the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
2014 - Israel launches Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, following the killing of Israeli teenagers which had led to tensions between Israel and Hamas.
2014 - Brazil v Germany: In the semi finals of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the Brazil national football team is beaten 7-1 by the Germany national football team in a shock result.
Several footballing and World Cup records are beaten in this match, in which Germany's Miroslav Klose scored his record-breaking 16th World Cup goal.
2016 - The New European, a new British pro-European newspaper, publishes its first weekly edition, in response to the Brexit vote.
2018 - In the British Government, David Davis resigns as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, being replaced with Dominic Raab; Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also resigns, doing so the next day.
1478 - Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian humanist, poet and linguist (d. 1550)
1528 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
1545 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias (d. 1568)
1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
1604 - Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet (d. 1651)
1621 – Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695).
1640 - Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1660)
1735 - Domenico Vandelli, Italian naturalist (d. 1816)
1760 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
1792 – Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, Irish admiral and explorer (d. 1907)
1830 - Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1911)
1830 - Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer and politician (d. 1915)
1831 – John Pemberton, American inventor, of Coca-Cola (d. 1888)
1836 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914).
1838 - Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, industrialist and entrepreneur (d. 1898)
1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917).
1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1937)
1851 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)
1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist and graphologist (d. 1911)
1864 - F. Holland Day, American photographer (d. 1933)
1867 - Kaethe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (d. 1945)
1878 - Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
1882 - Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (d. 1961)
1885 – Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
1885 - Hugo Boss, German fashion designer (d. 1948)
1890 - Walter Hasenclever, German playwright and poet (d. 1940)
1892 - Richard Aldington, English author and poet (d. 1962)
1892 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
1894 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist (d. 1984)
1895 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist (d. 1971)
1898 - Melville Ruick, American actor (d. 1972)
1900 - George Antheil, American pianist, composer and author (d. 1959)
1904 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (d. 2008)
1905 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997)
1906 - Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
1907 - George W. Romney, American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan (d. 1995)
1908 – Louis Jordan, American jazz and blues musician (d. 1975)
1908 – Nelson A. Rockefeller, American politician, 41st Vice President of the United States and 49th Governor of New York (d. 1979)
1914 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (d. 2010)
1914 - Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpeter (d. 1993)
1918 - Paul B. Fay, American politician, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009)
1918 - Irwin Hasen, American comic artist and cartoonist (d. 2015)
1919 – Walter Scheel, President of West Germany (d. 2016)
1920 – Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (Lego group) (d. 1995)
1921 - Edgar Morin, French philosopher and politician
1923 - Harrison Dillard, American sprinter and hurdler
1924 - Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and blues musician (d. 2005)
1925 - Nicholas Brathwaite, former Prime Minister of Grenada  (d. 2016)
1925 - Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychologist and psychiatrist (d. 2004)
1926 - David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (d. 2014)
1930 - Jerry Vale, American singer and actor (d. 2014)
1931 - Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norwegian politician (d. 2018)
1932 - Franca Raimondi, Italian singer (d. 1988)
1933 - Peter Orlovsky, American poet (d. 2010)
1934 – Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
1935 - John David Crow, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
1935 – Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2010)
1938 - Dario Gradi, Italian-English football manager
1940 - Karin Hannak, Austrian artist
1941 - Michael K. Frith, British artist and television producer
1944 - Jai Johanny Johanson, American drummer
1944 - Jeffrey Tambor, American actor and singer
1945 – Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss Federal Councillor
1947 - Kim Darby, American actress
1947 - Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian religious leader
1948 – Raffi, Canadian children's entertainer
1949 – Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef
1949 - Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (d. 2009)
1951 – Anjelica Huston, American actress
1952 – Ahmad Nazif, former Prime Minister of Egypt
1952 - Larry Garner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 - Marianne Williamson, American author and activist
1955 – Monty Don, English gardener and television presenter
1956 - Millard Hampton, American sprinter
1957 - Carlos Cavazo, Mexican-American guitarist and songwriter
1957 - Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian journalist and author
1958 – Kevin Bacon, American actor and musician
1958 – Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician
1958 - Neetu Singh, Indian actress and costume designer
1959 - Tom Egeland, Norwegian writer and journalist
1959 - Billy Kimball, American screenwriter and producer
1959 - Robert Knepper, American actor
1959 – Pauline Quirke, English actress
1961 - Andrew Fletcher, English keyboardist
1961 - Toby Keith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 - Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter
1964 - Linda de Mol, Dutch actress and screenwriter
1964 - Alexei Gusarov, Russian ice hockey player and manager
1965 - Dan Levinson, American clarinetist, saxophonist and bandleader
1968 - Billy Crudup, American actor
1968 - Michael Weatherly, American actor, producer and director
1970 – Beck, American singer
1970 - Todd Martin, American tennis player and coach
1971 - Neil Jenkins, Welsh rugby player and coach
1971 - Amy O'Neill, American actress
1973 - Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress and producer
1974 - Jeanna Friske, Russian actress and singer (d. 2015)
1976 - Ellen MacArthur, English sailor
1976 - Wang Liping, Chinese race walker
1977 – Christian Abbiati, Italian footballer
1977 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor, director and producer
1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
1980 – Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
1981 – Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
1982 – Sophia Bush, American actress
1982 - Pendleton Ward, American animator, screenwriter, producer and voice actor
1985 - Jamie Cook, English guitarist
1986 - Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Kenza Farah, Algerian-French singer-songwriter
1986 - Jake McDorman, American actor
1987 - Vlada Roslyakova, Russian model
1988 - Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
1990 - Kevin Trapp, German footballer
1991 - Jamie Blackley, Manx actor
1991 - Devon Conway, New Zealand cricketer
1992 - Sky Ferreira, American singer-songwriter and actress
1992 – Benjamin Grosvenor, British pianist
1992 - Son Heung-min, South Korean footballer
1998 – Jaden Smith, American actor
2004 - Gayle, American singer
810 - Pepin of Italy (b. 773)
901 - Grimbald, French-English monk and saint (b. 827)
975 - Edgar the Peaceful, English King (b. 943)
1153 - Pope Eugene III (b. 1087)
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer and general (b. 1475)
1623 – Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
1695 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer and scientist (b. 1629).
1721 – Elihu Yale, American university benefactor (b. 1649).
1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792).
1832 - Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (b. 1756)
1850 - Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
1855 – William Edward Parry, English arctic explorer (b. 1790).
1859 – King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799).
1864 - David Hazzard, American politician, Governor of Delaware (b. 1781)
1873 - Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter (b. 1805)
1893 - Abraham K. Allison, American politician, 6th Governor of Florida (b. 1810)
1897 - Isham G. Harris, American politician, 18th Governor of Tennessee (b. 1818)
1898 – Soapy Smith, American outlaw (b. 1860).
1905 - Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (b. 1834)
1930 – Joseph Ward, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
1933 - Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (b. 1863)
1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (b. 1848)
1939 - Havelock Ellis, English psychologist and author (b. 1859)
1941 - Moses Schorr, Polish historian, rabbi and politician (b. 1874)
1942 - Refik Saydam, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
1943 – Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian sociologist, economist and philosopher (b. 1878)
1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author and critic (b. 1881)
1957 – Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879).
1962 – Georges Pataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897).
1967 – Fatimah Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (b. 1893).
1971 - Charlie Shavers, American trumpeter (b. 1920)
1973 - Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
1973 - Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator and politician (b. 1884)
1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1975 - Lennart Skoglund, Swedish footballer (b. 1929)
1979 – Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist (b. 1906).
1979 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist (b. 1917)
1985 - Simon Kuznets, Russian-American economist (b. 1901)
1985 - Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French movie director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1909)
1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1909)
1987 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
1988 – Ray Barbuti, American sportsman (b. 1905)
1990 - Howard Duff, American actor, director and producer (b. 1913)
1994 – Kim Il-Sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912)
1994 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (b. 1927)
1995 - Aleksander Arulaid, Estonian chess player (b. 1924)
1999 - Peter Conrad, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1930)
2002 – Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
2003 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (b. 1974)
2004 – Paula Danziger, American writer (b. 1944)
2006 – June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
2007 - Chandra Shekhar, 9th Prime Minister of India (b. 1927)
2011 – Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (b. 1918)
2012 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917)
2014 - Ben Pangelinan, American-Guamanian politician (b. 1955)
2014 - John V. Evans, American politician, 27th Governor of Idaho (b. 1925)
2015 - Irwin Keyes, American actor (b. 1952)
2016 - Javed Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1940)
2016 - Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist, activist and humanitarian (b. 1928)
2016 - Harold A. Linstone, German-American mathematician and futurist (b. 1924)
2016 - William H. McNeill, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1917)
2016 - Jacques Rouffio, French director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2017 - Nelsan Ellis, American actor (b. 1977)
2017 - Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress and model (b. 1935)
2017 - Don Johns, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1937)
2018 - Alan Gilzean, Scottish footballer (b. 1938)
2018 - Tab Hunter, American actor and musician (b. 1931)
2018 - M. M. Jacob, Indian politician (b. 1927)
2018 - Oliver Knussen, Scottish composer (b. 1952)
2018 - Frank Ramsey, American basketball plauer (b. 1931)
2018 - Robert D. Ray, American politician, 38th Governor of Iowa (b. 1928)
Air Force and Air Defense Forces Day (Ukraine)
1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops.
1513 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara: Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan.
Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored to power.
1523 – Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, ending the Kalmar Union.
1586 - Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine, Florida.
1644 - The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces under Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
1674 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, is crowned.
1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1752 - One third of Moscow is destroyed by fire.
1808 – Joseph Bonaparte is proclaimed King of Spain.
1809 - Sweden introduces a new constitution.
1813 - War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek - A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1833 - Andrew Jackson becomes the first President of the United States to ride on a train.
1838 - The Indian Removal Act enters into force.
US troops under Winfield Scott start removing Native American Cherokees from their ancestral homeland to a reservation in Oklahoma in what becomes known as the Trail of Tears in which 4,000 to 10,000 Cherokees die.
1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association is founded in London.
1857 - Sophia of Nassau marries future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
1859 – Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales.
1862 - American Civil War: Union forces take Memphis, Tennessee from the Confederates.
1882 – A tropical storm kills over 100,000 people in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
1889 – The entire downtown area of Seattle is destroyed by fire.
1892 - The Chicago 'L' commuter rail system is introduced.
1912 – The Novarupta Volcano in Alaska erupts in one of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century.
Because it happened in an uninhabited area, people believed that the nearby Katmai volcano had erupted.
1918 - World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood - The United States Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood of Chateau-Thierry.
1920 - The first Reichstag election in Germany's Weimar Republic takes place.
1921 - Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck.
1931 - Munich's Glass Palace is set on fire.
The whole building, along with over 3,000 paintings, is destroyed.
1933 - The first drive-in theatre is opened in Camden, New Jersey.
1934 - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law.
1942 – World War II: In the Battle of Midway US navy dive bombers sink Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
1944 – World War II: The allied D-Day landings take place in Normandy.
1946 - The National Basketball Association is created.
1964 - Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Northern Germany, are abandoned, and never continue.
1966 – Civil Rights activist James Meredith is shot in the back and legs in Mississippi.
1968 – American politician Robert F. Kennedy dies after being shot on the previous day.
1971 – Soviet space programme: Soyuz 11 launches.
1971 - A mid-air collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, kills 50 people.
1971 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese Communist forces begins.
1981 – Bihar Train Disaster: A train crash kills an estimated 1,000 people.
1982 - The 1982 Lebanon War begins.
1984 - Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is released.
1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" in Brazil is exhumed.
The remains are found to be those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, who died in 1979.
1993 – Mongolians vote in direct Presidential elections for the first time.
1994 - A Tupolev Tu-154  of China Northwest Airlines, crashes shortly after take-off from Xi'an, China, killing 160 people.
1994 - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Colombia kills  795 people.
2001 – Argentina's former President Carlos Menem is arrested on charges of selling weapons to Ecuador and Croatia.
2002 – A near-Earth asteroid explodes over the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Libya.
2004 - Tamil is established as a classical language of India.
2007 – Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is stripped of an honorary degree that was given to him by the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
2007 - The G-8 summit is held in Heiligendamm on Germany's Baltic Sea coast.
2012 - The 21st century's last Transit of Venus occurs.
2014 - Big commemorations are held to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
2015 - The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup begins in Canada.
In Edmonton, Alberta, Canada defeats China 1-0 through a late penalty.
1236 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese general and scholar (d. 1283)
1243 - Alix of Brittany, Dame du Pontarcy, Breton-French noblewoman (d. 1288)
1436 – Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), German astronomer (d. 1472)
1502 – King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1519 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian botanist (d. 1603)
1553 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
1599 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
1606 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
1622 – Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1857)
1661 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1756)
1678 - Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, French aristocrat (d. 1737)
1714 – King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
1755 – Nathan Hale, American writer, patriot (d. 1776)
1756 – John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843)
1772 - Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1807)
1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1837)
1807 - Thieu Tri, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1847)
1810 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856)
1821 - François-Marie Luzel, French folklorist and Breton language poet (d. 1895)
1829 – Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
1857 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
1862 – Henry John Newbolt, English writer (d. 1938)
1867 - David T. Abercrombie, American businessman (Abercrombie & Fitch) (d. 1931)
1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912)
1868 - Dawid Janowski, Polish chess player (d. 1927)
1869 - Siegfried Wagner, German composer and conductor (d. 1930)
1872 – Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (d. 1918)
1875 – Thomas Mann, German novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1955)
1880 – W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician (d. 1965)
1890 – Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)
1892 – Donald Duncan, Sr.,
American marketer, modifier of yo-yo (d. 1971)
1896 – Henry Allingham, British World War I veteran and supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1896 - Italo Balbo, Italian marshal and politician (d. 1940)
1898 – Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer (d. 2001)
1898 - Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987)
1901 – Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978)
1906 – Max August Zorn, German-American mathematician (d. 1993)
1907 – Bill Dickey, American baseball player, coach, manager, and scout (d. 1993)
1909 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born British political philosopher (d. 1997)
1912 - Joan Hartigan, Australian tennis player (d. 2000)
1912 - María Montez, Dominican actress (d. 1951)
1916 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
1916 – Hamani Diori, first President of Niger (d. 1989)
1917 – Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman (d. 2015)
1918 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist (d. 2009)
1919 - Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, 6th Secretary-General of NATO (d. 2018)
1924 - Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (d. 2015)
1925 - Fitzhugh L. Fulton, American pilot (d. 2015)
1925 - Maxine Kumin, American poet and author (d. 2014)
1926 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
1928 - George Deukmejian, 35th Governor of California (d. 2018)
1928 - Elio Sgreccia, Italian cardinal (d. 2019)
1929 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician
1930 - Frank Tyson, English cricketer (d. 2015)
1932 - Billie Whitelaw, British actress (d. 2014)
1932 - Anne Claire Poirier, Canadian director, actor and screenwriter
1932 - David Scott, American colonel, engineer and astronaut
1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (Nobel Prize 1986 for scanning tunneling microscope) (d. 2013)
1934 – King Albert II of Belgium
1934 – Gilbert Cates, producer, director
1934 - Roy Innis, American activist
1935 – Bobby Mitchel, American football player
1936 – Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops) (d. 2008)
1936 - Mompati Merafhe, Vice President of Botswana (d. 2015)
1938 - Ryuchi Matsuda, Japanese author (d. 2013)
1938 - Prince Louis of Orléans-Braganza
1939 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, musician
1939 - Marian Wright Edelman, American activist
1940 – Larry Lujack, American disc jockey
1940 - Willie John McBride, Irish rugby player, coach and manager
1942 - Klaus Bednarz, German journalist (d. 2015)
1942 - Sandra Morgan, Australian swimmer
1942 - Norberto Rivera Carrera, Mexican cardinal
1943 - Asif Iqbal, Pakistani cricketer
1943 - Richard Smalley, American chemist (d. 2005)
1944 - Edgar Froese, German musician (d. 2015)
1944 - Phillip Sharp, American biologist
1945 – David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000)
1947 – David Blunkett, British politician
1947 – Robert Englund, American actor (aka.
Freddy Krueger)
1949 - Ioannis Matzourakis, Greek footballer and manager
1950 - Chantal Akerman, Belgian movie director (d. 2015)
1952 - Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese drummer, producer and actor
1952 - Jean Hamel, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 – Jack Novak, American football player
1954 - Wladyslaw Zmuda, Polish footballer
1954 - Harvey Fierstein, American actor
1954 – Cynthia Rylant, writer
1955 – Sandra Bernhard, American actress, comedian
1955 - Sam Simon, American producer and writer (d. 2015)
1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
1956 – Bubbi Morthens, Icelandic singer, songwriter and musician
1957 - Mike Gatting, English cricketer
1959 - Jimmy Jam, American keyboardist, songwriter and producer
1960 – Gary Graham, American actor
1960 – Steve Vai, American musician
1961 – Tom Araya, Chilean-American musician (Slayer)
1963 - Eric Cantor, American politician
1963 – Wolfgang Drechsler, German social scientist
1963 - Jason Isaacs, British actor
1964 - Jay Bentley, American singer and bass player
1964 - Jay Lake, American author (d. 2014)
1966 - Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
1967 – Max Casella, American actor
1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor
1970 - Albert Ferrer, Spanish footballer
1970 – James "Munky" Shaffer, American musician (Korn guitarist)
1970 - Richard Di Natale, Australian politician
1971 - Petr Korbel, Czech table tennis player
1972 - Cristina Scabbia, Italian rock music singer
1974 - Uncle Kracker, American rock musician
1975 – Staci Keanan, American actress
1976 - Jonathan Nolan, British-American author, producer and director
1977 - Bryn Williams, Welsh chef
1978 - Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
1978 – Carl Barat, British singer and guitarist (The Libertines)
1978 – Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988)
1981 - Jackson Vroman, American-Lebanese basketball player (d. 2015)
1983 – Gemma Bissix, English actress
1983 - Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer
1984 – Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer
1984 - Roman Hubník, Czech footballer
1984 - Shannon Stewart, American model
1985 - Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer
1985 - Becky Sauerbrunn, American soccer player
1986 - Bhavana, Indian actress
1986 - Kim Hyun-joong, South Korean singer, dancer and actor
1986 - Junichi Tazawa, Japanese-American baseball player
1987 – Niklas Hjalmarsson, Swedish ice hockey player player for the Chicago Blackhawks
1988 - Maria Alyokhina, Russian singer and activist (Pussy Riot)
1988 - Israel Dagg, New Zealand rugby player
1990 - Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
1990 - Vid Belec, Slovenian footballer
1990 - Ellie Kendrick, English actress
1990 - Ryan Higa, American actor, comedian and YouTube personality
1990 - Rodri, Spanish footballer
1990 - Neha Kakkar, Indian singer
1992 - Hyuna, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, model, dancer and television presenter
1992 - Megumi Murakami, Japanese singer
1995 - Julian Green, American soccer player
1134 - Norbert of Xanten, German bishop and saint (b. 1060)
1252 - Robert Passelewe, English bishop
1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)
1480 - Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor and painter (b. 1412)
1560 - Joao de Castro, Portuguese seafarer (b. 1500)
1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese commander (b. 1519)
1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese daimyo (b. 1556)
1799 – Patrick Henry, American politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (b. 1736)
1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest and saint (b. 1789)
1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet (b. 1770)
1861 – Count Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor (b. 1790)
1881 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)
1891 – John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1861)
1935 - Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and politician, 12th Governor-General of Canada (b. 1862)
1941 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American racing driver and businessman (b. 1878)
1943 - Guido Fubini, Italian mathematician (b. 1879)
1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist (b. 1862)
1948 – Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
1954 - Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1910)
1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
1962 - Yves Klein, French painter (b. 1928)
1968 – Robert Kennedy, American politician (b. 1925)
1968 – Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892)
1979 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
1980 - Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player (b. 1918)
1987 - Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor and playwright (b. 1922)
1991 - Stan Getz, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
1992 - Larry Riley, American actor (b. 1953)
1994 - Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935)
1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist (b. 1903)
1996 - Harry Andersson, Swedish footballer (b. 1913)
1997 - Magda Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1915)
2003 - Dave Rowberry, English singer-songwriter and pianist (The Animals) (b. 1940)
2004 - Simon Cumbers, Irish-born journalist (b. 1968)
2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
2006 - Billy Preston, American singer and musician (b. 1946)
2009 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist (b. 1916)
2012 - Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Japanese royal (b. 1946)
2012 - Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
2013 - Jerome Karle, American chemist (b. 1918)
2013 - Tom Sharpe, English author (b. 1928)
2013 - Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
2014 - Ado Bayero, Nigerian chieftain, politician and diplomat (b. 1930)
2014 - Eric Hill, British author and illustrator (b. 1927)
2014 - Alexander Shilov, Russian chemist (b. 1930)
2014 - Lorna Wing, British psychiatrist and Autism researcher (b. 1928)
2015 - Pierre Brice, French actor (b. 1929)
2015 - Richard Johnson, English actor (b. 1927)
2015 - Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer, songwriter and activist (b. 1926)
2015 - Aarthi Agarwal, Indian actress (b. 1984)
2015 - Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer (b. 1974)
2015 - Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author (b. 1926)
2016 - Ayaz Jani, Pakistani poet and journalist (b. 1967)
2016 - Viktor Korchnoi, Russian-Swiss chess player (b. 1931)
2016 - Peter Shaffer, English playwright (b. 1926)
2016 - Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-American mixed martial artist (b. 1974)
2016 - Steve Pisanos, American air force officer (b. 1919)
2016 - Theresa Saldana, American actress (b. 1954)
2017 - Horace Burrell, Jamaican soccer executive (b. 1950)
2017 - Vin Garbutt, British folk singer (b. 1947)
2017 - Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman and arms dealer (b. 1935)
2017 - Latifur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1936)
2017 - Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (b. 1950)
2017 - Márta Antal-Rudas, Hungarian javelin thrower (b. 1937)
2017 - Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad, Norwegian politician (b. 1939)
2017 - François Houtart, Belgian theologian (b. 1925)
2017 - Walter Noll, German-American mathematician (b. 1925)
2018 - Tinus Bosselaar, Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
2018 - Mateja Matevski, Macedonian poet (b. 1929)
2018 - Kira Muratova, Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress (b. 1934)
2018 - Ralph Santolla, American guitarist (b. 1969)
2018 - Red Schoendienst, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2018 - Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, British poet (b. 1916)
2018 - Franz M. Wuketits, Austrian biologist and epistemologist (b. 1955)
2019 - Dr. John, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2019 - Alexander Kuznetsov, Russian-American actor (b. 1959)
2019 - Johnny Robinson, English footballer (b. 1936)
National holiday (Sweden)
Birthday of King Albert II of Belgium
Queensland Day
Teachers' Day (Bolivia)
Engineers' Day (Argentina)
UN Russian language Day
June 06
455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome and plunder the city for two weeks.
1098 – First Crusade: At the end of a siege, Crusade forces take Antioch.
1676 - Franco-Dutch War: France ensures the dominance of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war, with victory at the Battle of Palermo
1692 - Bridget Bishop becomes the first person to go on trial in the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
She is found guilty and executed on June 10.
1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: In present-day Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of Lacrosse, then chasing the ball into a fort.
1793 - French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat.
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: A French-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Riot, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
1835 – P. T. Barnum's circus starts touring the United States.
1848 – The Slavic Congress in Prague begins.
1855 - The Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1858 – Comet C/1858 L1 is discovered by Italian astronomer Giambattista Donati.
1864 - The Ionian Islands, previously a British protectorate, are given to Greece.
1876 – Bulgarian revolutionary Hristo Botev is killed.
1886 – Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for the radio.
1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a third time.
1910 – Charles Rolls becomes the first person to make a non-stop crossing of the English Channel by aeroplane.
1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set of bombs in eight separate United States cities.
1924 – US President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act, giving equal citizenship to Native Americans born within the territory of the United States.
1941 - World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
1946 – In a referendum, voters in Italy support the formation of a Republic.
1953 – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1953 – The news of the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest reaches the UK.
1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade Declaration.
1962 – The most violent match of the FIFA World Cup occurs in Chile as police have to intervene between Chilean and Italian footballers.
1965 - A cyclone kills over 30,000 people in Pakistan.
1966 – The Surveyor 1 spacecraft on the Moon.
1967 – German student Benno Ohnesorg is shot dead by police at a demonstration outside the Iranian Embassy.
1973 - Amsterdam's Vincent van Gogh Museum opens to the public.
1974 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck is crowned King of Bhutan.
1976 - As part of Operation Condor, Bolivian President Juan José Torres is abducted and murdered.
It is not known to what extent his successor Hugo Banzer was involved.
1976 - The Third Cod War between the United Kingdom and Iceland ends in a temporary agreement, as the UK recognizes Iceland's claimed fishing zone of 200 nautical miles.
1979 – The Uganda-Tanzania War ends, with Ugandan forces under Idi Amin being defeated.
1979 – Pope John Paul II visits Poland, his native country, for the first time in his papacy.
1980 - The Rubik's Cube goes on sale in West Germany.
1983 - After an emergency landing because of an inflight fire, 23 passengers on board Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open.
1990 - 66 tornadoes hit an area across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, killing 12 people, including 6 alone in Petersburg, Indiana.
1994 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Java, killing 277 people.
1997 – Timothy McVeigh is convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing.
1999 – Bhutan starts television transmission.
2003 – The Mars Express Space Probe launches from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning run on the TV game show Jeopardy!.
2007 - Violence erupts at a demonstration in Rostock, northeastern Germany, while preparations are made for the G-8 summit in nearby Heiligendamm.
2010 – Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama announces his resignation, less than 9 months after taking office.
Naoto Kan succeeds him.
2010 – Derrick Bird goes on a shooting rampage in Cumbria, England.
12 people are killed and 11 people are injured, before Derrick Bird kills himself.
2012 – Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison for ordering killings during the 2011 Egyptian protests.
2014 - In India, Telangana becomes the 29th State, as Andhra Pradesh is officially split in two.
Hyderabad, which is in the new state, will serve as capital city of both states until 2024.
2014 - King Juan Carlos I of Spain announces his intent to abdicate (leave) the throne.
An official date for the handover is not yet set, as Felipe, Prince of Asturias is to succeed him as King.
2015 - Sepp Blatter announces his intention to resign as President of FIFA, just four days after his controversial re-election to the post following a corruption scandal.
2016 - The German Bundestag officially recognizes the Armenian Genocide.
2017 - Leo Varadkar becomes the new leader of the Republic of Ireland's Fine Gael party, and is therefore set to become the country's next Taoiseach.
926 – Emperor Murakami of Japan (d. 967)
1423 - Ferdinand I of Naples (d. 1494)
1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
1699 - Marie-Therese Rodet Geoffrin, French writer (d. 1677)
1731 – Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, first First Lady of the United States (d. 1802)
1737 - Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (d. 1758)
1740 – Marquis de Sade, French writer (d. 1814)
1773 - John Randolph of Roanoke, American planter and politician (d. 1833)
1774 – William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales (d. 1850)
1793 - Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, Belgian painter (d. 1861)
1813 – Daniel Pollen, 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1896)
1815 - Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
1821 - Ion C. Bratianu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1891)
1823 - Gédéon Ouimet, 2nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1905)
1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
1835 – Nikolai Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1881)
1838 - Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (d. 1900)
1840 – Thomas Hardy, English poet, novelist (d. 1928)
1849 - Albert Besnard, French painter (d. 1934)
1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer (d. 1919)
1860 - Roger de Barbarin, French trap shooter (d. 1925)
1861 – Helen Herron Taft, First Lady of the United States, wife of William Howard Taft (d. 1943)
1863 – Felix Weingartner, composer and conductor (d. 1942)
1881 - Walter Egan, American golfer (d. 1971)
1885 – Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, German neurologist (d. 1964)
1887 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
1891 – Takijiro Onishi, Japanese World War II figure (d. 1945)
1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German movie director (d. 1981)
1899 - Edwin Way Teale, American environmentalist and photographer (d. 1980)
1902 - Giuseppe Lepori, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
1906 - Carlo Scarpa, Italian architect (d. 1978)
1907 – Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
1909 - Rudolf Brandt, German SS officer (d. 1948)
1911 - Joe McCluskey, American runner (d. 2002)
1913 – Barbara Pym, English writer (d. 1980)
1913 - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer-songwriter and playwright (d. 2002)
1913 - Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong social activist (d. 2015)
1915 - Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian activist and agent (d. 1992)
1915 – Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
1917 – Max Showalter, American actor (d. 2000)
1917 - Heinz Sielmann, German photographer, biologist, zoologist and documentary filmmaker (d. 2006)
1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic (d. 2013)
1920 – Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1922 - Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress (d. 2002)
1922 - Charlie Sifford, American golfer (d. 2015)
1923 - Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist (d. 2016)
1925 - M. Caldwell Butler, American politician (d. 2014)
1926 - Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1977)
1926 - Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (d. 2013)
1927 - W. Watts Biggers, American novelist (d. 2014)
1928 – Stig Claesson, Swedish writer and illustrator (d. 2008)
1928 - Rafael Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast (d. 2014)
1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
1930 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
1930 - Vic Firth, American musician and instruments manufacturer (d. 2015)
1931 - Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (d. 2017)
1933 - Horacio Ferrer, Uruguayan writer, poet and tango historian (d. 2014)
1935 – Carol Shields, American-Canadian novelist (d. 2003)
1936 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian race walker and Olympic champion
1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
1937 - Rosalyn Higgins, British jurist
1938 - Cliff Cushman, American hurdler (d. 1966)
1938 - Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverchiöld of Sweden
1940 – Constantine II, former King of Greece
1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
1941 – Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1941 – William Guest, American singer
1941 - Lou Nanne, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 - Crescenzio Sepe, Italian cardinal
1943 - Ilaiyaraaja, Indian singer-songwriter and producer
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer (d. 2012)
1945 - Jon Peters, American movie producer
1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish movie director
1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, British serial killer
1947 - Mark Elder, British conductor
1948 – Todd Rundgren, American singer and producer
1951 - Larry Robinson, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Arnold Mühren, Dutch footballer
1951 - Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai general (d. 2010)
1951 - Gilbert Baker, American gay rights activist (d. 2017)
1952 – Pete Farndon, British musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
1953 – Keith Allen, British actor and comedian
1953 – Cornel West, American theologian and activist
1953 – Paul Engemann, American musician
1955 – Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
1956 – Mani Ratnam, Indian movie director
1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and commentator
1958 - Lex Luger, American wrestler and football player
1959 - Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress
1960 – Olga Bondarenko, Russian Olympic gold medalist (athletics)
1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
1963 - Bernard Cazeneuve, French politician
1964 – Caroline Link, German movie director and screenwriter
1965 – Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer
1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
1966 - Pedro Guerra, Spanish singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress
1968 - Jon Culshaw, British comedian and actor
1968 - Beetlejuice, American comedian and actor
1968 - Jason Falkner, American musician, songwriter and producer
1969 - Paulo Sérgio Silvestre do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer
1970 - B-Real, American rapper, producer and actor
1971 - Anthony Montgomery, American actor
1972 - Wayne Brady, American actor, comedian, game show host and singer
1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor
1973 - Carlos Acosta, Cuban dancer
1974 - Gata Kamsky, Russian-born American chess player
1976 - Earl Boykins, American basketball player
1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
1976 – Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
1978 – Dominic Cooper, English actor
1978 – Nikki Cox, American actress
1978 – Justin Long, American actor
1978 - Deon Richmond, American actor
1978 - A. J. Styles, American wrestler
1979 - Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
1980 – Abby Wambach, American soccer player
1981 – Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
1983 – Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
1983 - Leela James, American singer-songwriter
1983 - Brooke White, American singer and actress
1985 – Ana Cristina, American singer and actress
1987 - Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
1987 - Angelo Mathews, Sri Lankan cricketer
1987 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
1988 – Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
1988 – Sergio Agüero, Argentine footballer
1988 - Takashi Inui, Japanese footballer
1989 – Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-born footballer
1990 – Brittany Curran, American actress and singer
1990 - Jack Lowden, Scottish actor
1992 – Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer
1994 - Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress
1995 - Sterling Beaumon, American actor
657 – Pope Eugene I
829 – Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
910 – Richilde of Provence, Queen of West Francia (b. 845)
1418 - Catherine of Lancaster, Queen Consort of Henry III of Castile (b. 1373)
1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish king (b. 1530)
1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525)
1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
1754 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
1761 – Jonas Alstromer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1875 - Jozef Kremer, Polish philosopher (b. 1806)
1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b. 1807)
1933 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
1937 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1942 - Bunny Berigan, American singer, trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1908)
1948 - Nazi war criminals executed:
Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
Karl Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1904)
Rudolf Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1909)
Karl Gebhardt, German physician (b. 1897)
Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (b. 1905)
1952 - Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1880)
1956 - Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
1961 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
1962 – Vita Sackville-West, English writer (b. 1892)
1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
1968 - André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1929)
1969 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
1970 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand racing driver and team founder (b. 1937)
1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
1970 - Albert Lamorisse, French director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1976 – Juan José Torres, President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
1978 - Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer (b. 1895)
1981 - Rino Gaetano, Italian singer and musician (b. 1950)
1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
1983 – Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
1987 – Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
1988 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, movie producer and movie director (b. 1924)
1988 - Horace Hildreth, American politician, Governor of Maine (b. 1902)
1990 – Rex Harrison, British actor (b. 1908)
1992 – Philip Dunne, American movie director (b. 1908)
1994 – Henry Mancini, American composer (b. 1924)
1996 - Ray Combs, American comedian, actor and game show host (b. 1956)
1996 - Leon Garfield, English writer (b. 1921)
1997 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (b. 1908)
1998 - Junkyard Dog, American wrestler (b. 1952)
1999 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
2005 - Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier (b. 1930)
2006 – Vince Welnick, musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
2007 – Huang Ju, Chinese Vice Premier (b. 1938)
2008 – Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
2008 – Mel Ferrer, American actor and movie director (b. 1917)
2009 – David Eddings, American writer (b. 1931)
2010 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian operatic baritone (b. 1916)
2012 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
2012 - Richard Dawson, English-American actor, comedian and game show host (b. 1932)
2013 - Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (b. 1930)
2014 - Alexander Shulgin, American medical scientist and author (b. 1925)
2014 - Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (b. 1924)
2014 - Kuaima Riruako, Namibian politician (b. 1935)
2014 - Anjan Das, Indian filmmaker (b. 1949)
2015 - Alberto De Martino, Italian movie director (b. 1929)
2015 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1926)
2015 - Theo Saat, Dutch Olympic sprinter (b. 1928)
2016 - Tom Kibble, British physicist (b. 1932)
2016 - Yevhen Lemeshko, Ukrainian football coach (b. 1930)
2016 - Abderrahmane Meziani, Algerian footballer (b. 1942)
2016 - Andrzej Niemczyk, Polish volleyball player and coach (b. 1944)
2016 - Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
2017 - Gordon Christian, American ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2017 - Iakovos Garmatis, Greek-American church leader (b. 1928)
2017 - Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, Pakistani lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
2017 - Peter Sallis, English actor (b. 1921)
2017 - Jeffrey Tate, English conductor (b. 1943)
2017 - Jack O'Neill, American businessman and surfer (b. 1923)
2018 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist (b. 1918)
2018 - Tony Morphett, Australian screenwriter (b. 1938)
2018 - Bernard E. Trainor, American Marine Corps general, military analyst and journalist (b. 1928)
2018 - Emil Wolf, Czech-born American physicist (b. 1922)
2018 - Fernando Mazariegos, Guatemalan chemist and inventor (b. 1938)
2019 - Momtazuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi dramatist and educator (b. 1935)
2019 - Alistair Browning, New Zealand actor (b. 1954)
2019 - Donald M. Fraser, American politician (b. 1924)
2019 - Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer (b. 1937)
2019 - Alexey Kazannik, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
2019 - Mart Nutt, Estonian politician and historian (b. 1962)
2019 - Maciej Parowski, Polish journalist, essayist, science fiction writer, editor and translator (b. 1946)
Republic Day (Italy)
Hristo Botev Day (Bulgaria)
June 02
350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, ending Rome, leading a group of gladiators.
1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod determines the border between Russia and the Finnmark region of northern Norway.
1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his 3rd voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for the New Netherlands.
1665 - Future-King James II of England/James VII of Scotland defeats the Dutch fleet off Lowestoft, Suffolk, England.
1769 – At Tahiti, James Cook observes the transit of Venus.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett makes a midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Legislature of coming British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.
1789 – From Fort Chipewyan, a Alexander MacKenzie-led expedition, to find a river link to the Pacific Ocean coast of Canada, sets off.
1839 - In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsu destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium taken from British merchants, providing the United Kingdom with the "casus belli" to begin hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
1858 – Francis Thomas Gregory climbs the world's biggest monolith (single piece of rock), Mount Augustus in Western Australia.
He names the rock after his brother, Augustus Gregory.
1861 – American Civil War: Union troops defeat Confederate forces in the Battle of Philippi in Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
1885 - Last military engagement on Canadian soil - Cree leader Big Bear escapes from the North-West Mounted Police.
1889 – The Transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.