June 19

Events
Up to 1950
936 Louis IV of France is crowned as the West Frankish King in the city of Laon.
1179 Battle of Kalskinnet in takes place outside Nidaros (present-day Trondheim). Earl Erling Skakke is killed, as the battle changes the progress of the civil wars.
1269 Louis IX of France orders that all Jews in public in France without their yellow badge should be fined 10 livres of silver.
1306 The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1586 English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
1770 Emmanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ is his work True Christian Religion.
1815 A day after the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Wavre is fought, as the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars.
1816 Battle of Seven Oaks between the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1821 The Coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom takes place in London. The expensive (costs a lot of money) coronation banquet is the last-to-date at the crowning of a British monarch.
1846 The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1850 Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries the future King Charles XIII of Sweden.
1862 US Congress prohibits Slavery in US territories.
1865 Slaves in Galveston, Texas, are informed of their freedom, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Texas and thirteen other US states celebrate this as "Juneteenth".
1867 Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico is executed by a firing squad.
1875 The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1910 The first Father's Day is observed in Spokane, Washington. In some Western countries, including the US and UK, it is still observed on the third Sunday in June.
1911 Norwegian football club Molde FK is founded.
1913 The Natives' Land Act in South Africa is introduced.
1936 Max Schmeling defeats Joe Louis to win the World Heavyweight Boxing title.
1938 In France, the Italy national football team wins the FIFA World Cup for a second time, defeating the Hungary national football team 4-2.
1944 World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1951 2010
1953 After being convicted of espionage, Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg are executed in New York City.
1961 Kuwait declares independence from the UK.
1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved in the US.
1965 In Algeria, President Ahmed Ben Bella is removed in a military coup, and replaced by Houari Boumedienne.
1970 The Patent Convention Treaty is signed.
1976 King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
1978 Jim Davis' comic strip about a lazy and overeating cat named Garfield is published for the first time.
1982 The body of "God's banker" Roberto Calvi is found hanging at the Blackfriars Bridge in London.
1987 Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its worst terrorist attacks, on a supermarket in Barcelona.
1990 The current international law defending indigenous peoples, the Indigenous Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
1991 In the Croatian War of Independence, the Battle of Dubrovnik starts.
1991 Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
1992 In Heavyweight Boxing, Evander Holyfield becomes world champion, defeating Larry Holmes.
1999 The computer game Counter-strike is released.
1999 In Seoul, South Korea, it is announced that Turin, Italy, is to host the 2006 Winter Olympics.
2002 Steve Fossett starts his round-the-world journey in a hot-air balloon.
2006 Prime Ministers of several Northern European countries participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway.
2007 The Al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad kills 78 people.
2009 Mass riots involving thousands of civilians and police officers break out in Shishou, China, after the unexplained death of a local chief.
2010 Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden marries Daniel Westling.
From 2011
2012 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asks for asylum in Ecuador at the country's embassy in London.
2013 At 10pm, Singapore's 3-hour PSI reading set an all-time high record of 321 in the Hazardous range, surpassing the previous record of 226 during the 1997 haze. This is the first time that Singapore's PSI has entered the Hazardous range.
2014 King Felipe VI of Spain ascends to the throne after the abdication of his father, King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
2016 Virginia Raggi, of the Five Star Movement, is elected as the first female Mayor of Rome.
2017 2017 Finsbury Park attack: A van is driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers in London's Finsbury Park area, causing several injuries; the attacker is arrested by police.
2018 The United States pulls out of the United Nations Human Rights council.
2018 Canada decides to legalise the recreational use of cannabis.
2019 Four men are named as suspects in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Eastern Ukraine in 2014, in which 298 people were killed.
Births
Up to 1900
1301 Prince Morikuni, Japanese Shogun (d. 1333)
1566 King James VI of Scotland (James I of England) (d. 1625)
1595 Guru Hargobind, Indian religious figure (d. 1644)
1606 James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
1623 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
1701 Francois Rebel, French composer (d. 1775)
1717 Johann Stamitz, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1757)
1731 Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
1764 Jose Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan national hero (d. 1850)
1771 Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
1790 John Gibson, Welsh sculptor (d. 1866)
1792 Gustav Schwab, German writer (d. 1850)
1795 James Braid, Scottish surgeon (d. 1860)
1815 Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
1816 William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (d. 1899)
1842 Carl Zeller, Austrian jurist, politician and composer (d. 1898)
1846 Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
1850 David Jayne Hill, American diplomat and historian (d. 1932)
1854 Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (d. 1893)
1861 Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British field marshal and soldier (d. 1928)
1861 Jose Rizal, Filipino national hero (d. 1896)
1865 May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
1871 Alajor Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper and physician (d. 1932)
1874 Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941)
1877 Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
1878 Yakov Yurovsky, Russian Bolshevik, chief executioner of the Tsarist family (d. 1938)
1880 Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic playwright and poet (d. 1919)
1884 Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French artist and writer (d. 1974)
1891 John Heartfield, German painter and photomontage artist (d. 1968)
1893 Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1940)
1896 Wallis Simpson, American, Duchess of Windsor through marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII (d. 1986)
1897 Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist (d. 1967)
1897 Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
1900 Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)
1901 1950
1901 Piero Gobetti, Italian journalist, intellectual and activist (d. 1926)
1902 Guy Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1979)
1903 Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
1903 Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
1903 Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
1905 Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
1906 Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist, won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
1907 Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
1909 Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
1909 Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
1910 Paul Flory, American chemist (d. 1985)
1910 Sydney Allard, English racing driver (d. 1966)
1914 Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
1914 Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1979)
1915 Julius Schwartz, American publisher, writer and editor (d. 2004)
1917 Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician (d. 1999)
1919 Pauline Kael, American writer and critic (d. 2001)
1920 Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (d. 2002)
1921 Doris Sands Johnson, Bahamian teacher, suffragette and politician (d. 1983)
1921 Louis Jourdan, French actor (d. 2015)
1922 Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 2009)
1923 Andres Rodriguez Pedotti, President of Paraguay (d. 1997)
1926 Anneliese Rothenberger, German soprano (d. 2010)
1928 Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist
1930 Gena Rowlands, American actress
1931 Sudarshan Agarwal, Indian politician (d. 2019)
1932 Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
1932 Marisa Pavan, Italian actress
1933 Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
1934 Gerard Latortue, Haitian politician
1934 Terence Clark, English diplomat
1936 Zacharias Heinesen, Faroese painter
1937 Andre Glucksmann, French philosopher (d. 2015)
1938 Jean-Claude Labrecque, Canadian director and cinematographer
1938 Karl Moik, Austrian entertainer (d. 2015)
1939 Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
1940 Paul Shane, English actor (d. 2013)
1941 Vaclav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic
1944 Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter and poet
1945 Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician and pro-Democracy campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1945 Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian-Serb politician, on trial for war crimes
1946 Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, English diplomat
1947 Salman Rushdie, Indian-born writer
1948 Nick Drake, English musician and singer (d. 1974)
1948 Phylicia Rashad, American actress
1949 Hassan Shehata, Egyptian football manager
1950 Ann Wilson, American singer
1951 1975
1951 Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
1951 Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (al-Qaeda)
1952 Bob Ainsworth, British politician
1953 Larry Dunn, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1954 Kathleen Turner, American actress
1955 Don McCarthy, British businessman (d. 2018)
1957 Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Foreign minister (d. 2003)
1958 Sergei Makarov, Soviet ice hockey player
1959 Anne Hidalgo, French politician, Mayor of Paris
1959 Christian Wulff, former President of Germany
1959 Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpeter
1959 Sophie Grigson, English cookery writer and chef
1961 Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 2nd President of Nepal
1962 Masanao Sasaki, Japanese footballer
1962 Paula Abdul, American dancer and singer; American Idol judge
1962 Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
1964 Boris Johnson, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1965 Sadie Frost, English actress
1967 Bjorn Daehlie, Norwegian skier
1967 Mia Sara, American actress
1969 Yoshiaki Sato, Japanese footballer
1970 Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
1970 Quincy Watts, American athlete
1970 Brian Welch, American musician
1972 Jean Dujardin, French actor
1972 Brian McBride, American soccer player
1972 Robin Tunney, American actress
1972 Ilya Markov, Russian athlete
1972 Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
1972 Dagur B. Eggertsson, Icelandic politician, Mayor of Reykjavik
1973 Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer and actress
1973 Yasuhito Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
1973 Nadiya, French singer
1975 Hugh Dancy, British actor
From 1976
1977 Rebecca Loos, Dutch model
1977 Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (d. 2007)
1977 Sacha Modolo, Italian road-racing cyclist
1978 Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
1978 Zoe Saldana, American actress
1978 Maria Maestro, Argentine actress and singer
1979 Jose Kleberson, Brazilian footballer
1980 Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
1980 Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer
1982 Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
1982 Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
1983 Mark Selby, British snooker player
1983 Macklemore, American rapper
1984 Paul Dano, American actor
1984 Helen George, English actress
1985 Kajal Aggarwal, Indian actress
1985 Chikashi Masuda, Japanese footballer
1986 Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
1986 Marvin Williams, American basketball player
1986 Marie Dorin Habert, French biathlete
1986 Ragnar Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
1987 Beattie Edmondson, English actress
1987 Miho Fukuhara, Japanese singer
1990 Moa Hjelmer, Swedish athlete
1992 Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (d. 2014)
1995 Blake Woodruff, American actor
1996 Larisa Iordache, Romanian gymnast
1998 Atticus Shaffer, American actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
1027 Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
1179 Earl Erling Skakke, Norwegian nobleman
1205 Roman the Great, Russian prince (b. 1151)
1282 Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn the Last (b. 1252)
1542 Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
1545 Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
1584 Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
1715 Nicolas Lemery, French chemist (b. 1645)
1747 Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
1762 Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
1820 Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
1850 Margaret Fuller, American writer and journalist (b. 1810)
1865 Evangelos Zappas, Greek patriot, philanthropist and businessman (b. 1800)
1867 Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (b. 1832)
1884 Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine politician and writer (b. 1810)
1897 Charles Boycott, British land owner in Ireland (b. 1832)
1901 2000
1902 Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
1903 Herbert Vaughan, English archbishop (b. 1832)
1922 Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1874)
1937 J. M. Barrie, Scottish writer (b. 1860)
1939 Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
1940 Maurice Jaubert, French composer (b. 1900)
1953 Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1915)
1953 Julius Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1918)
1957 Karl Plagge, German army officer and humanitarian (b. 1897)
1968 James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
1975 Sam Giancana, American mafioso (b. 1908)
1977 Olave Baden-Powell, founder of the Girl Guides (b. 1899)
1979 Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar (b. 1888)
1981 Lotte Reiniger, German illustrator (b. 1899)
1984 Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
1986 Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
1986 Coluche, French comedian and actor (b. 1944)
1993 William Golding, British writer (b. 1911)
1995 Peter Townsend, British military officer (b. 1914)
2000 Christiane Herzog, First Lady of Germany (b. 1936)
From 2001
2003 Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
2007 Antonio Aguilar, Mexican actor, singer, producer and screenwriter (b. 1919)
2007 El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1937)
2009 Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man at the time of his death (b. 1895)
2010 Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
2010 Carlos Monsivais, Mexican writer (b. 1938)
2012 Nobert Tiemann, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
2013 Slim Whitman, American country music singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
2013 Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
2013 James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
2014 Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
2014 Ibrahim Toure, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
2014 Alan Moller, American meteorologist, storm chaser and photographer (b. 1950)
2015 Phil Austin, American comedian, writer and musician (b. 1941)
2015 Jack Aeby, American photographer (b. 1923)
2015 James Salter, American writer (b. 1925)
2015 Harold Battiste, American jazz and R&B composer (b. 1931)
2015 Fredrik Fasting Torgersen, Norwegian convicted murderer (b. 1934)
2015 Wendell Holmes, American musician (b. 1944)
2016 Gotz George, German actor (b. 1938)
2016 Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (b. 1989)
2017 Brian Cant, English actor and television presenter (b. 1933)
2017 Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (b. 1936)
2017 Otto Warmbier, American student (b. 1994)
2017 Tony DiCicco, American soccer player and coach (b. 1948)
2017 Tabare Hackenbruch, Uruguayan politician (b. 1928)
2017 Mustafa Tlass, Syrian military officer and politician (b. 1932)
2018 Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (b. 1926)
2018 Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (b. 1935)
2018 Koko, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (b. 1971)
2018 Ivan Drach, Ukrainian poet and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2018 Hubert Green, American golfer (b. 1946)
2018 Paul John Marx, French-born Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1935)
2019 Peng Xiaolian, Chinese film director (b. 1953)
2019 Rafael de la Sierra, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
2019 Dmytro Tymchuk, Ukrainian politician, military expert and blogger (b. 1972)
2019 Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
2020 Ian Holm, English actor (b. 1931)
Observances
Day of Independent Hungary
Juneteenth (United States)
Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
Never Again Day (Uruguay)
World Sickle Cell Day
References
Days of the year