the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1946 – Rick Adelman, American basketball player and coach
1946 - Jodi Rell, 87th Governor of Connecticut
1946 - Derek Sanderson, Canadian ice hockey player
1947 - Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya
1947 - Günther Kaufmann, German actor (d. 2012)
1948 - Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet (d. 2014)
1950 - Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor
1950 - Klaus Lage, German musician
1951 – Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
1952 – George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece
1952 – Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer and songwriter
1954 - Jeffrey Ashby, American astronaut
1955 – Laurie Metcalf, American actress
1955 - Patrizio Sala, Italian footballer
1957 - Ian Buchanan, Scottish-American actor
1957 - Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer
1958 - Darrell Griffith, American basketball player
1958 - Johannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist and pilot
1959 - The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler (d. 2014)
1962 - Femi Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and musician
1966 – Jan Zelezný, Czech athlete
1967 - Jürgen Klopp, German footballer and coach
1967 – John Franklin, American actor
1968 - James Patrick Stuart, American actor
1969 - Shami Chakrabarti, British academic and activist
1970 – Phil Mickelson, American golfer
1970 – James Shaffer, American guitarist (KoЯn)
1970 – Cobi Jones, American soccer player
1970 - Clifton Collins, Jr., American actor
1971 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (d. 1996)
1971 – Derek R. Audette, Canadian artist and poet
1972 - Simon Coveney, Irish politician
1972 – Hank von Helvete, Norwegian musician
1972 - John Cho, Korean-American actor and musician
1973 - Eddie Cibrian, American actor
1973 - Federica Mogherini, Italian politician, former European Union foreign policy chief
1974 - Joseph May, Canadian voice actor
1976 – Edwin Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer
1976 - Cian Ciaran, Welsh musician
1977 – Kerry Wood, American baseball player
1978 – Daniel Brühl, Spanish-German actor
1978 - Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
1978 - Fish Leong, Malaysian singer
1980 - Brandon Armstrong, American basketball player
1980 – Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
1980 – Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
1980 – Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
1980 - Sibel Kekilli, German actress
1981 – Laron Kevin Mathieu, American poet and world traveler
1981 - Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
1982 - Albert Rocas, Spanish handball player
1983 - Olivia Hack, American actress
1983 – Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer
1984 – Steven Whittaker, Scottish footballer
1985 - Cat Smith, English politician
1986 – Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
1987 - Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
1987 – Abby Elliott, American actress and comedienne
1988 – Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer
1988 - Banks, American singer and songwriter
1989 - Jelena Glabova, Estonian figure skater
1989 - Odion Ighalo, Nigerian footballer
1989 - Yuichi Maruyama, Japanese footballer
1990 - John Newman, English singer
1991 – Joe McElderry, English singer
1991 - Siya Kolisi, South African rugby union player
1994 - Caitlyn Taylor Love, American actress and singer
1995 - Joo Da-young, South Korean actress
1998 - Lauren Taylor, American actress and singer
2000 - Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player
AD 1216 – Pope Innocent III
1397 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
1464 – Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399)
1468 – Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca.
1622 – Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
1623 – Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
1666 – Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608)
1671 – Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed)
1707 – Marie d'Orléans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
1712 - Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1657)
1722 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
1749 – Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
1752 – Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
1752 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1778 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779 – Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
1792 - Benjamin Tupper, American general (b. 1738)
1804 – Johann Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
1817 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (b. 1759)
1824 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French statesman (b. 1839)
1849 – Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
1850 - William Lawson, explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
1855 – John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
1858 – John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813)
1862 - Hidenoyama Raigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1808)
1866 – Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
1869 – Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
1872 – Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
1878 – Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
1881 – Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
1885 – Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1894 – William Calder Marshall, Scottish sculptor (b. 1813)
1902 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
1925 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
1925 – Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
1929 - Bramwell Booth, 2nd General of the Salvation Army (b. 1871)
1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (b. 1860)
1930 – Ezra Fitch, American founder of the Abercrombie & Fitch clothing retailer (b. 1865)
1939 - Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1905)
1940 – DuBose Heyward, American writer (b. 1885)
1944 – Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
1944 - George Stinney, African American wrongly executed for murder (b. 1929)
1952 – Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist (b. 1861)
1953 – Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
1958 – Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1896)
1958 - Pál Maléter, Hungarian revolution leader (b. 1917)
1959 – George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
1969 – Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
1970 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
1970 – Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1971 – Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
1973 - Louise Latimer, American actress (b. 1913)
1976 – Hector Pieterson, South African schoolboy and symbol of anti-Apartheid movement (b. 1963) (shot)
1977 – Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
1979 – Nicholas Ray, American movie director (b. 1911)
1979 - Ignatius KutuAcheampong, Ghanaian leader (b. 1931)
1981 – Jule Gregory Charney, meteorologist (b. 1917)
1982 - James Honeyman-Scott, British musician (b. 1956)
1986 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 – Kim Milford, American actor (b. 1951)
1990 – Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer (of Sylvia Likens) (b. 1929)
1991 - Vicki Brown, English singer (b. 1940)
1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
1994 - Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (b. 1967)
1996 – Mel Allen, baseball announcer (b. 1913)
1996 – Curt Swan, American comic book artist (b. 1920)
1998 - Jafar Sharif-Emami, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1910)
1999 – Screaming Lord Sutch, British musician and politician (b. 1940)
2000 – Empress Nagako of Japan (b. 1903)
2003 – Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
2004 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
2005 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
2008 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer (b. 1921)
2008 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (b. 1975)
2010 – Ronald Neame, British cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director (b. 1911)
2010 - Marc Bazin, 49th President of Haiti (b. 1932)
2012 - Nils Karlsson, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1917)
2012 - Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1934)
2013 - Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924)
2013 - Hans Hass, Austrian diver (b. 1919)
2014 - Tony Gwynn, American baseball player (b. 1960)
2014 - Pierre D'Archambeau, Belgian-American violinist (b. 1927)
2015 - Charles Correa, Indian architect (b. 1930)
2015 - Tony Ranasinghe, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1937)
2016 - Jo Cox, English politician (b. 1974)
2016 - Bill Berkson, American poet and art critic (b. 1939)
2016 - Irving Moskowitz, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1928)
2016 - Pat Suggate, British-New Zealand geologist (b. 1922)
2016 - Jerome Teasley, American drummer (b. 1948)
2017 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1930)
2017 - John G. Avildsen, American film director (b. 1935)
2017 - Curt Hanson, American politician (b. 1943)
2017 - Stephen Furst, American actor (b. 1955)
2018 - Martin Bregman, American film producer (b. 1926)
2018 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor (b. 1931)
2019 - Bishop Bullwinkle, American singer and comedian (b. 1948)
2019 - Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1924)
2019 - Frank LaMere, Native American activist (b. 1950)
2019 - Simona Mafai De Pasquale, Italian politician (b. 1928)
2020 - Mohammad Asghar, Welsh politician (b. 1945)
2020 - Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., Filipino businessman and politician (b. 1935)
2020 - Fred Jarvis, English trade union leader (b. 1924)
2020 - John Madigan, Australian politician (b. 1966)
2020 - Patrick Poivey, French actor (b. 1948)
2020 - John G. Richardson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1957)
International Day of the African child
Youth Day (South Africa), commemorating the Soweto Uprising
Bloomsday (Ireland), celebrating the work of James Joyce
Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikhism)
1462  Vlad III the Impaler attempts to kill Ottoman Empire Sultan Mehmed II forcing him to retreat to Wallachia.
1497  Battle of Deptford Bridge – Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1565  Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
1579  Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1596  Willem Barents reaches Svalbard during his attempt to find the Northeast Passage.
1631  Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth.
Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years having her tomb, the Taj Mahal, built.
1673  French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the Mississippi River.
1775  American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill – The British forces take Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
1789  In France, the Third Estate declares itself as a national assembly.
1839  In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of Toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result.
1843  The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Maori and British settlers in the New Zealand Land Wars, takes place.
1863  Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War
1876  American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
1877  American Indian Wars: The Nez Perce defeat United States Cavalry in the Battle of White Bird Canyon, in what was then the Idaho Territory.
1885  The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1898  The Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1900  Boxer Rebellion: Allied Japanese and Western forces capture Taku Forts, Tianjin, China.
1911  The University of Iceland is founded.
1928  Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean.
She was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic.
1929  A magnitude 7.8 earthquake hits Murdison, New Zealand, killing 17 people.
It was New Zealand's deadliest natural disaster at the time.
1930  U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law.
1930  Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans mass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1933  Union Station Massacre:  In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash were gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1939  Convicted murderer Eugen Weidmann is executed in the last public guillotining in France.
1940  World War II:  Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to  evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1940  World War II:  Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
1940  The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1944  Iceland becomes independent from Denmark and forms a republic.
1948  A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
1953  Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
1958  The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, while being built to connect Vancouver to North Vancouver in Western Canada, collapses into the Burrard Inlet, killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
1961  The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
1963  The United States Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
1967  The People's Republic of China announces its first test of a thermonuclear weapon.
1969  Boris Spassky defeats Tigran Petrosian to become world chess champion.
1971  Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, setting out a plan where the U.S. would return control of Okinawa.
1971  Richard Nixon declares the US War on Drugs.
1972  Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for breaking in to the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1974  The IRA carries an attack on the British Parliament in London.
1982  The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi, is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
1985  Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on Mission STS-51-G. On board is Saudi Arabian Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the first Arab in space.
1987  The Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1991  Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
1992  A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin  (this would be later codified in START II).
1994  Following a televised highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
2012  Greece holds its second parliamentary election in the space of six weeks, with no party winning overall control.
2012  Egypt holds the second round of its first Presidential election since Hosni Mubarak left office following the 2011 Egyptian protests.
2013  Singapore is hit by the worst haze since 1997.
The PSI levels reaches levels not seen since 2006, with a PSI of 155 recorded at 10pm, after air quality plummeted into the "Unhealthy" range at 2pm.
2015  Charleston church shooting: 9 people are killed in a shooting at a prayer meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.
Local politician and pastor Clementa C. Pinckney is among those killed.
2017  The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup starts, with hosts Russia defeating New Zealand 2-0.
2017  Massive wildfires break out in central Portugal, killing at least 60 people.
2018  2018 FIFA World Cup: Mexico defeat defending champions Germany in both teams' first group match of the competition.
2019  Former President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi reportedly dies after fainting while on trial in Cairo.
2020  The English Premier League returns after being halted in March because of COVID-19.
801  Drogo of Metz, son of Charlemagne (d. 855)
1239  King Edward I of England (d. 1307)
1530  François de Montmorency, French politician (d. 1579)
1603  Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (d. 1663)
1604  John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1679)
1625  Peder Hansen Resen, Danish historian and legal scholar (d. 1688)
1631  Gauhara Begum, daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1706)
1658  Diogo de Medonca Corte-Real, Portuguese diplomat and statesman (d. 1736)
1682  King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
1691  Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)
1703  John Wesley, English theologian, founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
1714  César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (d. 1784)
1808  Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian writer (d. 1845)
1810  Ferdinand Freiligrath, German writer (d. 1876)
1811  Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter (d. 1879)
1811  Adolphe d'Ennery, French writer (d. 1899)
1818  Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
1818  Sophie of Württemberg, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1877)
1832  Sir William Crookes, physicist and chemist (d. 1919)
1835  Eugene Borel, Swiss politician (d. 1892)
1858  Ebenezer Sumner Draper, 44th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1914)
1861  Omar Bundy, American general (d. 1940)
1863  Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1934)
1867  Henry Lawson, Australian poet (d. 1922)
1867  John Robert Gregg, American educator, publisher and humanitarian (d. 1948)
1869  Aloys, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1955)
1880  Carl Van Vechten, American photographer (d. 1964)
1881  Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer  (d. 1955)
1882  Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)
1882  Adolphus Frederick IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)
1884  Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, Swedish royal (d. 1965)
1897  Maria Izilda de Castro Ribeiro, Brazilian saint (d. 1911)
1898  M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
1898  Harry Patch, British World War I veteran and supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1898  Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)
1900  Martin Bormann, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1903  Ruth Graves Wakefield, American inventor of the chocolate-chip cookie (d. 1977)
1904  Ralph Bellamy, American actor and comedian (d. 1987)
1907  Charles Eames, American designer and architect (d. 1978)
1907  Maurice Cloche, French director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1909  Elmer L. Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
1910  Red Foley, American country musician (d. 1968)
1914  John Hersey, American writer (d. 1993)
1914  Julian Marias, Spanish philosopher (d. 2005)
1915  Karl Targownik, psychiatrist (d. 1996)
1915  David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player and actor  (d. 1973)
1915  Mario Echandi Jiménez, President of Costa Rica (d. 2011)
1916  Terry Gilkyson, American singer, songwriter, guitarist and composer (d. 1999)
1917  Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
1917  Dufferin Roblin, Premier of Manitoba (d. 2010)
1919  Beryl Reid, English actress (d. 1996)
1920  François Jacob, French biologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2013)
1920  Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (d. 2015)
1922  John Amis, British journalist and critic (d. 2013)
1923  Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, American football player (d. 2004)
1923  Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal (d. 2012)
1923  Larry Kwong, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
1924  William MacDonald, English-Australian serial killer (d. 2014)
1925  Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist (d. 2014)
1928  Juan María Bordaberry, President of Uruguay (d. 2011)
1928  Peter Shirayanagi, Japanese cardinal (d. 2009)
1929  Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player (d. 1984)
1929  James Shigeta, American actor (d. 2014)
1930  Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco (d. 2011)
1930  Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
1931  John Baldessari, American painter (d. 2020)
1932  Derek Ibbotson, English runner
1932  Peter Lupus, American actor
1932  John Murtha, American politician (d. 2010)
1933  Harry Browne, American actor
1933  Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)
1936  Ken Loach, British movie director
1937  Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian entertainer (d. 2009)
1937  Ted Nelson, American sociologist and philosopher
1938  Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (d. 1990)
1939  Krzysztof Zanussi, Polish film and theatre director
1940  George Akerlof, American economist
1942  Roger Steffens, American actor, author, photographer and producer
1942  Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency Director
1943  Newt Gingrich, American politician
1943  Barry Manilow, American musician
1944  Chris Spedding, British guitarist
1945  Ken Livingstone, British politician, former Mayor of London
1945  Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist
1945  Frank Ashmore, American actor
1946  Eduardo Camaño, Argentine politician
1946  Peter Rosei, Austrian writer
1947  Linda Chavez, American writer
1947  George S. Clinton, American composer, songwriter and musician
1948  Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, Icelandic movie director
1948  Joaquín Almunia, Spanish politician
1949  Tom Corbett, American politician, 46th Governor of Pennsylvania
1949  Snakefinger, British musician, singer and songwriter (d. 1987)
1949  John Craven, English economist and academic
1951  John Garrett, Canadian ice hockey player
1951  Paul McGuinness, manager of U2
1951  Starhawk, American author and activist
1952  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, English politician
1952  Judith Macgregor, English diplomat
1952  Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian businessman (d. 2018)
1952  Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach and manager
1954  Mark Linn-Baker, American actor and director
1957  Phil Chevron, Irish musician, singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
1957  Jon Gries, American actor
1958  Jello Biafra, American musician, politician
1959  Nikos Stavropoulos, Greek basketball player
1959  Baltazar Maria de Morais Junior, Brazilian footballer
1960  Thomas Haden Church, American actor
1963  Christophe Barratier, French film producer, director and screenwriter
1963  Greg Kinnear, American actor
1964  Michael Gross, swimmer
1966  Jason Patric, American actor
1966  Tory Burch, American fashion designer, businesswoman and philanthropist
1967  Eric Stefani, American musician (No Doubt)
1968  Minoru Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts artist
1969  Paul Tergat, Kenyan runner
1969  Ilya Tsymbalar, Russian footballer (d. 2013)
1970  Michael Showalter, American actor, writer and director
1971  Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer
1972  Sebastian White, English musician (Oasis)
1973  Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
1975  Chloe Jones, American pornographic actress (d. 2005)
1975  Joshua Leonard, American actor
1975  Néstor Pitana, Argentine football referee
1976  Scott Adkins, English actor and martial artist
1976  Peter Svidler, Russian chess player
1978  Isabelle Delobel, French ice dancer
1979  Nick Rimando, footballer
1979  Young Maylay, American rapper
1980  Venus Williams, American tennis player
1980  Kimeru, Japanese singer and actor
1981  Shane Watson, Australian cricketer
1982  Arthur Darvill, English actor
1982  Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa, Brazilian footballer
1983  Connie Fisher, British stage actress
1983  Lee Ryan, British singer (Blue)
1983  Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese actor
1985  Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
1985  Rafael Sobis, Brazilian footballer
1986  Apoula Edel, American footballer
1986  Helen Glover, British rower
1987  Nozomi Tsuji, Japanese singer
1987  Kendrick Lamar, American rapper
1987  L'ubos Kamenar, Slovakian footballer
1988  Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player
1988  Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer
1989  Simone Battle, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1990  Alan Dzagoev, Russian footballer
1990  Joel Robles, Spanish footballer
1990  Jordan Henderson, English footballer
1990  Laura Wright, English singer
1993  Jean Marie Froget, Mauritian swimmer
1995  Arkadiusz Reca, Polish footballer
676  Pope Adeodatus II
850  Tachibana no Kachiko, Japanese Empress (b. 786)
924  Edward the Elder, Saxon King of England (b. 874)
1025  Boleslaw I the Brave, King of Poland (b. 967)
1091  Dirk V, Count of Holland (b. 1052)
1463  Princess Catherine of Portugal (b. 1436)
1501  John I Albert, King of Poland (b. 1459)
1565  Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1536)
1631  Mumtaz Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan, inspiration for the Taj Mahal (b. 1593)
1694  Philip Howard, English cardinal (b. 1629)
1696  John III Sobieski, King of Poland (b. 1629)
1719  Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b. 1672)
1734  Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (b. 1653)
1740  William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, British politician (b. 1687)
1775  John Pitcairn, British military officer (b. 1722)
1775  Joseph Warren, American soldier (b. 1741)
1797  Agha Muhammad Khan, Persian Shah of Qajar dynasty (b. 1742)
1813  Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (b. 1726)
1839  Lord William Bentinck, British Governor-General of India (b. 1774)
1842  Arthur Conolly, British traveler, military and diplomat (b. 1807)
1858  Rani Lakshmibai, Indian political figure (b. 1828)
1866  Lewis Cass, American politician (b. 1782)
1898  Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
1904  Nikolai Bobrikov, Russian politician (b. 1839)
1917  José Manuel Pando, Bolivian politician (b. 1848)
1936  Henri Louis Le Chatelier, French chemist and physicist (b. 1850)
1936  Julius Seljamaa, Estonian politician, diplomat and journalist (b. 1883)
1939  Eugen Weidmann, last public guillotine execution in France (b. 1908)
1940  Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1941  Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer and organist (b. 1862)
1956  Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
1957  Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (b. 1873)
1960  Pierre Reverdy, French writer (b. 1889)
1961  Jeff Chandler, actor (b. 1918)
1963  Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician (b. 1882)
1968  José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
1968  A. M. Cassandre, Ukrainian-French artist (b. 1901)
1979  Duffy Lewis, Major League Baseball player (b. 1888)
1982  Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
1986  Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907)
1987  Dick Howser, American baseball player and manager (b. 1936)
1996  Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
1998  John Carberry, American cardinal (b. 1904)
1999  Basil Hume, English Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1931)
2000  Ismail Mahomed, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)
2001  Donald J. Cram, American chemist (b. 1919)
2001  Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (b. 1925)
2002  Willie Davenport, athlete (b. 1943)
2002  Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
2004  Gerry McNeil, hockey player (b. 1926)
2004  Sara Lidman, Swedish writer (b. 1923)
2006  Arthur Franz, American actor (b. 1920)
2007  Angelo Felici, Italian cardinal (b. 1919)
2008  Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
2008  Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (b. 1921)
2009  Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician (b. 1929)
2012  Rodney King, American victim of police brutality (b. 1965)
2013  James Holshouser, 68th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1934)
2014  Jorge Romo, Mexican footballer (b. 1924)
2014  Larry Zeidel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
2014  Patsy Byrne, English actress (b. 1933)
2015  Ron Clarke, Australian athlete and former Mayor of Gold Coast, Queensland (b. 1937)
2015  Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey (b. 1924)
2015  Jeralean Talley, American supercentenarian (b. 1899)
2015  Roberto M. Levingston, Argentine general and politician (b. 1920)
2015  Clementa C. Pinckney, American politician and pastor (b. 1973)
2015  Nelson Doubleday, Jr., American publisher (b. 1933)
2015  John David Crow, American football player (b. 1935)
2015  Nicola Badalucco, Italian screenwriter and journalist (b. 1929)
2015  Chang Ch'ung-ho, Chinese-American poet, calligrapher and opera singer (b. 1914)
2016  Rubén Aguirre, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
2016  Attrell Cordes, American singer (P.M. Dawn) (b. 1970)
2016  Ron Lester, American actor (b. 1970)
2016  David Morgenthaler, American businessman (b. 1919)
2017  Baldwin Lonsdale, President of Vanuatu (b. 1950)
2017  Luis Lusquiños, Argentine politician (b. 1951)
2017  Venus Ramey, American beauty pageant contestant (b. 1924)
2017  Leopoldo S. Tumulak, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1944)
2017  Elias Burstein, American physicist (b. 1917)
2017  Pierre Imhasly, Swiss author and poet (b. 1939)
2017  Emil Wojtaszek, Polish politician (b. 1927)
2018  Elizabeth Brackett, American journalist (b. 1941)
2018  Zhao Nanqi, Korean-born Chinese general and politician (b. 1927)
2018  Igor Muradyan, Armenian political activist (b. 1957)
2019  Philipp Bobkov, Russian intelligence officer (b. 1925)
2019  Darwin Hindman, American politician (b. 1933)
2019  Mohamed Morsi, 5th President of Egypt (b. 1951)
2019  Salvatore Senese, Italian magistrate and politician (b. 1935)
2019  Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite, fashion designer and artist (b. 1924)
2020  Marlene Ahrens, Chilean athlete (b. 1933)
2020  Tariq Aziz, Pakistani actor and television host (b. 1936)
2020  William C. Dement, American sleep researcher (b. 1928)
2020  Terry Dicks, British politician (b. 1937)
2020  György Kárpáti, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1935)
2020  Petr Král, Czech writer (b. 1941)
2020  Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat (b. 1928)
2020  Willie Thorne, British snooker player (b. 1954)
2020  Vatanyar Yagyua, Russian politician (b. 1938)
Independence Day (Iceland)
Day of German Unity, observed on June 17 in West Germany until 1990, to commemorate East Germany's Workers' Uprising in 1953
Soviet occupation Day (Latvia)
Father's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala)
Bunker Hill Day (Sussex County, Massachusetts)
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
618  Tang Dynasty rule begins in China, with the accession of Emperor Gaozu of Tang (Li Yuan).
1053  Battle of Civitate: 3,000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey of Hauteville heavily defeat the troops of Pope Leo IX.
1264  The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, as the first known meeting of an Irish legislature.
1429  French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the English army under John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay, helping to turn the tide in the Hundred Years' War.
1633  Charles I is crowned King of Scots at Saint Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.
1757  Battle of Polin: Between the Prussians under Frederick the Great and the Austrians in the Seven Years' War.
1767  English captain Samuel Wallis sights Tahiti, possibly being the first European to sight the island in present-day French Polynesia.
1778  American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.
1812  The United States declares war on the United Kingdom, starting the War of 1812.
1815  Battle of Waterloo: British, Russian and Prussian forces defeat a French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte.
1830  The French colonisation of Algeria begins.
1858  Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace with almost-identical conclusions about Evolution.
1859  First successful climb of the Aletschhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps.
1873  Susan B. Anthony is fined for her attempt to vote in the 1872 US Presidential Election.
1897  Kyoto University is founded.
1900  Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders that all foreigners be killed.
1908  Japanese immigration to Brazil begins.
1908  The University of the Philippines is founded.
1928  As a passenger, Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Wales.
Her pilot was Wilmer Shutz and Lou Gordon was her mechanic.
1928  Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen goes missing on a rescue mission in the Arctic Ocean.
His plane is most likely to have crashed near Svalbard.
1932  FIBA, the world's governing authority on basketball, is founded in Geneva, Switzerland.
1940  Charles de Gaulle makes the appeal of June 18th, calling on the French to resist the Nazis.
1940  Winston Churchill makes his famous "Finest Hour" speech, to raise the spirits of the British people during World War II.
1945  William Joyce is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda during World War II.
1946  Italy is formally proclaimed a Republic after a referendum on June 2 when a majority of voters chose not to have the monarchy.
1953  Egypt becomes a Republic.
1953  A US Air Force C-124 plane crashes and burns in Tokyo, Japan, killing 129 people.
1954  Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
1965  The US uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrillas in South Vietnam.
1972  The Staines Air Disaster occurs near London Heathrow Airport.
1979  US President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II arms reduction treaty in Vienna.
1981  The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
1981  The Treaty of Basseterre is signed, creating the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
1982  After defeat in the Falklands War, Argentine military leader Leopoldo Gualtieri resigns from office.
1983  Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
1983  Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and 9 other women are executed for their membership of the Baha'i faith.
1994  The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force attack a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland with assault rifles, killing 6 people.
1996  Ted Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
2000  Ethiopia and Eritrea sign an agreement to end their border war.
2006  Kazakhstan launches its first space satellite, KazSat.
2007  The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire in Charleston, South Carolina kills 9 firefighters.
2009  The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA robotic spacecraft, is launched.
2010  The US' first execution by firing squad in 14 years occurs in the state of Utah.
2014  2014 FIFA World Cup: The Spain national football team, defending champion, is knocked out at the group stage by the Chile national football team.
Four years earlier, then-defending champion, the Italy national football team, also got knocked out at this stage.
1269  Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (d. 1298)
1318  Princess Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
1466  Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
1511  Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1892)
1517  Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
1667  Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
1673  Antonio de Libres, Spanish composer (d. 1747)
1677  Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1726)
1757  Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine political leader (d. 1833)
1757  Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
1769  Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Anglo-Irish politician (d. 1822
1799  William Lassell, English astronomer (d. 1880)
1799  Prosper Menière, French physician (d. 1862)
1812  Ivan Goncharov, Russian writer (d. 1891)
1816  Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, daughter of Napoleon (d. 1907)
1816  Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepali ruler (d. 1877)
1839  William H. Seward Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (d. 1920)
1845  Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French doctor, won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
1845  Gustav Storm, Norwegian historian, writer and professor (d. 1903)
1850  Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (d. 1914)
1857  Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1930)
1868  Miklós Horthy, Hungarian regent (d. 1957)
1870  Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1954)
1874  George Tupou II, King of Tonga (d. 1918)
1877  James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (d. 1960)
1882  Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (d. 1949)
1883  Mary Alden, American actress (d. 1946)
1884  Edouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)
1886  George Mallory, English mountaineer (d. 1924)
1886  Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (d. 1978)
1891  Mae Busch, Australian-American actress (d. 1946)
1896  Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
1897  Martti Marttelin, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1940)
1901  Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1902  Boris Barnet, Soviet movie director, actor and boxer (d. 1965)
1903  Jeanette McDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
1903  Raymond Radiguet, French novelist and poet (d. 1923)
1904  Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
1907  Frithjof Schuon, Swiss-American metaphysicist, philosopher and author (d. 1998)
1910  Ray McKinley, American musician (d. 1995)
1912  Glenn Morris, American decathlete and actor (d. 1974)
1913  Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (d. 2008)
1915  Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
1916  Julio César Turbay Ayala, 25th President of Colombia (d. 2005)
1917  Erik Ortvad, Danish painter (d. 2008)
1917  Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)
1918  Jerome Karle, American chemist (d. 2013)
1918  Franco Modigliani, Italian economist (d. 2003)
1920  Lode van den Bergh, Belgian writer
1922  Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
1922  Donald Keene, Japanese and American scholor and expert of Japan studies (d. 2019)
1923  Veronica Carstens, First Lady of Germany (d. 2012)
1923  Szymon Szurmiej, Polish actor and director (d. 2014)
1924  George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
1925  Robert Arthur, American actor (d. 2008)
1927  Eva Bartok, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1998)
1929  Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
1929  Ann Mara, American businesswoman (d. 2015)
1929  Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American soldier (d. 2015)
1931  Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 34th President of Brazil, 1995-2003
1932  Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist
1932  Geoffrey Hill, English poet (d. 2016)
1936  Denny Hulme, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1992)
1936  Barack Obama, Sr. (
d. 1982), Kenyan father of Barack Obama
1936  Norodom Monineath, Cambodian Queen Mother
1936  Ronald Venetiaan, former President of Suriname
1937  Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut
1937  Jay Rockefeller, American politician
1939  Jack Herer, American writer and activist (d. 2010)
1940  Mirjam Pressler, German writer (d. 2019)
1941  Delia Smith, British cookery writer
1941  Roger Lemerre, French footballer and manager
1942  Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa
1942  Roger Ebert, American movie critic (d. 2013)
1942  Sir Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Beatles)
1942  Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
1942  Carl Radle, American bass player and producer
1943  Raffaella Carra, Italian singer, dancer and actress
1944  Salvador Sánchez Cerén, President of El Salvador
1946  Maria Bethania, Brazilian singer
1946  Fabio Capello, Italian football manager
1947  Bernard Giraudeau, French actor, director and writer (d. 2010)
1949  Jaroslaw Kaczynski, former Prime Minister of Poland
1949  Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland (d. 2010)
1949  Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1999)
1950  Annelie Ehrhardt, German athlete
1950  Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer (d. 2014)
1950  Mike Johanns, 38th Governor of Nebraska
1951  Jerry McNerney, American politician
1951  Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (d. 2014)
1952  John Carl Buechler, American visual effects artist and film director (d. 2019)
1952  Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
1952  Marcella Bella, Italian singer
1952  Denis Herron, Canadian ice hockey player
1952  Lee Soo-man, South Korean businessman
1953  Sandy Allen, American, world's tallest woman (d. 2008)
1953  Vladislav Terzyul, Ukrainian mountaineer (d. 2004)
1954  Tinna Gunnlaugsdottir, Icelandic actress
1955  Misia, Portuguese singer
1957  Andrea Evans, American actress
1957  Miguel Angel Lotina, Spanish footballer
1957  Irene Epple, German skier
1958  Peter Altmaier, German politician
1961  Alison Moyet, British singer
1962  Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (d. 2009)
1964  Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
1965  Robin Christopher, American actress
1970  Ivan Kozak, Slovakian footballer
1970  Katie Derham, English broadcaster
1971  Nigel Owens, Welsh rugby referee
1971  Jason McAteer, English-Irish footballer and manager
1971  Gaute Kivistik, Estonian journalist and author
1972  Anu Tali, Estonian pianist and conductor
1973  Julie Depardieu, French actress
1973  Ray LaMontagne, American singer-songwriter and musician
1973  Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
1974  Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
1974  Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer
1975  Jem, Welsh singer-songwriter and producer
1975  Jamel Debbouze, French-Moroccan actor and producer
1976  Alana de la Garza, American actress
1976  Blake Shelton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978  Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
1978  Lilia Kopylova, Russian-English professional dancer
1979  Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
1980  Kevin Bishop, English actor and comedian
1981  Marco Streller, Swiss footballer
1982  Nadir Belhadj, Algerian footballer
1982  Marco Borriello, Italian footballer
1984  Janne Happonen, Finnish ski jumper
1986  Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
1986  Richard Madden, Scottish actor
1987  Omar Arellano, Mexican footballer
1987  Melanie Iglesias, American model and actress
1987  Marcelo Martins Moreno, Bolivian footballer
1988  Elini Dimoutsos, Greek footballer
1988  Islam Slimani, Algerian footballer
1988  Josh Dun, American musician (Twenty One Pilots)
1989  Renee Olstead, American actress and singer
1989  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Gabonese footballer
1990  Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
1990  Sandra Izbasa, Romanian gymnast
1991  Rei Okamoto, Japanese model and actress
1997  Max Records, American actor
2006  Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal
741  Leo III the Issaurian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 685)
1234  Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
1291  King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
1464  Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1400)
1629  Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (b. 1577)
1650  Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (b. 1575)
1673  Jeanne Mance, French settler in New France, present-day Quebec (b. 1606)
1680  Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
1726  Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
1742  John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670)
1749  Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
1772  Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German jurist and philosopher (b. 1706)
1794  François Nicolas Léonard Buzet, French revolutionary figure (b. 1760)
1815  Thomas Picton, British general (b. 1758)
1886  Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
1902  Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
1905  Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (b. 1830)
1915  Eufemio Zapata, brother of Emiliano Zapata (b. 1873)
1916  Max Immelmann, German flying ace (b. 1890)
1917  Tito Maiorescu, Romanian Prime Minister (b. 1840)
1922  Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
1928  Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
1929  Carlo Airoldi, Italian marathon runner (b. 1869)
1936  Maxim Gorky, Russian writer (b. 1868)
1937  Gaston Doumergue, French politician (b. 1863)
1942  Arthur Pryor, American trombonist and bandleader (b. 1870)
1945  Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (b. 1886)
1947  Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
1959  Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
1963  Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
1967  Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
1967  Geki, Italian racing driver (b. 1942)
1971  Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist (b. 1889)
1974  Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
1978  Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
1980  André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1982  Djuna Barnes, American writer (b. 1892)
1983  Mona Mahmudnizhad, Iranian Baha'i
1986  Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1921)
1989  I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
1992  Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
1997  Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
2006  Vincent Sherman, American actor and director (b. 1906)
2007  Bernard Manning, English comedian (b. 1930)
2007  Hank Medress, American singer (The Tokens) (b. 1938)
2008  Jean Delannoy, French movie director and producer (b. 1908)
2010  José Saramago, Portuguese writer (b. 1922)
2010  Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (b. 1916)
2011  Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)
2011  Yelena Bonner, Russian human rights activist (b. 1923)
2011  Ulrich Biesinger, German footballer (b. 1934)
2011  Clarence Clemons, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
2012  Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrin, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1919)
2013  Michael Hastings, American journalist (b. 1980)
2014  Claire Martin, Canadian author (b. 1914)
2014  Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general, Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency (b. 1957)
2014  Horace Silver, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1928)
2014  Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist, invented Kevlar (b. 1923)
2014  Johnny Mann, American musician, composer, conductor and entertainer (b. 1928)
2015  Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman (b. 1920)
2015  Jack Rollins, American movie producer (b. 1915)
2015  Allen Weinstein, American historian (b. 1937)
2015  Patrick Eisdell Moore, New Zealand surgeon (b. 1928)
2016  Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
2016  Paul Cox, Dutch-Australian film director (b. 1940)
2016  Sverre Kjelsberg, Norwegian musician (b. 1946)
2016  William J. Livsey, American army general (b. 1931)
2016  Wu Jianmin, Chinese diplomat (b. 1939)
2017  Pierluigi Chicca, Italian fencer (b. 1937)
2017  Tim Hague, Canadian mixed martial artist (b. 1983)
2017  Tony Liscio, American football player (b. 1940)
2017  Shih Chun-jen, Taiwanese neurosurgeon (b. 1923)
2017  Hans Breder, German-American artist (b. 1935)
2017  Keith Farnham, American politician (b. 1947)
2018  Walter Bahr, American soccer player (b. 1927)
2018  Kostas Politis, Greek basketball player (b. 1942)
2018  XXXTentacion, American rapper (b. 1998)
2018  Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
2018  Bertha Sanseverino, Uruguayan politician (b. 1946)
2018  Nathan Shaham, Israeli writer (b. 1925)
2019  Stephen Blaire, American bishop (b. 1941)
2020  Tibor Benedek, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1972)
2020  John Bredenkamp, Zimbabwean rugby union player and businessman (b. 1940)
2020  Dame Vera Lynn, British singer and actress (b. 1917)
Autistic Pride Day
Evacuation Day (Egypt)
International Sushi Day
National Day (Seychelles)
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.