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July 31 – History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day
July 31 in History
- 30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian’s forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
- 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: 6th day of the 7th month of the 1st year of the Ten’o (天応) era).
- 1009 – Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
- 1201 – Attempted usurpation by John Komnenos the Fat for the throne of Alexios III Angelos.
- 1423 – Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Cravant: The French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
- 1451 – Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
- 1492 – The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
- 1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
- 1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
- 1618 – Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
- 1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654–67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
- 1658 – Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal emperor of India.
- 1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
- 1712 – Action of 31 July 1712 (Great Northern War): Danish and Swedish ships clash in the Baltic Sea; the result is inconclusive.
- 1715 – Seven days after a Spanish treasure fleet of 12 ships left Havana, Cuba for Spain, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
- 1741 – Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
- 1763 – Odawa Chief Pontiac’s forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run during Pontiac’s War.
- 1777 – The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette “be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States.”
- 1790 – The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
- 1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
- 1865 – The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
- 1874 – Dr. Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
- 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
- 1913 – The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
- 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
- 1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
- 1932 – The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
- 1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
- 1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to “submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question.”
- 1941 – World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.
- 1945 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
- 1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
- 1948 – USS Nevada is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
- 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
- 1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
- 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
- 1972 – The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
- 1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
- 1975 – The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
- 1987 – A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Canada.
- 1988 – Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
- 1991 – The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries’ stockpiles.
- 1992 – The nation of Georgia joins the United Nations.
- 1992 – Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
- 1999 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon’s surface.
- 2006 – Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl.
- 2007 – Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
- 2012 – Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
- 2014 – Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.
Births on July 31
- 1143 – Emperor Nijō of Japan (d. 1165)
- 1396 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
- 1526 – Augustus, Elector of Saxony (d. 1586)
- 1527 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
- 1595 – Philipp Wolfgang, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1641)
- 1598 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (d. 1654)
- 1686 – Charles of France, Duke of Berry (d. 1714)
- 1702 – Jean Denis Attiret, French missionary and painter (d. 1768)
- 1704 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1752)
- 1718 – John Canton, English physicist and academic (d. 1772)
- 1724 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer and author (d. 1801)
- 1759 – Ignaz Anton von Indermauer, Austrian nobleman and government official (d. 1796)
- 1777 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentinian priest and politician (d. 1849)
- 1796 – Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Czech-French actor and mime (d. 1846)
- 1800 – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist and academic (d. 1882)
- 1803 – John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer, co-designed the USS Princeton and the Novelty Locomotive (d. 1889)
- 1816 – George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
- 1826 – William S. Clark, American colonel and politician (d. 1886)
- 1835 – Henri Brisson, French lawyer and politician, 50th Prime Minister of France (d. 1912)
- 1835 – Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and explorer (d. 1903)
- 1836 – Vasily Sleptsov, Russian author and activist (d. 1878)
- 1837 – William Quantrill, American captain (d. 1865)
- 1839 – Ignacio Andrade, Venezuelan general and politician, 25th President of Venezuela (d. 1925)
- 1843 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and author (d. 1918)
- 1847 – Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1905)
- 1854 – José Canalejas, Spanish academic and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1912)
- 1858 – Richard Dixon Oldham, English seismologist and geologist (d. 1936)
- 1858 – Marion Talbot, influential American educator (d. 1948)
- 1860 – Mary Vaux Walcott, American painter and illustrator (d. 1940)
- 1867 – S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (d. 1966)
- 1875 – Jacques Villon, French painter (d. 1963)
- 1877 – Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (d. 1970)
- 1880 – Premchand, Indian author and playwright (d. 1936)
- 1883 – Ramón Fonst, Cuban fencer (d. 1959)
- 1884 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Polish-German economist and politician (d. 1945)
- 1886 – Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1931)
- 1886 – Fred Quimby, American animation producer (d. 1965)
- 1887 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1969)
- 1892 – Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist and publisher, founded Worldwide Church of God (d. 1986)
- 1892 – Joseph Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop (d. 1959)
- 1894 – Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (d. 1972)
- 1901 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
- 1902 – Gubby Allen, Australian-English cricketer and soldier (d. 1989)
- 1904 – Brett Halliday, American engineer, surveyor, and author (d. 1977)
- 1909 – Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Austrian theorist and author (d. 1999)
- 1911 – George Liberace, American violinist (d. 1983)
- 1912 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (d. 2008)
- 1912 – Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
- 1912 – Irv Kupcinet, American football player and journalist (d. 2003)
- 1913 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
- 1914 – Paul J. Christiansen, American conductor and composer (d. 1997)
- 1914 – Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (d. 1983)
- 1916 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (d. 1986)
- 1916 – Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2006)
- 1916 – Bill Todman, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1979)
- 1918 – Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
- 1918 – Hank Jones, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman and financier (d. 1998)
- 1919 – Hemu Adhikari, Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
- 1919 – Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster and actor (d. 2006)
- 1919 – Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (d. 1987)
- 1920 – James E. Faust, American religious leader, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007)
- 1921 – Peter Benenson, English lawyer and activist, founded Amnesty International (d. 2005)
- 1921 – Donald Malarkey, American sergeant and author (d. 2017)
- 1921 – Whitney Young, American activist (d. 1971)
- 1922 – Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
- 1923 – Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American songwriter and producer, founded Atlantic Records (d. 2006)
- 1923 – Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer, invented Kevlar (d. 2014)
- 1924 – Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (d. 2015)
- 1925 – Carmel Quinn, Irish singer, actress and writer
- 1925 – John Swainson, Canadian-American jurist and politician, 42nd Governor of Michigan (d. 1994)
- 1926 – Bernard Nathanson, American physician and activist (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Hilary Putnam, American mathematician, computer scientist, and philosopher (d. 2016)
- 1927 – Peter Nichols, English author and playwright (d. 2019)
- 1928 – Bill Frenzel, American lieutenant and politician (d. 2014)
- 1929 – Lynne Reid Banks, English author
- 1929 – Gilles Carle, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- 1929 – Don Murray, American actor
- 1929 – José Santamaría, Uruguayan footballer and manager
- 1931 – Nick Bollettieri, American tennis player and coach
- 1931 – Kenny Burrell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1932 – Ted Cassidy, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1979)
- 1932 – John Searle, American philosopher and academic
- 1933 – Cees Nooteboom, Dutch journalist, author, and poet
- 1935 – Yvon Deschamps, Canadian comedian, actor, and producer
- 1935 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
- 1939 – Steuart Bedford, English pianist and conductor
- 1939 – Susan Flannery, American actress
- 1939 – France Nuyen, Vietnamese-French actress
- 1941 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Gujarat (d. 2004)
- 1943 – William Bennett, American journalist and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Education
- 1943 – Lobo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1944 – Geraldine Chaplin, American actress and screenwriter
- 1944 – Jonathan Dimbleby, English journalist and author
- 1944 – Sherry Lansing, American film producer
- 1944 – Robert C. Merton, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1944 – David Norris, Irish scholar and politician
- 1945 – William Weld, American lawyer and politician, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
- 1946 – Gary Lewis, American pop-rock musician
- 1947 – Karl Green, English bass player and songwriter (Herman’s Hermits)
- 1947 – Richard Griffiths, English actor (d. 2013)
- 1947 – Mumtaz, Indian actress
- 1947 – Hubert Védrine, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1947 – Ian Beck, English children’s illustrator and author
- 1948 – Russell Morris, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1949 – Mike Jackson, American basketball player
- 1949 – Alan Meale, English journalist and politician
- 1950 – Richard Berry, French actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1951 – Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Australian tennis player
- 1952 – Chris Ahrens, American ice hockey player
- 1952 – Alan Autry, American football player, actor, and politician, 23rd Mayor of Fresno, California
- 1952 – Helmuts Balderis, Latvian ice hockey player and coach
- 1952 – João Barreiros, Portuguese author and critic
- 1952 – Faye Kellerman, American author
- 1953 – Ted Baillieu, Australian architect and politician, 46th Premier of Victoria
- 1953 – Jimmy Cook, South African cricketer and coach
- 1953 – Hugh McDowell, English cellist
- 1954 – Derek Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 – Michael Biehn, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1956 – Bill Callahan, American football player and coach
- 1956 – Ron Kuby, American lawyer and radio host
- 1956 – Deval Patrick, American lawyer and politician, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
- 1956 – Lynne Rae Perkins, American author and illustrator
- 1957 – Daniel Ash, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1957 – Mark Thompson, English business executive
- 1958 – Bill Berry, American drummer and songwriter
- 1958 – Mark Cuban, American businessman and television personality
- 1958 – Suzanne Giraud, French music editor and composer
- 1959 – Stanley Jordan, American guitarist, pianist, and songwriter
- 1959 – Andrew Marr, Scottish journalist and author
- 1959 – Kim Newman, English journalist and author
- 1960 – Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1960 – Malcolm Ross, Scottish guitarist and songwriter
- 1961 – Frank Gardner, English captain and journalist
- 1961 – Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Nigerian banker, royal
- 1962 – John Chiang, American lawyer and politician, 31st California State Controller
- 1962 – Kevin Greene, American football player and coach
- 1962 – Wesley Snipes, American actor and producer
- 1963 – Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), English DJ and musician
- 1963 – Fergus Henderson, English chef and author
- 1963 – Brian Skrudland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1964 – Jim Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1964 – Urmas Hepner, Estonian footballer and coach
- 1965 – Scott Brooks, American basketball player and coach
- 1965 – John Laurinaitis, American wrestler and producer
- 1965 – Ian Roberts, English-Australian rugby league player and actor
- 1965 – J. K. Rowling, English author and film producer
- 1966 – Dean Cain, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1967 – Tony Massenburg, American basketball player
- 1967 – Tim Wright, Welsh composer
- 1968 – Saeed-Al-Saffar, Emirati cricketer
- 1968 – Julian Richards, Welsh director and producer
- 1969 – Antonio Conte, Italian footballer and manager
- 1969 – Loren Dean, American actor
- 1969 – Kenneth D. Schisler, American lawyer and politician
- 1970 – Ahmad Akbarpour, Iranian author and poet
- 1970 – Ben Chaplin, English actor
- 1970 – Andrzej Kobylański, Polish footballer and manager
- 1970 – Giorgos Sigalas, Greek basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1971 – Gus Frerotte, American football player and coach
- 1973 – Nathan Brown, Australian rugby league player and coach
- 1974 – Emilia Fox, English actress
- 1974 – Leona Naess, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1974 – Jonathan Ogden, American football player
- 1975 – Randy Flores, American baseball player and coach
- 1975 – Andrew Hall, South African cricketer
- 1975 – Gabe Kapler, American baseball player and manager
- 1976 – Joshua Cain, American guitarist and producer
- 1976 – Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer and manager
- 1978 – Zac Brown, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1978 – Nick Sorensen, American football player and sportscaster
- 1978 – Justin Wilson, English race car driver (d. 2015)
- 1979 – Jaco Erasmus, South African-Italian rugby player
- 1979 – J.J. Furmaniak, American baseball player
- 1979 – Per Krøldrup, Danish footballer
- 1979 – Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer
- 1979 – B.J. Novak, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1980 – Mikko Hirvonen, Finnish race car driver
- 1980 – Mils Muliaina, New Zealand rugby player
- 1981 – Titus Bramble, English footballer
- 1981 – Vernon Carey, American football player
- 1981 – Paul Whatuira, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1981 – M. Shadows, American musician, lead singer of Avenged Sevenfold
- 1982 – Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spanish tennis player
- 1982 – DeMarcus Ware, American football player
- 1985 – Daniel Ciofani, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Rémy Di Gregorio, French cyclist
- 1986 – Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Brian Orakpo, American football player
- 1987 – Michael Bradley, American soccer player
- 1988 – Alex Glenn, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1989 – Victoria Azarenka, Belorussian tennis player
- 1991 – Réka Luca Jani, Hungarian tennis player
- 1992 – José Fernández, Cuban baseball player (d. 2016)
- 1992 – Ryan Johansen, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1992 – Kyle Larson, American race car driver
- 1994 – Lil Uzi Vert, American hip hop artist
Deaths on July 31
- 54 BC – Aurelia Cotta, Roman mother of Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 120 BC)
- 450 – Peter Chrysologus, Italian bishop and saint (b. 380)
- 910 – Feng Xingxi, Chinese warlord
- 975 – Fu Yanqing, Chinese general (b. 898)
- 1098 – Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury
- 1358 – Étienne Marcel, French rebel leader (b. 1302)
- 1396 – William Courtenay, English archbishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1342)
- 1508 – Na’od, Ethiopian emperor
- 1556 – Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish priest and theologian, founded the Society of Jesus (b. 1491)
- 1616 – Roger Wilbraham, Solicitor-General for Ireland (b. 1553)
- 1638 – Sibylla Schwarz, German poet (b. 1621)
- 1653 – Thomas Dudley, English soldier and politician, 3rd Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
- 1693 – Willem Kalf, Dutch still life painter (b. 1619)
- 1726 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1695)
- 1750 – John V, king of Portugal (b. 1689)
- 1762 – Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander (b. 1711)
- 1781 – John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley, British parliamentarian (b. 1719)
- 1784 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and critic (b. 1713)
- 1805 – Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian soldier (b. 1756)
- 1864 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (b. 1800)
- 1875 – Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
- 1884 – Kiến Phúc, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1869)
- 1886 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1811)
- 1891 – Jean-Baptiste Capronnier, Belgian stained glass painter (b. 1814)
- 1913 – John Milne, British geologist and mining engineer. (b. 1850)
- 1914 – Jean Jaurès, French journalist and politician (b. 1859)
- 1917 – Hedd Wyn, Welsh language poet (b. 1887)
- 1917 – Francis Ledwidge, Irish soldier and poet (b. 1881)
- 1920 – Ion Dragoumis, Greek philosopher and diplomat (b. 1878)
- 1940 – Udham Singh, Indian activist (b. 1899)
- 1943 – Hedley Verity, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1905)
- 1942 – Francis Younghusband, British Army Officer, explorer and spiritual writer (b.1863)
- 1944 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and poet (b. 1900)
- 1953 – Robert A. Taft, American soldier and politician (b. 1889)
- 1954 – Onofre Marimón, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1923)
- 1958 – Eino Kaila, Finnish philosopher and psychologist, attendant of the Vienna circle (b. 1890)
- 1964 – Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
- 1966 – Bud Powell, American pianist (b. 1924)
- 1968 – Jack Pizzey, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Queensland (b. 1911)
- 1971 – Walter P. Carter, American soldier and activist (b. 1923)
- 1972 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
- 1973 – Azumafuji Kin’ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (b. 1921)
- 1979 – Beatrix Lehmann, English actress and director (b. 1903)
- 1980 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist, author, and academic (b. 1902)
- 1980 – Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
- 1981 – Omar Torrijos, Panamanian general and politician, Military Leader of Panama (b. 1929)
- 1985 – Eugene Carson Blake, American religious leader (b. 1906)
- 1986 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
- 1987 – Joseph E. Levine, American film producer (b, 1905)
- 1990 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
- 1992 – Leonard Cheshire, English captain and pilot (b. 1917)
- 1992 – Md. Abdul Wajed Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician.
- 1993 – Baudouin, King of Belgium (b. 1930)
- 2000 – William Keepers Maxwell Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1908)
- 2001 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
- 2001 – Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Guido Crepax, Italian author and illustrator (b. 1933)
- 2004 – Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2005 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician, 1st President of the European Central Bank (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
- 2009 – Harry Alan Towers, English-Canadian screenwriter and producer (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Mollie Hunter, Scottish author and playwright (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Alfredo Ramos, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Gore Vidal, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Tony Sly, American musician, singer-songwriter (b. 1970)
- 2013 – Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Michel Donnet, English-Belgian general and pilot (b. 1917)
- 2013 – John Graves, American captain and author (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Trevor Storer, English businessman, founded Pukka Pies (b. 1930)
- 2014 – Warren Bennis, American scholar, author, and academic (b. 1925)
- 2014 – Nabarun Bhattacharya, Indian journalist and author (b. 1948)
- 2014 – Jeff Bourne, English footballer (b. 1948)
- 2014 – Wilfred Feinberg, American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
- 2015 – Alan Cheuse, American writer and critic (b. 1940)
- 2015 – Howard W. Jones, American surgeon and academic (b. 1910)
- 2015 – Billy Pierce, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1927)
- 2015 – Roddy Piper, Canadian wrestler and actor (b. 1954)
- 2015 – Richard Schweiker, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (b. 1926)
- 2016 – Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 58th Yokozuna (b. 1955)
- 2016 – Seymour Papert, South African mathematician (b. 1928)
- 2017 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress (b. 1928)
- 2018 – Tony Bullimore, British sailor & businessman (b. 1939)
- 2019 – Harold Prince, noted Broadway producer and director, who received more Tony awards than anyone else in history (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances on July 31
- Christian feast day:
  
  Abanoub
  
  Germanus of Auxerre
  
  Ignatius of Loyola
  
  Neot
  
  July 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Earliest day on which the Feast of Kamál (Perfection) can fall, while August 1 is the latest; observed on the first day of the eighth month of the Bahá’í calendar. (Bahá’í Faith)
- End of the Trinity term (sitting of the High Court of Justice of England)
- Ka Hae Hawaiʻi Day (Hawaii, United States), and its related observance:
  
  Sovereignty Restoration Day (Hawaiian sovereignty movement)
- Martyrdom Day of Shahid Udham Singh (Haryana and Punjab, India)
- Treasury Day (Poland)
- Warriors’ Day (Malaysia)
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July 22- History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day
July 22 in History
- 838 – Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
- 1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1209 – Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
- 1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
- 1342 – St. Mary Magdalene’s flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe.
- 1443 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl in the Old Zürich War.
- 1456 – Ottoman wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade: John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany’s brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
- 1499 – Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1587 – Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
- 1598 – William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.
- 1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
- 1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries’ Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
- 1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio “Cleveland” after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
- 1797 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
- 1802 – Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unified Viet Nam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
- 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Cape Finisterre: An inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca: British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
- 1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the ‘official’ victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.
- 1916 – Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
- 1921 – Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
- 1933 – Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
- 1937 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
- 1942 – The Holocaust in Poland: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.
- 1943 – World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
- 1943 – World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22.
- 1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland.
- 1946 – King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
- 1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
- 1963 – Crown Colony of Sarawak gains self-governance.
- 1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan’s conquest of the country in the Second World War.
- 1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
- 1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
- 1990 – Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond’s second consecutive Tour de France victory.
- 1992 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
- 1993 – Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
- 1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
- 2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay’s 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
- 2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
- 2011 – 2011 Norway attacks: first a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
- 2013 – 2013 Dingxi earthquakes, a series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.
Births on July 22
- 1210 – Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (d. 1238)
- 1437 – John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, English Baron (d. 1498)
- 1476 – Zhu Youyuan, Ming Dynasty politician (d. 1519)
- 1478 – Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
- 1531 – Leonhard Thurneysser, scholar and elector of Brandenburg (d. 1595)
- 1535 – Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
- 1552 – Anthony Browne, Sheriff of Surrey and Kent (d. 1592)
- 1552 – Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, Lady of English peer and others (d. 1607)
- 1559 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (d. 1619)
- 1615 – Marguerite of Lorraine, princess of Lorraine, duchess of Orléans (d. 1672)
- 1618 – Johan Nieuhof, Dutch traveler (d. 1672)
- 1621 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (d. 1683)
- 1630 – Madame de Brinvilliers, French aristocrat (d. 1676)
- 1647 – Margaret Mary Alacoque, French nun, mystic and saint (d. 1690)
- 1651 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1711)
- 1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist and academic (d. 1753)
- 1713 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon (d. 1780)
- 1733 – Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (d. 1790)
- 1755 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1839)
- 1784 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
- 1839 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (d. 1907)
- 1844 – William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
- 1848 – Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
- 1849 – Emma Lazarus, American poet and educator (d. 1887)
- 1856 – Octave Hamelin, French philosopher (d. 1907)
- 1862 – Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Scottish fencer (d. 1931)
- 1863 – Alec Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1952)
- 1878 – Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician and author (d. 1942)
- 1881 – Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (d. 1966)
- 1882 – Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher (d. 1967)
- 1884 – Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (d. 1967)
- 1886 – Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author (d. 1954)
- 1887 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- 1888 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (d. 1950)
- 1888 – Selman Waksman, Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1889 – James Whale, English director (d. 1957)
- 1890 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (d. 1995)
- 1892 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (d. 1983)
- 1893 – Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (d. 1978)
- 1893 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (d. 1990)
- 1895 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat (d. 1976)
- 1898 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (d. 1943)
- 1899 – Sobhuza II of Swaziland (d. 1982)
- 1908 – Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
- 1909 – Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress (d. 2014)
- 1909 – Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
- 1910 – Ruthie Tompson, American animator and artist
- 1913 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1995)
- 1915 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat (d. 2000)
- 1916 – Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
- 1916 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
- 1921 – William Roth, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
- 1923 – Bob Dole, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
- 1923 – César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
- 1925 – Jack Matthews, American author, playwright, and academic (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Joseph Sargent, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
- 1926 – Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Wolfgang Iser, German scholar, literary theorist (d. 2007)
- 1927 – Johan Ferner, Norwegian sailor (d. 2015)
- 1928 – Orson Bean, American actor (d. 2020)
- 1928 – Jimmy Hill, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
- 1929 – John Barber, English racing driver (d. 2015)
- 1929 – Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Neil Welliver, American painter (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Baselios Thomas I, Indian bishop
- 1931 – Leo Labine, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1932 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (d. 2014)
- 1932 – Tom Robbins, American novelist
- 1934 – Junior Cook, American saxophonist (d. 1992)
- 1934 – Louise Fletcher, American actress
- 1934 – Leon Rotman, Romanian canoeist
- 1935 – Tom Cartwright, English-Welsh cricketer and coach (d. 2007)
- 1936 – Don Patterson, American organist (d. 1988)
- 1936 – Harold Rhodes, English cricketer
- 1936 – Geraldine Claudette Darden, American mathematician
- 1937 – Chuck Jackson, American R&B singer and songwriter
- 1937 – Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and manager (d. 1999)
- 1937 – John Price, English cricketer
- 1937 – Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricketer (d. 2011)
- 1938 – Terence Stamp, English actor
- 1940 – Judith Walzer Leavitt, American historian and academic
- 1940 – Alex Trebek, Canadian-American game show host and producer
- 1941 – Estelle Bennett, American singer (d. 2009)
- 1941 – Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (d. 1975)
- 1941 – George Clinton, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1941 – David M. Kennedy, American historian and author
- 1942 – Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer and skier
- 1942 – Les Johns, Australian rugby league player and coach
- 1943 – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (d. 2014)
- 1943 – Kay Bailey Hutchison, American lawyer and politician
- 1943 – Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1944 – Rick Davies, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1944 – Sparky Lyle, American baseball player and manager
- 1944 – Anand Satyanand, New Zealand lawyer, judge, and politician, 19th Governor-General of New Zealand
- 1945 – Philip Cohen, English biochemist and academic
- 1946 – Danny Glover, American actor, director, and producer
- 1946 – Paul Schrader, American director and screenwriter
- 1946 – Rolando Joven Tria Tirona, Filipino archbishop
- 1946 – Johnson Toribiong, Palauan lawyer and politician, 7th President of Palau
- 1947 – Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
- 1947 – Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
- 1947 – Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and drummer
- 1949 – Alan Menken, American pianist and composer
- 1949 – Lasse Virén, Finnish runner and police officer
- 1950 – S. E. Hinton, American author
- 1951 – Richard Bennett, American guitarist and producer
- 1951 – J. V. Cain, American football player (d. 1979)
- 1951 – Patriarch Daniel of Romania
- 1953 – Brian Howe, English singer-songwriter
- 1954 – Al Di Meola, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
- 1954 – Steve LaTourette, American lawyer and politician (d. 2016)
- 1954 – Lonette McKee, American actress and singer
- 1954 – Ingrid Daubechies, Belgian physicist and mathematician
- 1955 – Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (d. 2013)
- 1955 – Willem Dafoe, American actor
- 1956 – Mick Pointer, English neo-progressive rock drummer (Marillion; Arena)
- 1956 – Scott Sanderson, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1957 – Dave Stieb, American baseball player
- 1958 – Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and coach
- 1958 – David Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1984)
- 1960 – Jon Oliva, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1961 – Calvin Fish, English racing driver and sportscaster
- 1961 – Keith Sweat, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1962 – Alvin Robertson, American basketball player
- 1962 – Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer and actress
- 1963 – Emilio Butragueño, Spanish footballer
- 1963 – Emily Saliers, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1964 – Will Calhoun, American rock drummer (Living Colour)
- 1964 – Bonnie Langford, English actress and dancer
- 1964 – John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1964 – David Spade, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1965 – Derrick Dalley, Canadian educator and politician
- 1965 – Shawn Michaels, American wrestler, trainer, and actor
- 1965 – Richard B. Poore, New Zealand humanitarian
- 1965 – Doug Riesenberg, American football player and coach
- 1966 – Tim Brown, American football player and manager
- 1967 – Lauren Booth, English journalist and activist
- 1967 – Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
- 1969 – Despina Vandi, German-Greek singer and actress
- 1970 – Jason Becker, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1970 – Steve Carter, Australian rugby league player
- 1970 – Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
- 1972 – Franco Battaini, Italian Motor Cycle racer
- 1972 – Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor, director, and producer
- 1972 – Seth Fisher, American illustrator (d. 2006)
- 1972 – Keyshawn Johnson, American football player and sportscaster
- 1973 – Brian Chippendale, American singer and drummer
- 1973 – Mike Sweeney, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1973 – Ece Temelkuran, Turkish journalist and author
- 1973 – Rufus Wainwright, American-Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1974 – Franka Potente, German actress
- 1977 – Ezio Galon, Italian rugby player
- 1977 – Ingo Hertzsch, German footballer
- 1977 – Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
- 1978 – Runako Morton, Nevisian cricketer (d. 2012)
- 1978 – Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
- 1979 – Lucas Luhr, German racing driver
- 1979 – Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
- 1980 – Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
- 1980 – Kate Ryan, Belgian singer-songwriter
- 1980 – Tablo, South Korean-Canadian rapper
- 1982 – Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1983 – Aldo de Nigris, Mexican footballer
- 1983 – Dries Devenyns, Belgian cyclist
- 1983 – Steven Jackson, American football player
- 1983 – Andreas Ulvo, Norwegian pianist
- 1984 – Stewart Downing, English footballer
- 1985 – Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer
- 1985 – Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
- 1985 – Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
- 1986 – Stevie Johnson, American football player
- 1987 – Denis Gargaud Chanut, French slalom canoeist
- 1987 – Charlotte Kalla, Swedish skier
- 1988 – William Buick, Norwegian-British flat jockey
- 1988 – Paul Coutts, Scottish footballer
- 1988 – Thomas Kraft, German footballer
- 1988 – Sercan Temizyürek, Turkish footballer
- 1989 – Keegan Allen, American actor, photographer and musician
- 1991 – Matty James, English footballer
- 1992 – Anja Aguilar, Filipino actress and singer
- 1992 – Selena Gomez, American singer and actress
- 1992 – Carolin Schnarre, German Paralympic equestrian
- 1993 – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Kyrgyzstani-American terrorist
- 1994 – Jaz Sinclair, American film and television actress
- 1995 – Ezekiel Elliott, American football player
- 1995 – Armaan Malik, Indian playback singer, composer and songwriter
- 1996 – Skyler Gisondo, American actor
- 2002 – Prince Felix of Denmark
- 2013 – Prince George of Cambridge
Deaths on July 22
- 698 – Wu Chengsi, nephew of Chinese sovereign Wu Zetian
- 1258 – Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. c. 1200)
- 1274 – Henry I of Navarre, Count of Champagne and Brie and King of Navarre
- 1298 – Sir John de Graham, Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk
- 1362 – Louis, Count of Gravina (b. 1324)
- 1376 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)
- 1387 – Frans Ackerman, Flemish politician (b. 1330)
- 1461 – Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
- 1525 – Richard Wingfield, English courtier and diplomat, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1426)
- 1540 – John Zápolya, Hungarian king (b. 1487)
- 1550 – Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1481)
- 1581 – Richard Cox, English bishop (b. 1500)
- 1619 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (b. 1559)
- 1645 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
- 1676 – Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
- 1726 – Hugh Drysdale, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia
- 1734 – Peter King, 1st Baron King, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1669)
- 1789 – Joseph Foullon de Doué, French politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
- 1802 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)
- 1824 – Thomas Macnamara Russell, English admiral
- 1826 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1746)
- 1832 – Napoleon II, French emperor (b. 1811)
- 1833 – Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (b. 1757)
- 1864 – James B. McPherson, American general (b. 1828)
- 1869 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (b. 1806)
- 1902 – Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Polish cardinal (b. 1822)
- 1903 – Cassius Marcellus Clay, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, United States Ambassador to Russia (b. 1810)
- 1904 – Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (b. 1846)
- 1906 – William Snodgrass, Canadian minister and academic (b. 1827)
- 1908 – Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
- 1915 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827)
- 1916 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (b. 1849)
- 1918 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and first Indian fighter aircraft pilot (b. 1898)
- 1920 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1849)
- 1922 – Jōkichi Takamine, Japanese-American chemist and academic (b. 1854)
- 1932 – J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet (b. 1858)
- 1932 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and academic (b. 1866)
- 1932 – Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and author (b. 1853)
- 1932 – Flo Ziegfeld, American actor and producer (b. 1867)
- 1934 – John Dillinger, American gangster (b. 1903)
- 1937 – Ted McDonald, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1891)
- 1940 – George Fuller, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1861)
- 1940 – Albert Young, American boxer and promoter (b. 1877)
- 1948 – Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1909)
- 1950 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
- 1958 – Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and author (b. 1895)
- 1967 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (b. 1878)
- 1968 – Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist and cartoonist (b. 1908)
- 1969 – Judy Garland, american actress, singer, dancer, and vaudevillian (b. 1922)
- 1970 – George Johnston, Australian journalist and author (b. 1912)
- 1974 – Wayne Morse, American lawyer and politician (b. 1900)
- 1979 – J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
- 1979 – Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
- 1986 – Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (b. 1905)
- 1986 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
- 1987 – Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1900)
- 1990 – Manuel Puig, Argentinian author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
- 1990 – Eduard Streltsov, Soviet footballer (b. 1937)
- 1992 – David Wojnarowicz, American painter, photographer, and activist (b. 1954)
- 1995 – Harold Larwood, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1904)
- 1996 – Rob Collins, English keyboard player (b. 1956)
- 1998 – Fritz Buchloh, German footballer and coach (b. 1909)
- 2000 – Eric Christmas, English-born Canadian actor (b. 1916)
- 2000 – Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1925)
- 2000 – Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (b. 1920)
- 2000 – Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 2001 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
- 2004 – Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (b. 1933)
- 2004 – Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1922)
- 2005 – Eugene Record, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Dika Newlin, American composer, singer-songwriter, and pianist (d. 1923)
- 2006 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountaineer (b. 1965)
- 2007 – Mike Coolbaugh, American baseball player and coach (b. 1972)
- 2007 – Jarrod Cunningham, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
- 2007 – László Kovács, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer (b. 1933)
- 2007 – Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (b. 1906)
- 2008 – Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Richard M. Givan, American lawyer and judge (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
- 2010 – Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (b. 1936)
- 2011 – Linda Christian, Mexican-American actress (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Ding Guangen, Chinese engineer and politician (b. 1929)
- 2012 – George Armitage Miller, American psychologist and academic (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Frank Pierson, American director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Natalie de Blois, American architect, co-designed the Lever House (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Dennis Farina, American policeman and actor (b. 1944)
- 2013 – Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Rosalie E. Wahl, American lawyer and judge (b. 1924)
- 2014 – Johann Breyer, German SS officer (b. 1925)
- 2014 – Louis Lentin, Irish director and producer (b. 1933)
- 2014 – Nitzan Shirazi, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1971)
- 2018 – Frank Havens, American canoeist (b. 1924)
Holidays and observances on July 22
- Birthday of the Late King Sobhuza (Swaziland)
- Christian feast day:
  
  Abd-al-Masih
  
  Joseph of Tiberias (or of Palestine)
  
  Markella
  
  Mary Magdalene
  
  Nohra (Maronite Church)
  
  July 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Earliest day on which Parents’ Day can fall, while 28 July is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Sunday in July. (United States)
- National Press Day (Azerbaijan)
- Pi Approximation Day, see also March 14
- Ratcatcher’s Day
- Revolution Day (The Gambia)
- Sarawak Self-government Day (Sarawak, Malaysia)
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July 21- History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day
July 21 in History
- 356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
- 230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
- 285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
- 365 – The 365 Crete earthquake affects the Greek island of Crete with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing a destructive tsunami that affects the coasts of Libya and Egypt, especially Alexandria. Many thousands were killed.
- 905 – King Berengar I of Italy and a hired Hungarian army defeats the Frankish forces at Verona. King Louis III is captured and blinded for breaking his oath (see 902).
- 1242 – Battle of Taillebourg: Louis IX of France puts an end to the revolt of his vassals Henry III of England and Hugh X of Lusignan.
- 1403 – Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
- 1545 – The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
- 1568 – Eighty Years’ War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
- 1645 – Qing dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.
- 1656 – The Raid on Málaga takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
- 1718 – The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
- 1774 – Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
- 1798 – French campaign in Egypt and Syria: Napoleon’s forces defeat an Ottoman-Mamluk army near Cairo in the Battle of the Pyramids.
- 1831 – Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
- 1861 – American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
- 1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
- 1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
- 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
- 1904 – Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
- 1907 – The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
- 1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
- 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
- 1925 – Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).
- 1944 – World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.
- 1944 – World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are tortured and executed in Berlin, Germany, for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
- 1949 – The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
- 1952 – The 7.3 M_w  Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
- 1954 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
- 1959 – NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” initiative.
- 1959 – Elijah Jerry “Pumpsie” Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
- 1960 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the world’s first female head of government
- 1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
- 1969 – Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon.
- 1970 – After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
- 1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
- 1973 – In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
- 1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
- 1977 – The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
- 1979 – Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 1983 – The world’s lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
- 1990 – Taiwan’s military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.
- 1995 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People’s Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
- 2001 – At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
- 2005 – July 2005 London bombings occur.
- 2008 – Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first president of Nepal.
- 2011 – NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
- 2012 – Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
Births on July 21
- 541 – Emperor Wen of Sui, emperor of the Sui Dynasty (d. 604)
- 1030 – Kyansittha, King of Burma (d. 1112)
- 1414 – Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
- 1462 – Queen Jeonghyeon, Korean royal consort (d. 1530)
- 1476 – Alfonso I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara (d. 1534)
- 1476 – Anna Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1497)
- 1515 – Philip Neri, Italian Roman Catholic saint (d. 1595)
- 1535 – García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete, Royal Governor of Chile (d. 1609)
- 1616 – Anna de’ Medici, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1676)
- 1620 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
- 1648 – John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, Scottish general (d. 1689)
- 1654 – Pedro Calungsod, Filipino catechist and sacristan; later canonized (d. 1672)
- 1664 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (d. 1721)
- 1693 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1768)
- 1710 – Paul Möhring, German physician, botanist, and zoologist (d. 1792)
- 1783 – Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon, French general (d. 1853)
- 1808 – Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian, academic, and politician (d. 1864)
- 1810 – Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist (d. 1878)
- 1811 – Robert Mackenzie, Scottish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Queensland (d. 1873)
- 1816 – Paul Reuter, German-English journalist, founded Reuters (d. 1899)
- 1858 – Maria Christina of Austria (d. 1929)
- 1858 – Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
- 1858 – Alfred Henry O’Keeffe, New Zealand painter and educator (d. 1941)
- 1863 – C. Aubrey Smith, English-American cricketer and actor (d. 1948)
- 1866 – Carlos Schwabe, Swiss Symbolist painter and printmaker (d. 1926)
- 1870 – Emil Orlík, Czech painter, etcher, and lithographer (d. 1932)
- 1875 – Charles Gondouin, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (d. 1947)
- 1880 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak astronomer, general, and politician (d. 1919)
- 1882 – David Burliuk, Ukrainian author and illustrator (d. 1967)
- 1885 – Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1948)
- 1891 – Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower and soldier (d. 1969)
- 1893 – Hans Fallada, German author (d. 1947)
- 1896 – Sophie Bledsoe Aberle, Native American anthropologist, physician and nutritionist (d. 1996)
- 1898 – Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter (d. 1979)
- 1899 – Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
- 1899 – Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
- 1900 – Isadora Bennett, American theatre manager and modern dance publicity agent (d. 1980)
- 1903 – Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (d. 1986)
- 1903 – Roy Neuberger, American businessman and financier, co-founded Neuberger Berman (d. 2010)
- 1908 – Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect (d. 1996)
- 1911 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and theorist (d. 1980)
- 1911 – Umashankar Joshi, Indian author, poet, and scholar (d. 1988)
- 1914 – Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1977)
- 1917 – Alan B. Gold, Canadian lawyer and jurist (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Isaac Stern, Polish violinist and conductor (d. 2001)
- 1920 – Jean Daniel, Algerian-French-Jewish journalist and author (d. 2020)
- 1921 – James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (d. 2000)
- 1921 – John Horsley, English actor (d. 2014)
- 1921 – Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, Zulu sangoma (d. 2020)
- 1922 – Kay Starr, American singer (d. 2016)
- 1922 – Mollie Sugden, English actress (d. 2009)
- 1923 – Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1923 – Queenie Watts, English actress and singer (d. 1980)
- 1924 – Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 7th Governor of Balochistan
- 1924 – Don Knotts, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2006)
- 1926 – Paul Burke, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1925 – Johnny Peirson, Canadian hockey player
- 1926 – Norman Jewison, Canadian actor, director, and producer
- 1926 – Bill Pertwee, English actor (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Karel Reisz, Czech-English director and producer (d. 2002)
- 1928 – Sky Low Low, Canadian wrestler (d. 1998)
- 1929 – Bob Orton, American wrestler (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Anand Bakshi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 2002)
- 1930 – Helen Merrill, American singer
- 1931 – Sonny Clark, American pianist and composer (d. 1963)
- 1931 – Plas Johnson, American saxophonist
- 1931 – Leon Schidlowsky, Chilean-Israeli painter and composer
- 1932 – Kaye Stevens, American singer and actress (d. 2011)
- 1933 – John Gardner, American novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 1982)
- 1934 – Chandu Borde, Indian cricketer and manager
- 1934 – Jonathan Miller, English actor, director, and author (d. 2019)
- 1935 – Norbert Blüm, German businessman and politician
- 1935 – Moe Drabowsky, Polish-American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
- 1937 – Eduard Streltsov, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
- 1938 – Les Aspin, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 1995)
- 1938 – Anton Kuerti, Austrian-Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1938 – Janet Reno, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General (d. 2016)
- 1939 – Jamey Aebersold, American saxophonist and educator
- 1939 – Kim Fowley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and manager (d. 2015)
- 1939 – John Negroponte, English-American diplomat, 23rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1943 – Fritz Glatz, Austrian race car driver (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Edward Herrmann, American actor (d. 2014)
- 1943 – Henry McCullough, Northern Irish guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 2016)
- 1944 – John Atta Mills, Ghanaian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Ghana (d. 2012)
- 1944 – Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian author and academic (d. 2017)
- 1944 – Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (d. 2002)
- 1945 – Wendy Cope, English poet, critic, and educator
- 1945 – Geoff Dymock, Australian cricketer
- 1945 – Barry Richards, South African cricketer
- 1946 – Ken Starr, American lawyer and judge, 39th Solicitor General of the United States
- 1946 – Timothy Harris, American author, screenwriter and producer
- 1947 – Chetan Chauhan, Indian cricketer and politician
- 1948 – Art Hindle, Canadian actor and director
- 1948 – Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1948 – Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
- 1949 – Christina Hart, American playwright and actress
- 1949 – Hirini Melbourne, New Zealand singer-songwriter and poet (d. 2003)
- 1950 – Ubaldo Fillol, Argentinian footballer and coach
- 1950 – Susan Kramer, Baroness Kramer, English politician, Minister of State for Transport
- 1951 – Richard Gozney, English politician and diplomat, 30th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, 139th Governor of Bermuda
- 1951 – Robin Williams, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2014)
- 1952 – John Barrasso, American physician and politician
- 1952 – Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, Malaysian economist
- 1953 – Eric Bazilian, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and producer (The Hooters)
- 1953 – Jeff Fatt, Australian keyboard player and actor
- 1953 – Bernie Fraser, New Zealand rugby player
- 1953 – Brian Talbot, English footballer and manager
- 1955 – Howie Epstein, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 2003)
- 1955 – Dannel Malloy, American lawyer and politician, 88th Governor of Connecticut
- 1955 – Henry Priestman, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
- 1955 – Taco, Indonesian-born Dutch singer and entertainer
- 1955 – Béla Tarr, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1956 – Michael Connelly, American author
- 1957 – Stefan Löfven, Swedish trade union leader and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1957 – Jon Lovitz, American comedian, actor, and producer
- 1958 – Dave Henderson, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
- 1959 – Gene Miles, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
- 1959 – Reha Muhtar, Turkish journalist
- 1959 – Paul Vautin, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1960 – Amar Singh Chamkila, Indian singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
- 1960 – Veselin Matić, Serbian basketball player and coach
- 1960 – Fritz Walter, German footballer
- 1961 – Morris Iemma, Australian politician, 40th Premier of New South Wales
- 1961 – Jim Martin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1962 – Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale, English businessman
- 1963 – Kevin Poole, English footballer and manager
- 1963 – Giant Silva, Brazilian basketball player, mixed martial artist, and wrestler
- 1964 – Steve Collins, Irish boxer and actor
- 1964 – Ross Kemp, English actor and producer
- 1964 – Jens Weißflog, German ski jumper and journalist
- 1965 – Guðni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer and lawyer
- 1965 – Mike Bordick, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1966 – Arija Bareikis, American actress
- 1966 – Sarah Waters, Welsh author and academic
- 1968 – Brandi Chastain, American soccer player and sportscaster
- 1968 – Aditya Srivastava, Indian actor
- 1968 – Lyle Odelein, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – Godfrey, American comedian and actor
- 1969 – Klaus Graf, German race car driver
- 1969 – Emerson Hart, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1969 – Isabell Werth, German equestrian
- 1970 – Michael Fitzpatrick, American singer-songwriter
- 1971 – Emmanuel Bangué, French long jumper
- 1971 – Charlotte Gainsbourg, English-French actress and singer
- 1971 – Nitzan Shirazi, Israeli footballer and manager (d. 2014)
- 1972 – Korey Cooper, American singer and guitarist
- 1972 – Catherine Ndereba, Kenyan marathon runner
- 1974 – Geoff Jenkins, American baseball player and coach
- 1974 – René Reinumägi, Estonian actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1975 – Christopher Barzak, American author and educator
- 1975 – Cara Dillon, Irish singer-songwriter
- 1975 – Ravindra Pushpakumara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1975 – Mike Sellers, American football player
- 1976 – Jaime Murray, English actress
- 1977 – Paul Casey, English golfer
- 1978 – Justin Bartha, American actor
- 1978 – Anderson da Silva Gibin, Brazilian footballer
- 1978 – Josh Hartnett, American actor
- 1978 – Julian Huppert, English academic and politician
- 1978 – Damian Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
- 1978 – Gary Teale, Scottish footballer
- 1979 – David Carr, American football player
- 1979 – Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
- 1979 – Luis Ernesto Michel, Mexican footballer
- 1979 – Andriy Voronin, Ukrainian footballer
- 1980 – Justin Griffith, American football player
- 1980 – Sandra Laoura, French skier
- 1980 – CC Sabathia, American baseball player
- 1980 – Yvonne Sampson, Australian journalist and sportscaster
- 1981 – Paloma Faith, English singer-songwriter and actress
- 1981 – Anabelle Langlois, Canadian figure skater
- 1981 – Joaquín, Spanish footballer
- 1981 – Romeo Santos, American singer-songwriter
- 1981 – Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist
- 1982 – Jason Cram, Australian swimmer
- 1982 – Mao Kobayashi, Japanese newscaster and actress (d. 2017)
- 1984 – Jurrick Juliana, Dutch footballer
- 1984 – Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
- 1985 – Mati Lember, Estonian footballer
- 1985 – Von Wafer, American basketball player
- 1986 – Anthony Annan, Ghanaian footballer
- 1986 – Rebecca Ferguson, American-English singer-songwriter
- 1986 – Jason Thompson, American basketball player
- 1987 – Bilel Mohsni, French footballer
- 1987 – Jesús Zavala, Mexican footballer
- 1988 – KB, American rapper
- 1988 – DeAndre Jordan, American basketball player
- 1988 – Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer (d. 2016)
- 1989 – Marco Fabián, Mexican footballer
- 1989 – Juno Temple, English actress
- 1990 – Chris Martin, English footballer
- 1990 – Jason Roy, English cricketer
- 1990 – Erislandy Savón, Cuban amateur heavyweight boxer
- 1990 – Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete
- 1991 – Sara Sampaio, Portuguese model
- 1992 – Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
- 1996 – Mikael Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian footballer
- 1998 – Thomas Preining, Austrian racing driver
Deaths on July 21
- 658 – K’an II, Mayan ruler (b. 588)
- 710 – Li Guo’er, princess of the Tang dynasty
- 710 – Wei, empress of the Tang Dynasty
- 710 – Shangguan Wan’er, Chinese poet (b. 664)
- 987 – Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou
- 1259 – Gojong of Goryeo
- 1403 – Henry Percy, English soldier (b. 1364)
- 1403 – Sir Walter Blount, English soldier, standard-bearer of Henry IV
- 1403 – Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, English soldier
- 1425 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1350)
- 1552 – Antonio de Mendoza, Spanish politician, 1st Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1495)
- 1688 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1610)
- 1793 – Antoine Bruni d’Entrecasteaux, French admiral, explorer, and politician (b. 1739)
- 1796 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1759)
- 1798 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
- 1798 – Anthony Perry, Irish rebel leader (b. ca. 1760)
- 1868 – William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (b. 1789)
- 1878 – Sam Bass, American outlaw (b. 1851)
- 1880 – Hiram Walden, American general and politician (b. 1800)
- 1889 – Nelson Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
- 1899 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1833)
- 1920 – Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer and educator (b. 1864)
- 1932 – Bill Gleason, American baseball player (b. 1858)
- 1934 – Hubert Lyautey, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1854)
- 1938 – Owen Wister, American lawyer and author (b. 1860)
- 1941 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian poet and scholar (b. 1872)
- 1943 – Charley Paddock, American runner and actor (b. 1900)
- 1943 – Louis Vauxcelles, French Jewish art critic (b. 1870)
- 1944 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German soldier (b. 1907)
- 1946 – Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian soldier and politician, 45th President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
- 1948 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1904)
- 1952 – Pedro Lascuráin, Mexican politician, president for 45 minutes on February 13, 1913. (b. 1856)
- 1966 – Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Vienna Circle member (b. 1884)
- 1967 – Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1907)
- 1967 – Albert Lutuli, South African academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
- 1967 – Basil Rathbone, South African-American actor and singer (b. 1892)
- 1968 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
- 1970 – Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
- 1970 – Bob Kalsu, American football player and lieutenant (b. 1945)
- 1972 – Ralph Craig, American sprinter and sailor (b. 1889)
- 1972 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Bhutanese king (b. 1928)
- 1977 – Lee Miller, American model and photographer (b. 1907)
- 1982 – Dave Garroway, American journalist and actor (b. 1913)
- 1991 – Paul Warwick, English race car driver (b. 1969)
- 1994 – Marijac, French author and illustrator (b. 1908)
- 1997 – Olaf Kopvillem, Estonian-Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1926)
- 1998 – Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923)
- 1998 – Robert Young, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
- 2000 – Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (b. 1948)
- 2002 – Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (b. 1908)
- 2003 – John Davies, English-New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1938)
- 2004 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1929)
- 2004 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 2005 – Long John Baldry, English-Canadian singer and actor (b. 1941)
- 2005 – Lord Alfred Hayes, English-American wrestler and manager (b. 1928)
- 2006 – Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor and singer (b. 1933)
- 2006 – Ta Mok, Cambodian soldier and monk (b. 1926)
- 2007 – Dubravko Škiljan, Croatian linguist and academic (b. 1949)
- 2008 – Donald Stokes, English businessman (b. 1914)
- 2010 – Luis Corvalán, Chilean educator and politician (b. 1916)
- 2010 – Ralph Houk, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1919)
- 2010 – John E. Irving, Canadian businessman (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-American journalist and author (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Marie Kruckel, American baseball player (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Ali Podrimja, Albanian poet and author (b. 1942)
- 2012 – James D. Ramage, American admiral and pilot (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Angharad Rees, English-born Welsh actress (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (b. 1937)
- 2013 – Andrea Antonelli, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1988)
- 2013 – Lourembam Brojeshori Devi, Indian martial artist (b. 1981)
- 2013 – Det de Beus, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1958)
- 2013 – Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom, Colombian-French composer and educator (b. 1971)
- 2013 – Fred Taylor, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
- 2014 – Louise Abeita, Isleta Pueblo (Native American) writer, poet, and educator (b. 1926)
- 2014 – Dan Borislow, American businessman, invented the magicJack (b. 1961)
- 2014 – Lettice Curtis, English engineer and pilot (b. 1915)
- 2014 – Hans-Peter Kaul, German lawyer and judge (b. 1943)
- 2014 – Rilwanu Lukman, Nigerian engineer and politician (b. 1938)
- 2014 – Kevin Skinner, New Zealand rugby player and boxer (b. 1927)
- 2015 – Robert Broberg, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
- 2015 – E. L. Doctorow, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1931)
- 2015 – Nicholas Gonzalez, American physician (b. 1947)
- 2015 – Czesław Marchaj, Polish-English sailor and academic (b. 1918)
- 2015 – Dick Nanninga, Dutch footballer (b. 1949)
- 2016 – Dennis Green, American football player and coach (b. 1949)
- 2017 – John Heard, American film and television actor (b. 1946)
- 2018 – Alene Duerk, U.S. Navy first female admiral (b. 1920)
Holidays and observances on July 21
- Christian feast day:
  
  Albert John Luthuli (Episcopal Church)
  
  Arbogast
  
  Barhadbesciabas
  
  Carlos of Brazil (Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church)
  
  Daniel (Catholic Church)
  
  Lawrence of Brindisi
  
  Praxedes
  
  Victor of Marseilles
  
  July 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Liberation Day in 1944 (Guam)
- Belgian National Day (Belgium)
- Racial Harmony Day (Singapore)
- Summer Kazanskaya (Russia)
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July 4 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day
The Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date.

July 4 in History
- 362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
- 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
- 836 – Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed.
- 993 – Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint.
- 1054 – A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
- 1120 – Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew’s death.
- 1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
- 1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
- 1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
- 1456 – Ottoman–Hungarian wars: The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) begins.
- 1534 – Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
- 1584 – Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island
- 1610 – The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish–Muscovite War.
- 1634 – The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
- 1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cede lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts.
- 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
- 1802 – At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens.
- 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
- 1817 – In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
- 1826 – John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, respectively the second and third presidents of the United States, die the same day, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. Adams’ last words were, “Thomas Jefferson survives.”
- 1827 – Slavery is abolished in the State of New York.
- 1831 – Samuel Francis Smith writes “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 festivities.
- 1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
- 1838 – The Iowa Territory is organized.
- 1845 – Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau’s account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.
- 1855 – The first edition of Walt Whitman’s book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published In Brooklyn.
- 1862 – Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Confederate invasion of U.S. territory.
- 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
- 1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
- 1886 – The Canadian Pacific Railway’s first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
- 1887 – The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
- 1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
- 1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
- 1898 – En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
- 1901 – William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
- 1903 – The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
- 1910 – The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured.
- 1911 – A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
- 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
- 1914 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
- 1918 – Mehmed V died at the age of 73 and Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
- 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
- 1918 – Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
- 1927 – First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
- 1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself “The luckiest man on the face of the earth”, then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
- 1941 – Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
- 1941 – World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga is burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
- 1942 – World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
- 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world’s largest tank battle, begins in the village of Prokhorovka.
- 1943 – World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives.
- 1946 – The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
- 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
- 1947 – The “Indian Independence Bill” is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
- 1950 – Cold War: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.
- 1951 – Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
- 1951 – William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
- 1954 – Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
- 1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).
- 1961 – On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.
- 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
- 1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
- 1976 – The U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial.
- 1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit.
- 1982 – Three Iranian diplomats and a journalist are kidnapped in Lebanon by Phalange forces, and their fate remains unknown.
- 1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the “Butcher of Lyon”) is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1994 – Rwandan genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
- 1997 – NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
- 1998 – Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
- 2001 – Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
- 2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
- 2004 – Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and becomes European Champion for first time in its history.
- 2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
- 2006 – Space Shuttle program: Discovery launches STS-121 to the International Space Station. The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program’s history to occur on the United States’ Independence Day.
- 2009 – The Statue of Liberty’s crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
- 2009 – The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.
- 2012 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
- 2015 – Chile claims its first title in international soccer by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América Final.
Births on July 4
- AD 68 – Salonina Matidia, Roman daughter of Ulpia Marciana (d. 119)
- 1095 – Usama ibn Munqidh, Muslim poet, author and faris (Knight) (d. 1188)
- 1330 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shōgun (d. 1367)
- 1477 – Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist (d. 1534)
- 1546 – Murad III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1595)
- 1656 – John Leake, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1720)
- 1694 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist and composer (d. 1772)
- 1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and academic (d. 1769)
- 1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French playwright (d. 1797)
- 1729 – George Leonard, American lawyer, jurist and politician (d. 1819)
- 1753 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (d. 1809)
- 1790 – George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (d. 1866)
- 1799 – Oscar I of Sweden (d. 1859)
- 1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1864)
- 1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (d. 1882)
- 1816 – Hiram Walker, American businessman, founded Canadian Club whisky (d. 1899)
- 1826 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter and composer (d. 1864)
- 1842 – Hermann Cohen, German philosopher (d. 1918)
- 1845 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist and humanitarian (d. 1905)
- 1847 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus ringmaster, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (d. 1906)
- 1854 – Victor Babeș, Romanian physician and biologist (d. 1926)
- 1868 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer and academic (d. 1921)
- 1871 – Hubert Cecil Booth, English engineer (d. 1955)
- 1872 – Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
- 1874 – John McPhee, Australian journalist and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1952)
- 1880 – Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1975)
- 1881 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (d. 1968)
- 1883 – Rube Goldberg, American sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer (d. 1970)
- 1887 – Pio Pion, Italian engineer and businessman (d. 1965)
- 1888 – Henry Armetta, Italian-American actor and singer (d. 1945)
- 1895 – Irving Caesar, American songwriter and composer (d. 1996)
- 1896 – Mao Dun, Chinese journalist, author, and critic (d. 1981)
- 1897 – Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (d. 1924)
- 1898 – Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican-American historian and activist (d. 1997)
- 1898 – Gertrude Lawrence, British actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1952)
- 1898 – Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician (d. 1998)
- 1898 – Gertrude Weaver, American supercentenarian (d. 2015)
- 1900 – Belinda Dann, Indigenous Australian who was one of the Stolen Generation, reunited with family aged 107 (d. 2007)
- 1900 – Nellie Mae Rowe, American folk artist (d. 1982)
- 1902 – Meyer Lansky, American gangster (d. 1983)
- 1902 – George Murphy, American actor and politician (d. 1992)
- 1903 – Flor Peeters, Belgian organist, composer, and educator (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976)
- 1905 – Irving Johnson, American sailor and author (d. 1991)
- 1905 – Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, British diplomat and public servant (d. 1996)
- 1905 – Lionel Trilling, American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (d. 1975)
- 1906 – Vincent Schaefer, American chemist and meteorologist (d. 1993)
- 1907 – John Anderson, American discus thrower (d. 1948)
- 1907 – Howard Taubman, American author and critic (d. 1996)
- 1909 – Alec Templeton, Welsh composer, pianist and satirist (d. 1963)
- 1910 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist and scholar (d. 2003)
- 1910 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1911 – Bruce Hamilton, Australian public servant (d. 1989)
- 1911 – Mitch Miller, American singer and producer (d. 2010)
- 1914 – Nuccio Bertone, Italian automobile designer (d. 1997)
- 1915 – Timmie Rogers, American actor and singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
- 1916 – Iva Toguri D’Aquino, American typist and broadcaster (d. 2006)
- 1918 – Eppie Lederer, American journalist and radio host (d. 2002)
- 1918 – Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
- 1918 – King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV of Tonga, (d. 2006)
- 1918 – Alec Bedser, English cricketer (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Eric Bedser, English cricketer (d. 2006)
- 1918 – Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, created Dear Abby (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Norm Drucker, American basketball player and referee (d. 2015)
- 1920 – Leona Helmsley, American businesswoman (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Fritz Wilde, German footballer and manager (d. 1977)
- 1920 – Paul Bannai, American politician (d. 2019)
- 1921 – Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1921 – Nasser Sharifi, Iranian sports shooter
- 1921 – Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut (d. 2014)
- 1921 – Philip Rose, American actor, playwright, and producer (d. 2011)
- 1921 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 2003)
- 1922 – R. James Harvey, American politician (d. 2019)
- 1923 – Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress
- 1924 – Delia Fiallo, Cuban author and screenwriter
- 1925 – Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and politician (d. 2018)
- 1925 – Dorothy Head Knode, American tennis player (d. 2015)
- 1926 – Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (d. 2014)
- 1926 – Lake Underwood, American race car driver and businessman (d. 2008)
- 1927 – Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress and photographer
- 1927 – Neil Simon, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2018)
- 1928 – Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer and politician
- 1928 – Teofisto Guingona Jr., Filipino politician; 11th Vice President of the Philippines
- 1928 – Jassem Alwan, Syrian Army Officer (d. 2018)
- 1928 – Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (d. 2001)
- 1928 – Chuck Tanner, American baseball player and manager (d. 2011)
- 1929 – Ron Casey, Australian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2018)
- 1929 – Al Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (d. 2011)
- 1929 – Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998)
- 1930 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman (d. 2010)
- 1931 – Stephen Boyd, Northern Ireland-born American actor (d. 1977)
- 1931 – Rick Casares, American football player and soldier (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Sébastien Japrisot, French author, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
- 1931 – Peter Richardson, English cricketer (d. 2017)
- 1932 – Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian runner
- 1934 – Yvonne B. Miller, American academic and politician (d. 2012)
- 1934 – Colin Welland, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
- 1935 – Paul Scoon, Grenadian politician, 2nd Governor-General of Grenada (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Zdzisława Donat, Polish soprano and actress
- 1937 – Thomas Nagel, American philosopher and academic
- 1937 – Queen Sonja of Norway
- 1937 – Richard Rhodes, American journalist and historian
- 1937 – Eric Walters, Australian journalist (d. 2010)
- 1938 – Steven Rose, English biologist and academic
- 1938 – Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2020)
- 1940 – Pat Stapleton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2020)
- 1941 – Sam Farr, American politician
- 1941 – Tomaž Šalamun, Croatian-Slovenian poet and academic (d. 2014)
- 1941 – Pavel Sedláček, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1941 – Brian Willson, American soldier, lawyer, and activist
- 1942 – Hal Lanier, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1942 – Floyd Little, American football player and coach
- 1942 – Stefan Meller, French-Polish academic and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2008)
- 1942 – Prince Michael of Kent
- 1942 – Peter Rowan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1943 – Conny Bauer, German trombonist
- 1943 – Emerson Boozer, American football player and sportscaster
- 1943 – Adam Hart-Davis, English historian, author, and photographer
- 1943 – Geraldo Rivera, American lawyer, journalist, and author
- 1943 – Fred Wesley, American jazz and funk trombonist
- 1943 – Alan Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1970)
- 1945 – Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (d. 1972)
- 1946 – Ron Kovic, American author and activist
- 1946 – Michael Milken, American businessman and philanthropist
- 1947 – Lembit Ulfsak, Estonian actor and director (d. 2017)
- 1948 – René Arnoux, French race car driver
- 1948 – Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor
- 1948 – Jeremy Spencer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1950 – Philip Craven, English basketball player and swimmer
- 1950 – David Jensen, Canadian-English radio and television host
- 1951 – John Alexander, Australian tennis player and politician
- 1951 – Ralph Johnson, American R&B drummer and percussionist
- 1951 – Vladimir Tismăneanu, Romanian-American political scientist, sociologist, and academic
- 1951 – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American lawyer and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
- 1952 – Álvaro Uribe, Colombian lawyer and politician, 39th President of Colombia
- 1952 – Carol MacReady, English actress
- 1952 – John Waite, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1952 – Paul Rogat Loeb, American author and activist
- 1953 – Francis Maude, English lawyer and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
- 1954 – Jim Beattie, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1954 – Morganna, American model, actress, and dancer
- 1954 – Devendra Kumar Joshi, 21st Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy
- 1955 – Kevin Nichols, Australian cyclist
- 1956 – Robert Sinclair MacKay, British academic and educator
- 1957 – Rein Lang, Estonian politician and diplomat, 25th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1958 – Vera Leth, Greenlandic Ombudsman
- 1958 – Kirk Pengilly, Australian guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter
- 1958 – Carl Valentine, English-Canadian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1959 – Victoria Abril, Spanish actress and singer
- 1960 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (d. 1994)
- 1961 – Richard Garriott, English-American video game designer, created the Ultima series
- 1962 – Pam Shriver, American tennis player and sportscaster
- 1963 – Henri Leconte, French tennis player and sportscaster
- 1963 – Laureano Márquez, Spanish-Venezuelan political scientist and journalist
- 1963 – José Oquendo, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach
- 1963 – Sonia Pierre, Hatian-Dominican human rights activist (d. 2011)
- 1964 – Cle Kooiman, American soccer player and manager
- 1964 – Elie Saab, Lebanese fashion designer
- 1964 – Edi Rama, Albanian politician
- 1964 – Mark Slaughter, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1964 – Mark Whiting, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1965 – Harvey Grant, American basketball player and coach
- 1965 – Horace Grant, American basketball player and coach
- 1965 – Kiriakos Karataidis, Greek footballer and manager
- 1965 – Gérard Watkins, English actor and playwright
- 1966 – Ronni Ancona, Scottish actress and screenwriter
- 1966 – Minas Hantzidis, German-Greek footballer
- 1966 – Lee Reherman, American actor (d. 2016)
- 1967 – Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player and manager
- 1967 – Sébastien Deleigne, French athlete
- 1969 – Al Golden, American football player and coach
- 1969 – Todd Marinovich, American football player and coach
- 1969 – Wilfred Mugeyi, Zimbabwean footballer and coach
- 1972 – Stephen Giles, Canadian canoe racer and engineer
- 1972 – Mike Knuble, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
- 1973 – Keiko Ihara, Japanese race car driver
- 1973 – Gackt, Japanese musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor
- 1973 – Michael Johnson, English-Jamaican footballer and manager
- 1973 – Anjelika Krylova, Russian ice dancer and coach
- 1973 – Jan Magnussen, Danish race car driver
- 1973 – Tony Popovic, Australian footballer and manager
- 1974 – Jill Craybas, American tennis player
- 1974 – La’Roi Glover, American football player and sportscaster
- 1974 – Adrian Griffin, American basketball player and coach
- 1976 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
- 1976 – Yevgeniya Medvedeva, Russian skier
- 1978 – Marcos Daniel, Brazilian tennis player
- 1978 – Émile Mpenza, Belgian footballer
- 1979 – Siim Kabrits, Estonian politician
- 1979 – Josh McCown, American football player
- 1979 – Renny Vega, Venezuelan footballer
- 1980 – Kwame Steede, Bermudan footballer
- 1981 – Dedé, Angolan footballer
- 1981 – Brock Berlin, American football player
- 1981 – Christoph Preuß, German footballer
- 1981 – Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 – Will Smith, American football player (d. 2016)
- 1982 – Vladimir Boisa, Georgian basketball player
- 1982 – Vladimir Gusev, Russian cyclist
- 1982 – Jeff Lima, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1982 – Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino, American model, author and television personality
- 1983 – Melanie Fiona, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1983 – Amantle Montsho, Botswanan sprinter
- 1983 – Miguel Pinto, Chilean footballer
- 1983 – Amol Rajan, Indian-English journalist
- 1983 – Mattia Serafini, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Jin Akanishi, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1984 – Miguel Santos Soares, Timorese footballer
- 1985 – Kane Tenace, Australian footballer
- 1985 – Dimitrios Mavroeidis, Greek basketball player
- 1985 – Wason Rentería, Colombian footballer
- 1986 – Ömer Aşık, Turkish basketball player
- 1986 – Nguyen Ngoc Duy, Vietnamese footballer
- 1986 – Rafael Arévalo, Salvadoran tennis player
- 1986 – Willem Janssen, Dutch footballer
- 1986 – Terrance Knighton, American football player
- 1986 – Marte Elden, Norwegian skier
- 1987 – Wude Ayalew, Ethiopian runner
- 1987 – Guram Kashia, Georgian footballer
- 1988 – Angelique Boyer, French-Mexican actress
- 1989 – Benjamin Büchel, Liechtensteiner footballer
- 1990 – Jake Gardiner, American ice hockey player
- 1990 – Richard Mpong, Ghanaian footballer
- 1990 – Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer
- 1990 – Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian footballer
- 1992 – Ángel Romero, Paraguayan footballer
- 1992 – Óscar Romero, Paraguayan footballer
- 1993 – Tom Barkhuizen, English footballer
- 1995 – Post Malone, American singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer
- 1999 – Moa Kikuchi, Japanese musician
- 2003 – Polina Bogusevich, Russian singer
Deaths on July 4
- 673 – Ecgberht, king of Kent
- 907 – Luitpold, margrave of Bavaria
- 907 – Dietmar I, archbishop of Salzburg
- 910 – Luo Shaowei, Chinese warlord (b. 877)
- 940 – Wang Jianli, Chinese general (b. 871)
- 943 – Taejo of Goryeo, Korean king (b. 877)
- 945 – Zhuo Yanming, Chinese Buddhist monk and emperor
- 965 – Benedict V, pope of the Catholic Church
- 973 – Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop and saint (b. 890)
- 975 – Gwangjong of Goryeo, Korean king (b. 925)
- 1187 – Raynald of Châtillon, French knight (b. 1125)
- 1307 – Rudolf I of Bohemia (b. 1281)
- 1336 – Saint Elizabeth of Portugal (b. 1271)
- 1429 – Carlo I Tocco, ruler of Epirus (b. 1372)
- 1533 – John Frith, English priest, writer, and martyr (b. 1503)
- 1541 – Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish general and explorer (b. 1495)
- 1546 – Hayreddin Barbarossa, Ottoman admiral (b. 1478)
- 1551 – Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, English politician (b. 1514)
- 1603 – Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer and educator (b. 1521)
- 1623 – William Byrd, English composer (b. c. 1540)
- 1644 – Brian Twyne, English academic, antiquarian and archivist (b. 1581)
- 1648 – Antoine Daniel, French missionary and saint, one of the eight Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601)
- 1742 – Luigi Guido Grandi, Italian monk, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1671)
- 1754 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French playwright and author (b. 1680)
- 1761 – Samuel Richardson, English author and painter (b. 1689)
- 1780 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (b. 1712)
- 1787 – Charles, Prince of Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
- 1821 – Richard Cosway, English painter and academic (b. 1742)
- 1826 – John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
- 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, American architect, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
- 1831 – James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
- 1848 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician (b. 1768)
- 1850 – William Kirby, English entomologist and author (b. 1759)
- 1854 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German academic and jurist (b. 1781)
- 1857 – William L. Marcy, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 21st United States Secretary of State (b. 1786)
- 1881 – Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish philosopher and politician (b. 1806)
- 1882 – Joseph Brackett, American composer and author (b. 1797)
- 1886 – Poundmaker, Canadian tribal chief (b. 1797)
- 1891 – Hannibal Hamlin, American lawyer and politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (b. 1809)
- 1901 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist and academic (b. 1843)
- 1902 – Vivekananda, Indian monk and saint (b. 1863)
- 1905 – Élisée Reclus, French geographer and author (b. 1830)
- 1910 – Melville Fuller, American lawyer and jurist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
- 1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (b. 1835)
- 1916 – Alan Seeger, American soldier and poet (b. 1888)
- 1922 – Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1894)
- 1926 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist and saint (b. 1901)
- 1934 – Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
- 1938 – Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1881)
- 1938 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
- 1941 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1881)
- 1943 – Władysław Sikorski, Polish general and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland (b. 1881)
- 1946 – Taffy O’Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1906)
- 1948 – Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian journalist and author (b. 1882)
- 1949 – François Brandt, Dutch rower and engineer (b. 1874)
- 1963 – Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, New Zealand general and politician, 7th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
- 1963 – Clyde Kennard, American activist and martyr (b. 1927)
- 1963 – Pingali Venkayya, Indian activist, designed the Flag of India (b. 1876)
- 1964 – Gaby Morlay, French actress and singer (b. 1893)
- 1969 – Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter (b. 1890)
- 1970 – Barnett Newman, American painter and illustrator (b. 1905)
- 1970 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American sailor and businessman (b. 1884)
- 1971 – August Derleth, American anthologist and author (b. 1909)
- 1971 – Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (b. 1877)
- 1974 – Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
- 1974 – André Randall, French actor (b. 1892)
- 1976 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli colonel (b. 1946)
- 1976 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1895)
- 1977 – Gersh Budker, Ukrainian physicist and academic (b. 1918)
- 1979 – Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1905)
- 1980 – Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist and author (b. 1895)
- 1984 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
- 1986 – Paul-Gilbert Langevin, French musicologist, critique musical and physicist (b. 1933)
- 1986 – Flor Peeters, Belgian organist and composer (b. 1903)
- 1986 – Oscar Zariski, Belarusian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1899)
- 1988 – Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
- 1990 – Olive Ann Burns, American journalist and author (b. 1924)
- 1991 – Victor Chang, Chinese-Australian surgeon and physician (b. 1936)
- 1991 – Art Sansom, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
- 1992 – Astor Piazzolla, Argentinian bandoneon player and composer (b. 1921)
- 1993 – Bona Arsenault, Canadian historian, genealogist, and politician (b. 1903)
- 1994 – Joey Marella, American wrestling referee (b. 1964)
- 1995 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and singer (b. 1919)
- 1995 – Bob Ross, American painter and television host (b. 1942)
- 1997 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (b. 1934)
- 1997 – John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist (b. 1907)
- 1999 – Leo Garel, American illustrator and educator (b. 1917)
- 2000 – Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1919)
- 2002 – Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1919)
- 2002 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general (b. 1912)
- 2003 – Larry Burkett, American author and radio host (b. 1939)
- 2003 – André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
- 2003 – Barry White, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1944)
- 2004 – Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Cliff Goupille, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1915)
- 2005 – Hank Stram, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
- 2007 – Bill Pinkney, American singer (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Thomas M. Disch, American author and poet (b. 1940)
- 2008 – Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
- 2008 – Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
- 2008 – Terrence Kiel, American football player (b. 1980)
- 2008 – Charles Wheeler, German-English soldier and journalist (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2009 – Allen Klein, American businessman and talent agent, founded ABKCO Records (b. 1931)
- 2009 – Drake Levin, American guitarist (b. 1946)
- 2009 – Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
- 2009 – Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish author and actor (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese poet and politician (b. 1938)
- 2010 – Robert Neil Butler, American physician and author (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Hiren Bhattacharyya, Indian poet and author (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Jimmy Bivins, American boxer (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Jeong Min-hyeong, South Korean footballer (b. 1987)
- 2012 – Eric Sykes, English actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Onllwyn Brace, Welsh rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Jack Crompton, English footballer and manager (b. 1921)
- 2013 – James Fulton, American dermatologist and academic (b. 1940)
- 2013 – Charles A. Hines, American general (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Bernie Nolan, Irish singer (b. 1960)
- 2014 – Giorgio Faletti, Italian author, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1950)
- 2014 – C. J. Henderson, American author and critic (b. 1951)
- 2014 – Earl Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1936)
- 2014 – Richard Mellon Scaife, American businessman (b. 1932)
- 2015 – Nedelcho Beronov, Bulgarian judge and politician (b. 1928)
- 2015 – William Conrad Gibbons, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1926)
- 2016 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, and photographer (b. 1940)
- 2017 – John Blackwell, American R&B, funk, and jazz drummer (b. 1973)
- 2017 – Daniil Granin, Soviet and Russian author (b. 1919)
- 2018 – Henri Dirickx, Belgian footballer (b. 1927)
- 2018 – Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer (b. 1940)
Holidays and observances on July 4
- Christian feast day:
  
  Andrew of Crete
  
  Bertha of Artois
  
  Blessed Catherine Jarrige
  
  Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
  
  Elizabeth of Aragon (or of Portugal)
  
  Oda of Canterbury
  
  Ulrich of Augsburg
  
  July 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Birthday of Queen Sonja (Norway)
- The first evening of Dree Festival, celebrated until July 7 (Apatani people, Arunachal Pradesh, India)
- Independence Day, celebrates the Declaration of Independence of the United States from Great Britain in 1776. (United States and its dependencies)
- Liberation Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
- Liberation Day (Rwanda)
- Republic Day (Philippines)
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June 28 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day
June 28 in History
- 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
- 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
- 1461 – Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.
- 1519 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1575 – Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino.
- 1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
- 1651 – The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
- 1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
- 1745 – A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan’s Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
- 1797 – French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands.
- 1807 – Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
- 1838 – Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
- 1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
- 1846 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone.
- 1855 – Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.
- 1859 – The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
- 1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
- 1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
- 1881 – The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
- 1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
- 1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
- 1895 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious and fraudulent.”
- 1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company’s Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
- 1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
- 1904 – The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
- 1911 – The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
- 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
- 1917 – World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
- 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
- 1921 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
- 1922 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
- 1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
- 1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
- 1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
- 1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
- 1945 – Poland’s Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
- 1948 – Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.
- 1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
- 1950 – Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 to 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
- 1950 – Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea’s offensive. The city falls later that day.
- 1950 – Korean War: North Korean Army conducts the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.
- 1956 – in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
- 1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
- 1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
- 1973 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
- 1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
- 1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
- 1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
- 1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
- 1989 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
- 1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield’s ear.
- 2001 – Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
- 2004 – Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
- 2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
- 2016 – A terrorist attack in Turkey’s Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.
Births on June 28
- 751 – Carloman I, king of the Franks (d. 771)
- 1243 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (d. 1304)
- 1444 – Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1487)
- 1476 – Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
- 1490 – Albert of Brandenburg, German archbishop (d. 1545)
- 1491 – Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
- 1503 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian author and poet (d. 1556)
- 1547 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599)
- 1557 – Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (d. 1595)
- 1560 – Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1657)
- 1573 – Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, English noble (d. 1644)
- 1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter and diplomat (d. 1640)
- 1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English politician (d. 1662)
- 1604 – Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet (d. 1651)
- 1641 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d’Arquien, consort to King John III Sobieski (d. 1716)
- 1653 – Muhammad Azam Shah, Mughal emperor (d. 1707)
- 1703 – John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (d. 1791)
- 1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (d. 1778)
- 1719 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1785)
- 1734 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French organist and composer (d. 1794)
- 1742 – William Hooper, American physician, lawyer, and politician (d. 1790)
- 1824 – Paul Broca, French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (d. 1880)
- 1825 – Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist (d. 1909)
- 1831 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1907)
- 1836 – Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist and author (d. 1904)
- 1844 – John Boyle O’Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (d. 1890)
- 1852 – Charles Cruft, English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show (d. 1938)
- 1867 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
- 1873 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
- 1875 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
- 1879 – Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (d. 1949)
- 1880 – John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1971)
- 1883 – Pierre Laval, French soldier and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
- 1884 – Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leonean banker and politician (d. 1964)
- 1888 – George Challenor, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1947)
- 1888 – Stefi Geyer, Hungarian violinist and educator (d. 1956)
- 1891 – Esther Forbes, American historian and author (d. 1968)
- 1891 – Carl Spaatz, American general (d. 1974)
- 1892 – Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
- 1893 – August Zamoyski, Polish-French sculptor (d. 1970)
- 1894 – Francis Hunter, American tennis player (d. 1981)
- 1902 – Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (d. 1979)
- 1906 – Maria Goeppert Mayer, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
- 1907 – Jimmy Mundy, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1983)
- 1907 – Yvonne Sylvain, First female Haitian physician (d. 1989)
- 1909 – Eric Ambler, English author and screenwriter (d. 1998)
- 1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
- 1913 – Franz Antel, Austrian director and producer (d. 2007)
- 1913 – George Lloyd, English soldier and composer (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Walter Oesau, German colonel and pilot (d. 1944)
- 1914 – Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician and Nazi war criminal (d. 1992)
- 1917 – A. E. Hotchner, American author and playwright (d. 2020)
- 1918 – William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, Scottish-English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1999)
- 1919 – Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (d. 1983)
- 1920 – Clarissa Eden, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1921 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
- 1922 – Hans Frauenfelder, American physicist and biophysicist
- 1923 – Pete Candoli, American trumpet player (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentinian racing driver (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
- 1926 – George Booth, American cartoonist
- 1926 – Mel Brooks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1926 – Robert Ledley, American academic and inventor (d. 2012)
- 1927 – Correlli Barnett, English historian and author
- 1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Hans Blix, Swedish politician and diplomat, 33rd Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1928 – Patrick Hemingway, American writer
- 1928 – Harold Evans, English-American historian and journalist
- 1928 – Peter Heine, South African cricketer (d. 2005)
- 1928 – Cyril Smith, English politician (d. 2010)
- 1929 – Alfred Miodowicz, Polish politician
- 1930 – William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 – Itamar Franco, Brazilian engineer and politician, 33rd President of Brazil (d. 2011)
- 1930 – Jack Gold, English director and producer (d. 2015)
- 1931 – Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1931 – Junior Johnson, American race car driver (d. 2019)
- 1931 – Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
- 1932 – Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1933 – Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist and politician (d. 2011)
- 1934 – Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, Northern Irish lawyer and judge, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
- 1934 – Roy Gilchrist, Jamaican cricketer (d. 2001)
- 1934 – Bette Greene, American journalist and author
- 1934 – Carl Levin, American lawyer and politician
- 1934 – Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French journalist and cartoonist (d. 2015)
- 1935 – John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
- 1936 – Chuck Howley, American football player
- 1937 – George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
- 1937 – Fernand Labrie, Canadian endocrinologist and academic
- 1937 – Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1995)
- 1938 – John Byner, American actor and comedian
- 1938 – Leon Panetta, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense
- 1938 – S. Sivamaharajah, Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher and politician (d. 2006)
- 1938 – Simon Douglas-Pennant, 7th Baron Penrhyn, British baron
- 1939 – Klaus Schmiegel, German chemist
- 1940 – Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
- 1940 – Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 – Al Downing, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1941 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist and academic, developed the OBJ language (d. 2006)
- 1941 – David Johnston, Canadian academic, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor General of Canada
- 1942 – Chris Hani, South African politician (d. 1993)
- 1942 – Hans-Joachim Walde, German decathlete (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Frank Zane, American professional bodybuilder and author
- 1943 – Jens Birkemose, Danish painter
- 1943 – Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and academic
- 1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1945 – Ken Buchanan, Scottish boxer
- 1945 – David Knights, English bass player and producer
- 1945 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1989)
- 1945 – Türkan Şoray, Turkish actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1946 – Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (d. 2008)
- 1946 – Bruce Davison, American actor and director
- 1946 – David Duckham, English rugby player
- 1946 – Robert Xavier Rodríguez, American classical composer
- 1946 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean lawyer and politician (d. 1991)
- 1946 – Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (d. 1989)
- 1947 – Mark Helprin, American novelist and journalist
- 1947 – Laura Tyson, American economist and academic
- 1948 – Kathy Bates, American actress
- 1948 – Sergei Bodrov, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1948 – Deborah Moggach, English author and screenwriter
- 1948 – Daniel Wegner, Canadian-American psychologist and academic (d. 2013)
- 1949 – Don Baylor, American baseball player and coach (d. 2017)
- 1950 – Philip Fowke, English pianist and educator
- 1950 – Mauricio Rojas, Chilean-Swedish economist and politician
- 1950 – Chris Speier, American baseball player and coach
- 1951 – Mick Cronin, Australian rugby league player and coach
- 1951 – Mark Shand, English conservationist and author (d. 2014)
- 1951 – Lalla Ward, English actress and author
- 1952 – Enis Batur, Turkish poet and author
- 1952 – Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter and politician (d. 2013)
- 1952 – Jean-Christophe Rufin, French physician and author
- 1954 – A. A. Gill, Scottish author and critic (d. 2016)
- 1954 – Alice Krige, South African actress
- 1955 – Shirley Cheriton, British actress
- 1956 – Amira Hass, Israeli journalist and author
- 1956 – Noel Mugavin, Australian footballer and coach
- 1957 – Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1957 – Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian historian and politician, 4th President of Bulgaria
- 1957 – Mike Skinner, American race car driver
- 1957 – Jim Spanarkel, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1958 – Donna Edwards, American lawyer and politician
- 1958 – Félix Gray, Tunisian-French singer-songwriter
- 1959 – Clint Boon, English singer and keyboard player
- 1959 – John Shelley, British illustrator
- 1960 – John Elway, American football player and manager
- 1960 – Roland Melanson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1961 – Jeff Malone, American basketball player and coach
- 1962 – Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu, Romanian long jumper
- 1962 – Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (d. 2013)
- 1962 – Ann-Louise Skoglund, Swedish hurdler
- 1963 – Peter Baynham, Welsh actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1963 – Charlie Clouser, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
- 1964 – Christina Ashcroft, Canadian sport shooter
- 1964 – Mark Grace, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1964 – Bernie McCahill, New Zealand rugby player
- 1964 – Dan Stains, Australian rugby league player and coach
- 1964 – Steve Williamson, English saxophonist and composer
- 1965 – Jessica Hecht, American actress
- 1965 – Tiaan Strauss, South African rugby player
- 1966 – Peeter Allik, Estonian painter and illustrator (d. 2019)
- 1966 – Bobby Bare Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1966 – John Cusack, American actor and screenwriter
- 1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
- 1967 – Leona Aglukkaq, Canadian politician, 7th Canadian Minister of Health
- 1967 – Gil Bellows, Canadian actor and producer
- 1967 – Zhong Huandi, Chinese runner
- 1967 – Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
- 1968 – Chayanne, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1969 – Tichina Arnold, American actress and singer
- 1969 – Stéphane Chapuisat, Swiss footballer
- 1969 – Fabrizio Mori, Italian hurdler
- 1970 – Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach
- 1970 – Tom Merritt, American journalist
- 1970 – Mike White, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1971 – Lorenzo Amoruso, Italian footballer
- 1971 – Fabien Barthez, French footballer
- 1971 – Bobby Hurley, American basketball player and coach
- 1971 – Ron Mahay, American baseball player and scout
- 1971 – Elon Musk, South African-born American businessman
- 1971 – Aileen Quinn, American actress and singer
- 1972 – Ngô Bảo Châu, Vietnamese-French mathematician and academic
- 1972 – Chris Leslie, English politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
- 1972 – Geeta Tripathee, Nepali poet, lyricist and literary critic
- 1972 – Alessandro Nivola, American actor
- 1973 – Adrián Annus, Hungarian hammer thrower
- 1973 – Corey Koskie, Canadian baseball player
- 1974 – Rob Dyrdek, American skateboarder, entrepreneur, and reality television star
- 1975 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish singer-songwriter, and guitarist (d. 2006)
- 1976 – Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
- 1976 – Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
- 1977 – Chris Spurling, American baseball player
- 1977 – Mark Stoermer, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
- 1977 – Harun Tekin, Turkish singer and guitarist
- 1978 – Simon Larose, Canadian tennis player
- 1979 – Randy McMichael, American football player
- 1979 – Neil Shanahan, Irish racing driver (d. 1999)
- 1979 – Florian Zeller, French author and playwright
- 1980 – Jevgeni Novikov, Estonian footballer
- 1981 – Savage, New Zealand rapper
- 1981 – Michael Crafter, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1981 – Guillermo Martínez, Cuban javelin thrower
- 1981 – Brandon Phillips, American baseball player
- 1982 – Ibrahim Camejo, Cuban long jumper
- 1985 – Phil Bardsley, English footballer
- 1985 – Colt Hynes, American baseball player
- 1986 – Kellie Pickler, American singer-songwriter
- 1987 – Sonata Tamošaitytė, Lithuanian hurdler
- 1987 – Terrence Williams, American basketball player
- 1989 – Jason Clark, Australian rugby league player
- 1989 – Andrew Fifita, Australian rugby league player
- 1989 – David Fifita, Australian rugby league player
- 1989 – Julia Zlobina, Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater
- 1989 – Markiplier, American internet personality
- 1989 – Nicole Rottmann, Austrian tennis player
- 1991 – Seohyun, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
- 1991 – Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer
- 1991 – Kang Min-hyuk, South Korean singer, drummer, and actor
- 1992 – Oscar Hiljemark, Swedish footballer
- 1992 – Elaine Thompson, Jamaican sprinter
- 1993 – Bradley Beal, American basketball player
- 1994 – Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan
- 1994 – Emily Blue, American singer-songwriter
- 1996 – Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player
- 1996 – Larissa Werbicki, Canadian rower
- 1999 – Markéta Vondroušová, Czech tennis player
- 2002 – Marta Kostyuk, Ukrainian tennis player
Deaths on June 28
- 202 – Yuan Shao, Chinese warlord
- 548 – Theodora I, Byzantine empress
- 572 – Alboin, King of the Lombards
- 683 – Leo II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 611)
- 767 – Paul I, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 700)
- 928 – Louis the Blind, Holy Roman emperor (b. 880)
- 975 – Cyneweard, bishop of Wells
- 1031 – Taira no Tadatsune, Japanese governor
- 1061 – Floris I, count of Holland
- 1175 – Andrey Bogolyubsky, Russian Grand Prince (b. 1111)
- 1189 – Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony, (b. 1156)
- 1194 – Xiao Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1127)
- 1385 – Andronikos IV, Byzantine emperor (b. 1348)
- 1497 – James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley, English rebel leader (b. c. 1463)
- 1575 – Yonekura Shigetsugu, Japanese samurai
- 1586 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian author and reformer (b. 1508)
- 1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (b. 1527)
- 1607 – Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (b. 1543)
- 1716 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1665)
- 1757 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (b. 1687)
- 1798 – John Henry Colclough, Irish revolutionary (b. c. 1769)
- 1813 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War (b. 1755)
- 1834 – Joseph Bové, Russian architect, designed the Triumphal Arch of Moscow (b. 1784)
- 1836 – James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
- 1880 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American soldier and hunter (b. 1846)
- 1881 – Jules Armand Dufaure, French politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1798)
- 1889 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (b. 1818)
- 1892 – Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Greek poet and politician, Greek Foreign Minister (b. 1810)
- 1913 – Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Brazil (b. 1841)
- 1914 – Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg (b. 1868)
- 1914 – Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (b. 1863)
- 1915 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
- 1917 – Ștefan Luchian, Romanian painter and educator (b. 1868)
- 1922 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1885)
- 1929 – Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (b. 1844)
- 1936 – Alexander Berkman, American author and activist (d. 1870)
- 1939 – Douglas H. Johnston, governor of the Chickasaw Nation (b. 1856)
- 1940 – Italo Balbo, Italian air marshal and politician (b. 1896)
- 1944 – Friedrich Dollmann, German general (b. 1882)
- 1945 – Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu, Turkish journalist (b. 1879)
- 1947 – Stanislav Kostka Neumann, Czech writer, poet and journalist (b. 1875)
- 1960 – Jake Swirbul, American businessman, co-founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (b. 1898)
- 1962 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (b. 1903)
- 1962 – Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
- 1965 – Red Nichols, American cornet player, bandleader, and composer (b. 1905)
- 1966 – Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Turkish historian and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1890)
- 1971 – Franz Stangl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1908)
- 1974 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic (b. 1890)
- 1975 – Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
- 1975 – Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
- 1978 – Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
- 1980 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
- 1981 – Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (b. 1958)
- 1983 – Alf Francis, German-English motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor (b. 1918)
- 1984 – Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician (b. 1917)
- 1985 – Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (b. 1905)
- 1989 – Joris Ivens, Dutch journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
- 1992 – Guy Nève, Belgian racing driver (b. 1955)
- 1992 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
- 1995 – Petri Walli, Finnish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)
- 2000 – Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English publisher and politician (b. 1913)
- 2000 – Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
- 2001 – Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (b. 1902)
- 2003 – Joan Lowery Nixon, American journalist and author (b. 1927)
- 2004 – Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
- 2005 – Brenda Howard, American activist (b. 1946)
- 2005 – Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1976)
- 2006 – Jim Baen, American publisher, founded Baen Books (b. 1943)
- 2006 – Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1919)
- 2006 – George Unwin, English pilot and commander (b. 1913)
- 2007 – Eugene B. Fluckey, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913)
- 2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
- 2009 – A. K. Lohithadas, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
- 2009 – Billy Mays, American TV personality (b. 1958)
- 2010 – Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
- 2012 – Richard Isay, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Leontine T. Kelly, American bishop (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Robert Sabatier, French author and poet (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Doris Sams, American baseball player (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Ted Hood, American sailor and architect (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Tamás Katona, Hungarian historian and politician (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Kenneth Minogue, New Zealand-Australian political scientist and academic (b. 1930)
- 2013 – F. D. Reeve, American author and academic (b. 1928)
- 2013 – David Rubitsky, American sergeant (b. 1917)
- 2014 – Seymour Barab, American cellist and composer (b. 1921)
- 2014 – Jim Brosnan, American baseball player (b. 1929)
- 2014 – On Kawara, Japanese painter (b. 1933)
- 2014 – Meshach Taylor, American actor (b. 1947)
- 2015 – Jack Carter, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
- 2015 – Jope Seniloli, Fijian politician, Vice-President of Fiji (b. 1939)
- 2015 – Wally Stanowski, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
- 2016 – Scotty Moore, American guitarist (b. 1931)
- 2016 – Pat Summitt, American women’s college basketball head coach (b. 1952)
- 2016 – Buddy Ryan, American football coach (b. 1931)
- 2018 – Harlan Ellison, American writer (b. 1934)
Holidays and observances on June 28
- Christian feast day:
  
  Basilides and Potamiana
  
  Irenaeus of Lyon (Western Christianity)
  
  Heimerad
  
  Blessed Maria Pia Mastena
  
  Paulus I
  
  Vincenza Gerosa
  
  June 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Constitution Day (Ukraine)
- Earliest day on which Vardavar can fall, while August 1 is the latest; celebrated on the 14th weeks after Easter (Armenia)
- Family Day (Vietnam)
- Poznań Remembrance Day (Poland)
- Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus and an important day in Serbian history. (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Tau Day, a day similar to Pi Day celebrating the number Tau, which is equivalent to 2*Pi.
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June 24 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day
June 24 in History
- 1312 BC – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
- 217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
- 109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of Rome.
- 474 – Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 637 – The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dál Riata. It is claimed to be the largest battle in the history of Ireland.
- 972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
- 1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães: Forces led by Afonso I defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of León and her lover Fernando Pérez de Traba.
- 1230 – The Siege of Jaén begins, in the context of the Spanish Reconquista.
- 1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce.
- 1340 – Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Sluys: The French fleet is almost completely destroyed by the English fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
- 1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
- 1497 – John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
- 1509 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
- 1535 – The Dominion of Münster, a radical communal Anabaptist state in the independent German city of Münster, is conquered by Franz von Waldeck, the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Münster in a night attack.
- 1571 – Miguel López de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
- 1604 – Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present-day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
- 1622 – Battle of Macau: The Dutch make a failed attempt to capture Macau.
- 1663 – The Spanish garrison of Évora capitulates, following the Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial.
- 1717 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England is founded in London, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England).
- 1762 – Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The British-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats French forces in Westphalia.
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
- 1793 – The French Constitution of 1793 is formally adopted, although it is effectively suspended by the Committee of Public Safety.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon’s Grande Armée crosses the Neman river beginning the invasion of Russia.
- 1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams: A British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
- 1821 – The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
- 1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
- 1866 – Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
- 1880 – First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
- 1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
- 1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
- 1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
- 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
- 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
- 1922 – The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League.
- 1932 – A bloodless revolution instigated by the People’s Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
- 1938 – Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded.
- 1939 – Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the country’s third prime minister.
- 1940 – World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11 Independent Company.
- 1943 – US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
- 1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase “flying saucer”.
- 1948 – Cold War: Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
- 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.
- 1950 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races.
- 1954 – First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass: Viet Minh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M. 100 of France in An Khê.
- 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
- 1963 – The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
- 1973 – The UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, is attacked by an arsonist during a church service, and 32 people die from smoke inhalation or fire.
- 1975 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York’s JFK Airport killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft.
- 1981 – The Humber Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It remained the world’s longest bridge span for 17 years.
- 1982 – British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
- 1989 – Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- 1995 – Rugby World Cup: South Africa defeats New Zealand and Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb Ellis Cup in an iconic post-apartheid moment.
- 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
- 2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
- 2010 – At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
- 2010 – Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
- 2012 – Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.
- 2013 – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and engaging in sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.
Births on June 24
- 1210 – Count Floris IV of Holland (d. 1234)
- 1244 – Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1308)
- 1254 – Floris V, Count of Holland (d. 1296)
- 1257 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford, English nobleman (probable; d. 1331)
- 1314 – Philippa of Hainault Queen of England (d. 1369)
- 1322 – Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (d. 1406)
- 1343 – Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373)
- 1360 – Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general
- 1386 – John of Capistrano, Italian priest and saint (d. 1456)
- 1465 – Isabella del Balzo, Queen Consort of Naples (d. 1533)
- 1485 – Johannes Bugenhagen, Polish-German priest and reformer (d. 1558)
- 1485 – Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1555)
- 1499 – Johannes Brenz, German theologian and the Protestant Reformer (d. 1570)
- 1519 – Theodore Beza, French theologian and scholar (d. 1605)
- 1532 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1588)
- 1532 – William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1573)
- 1535 – Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (d. 1573)
- 1546 – Robert Persons, English Jesuit priest, insurrectionist, and author (d. 1610)
- 1587 – William Arnold, English-American settler (d. 1675)
- 1591 – Mustafa I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1639)
- 1614 – John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse
- 1616 – Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman, student of Rembrandt (d. 1680)
- 1661 – Hachisuka Tsunanori, Japanese daimyō (d. 1730)
- 1663 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (d. 1742)
- 1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German-Lutheran clergyman and scholar (d. 1757)
- 1694 – Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss author and theorist (d. 1748)
- 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens, French philosopher and author (d. 1771)
- 1753 – William Hull, American general and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan Territory (d. 1825)
- 1755 – Anacharsis Cloots, Prussian-French activist (d. 1794)
- 1767 – Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer and author (d. 1846)
- 1771 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French chemist and businessman, founded DuPont (d. 1834)
- 1774 – Antonio González de Balcarce, Argentinian commander and politician, 5th Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (d. 1819)
- 1774 – François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (d. 1838)
- 1777 – John Ross, Scottish commander and explorer (d. 1856)
- 1782 – Juan Larrea, Argentinian captain and politician (d. 1847)
- 1783 – Johann Heinrich von Thünen, German economist and geographer (d. 1850)
- 1784 – Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan general and politician, President of Uruguay (d. 1853)
- 1788 – Thomas Blanchard, American inventor (d. 1864)
- 1795 – Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician and psychologist (d. 1878)
- 1797 – John Hughes, Irish-American archbishop (d. 1864)
- 1797 – Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish geologist and explorer (d. 1873)
- 1804 – Stephan Endlicher, Austrian botanist, numismatist, and sinologist (d. 1849)
- 1804 – Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
- 1811 – John Archibald Campbell, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1889)
- 1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and reformer (d. 1887)
- 1813 – Francis Boott, American composer (d. 1904)
- 1821 – Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian physician and politician (d. 1890)
- 1826 – George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (d. 1898)
- 1835 – Johannes Wislicenus, German chemist and academic (d. 1902)
- 1838 – Jan Matejko, Polish painter (d. 1893)
- 1839 – Gustavus Franklin Swift, American businessman (d. 1903)
- 1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, and journalist (d. 1914)
- 1846 – Samuel Johnson, Nigerian priest and historian (d. 1901)
- 1850 – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Sudan (d. 1916)
- 1852 – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist and academic (d. 1915)
- 1854 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter (d. 1923)
- 1856 – Henry Chapman Mercer, American archaeologist and author (d. 1930)
- 1858 – Hastings Rashdall, English historian, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1924)
- 1865 – Robert Henri, American painter and educator (d. 1929)
- 1867 – Ruth Randall Edström, American educator and activist (d. 1944)
- 1869 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark (d. 1957)
- 1872 – Frank Crowninshield, American journalist and art and theatre critic (d. 1947)
- 1875 – Forrest Reid, Irish novelist, literary critic and translator (d. 1947)
- 1880 – Oswald Veblen, American mathematician and academic (g. 1960)
- 1880 – João Cândido Felisberto, Brazilian revolutionary and sailor (d. 1969)
- 1881 – George Shiels, Irish-Canadian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1949)
- 1882 – Athanase David, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1953)
- 1882 – Carl Diem, German businessman (d. 1962)
- 1883 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
- 1883 – Fritz Löhner-Beda, Jewish Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer (d.1942)
- 1883 – Jean Metzinger, French artist (d. 1956)
- 1883 – Arthur L. Newton, American runner (d. 1956)
- 1883 – Frank Verner, American runner (d. 1966)
- 1884 – Frank Waller, American runner (d. 1941)
- 1885 – Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist (d. 1975)
- 1888 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect, designed the Rietveld Schröder House (d. 1964)
- 1893 – Roy O. Disney, American businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
- 1895 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer and soldier (d. 1983)
- 1898 – Armin Öpik, Estonian-Australian paleontologist and geologist (d. 1983)
- 1898 – Karl Selter, Estonian politician, 14th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (d. 1958)
- 1900 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1945)
- 1901 – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (d. 2001)
- 1901 – Harry Partch, American composer and theorist (d. 1974)
- 1901 – Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman (d. 1969)
- 1904 – Phil Harris, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1995)
- 1905 – Fred Alderman, American sprinter (d. 1998)
- 1906 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (d. 1986)
- 1906 – Willard Maas, American poet and educator (d. 1971)
- 1907 – Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (d. 1989)
- 1908 – Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1942)
- 1908 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (d. 1976)
- 1909 – Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1978)
- 1909 – William Penney, Baron Penney, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1991)
- 1909 – Betty Cavanna, American author (d. 2001)
- 1911 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1995)
- 1911 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist and academic (d. 2011)
- 1911 – Portia White, Canadian opera singer (d. 1968)
- 1912 – Brian Johnston, English sportscaster and author (d. 1994)
- 1912 – Mary Wesley, English author (d. 2002)
- 1913 – Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist and soldier (d. 2002)
- 1914 – Jan Karski, Polish-American activist and academic (d. 2000)
- 1914 – Pearl Witherington, French secret agent (d. 2008)
- 1915 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (d. 2001)
- 1916 – William B. Saxbe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 70th United States Attorney General (d. 2010)
- 1916 – Saloua Raouda Choucair, Lebanese painter and sculptor (d. 2017)
- 1917 – David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist and academic (d. 2014)
- 1917 – Lucy Jarvis, American television producer (d. 2020)
- 1917 – Ramblin’ Tommy Scott, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
- 1917 – Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist (d. 1996)
- 1918 – Mildred Ladner Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2013)
- 1918 – Yong Nyuk Lin, Singaporean businessman and politician, Singaporean Minister for Education (d. 2012)
- 1919 – Al Molinaro, American actor (d. 2015)
- 1921 – Gerhard Sommer, German soldier
- 1922 – Jack Carter, American actor and comedian (d. 2015)
- 1922 – John Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (d. 2014)
- 1922 – Richard Timberlake, American economist
- 1923 – Margaret Olley, Australian painter and philanthropist (d. 2011)
- 1924 – Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician, 70th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2008)
- 1924 – Archie Roy, Scottish astronomer and academic (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Yoshito Takamine, American politician (d. 2015)
- 1925 – Ogden Reid, American politician (d. 2019)
- 1927 – Fernand Dumont, Canadian sociologist, philosopher, and poet (d. 1997)
- 1927 – James B. Edwards, American dentist, soldier, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (d. 2014)
- 1927 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
- 1929 – Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer
- 1930 – Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
- 1930 – Donald Gordon, South African businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
- 1930 – William Bernard Ziff, Jr., American publisher (d. 2006)
- 1931 – Billy Casper, American golfer and architect (d. 2015)
- 1932 – David McTaggart, Canadian-Italian environmentalist (d. 2001)
- 1933 – Sam Jones, American basketball player and coach
- 1933 – Ngina Kenyatta, 1st First Lady of Kenya
- 1934 – Ferdinand Biwersi, German footballer and referee (d. 2013)
- 1934 – Jean-Pierre Ferland, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1934 – Gloria Christian, Italian singer
- 1935 – Terry Riley, American composer and educator
- 1935 – Jean Milesi, French racing cyclist
- 1935 – Charlie Dees, American baseball player
- 1937 – Anita Desai, Indian-American author and academic
- 1938 – Lawrence Block, American author
- 1938 – Abulfaz Elchibey, 1st democratically elected Azerbaijani president (d. 2000)
- 1938 – Ken Gray, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1992)
- 1939 – Brigitte Fontaine, French singer
- 1940 – Ian Ross, Australian newsreader (d. 2014)
- 1940 – Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
- 1941 – Erkin Koray, Turkish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1941 – Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst and author
- 1941 – Graham McKenzie, Australian cricketer
- 1942 – Arthur Brown, English rock singer-songwriter
- 1942 – Michele Lee, American actress and singer
- 1942 – Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean engineer and politician, 32nd President of Chile
- 1942 – Colin Groves, Australian academician and educator
- 1943 – Birgit Grodal, Danish economist and academic (d. 2004)
- 1944 – Jeff Beck, English guitarist and songwriter
- 1944 – Kathryn Lasky, American author
- 1944 – Chris Wood, English saxophonist (d. 1983)
- 1945 – Colin Blunstone, English singer-songwriter
- 1945 – Wayne Cashman, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1945 – George Pataki, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Governor of New York
- 1945 – Betty Stöve, Dutch tennis player
- 1946 – David Collenette, Canadian civil servant and politician, 32nd Canadian Minister of National Defence
- 1946 – Ellison Onizuka, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1946 – Robert Reich, American economist and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Labor
- 1947 – Clarissa Dickson Wright, English chef, author, and television personality (d. 2014)
- 1947 – Peter Weller, American actor and director
- 1948 – Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player and songwriter
- 1949 – John Illsley, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
- 1949 – Betty Jackson, English fashion designer
- 1950 – Nancy Allen, American actress
- 1950 – Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish-born English photographer (d. 2006)
- 1950 – Jan Kulczyk, Polish businessman (d. 2015)
- 1950 – Mercedes Lackey, American author
- 1951 – Raelene Boyle, Australian sprinter
- 1951 – Charles Sturridge, English director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1952 – Dianna Melrose, English diplomat, British High Commissioner to Tanzania
- 1952 – Bob Neill, English lawyer and politician
- 1953 – William E. Moerner, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1953 – Michael Tuck, Australian footballer and coach
- 1955 – Chris Higgins, English geneticist and academic
- 1955 – Edmund Malura, German footballer and manager
- 1955 – Loren Roberts, American golfer
- 1956 – Owen Paterson, English politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
- 1957 – Mark Parkinson, American lawyer and politician, 45th Governor of Kansas
- 1958 – Jean Charest, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
- 1958 – Silvio Mondinelli, Italian mountaineer
- 1958 – John Tortorella, American ice hockey player and coach
- 1959 – Andy McCluskey, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
- 1960 – Elish Angiolini, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland
- 1960 – Siedah Garrett, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1960 – Karin Pilsäter, Swedish accountant and politician
- 1960 – Erik Poppe, Norwegian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
- 1961 – Dennis Danell, American singer and guitarist (d. 2000)
- 1961 – Iain Glen, Scottish actor
- 1961 – Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1961 – Ralph E. Reed, Jr., American journalist and activist
- 1961 – Curt Smith, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1963 – Yuri Kasparyan, Russian guitarist
- 1963 – Preki, Serbian-American soccer player and coach
- 1963 – Mike Wieringo, American author and illustrator (d. 2007)
- 1964 – Jean-Luc Delarue, French television host and producer (d. 2012)
- 1964 – Kathryn Parminter, Baroness Parminter, English politician
- 1964 – Gary Suter, American ice hockey player and scout
- 1965 – Claude Bourbonnais, Canadian race car driver
- 1965 – Uwe Krupp, German ice hockey player and coach
- 1965 – Richard Lumsden, English actor, writer, composer and musician
- 1966 – Hope Sandoval, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1966 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
- 1967 – Janez Lapajne, Slovenian director and producer
- 1967 – John Limniatis, Greek-Canadian footballer and manager
- 1968 – Alaa Abdelnaby, Egyptian-American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1970 – Glenn Medeiros, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1970 – Bernardo Sassetti, Portuguese pianist, composer, and educator (d. 2012)
- 1972 – Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
- 1972 – Denis Žvegelj, Slovenian rower
- 1973 – Alexis Gauthier, French chef
- 1973 – Jere Lehtinen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1974 – Dan Byles, English sailor, rower, and politician
- 1974 – Chris Guccione, American baseball player and umpire
- 1975 – Marek Malík, Czech ice hockey player
- 1975 – Federico Pucciariello, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
- 1976 – Brock Olivo, American football player and coach
- 1977 – Dimos Dikoudis, Greek basketball player and manager
- 1977 – Jeff Farmer, Australian footballer
- 1978 – Luis García, Spanish footballer
- 1978 – Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer
- 1978 – Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- 1978 – Ariel Pink, American singer-songwriter
- 1978 – Juan Román Riquelme, Argentinian footballer
- 1978 – Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist and songwriter
- 1979 – Mindy Kaling, American actress and producer
- 1979 – Petra Němcová, Czech model and philanthropist
- 1980 – Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 – Nina Dübbers, German tennis player
- 1980 – Andrew Jones, Australian race car driver
- 1980 – Minka Kelly, American actress
- 1982 – Kevin Nolan, English footballer
- 1982 – Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Rebecca Cooke, English swimmer
- 1983 – Gianni Munari, Italian footballer
- 1983 – Gard Nilssen, Norwegian drummer
- 1983 – David Shillington, Australian rugby league player
- 1984 – Andrea Raggi, Italian footballer
- 1984 – J.J. Redick, American basketball player
- 1984 – Johanna Welin, Swedish-born German wheelchair basketball player
- 1985 – Diego Alves Carreira, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 – Tom Kennedy, English footballer
- 1985 – Ethan Klein, American YouTuber
- 1985 – Nate Myles, Australian rugby league player
- 1985 – Vernon Philander, South African cricketer
- 1985 – Yukina Shirakawa, Japanese model
- 1986 – Stuart Broad, English cricketer
- 1986 – Phil Hughes, American baseball player
- 1986 – Solange Knowles, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1987 – Simona Dobrá, Czech tennis player
- 1987 – Lionel Messi, Argentinian footballer
- 1987 – Pierre Vaultier, French snowboarder
- 1988 – Micah Richards, English footballer
- 1989 – Teklemariam Medhin, Eritrean runner
- 1990 – Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990 – Richard Sukuta-Pasu, German footballer
- 1991 – Yasmin Paige, English actress
- 1991 – Aidan Sezer, Australian rugby league player
- 1992 – David Alaba, Austrian footballer
- 1996 – Duki, Argentinian rapper
Deaths on June 24
- 994 – Abu Isa al-Warraq, Arab scholar (b. 889)
- 1046 – Jeongjong II, Korean ruler (b. 1018)
- 1088 – William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, Norman nobleman
- 1314 – Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, English commander (b. 1291)
- 1314 – Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, English soldier and politician, Lord Warden of the Marches (b. 1274)
- 1398 – Hongwu, Chinese emperor (b. 1328)
- 1439 – Frederick IV, duke of Austria (b. 1382)
- 1503 – Reginald Bray, English architect and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1440)
- 1519 – Lucrezia Borgia, Italian wife of Alfonso I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara (b. 1480)
- 1520 – Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese commander (b. 1489)
- 1604 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English courtier, Lord Great Chamberlain (b. 1550)
- 1637 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (b. 1580)
- 1643 – John Hampden, English politician (b. 1595)
- 1766 – Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1678)
- 1778 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist and academic (b. 1714)
- 1803 – Matthew Thornton, Irish-American judge and politician (b. 1714)
- 1817 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1734)
- 1835 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1769)
- 1902 – George Leake, Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Western Australia (b. 1856)
- 1908 – Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (b. 1837)
- 1909 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1849)
- 1922 – Walther Rathenau, German businessman and politician, 7th German Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1867)
- 1931 – Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (b. 1840)
- 1931 – Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1880)
- 1932 – Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (b. 1879)
- 1943 – Camille Roy, Canadian priest and critic (b. 1870)
- 1946 – Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
- 1947 – Emil Seidel, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (b. 1864)
- 1962 – Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist and music critic (b. 1906)
- 1964 – Stuart Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1892)
- 1968 – Tony Hancock, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 1969 – Frank King, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
- 1969 – Willy Ley, German-American historian and author (b. 1906)
- 1976 – Minor White, American photographer, critic, and academic (b. 1908)
- 1978 – Robert Charroux, French author and critic (b. 1909)
- 1980 – V. V. Giri, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th President of India (b. 1894)
- 1984 – Clarence Campbell, Canadian businessman (b. 1905)
- 1987 – Jackie Gleason, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1916)
- 1988 – Csaba Kesjár, Hungarian race car driver (b. 1962)
- 1991 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (b. 1917)
- 1991 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter and illustrator (b. 1899)
- 1994 – Jean Vallerand, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1915)
- 1995 – Andrew J. Transue, American politician and attorney Morissette v. United States (b. 1903)
- 1997 – Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
- 2000 – Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
- 2000 – David Tomlinson, English actor and comedian (b. 1917)
- 2000 – Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine cuarteto singer (b. 1973)
- 2002 – Pierre Werner, Luxembourgian banker and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
- 2004 – Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter and author (b. 1957)
- 2005 – Paul Winchell, American actor, voice artist, and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Natasja Saad, Danish rapper and reggae singer (b. 1974)
- 2007 – Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (b. 1967)
- 2007 – Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
- 2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1919)
- 2009 – Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (b. 1927)
- 2010 – Fred Anderson, American jazz tenor saxophonist (b. 1929)
- 2011 – Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football coach and manager (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Darrel Akerfelds, American baseball player and coach (b. 1962)
- 2012 – Gad Beck, German author and educator (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (b. 1988)
- 2012 – Ann C. Scales, American lawyer, educator, and activist (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (b. 1946)
- 2013 – Emilio Colombo, Italian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop (b. 1932)
- 2013 – William Hathaway, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
- 2013 – James Martin, English-Bermudian computer scientist and author (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Alan Myers, American drummer (b. 1955)
- 2014 – John Clement, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1928)
- 2014 – Olga Kotelko, Canadian runner and softball player (b. 1919)
- 2014 – Ramón José Velásquez, Venezuelan journalist, lawyer, and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1916)
- 2014 – Eli Wallach, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2015 – Cristiano Araújo, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1986)
- 2015 – Mario Biaggi, American police officer, politician and criminal (b. 1917)
- 2015 – Marva Collins, American author and educator (b. 1936)
- 2015 – Susan Ahn Cuddy, American lieutenant (b. 1915)
- 2019 – Billy Drago, American actor (b. 1945)
Holidays and observances on June 24
- Army Day or Battle of Carabobo Day (Venezuela)
- Bannockburn Day (Scotland)
- Christian feast day:
  
  María Guadalupe García Zavala
  
  Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
  
  June 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Day of the Caboclo (Amazonas, Brazil)
- Discovery Day, observed on the nearest Monday to June 24 (Newfoundland and Labrador)
- Earliest day on which Armed Forces Day can fall, while June 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Saturday in June. (United Kingdom)
- Earliest day on which Inventors’ and Rationalizers’ Day can fall, while June 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Saturday in June. (Russia)
- Earliest day on which Mother’s Day can fall, while June 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in June. (Kenya)
- Earliest day on which Youth Day can fall, while Jun 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in June. (Ukraine, Belarus)
- Inti Raymi, a winter solstice festival and a New Year in the Andes of the Southern Hemisphere (Sacsayhuamán)
- St John’s Day and the second day of the Midsummer celebrations (although this is not the astronomical summer solstice, see June 20) (Roman Catholic Church, Europe), and its related observances:
  
  Enyovden (Bulgaria)
  
  Jaanipäev (Estonia)
  
  Jāņi (Latvia)
  
  Jónsmessa (Iceland)
  
  Midsummer Day (England)
  
  Saint Jonas’ Festival or Joninės (Lithuania)
  
  Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (Quebec)
  
  Sânziene (western Carpathian Mountains of Romania)
  
  Wattah Wattah Festival (Philippines)
- Fors Fortuna, ancient Roman festival to Fortuna
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June 19 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day
June 19 in History
- 325 – The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.
- 1179 – The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
- 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats 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 – New Church Day: Emanuel Swedenborg writes: “The Lord sent forth His twelve disciples, who followed Him in the world into the whole spiritual world to preach the Gospel that the Lord God Jesus Christ reign. This took place on the 19th day of June, in the year 1770.”
- 1800 – War of the Second Coalition Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria.
- 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- 1821 – Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
- 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken, New Jersey’s Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23–1. Cartwright umpired.
- 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
- 1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
- 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
- 1867 – Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
- 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
- 1903 – Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
- 1910 – The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
- 1913 – Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
- 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
- 1943 – The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
- 1953 – Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
- 1960 – The first NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
- 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
- 1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
- 1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
- 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
- 1988 – Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
- 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
- 1990 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
- 1991 – The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn.
- 2007 – The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
- 2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
- 2009 – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
- 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
- 2018 – The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.
Births on June 19
- 1301 – Prince Morikuni, shōgun of Japan (d. 1333)
- 1417 – Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini (d. 1468)
- 1566 – James VI and I of the United Kingdom (d. 1625)
- 1590 – Philip Bell, British colonial governor (d. 1678)
- 1595 – Hargobind, sixth Sikh guru (d. 1644)
- 1598 – Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1677)
- 1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (d. 1649)
- 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1662)
- 1633 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch author and theologian (d. 1712)
- 1701 – François Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1775)
- 1731 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
- 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general and politician (d. 1850)
- 1771 – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1859)
- 1776 – Francis Johnson, American lawyer and politician (d. 1842)
- 1783 – Friedrich Sertürner, German chemist and pharmacist (d. 1841)
- 1793 – Joseph Earl Sheffield, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1882)
- 1795 – James Braid, Scottish-English surgeon (d. 1860)
- 1797 – Hamilton Hume, Australian explorer (d. 1873)
- 1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (d. 1872)
- 1816 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist, founded the Webb Institute (d. 1899)
- 1833 – Mary Tenney Gray, American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (d. 1904)
- 1834 – Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (d. 1892)
- 1840 – Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz, German entomologist and academic (d. 1917)
- 1843 – Mary Sibbet Copley, American philanthropist (d. 1929)
- 1845 – Cléophas Beausoleil, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1904)
- 1846 – Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1928)
- 1850 – David Jayne Hill, American historian and politician, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1932)
- 1851 – Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
- 1851 – Silvanus P. Thompson, English physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1916)
- 1854 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (d. 1893)
- 1854 – Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and theorist (d. 1933)
- 1855 – George F. Roesch, American lawyer and politician (d. 1917)
- 1858 – Sam Walter Foss, American poet and librarian (d. 1911)
- 1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (d. 1928)
- 1861 – Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist (d. 1927)
- 1861 – José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (d. 1896)
- 1865 – May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
- 1871 – Alajos Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper, and physician (d. 1932)
- 1872 – Theodore Payne, English-American gardener and botanist (d. 1963)
- 1874 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (d. 1941)
- 1876 – Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (d. 1941)
- 1877 – Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
- 1881 – Maginel Wright Enright, American illustrator (d. 1966)
- 1883 – Gladys Mills Phipps, American horse breeder (d. 1970)
- 1884 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French painter and historian (d. 1974)
- 1886 – Finley Hamilton, American lawyer and politician (d. 1940)
- 1888 – Arthur Massey Berry, Canadian soldier and pilot (d. 1970)
- 1891 – John Heartfield, German photographer and activist (d. 1968)
- 1896 – Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (d. 1974)
- 1896 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward VIII (d. 1986)
- 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
- 1897 – Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
- 1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (d. 1977)
- 1903 – Mary Callery, American-French sculptor and academic (d. 1977)
- 1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
- 1903 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer and coach (d. 1965)
- 1903 – Hans Litten, German lawyer (d. 1938)
- 1905 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
- 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- 1906 – Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (d. 1975)
- 1906 – Walter Rauff, German SS officer (d. 1984)
- 1907 – Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
- 1909 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
- 1909 – Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (d. 1948)
- 1910 – Sydney Allard, English race car driver, founded the Allard Company (d. 1966)
- 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
- 1910 – Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1982)
- 1912 – Don Gutteridge, American baseball player and manager (d. 2008)
- 1912 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Helene Madison, American swimmer (d. 1970)
- 1914 – Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (d. 2000)
- 1914 – Lester Flatt, American bluegrass singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player (d. 1979)
- 1915 – Pat Buttram, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1915 – Julius Schwartz, American publisher and agent (d. 2004)
- 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean guerrilla leader and politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 1999)
- 1919 – Pauline Kael, American film critic (d. 2001)
- 1920 – Yves Robert, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
- 1921 – Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (d. 2015)
- 1922 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Marilyn P. Johnson, American educator and diplomat, 8th United States Ambassador to Togo
- 1923 – Bob Hank, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
- 1926 – Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician and inventor
- 1927 – Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Argentine general and human rights violator (d. 2018)
- 1928 – Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist
- 1928 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
- 1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
- 1932 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
- 1932 – José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (d. 2011)
- 1932 – Marisa Pavan, Italian actress
- 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)
- 1934 – Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti
- 1936 – Marisa Galvany, American soprano and actress
- 1937 – André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (d. 2015)
- 1938 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)
- 1939 – Bernd Hoss, German footballer and manager (d. 2016)
- 1939 – John F. MacArthur, American minister and theologian
- 1941 – Václav Klaus, Czech economist and politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic
- 1942 – Merata Mita, New Zealand director and producer (d. 2010)
- 1944 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer, composer, writer and poet
- 1945 – Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician and convicted war criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska
- 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1945 – Tobias Wolff, American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist
- 1946 – Jimmy Greenhoff, English footballer and manager
- 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian-English novelist and essayist
- 1947 – John Ralston Saul, Canadian philosopher and author
- 1948 – Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter (d. 1974)
- 1948 – Phylicia Rashad, American actress
- 1950 – Neil Asher Silberman, American archaeologist and historian
- 1950 – Ann Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist
- 1951 – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
- 1952 – Bob Ainsworth, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence
- 1954 – Mike O’Brien, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales
- 1954 – Lou Pearlman, American music producer and fraudster (d. 2016)
- 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress
- 1954 – Richard Wilkins, New Zealand-Australian journalist and television presenter
- 1955 – Mary O’Connor, New Zealand runner
- 1955 – Mary Schapiro, American lawyer and politician
- 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, 39th Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2003)
- 1957 – Jean Rabe, American journalist and author
- 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Russian-American ice hockey player and coach
- 1959 – Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player
- 1959 – Christian Wulff, German lawyer and politician, 10th President of Germany
- 1960 – Andrew Dilnot, English economist and academic
- 1960 – Johnny Gray, American runner and coach
- 1960 – Luke Morley, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
- 1960 – Patti Rizzo, American golfer
- 1962 – Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and presenter
- 1962 – Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
- 1962 – Ashish Vidyarthi, Indian actor
- 1963 – Laura Ingraham, American radio host and author
- 1963 – Margarita Ponomaryova, Russian hurdler
- 1963 – Rory Underwood, English rugby player, lieutenant, and pilot
- 1964 – Brent Goulet, American soccer player and manager
- 1964 – Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and former Mayor of London
- 1964 – Brian Vander Ark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1965 – Sabine Braun, German heptathlete
- 1965 – Sadie Frost, English actress and producer
- 1966 – Michalis Romanidis, Greek basketball player
- 1967 – Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier and businessman
- 1968 – Alastair Lynch, Australian footballer and sportscaster
- 1968 – Timothy Morton, American philosopher and academic
- 1968 – Kimberly Anne “Kim” Walker, American film and television actress (d. 2001)
- 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
- 1970 – Quincy Watts, American sprinter and football player
- 1970 – Brian Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1971 – José Emilio Amavisca, Spanish footballer
- 1971 – Chris Armstrong, English footballer
- 1972 – Jean Dujardin, French actor
- 1972 – Ilya Markov, Russian race walker
- 1972 – Brian McBride, American soccer player and coach
- 1972 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian-American actress
- 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actress
- 1973 – Jahine Arnold, American football player
- 1973 – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer
- 1973 – Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
- 1974 – Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1974 – Mustaque Ahmed Ruhi, Bangladeshi member of parliament
- 1975 – Hugh Dancy, English actor and model
- 1975 – Anthony Parker, American basketball player
- 1976 – Anar Baghirov, Azerbaijani lawyer
- 1976 – Dennis Crowley, American businessman, co-founded Foursquare
- 1976 – Bryan Hughes, English footballer and manager
- 1976 – Anita Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
- 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
- 1978 – Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
- 1979 – José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 – Jean Carroll, Irish cricketer
- 1980 – Dan Ellis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1980 – Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
- 1981 – Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi, Saudi Arabian long jumper
- 1981 – Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer
- 1982 – Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Chris Vermuelen, Australian motorcycle racer
- 1983 – Macklemore, American rapper
- 1983 – Aidan Turner, Irish actor
- 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor
- 1984 – Wieke Dijkstra, Dutch field hockey player
- 1984 – Andri Eleftheriou, Cypriot sport shooter
- 1985 – Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer
- 1985 – José Ernesto Sosa, Argentinian footballer
- 1985 – Dire Tune, Ethiopian runner
- 1986 – Aoiyama Kōsuke, Bulgarian sumo wrestler
- 1986 – Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter
- 1986 – Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast
- 1986 – Marvin Williams, American basketball player
- 1987 – Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
- 1988 – Jacob deGrom, American baseball player
- 1990 – Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter
- 1990 – Xavier Rhodes, American football player
- 1992 – Keaton Jennings, South African-English cricketer
- 1992 – C. J. Mosley, American football player
- 1993 – Olajide Olatunji, English YouTuber
Deaths on June 19
- 404 – Huan Xuan, Jin-dynasty warlord and emperor of Huan Chu (b. 369)
- 626 – Soga no Umako, Japanese son of Soga no Iname (b. 551)
- 930 – Xiao Qing, chancellor of Later Liang (b. 862)
- 1027 – Romuald, Italian mystic and saint (b. 951)
- 1185 – Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (b. 1147)
- 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, Welsh princess (b. 1252)
- 1312 – Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English politician (b. 1284)
- 1341 – Juliana Falconieri, Italian nun and saint (b. 1270)
- 1364 – Elisenda of Montcada, queen consort and regent of Aragon (b. 1292)
- 1504 – Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)
- 1542 – Leo Jud, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1482)
- 1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian-Russian lawyer and jurist (b. 1509)
- 1567 – Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg (b. 1507)
- 1584 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
- 1608 – Alberico Gentili, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1551)
- 1650 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and publisher (b. 1593)
- 1747 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer and educator (b. 1669)
- 1747 – Nader Shah, Persian leader (b. 1688)
- 1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (b. 1702)
- 1768 – Benjamin Tasker Sr., American soldier and politician, 10th Colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
- 1786 – Nathanael Greene, American general (b. 1742)
- 1805 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter and educator (b. 1724)
- 1820 – Joseph Banks, English botanist and author (b. 1743)
- 1844 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French zoologist and biologist (b. 1772)
- 1864 – Richard Heales, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Victoria (b. 1822)
- 1864 – Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, American soldier (b. 1843)
- 1865 – Evangelos Zappas, Greek-Romanian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1800)
- 1867 – Miguel Miramón, Unconstitutional president of Mexico, 1859-1860 (b. 1832)
- 1867 – Maximilian I of Mexico (b. 1832)
- 1874 – Ferdinand Stoliczka, Moravian palaeontologist and ornithologist (b. 1838)
- 1884 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian-French politician and diplomat (b. 1810)
- 1903 – Herbert Vaughan, English cardinal (b. 1832)
- 1918 – Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (b. 1888)
- 1921 – Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet and author (b. 1888)
- 1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (b. 1874)
- 1932 – Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (b. 1876)
- 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (b. 1860)
- 1939 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
- 1940 – Maurice Jaubert, French composer and conductor (b. 1900)
- 1941 – C. V. Hartman, Swiss botanist and anthropologist (b. 1862)
- 1941 – Otto Hirsch, German jurist and politician (b. 1885)
- 1949 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian philosopher and academic (b. 1885)
- 1951 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884)
- 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1915)
- 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1918)
- 1956 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (b. 1874)
- 1962 – Frank Borzage, American film director and actor (b. 1894)
- 1966 – Ed Wynn, American actor and comedian (b. 1886)
- 1968 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
- 1975 – Sam Giancana, American mob boss (b. 1908)
- 1977 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and philosopher (b. 1933)
- 1979 – Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (b. 1888)
- 1981 – Anya Phillips, Chinese-American band manager and co-founder of the Mudd Club (b. 1955)
- 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter and educator (b. 1908)
- 1986 – Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
- 1987 – Margaret Carver Leighton, American author (b. 1896)
- 1988 – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (b. 1922)
- 1988 – Gladys Spellman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
- 1989 – Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)
- 1990 – George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (b. 1911)
- 1990 – Isabella Smith Andrews, New Zealand writer (b. 1905)
- 1991 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
- 1993 – William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 1995 – Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)
- 2001 – Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1912)
- 2001 – John Heyer, Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
- 2004 – Clayton Kirkpatrick, journalist and newspaper editor (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Alberto Mijangos, Mexican-American painter and educator (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Terry Hoeppner, American football player and coach (b. 1947)
- 2007 – Ze’ev Schiff, Israeli journalist and author (b. 1932)
- 2008 – Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist, founded Bartaman (b. 1934)
- 2009 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese engineer and surveyor (b. 1895)
- 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (b. 1962)
- 2010 – Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Norbert Tiemann, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Vince Flynn, American author (b. 1966)
- 2013 – James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (b. 1961)
- 2013 – Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Dave Jennings, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1965)
- 2013 – Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
- 2014 – Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt, German general (b. 1915)
- 2014 – Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
- 2014 – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
- 2015 – James Salter, American novelist and short-story writer (b. 1925)
- 2016 – Anton Yelchin, American actor (b. 1989)
- 2017 – Otto Warmbier, American college student detained in North Korea (b. 1994)
- 2018 – Koko, western lowland gorilla and user of American Sign Language (b. 1971)
- 2019 – Etika, American YouTuber and streamer (b. 1990)
Holidays and observances on June 19
- Christian feast day:
  
  Deodatus (or Didier) of Nevers (or of Jointures)
  
  Gervasius and Protasius (Catholic Church)
  
  Hildegrim of Châlons
  
  Juliana Falconieri
  
  Romuald
  
  Ursicinus of Ravenna
  
  Zosimus
  
  June 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- New Church feast day
  
  New Church Day
- Day of the Independent Hungary (Hungary)
- Feast of Forest (Palawan)
- Juneteenth (United States, especially African Americans)
- Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
- Laguna Day (Laguna)
- Never Again Day (Uruguay)
- World Sickle Cell Day (International)
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June 17 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day
June 17 in History
- 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism.
- 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were burnt in Paris.
- 1397 – The Kalmar Union is formed under the rule of Margaret I of Denmark.
- 1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack at Târgovişte), forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
- 1497 – Battle of Deptford Bridge: Forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
- 1565 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
- 1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
- 1596 – The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
- 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
- 1665 – Battle of Montes Claros: Portugal definitively secured independence from Spain in the last battle of the Portuguese Restoration War.
- 1673 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
- 1767 – Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
- 1773 – Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
- 1789 – In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
- 1794 – Foundation of Anglo-Corsican Kingdom.
- 1795 – The burghers of Swellendam expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic.
- 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 are established as a result.
- 1843 – The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
- 1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook’s forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
- 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
- 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
- 1898 – The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
- 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
- 1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
- 1910 – Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
- 1922 – Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.
- 1929 – The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand’s worst natural disaster.
- 1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- 1932 – Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass 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 are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
- 1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
- 1940 – World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain’s worst maritime disaster.
- 1940 – World War II: The British Army’s 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
- 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
- 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
- 1948 – United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
- 1952 – Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
- 1953 – Cold War: East Germany 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, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
- 1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km²) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
- 1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord’s Prayer in public schools.
- 1963 – A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
- 1967 – Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
- 1972 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert the democratic process
- 1985 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
- 1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.
- 1991 – Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
- 1992 – A “joint understanding” agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
- 1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
- 2015 – Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
- 2017 – A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others.
Births on June 17
- 801 – Drogo of Metz, Frankish bishop (d. 855)
- 1239 – Edward I, English king (d. 1307)
- 1530 – François de Montmorency, French nobleman (d. 1579)
- 1571 – Thomas Mun, English writer on economics (d. 1641)
- 1603 – Joseph of Cupertino, Italian mystic and saint (d. 1663)
- 1604 – John Maurice, Dutch nobleman (d. 1679)
- 1610 – Birgitte Thott, Danish scholar, writer and translator (b. 1662)
- 1631 – Gauharara Begum, Mughal princess (d. 1706)
- 1682 – Charles XII, Swedish king (d. 1718)
- 1691 – Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)
- 1693 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian and author (d. 1775)
- 1704 – John Kay, English engineer, invented the Flying shuttle (d. 1780)
- 1714 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer (d. 1784)
- 1718 – George Howard, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Minorca (d. 1796)
- 1778 – Gregory Blaxland, English-Australian explorer (d. 1853)
- 1800 – William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, English-Irish astronomer and politician (d. 1867)
- 1808 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian poet, playwright, and linguist (d. 1845)
- 1810 – Ferdinand Freiligrath, German poet and translator (d. 1876)
- 1811 – Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic scholar and politician (d. 1879)
- 1818 – Charles Gounod, French composer and academic (d. 1893)
- 1818 – Sophie of Württemberg, queen of the Netherlands (d. 1877)
- 1821 – E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and journalist (d. 1888)
- 1832 – William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (d. 1919)
- 1833 – Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and president (d. 1893)
- 1858 – Eben Sumner Draper, American businessman and politician, 44th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1914)
- 1861 – Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
- 1861 – Omar Bundy, American general (d. 1940)
- 1863 – Charles Michael, duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1934)
- 1865 – Susan La Flesche Picotte, Native American physician (d. 1915)
- 1867 – Flora Finch, English-American actress (d. 1940)
- 1867 – John Robert Gregg, Irish-born American educator, publisher, and humanitarian (d. 1948)
- 1867 – Henry Lawson, Australian poet and author (d. 1922)
- 1871 – James Weldon Johnson, American author, journalist, and activist (d. 1938)
- 1876 – William Carr, American rower (d. 1942)
- 1876 – Edward Anthony Spitzka, American anatomist and author (d. 1922)
- 1880 – Carl Van Vechten, American author and photographer (d. 1964)
- 1881 – Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer and promoter (d. 1955)
- 1882 – Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)
- 1882 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1971)
- 1888 – Heinz Guderian, German general (d. 1954)
- 1897 – Maria Izilda de Castro Ribeiro, Brazilian girl, popular saint (d. 1911)
- 1898 – M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator (d. 1972)
- 1898 – Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic (d. 1961)
- 1898 – Harry Patch, English soldier and firefighter (d. 2009)
- 1900 – Martin Bormann, German politician (d. 1945)
- 1900 – Evelyn Irons, Scottish journalist and war correspondent (d. 2000)
- 1902 – Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer (d. 1989)
- 1902 – Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)
- 1903 – Ruth Graves Wakefield, American chef, created the chocolate chip cookie (d. 1977)
- 1904 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1904 – J. Vernon McGee, American pastor and theologian (d. 1988)
- 1904 – Patrice Tardif, Canadian farmer and politician (d. 1989)
- 1907 – Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
- 1909 – Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
- 1909 – Ralph E. Winters, Canadian-American film editor (d. 2004)
- 1910 – Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1968)
- 1910 – George Hees, Canadian football player and politician (d. 1996)
- 1914 – John Hersey, American journalist and author (d. 1993)
- 1915 – David “Stringbean” Akeman, American singer and banjo player (d. 1973)
- 1915 – Marcel Cadieux, Canadian civil servant and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States (d. 1981)
- 1916 – Terry Gilkyson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
- 1917 – Dufferin Roblin, Canadian politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Ajahn Chah, Thai monk and educator (d. 1992)
- 1919 – William Kaye Estes, American psychologist and academic (d. 2011)
- 1919 – John Moffat, Scottish lieutenant and pilot (d. 2016)
- 1919 – Beryl Reid, English actress (d. 1996)
- 1920 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American lawyer and politician (d. 1981)
- 1920 – Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (d. 2015)
- 1920 – François Jacob, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Peter Le Cheminant, English air marshal and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (d. 2018)
- 1922 – John Amis, English journalist and critic (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Elroy Hirsch, American football player (d. 2004)
- 1923 – Arnold S. Relman, American physician and academic (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Dale C. Thomson, Canadian historian and academic (d. 1999)
- 1925 – Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist (d. 2014)
- 1927 – Martin Böttcher, German composer and conductor (d. 2019)
- 1927 – Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher (d. 1981)
- 1928 – Juan María Bordaberry, President of Uruguay (d. 2011)
- 1929 – Bud Collins, American journalist and sportscaster (d. 2016)
- 1929 – Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player (d. 1984)
- 1930 – Cliff Gallup, American rock & roll guitarist (d. 1988)
- 1930 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
- 1931 – John Baldessari, American painter and illustrator (d. 2020)
- 1932 – Derek Ibbotson, English runner (d. 2017)
- 1932 – John Murtha, American colonel and politician (d. 2010)
- 1933 – Harry Browne, American soldier and politician (d. 2006)
- 1933 – Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)
- 1933 – Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (d. 1970)
- 1936 – Vern Harper, Canadian tribal leader and activist (d. 2018)
- 1936 – Ken Loach, English director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1937 – Peter Fitzgerald, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
- 1937 – Ted Nelson, American sociologist and philosopher
- 1937 – Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian fashion designer, television presenter and politician (d. 2009)
- 1940 – George Akerlof, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1940 – Bobby Bell, American football player
- 1940 – Chuck Rainey, American bassist
- 1941 – Nicholas C. Handy, English chemist and academic (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian politician, Vice President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942 – Doğu Perinçek, Turkish lawyer and politician
- 1942 – Roger Steffens, American actor and producer
- 1943 – Newt Gingrich, American historian and politician, 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- 1943 – Barry Manilow, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1943 – Chantal Mouffe, Belgian theorist and author
- 1943 – Burt Rutan, American engineer and pilot
- 1944 – Randy Johnson, American football player (d. 2009)
- 1944 – Chris Spedding, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1945 – Tommy Franks, American general
- 1945 – Ken Livingstone, English politician, 1st Mayor of London
- 1945 – Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist and sportscaster
- 1945 – Art Bell, American broadcaster and author (d. 2018)
- 1946 – Peter Rosei, Austrian author, poet, and playwright
- 1947 – Christopher Allport, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1947 – Timothy Wright, American gospel singer, pastor (d. 2009)
- 1947 – Linda Chavez, American journalist and author
- 1947 – George S. Clinton, American composer and songwriter
- 1947 – Gregg Rolie, American rock singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1947 – Paul Young, English singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
- 1948 – Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player and manager
- 1948 – Jacqueline Jones, American historian and academic
- 1948 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player and politician (d. 1992)
- 1948 – Karol Sikora, English physician and academic
- 1949 – Snakefinger, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1987)
- 1949 – John Craven, English economist and academic
- 1949 – Russell Smith, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
- 1950 – Lee Tamahori, New Zealand film director
- 1951 – Starhawk, American author and activist
- 1951 – John Garrett, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1951 – Joe Piscopo, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
- 1952 – Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach, and manager
- 1952 – Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, English educator and politician, Secretary of State for Education
- 1953 – Vernon Coaker, English educator and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
- 1953 – Juan Muñoz, Spanish sculptor and storyteller (d. 2001)
- 1954 – Mark Linn-Baker, American actor and director
- 1955 – Mati Laur, Estonian historian, author, and academic
- 1955 – Bob Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1955 – Cem Hakko, Turkish fashion designer and businessman
- 1956 – Iain Milne, Scottish rugby player
- 1957 – Philip Chevron, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
- 1957 – Martin Dillon, American tenor and educator (d. 2005)
- 1957 – Uģis Prauliņš, Latvian composer
- 1958 – Pierre Berbizier, French rugby player and coach
- 1958 – Jello Biafra, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1958 – Bobby Farrelly, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1958 – Sam Hamad, Syrian-Canadian academic and politician
- 1958 – Jon Leibowitz, American lawyer and politician
- 1958 – Daniel McVicar, American actor
- 1959 – Carol Anderson, American author and historian
- 1959 – Lawrence Haddad, South African-English economist and academic
- 1959 – Nikos Stavropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
- 1960 – Adrián Campos, Spanish race car driver
- 1960 – Thomas Haden Church, American actor
- 1961 – Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese actor and singer
- 1962 – Michael Monroe, Finnish singer-songwriter and saxophonist
- 1963 – Greg Kinnear, American actor, television presenter, and producer
- 1964 – Rinaldo Capello, Italian race car driver
- 1964 – Michael Gross, German swimmer
- 1964 – Steve Rhodes, English cricketer and coach
- 1965 – Dermontti Dawson, American football player and coach
- 1965 – Dan Jansen, American speed skater and sportscaster
- 1965 – Dara O’Kearney, Irish runner and poker player
- 1966 – Mohammed Ghazy Al-Akhras, Iraqi journalist and author
- 1966 – Tory Burch, American fashion designer and philanthropist
- 1966 – Ken Clark, American football player (d. 2013)
- 1966 – Diane Modahl, English runner
- 1966 – Jason Patric, American actor
- 1967 – Dorothea Röschmann, German soprano and actress
- 1967 – Eric Stefani, American keyboard player and composer
- 1968 – Steve Georgallis, Australian rugby league player and coach
- 1968 – Minoru Suzuki, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
- 1969 – Paul Tergat, Kenyan runner
- 1969 – Geoff Toovey, Australian rugby league player and coach
- 1969 – Ilya Tsymbalar, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
- 1970 – Stéphane Fiset, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970 – Will Forte, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
- 1970 – Jason Hanson, American football player
- 1970 – Popeye Jones, American basketball player and coach
- 1970 – Michael Showalter, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1970 – Alan Dowson, English football manager and former professional player
- 1971 – Paulina Rubio, Mexican pop singer
- 1971 – Mildred Fox, Irish politician
- 1973 – Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
- 1974 – Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer
- 1975 – Joshua Leonard, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1975 – Juan Carlos Valerón, Spanish footballer
- 1975 – Phiyada Akkraseranee, Thai actress and model
- 1976 – Scott Adkins, English actor and martial artist
- 1976 – Sven Nys, Belgian cyclist
- 1977 – Tjaša Jezernik, Slovenian tennis player
- 1977 – Mark Tauscher, American football player and sportscaster
- 1978 – Isabelle Delobel, French ice dancer
- 1978 – Travis Roche, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Nick Rimando, American soccer player
- 1979 – Tyson Apostol, American television personality
- 1979 – Young Maylay, American rapper, producer, and voice actor
- 1980 – Elisa Rigaudo, Italian race walker
- 1980 – Jeph Jacques, American author and illustrator
- 1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player
- 1981 – Kyle Boller, American football player
- 1981 – Shane Watson, Australian cricketer
- 1982 – Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa, Brazilian footballer
- 1982 – Marek Svatoš, Slovak ice hockey player (d. 2016)
- 1982 – Stanislava Hrozenská, Slovak tennis player
- 1982 – Stefan Hodgetts, English racing driver
- 1982 – Arthur Darvill, English actor
- 1982 – Jodie Whittaker, English actress
- 1983 – Lee Ryan, English singer/actor
- 1983 – Vlasis Kazakis, Greek footballer
- 1984 – Michael Mathieu, Bahamian sprinter
- 1984 – Si Tianfeng, Chinese race walker
- 1985 – Özge Akın, Turkish sprinter
- 1985 – Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
- 1985 – Rafael Sóbis, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Apoula Edel, Armenian footballer
- 1986 – Helen Glover, English rower
- 1987 – Kendrick Lamar, American rapper
- 1987 – Nozomi Tsuji, Japanese singer and actress
- 1988 – Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player
- 1988 – Shaun MacDonald, Welsh footballer
- 1988 – Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer
- 1989 – Georgios Tofas, Cypriot footballer
- 1989 – Simone Battle, American singer and actress (d. 2014)
- 1990 – Jordan Henderson, English footballer
- 1990 – Josh Mansour, Australian rugby league player
- 1991 – Daniel Tupou, Australian-Tongan rugby league player
- 1994 – Amari Cooper, American football player
- 1995 – Clément Lenglet, French footballer
Deaths on June 17
- 656 – Uthman, caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate (b. 579)
- 676 – Adeodatus, pope of the Catholic Church
- 811 – Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, Japanese shōgun (b. 758)
- 850 – Tachibana no Kachiko, Japanese empress (b. 786)
- 900 – Fulk, French archbishop and chancellor
- 1025 – Bolesław I the Brave, Polish king (b. 967)
- 1091 – Dirk V, count of Holland (b. 1052)
- 1207 – Daoji, Chinese buddhist monk (b. 1130)
- 1219 – David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon
- 1361 – Ingeborg of Norway, princess consort and regent of Sweden (b. 1301)
- 1400 – Jan of Jenštejn, archbishop of Prague (b. 1348)
- 1463 – Catherine of Portugal, Portuguese princess (b. 1436)
- 1501 – John I Albert, Polish king (b. 1459)
- 1565 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shōgun (b. 1536)
- 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal, Mughal princess (b. 1593)
- 1649 – Injo of Joseon, Korean king (b. 1595)
- 1674 – Jijabai, Dowager Queen, mother of Shivaji (b. 1598)
- 1694 – Philip Howard, English cardinal (b. 1629)
- 1696 – John III Sobieski, Polish king (b. 1629)
- 1719 – Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician (b. 1672)
- 1734 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, French general and politician, French Secretary of State for War (b. 1653)
- 1740 – Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1687)
- 1762 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French poet and playwright (b. 1674)
- 1771 – Daskalogiannis, Greek rebel leader (b. 1722)
- 1775 – John Pitcairn, Scottish-English soldier (b. 1722)
- 1797 – Mohammad Khan Qajar, Persian tribal chief (b. 1742)
- 1813 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (b. 1726)
- 1821 – Martín Miguel de Güemes, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1785)
- 1839 – Lord William Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India (b. 1774)
- 1866 – Joseph Méry, French poet and author (b. 1798)
- 1889 – Lozen, Chiracaua Apache warrior woman (b. ~1840)
- 1898 – Edward Burne-Jones, English soldier and painter (b. 1833)
- 1904 – Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (b. 1839)
- 1936 – Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist, politician, and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
- 1939 – Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1893)
- 1939 – Eugen Weidmann, German criminal (b. 1908)
- 1940 – Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
- 1941 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1862)
- 1942 – Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1853)
- 1952 – Jack Parsons, American chemist and engineer (b. 1914)
- 1954 – Danny Cedrone, American guitarist and bandleader (b. 1920)
- 1956 – Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (b. 1878)
- 1956 – Paul Rostock, German surgeon and academic (b. 1892)
- 1956 – Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (b. 1926)
- 1957 – Dorothy Richardson, English journalist and author (b. 1873)
- 1957 – J. R. Williams, Canadian-American cartoonist (b. 1888)
- 1961 – Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1963 – Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician (b. 1882)
- 1968 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1901)
- 1974 – Refik Koraltan, Turkish lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1889)
- 1975 – James Phinney Baxter III, American historian and academic (b. 1893)
- 1979 – Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician (b. 1898)
- 1979 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)
- 1981 – Richard O’Connor, Indian-English general (b. 1889)
- 1981 – Zerna Sharp, American author and educator (b. 1889)
- 1982 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
- 1983 – Peter Mennin, American composer and educator (b. 1923)
- 1985 – John Boulting, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1913)
- 1986 – Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907)
- 1987 – Dick Howser, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1936)
- 1996 – Thomas Kuhn, American historian and philosopher (b. 1922)
- 1996 – Curt Swan, American illustrator (b. 1920)
- 1999 – Basil Hume, English cardinal (b. 1923)
- 2000 – Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)
- 2001 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
- 2001 – Thomas Winning, Scottish cardinal (b. 1925)
- 2002 – Willie Davenport, American sprinter and hurdler (b. 1943)
- 2002 – Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
- 2004 – Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Bussunda, Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)
- 2007 – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (b. 1944)
- 2007 – Serena Wilson, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1933)
- 2008 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (b. 1922)
- 2009 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-English sociologist and politician (b. 1929)
- 2009 – Darrell Powers, American sergeant (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Rex Mossop, Australian rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Stéphane Brosse, French mountaineer (b. 1971)
- 2012 – Patricia Brown, American baseball player (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Nathan Divinsky, Canadian mathematician and chess player (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Rodney King, American victim of police brutality (b. 1965)
- 2012 – Fauzia Wahab, Pakistani actress and politician (b. 1956)
- 2013 – Michael Baigent, New Zealand-English theorist and author (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Atiqul Haque Chowdhury, Bangladeshi playwright and producer (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Pierre F. Côté, Canadian lawyer and civil servant (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Bulbs Ehlers, American basketball player (b. 1923)
- 2013 – James Holshouser, American politician, 68th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1934)
- 2014 – Patsy Byrne, English actress (b. 1933)
- 2014 – Éric Dewailly, Canadian epidemiologist and academic (b. 1954)
- 2014 – Stanley Marsh 3, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1938)
- 2014 – Arnold S. Relman, American physician and academic (b. 1923)
- 2014 – Larry Zeidel, Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
- 2015 – Ron Clarke, Australian runner and politician, Mayor of the Gold Coast (b. 1937)
- 2015 – John David Crow, American football player and coach (b. 1935)
- 2015 – Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (b. 1924)
- 2015 – Roberto M. Levingston, Argentinian general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (b. 1920)
- 2015 – Clementa C. Pinckney, American minister and politician (b. 1973)
- 2017 – Baldwin Lonsdale, president of Vanuatu (b. 1948)
Holidays and observances on June 17
- Christian feast day:
  
  Albert Chmielowski
  
  Botolph (England and Scandinavia)
  
  Gondulphus of Berry
  
  Hervé
  
  Hypatius of Bithynia (Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches)
  
  Rainerius
  
  Samuel and Henrietta Barnett (Church of England)
  
  June 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Father’s Day (El Salvador, Guatemala)
- Icelandic National Day, celebrates the independence of Iceland from Kingdom of Denmark in 1944.
- Occupation of the Latvian Republic Day (Latvia)
- Remembrance to East German uprising of 1953, public holiday in West Germany between 1954 and 1990 (today German Unity Day) is the public holiday day)
- World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (International)
- Zemla Intifada Day (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)
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June 15 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day
June 15 in History
- 763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
- 844 – Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II.
- 923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
- 1184 – The naval Battle of Fimreite is won by the Birkebeiner pretender Sverre Sigurdsson. Sigurdsson takes the Norwegian throne and King Magnus V of Norway is killed.
- 1215 – King John of England puts his seal to Magna Carta.
- 1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lindanise (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia.
- 1246 – With the death of Frederick II, Duke of Austria, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
- 1300 – The city of Bilbao is founded.
- 1312 – At the Battle of Rozgony, King Charles I of Hungary wins a decisive victory over the family of Palatine Amade Aba.
- 1389 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
- 1410 – In a decisive battle at Onon River, the Mongol forces of Oljei Temur were decimated by the Chinese armies of the Yongle Emperor.
- 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.
- 1520 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.
- 1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
- 1670 – The first stone of Fort Ricasoli is laid down in Malta.
- 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
- 1776 – Delaware Separation Day: Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
- 1800 – The Provisional Army of the United States is dissolved.
- 1804 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
- 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
- 1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
- 1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
- 1846 – The Oregon Treaty extends the border between the United States and British North America, established by the Treaty of 1818, westward to the Pacific Ocean.
- 1859 – Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the “Northwestern Boundary Dispute” between American and British/Canadian settlers.
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
- 1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km²) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
- 1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
- 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
- 1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
- 1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan’s history kills more than 22,000 people.
- 1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
- 1916 – United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
- 1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
- 1920 – Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.
- 1921 – Bessie Coleman earns her pilot’s license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
- 1934 – The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
- 1936 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
- 1937 – A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
- 1940 – World War II: Operation Ariel begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany’s takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
- 1944 – World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan’s South Seas Mandate.
- 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
- 1970 – Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
- 1972 – Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
- 1977 – After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections took place in Spain.
- 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
- 1985 – Rembrandt’s painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
- 1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.
- 1992 – The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.
- 1994 – Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
- 1996 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
- 2001 – Leaders of the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
- 2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.
- 2013 – A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.
Births on June 15
- 1330 – Edward, the Black Prince of England (d. 1376)
- 1479 – Lisa del Giocondo, Italian model, subject of the Mona Lisa (d. 1542)
- 1519 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1536)
- 1542 – Richard Grenville, English captain and explorer (d. 1591)
- 1549 – Elizabeth Knollys, English noblewoman (d. 1605)
- 1553 – Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
- 1605 – Thomas Randolph, English poet and playwright (d. 1635)
- 1618 – François Blondel, French architect (d. 1686)
- 1623 – Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
- 1624 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist and philologist (d. 1704)
- 1640 – Bernard Lamy, French mathematician and theologian (d. 1715)
- 1645 – Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician (d. 1712)
- 1749 – Georg Joseph Vogler, German organist, composer, and theorist (d. 1814)
- 1754 – Juan José Elhuyar, Spanish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1796)
- 1755 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (d. 1809)
- 1763 – Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor (d. 1826)
- 1763 – Kobayashi Issa, Japanese priest and poet (d. 1827)
- 1765 – Martin Baum, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Cincinnati (d. 1831)
- 1765 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1831)
- 1767 – Rachel Jackson, American wife of Andrew Jackson (d. 1828)
- 1777 – David Daniel Davis, Welsh physician and academic (d. 1841)
- 1789 – Josiah Henson, American minister, author, and activist (d. 1883)
- 1792 – Thomas Mitchell, Scottish-Australian colonel and explorer (d. 1855)
- 1801 – Benjamin Wright Raymond, American merchant and politician, 3rd Mayor of Chicago (d. 1883)
- 1805 – William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)
- 1809 – François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
- 1835 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter, and poet (d. 1868)
- 1843 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1907)
- 1848 – Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala, Indian bishop and saint (d. 1902)
- 1872 – Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (d. 1950)
- 1875 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian skier (d. 1987)
- 1878 – Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer (d. 1955)
- 1881 – Kesago Nakajima, Japanese lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army (d. 1945)
- 1884 – Harry Langdon, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1944)
- 1886 – Frank Clement, British racing driver (d. 1970)
- 1888 – Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet and author (d. 1921)
- 1890 – Georg Wüst, German oceanographer and academic (d. 1977)
- 1894 – Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and conductor (d. 1981)
- 1894 – Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1947)
- 1898 – Hubertus Strughold, German-American physiologist and academic (d. 1986)
- 1900 – Gotthard Günther, German philosopher and academic (d. 1984)
- 1900 – Otto Luening, German-American composer and conductor (d. 1996)
- 1901 – Elmar Lohk, Russian-Estonian architect (d. 1963)
- 1902 – Erik Erikson, German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
- 1906 – Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and author (d. 1985)
- 1906 – Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (d. 1994)
- 1907 – James Robertson Justice, English actor and educator (d. 1975)
- 1909 – Elena Nikolaidi, Greek-American soprano and educator (d. 2002)
- 1910 – David Rose, English-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1990)
- 1911 – Wilbert Awdry, English author, co-created Thomas the Tank Engine (d. 1997)
- 1913 – Tom Adair, American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter (d. 1988)
- 1914 – Yuri Andropov, Russian politician (d. 1984)
- 1914 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (d. 1999)
- 1914 – Hilda Terry, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
- 1915 – Nini Theilade, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer, and educator (d. 2018)
- 1915 – Thomas Huckle Weller, American biologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
- 1916 – Olga Erteszek, Polish-American fashion designer (d. 1989)
- 1916 – Horacio Salgán, Argentinian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2016)
- 1916 – Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
- 1917 – John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
- 1917 – Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Lash LaRue, American actor and producer (d. 1996)
- 1918 – François Tombalbaye, Chadian politician, 1st President of Chad (d. 1975)
- 1920 – Keith Andrews, American race car driver (d. 1957)
- 1920 – Alla Kazanskaya, Russian actress (d. 2008)
- 1920 – Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded Sam the Record Man (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Alberto Sordi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
- 1921 – Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer (d. 1977)
- 1922 – Jaki Byard, American pianist and composer (d. 1999)
- 1923 – Erland Josephson, Swedish actor and director (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Ninian Stephen, English-Australian lieutenant, judge, and politician, 20th Governor-General of Australia (d. 2017)
- 1924 – Hédi Fried, Swedish author and psychologist
- 1924 – Ezer Weizman, Israeli general and politician, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Richard Baker, English journalist and author (d. 2018)
- 1925 – Attilâ İlhan, Turkish poet, author, and critic (d. 2005)
- 1926 – Alfred Duraiappah, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (d. 1975)
- 1927 – Ross Andru, American illustrator (d. 1993)
- 1927 – Ibn-e-Insha, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (d. 1978)
- 1927 – Hugo Pratt, Italian author and illustrator (d. 1995)
- 1930 – Miguel Méndez, American author and academic (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
- 1931 – Joseph Gilbert, English air marshal
- 1931 – Brian Sewell, English art dealer and critic (d. 2015)
- 1932 – David Alliance, Baron Alliance, Iranian-English businessman and politician
- 1932 – Mario Cuomo, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New York (d. 2015)
- 1932 – Zia Fariduddin Dagar, Indian singer (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Bernie Faloney, American-Canadian football player and sportscaster (d. 1999)
- 1933 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (d. 1981)
- 1933 – Predrag Koraksić Corax, Serbian political caricaturist
- 1934 – Ruby Nash Garnett, American R&B singer
- 1936 – William Levada, American cardinal
- 1937 – Pierre Billon, Swiss-Canadian author and screenwriter
- 1937 – Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
- 1938 – Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach
- 1939 – Ward Connerly, American activist and businessman, founded the American Civil Rights Institute
- 1941 – Neal Adams, American illustrator
- 1941 – Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1994)
- 1942 – Ian Greenberg, Canadian broadcaster, founded Astral Media
- 1942 – John E. McLaughlin, American diplomat
- 1942 – Peter Norman, Australian sprinter (d. 2006)
- 1943 – Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor (d. 2017)
- 1943 – Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Danish politician, 38th Prime Minister of Denmark
- 1944 – Robert D. Keppel, American police officer and academic
- 1945 – Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipino judge and politician (d. 2016)
- 1945 – Robert Sarah, Guinean cardinal
- 1945 – Lawrence Wilkerson, American colonel
- 1946 – Noddy Holder, English rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
- 1946 – John Horner, American paleontologist and academic
- 1946 – Demis Roussos, Egyptian-Greek singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2015)
- 1947 – John Hoagland, American photographer and journalist (d. 1984)
- 1948 – Mike Holmgren, American football player and coach
- 1948 – Alan Huckle, English politician and diplomat, Governor of Anguilla
- 1948 – Henry McLeish, Scottish footballer, academic, and politician, 2nd First Minister of Scotland
- 1949 – Dusty Baker, American baseball player and manager
- 1949 – Simon Callow, English actor and director
- 1949 – Russell Hitchcock, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1949 – Jim Varney, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
- 1950 – Uğur Erdener, Turkish ophthalmologist and professor
- 1950 – Juliana Azumah-Mensah, Ghanaian nurse and politician
- 1950 – Deney Terrio, American choreographer and host of the television musical variety series Dance Fever
- 1950 – Lakshmi Mittal, Indian-English businessman
- 1951 – Jane Amsterdam, American magazine and newspaper editor (Manhattan, inc., New York Post)
- 1951 – Vance A. Larson, American painter (d. 2000)
- 1951 – John Redwood, English politician, Secretary of State for Wales
- 1951 – Steve Walsh, American rock singer-songwriter and musician
- 1952 – Satya Pal Jain, Indian lawyer and politician, Additional Solicitor General of India
- 1953 – Vilma Bardauskienė, Lithuanian long jumper
- 1953 – Marc Brickman, American lighting and production designer
- 1953 – Eje Elgh, Swedish racing driver and sportscaster
- 1953 – Xi Jinping, Chinese engineer and politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party and President of China
- 1953 – Raphael Wallfisch, English cellist and educator
- 1954 – Jim Belushi, American actor
- 1954 – Terri Gibbs, American country music singer and keyboard player
- 1954 – Paul Rusesabagina, Rwandan humanitarian
- 1954 – Zdeňka Šilhavá, Czech discus thrower and shot putter
- 1954 – Beverley Whitfield, Australian swimmer (d. 1996)
- 1955 – Polly Draper, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
- 1955 – Julie Hagerty, American model and actress
- 1956 – Yevgeny Kiselyov, Russian-Ukrainian journalist
- 1956 – Lance Parrish, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1958 – Wade Boggs, American baseball player
- 1958 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (d. 1982)
- 1959 – Alan Brazil, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
- 1959 – Eileen Davidson, American model and actress
- 1960 – Michèle Laroque, French actress, producer, and screenwriter
- 1960 – Marieke van Doorn, Dutch field hockey player and coach
- 1961 – Dave McAuley, Irish boxer and sportscaster
- 1961 – Scott Norton, American wrestler
- 1962 – Brad Armstrong, American wrestler (d. 2012)
- 1962 – Chris Morris, English actor, satirist, director, and producer
- 1962 – Andrea Rost, Hungarian soprano
- 1963 – Marina Azyabina, Russian hurdler
- 1963 – Mario Gosselin, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1963 – Helen Hunt, American actress, director, and producer
- 1964 – Courteney Cox, American actress and producer
- 1964 – Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer and manager
- 1965 – Annelies Bredael, Belgian rower
- 1965 – Karim Massimov, Kazakhstani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- 1965 – Adam Smith, American lawyer and politician
- 1966 – Raimonds Vējonis, Latvian politician, 9th President of Latvia
- 1968 – Károly Güttler, Hungarian swimmer
- 1969 – Jesse Bélanger, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – Ice Cube, American rapper, producer, and actor
- 1969 – Idalis DeLeón, American singer and actress
- 1969 – Nasos Galakteros, Greek basketball player
- 1969 – Oliver Kahn, German footballer and sportscaster
- 1969 – Maurice Odumbe, Kenyan cricketer
- 1969 – Cédric Pioline, French tennis player
- 1970 – Christian Bauman, American soldier and author
- 1970 – David Bayssari, Australian rugby league player
- 1970 – Gaëlle Méchaly, French soprano
- 1970 – Leah Remini, American actress and producer
- 1970 – Žan Tabak, Croatian basketball player and coach
- 1971 – Christos Myriounis, Greek basketball player
- 1971 – Jake Busey, American actor, musician, and film producer
- 1972 – Justin Leonard, American golfer
- 1972 – Andy Pettitte, American baseball player
- 1973 – Tore Andre Flo, Norwegian footballer and coach
- 1973 – Neil Patrick Harris, American actor and singer
- 1973 – Pia Miranda, Australian actress
- 1976 – Jiří Ryba, Czech decathlete
- 1977 – Michael Doleac, American basketball player and manager
- 1978 – Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
- 1978 – Zach Day, American baseball player
- 1979 – Yulia Nestsiarenka, Belarusian sprinter
- 1979 – Christian Rahn, German footballer
- 1979 – Charles Zwolsman, Jr., Dutch racing driver
- 1980 – David Lyons, Australian rugby player
- 1981 – John Paintsil, Ghanaian footballer
- 1982 – Mike Delany, New Zealand rugby player
- 1982 – Abdur Razzak, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1983 – Julia Fischer, German violinist and pianist^{[citation needed]}
- 1983 – Laura Imbruglia, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist^{[citation needed]}
- 1983 – Josh McGuire, Canadian fencer
- 1984 – Luke Hodge, Australian footballer
- 1984 – Eva Hrdinová, Czech tennis player
- 1984 – Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
- 1984 – Edison Toloza, Colombian footballer
- 1985 – Ashley Nicole Black, American comedian, actress, and writer
- 1986 – James Maloney, Australian rugby league player
- 1986 – Trevor Plouffe, American baseball player
- 1989 – Víctor Cabedo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2012)
- 1989 – Bryan Clauson, American race car driver (d. 2016)
- 1992 – Michał Kopczyński, Polish footballer
- 1992 – Mohamed Salah, Egyptian footballer
- 1992 – Dafne Schippers, Dutch heptathlete and sprinter
- 1993 – Irfan Hadžić, Bosnian footballer
- 1994 – Inaki Williams, Basque footballer
- 1997 – Madison Kocian, American gymnast
Deaths on June 15
- 923 – Robert I of France (b. 866)
- 948 – Romanos I Lekapenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 870)
- 952 – Murong Yanchao, Chinese general
- 960 – Eadburh of Winchester, English princess and saint
- 970 – Adalbert, bishop of Passau
- 991 – Theophanu, Byzantine wife of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 960)
- 1073 – Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
- 1184 – Magnus Erlingsson, King of Norway (b. 1156)
- 1189 – Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
- 1246 – Frederick II, Duke of Austria (b. 1219)
- 1337 – Angelo da Clareno, Italian Franciscan and leader of a group of Fraticelli (b. 1247)
- 1341 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1297)
- 1381 – John Cavendish, English lawyer and judge (b. 1346)
- 1381 – Wat Tyler, English rebel leader (b. 1341)
- 1383 – John VI Kantakouzenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1292)
- 1383 – Matthew Kantakouzenos, Byzantine emperor
- 1389 – Lazar of Serbia (b. 1329)
- 1389 – Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1319)
- 1389 – Miloš Obilić, Serbian knight.
- 1416 – John, Duke of Berry (b. 1340)
- 1467 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
- 1521 – Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1442)
- 1614 – Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English courtier and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1540)
- 1724 – Henry Sacheverell, English minister and politician (b. 1674)
- 1768 – James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
- 1772 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist and composer (b. 1694)
- 1844 – Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1777)
- 1849 – James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
- 1858 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter and academic (b. 1795)
- 1888 – Frederick III, German Emperor (b. 1831)
- 1889 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1850)
- 1890 – Unryū Kyūkichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 10th Yokozuna (b. 1822)
- 1917 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and academic (b. 1867)
- 1934 – Alfred Bruneau, French cellist and composer (b. 1857)
- 1938 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
- 1941 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and physician (b. 1873)
- 1941 – Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and author (b. 1875)
- 1945 – Count Albert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein, Austrian diplomat
- 1961 – Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
- 1961 – Peyami Safa, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1899)
- 1962 – Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1877)
- 1967 – Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1885)
- 1968 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (b. 1880)
- 1968 – Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1925)
- 1971 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 1976 – Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1896)
- 1984 – Meredith Willson, American playwright, composer, and conductor (b. 1902)
- 1985 – Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (b. 1927)
- 1989 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1912)
- 1989 – Ray McAnally, Irish actor (b. 1926)
- 1991 – Happy Chandler, American businessman and politician, 49th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1898)
- 1991 – Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- 1992 – Chuck Menville, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940)
- 1992 – Brett Whiteley, Australian painter (b. 1939)
- 1993 – John Connally, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 61st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1917)
- 1993 – James Hunt, English racing driver and sportscaster (b. 1947)
- 1994 – Manos Hatzidakis, Greek composer and theorist (b. 1925)
- 1995 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and inventor, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
- 1996 – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Scottish general and politician (b. 1911)
- 1996 – Dick Murdoch, American wrestler (b. 1946)
- 1999 – Omer Côté, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1906)
- 2000 – Jules Roy, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1907)
- 2001 – Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
- 2002 – Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general and martial artist, founded Taekwondo (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Hume Cronyn, Canadian-American actor (b. 1911)
- 2004 – Ahmet Piriştina, Turkish politician and mayor of İzmir (b. 1952)
- 2005 – Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
- 2006 – Raymond Devos, Belgian-French comedian and clown (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Herb Pearson, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1910)
- 2008 – Ray Getliffe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
- 2011 – Bill Haast, American herpetologist and academic (b. 1910)
- 2012 – Phillip D. Cagan, American economist and author (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Capitola Dickerson, American pianist and educator (b. 1913)
- 2012 – Barry MacKay, American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Israel Nogueda Otero, Mexican economist and politician, 10th Governor of Guerrero (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Jerry Tubbs, American football player and coach (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Heinz Flohe, German footballer and manager (b. 1948)
- 2013 – José Froilán González, Argentinian racing driver (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Dennis O’Rourke, Australian director and producer (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1936)
- 2014 – Jacques Bergerac, French actor and businessman (b. 1927)
- 2014 – Casey Kasem, American radio host, producer, and voice actor, co-created American Top 40 (b. 1932)
- 2014 – Daniel Keyes, American short story writer and novelist (b. 1927)
- 2014 – Moise Safra, Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Banco Safra (b. 1934)
- 2015 – Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, founded the Tracinda Corporation (b. 1917)
- 2016 – Lois Duncan, American author (b. 1934)
- 2018 – Matt “Guitar” Murphy, American Blues guitarist (The Blues Brothers) (b. 1929)
- 2019 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances on June 15
- Arbor Day (Costa Rica)
- Christian feast day:
  
  Abraham of Clermont (or of St Cyriacus)
  
  Alice (or Adelaide) of Schaerbeek
  
  Augustine of Hippo (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  
  Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock
  
  Blessed Clement Vismara
  
  Edburga of Winchester
  
  Evelyn Underhill (Church of England and The Episcopal Church)
  
  Germaine Cousin
  
  Landelin (of Crespin or of Lobbes)
  
  Trillo
  
  Vitus (Guy), Modestus and Crescentia
  
  June 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Day of Valdemar and Reunion Day (Flag Day) (Denmark)
- Earliest day on which Father’s Day can fall, while June 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Sunday in June. (United States, and most other countries.)
- Engineer’s Day (Italy)
- Global Wind Day (international)
- National Beer Day (United Kingdom)
- National Salvation Day (Azerbaijan)
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June 14 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day
June 14 in History
- 1158 – Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
- 1216 – First Barons’ War: Prince Louis of France captures the city of Winchester and soon conquers over half of the Kingdom of England.
- 1276 – While taking exile in Fuzhou, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for Emperor Duanzong.
- 1285 – Second Mongol invasion of Vietnam: Forces led by Prince Trần Quang Khải of the Trần dynasty destroy most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chuong Duong.
- 1287 – Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
- 1381 – Richard II of England meets leaders of Peasants’ Revolt at Mile End. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
- 1404 – Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies himself with the French against King Henry IV of England.
- 1618 – Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date).
- 1645 – English Civil War: Battle of Naseby: Twelve thousand Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
- 1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War ends. It had lasted for five days and resulted in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
- 1690 – King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in Ireland to confront the former King James II.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
- 1777 – The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
- 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat.
- 1800 – The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
- 1807 – Emperor Napoleon’s French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
- 1821 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, bringing the 300 year old Sudanese kingdom to an end.
- 1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
- 1830 – Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: Thirty-four thousand French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
- 1839 – Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
- 1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins: Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
- 1863 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
- 1872 – Trade unions are legalized in Canada.
- 1881 – The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
- 1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
- 1900 – The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size.
- 1907 – The National Association for Women’s Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
- 1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John’s, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
- 1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
- 1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
- 1937 – U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
- 1940 – World War II: The German occupation of Paris begins.
- 1940 – The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
- 1940 – Seven hundred twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1941 – June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
- 1944 – World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
- 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
- 1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
- 1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words “under God” into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
- 1955 – Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1959 – Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
- 1959 – Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
- 1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
- 1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (“index of prohibited books”), which was originally instituted in 1557.
- 1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
- 1982 – Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
- 1986 – The Mindbender derails and kills three riders at the Fantasyland (known today as Galaxyland) indoor amusement park in Edmonton, Alberta.
- 1994 – The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated C$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
- 2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
- 2014 – A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.
- 2017 – London: A fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured.
- 2017 – In Alexandria, Virginia, Republican member of Congress and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana is shot while practicing for charity baseball.
Births on June 14
- 1444 – Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1544)
- 1463 – Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1514)
- 1479 – Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1552)
- 1529 – Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (d. 1595)
- 1627 – Johann Abraham Ihle, German astronomer (d. 1699)
- 1691 – Jan Francisci, Slovak organist and composer (d. 1758)
- 1726 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh ornithologist and historian (d. 1798)
- 1730 – Antonio Sacchini, Italian composer and educator (d. 1786)
- 1736 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (d. 1806)
- 1763 – Simon Mayr, German composer and educator (d. 1845)
- 1780 – Henry Salt, English historian and diplomat, British Consul-General in Egypt (d. 1827)
- 1796 – Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1866)
- 1798 – František Palacký, Czech historian and politician (d. 1876)
- 1801 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
- 1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (d. 1896)
- 1812 – Fernando Wood, American merchant and politician, 73rd Mayor of New York City (d. 1881)
- 1819 – Henry Gardner, American merchant and politician, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
- 1820 – John Bartlett, American author and publisher (d. 1905)
- 1829 – Bernard Petitjean, French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (d. 1884)
- 1838 – Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese Field Marshal and politician, 3rd and 9th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1922)
- 1840 – William F. Nast, American businessman (d. 1893)
- 1848 – Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher and theorist (d. 1923)
- 1848 – Max Erdmannsdörfer, German conductor and composer (d. 1905)
- 1855 – Robert M. La Follette, American lawyer and politician, 20th Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1925)
- 1856 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1922)
- 1862 – John Ulric Nef, Swiss-American chemist and academic (d. 1915)
- 1864 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (d. 1915)
- 1868 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
- 1868 – Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (d. 1947)
- 1870 – Sophia of Prussia (d. 1932)
- 1871 – Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (d. 1936)
- 1871 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish mechanic and engineer (d. 1946)
- 1872 – János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and author (d. 1936)
- 1877 – Jane Bathori, French soprano (d. 1970)
- 1877 – Ida MacLean, British biochemist, the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society (d. 1944)
- 1878 – Léon Thiébaut, French fencer (d. 1943)
- 1879 – Arthur Duffey, American sprinter and coach (d. 1955)
- 1884 – John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (d. 1945)
- 1884 – Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (d. 1953)
- 1890 – May Allison, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1894 – Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
- 1894 – José Carlos Mariátegui (d. 1930)
- 1894 – W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (d. 1966)
- 1895 – Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 1968)
- 1900 – Ruth Nanda Anshen, American writer, editor, and philosopher (d. 2003)
- 1900 – June Walker, American stage and film actress (d. 1966)
- 1903 – Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician (d. 1995)
- 1903 – Rose Rand, Austrian-American logician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1980)
- 1904 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (d. 1971)
- 1905 – Steve Broidy, American businessman (d. 1991)
- 1905 – Arthur Davis, American animator and director (d. 2000)
- 1907 – Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (d. 1978)
- 1907 – René Char, French poet and author (d. 1988)
- 1909 – Burl Ives, American actor and singer (d. 1995)
- 1910 – Rudolf Kempe, German pianist and conductor (d. 1976)
- 1913 – Joe Morris, English-Canadian lieutenant and trade union leader (d. 1996)
- 1916 – Dorothy McGuire, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1917 – Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist, author, and screenwriter
- 1917 – Gilbert Prouteau, French poet and director (d. 2012)
- 1917 – Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2007)
- 1918 – Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (d. 2008)
- 1919 – Gene Barry, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1919 – Sam Wanamaker, American actor and director (d. 1993)
- 1921 – Martha Greenhouse, American actress (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Judith Kerr, German-English author and illustrator (d. 2019)
- 1923 – Green Wix Unthank, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 2013)
- 1924 – James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
- 1925 – Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)
- 1926 – Don Newcombe, American baseball player (d. 2019)
- 1928 – Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, guerrilla leader and politician (d. 1967)
- 1929 – Cy Coleman, American pianist and composer (d. 2004)
- 1929 – Alan Davidson, Australian cricketer
- 1929 – Johnny Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2011)
- 1931 – Marla Gibbs, American actress and comedian
- 1931 – Ross Higgins, Australian actor (d. 2016)
- 1931 – Junior Walker, American saxophonist (d. 1995)
- 1933 – Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (d. 1991)
- 1933 – Vladislav Rastorotsky, Russian gymnast and coach
- 1936 – Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1936 – Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Finnish author, poet, and translator
- 1938 – Julie Felix, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020)
- 1939 – Steny Hoyer, American lawyer and politician
- 1939 – Peter Mayle, English author and screenwriter (d. 2018)
- 1939 – Colin Thubron, English journalist and author
- 1942 – Jonathan Raban, English author and academic
- 1942 – Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (d. 2008)
- 1943 – Barry Burman, English painter and academic (d. 2001)
- 1943 – Jennifer Gretton, Baroness Gretton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire
- 1943 – John Miles, English racing driver and journalist
- 1943 – Harold Wheeler, American composer, conductor, and producer
- 1944 – Laurie Colwin, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1992)
- 1945 – Rod Argent, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1945 – Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (d. 2012)
- 1945 – Richard Stebbins, American sprinter and educator
- 1946 – Robert Louis-Dreyfus, French-Swiss businessman (d. 2009)
- 1946 – Tõnu Sepp, Estonian instrument maker and educator
- 1946 – Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality and 45th President of the United States
- 1947 – Roger Liddle, Baron Liddle, English politician
- 1947 – Barry Melton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1947 – Paul Rudolph, Canadian singer, guitarist, and cyclist
- 1948 – Laurence Yep, American author and playwright
- 1949 – Jim Lea, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
- 1949 – Roger Powell, English-Australian scientist and academic
- 1949 – Antony Sher, South African-British actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1949 – Harry Turtledove, American historian and author
- 1949 – Alan White, English drummer and songwriter
- 1950 – Rowan Williams, Welsh archbishop and theologian
- 1951 – Paul Boateng, English lawyer and politician, British High Commissioner to South Africa
- 1951 – Danny Edwards, American golfer
- 1952 – Robert Lepikson, Estonian racing driver and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (d. 2006)
- 1952 – Pat Summitt, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
- 1952 – Leon Wieseltier, American philosopher, journalist, and critic
- 1953 – Janet Mackey, New Zealand lawyer and politician
- 1954 – Will Patton, American actor
- 1955 – Michael D. Duvall, American businessman and politician
- 1955 – Paul O’Grady, English television host, producer, and drag performer
- 1955 – Kirron Kher, Indian theatre, film & television actress, TV talk show host, politician and Member of Parliament
- 1956 – Fred Funk, American golfer and coach
- 1956 – King Diamond (Kim Bendix Petersen), heavy metal musician
- 1957 – Suzanne Nora Johnson, American lawyer and businesswoman
- 1957 – Mona Simpson, American novelist
- 1958 – Pamela Geller, American activist and blogger
- 1959 – Marcus Miller, American bass player, composer, and producer
- 1960 – Tonie Campbell, American hurdler
- 1960 – Mike Laga, American baseball player
- 1961 – Boy George, English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1961 – Dušan Kojić, Serbian singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1961 – Sam Perkins, American basketball player
- 1963 – Grant Kenny, Australian iron man and canoeist
- 1964 – Peter Gilliver, English lexicographer and academic
- 1967 – Dedrick Dodge, American football player and coach
- 1968 – Campbell Brown, American journalist
- 1968 – Faizon Love, Cuban-American actor and screenwriter
- 1969 – Éric Desjardins, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1969 – Steffi Graf, German tennis player
- 1970 – Heather McDonald, American comedian, actress, and author
- 1971 – Bruce Bowen, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1971 – Ramon Vega, Swiss footballer
- 1972 – Rick Brunson, American basketball player and coach
- 1972 – Matthias Ettrich, German computer scientist and engineer, founded KDE
- 1972 – Dominic Brown, English guitarist and songwriter
- 1972 – Claude Henderson, South African cricketer
- 1972 – Danny McFarlane, Jamaican hurdler and sprinter
- 1973 – Sami Kapanen, Finnish-American ice hockey player and manager
- 1976 – Alan Carr, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1976 – Massimo Oddo, Italian footballer and manager
- 1977 – Boeta Dippenaar, South African cricketer
- 1977 – Chris McAlister, American football player
- 1977 – Joe Worsley, English rugby player and coach
- 1978 – Steve Bégin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 – Diablo Cody, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1978 – Annia Hatch, Cuban-American gymnast and coach
- 1978 – Nikola Vujčić, Croatian former professional basketball player
- 1979 – Shannon Hegarty, Australian rugby league player
- 1981 – Elano, Brazilian footballer and manager
- 1982 – Jamie Green, English racing driver
- 1982 – Nicole Irving, Australian swimmer
- 1982 – Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
- 1983 – Trevor Barry, Bahamian high jumper
- 1983 – Louis Garrel, French actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1984 – Lorenzo Booker, American football player
- 1984 – Mark Cosgrove, Australian cricketer
- 1984 – Siobhán Donaghy, English singer-songwriter
- 1984 – Yury Prilukov, Russian swimmer
- 1985 – Oleg Medvedev. Russian luger
- 1985 – Andy Soucek, Spanish racing driver
- 1986 – Matt Read, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 – Andrew Cogliano, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 – Mohamed Diamé, Senegalese footballer
- 1988 – Adrián Aldrete, Mexican footballer
- 1988 – Kevin McHale, American actor, singer, dancer and radio personality
- 1989 – Lucy Hale, American actress and singer-songwriter
- 1989 – Brad Takairangi, Australian-Cook Islands rugby league player
- 1990 – Patrice Cormier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990 – Stephen McLaughlin, Irish footballer
- 1991 – Kostas Manolas, Greek footballer
- 1991 – Jesy Nelson, English singer
- 1992 – Devante Smith-Pelly, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1993 – Gunna, American rapper
- 1993 – Ryan McCartan, American actor and singer
- 1999 – Tzuyu, Taiwanese singer
Deaths on June 14
- 809 – Ōtomo no Otomaro, Japanese general (b. 731)
- 847 – Methodius I, patriarch of Constantinople
- 957 – Guadamir, bishop of Vic (Spain)
- 976 – Aron, Bulgarian nobleman
- 1161 – Emperor Qinzong of the Song dynasty (b. 1100)
- 1205 – Walter III, Count of Brienne
- 1349 – Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304)
- 1381 – Simon Sudbury, English archbishop (b. 1316)
- 1497 – Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía, Italian son of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1474)
- 1516 – John III of Navarre (b. 1469)
- 1544 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
- 1548 – Carpentras, French composer (b. 1470)
- 1583 – Shibata Katsuie, Japanese samurai (b. 1522)
- 1594 – Jacob Kroger, German goldsmith, hanged in Edinburgh for stealing the jewels of Anne of Denmark.
- 1594 – Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer and educator (b. 1532)
- 1662 – Henry Vane the Younger, English-American politician, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1613)
- 1674 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French author and poet (b. 1600)
- 1679 – Guillaume Courtois, French painter and illustrator (b. 1628)
- 1746 – Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b. 1698)
- 1794 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English courtier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1718)
- 1800 – Louis Desaix, French general (b. 1768)
- 1800 – Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general (b. 1753)
- 1801 – Benedict Arnold, American general during the American Revolution later turned British spy (b. 1741)
- 1825 – Pierre Charles L’Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (b. 1754)
- 1837 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (b. 1798)
- 1864 – Leonidas Polk, American general and bishop (b. 1806)
- 1887 – Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer (b. 1807)
- 1883 – Edward FitzGerald, English poet and author (b. 1809)
- 1886 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian director and playwright (b. 1823)
- 1907 – William Le Baron Jenney, American architect and engineer, designed the Home Insurance Building (b. 1832)
- 1907 – Bartolomé Masó, Cuban soldier and politician (b. 1830)
- 1908 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, English captain and politician, 6th Governor General of Canada (b. 1841)
- 1914 – Adlai Stevenson I, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1835)
- 1916 – João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian author (b. 1865)
- 1920 – Max Weber, German sociologist and economist (b. 1864)
- 1923 – Isabelle Bogelot, French philanthropist (b. 1838)
- 1926 – Mary Cassatt, American-French painter (b. 1843)
- 1927 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
- 1927 – Jerome K. Jerome, English author (b. 1859)
- 1928 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist and academic (b. 1857)
- 1932 – Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian businesswoman, co-founded Desjardins Group (b. 1858)
- 1933 – Justinien de Clary, French target shooter (b. 1860)
- 1936 – G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, playwright, and novelist (b. 1874)
- 1936 – Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and designer, designed the IG Farben Building (b. 1869)
- 1946 – John Logie Baird, Scottish-English physicist and engineer (b. 1888)
- 1946 – Jorge Ubico, 21st President of Guatemala (b. 1878)
- 1953 – Tom Cole, Welsh-American racing driver (b. 1922)
- 1968 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1901)
- 1972 – Dündar Taşer, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
- 1977 – Robert Middleton, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1977 – Alan Reed, American actor, original voice of Fred Flintstone (b.1907)
- 1979 – Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
- 1980 – Charles Miller, American saxophonist and flute player (b. 1939)
- 1986 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (b. 1899)
- 1986 – Alan Jay Lerner, American composer and songwriter (b. 1918)
- 1987 – Stanisław Bareja, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
- 1990 – Erna Berger, German soprano and actress (b. 1900)
- 1991 – Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (b. 1907)
- 1994 – Lionel Grigson, English pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1942)
- 1994 – Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (b. 1924)
- 1994 – Marcel Mouloudji, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
- 1995 – Els Aarne, Ukrainian-Estonian pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1917)
- 1995 – Rory Gallagher, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1949)
- 1995 – Roger Zelazny, American author and poet (b. 1937)
- 1996 – Noemí Gerstein, Argentinian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1908)
- 1997 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
- 1999 – Bernie Faloney, American-Canadian football player and sportscaster (b. 1932)
- 2000 – Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and author (b. 1911)
- 2002 – June Jordan, American author and activist (b. 1936)
- 2003 – Dale Whittington, American race car driver (b. 1959)
- 2004 – Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountaineer and guide (b. 1900)
- 2005 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor and director (b. 1914)
- 2005 – Mimi Parent, Canadian-Swiss painter (b. 1924)
- 2006 – Monty Berman, English director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1905)
- 2006 – Jean Roba, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1930)
- 2007 – Ruth Graham, Chinese-American author, poet, and painter (b. 1920)
- 2007 – Robin Olds, American general and pilot (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Austrian politician, 9th President of Austria (b. 1918)
- 2009 – Bob Bogle, American musician (The Ventures) (b. 1934)
- 2009 – William McIntyre, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Bob Chappuis, American football player and soldier (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Margie Hyams, American pianist and vibraphone player (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, German pianist and academic (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Gitta Sereny, Austrian-English historian, journalist, and author (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Elroy Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923)
- 2014 – Alberto Cañas Escalante, Costa Rican journalist and politician (b. 1920)
- 2014 – Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French actress (b. 1935)
- 2014 – Robert Lebeck, German photographer and journalist (b. 1929)
- 2014 – James E. Rogers, American lawyer, businessman, and academic (b. 1938)
- 2015 – Richard Cotton, Australian geneticist and academic (b. 1940)
- 2015 – Anne Nicol Gaylor, American activist, co-founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation (b. 1926)
- 2015 – Qiao Shi, Chinese politician (b. 1924)
- 2016 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress and singer (b. 1928)
- 2016 – Gilles Lamontagne, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1919)
- 2020 – Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian film actor (b. 1986)
Holidays and observances on June 14
- Christian feast day:
  
  Burchard of Meissen
  
  Caomhán of Inisheer
  
  Elisha (Roman Catholic and Lutheran)
  
  Fortunatus of Naples (Roman Catholic)
  
  Blessed Francisca de Paula de Jesus (Nhá Chica)
  
  Joseph the Hymnographer (Roman Catholic: Orthodox April 3)
  
  Methodios I of Constantinople
  
  Quintian of Rodez (Rodez)
  
  Richard Baxter (Church of England)
  
  Valerius and Rufinus
  
  June 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Commemoration of the Soviet Deportation related observances:
  
  Baltic Freedom Day (United States)
  
  Mourning and Commemoration Day or Leinapäev (Estonia)
  
  Mourning and Hope Day (Lithuania)
- Day of Memory for Repressed People (Armenia)
- Flag Day (United States)
- Freedom Day (Malawi)
- Liberation Day (Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
- World Blood Donor Day
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