June 1

## Events
### Up to 1900 
*70 BC &ndash; An earthquake in Shandong, China, kills 6,000 people.
*193 &ndash; Roman Emperor Marcus Didius is killed in his big house.
*1204 &ndash; King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
*1215 &ndash; Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under control of Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending in the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 &ndash; Alfonso X of Castile is elected King of Castile and Leon.
*1283 &ndash; Treaty of Rheinfelden – Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
*1298 &ndash; Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian order in the Battle of Turaida.
*1485 &ndash; Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
*1495 &ndash; Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
*1533 &ndash; Henry VIII of England's new wife, Anne Boleyn, is crowned as queen.
*1535 &ndash; Combined forces loyal to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
*1648 &ndash; Second English Civil War: The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone.
*1660 &ndash; Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to be the last religious martyr in North America.
*1679 &ndash; The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumlog.
*1779 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
*1792 &ndash; Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the United States, with Isaac Shelby as its first Governor.
*1794 &ndash; "Battle of the Glorious First of June" is fought, as the first naval battle between Great Britain and France.
*1796 &ndash; Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States.
*1812 &ndash; War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the United States Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
*1813 &ndash; The United States Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate *Chesapeake*, Capt. James Lawrence, said, "Don't give up the ship".
*1815 &ndash; Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
*1831 &ndash; James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
*1847 &ndash; Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
*1855 &ndash; American adventurer William Walker defeats Nicaragua and brings back slavery.
*1861 &ndash; American Civil War: Battle of Fairfax Oaks Court House takes place, in which the first Confederate combat casualty occurs.
*1862 &ndash; American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Both sides claim victory.
*1868 &ndash; The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
*1869 &ndash; Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, received a patent for his electric voting machine.
*1879 &ndash; Eugène Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France is killed in the Zulu Wars.
*1890 &ndash; The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
*1898 &ndash; The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
*1907 &ndash; Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded either for a county cricket match or a single day's bowling, and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
*1909 &ndash; The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world's fair opens in Seattle, Washington.
*1910 &ndash; Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the United Kingdom.
*1916 &ndash; Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
*1918 &ndash; World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins –
*1921 &ndash; Tulsa Race Riot: A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills at least 85 people.
*1922 &ndash; Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
*1925 &ndash; Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played the first game in his record streak of 2,130 games in a row, an endurance record in Major League Baseball that stood until Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in 1995.
*1926 &ndash; In Poland, the National Assembly elects Ignacy Moscicki as President.
*1932 &ndash; Franz von Papen becomes Chancellor of Germany.
*1935 &ndash; First driving tests introduced in Britain.
*1938 &ndash; Action Comics issues the first *Superman* comic.
*1938 &ndash; Protective baseball helmets were worn by people with bats for the very first time.
*1941 &ndash; World War II: Battle of Crete ends – Crete gives in to Germany.
*1943 &ndash; A not soldier flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all on the plane, including actor Leslie Howard.
*1954 &ndash; The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time. http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/meet_linus.html 
*1958 &ndash; Charles de Gaulle is brought out of resting to lead France by order for six months.
*1960 &ndash; New Zealand's first official television broadcast is transmitted.
*1963 &ndash; Kenya gains internal self-rule.
*1967 &ndash; The Beatles album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band* is released.
*1971 &ndash; Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
*1973 &ndash; The military proclaims Greece a republic.
*1974 &ndash; The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal *Emergency Medicine''.
*1974 &ndash; Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK kills 28 people.
*1978 &ndash; The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
*1978 &ndash; The 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina begins. The staging of the World Cup in Argentina is controversial, due to the military dictatorship in power at the time.
*1979 &ndash; The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, ousting Ian Smith and changing its name to Zimbabwe
*1980 &ndash; The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
*1988 &ndash; A mining accident in Stolzenbach, Hesse, then–West Germany, kills 51 miners. 6 survive and are rescued on June 4.
*1989 &ndash; Oba Chandler murders an Ohio family on their Florida vacation by drowning them in Tampa Bay.
*1990 &ndash; U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation's stockpiles.
*1990 &ndash; Karl-Marx-Stadt, in then–East Germany, changes its name back to Chemnitz.
*1993 &ndash; Dobrinja mortar attack, west of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, kills 13 people and injures 133, as Serb mortar shells hit during a football game.
*1994 &ndash; South Africa re-joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
*1999 &ndash; American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes at Little Rock National Airport in Arkansas, killing 11 people.
*2000 &ndash; The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.

### From 2001 
*2001 &ndash; Several members of Nepal's royal family, including King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, are killed in a massacre. Crown Prince, Dipendra of Nepal, is believed to have carried out the attack, and dies of his injuries on June 4.
*2001 &ndash; A Hamas suicide bombing kills 21 people at a disco in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
*2002 &ndash; The Germany national football team scores its highest FIFA World Cup win, defeating the Saudi Arabia national football team 8–0 in a group match.
*2003 &ndash; The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.
*2005 &ndash; Voters in the Netherlands reject the proposed EU Constitution.
*2008 &ndash; A fire at Universal Studios Hollywood destroys 118,000 to 175,000 copies of master tapes.
*2009 &ndash; Air France Flight 447: An Air France plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Brazil, killing all 228 people on board.
*2009 &ndash; General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
*2011 &ndash; Sepp Blatter is controversially re-elected as FIFA President.
*2014 &ndash; FIFA, the governing body of world football, is embroiled in a corruption scandal after reports of irregularities when Qatar won the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup in 2010.
*2015 &ndash; A ship carrying over 458 people sinks on the Yangtze River in Hubei province, China, killing 400 people.
*2016 &ndash; The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world, opens in Switzerland after around 20 years of building work.
*2017 &ndash; President Donald Trump announces the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement.
*2018 &ndash; A coalition government consisting of the Five Star Movement and the League Party takes office in Italy, with Giuseppe Conte as Prime minister.
*2018 &ndash; Mariano Rajoy is removed from office as Prime minister of Spain by a parliamentary vote of no confidence; Pedro Sánchez replaces him.
*2019 &ndash; Nayib Bukele becomes President of El Salvador.
*2019 &ndash; Liverpool F.C. defeats Tottenham Hotspur F.C. 2–0 in the second UEFA Champions League final between two English clubs.

## Births
### Up to 1800 
*719 &ndash; Yang Yuhuan, Chinese princess and consort (d. 756)
*1076 &ndash; Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
*1134 &ndash; Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (d. 1158)
*1300 &ndash; Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Salisbury, son of King Edward I of England (d. 1338)
*1455 &ndash; Anne of Savoy (d. 1480)
*1480 &ndash; Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (d. 1550)
*1503 &ndash; Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567)
*1563 &ndash; Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician (d. 1612)
*1633 &ndash; Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
*1637 &ndash; Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
*1754 &ndash; Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este (d. 1806)
*1771 &ndash; Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839)
*1790 &ndash; Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
*1796 &ndash; Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French military engineer and physicist (d. 1832)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
*1801 &ndash; Brigham Young, American Mormon leader (d. 1877)
*1804 &ndash; Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
*1814 &ndash; Charles Anderson, 27th Governor of Ohio (d. 1895)
*1815 &ndash; King Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
*1819 &ndash; Francis V, Duke of Modena (d. 1875)
*1825 &ndash; John Hunt Morgan, American general (d. 1864)
*1831 &ndash; John Bell Hood, American general (d. 1879)
*1833 &ndash; John Marshall Harlan, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1911)
*1843 &ndash; Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
*1844 &ndash; Vasily Polenov, Russian painter (d. 1921)
*1850 &ndash; Sami Frashëri, Albanian writer (d. 1904)
*1875 &ndash; Carl Severing, German politician (d. 1952)
*1878 &ndash; John Masefield, English novelist and poet (d. 1967)
*1879 &ndash; Max Emmerich, American athlete and gymnast (d. 1956)
*1882 &ndash; Nicolae Bivol, Moldovan politician (d. 1940)
*1889 &ndash; James Daugherty, American painter, illustrator and writer (d. 1974)
*1889 &ndash; Charles Kay Ogden, book writer who created the idea of *Basic English* (d. 1957)
*1890 &ndash; Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
*1898 &ndash; Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
*1901 &ndash; Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
*1905 &ndash; Robert Newton, English stage and movie actor (d. 1956)
*1907 &ndash; Frank Whittle, English aircraft engineer (d. 1996)
*1912 &ndash; Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1987)
*1917 &ndash; William Standish Knowles, American chemist (d. 2012)
*1921 &ndash; Nelson Riddle, American arranger, composer and bandleader (d. 1985)
*1922 &ndash; Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
*1922 &ndash; Joan Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991)
*1922 &ndash; Joan Copeland, American actress
*1926 &ndash; Andy Griffith, American actor (d. 2012)
*1926 &ndash; Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
*1926 &ndash; Richard Schweiker, American politician (d. 2015)
*1928 &ndash; Bob Monkhouse, British comedian (d. 2003)
*1928 &ndash; Steve Dodd, Australian actor (d. 2014)
*1928 &ndash; Larry Zeidel, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
*1928 &ndash; Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
*1929 &ndash; Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981)
*1930 &ndash; Kei Kumai, Japanese director (d. 2007)
*1930 &ndash; Richard Levins, American scientist (d. 2016)
*1930 &ndash; Edward Woodward, British actor (d. 2009)
*1931 &ndash; Hal Smith, American baseball player (d. 2014)
*1933 &ndash; Sandy D'Alemberte, American lawyer, professor and politician (d. 2019)
*1933 &ndash; Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985)
*1933 &ndash; Charles Wilson, American politician (d. 2010)
*1934 &ndash; Pat Boone, American singer
*1935 &ndash; Norman Foster, British architect
*1935 &ndash; Hazel Dickens, American singer, songwriter and musician
*1937 &ndash; Colleen McCullough, Australian author (d. 2015)
*1937 &ndash; Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
*1937 &ndash; Morgan Freeman, American actor
*1938 &ndash; Carlo Caffarra, Italian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bologna and cardinal (d. 2017)
*1940 &ndash; Kip Thorne, American theoretical physicist
*1941 &ndash; Toyo Ito, Japanese architect
*1941 &ndash; Alexander V. Zakharov, Russian physicist and astronomer
*1942 &ndash; Fernando Atzori, Italian boxer
*1942 &ndash; Eric Nagler, Canadian children's musician
*1944 &ndash; Robert Powell, British actor
*1945 &ndash; Frederica von Stade, American operatic mezzo-soprano
*1946 &ndash; Brian Cox, Scottish actor
*1947 &ndash; Jan Harvey, British actress
*1947 &ndash; Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
*1947 &ndash; Ronnie Wood, British musician (Rolling Stones)
*1947 &ndash; Ron Dennis, British businessman
*1948 &ndash; Powers Boothe, American actor (d. 2017)
*1948 &ndash; Aruna Shanbaug, Indian nurse (d. 2015)
*1950 &ndash; Tim Bishop, American politician
*1950 &ndash; Gemma Craven, Irish actress and singer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
*1952 &ndash; Senol Gunes, Turkish football manager
*1953 &ndash; Ronnie Dunn, American country musician
*1953 &ndash; Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, English actor and peer
*1953 &ndash; David Berkowitz, American serial killer (Son of Sam)
*1955 &ndash; Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2016)
*1955 &ndash; Tony Snow, American journalist (d. 2008)
*1956 &ndash; François Chérèque, French labor unionist (d. 2017)
*1956 &ndash; Lisa Hartman-Black, American Actress & singer
*1956 &ndash; Peter Tomka, Slovakian jurist & diplomat
*1958 &ndash; Nambaryn Enkhbayar, 3rd President of Mongolia
*1959 &ndash; Alan Wilder, English singer, musician, producer and composer
*1959 &ndash; Martin Brundle, British racecar driver
*1960 &ndash; Simon Gallup, British musician (The Cure)
*1960 &ndash; Vladimir Krutov, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
*1960 &ndash; Sergey Kuznetsov, Soviet-Russian footballer
*1960 &ndash; Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician
*1960 &ndash; Einar Vilhjálmsson, Icelandic javelin thrower
*1961 &ndash; Paul Coffey, Canadian ice hockey player
*1961 &ndash; Peter Machajdik, Slovakian-German composer
*1963 &ndash; Mike Joyce, British musician (The Smiths)
*1965 &ndash; Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
*1965 &ndash; Nigel Short, British chess player
*1965 &ndash; Olga Nazarova, Russian athlete
*1966 &ndash; Abel Balbo, Argentine footballer
*1967 &ndash; Roger Sanchez, American producer and DJ
*1968 &ndash; Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
*1968 &ndash; Karen Mulder, Dutch model and singer
*1968 &ndash; Jeff Hackett, Canadian ice hockey player
*1968 &ndash; Mathias Rust, German pilot
*1970 &ndash; Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
*1970 &ndash; Andrea Fay Friedman, American actress
*1971 &ndash; Mario Cimarro, Cuban-American actor
*1971 &ndash; Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist
*1972 &ndash; Daniel Casey, English actor
*1973 &ndash; Adam Garcia, Australian actor
*1973 &ndash; Heidi Klum, German model
*1973 &ndash; René Zagger, English actor
*1974 &ndash; Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
*1974 &ndash; Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
*1974 &ndash; Sarah Teather, British politician
*1975 &ndash; Kate Magowan, American actress
*1975 &ndash; Frauke Petry, German chemist and politician

### From 1976 
*1976 &ndash; Marlon Devonish, British athlete
*1977 &ndash; Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
*1977 &ndash; Danielle Harris, American actress
*1977 &ndash; Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
*1980 &ndash; Oliver James, British musician and actor
*1981 &ndash; Amy Schumer, American comedienne, writer and actress
*1981 &ndash; Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan–American baseball player
*1982 &ndash; Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
*1983 &ndash; Hannah Bardell, Scottish politician
*1984 &ndash; Naidangiin Tuvshinbayar, Mongolian athlete
*1984 &ndash; Jean Beausejour, Chilean footballer
*1984 &ndash; Stéphane Sessègnon, Beninese footballer
*1985 &ndash; Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
*1985 &ndash; José Fernando Cuadrado, Colombian footballer
*1985 &ndash; Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian runner
*1986 &ndash; Dayana Mendoza, Venezuelan model
*1986 &ndash; Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer
*1987 &ndash; Juan Hernández, Mexican footballer
*1987 &ndash; Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
*1988 &ndash; Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
*1988 &ndash; Javier Hernández Balcázar, Mexican footballer
*1989 &ndash; Samuel Inkoom, Ghanaian footballer
*1990 &ndash; Bianca Perie, Romanian hammer thrower
*1992 &ndash; Jenna McDougall, Australian singer-songwriter
*1992 &ndash; Kira Plastinina, Russian fashion designer
*1996 &ndash; Tom Holland, English actor
*2000 &ndash; Willow Shields, American actress
*2003 &ndash; Emjay Anthony, American actor and model
*2004 &ndash; Krisia Todorova, Bulgarian singer

## Deaths
### Up to 1900 
*195 BC &ndash; Gaozu of Han of China (born 256 BC or 247 BC)
*193 &ndash; Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
*657 &ndash; Pope Eugene I
*1432 &ndash; Dan II of Wallachia
*1434 &ndash; Wladislaus II of Poland (b. 1362)
*1571 &ndash; John Story, English martyr (b. 1504)
*1616 &ndash; Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
*1660 &ndash; Mary Dyer, English-born Quaker (b. 1611)
*1740 &ndash; Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
*1769 &ndash; Edward Holyoke, American clergyman (b. 1689)
*1795 &ndash; Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
*1823 &ndash; Louis-Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770)
*1826 &ndash; Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
*1830 &ndash; Swaminarayan, Indian Hindu figure (b. 1751)
*1841 &ndash; Nicolas Appert, French inventor (b. 1749)
*1846 &ndash; Pope Gregory XVI (born 1765)
*1864 &ndash; Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1820)
*1868 &ndash; James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (born 1791)
*1872 &ndash; James Gordon Bennett, American newspaper publisher (b. 1795)
*1873 &ndash; Joseph Howe, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1804)
*1876 &ndash; Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (born 1848)
*1879 &ndash; Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial of France (b. 1856)
*1899 &ndash; Klaus Groth, German poet and writer (b. 1819)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
*1904 &ndash; George Frederic Watts, English painter (b. 1817)
*1927 &ndash; Lizzie Borden, American suspected murderess (b. 1860)
*1927 &ndash; J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861)
*1938 &ndash; Odon V. Horvath, Austro-Hungarian writer (b. 1901)
*1941 &ndash; Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English writer (b. 1884)
*1943 &ndash; Leslie Howard, English actor (born 1893)
*1946 &ndash; Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (born 1882)
*1948 &ndash; Sonny Boy Williamson, American blues musician (born 1914)
*1952 &ndash; John Dewey, American philosopher (born 1859)
*1955 &ndash; Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle (b. 1872)
*1959 &ndash; Sax Rohmer, English writer (born 1883)
*1960 &ndash; Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1883)
*1965 &ndash; Curly Lambeau, American football player and coach (b. 1898)
*1966 &ndash; Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (born 1873)
*1968 &ndash; Helen Keller, American humanitarian (born 1880)
*1969 &ndash; Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (born 1904)
*1971 &ndash; Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (born 1892)
*1979 &ndash; Werner Forssmann, German physician (born 1904)
*1980 &ndash; Rube Marquard, American Baseball Hall of Famer (born 1886)
*1981 &ndash; Carl Vinson, United States Congressman (born 1883)
*1983 &ndash; Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Belgian royal (b. 1903)
*1983 &ndash; Anna Seghers, German writer (b. 1900)
*1985 &ndash; Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
*1987 &ndash; Rashid Karami, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1921)
*1991 &ndash; David Ruffin, American singer (b. 1941)
*1994 &ndash; Frances Heflin, American soap opera actress (born 1923)
*1996 &ndash; Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India (born 1913)
*1998 &ndash; Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (born 1919)
*1999 &ndash; Christopher Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (born 1910)
*2000 &ndash; Tito Puente, American musician and composer (born 1923)

### From 2001 
*2001 &ndash; Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace (b. 1920)
*2001 &ndash; King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945) (shot)
*2001 &ndash; Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949) (shot)
*2002 &ndash; Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
*2004 &ndash; William Manchester, American biographer and novelist (b. 1922)
*2004 &ndash; Satomi Mitarai, Japanese student, murdered by a classmate
*2005 &ndash; George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
*2008 &ndash; Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
*2008 &ndash; Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
*2009 &ndash; Silvio Barbato, Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer (b. 1959) (Air France Flight 447)
*2010 &ndash; Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet (b. 1933)
*2010 &ndash; Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (b. 1906)
*2011 &ndash; Haleh Sahabi, Iranian human rights activist (b. 1957)
*2014 &ndash; Ann B. Davis, American actress (b. 1926)
*2014 &ndash; Karlheinz Hackl, Austrian actor (b. 1949)
*2014 &ndash; Jay Lake, American author (b. 1964)
*2015 &ndash; Joan Kirner, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (b. 1938)
*2015 &ndash; Shone An, Taiwanese singer and actor (b. 1983)
*2015 &ndash; Nobutaka Machimura, Japanese politician (b. 1944)
*2015 &ndash; Charles Kennedy, Scottish politician, former leader of the Liberal Democrats (b. 1959)
*2015 &ndash; Jacques Parizeau, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of Quebec (b. 1930)
*2015 &ndash; Nicholas Liverpool, 6th President of Dominica (b. 1934)
*2015 &ndash; Jean Ritchie, American folk singer (b. 1922)
*2015 &ndash; Kirill Pokrovsky, Russian composer (b. 1962)
*2016 &ndash; Razak Khan, Indian actor (b. 1954)
*2016 &ndash; Roger Enrico, American businessman (b. 1944)
*2016 &ndash; Boyce F. Martin, Jr., American judge (b. 1935)
*2017 &ndash; Roy Barraclough, English actor (b. 1935)
*2017 &ndash; Tankred Dorst, German playwright (b. 1925)
*2017 &ndash; Alois Mock, Austrian politician (b. 1934)
*2017 &ndash; Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentine golfer (b. 1923)
*2017 &ndash; Jack McCloskey, American basketball player (b. 1925)
*2017 &ndash; J. B. Dauda, Sierra Leonean politician (b. 1942)
*2017 &ndash; Sonja Sutter, German actress (b. 1931)
*2017 &ndash; José Greci, Italian actress (b. 1941)
*2017 &ndash; Rosa Taikon, Swedish activist, silversmith and actress (b. 1926)
*2018 &ndash; Poldy Bird, Argentine writer (b. 1941)
*2018 &ndash; Jean-Claude Boulard, French politician (b. 1943)
*2018 &ndash; Eddy Clearwater, American blues singer (b. 1935)
*2018 &ndash; Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author (b. 1934)
*2018 &ndash; Hilmar Hoffmann, German film and culture academic (b. 1925)
*2018 &ndash; John Julius Norwich, English historian (b. 1929)
*2018 &ndash; William Edward Phipps, American actor (b. 1922)
*2018 &ndash; Bob Clotworthy, American diver (b. 1931)
*2018 &ndash; Rockin' Rebel, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
*2018 &ndash; Dhiraj Choudhury, Indian painter (b. 1936)
*2018 &ndash; Razan al-Najjar, Pakistani nurse (b. 1996)
*2019 &ndash; Leah Chase, American chef (b. 1923)
*2019 &ndash; John Meyers, English radio executive (b. 1959)
*2019 &ndash; José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
*2019 &ndash; Michel Serres, French philosopher, theorist and writer (b. 1930)
*2019 &ndash; Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesian First Lady (b. 1952)
*2023 &ndash; Anna Shay, American socialite, businesswoman and television personality (*Bling Empire*) (b. 1961)

## Observances 
* International Children's Day
* National Day Against Homophobia (Canada)
* Azores Day
* Independence Day (Samoa)
* President's Day (Palau)
* Victory Day (Tunisia)
* National Tree Planting Day (Cambodia)
* Marine's Day (Mexico)
* Madaraka Day (Kenya)
* Hari Gawai (Malaysia)