)
* 2015 &ndash; Marva Collins, American educator (born 1936) 
* 2016 &ndash; Bernie Worrell, American musician (born 1944)
* 2017 &ndash; Mats Johansson, Swedish journalist (born 1951)
* 2017 &ndash; Parker Lee McDonald, American jurist (born 1924)
* 2017 &ndash; Maria Mutagamba, Ugandan economist and politician (born 1952)
* 2017 &ndash; Nils Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1936)
* 2018 &ndash; Frank Heart, American computer engineer (born 1929)
* 2018 &ndash; Constance Adams, American architect and explorer (born 1964)
* 2018 &ndash; Stanley Anderson, American actor (born 1939)
* 2018 &ndash; Darryl N. Johnson, American politician (born 1938)
* 2018 &ndash; Josip Pirmajer, Slovenian footballer and manager (born 1944)
* 2019 &ndash; Jeff Austin, American musician and singer (born 1974)
* 2019 &ndash; Billy Drago, American actor (born 1946)
* 2019 &ndash; Steve Dunleavy, Australian-born American journalist (born 1938)
* 2019 &ndash; Jónas Gómez Gallo, Chilean businessman and politician (born 1923)
* 2019 &ndash; José Huerta, Peruvian politician (born 1948)
* 2019 &ndash; Yekaterina Mikhailovna-Demina, Russian military doctor (born 1925)
* 2019 &ndash; Jörg Stübner, German footballer (born 1965)

## Observances 
* Discovery Day (Newfoundland and Labrador)
* National Day of Quebec
* Saint John's Day, day of midsummer celebrations in the Northern Hemisphere
* Flag Day (Estonia, Finland)