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September 30 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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It is the last day of the third quarter, the midway point of the second half of the year.

489 – The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.
737 – The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train.
1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed king of England.
1520 – Suleiman the Magnificent is proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
1551 – A coup by the military establishment of Japan’s Ōuchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned.
1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell’Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia anyway.
1791 – The first performance of Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
1791 – France’s National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1906 – The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language’s biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
1907 – The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1909 – The Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
1915 – World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
1922 – The University of Alabama opens the American football season with a 110–0 victory over the Marion Military Institute, which still stands as Alabama’s record for largest margin of victory and as their only 100 point game.
1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1931 – Start of “Die Voortrekkers” youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 – Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws “intentional bombings of civilian populations”.
1939 – World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
1941 – World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
1943 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
1947 – The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
1947 – Pakistan joins the United Nations.
1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear-powered vessel.
1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
1965 – The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
1965 – In Indonesia, a coup by the 30 September Movement is crushed, leading to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
1966 – Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
1967 – The BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson’s Field hijackings.
1972 – Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
1975 – The AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.
1977 – Because of NASA budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa.
1993 – The 6.2 M_w  Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
1994 – Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from central London, closes.
1999 – The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan’s second-worst nuclear accident.
2000 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat itself is retired.
2005 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.
2009 – The 7.6 M_w  Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
2016 – Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.
2016 – Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.

Births on September 30

1207 – Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
1227 – Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
1530 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
1550 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1631)
1622 – Johann Sebastiani, German composer (d. 1683)
1689 – Jacques Aubert, French violinist and composer (d. 1753)
1700 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish monk, poet, and playwright (d. 1773)
1710 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1771)
1714 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemologist and philosopher (d. 1780)
1732 – Jacques Necker, Swiss-French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1804)
1743 – Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German cantor and composer (d. 1813)
1765 – José María Morelos, Mexican priest and general (d. 1815)
1800 – Decimus Burton, English architect, designed the Pharos Lighthouse (d. 1881)
1813 – John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer (d. 1893)
1814 – Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, American feminist, educator, and philanthropist (d. 1900)
1827 – Ellis H. Roberts, American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (d. 1918)
1832 – Ann Jarvis, American activist, co-founded Mother’s Day (d. 1905)
1836 – Remigio Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian politician, 56th President of Peru (d. 1894)
1852 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1924)
1861 – William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company (d. 1932)
1863 – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (d. 1928)
1870 – Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1948)
1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic (d. 1945)
1883 – Bernhard Rust, German educator and politician (d. 1945)
1883 – Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist (d. 1971)
1887 – Lil Dagover, Indonesian-German actress (d. 1980)
1893 – Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 1964)
1895 – Lewis Milestone, Moldovan-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1980)
1897 – Gaspar Cassadó, Spanish cellist and composer (d. 1966)
1897 – Alfred Wintle, Russian-English soldier and politician (d. 1966)
1897 – Charlotte Wolff, German-English physician and psychotherapist (d. 1986)
1898 – Renée Adorée, French-American actress (d. 1933)
1898 – Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (d. 1977)
1898 – Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, German-American author and illustrator (d. 1986)
1901 – Thelma Terry, American bassist and bandleader (d. 1966)
1904 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (d. 1971)
1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1905 – Michael Powell, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1906 – Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)
1908 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 1974)
1910 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain (d. 1962)
1911 – Gustave Gilbert, American psychologist (d. 1977)
1912 – Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
1913 – Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1975)
1915 – Lester Maddox, American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
1917 – Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (d. 2014)
1917 – Buddy Rich, American drummer, bandleader, and actor (d. 1987)
1918 – Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army captain (d. 1995)
1918 – René Rémond, French historian and economist (d. 2007)
1919 – Roberto Bonomi, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1992)
1919 – Elizabeth Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 2008)
1919 – William L. Guy, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2013)
1919 – Patricia Neway, American soprano and actress (d. 2012)
1921 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish-English actress (d. 2007)
1921 – Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American cellist and educator (d. 2018)
1922 – Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
1922 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1923 – Donald Swann, Welsh-English pianist and composer (d. 1994)
1924 – Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1925 – Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and educator (d. 1998)
1926 – Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
1926 – Robin Roberts, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2010)
1927 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and translator (d. 2019)
1928 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
1928 – Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1929 – Carol Fenner, American author and illustrator (d. 2002)
1929 – Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist and academic
1929 – Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Filipino politician, diplomat and writer (d. 2017)
1929 – Dorothee Sölle, German theologian and author (d. 2003)
1931 – Angie Dickinson, American actress
1931 – Teresa Gorman, English educator and politician (d. 2015)
1932 – Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author, playwright, and politician, Governor of Tokyo
1932 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008)
1933 – Michel Aoun, Lebanese general and politician, President of Lebanon
1933 – Cissy Houston, American singer
1934 – Alan A’Court, English footballer and manager (d. 2009)
1934 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2014)
1934 – Anna Kashfi, Indian-American actress (d. 2015)
1935 – Johnny Mathis, American singer and actor
1936 – Jim Sasser, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China
1936 – Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (d. 1976)
1937 – Jurek Becker, Polish-German author (d. 1997)
1937 – Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ukrainian pianist and composer
1937 – Gary Hocking, Rhodesian motorcycle racer (d. 1962)
1938 – Alan Hacker, English clarinet player and educator (d. 2012)
1939 – Len Cariou, Canadian actor
1939 – Anthony Green, English painter and academic
1939 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (d. 2015)
1940 – Harry Jerome, Canadian sprinter (d. 1982)
1940 – Dewey Martin, Canadian-American drummer (d. 2009)
1941 – Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., American author and educator
1941 – Kamalesh Sharma, Indian academic and diplomat, 5th Commonwealth Secretary General
1941 – Reine Wisell, Swedish race car driver
1942 – Gus Dudgeon, English record producer (d. 2002)
1942 – Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (d. 1968)
1943 – Johann Deisenhofer, German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 – Marilyn McCoo, American singer
1943 – Philip Moore, English organist and composer
1943 – Ian Ogilvy, English-American actor, playwright, and author
1944 – Diane Dufresne, Canadian singer and painter
1944 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
1944 – Red Robbins, American basketball player (d. 2009)
1945 – Richard Edwin Hills, English astronomer and academic
1945 – Ehud Olmert, Israeli lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel
1946 – Fran Brill, American actress, singer, and puppeteer
1946 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
1946 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (d. 1993)
1946 – Jochen Mass, German race car driver
1946 – Paul Sheahan, Australian cricketer and educator
1946 – Claude Vorilhon, French journalist, founded Raëlism
1947 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)
1947 – Rula Lenska, English actress
1948 – Craig Kusick, American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
1950 – Laura Esquivel, Mexican author and screenwriter
1950 – Victoria Tennant, English actress and dancer
1951 – John Lloyd, English screenwriter and producer
1951 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1951 – Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic
1952 – John Lombardo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 – Matt Abts, American drummer
1953 – Deborah Allen, American country music singer-songwriter, author, and actress
1954 – Basia, Polish singer-songwriter and record producer
1954 – Scott Fields, American guitarist and composer
1954 – Patrice Rushen, American singer-songwriter and producer
1955 – Andy Bechtolsheim, German engineer, co-founded Sun Microsystems
1955 – Frankie Kennedy, Northern Irish flute player (d. 1994)
1956 – Trevor Morgan, English footballer and manager
1957 – Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Marty Stuart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959 – Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach
1960 – Julia Adamson, Canadian-English keyboard player, composer, and producer
1960 – Nicola Griffith, English-American author
1960 – Miki Howard, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1960 – Blanche Lincoln, American politician
1961 – Gary Coyne, Australian rugby league player
1961 – Eric Stoltz, American actor, director, and producer
1961 – Mel Stride, English politician
1961 – Eric van de Poele, Belgian race car driver
1963 – David Barbe, American bass player and producer
1964 – Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer
1964 – Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and fashion model
1965 – Omid Djalili, English comedian, actor, and producer
1966 – Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player
1966 – Markus Burger, German pianist, composer, and educator
1967 – Emmanuelle Houdart, Swiss-French author and illustrator
1969 – Gintaras Einikis, Lithuanian basketball player
1969 – Chris von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1991)
1970 – Tony Hale, American actor and producer
1970 – Damian Mori, Australian footballer and manager
1971 – Jenna Elfman, American actress and producer
1972 – Jamal Anderson, American football player and sportscaster
1972 – Ari Behn, Danish-Norwegian author and playwright (d. 2019)
1972 – John Campbell, American bass player and songwriter
1972 – Mayumi Kojima, Japanese singer-songwriter
1972 – José Lima, Dominican-American baseball player (d. 2010)
1974 – Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
1974 – Tom Greatrex, English politician
1974 – Ben Phillips, English cricketer
1974 – Daniel Wu, American–born Hong Kong actor, director, and producer
1975 – Jay Asher, American author
1975 – Marion Cotillard, French-American actress and singer
1975 – Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 – Laure Pequegnot, French skier
1975 – Christopher Jackson, American actor, singer, musician, and composer
1976 – Georgie Bingham, British radio and television presenter
1977 – Roy Carroll, Northern Irish goalkeeper and manager
1977 – Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2012)
1978 – Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale, Polish female volleyball player
1979 – Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer and coach
1979 – Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
1980 – Martina Hingis, Czechoslovakia-born Swiss tennis player
1980 – Milagros Sequera, Venezuelan tennis player
1981 – Cecelia Ahern, Irish author
1981 – Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast
1982 – Lacey Chabert, American actress
1982 – Ryane Clowe, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Dmytro Boyko, Ukrainian footballer
1983 – Boniek Forbes, Guinea-Bissau footballer
1983 – Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
1984 – Georgios Eleftheriou, Greek footballer
1985 – Adam Cooney, Australian footballer
1985 – David Gower, Australian rugby league player
1985 – Téa Obreht, Serbian-American author
1985 – Cristian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
1985 – T-Pain, American rapper, producer, and actor
1986 – Olivier Giroud, French footballer
1986 – Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer
1986 – Ben Lovett, Welsh musician and songwriter
1986 – Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer
1987 – Aida Garifullina, Russian operatic soprano
1988 – Eglė Staišiūnaitė, Lithuanian hurdler
1989 – André Weis, German footballer
1991 – Thomas Röhler, German javelin thrower
1992 – Ezra Miller, American actor and singer
1994 – Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast
1996 – Jacob Host, Australian rugby league player
1997 – Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian gymnast
1997 – Max Verstappen, Dutch Formula One driver
1998 – Trevor Moran, American youtuber and singer
2002 – Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress
2002 – Levi Miller, Australian actor and model

Deaths on September 30

420 – Jerome, Roman priest, theologian, and saint (b. 347)
653 – Honorius of Canterbury, Italian archbishop and saint
940 – Fan Yanguang, Chinese general
954 – Louis IV of France (b. 920)
1101 – Anselm IV, Italian archbishop
1246 – Yaroslav II of Vladimir (b. 1191)
1288 – Leszek II the Black, Polish prince, Duke of Łęczyca, Sieradz, Kraków, Sandomierz (b. 1241)
1440 – Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, Welsh soldier and politician (b. 1362)
1487 – John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
1551 – Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyō (b. 1507)
1560 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
1572 – Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1510)
1581 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
1626 – Nurhaci, Chinese emperor (b. 1559)
1628 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1554)
1770 – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1695)
1770 – George Whitefield, English-American priest and theologian (b. 1714)
1865 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (b. 1800)
1891 – Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1837)
1897 – Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (b. 1873)
1910 – Maurice Lévy, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1838)
1942 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German captain and pilot (b. 1919)
1943 – Franz Oppenheimer, German-American sociologist and economist (b. 1864)
1946 – Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1887)
1955 – James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
1959 – Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia (b. 1877)
1961 – Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1888)
1973 – Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and author (b. 1902)
1974 – Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician, Chilean Minister of Defense (b. 1915)
1977 – Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924)
1978 – Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
1985 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (b. 1900)
1985 – Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
1986 – Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-British economist (b. 1908)
1987 – Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (b. 1913)
1988 – Al Holbert, American race car driver (b. 1946)
1989 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (b. 1896)
1990 – Rob Moroso, American race car driver (b. 1968)
1990 – Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist and author (b. 1930)
1990 – Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
1991 – Toma Zdravković, Serbian singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
1994 – André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1998 – Marius Goring, English actor (b. 1912)
1998 – Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player and poet (b. 1953)
1998 – Robert Lewis Taylor, American soldier and author (b. 1912)
2002 – Göran Kropp, Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (b. 1966)
2002 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1913)
2003 – Yusuf Bey, American activist, founded Your Black Muslim Bakery (b. 1935)
2003 – Ronnie Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
2003 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer and businessman (b. 1944)
2004 – Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director, and politician (b. 1936)
2004 – Jacques Levy, American director and songwriter (b. 1935)
2004 – Michael Relph, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915)
2008 – J. B. Jeyaretnam, Singaporean lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
2010 – Stephen J. Cannell, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1941)
2011 – Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Yemeni terrorist (b. 1971)
2011 – Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
2012 – Turhan Bey, Austrian actor and producer (b. 1922)
2012 – Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (b. 1917)
2012 – Bobby Jaggers, American wrestler and engineer (b. 1948)
2012 – Clara Stanton Jones, American librarian (b. 1913)
2012 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian-American figure skater (b. 1928)
2012 – Boris Šprem, Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (b. 1956)
2013 – Janet Powell, Australian educator and politician (b. 1942)
2014 – Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Indian cleric and politician (b. 1940)
2014 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
2015 – Guido Altarelli, Italian-Swiss physicist and academic (b. 1941)
2015 – Claude Dauphin, French businessman (b. 1951)
2015 – Göran Hägg, Swedish author and critic (b. 1947)
2017 – Monty Hall, American game show host (b. 1921)
2018 – Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (b. 1945)
2018 – Geoffrey Hayes, British television presenter and actor (b. 1942)
2018 – Sonia Orbuch, Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War and Holocaust educator. (b. 1925)
2019 – Victoria Braithwaite, British research scientist who proved fish feel pain (b. 1967)

Holidays and observances on September 30

Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Birth of Morelos (Mexico)
Boy’s Day (Poland)
Christian feast day:
- Gregory the Illuminator
- Honorius of Canterbury
- Jerome
- September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day (Botswana) or Botswana Day, celebrates the independence of Botswana from United Kingdom in 1966.
International Translation Day (International Federation of Translators)
Orange Shirt Day (Canada)

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1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1412 – Behnam Hadloyo becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.
1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.
1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
1783 – The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
1814 – War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown’s American invaders.
1823 – Afro-Chileans are emancipated.
1823 – In Maracaibo, Venezuela, the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
1847 – Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patented the rotary-type printing press.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1866 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1910 – The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
1915 – The passenger ship SS Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
1922 – The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1924 – Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.
1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against the “Scottsboro Boys”.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a “Kitchen Debate”.
1963 – The ship Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.
1966 – Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
1967 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (“Long live free Quebec!”); the statement angered the Canadian government and many Anglophone Canadians.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1977 – End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
1980 – The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men’s 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
1982 – Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
1983 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the “Pine Tar Incident”.
1987 – US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
1987 – Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak.
1998 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2001 – The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. Eleven civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while seven soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air Force are killed. In addition, three civilians and an engineer die. This incident slowed the Sri Lankan economy.
2013 – A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.
2014 – Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people onboard are killed.

Births on July 24

1242 – Christina von Stommeln, German Roman Catholic mystic, ecstatic, and stigmatic (d. 1312)
1468 – Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1524)
1529 – Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (d. 1577)
1561 – Maria of the Palatinate-Simmern (d. 1589)
1574 – Thomas Platter the Younger, Swiss physician and author (d. 1628)
1660 – Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1718)
1689 – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, son of Queen Anne of Great Britain and Prince George of Denmark (d. 1700)
1725 – John Newton, English sailor and priest (d. 1807)
1757 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-Russian painter (d. 1825)
1783 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan commander and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela (d. 1830)
1786 – Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1794 – Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish mineralogist and geologist (d. 1865)
1802 – Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (d. 1870)
1803 – Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (d. 1856)
1803 – Alexander J. Davis, American architect (d. 1892)
1821 – William Poole, American boxer and gangster (d. 1855)
1826 – Jan Gotlib Bloch, Polish theorist and activist (d. 1902)
1851 – Friedrich Schottky, Polish-German mathematician and theorist (d. 1935)
1856 – Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
1857 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1857 – Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuelan general and politician, 27th President of Venezuela (d. 1935)
1860 – Princess Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1919)
1860 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1939)
1864 – Frank Wedekind, German actor and playwright (d. 1918)
1867 – Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran journalist and poet (d. 1908)
1867 – E. F. Benson, English archaeologist and author (d. 1940)
1867 – Fred Tate, English cricketer and coach (d. 1943)
1874 – Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and author (d. 1917)
1877 – Calogero Vizzini, Italian mob boss (d. 1954)
1878 – Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1957)
1880 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-American composer and educator (d. 1959)
1884 – Maria Caserini, Italian actress (d. 1969)
1886 – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author (d. 1965)
1888 – Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 1973)
1889 – Agnes Meyer Driscoll, American cryptanalyst (d. 1971)
1895 – Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, critic (d. 1985)
1897 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author (d. 1937)
1899 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (d. 1981)
1900 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American author and poet (d. 1948)
1904 – Leo Arnaud, French-American trombonist, composer, and conductor (d. 1991)
1904 – Richard B. Morris, American historian and academic (d. 1989)
1904 – Delmer Daves, American screenwriter, director and producer (d. 1977)
1909 – John William Finn, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2010)
1910 – Harry Horner, American director and production designer (d. 1994)
1912 – Essie Summers, New Zealand author (d. 1998)
1913 – Britton Chance, American biologist and sailor (d. 2010)
1914 – Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (d. 2015)
1914 – Ed Mirvish, American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2007)
1914 – Alan Waddell, Australian walker (d. 2008)
1915 – Enrique Fernando, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (d. 2004)
1916 – John D. MacDonald, American colonel and author (d. 1986)
1917 – Robert Farnon, Canadian trumpet player, composer, and conductor (d. 2005)
1917 – Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer (d. 1999)
1918 – Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist and educator (d. 2012)
1919 – Robert Marsden Hope, Australian lawyer and judge (d. 1999)
1919 – Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, NASA manager (d. 2007)
1919 – John Winkin, American baseball player, coach, and journalist (d. 2014)
1920 – Bella Abzug, American lawyer and politician (d. 1998)
1920 – Constance Dowling, American model and actress (d. 1969)
1921 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian tenor and actor (d. 2008)
1921 – Billy Taylor, American pianist and composer (d. 2010)
1922 – Madeleine Ferron, Canadian radio host and author (d. 2010)
1924 – Wilfred Josephs, English composer (d. 1997)
1924 – Aris Poulianos, Greek anthropologist and archaeologist
1927 – Alex Katz, American painter and sculptor
1927 – Zara Mints, Russian-Estonian philologist and academic (d. 1990)
1930 – Alfred Balk, American journalist and author (d. 2010)
1930 – Keshubhai Patel, Indian politician, 10th Chief Minister of Gujarat
1931 – Ermanno Olmi, Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2018)
1931 – Éric Tabarly, French commander (d. 1998)
1932 – Gustav Andreas Tammann, German astronomer and academic (d. 2019)
1933 – Doug Sanders, American golfer (d. 2020)
1934 – P. S. Soosaithasan, Sri Lankan accountant and politician (d. 2017)
1935 – Aaron Elkins, American author and academic
1935 – Pat Oliphant, Australian cartoonist
1935 – Mel Ramos, American painter, illustrator, and academic (d. 2018)
1935 – Les Reed, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2019)
1935 – Derek Varnals, South African cricketer
1936 – Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian
1936 – Mark Goddard, American actor
1937 – Manoj Kumar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1937 – Quinlan Terry, English architect, designed the Brentwood Cathedral
1938 – Alexis Jacquemin, Belgian economist and academic (d. 2004)
1938 – Eugene J. Martin, American painter (d. 2005)
1938 – John Sparling, New Zealand cricketer
1939 – Walt Bellamy, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
1939 – David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury, English businessman and politician
1940 – Dan Hedaya, American actor
1941 – John Bond, English banker and businessman
1942 – Heinz, German-English singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2000)
1942 – David Miner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1942 – Chris Sarandon, American actor
1944 – Jim Armstrong, Northern Irish guitarist
1945 – Frank Close, English physicist and academic
1945 – Azim Premji, Indian businessman and philanthropist
1945 – Hugh Ross, Canadian-American astrophysicist and astronomer
1945 – Anthony Watts, English geologist, geophysicist, and academic
1946 – Gallagher, American comedian and actor
1946 – Friedhelm Haebermann, German footballer and manager
1946 – Hervé Vilard, French singer-songwriter
1947 – Zaheer Abbas, Pakistani cricketer and manager
1947 – Geoff McQueen, English screenwriter and producer (d. 1994)
1947 – Peter Serkin, American pianist and educator
1949 – Michael Richards, American actor and comedian
1950 – Jadranka Stojaković, Yugoslav singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
1951 – Lynda Carter, American actress
1951 – Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, English politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
1952 – Ian Cairns, Australian surfer
1952 – Gus Van Sant, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1953 – Julian Brazier, English captain and politician
1953 – Jon Faddis, American trumpet player, composer, and conductor
1953 – Tadashi Kawamata, Japanese contemporary artist
1953 – Claire McCaskill, American lawyer and politician
1953 – James Newcome, English bishop
1954 – Erdoğan Arıca, Turkish footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1954 – Jorge Jesus, Portuguese footballer and manager
1955 – Brad Watson, American author and academic
1956 – Charlie Crist, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of Florida
1957 – Pam Tillis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1958 – Jim Leighton, Scottish footballer and coach
1960 – Catherine Destivelle, French rock climber and mountaineer
1961 – Kerry Dixon, English footballer and manager
1962 – Johnny O’Connell, American race car driver and sportscaster
1963 – Louis Armary, French rugby player
1963 – Karl Malone, American basketball player and coach
1964 – Barry Bonds, American baseball player
1964 – Pedro Passos Coelho, Portuguese economist and politician, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal
1964 – Urmas Kaljend, Estonian footballer
1964 – John Rosengren, American journalist and author
1965 – Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player and sportscaster
1965 – Kadeem Hardison, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1965 – Doug Liman, American director and producer
1966 – Mo-Do, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1966 – Aminatou Haidar, Sahrawi human rights activist
1966 – Martin Keown, English footballer and coach
1968 – Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer
1968 – Colleen Doran, American author and illustrator
1968 – Malcolm Ingram, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Laura Leighton, American actress
1969 – Rick Fox, Bahamian basketball player
1969 – Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer, and dancer
1971 – Dino Baggio, Italian footballer
1971 – Patty Jenkins, American film director and screenwriter
1972 – Kaiō Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
1973 – Russell Bawden, Australian rugby league player
1973 – Ana Cristina Oliveira, Portuguese model and actress
1973 – Amanda Stretton, English race car driver and journalist
1974 – Andy Gomarsall, English rugby player
1975 – Tracey Crouch, English politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
1975 – Jamie Langenbrunner, American ice hockey player
1975 – Torrie Wilson, American model, fitness competitor, actress and professional wrestler
1975 – Eric Szmanda, American actor
1976 – Rafer Alston, American basketball player
1976 – Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese race car driver and manager
1978 – Andy Irons, American surfer (d. 2010)
1979 – Rose Byrne, Australian actress
1979 – Jerrod Niemann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Valerio Scassellati, Italian race car driver
1979 – Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, French tennis player
1979 – Mark Andrew Smith, American author
1979 – Ryan Speier, American baseball player
1980 – Joel Stroetzel, American guitarist
1981 – Doug Bollinger, Australian cricketer
1981 – Summer Glau, American actress
1981 – Mark Robinson, English footballer
1982 – Trevor Matthews, Canadian actor and producer, founded Brookstreet Pictures
1982 – Thiago Medeiros, Brazilian race car driver
1982 – Mewelde Moore, American football player
1982 – Elisabeth Moss, American actress
1982 – Anna Paquin, Canadian-New Zealand actress
1982 – Michael Poppmeier, South African-German rugby player
1983 – Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
1983 – Asami Mizukawa, Japanese actress
1984 – Patrick Harvey, Australian actor
1984 – Tyler Kyte, Canadian singer and drummer
1985 – Patrice Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Aries Merritt, American hurdler
1985 – Lukáš Rosol, Czech tennis player
1985 – Eric Wright, American football player
1986 – Natalie Tran, Australian actress, online producer
1987 – Filipe Francisco dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Nathan Gerbe, American ice hockey player
1987 – Zack Sabre Jr., English wrestler
1988 – Han Seung-yeon, South Korean singer and dancer
1988 – Nichkhun, Thai-American singer-songwriter and actor
1988 – Ricky Petterd, Australian footballer
1989 – Maurkice Pouncey, American football player
1989 – Kim Tae-hwan, South Korean footballer
1990 – Daveigh Chase, American actress
1990 – Travis Mahoney, Australian swimmer
1991 – Manuel Fischnaller, Italian footballer
1991 – Emily Bett Rickards, Canadian actress
1992 – Mikaël Kingsbury, Canadian skier
1992 – Mitch Grassi, American singer and songwriter
1994 – Alejandra Álvarez, Ecuadorian tennis player
1994 – Phillip Lindsay, American football player
1995 – Valentine Holmes, Australian rugby league player
1995 – Kyle Kuzma, American basketball player
1995 – Meisei Chikara, Japanese sumo wrestler
1997 – Emre Mor, Turkish football player
2002 – Nicole Pircio, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast

Deaths on July 24

759 – Oswulf, king of Northumbria
811 – Gao Ying, Chinese politician (b. 740)
946 – Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, Egyptian ruler (b. 882)
1115 – Matilda of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1129 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1053)
1198 – Berthold of Hanover, Bishop of Livonia
1345 – Jacob van Artevelde, Flemish statesman (b. 1290)
1568 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias (b. 1545)
1594 – John Boste, English martyr and saint (b. 1544)
1601 – Joris Hoefnagel, Flemish painter (b. 1542)
1612 – John Salusbury, Welsh politician and poet (b. 1567)
1739 – Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer and educator (b. 1686)
1768 – Nathaniel Lardner, English theologian and author (b. 1684)
1862 – Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)
1891 – Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician (b. 1827)
1908 – Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran journalist and poet (b. 1867)
1910 – Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ukrainian-Russian painter (b. 1841)
1927 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author (b. 1892)
1957 – Sacha Guitry, French actor and director (b. 1885)
1962 – Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (b. 1917)
1965 – Constance Bennett, American actress and producer (b. 1904)
1966 – Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
1969 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (b. 1904)
1970 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman, philanthropist, and civil servant (b. 1897)
1974 – James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1980 – Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (b. 1925)
1985 – Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary and martyr (b. 1953)
1986 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1986 – Qudrat Ullah Shahab, Pakistani civil servant and author (b. 1917)
1991 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1992 – Arletty, French actress and singer (b. 1898)
1992 – Sam Berger, Canadian lawyer and businessman (b. 1900)
1994 – Helen Cordero, Cochiti Pueblo (Native American) Pueblo potter (b. 1915)
1995 – George Rodger, English photographer and journalist (b. 1908)
1996 – Alphonso Theodore Roberts, Vincentian cricketer and activist (b. 1937)
1997 – William J. Brennan Jr., American colonel and jurist (b. 1906)
1997 – Saw Maung, Burmese general and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1928)
2000 – Ahmad Shamloo, Iranian poet and journalist (b. 1925)
2001 – Georges Dor, Canadian author, playwright, and composer (b. 1931)
2005 – Richard Doll, English physiologist and epidemiologist (b. 1912)
2007 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist and author (b. 1913)
2007 – Nicola Zaccaria, Greek opera singer (b. 1923)
2008 – Norman Dello Joio, American pianist and composer (b. 1913)
2011 – Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
2011 – Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
2011 – Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist and composer (b. 1970)
2011 – David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author (b. 1961)
2011 – Skip Thomas, American football player (b. 1950)
2012 – Chad Everett, American actor and director (b. 1937)
2012 – Sherman Hemsley, American actor and singer (b. 1938)
2012 – Larry Hoppen, American singer and guitarist (b. 1951)
2012 – Robert Ledley, American physiologist and physicist, invented the CT scanner (b. 1926)
2012 – Themo Lobos, Chilean author and illustrator (b. 1928)
2012 – John Atta Mills, Ghanaian lawyer and politician, a President of Ghana (b. 1944)
2012 – Gregorio Peces-Barba, Spanish jurist and politician (b. 1938)
2013 – Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (b. 1921)
2013 – Fred Dretske, American philosopher and academic (b. 1932)
2013 – Virginia E. Johnson, American psychologist and sexologist (b. 1925)
2013 – Pius Langa, South African lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1939)
2014 – Ik-Hwan Bae, Korean-American violinist and educator (b. 1956)
2014 – Dale Schlueter, American basketball player (b. 1945)
2014 – Hans-Hermann Sprado, German journalist and author (b. 1956)
2015 – Peg Lynch, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1916)
2015 – Ingrid Sischy, South African-American journalist and critic (b. 1952)
2016 – Marni Nixon, American actress and singer (b. 1930)
2017 – Harshida Raval, Indian Gujarati playback singer

Holidays and observances on July 24

Carnival of Awussu (Tunisia)
Children’s Day (Vanuatu)
Christian feast day:
- Charbel (Maronite Church/Catholic Church)
- Christina the Astonishing
- Christina of Bolsena
- Declán of Ardmore
- John Boste
- Kinga (or Cunegunda) of Poland
- Martyrs of Daimiel
- Menefrida of Cornwall
- Sigolena of Albi
- July 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Pioneer Day (Utah)
Police Day (Poland)
Simón Bolívar Day (Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia)
- Navy Day (Venezuela)

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July 13 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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587 BC – Babylon’s siege of Jerusalem ends following the destruction of Solomon’s Temple.
1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
1249 – Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
1260 – The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1558 – Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
1573 – Eighty Years’ War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
1787 – The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
1793 – Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
1794 – The Battle of Trippstadt is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria.
1814 – The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.
1830 – The General Assembly’s Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
1831 – Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of Romania.
1854 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.
1863 – New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
1878 – Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
1941 – World War II: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
1956 – The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
1962 – In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
1973 – Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.
1977 – Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
1977 – New York City: Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
1985 – Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
2003 – French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.
2008 – Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
2011 – Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of the United Nations.
2013 – Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.
2016 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.

Births on July 13

100 BC – Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman (d. 44 BC)
1426 – Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (d. 1492)
1478 – Giulio d’Este, illegitimate son of Italian noble (d. 1561)
1470 – Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de’ Medici, Catholic cardinal (d. 1528)
1527 – John Dee, English-Welsh mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (d. 1609)
1579 – Arthur Dee, English physician and chemist (d. 1651)
1590 – Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
1606 – Roland Fréart de Chambray (d. 1676)
1607 – Wenceslaus Hollar, Czech-English painter and illustrator (d. 1677)
1608 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
1745 – Robert Calder, Scottish-English admiral (d. 1818)
1756 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist (d. 1827)
1760 – István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovene priest and poet (d. 1829)
1770 – Alexander Balashov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police (d. 1837)
1793 – John Clare, English poet and author (d. 1864)
1821 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1877)
1831 – Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (d. 1889)
1841 – Otto Wagner, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Postal Savings Bank and Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station (d. 1918)
1858 – Stewart Culin, American ethnographer and author (d. 1929)
1859 – Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1947)
1863 – Margaret Murray, British archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist (d. 1963)
1864 – John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel and businessman (d. 1912)
1877 – Robert Henry Mathews, Australian linguist and missionary (d. 1970)
1884 – Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach (d. 1951)
1889 – Emma Asson, Estonian educator and politician (d. 1965)
1889 – Stan Coveleski, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1892 – Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1941)
1892 – Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American discus and javelin thrower (d. 1955)
1894 – Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright (d. 1940)
1895 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973)
1896 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter and educator (d. 1992)
1898 – Julius Schreck, German commander (d. 1936)
1898 – Ivan Triesault, Estonian-born American actor (d. 1980)
1900 – George Lewis, American clarinet player and songwriter (d. 1969)
1901 – Eric Portman, English actor (d. 1969)
1903 – Kenneth Clark, English historian and author (d. 1983)
1905 – Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino general (d. 1990)
1905 – Eugenio Pagnini, Italian modern pentathlete (d. 1993)
1905 – Magda Foy, American child actress (d. 2000)
1907 – George Weller, American author, playwright, and journalist (d. 2002)
1908 – Dorothy Round, English tennis player (d. 1982)
1908 – Tim Spencer, American country & western singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1974)
1910 – Lien Gisolf, Dutch high jumper (d. 1993)
1910 – Loren Pope, American journalist and author (d. 2008)
1911 – Bob Steele (broadcaster), American radio personality (d. 2002)
1913 – Dave Garroway, American journalist and television personality (d. 1982)
1913 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman (d. 2012)
1913 – Kay Linaker, American actress and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1915 – Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese author and educator (d. 1989)
1918 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
1918 – Ronald Bladen, American painter and sculptor (d. 1988)
1918 – Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator (d. 2015)
1919 – Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China (d. 2020)
1919 – William F. Quinn, American lawyer (d. 2006)
1921 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer and conductor (d. 1999)
1922 – Leslie Brooks, American actress (d. 2011)
1922 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish trade union leader and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 2016)
1922 – Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, Egyptian military commander (d. 2011)
1922 – Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
1923 – Ashley Bryan, American children’s book author and illustrator
1924 – Johnny Gilbert, American game show host and announcer
1925 – Suzanne Zimmerman, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist
1925 – Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer
1926 – Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager (d. 2008)
1926 – T. Loren Christianson, American politician (d. 2019)
1926 – Thomas Clark, American politician (d. 2020)
1927 – Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician, President of the European Parliament (d. 2017)
1927 – Ian Reed, Australian discus thrower
1928 – Bob Crane, American actor (d. 1978)
1928 – Sven Davidson, Swedish-American tennis player (d. 2008)
1928 – Al Rex, American musician (d. 2020)
1929 – Sofia Muratova, Russian gymnast (d. 2006)
1929 – Svein Ellingsen, Norwegian visual artist and hymnist (d. 2020)
1930 – Sam Greenlee, American author and poet (d. 2014)
1930 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1931 – Frank Ramsey, American basketball player and coach (d. 2018)
1932 – Hubert Reeves, Canadian-French astrophysicist and author
1933 – David Storey, English author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1933 – Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (d. 1963)
1934 – Peter Gzowski, Canadian journalist and academic (d. 2002)
1934 – Gordon Lee, English footballer and manager
1934 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 – Aleksei Yeliseyev, Russian engineer and astronaut
1935 – Jack Kemp, American football player and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (d. 2009)
1935 – Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian journalist, author, and playwright
1935 – Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist
1936 – Albert Ayler, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1970)
1937 – Ghillean Prance, English botanist and ecologist
1939 – Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral (d. 2013)
1940 – Tom Lichtenberg, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1940 – Paul Prudhomme, American chef and author (d. 2015)
1940 – Patrick Stewart, English actor, director, and producer
1941 – Grahame Corling, Australian cricketer
1941 – Robert Forster, American actor and producer (d. 2019)
1941 – Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter and translator (d. 2005)
1941 – Jacques Perrin, French actor, director, and producer
1942 – Harrison Ford, American actor and producer
1942 – Roger McGuinn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Chris Serle, English journalist and actor
1944 – Eric Freeman, Australian cricketer
1944 – Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (d. 1991)
1944 – Erno Rubik, Hungarian game designer, architect, and educator, invented the Rubik’s Cube
1945 – Ashley Mallett, Australian cricketer and author
1946 – Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
1946 – Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian
1948 – Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter
1949 – Bryan Murray, Irish actor
1950 – George Nelson, American astronomer and astronaut
1950 – Ma Ying-jeou, Hong Kong-Taiwanese commander and politician, 12th President of the Republic of China
1950 – Jurelang Zedkaia, Marshallese politician, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (d. 2015)
1951 – Rob Bishop, American educator and politician
1951 – Didi Conn, American actress and singer
1953 – David Thompson, American basketball player
1954 – Ray Bright, Australian cricketer
1954 – Louise Mandrell, American singer-songwriter and actress
1956 – Mark Mendoza, American bass player and songwriter
1956 – Michael Spinks, American boxer
1957 – Thierry Boutsen, Belgian race car driver and businessman
1957 – Cameron Crowe, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1959 – Richard Leman, English field hockey player
1959 – Fuziah Salleh, Malaysian politician
1960 – Robert Abraham, American football player
1960 – Ian Hislop, Welsh-English journalist and screenwriter
1960 – Curtis Rouse, American football player (d. 2013)
1961 – Tahira Asif, Pakistani politician (d. 2014)
1961 – Anders Jarryd, Swedish tennis player
1961 – Khalid Mahmood, Pakistani-English engineer and politician
1961 – Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager
1961 – Tim Watson, Australian footballer, coach, and journalist
1962 – Tom Kenny, American voice actor and screenwriter
1962 – Rhonda Vincent, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player
1963 – Neal Foulds, English snooker player and sportscaster
1963 – Kenny Johnson, American actor, producer, and model
1964 – Charlie Hides, American drag queen and comedian
1964 – Paul Thorn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Eileen Ivers, American fiddler
1965 – Colin van der Voort, Australian rugby league player
1966 – Gerald Levert, American R&B singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
1966 – Natalia Luis-Bassa, Venezuelan-English conductor and educator
1967 – Richard Marles, Australian lawyer and politician, 50th Australian Minister for Trade and Investment
1967 – Mark McGowan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Western Australia
1969 – Brad Godden, Australian rugby league player
1969 – Ken Jeong, American actor, comedian, and physician
1969 – Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan political scientist and politician
1970 – Andrei Tivontchik, German pole vaulter and trainer
1971 – Mark Neeld, Australian footballer and coach
1972 – Sean Waltman, American professional wrestler
1974 – Deborah Cox, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
1974 – Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver
1975 – Diego Spotorno, Ecuadorian actor
1975 – Mariada Pieridi, Cypriot singer-songwriter
1976 – Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Chris Horn, American football player
1978 – Ryan Ludwick, American baseball player
1978 – Prodromos Nikolaidis, Greek basketball player
1979 – Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer
1979 – Daniel Díaz, Argentinian footballer
1979 – Libuše Průšová, Czech tennis player
1979 – Lucinda Ruh, Swiss figure skater and coach
1981 – Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian swimmer
1981 – Mirco Lorenzetto, Italian cyclist
1982 – Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player
1982 – Simon Clist, English footballer
1982 – Dominic Isaacs, South African footballer
1982 – Nick Kenny, Australian rugby league player
1982 – Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1983 – Kristof Beyens, Belgian sprinter
1983 – Marco Pomante, Italian footballer
1983 – Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdler
1984 – Ida Maria, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1985 – Trell Kimmons, American sprinter
1985 – Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
1985 – Charlotte Dujardin, English equestrian
1988 – Marcos Paulo Gelmini Gomes, Brazilian-Italian footballer
1988 – Colton Haynes, American actor, model and singer
1988 – Steven R. McQueen, American actor and model
1988 – Raúl Spank, German high jumper
1988 – Tulisa, English singer-songwriter and actress
1989 – Leon Bridges, American soul singer, songwriter and record producer
1989 – Charis Giannopoulos, Greek basketball player
1990 – Kieran Foran, New Zealand rugby league player
1990 – Eduardo Salvio, Argentinian footballer
1992 – Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer
1993 – Daniel Bentley, English footballer
1995 – Cody Bellinger, American baseball player
1995 – Dante Exum, Australian basketball player
2002 – Deborah Medrado, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast
2003 – Wyatt Oleff, American child actor
2005 – Kyle Harrison Breitkopf, Canadian child actor

Deaths on July 13

574 – John III, pope of the Catholic Church
716 – Rui Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 662)
815 – Wu Yuanheng, Chinese poet and politician (b. 758)
884 – Huang Chao, Chinese rebel leader (b. 835)
939 – Leo VII, pope of the Catholic Church
982 – Gunther, margrave of Merseburg
982 – Henry I, bishop of Augsburg
982 – Pandulf II, Lombard prince
982 – Landulf IV, Lombard prince
982 – Abu’l-Qasim, Kalbid emir of Sicily
1024 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 973)
1105 – Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (b. 1040)
1205 – Hubert Walter, English archbishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of The United Kingdom (b. 1160)
1357 – Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian academic and jurist (b. 1313)
1380 – Bertrand du Guesclin, French nobleman and knight (b. 1320)
1399 – Peter Parler, German architect, designed St. Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge (b. 1330)
1399 – Jadwiga, queen of Poland (b. 1399)
1402 – Jianwen, Chinese emperor (b. 1377)
1491 – Afonso, Portuguese prince (b. 1475)
1551 – John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
1617 – Adam Wenceslaus, duke of Cieszyn (b. 1574)
1621 – Albert VII, archduke of Austria (b. 1559)
1626 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1563)
1628 – Robert Shirley, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1581)
1629 – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
1683 – Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1631)
1755 – Edward Braddock, Scottish general (b. 1695)
1762 – James Bradley, English priest and astronomer (b. 1693)
1789 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist and academic (b. 1715)
1793 – Jean-Paul Marat, French physician and theorist (b. 1743)
1807 – Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian cardinal (b. 1725)
1881 – John C. Pemberton, American general (b. 1814)
1889 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1830)
1890 – John C. Frémont, American general and politician, 5th Territorial Governor of Arizona (b. 1813)
1890 – Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (b. 1819)
1893 – Young Man Afraid of His Horses, American tribal chief (b. 1836)
1896 – August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (b. 1829)
1907 – Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter and jurist (b. 1866)
1911 – Allan McLean, Scottish-Australian politician, 19th Premier of Victoria (b. 1840)
1921 – Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1922 – Martin Dies, Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1870)
1927 – Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect and academic, designed the Tayyare Apartments (b. 1870)
1934 – Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and academic (b. 1849)
1936 – Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
1941 – Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)
1945 – Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
1946 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (b. 1864)
1949 – Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (b. 1877)
1951 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer and painter (b. 1874)
1954 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and educator (b. 1907)
1960 – Joy Davidman, American-English poet and author (b. 1915)
1965 – Photis Kontoglou, Greek painter and illustrator (b. 1895)
1967 – Tom Simpson, English cyclist (b. 1937)
1970 – Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (b. 1896)
1970 – Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (b. 1895)
1973 – Willy Fritsch, German actor and screenwriter (b. 1901)
1974 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1976 – Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (b. 1884)
1976 – Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (b. 1915)
1979 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
1980 – Seretse Khama, Botswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921)
1983 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian engineer and author (b. 1909)
1993 – Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)
1995 – Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (b. 1920)
1996 – Pandro S. Berman, American director, producer, and production manager (b. 1905)
1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
1999 – Konstantinos Kollias, Greek general and politician, 168th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1901)
2000 – Jan Karski, Polish-American activist and academic (b. 1914)
2003 – Compay Segundo, Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1907)
2005 – Robert E. Ogren, American zoologist (b. 1922)
2006 – Red Buttons, American actor (b. 1919)
2007 – Michael Reardon, American mountaineer (b. 1965)
2008 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1932)
2010 – Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and composer (b. 1931)
2010 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman (b. 1930)
2011 – Allan Jeans, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
2012 – Warren Jabali, American basketball player (b. 1946)
2012 – Jerzy Kulej, Polish boxer and politician (b. 1940)
2012 – Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (b. 1934)
2013 – Leonard Garment, American lawyer and public servant, 14th White House Counsel (b. 1924)
2013 – Henri Julien, French race car driver (b. 1927)
2013 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1982)
2013 – Ottavio Quattrocchi, Italian businessman (b. 1938)
2013 – Vernon B. Romney, American lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (b. 1924)
2013 – Marc Simont, French-American author and illustrator (b. 1915)
2014 – Thomas Berger, American author and playwright (b. 1924)
2014 – Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist, author, and academic (b. 1919)
2014 – Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
2014 – Jeff Leiding, American football player (b. 1961)
2014 – Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1930)
2015 – Philipp Mißfelder, German historian and politician (b. 1979)
2015 – Martin Litchfield West, English scholar, author, and academic (b. 1927)
2017 – Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic, human rights activist (b. 1955)

Holidays and observances on July 13

Christian feast day:
- Abd-al-Masih
- Abel of Tacla Haimonot (Coptic Church)
- Clelia Barbieri
- Conrad Weiser (Episcopal Church (USA))
- Eugenius of Carthage
- Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Mildrith of Thanet
- Rosa Mystica
- Silas (Catholic Church)
- Teresa of the Andes
- July 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feast of Kalimát, first day of the seventh month of the Bahá’í calendar. (Bahá’í Faith)
Statehood Day (Montenegro)
The last day of Naadam (Mongolia)
Kashmir Martyrs’ Day (Pakistan)

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On This Day

July 12 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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AD 70 – The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple.
927 – King Constantine II of Scotland, King Hywel Dda of Deheubarth, Ealdred of Bamburgh and King Owain of the Cumbrians accepted the overlordship of King Æthelstan of England, leading to seven years of peace in the north.
1191 – Third Crusade: Saladin’s garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the two-year siege of Acre.
1470 – The Ottomans capture Euboea.
1493 – Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.
1527 – Lê Cung Hoàng ceded the throne to Mạc Đăng Dung, ending the Lê dynasty and starting the Mạc dynasty.
1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
1562 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred books of the Maya.
1576 – Mughal Empire annexes Bengal after defeating the Bengal Sultanate at the Battle of Raj Mahal.
1580 – The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.
1691 – Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar): The decisive victory of William III of England’s forces in Ireland.
1776 – Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
1789 – In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
1790 – The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
1799 – Ranjit Singh conquers Lahore and becomes Maharaja of the Punjab (Sikh Empire).
1801 – British ships inflict heavy damage on Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.
1806 – At the insistence of Napoleon, Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg and thirteen minor principalities leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
1812 – The American Army of the Northwest briefly occupies the Upper Canadian settlement at what is now at Windsor, Ontario.
1862 – The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
1913 – Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
1917 – The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1918 – The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
1920 – The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
1943 – German and Soviet forces engage in one of the largest armored engagements of all time.
1948 – Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
1960 – Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
1961 – Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
1962 – The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at London’s Marquee Club.
1963 – Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
1967 – Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey.
1971 – The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
1973 – A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1975 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
1979 – The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1998 – The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.
2006 – The 2006 Lebanon War begins.
2007 – U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against civilians in Baghdad, Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
2012 – Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.
2012 – A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
2013 – Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.

Births on July 12

100 BC – Julius Caesar, Roman politician and general (d. 44 BC)
1394 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shōgun (d. 1441)
1468 – Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, playwright, and composer (probable; d. 1530)
1477 – Jacopo Sadoleto, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
1549 – Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (d. 1587)
1628 – Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (d. 1684)
1651 – Margaret Theresa of Spain (d. 1673)
1675 – Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1742)
1712 – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, Colonial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay (d. 1779)
1730 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founded the Wedgwood Company (d. 1795)
1803 – Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
1807 – Thomas Hawksley, English engineer and academic (d. 1893)
1813 – Claude Bernard, French physiologist and academic (d. 1878)
1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (d. 1862)
1817 – Alvin Saunders, Territorial Governor and Senator from Nebraska (d. 1899)
1821 – D. H. Hill, American general and academic (d. 1889)
1824 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
1828 – Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (d. 1889)
1849 – William Osler, Canadian physician and author (d. 1919)
1850 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist and academic (d. 1912)
1852 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 19th President of Argentina (d. 1933)
1854 – George Eastman, American businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (d. 1933)
1855 – Ned Hanlan, Canadian rower, academic, and businessman (d. 1908)
1857 – George E. Ohr, American potter (d. 1918)
1861 – Anton Arensky, Russian pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1906)
1863 – Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (d. 1933)
1863 – Paul Drude, German physicist and academic (d. 1906)
1868 – Stefan George, German poet and translator (d. 1933)
1870 – Louis II, Prince of Monaco (d. 1949)
1872 – Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1945)
1876 – Max Jacob, French poet, painter, and critic (d. 1944)
1876 – Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American artist, engraver and etcher (d. 1988)
1878 – Peeter Põld, Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1930)
1879 – Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian mathematician (d. 1976)
1879 – Han Yong-un, Korean poet (d. 1944)
1880 – Tod Browning, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1962)
1884 – Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American film producer, co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (d. 1957)
1884 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
1886 – Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director (d. 1956)
1892 – Bruno Schulz, Ukrainian-Polish author and painter (d. 1942)
1895 – Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (d. 1962)
1895 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect and engineer, designed the Montreal Biosphère (d. 1983)
1895 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and songwriter (d. 1960)
1899 – E.D. Nixon, American civil rights leader (d. 1987)
1902 – Günther Anders, German philosopher and journalist (d. 1992)
1902 – Tony Lovink, Dutch politician; Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1995)
1902 – Vic Armbruster, Australian rugby league player (d. 1984)
1904 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
1907 – Weary Dunlop, Australian colonel and surgeon (d. 1993)
1908 – Milton Berle, American comedian and actor (d. 2002)
1908 – Alain Cuny, French actor (d. 1994)
1908 – Paul Runyan, American golfer and sportscaster (d. 2002)
1909 – Joe DeRita, American actor (d. 1993)
1909 – Motoichi Kumagai, Japanese photographer and illustrator (d. 2010)
1909 – Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart (d. 1999)
1909 – Herbert Zim, American naturalist, author, and educator (d. 1994)
1911 – Evald Mikson, Estonian footballer (d. 1993)
1913 – Willis Lamb, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
1914 – Mohammad Moin, Iranian linguist and lexicographer (d. 1971)
1915 – Emanuel Papper, American anesthesiologist, professor, and author (d. 2002)
1915 – Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, (d. 2007)
1916 – Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper (d. 1974)
1917 – Luigi Gorrini, Italian soldier and pilot (d. 2014)
1917 – Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Indian statesman (d. 2006)
1917 – Andrew Wyeth, American artist (d. 2009)
1918 – Mary Glen-Haig, English fencer (d. 2014)
1918 – Vivian Mason, American actress (d. 2009)
1918 – Doris Grumbach, American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist
1918 – Rusty Dedrick, American swing and bebop jazz trumpeter (d. 2009)
1920 – Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2004)
1920 – Bob Fillion, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2015)
1920 – Paul Gonsalves, American saxophonist (d. 1974)
1920 – Randolph Quirk, Manx linguist and academic (d. 2017)
1920 – Beah Richards, American actress (d. 2000)
1922 – Mark Hatfield, American soldier and politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (d. 2011)
1923 – James E. Gunn, American science fiction author
1924 – Faidon Matthaiou, Greek basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
1925 – Albert Lance, Australian-French tenor (d. 2013)
1925 – Roger Smith, American businessman (d. 2007)
1927 – Françoys Bernier, Canadian pianist, conductor, and educator (d. 1993)
1927 – Conte Candoli, American trumpet player (d. 2001)
1927 – Jack Harshman, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1927 – Harley Hotchkiss, Canadian businessman (d. 2011)
1928 – Alastair Burnet, English journalist (d. 2012)
1928 – Elias James Corey, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 – Imero Fiorentino, American lighting designer (d. 2013)
1930 – Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
1930 – Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, wife of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
1931 – Eric Ives, English historian and academic (d. 2012)
1931 – Geeto Mongol, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (d. 2013)
1932 – Rene Goulet, Canadian retired professional wrestler (d. 2019)
1932 – Monte Hellman, American director and producer
1932 – Otis Davis, American sprinter
1933 – Victor Poor, American engineer, developed the Datapoint 2200 (d. 2012)
1933 – Donald E. Westlake, American author and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1934 – Thomas Charlton, American competition rower and Olympic champion
1934 – Van Cliburn, American pianist and composer (d. 2013)
1935 – Satoshi Ōmura, Japanese biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1936 – Jan Němec, Czech director and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1937 – Bill Cosby, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
1937 – Mickey Edwards, American lawyer and politician
1937 – Lionel Jospin, French civil servant and politician, 165th Prime Minister of France
1937 – Robert McFarlane, American colonel and diplomat, 13th United States National Security Advisor
1937 – Guy Woolfenden, English composer and conductor (d. 2016)
1938 – Ron Fairly, American baseball player and sportscaster
1938 – Wieger Mensonides, Dutch swimmer
1938 – Eiko Ishioka, Japanese art director and graphic designer (d. 2012)
1939 – Phillip Adams, Australian journalist and producer
1939 – Arlen Ness, American motorcycle designer and entrepreneur
1941 – Benny Parsons, American race car driver and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1942 – Swamp Dogg, American R&B singer-songwriter and musician
1942 – Roy Palmer, English cricketer and umpire
1942 – Billy Smith, Australian rugby league player and coach
1942 – Steve Young, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)
1943 – Christine McVie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1943 – Paul Silas, American basketball player and coach
1944 – Simon Blackburn, English philosopher and academic
1944 – Delia Ephron, American author, playwright, and screenwriter
1944 – Pat Woodell, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1945 – Butch Hancock, American country-folk singer-songwriter and musician
1947 – Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby player and sportscaster
1947 – Wilko Johnson, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1947 – Richard C. McCarty, American psychologist and academic
1948 – Ben Burtt, American director, screenwriter, and sound designer
1948 – Walter Egan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Richard Simmons, American fitness trainer and actor
1949 – Simon Fox, English drummer
1949 – Rick Hendrick, American businessman, founded Hendrick Motorsports
1950 – Eric Carr, American drummer and songwriter (d. 1991)
1950 – Gilles Meloche, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1951 – Joan Bauer, American author
1951 – Brian Grazer, American screenwriter and producer, founded Imagine Entertainment
1951 – Cheryl Ladd, American actress
1951 – Piotr Pustelnik, Polish mountaineer
1951 – Jamey Sheridan, American actor
1952 – Voja Antonić, Serbian computer scientist and journalist, designed the Galaksija computer
1952 – Irina Bokova, Bulgarian politician, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1952 – Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player (d. 1995)
1954 – Eric Adams, American singer-songwriter
1954 – Robert Carl, American pianist and composer
1954 – Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer and coach
1955 – Timothy Garton Ash, English historian and author
1955 – Jimmy LaFave, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
1956 – Mel Harris, American actress
1956 – Sandi Patty, American singer and pianist
1956 – Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player
1957 – Rick Husband, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2003)
1957 – Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 2017)
1958 – J. D. Hayworth, American politician and radio host
1958 – Tonya Lee Williams, English-Canadian actress and producer
1959 – David Brown, Australian meteorologist
1959 – Tupou VI, King of Tonga
1959 – Karl J. Friston, English psychiatrist and neuroscientist
1959 – Charlie Murphy, American actor and comedian (d. 2017)
1961 – Heikko Glöde, German footballer and manager
1961 – Shiva Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer
1962 – Julio César Chávez, Mexican boxer
1962 – Luc De Vos, Belgian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1962 – Joanna Shields, American-English businesswoman
1962 – Dean Wilkins, English footballer and manager
1964 – Gaby Roslin, English television host and actress
1965 – Sanjay Manjrekar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
1965 – Robin Wilson, American singer and guitarist
1966 – Jeff Bucknum, American race car driver
1966 – Annabel Croft, English tennis player and sportscaster
1966 – Taiji, Japanese bass player and songwriter (d. 2011)
1967 – Richard Herring, English comedian and screenwriter
1967 – Mac McCaughan, American singer and guitarist
1967 – John Petrucci, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967 – Bruny Surin, Canadian sprinter
1968 – Catherine Plewinski, French swimmer
1969 – Lisa Nicole Carson, American actress
1969 – Chantal Jouanno, French politician, French Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
1969 – Alan Mullally, English cricketer and sportscaster
1969 – Anne-Sophie Pic, French chef
1969 – Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist (d. 2006)
1970 – Aure Atika, Portuguese-French actress, director, and screenwriter
1970 – Lee Byung-hun, South Korean actor, singer, and dancer
1971 – Joel Casamayor, Cuban American former professional boxer
1971 – Andriy Kovalenco, Ukrainian-Spanish rugby player
1971 – Loni Love, American comedian, actress, and talk show host
1971 – Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
1972 – Travis Best, American basketball player
1972 – Jake Wood, English actor
1973 – Christian Vieri, Italian footballer
1974 – Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer-songwriter
1974 – Stelios Giannakopoulos, Greek footballer and manager
1974 – Gregory Shane Helms, American professional wrestler
1975 – Phil Lord, American filmmaker
1976 – Dan Boyle, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Anna Friel, English actress
1976 – Tracie Spencer, American singer-songwriter and actress
1977 – Neil Harris, English footballer and manager
1977 – Steve Howey, American actor
1977 – Brock Lesnar, American mixed martial artist and wrestler
1977 – Francesca Lubiani, Italian tennis player
1978 – Topher Grace, American actor
1978 – Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
1979 – Brooke Baldwin, American journalist and television news anchor
1979 – Nikos Barlos, Greek basketball player
1979 – Maya Kobayashi, Japanese journalist
1980 – Kristen Connolly, American actress
1981 – Adrienne Camp, South African singer-songwriter
1981 – Pradeepan Raveendran, Sri Lankan director, producer, and screenwriter
1982 – Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer
1984 – Gareth Gates, English singer-songwriter
1984 – Jonathan Lewis, American football player
1984 – Natalie Martinez, American actress
1984 – Michael McGovern, Irish footballer
1984 – Sami Zayn, Canadian professional wrestler
1985 – Paulo Vitor Barreto, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Gianluca Curci, Italian footballer
1985 – Keven Lacombe, Canadian cyclist
1985 – Ismael Londt, Surinamese-Dutch kickboxer
1986 – 360, Australian rapper
1986 – Didier Digard, French footballer
1986 – Hannaliis Jaadla, Estonian footballer
1986 – JP Pietersen, South African rugby player
1986 – Simone Laudehr, German footballer
1988 – LeSean McCoy, American football player
1988 – Inbee Park, South Korean golfer
1989 – Nick Palmieri, American ice hockey player
1990 – Bebé, Portuguese footballer
1990 – Rachel Brosnahan, American actress
1990 – Chasen Shreve, American baseball player
1991 – Salih Dursun, Turkish footballer
1991 – James Rodríguez, Colombian footballer
1992 – Bartosz Bereszyński, Polish footballer
1993 – Kurt Capewell, Australian rugby league player
1994 – Kanako Momota, Japanese singer-songwriter
1995 – Luke Shaw, English footballer
1995 – Jordyn Wieber, American gymnast
1996 – Moussa Dembélé, French footballer
1996 – Jordan Romero, American mountaineer
1997 – Daniel Lawrence, English cricketer
1997 – Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani-English activist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths on July 12

524 – Viventiolus, archbishop of Lyon (b. 460)
783 – Bertrada of Laon, Frankish queen (b. 720)
965 – Meng Chang, emperor of Later Shu (b. 919)
981 – Xue Juzheng, Chinese scholar-official and historian
1067 – John Komnenos, Byzantine general
1441 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shōgun (b. 1394)
1441 – Kyōgoku Takakazu, Japanese nobleman
1489 – Bahlul Lodi, sultan of Delhi
1536 – Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch priest and philosopher (b. 1466)
1584 – Steven Borough, English navigator and explorer (b. 1525)
1623 – William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath (b. 1557)
1664 – Stefano della Bella, Italian illustrator and engraver (b. 1610)
1682 – Jean Picard, French priest and astronomer (b. 1620)
1691 – Marquis de St Ruth, French general
1693 – John Ashby, English admiral (b. 1640)
1712 – Richard Cromwell, English academic and politician (b. 1626)
1742 – Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1675)
1749 – Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, French navy officer and politician, Governor General of New France (b. 1671)
1773 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flute player and composer (b. 1697)
1804 – Alexander Hamilton, American general, economist, and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
1845 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian linguist, poet, and playwright (b. 1808)
1850 – Robert Stevenson, Scottish engineer (b. 1772)
1855 – Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
1870 – John A. Dahlgren, American admiral (b. 1809)
1892 – Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented baseball (b. 1820)
1910 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1887)
1926 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868)
1926 – Charles Wood Irish composer (b. 1866)
1929 – Robert Henri, American painter and educator (b. 1865)
1931 – Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1934 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor (b. 1877)
1935 – Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (b. 1859)
1944 – Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1887)
1945 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871)
1945 – Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895)
1946 – Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist and author (b. 1870)
1947 – Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
1949 – Douglas Hyde, Irish scholar and politician, 1st President of Ireland (b. 1860)
1950 – Elsie de Wolfe, American actress, author, and interior decorator (b. 1865)
1956 – John Hayes, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1868)
1961 – Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1879)
1962 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American composer and bandleader (b. 1907)
1965 – Christfried Burmeister, Estonian speed skater (b. 1898)
1966 – D. T. Suzuki, Japanese philosopher and author (b. 1870)
1969 – Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (b. 1885)
1971 – Yvon Robert, Canadian wrestler (b. 1914)
1973 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (b. 1906)
1975 – James Ormsbee Chapin, American painter and illustrator (b. 1887)
1979 – Olive Morris, Jamaican-English civil rights activist (d. 1979)
1979 – Minnie Riperton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
1982 – Kenneth More, English actor (b. 1914)
1983 – Chris Wood, English saxophonist (b. 1944)
1990 – João Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, manager, and journalist (b. 1917)
1992 – Caroline Pafford Miller, American journalist and author (b. 1903)
1993 – Dan Eldon, English photographer and journalist (b. 1970)
1994 – Eila Campbell, English geographer and cartographer (b. 1915)
1996 – John Chancellor, American journalist (b. 1927)
1997 – François Furet, French historian and author (b. 1927)
1998 – Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1907)
1998 – Arkady Ostashev, Soviet/Russian scientist and engineer (b. 1925)
1998 – Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (b. 1941)
1999 – Rajendra Kumar, Bollywood actor, (b. 1921)
2000 – Charles Merritt, Canadian colonel and politician, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1908)
2001 – Fred Marcellino, American author and illustrator (b. 1939)
2003 – Benny Carter, American trumpet player, saxophonist, and composer (b. 1907)
2003 – Mark Lovell, English race car driver (b. 1960)
2004 – Betty Oliphant, English-Canadian ballerina, co-founded the National Ballet School of Canada (b. 1918)
2005 – John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, English businessman (b. 1917)
2007 – Robert Burås, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1975)
2007 – Stan Zemanek, Australian radio and television host (b. 1947)
2008 – Bobby Murcer, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1946)
2008 – Tony Snow, American journalist, 26th White House Press Secretary (b. 1955)
2010 – Olga Guillot, Cuban-American singer (b. 1922)
2010 – James P. Hogan, English-American author (b. 1941)
2010 – Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist (b. 1932)
2010 – Pius Njawé, Cameroonian journalist (b. 1957)
2010 – Harvey Pekar, American author and critic (b. 1939)
2011 – Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1916)
2012 – Alimuddin, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1930)
2012 – Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (b. 1928)
2012 – Eddy Brown, English footballer and manager (b. 1926)
2012 – Else Holmelund Minarik, Danish-American author and illustrator (b. 1920)
2012 – Roger Payne, English mountaineer (b. 1956)
2012 – Hamid Samandarian, Iranian director and playwright (b. 1931)
2012 – George C. Stoney, American director and producer (b. 1916)
2013 – Amar Bose, American businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (b. 1929)
2013 – Takako Takahashi, Japanese author (b. 1932)
2013 – Elaine Morgan, Welsh writer (b. 1920)
2013 – Alan Whicker, Egyptian-English journalist (b. 1925)
2014 – Jamil Ahmad, Pakistani author (b. 1931)
2014 – Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1924)
2014 – Emil Bobu, Romanian politician (b. 1927)
2014 – Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist and author (b. 1919)
2014 – Kenneth J. Gray, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
2014 – Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1950)
2015 – D’Army Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and actor (b. 1941)
2015 – Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean journalist, author, and poet (b. 1956)
2015 – Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Tibetan monk and activist (b. 1950)
2015 – Cheng Siwei, Chinese engineer, economist, and politician (b. 1935)
2016 – Goran Hadžić, Serbian politician (b. 1958)
2018 – Dada J. P. Vaswani, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances on July 12

Birthday of the Heir to the Crown of Tonga (Tonga)
Christian feast day:
- Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Eastern Orthodox)
- Hermagoras and Fortunatus
- Jason of Thessalonica (Catholic Church)
- John Gualbert
- Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin
- Nabor and Felix
- Nathan Söderblom (Lutheran, Episcopal Church (USA))
- Veronica
- Viventiolus
- July 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Kiribati from the United Kingdom in 1979.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of São Tomé and Príncipe from Portugal in 1975.
The second day of Naadam (Mongolia)
The Twelfth, also known as Orangemen’s Day (Northern Ireland, Scotland, Newfoundland and Labrador)

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July 11 – History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day

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July 11 in History

472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter’s Basilica and put to death.
813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius).
911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.
1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch): A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France’s royal army.
1346 – Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans.
1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
1882 – The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
1895 – Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.
1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
1899 – Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
1914 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched.
1919 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
1921 – A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People’s Republic.
1921 – Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1924 – Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
1934 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
1940 – World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State.
1941 – The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
1943 – World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
1950 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
1957 – Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai’li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
1960 – France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
1960 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories.
1977 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1978 – Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
1979 – America’s first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
1983 – A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.
1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
1991 – Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing all 261 passengers and crew on board.
1995 – Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins; lasts until 22 July.
2006 – Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2010 – The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carried out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others.
2011 – Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus.

Births on July 11

154 – Bardaisan, Syrian astrologer, scholar, and philosopher (d. 222)
1274 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (d. 1329)
1406 – William, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg (d. 1482)
1459 – Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, German nobleman (d. 1527)
1558 – Robert Greene, English author and playwright (d. 1592)
1561 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish cleric and poet (d. 1627)
1603 – Kenelm Digby, English astrologer, courtier, and diplomat (d. 1665)
1628 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese daimyō (d. 1701)
1653 – Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft (d. 1692)
1657 – Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
1662 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1726)
1709 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1785)
1723 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (d. 1799)
1751 – Caroline Matilda, British princess, queen consort of Denmark (d. 1775)
1754 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (d. 1825)
1760 – Peggy Shippen, American wife of Benedict Arnold and American Revolutionary War spy (d. 1804)
1767 – John Quincy Adams, American lawyer and politician, 6th President of the United States (d. 1848)
1826 – Alexander Afanasyev, Russian ethnographer and author (d. 1871)
1832 – Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1896)
1834 – James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American-English painter and illustrator (d. 1903)
1836 – Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (d. 1896)
1846 – Léon Bloy, French author and poet (d. 1917)
1849 – N. E. Brown, English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents (d. 1934)
1850 – Annie Armstrong, American missionary (d. 1938)
1866 – Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1953)
1875 – H. M. Brock, British painter and illustrator (d. 1960)
1880 – Friedrich Lahrs, German architect and academic (d. 1964)
1881 – Isabel Martin Lewis, American astronomer and author (d. 1966)
1882 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (d. 1946)
1886 – Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1939)
1888 – Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and jurist (d. 1985)
1892 – Thomas Mitchell, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1962)
1894 – Erna Mohr, German zoologist (d. 1968)
1895 – Dorothy Wilde, English author and poet (d. 1941)
1897 – Bull Connor, American police officer (d. 1973)
1899 – Wilfrid Israel, German businessman and philanthropist (d. 1943)
1899 – E. B. White, American essayist and journalist (d. 1985)
1901 – Gwendolyn Lizarraga, Belizean businesswoman, activist, and politician (d. 1975)
1903 – Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (d. 1971)
1903 – Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (d. 1976)
1904 – Niño Ricardo, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1972)
1905 – Betty Allan, Australian statistician and biometrician (d. 1952)
1906 – Harry von Zell, American actor and announcer (d. 1981)
1906 – Herbert Wehner, German politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (d. 1990)
1909 – Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
1909 – Jacques Clemens, Dutch catholic priest (d. 2018)
1910 – Sally Blane, American actress (d. 1997)
1911 – Erna Flegel, German Third Reich nurse (d. 2006)
1912 – Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
1912 – Peta Taylor, English cricketer (d. 1989)
1912 – William F. Walsh, American captain and politician, 48th Mayor of Syracuse (d. 2011)
1913 – Paul Gibb, English cricketer (d. 1977)
1913 – Cordwainer Smith, American sinologist, author, and academic (d. 1966)
1916 – Mortimer Caplin, American tax attorney, educator, and IRS Commissioner (d. 2019)
1916 – Hans Maier, Dutch water polo player (d. 2018)
1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1916 – Reg Varney, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1916 – Gough Whitlam, Australian lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2014)
1918 – Venetia Burney, English educator, who named Pluto (d. 2009)
1920 – Yul Brynner, Russian actor and dancer (d. 1985)
1920 – Zecharia Sitchin, Russian-American author (d. 2010)
1922 – Gene Evans, American actor (d. 1998)
1922 – Fritz Riess, German-Swiss racing driver (d. 1991)
1923 – Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian and academic (d. 2018)
1923 – Tun Tun, Indian actress and comedian (d. 2003)
1924 – César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic (d. 2005)
1924 – Brett Somers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1924 – Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 1971)
1924 – Oscar Wyatt, American businessman
1925 – Charles Chaynes, French composer (d. 2016)
1925 – Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (d. 2017)
1925 – Peter Kyros, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
1925 – Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2004)
1926 – Frederick Buechner, American minister, theologian, and author
1927 – Theodore Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 2007)
1927 – Chris Leonard, English footballer
1928 – Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, Welsh-English lawyer and politician (d. 2015)
1928 – Bobo Olson, American boxer (d. 2002)
1928 – Andrea Veneracion, Filipina choirmaster (d. 2014)
1929 – Danny Flores, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (d. 2006)
1929 – David Kelly, Irish actor (d. 2012)
1930 – Jack Alabaster, New Zealand cricketer
1930 – Harold Bloom, American literary critic (d. 2019)
1930 – Trevor Storer, English businessman, founded Pukka Pies (d. 2013)
1931 – Dick Gray, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1931 – Thurston Harris, American doo-wop singer (d. 1990)
1931 – Tab Hunter, American actor and singer (d. 2018)
1931 – Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (d. 2014)
1932 – Alex Hassilev, French-born American folk singer and musician
1932 – Jean-Guy Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1933 – Jim Carlen, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
1933 – Frank Kelso, American admiral and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2013)
1934 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer, founded the Armani Company
1935 – Frederick Hemke, American saxophonist and educator
1935 – Oliver Napier, Northern Irish lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
1937 – Pai Hsien-yung, Chinese-Taiwanese author
1941 – Bill Boggs, American journalist and producer
1941 – Henry Lowther, English trumpet player
1943 – Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (d. 2006)
1943 – Howard Gardner, American psychologist and academic
1943 – Tom Holland, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1943 – Peter Jensen, Australian metropolitan
1943 – Robert Malval, Haitian businessman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Haiti
1943 – Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (d. 1983)
1944 – Lou Hudson, American basketball player and coach (d. 2014)
1944 – Michael Levy, Baron Levy, English philanthropist
1944 – Patricia Polacco, American author and illustrator
1946 – Martin Wong, American painter (d. 1999)
1947 – Jeff Hanna, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer
1947 – Norman Lebrecht, English author and critic
1947 – Bo Lundgren, Swedish politician
1950 – Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani physicist and academic
1950 – J. R. Morgan, Welsh author and academic
1950 – Bonnie Pointer, American singer (d. 2020)
1951 – Ed Ott, American baseball player and coach
1952 – Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1952 – Stephen Lang, American actor and playwright
1953 – Piyasvasti Amranand, Thai businessman and politician, Thai Minister of Energy
1953 – Angélica Aragón, Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer
1953 – Peter Brown, American singer-songwriter and producer
1953 – Suresh Prabhu, Indian accountant and politician, Indian Minister of Railways
1953 – Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Mexican actress, director, and producer
1953 – Leon Spinks, American boxer
1953 – Mindy Sterling, American actress
1953 – Ivan Toms, South African physician and activist (d. 2008)
1953 – Bramwell Tovey, English-Canadian conductor and composer
1953 – Paul Weiland, English director, producer, and screenwriter
1954 – Julia King, English engineer and academic
1955 – Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean neurosurgeon and politician, Singaporean Minister of Health (d. 2010)
1956 – Amitav Ghosh, Indian-American author and academic
1956 – Robin Renucci, French actor and director
1956 – Sela Ward, American actress
1957 – Johann Lamont, Scottish educator and politician
1957 – Peter Murphy, English singer-songwriter
1957 – Michael Rose, Jamaican singer-songwriter
1958 – Mark Lester, English actor
1958 – Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer, coach, and manager
1959 – Richie Sambora, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1959 – Suzanne Vega, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1960 – David Baerwald, American singer-songwriter, composer, and musician
1960 – Caroline Quentin, English actress
1961 – Antony Jenkins, English banker and businessman
1962 – Gaétan Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1962 – Pauline McLynn, Irish actress and author
1962 – Fumiya Fujii, Japanese music artist
1963 – Al MacInnis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1963 – Dean Richards, English rugby player and coach
1963 – Lisa Rinna, American actress and talk show host
1965 – Tony Cottee, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
1965 – Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kick-boxer and sportscaster
1965 – Scott Shriner, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1966 – Nadeem Aslam, Pakistani-English author
1966 – Kentaro Miura, Japanese author and illustrator
1966 – Rod Strickland, American basketball player and coach
1966 – Ricky Warwick, Northern Irish musician
1967 – Andy Ashby, American baseball player and sportscaster
1967 – Jhumpa Lahiri, Indian American novelist and short story writer
1968 – Michael Geist, Canadian journalist and academic
1968 – Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
1968 – Esera Tuaolo, American football player
1969 – Ned Boulting, British sports journalist and television presenter
1970 – Justin Chambers, American actor
1970 – Sajjad Karim, English lawyer and politician
1970 – Eric Owens, American opera singer
1971 – Leisha Hailey, Japanese-American singer-songwriter and actress
1972 – Cormac Battle, English-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1973 – Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek runner
1974 – Alanas Chošnau, Lithuanian singer-songwriter
1974 – Hermann Hreiðarsson, Icelandic footballer and manager
1974 – André Ooijer, Dutch footballer and coach
1975 – Willie Anderson, American football player
1975 – Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer and manager
1975 – Lil’ Kim, American rapper and producer
1976 – Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-American basketball player and coach
1977 – Brandon Short, American football player and sportscaster
1978 – Kathleen Edwards, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 – Massimiliano Rosolino, Italian swimmer
1979 – Raio Piiroja, Estonian footballer
1980 – Tyson Kidd, Canadian wrestler
1980 – Kevin Powers, American soldier and author
1981 – Andre Johnson, American football player
1982 – Chris Cooley, American football player
1983 – Engin Baytar, German-Turkish footballer
1983 – Peter Cincotti, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1983 – Marie Serneholt, Swedish singer and dancer
1984 – Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player
1984 – Tanith Belbin, Canadian-American ice dancer
1984 – Jacoby Jones, American football player
1984 – Joe Pavelski, American ice hockey player
1984 – Morné Steyn, South African rugby player
1985 – Robert Adamson, American actor, director, and producer
1985 – Orestis Karnezis, Greek footballer
1986 – Raúl García, Spanish footballer
1986 – Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
1986 – Ryan Jarvis, English footballer
1987 – Shigeaki Kato, Japanese singer
1988 – Étienne Capoue, French footballer
1988 – Natalie La Rose, Dutch singer, songwriter and dancer
1989 – Tobias Sana, Swedish footballer
1989 – Travis Waddell, Australian rugby league player
1990 – Mona Barthel, German tennis player
1990 – Connor Paolo, American actor
1990 – Adam Jezierski, Polish-Spanish actor and singer
1990 – Patrick Peterson, American football player
1990 – Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
1993 – Rebecca Bross, American gymnast
1993 – Heini Salonen, Finnish tennis player
1994 – Bartłomiej Kalinkowski, Polish footballer
1994 – Anthony Milford, Australian rugby league player
1994 – Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1994 – Lucas Ocampos, Argentinian footballer
1995 – Joey Bosa, American football player
1995 – Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
1996 – Alessia Cara, Canadian singer-songwriter

Deaths on July 11

472 – Anthemius, Roman emperor (b. 420)
937 – Rudolph II of Burgundy (b. 880)
969 – Olga of Kiev (b. 890)
1174 – Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
1183 – Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1117)
1302 – Robert II, Count of Artois (b. 1250)
1302 – Pierre Flotte, French politician and lawyer
1344 – Ulrich III, Count of Württemberg (b. c. 1286)
1362 – Anna von Schweidnitz, empress of Charles IV (b. 1339)
1382 – Nicole Oresme, French philosopher (b. 1325)
1451 – Barbara of Cilli, Slovenian noblewoman
1484 – Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1429)
1535 – Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
1581 – Peder Skram, Danish admiral and politician (b. 1503)
1593 – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (b. 1527)
1599 – Chōsokabe Motochika, Japanese daimyō (b.1539)
1688 – Narai, Thai king (b. 1629)
1774 – Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-English general (b. 1715)
1775 – Simon Boerum, American farmer and politician (b. 1724)
1797 – Ienăchiță Văcărescu, Romanian historian and philologist (b. 1740)
1806 – James Smith, Irish-American lawyer and politician (b. 1719)
1825 – Thomas P. Grosvenor, American soldier and politician (b. 1744)
1844 – Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian philosopher and poet (b. 1800)
1897 – Patrick Jennings, Irish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1831)
1905 – Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1849)
1908 – Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player (b. 1876)
1909 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
1929 – Billy Mosforth, English footballer and engraver (b. 1857)
1937 – George Gershwin, American pianist, songwriter, and composer (b. 1898)
1959 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (b. 1882)
1966 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer (b. 1913)
1967 – Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1917)
1971 – John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
1971 – Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1940)
1974 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1976 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet and educator (b. 1895)
1979 – Claude Wagner, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1925)
1983 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian author (b. 1915)
1987 – Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
1987 – Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, American rabbi and scholar (b. 1901)
1989 – Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
1991 – Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer and coach (b. 1953)
1994 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research (b. 1942)
1998 – Panagiotis Kondylis, Greek philosopher and author (b. 1943)
1999 – Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
1999 – Jan Sloot, Dutch computer scientist and electronics technician (b. 1945)
2000 – Pedro Mir, Dominican lawyer, author, and poet (b. 1913)
2000 – Robert Runcie, English archbishop (b. 1921)
2001 – Herman Brood, Dutch musician and painter (b. 1946)
2003 – Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer (b. 1948)
2004 – Laurance Rockefeller, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1910)
2004 – Renée Saint-Cyr, French actress and producer (b. 1904)
2005 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress and dancer (b. 1911)
2005 – Jesús Iglesias, Argentinian racing driver (b. 1922)
2005 – Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
2006 – Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 – Bronwyn Oliver, Australian sculptor (b. 1959)
2006 – John Spencer, English snooker player and sportscaster (b. 1935)
2007 – Glenda Adams, Australian author and academic (b. 1939)
2007 – Lady Bird Johnson, American beautification activist; 43rd First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
2007 – Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
2007 – Ed Mirvish, American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded Honest Ed’s (b. 1914)
2008 – Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and educator (b. 1908)
2009 – Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1936)
2009 – Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian boxer (b. 1972)
2009 – Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (b. 1911)
2010 – Walter Hawkins, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and pastor (b. 1949)
2011 – Rob Grill, American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1943)
2012 – Art Ceccarelli, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
2012 – Marion Cunningham, American author (b. 1922)
2012 – Richard Scudder, American journalist and publisher, co-founded MediaNews Group (b. 1913)
2012 – Donald J. Sobol, American soldier and author (b. 1924)
2012 – Marvin Traub, American businessman and author (b. 1925)
2013 – Emik Avakian, Iranian-American inventor (b. 1923)
2013 – Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic (b. 1936)
2013 – Eugene P. Wilkinson, American admiral (b. 1918)
2014 – Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (b. 1937)
2014 – Carin Mannheimer, Swedish author and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2014 – Bill McGill, American basketball player (b. 1939)
2014 – Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (b. 1949)
2014 – John Seigenthaler, American journalist and academic (b. 1927)
2014 – Randall Stout, American architect, designed the Taubman Museum of Art (b. 1958)
2015 – Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (b. 1928)
2015 – James U. Cross, American general (b. 1925)
2015 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (b. 1959)
2015 – Lawrence K. Karlton, American lawyer and judge (b. 1935)
2015 – André Leysen, Belgian businessman (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances on July 11

Christian Feast Day:
- Benedict of Nursia
- Olga of Kiev
- Pope Pius I
- July 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
China National Maritime Day (China)
Day of the Bandoneón (Argentina)
Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community of Belgium)
Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland)
Free Slurpee Day (Participating stores of the 7-Eleven chain in North America)
National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Genocide by Ukrainian Nationalists on Citizens of the Second Republic of Poland (Poland)
Gospel Day (Kiribati)
Imamat Day (Isma’ilism)
National Day of Commemoration, held on the nearest Sunday to this date (Ireland)
The first day of Naadam (July 11–15) (Mongolia)
World Population Day (International)

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June 23 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
1280 – The Spanish Reconquista: In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for the Kingdom of Castile.
1305 – A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.
1532 – Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign the “Treaty of Closer Amity With France” (also known as the Pommeraye treaty), pledging mutual aid against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
1565 – Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta.
1594 – The Action of Faial, Azores. The Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas, loaded with slaves and treasure, is attacked and sunk by English ships with only 13 survivors out of over 700 on board.
1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson’s fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
1757 – Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.
1758 – Seven Years’ War: Battle of Krefeld: British, Hanoverian, and Prussian forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
1760 – Seven Years’ War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia.
1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
1794 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
1860 – The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
1865 – American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.
1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer”.
1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation’s first national park, Banff National Park.
1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1913 – Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
1914 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
1919 – Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
1940 – Adolf Hitler goes on a three-hour tour of the architecture of Paris with architect Albert Speer and sculptor Arno Breker in his only visit to the city.
1940 – Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1941 – The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
1942 – World War II: Germany’s latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
1946 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
1951 – The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched.
1956 – The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa.
1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
1961 – The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
1967 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
1969 – IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
1972 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
1972 – Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
1985 – A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
1994 – NASA’s Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
2001 – The 8.4 M_w  southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
2012 – Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
2013 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
2013 – Militants stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan killing ten climbers, and a local guide.
2014 – The last of Syria’s declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
2016 – The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
2017 – A series of terrorist attacks took place in Pakistan resulting in 96 deaths and wounded 200 others.

Births on June 23

47 BC – Caesarion, Egyptian king (d. 30 BC)
1385 – Stefan, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (d. 1459)
1433 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
1456 – Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (d. 1486)
1489 – Charles II, Duke of Savoy, Italian nobleman (d. 1496)
1534 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
1596 – Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (d. 1641)
1616 – Shah Shuja, Mughal prince (d. 1661)
1625 – John Fell, English churchman and influential academic (d. 1686)
1668 – Giambattista Vico, Italian jurist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1744)
1683 – Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist and sinologist (d. 1745)
1711 – Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Italian instrument maker (d. 1786)
1716 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (d. 1789)
1750 – Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist and academic (d. 1801)
1763 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, French wife of Napoleon I (d. 1814)
1799 – John Milton Bernhisel, American physician and politician (d. 1881)
1800 – Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (d. 1846)
1824 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1910)
1843 – Paul Heinrich von Groth, German scientist (d. 1927)
1860 – Albert Giraud, Belgian poet and librarian (d. 1929)
1863 – Sándor Bródy, Hungarian author and journalist (d. 1924)
1877 – Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and actor (d. 1929)
1879 – Huda Sha’arawi, Egyptian feminist and journalist (d. 1947)
1884 – Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (d. 1979)
1888 – Bronson M. Cutting, American publisher and politician (d. 1935)
1889 – Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet and author (d. 1966)
1889 – Verena Holmes, English engineer (d. 1964)
1894 – Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand military leader, lawyer and Chief Justice (d. 1972)
1894 – Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
1894 – Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
1899 – Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French race car driver and sports car manufacturer (d. 1979)
1900 – Blanche Noyes, American aviator, winner of the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race (d. 1981)
1901 – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (d. 1962)
1903 – Paul Martin Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1992)
1904 – Quintin McMillan, South African cricketer (d. 1938)
1905 – Jack Pickersgill, Canadian civil servant and politician, 35th Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1997)
1906 – Tribhuvan of Nepal (d. 1955)
1907 – Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian actress and singer (d. 2008)
1907 – James Meade, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1909 – David Lewis, Russian-Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1981)
1909 – Georges Rouquier, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1910 – Jean Anouilh, French playwright and screenwriter (d. 1987)
1910 – Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader, 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 2008)
1910 – Milt Hinton, American bassist and photographer (d. 2000)
1910 – Bill King, English commander and author (d. 2012)
1910 – Lawson Little, American golfer (d. 1968)
1912 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1954)
1913 – William P. Rogers, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (d. 2001)
1915 – Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor (d. 2016)
1916 – Len Hutton, English cricketer and soldier (d. 1990)
1916 – Irene Worth, American actress (d. 2002)
1916 – Al G. Wright, American bandleader and conductor
1919 – Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician, President of Algeria (d. 1992)
1920 – Saleh Ajeery, Kuwaiti astronomer
1921 – Paul Findley, American politician (d. 2019)
1922 – Morris R. Jeppson, American lieutenant and physicist (d. 2010)
1922 – Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1998)
1923 – Peter Corr, Irish-English footballer and manager (d. 2001)
1923 – Elroy Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1923 – Doris Johnson, American politician
1923 – Jerry Rullo, American professional basketball player (d. 2016)
1923 – Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian communist and Partisan (d. 1945)
1924 – Frank Bolle, American comic-strip artist, comic-book artist, and illustrator (d. 2020)
1925 – Miriam Karlin, English actress (d. 2011)
1925 – Art Modell, American businessman (d. 2012)
1925 – Anna Chennault, Chinese widow of Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault (d. 2018)
1926 – Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, English microbiologist and parasitologist (d. 2017)
1926 – Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet and composer, a survivor of the Holocaust
1926 – Annette Mbaye d’Erneville, Senegalese writer
1926 – Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor
1927 – Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (d. 1987)
1927 – John Habgood, Baron Habgood, English archbishop (d. 2019)
1928 – Jean Cione, American baseball player (d. 2010)
1928 – Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician
1928 – Michael Shaara, American author and academic (d. 1988)
1929 – June Carter Cash, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (d. 2003)
1929 – Mario Ghella, Italian racing cyclist
1930 – Donn F. Eisele, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1987)
1930 – John Elliott, English historian and academic
1930 – Francis Newall, 2nd Baron Newall, English businessman and politician
1930 – Anthony Thwaite, English poet, critic, and academic
1930 – Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny, former First Lady of Ivory Coast
1931 – Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (d. 1981)
1931 – Ola Ullsten, Swedish politician and diplomat (d. 2018)
1932 – Peter Millett, Baron Millett, English lawyer and judge
1934 – Keith Sutton, English bishop (d. 2017)
1934 – Bill Torrey, Canadian businessman (d. 2018)
1934 – Virbhadra Singh, Indian politician
1935 – Maurice Ferré, Puerto Rican-American politician, 32nd Mayor of Miami
1935 – Keith Burkinshaw, English footballer and manager
1936 – Richard Bach, American novelist and essayist
1936 – Costas Simitis, Greek economist, lawyer, and politician, 180th Prime Minister of Greece
1937 – Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish captain and politician, 10th President of Finland, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Alan Haselhurst, English academic and politician
1937 – Niki Sullivan, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2004)
1939 – Scott Burton, American sculptor (d. 1989)
1940 – Adam Faith, English singer (d. 2003)
1940 – George Feigley, American sex cult leader and two-time prison escapee (d. 2009)
1940 – Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
1940 – Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994)
1940 – Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 2015)
1940 – Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish painter and musician (d. 1962)
1940 – Diana Trask, Australian singer-songwriter
1941 – Robert Hunter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
1941 – Roger McDonald, Australian author and screenwriter
1941 – Keith Newton, English footballer (d. 1998)
1942 – Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, English cosmologist and astrophysicist
1943 – Patrick Bokanowski, French filmmaker
1943 – Ellyn Kaschak, American psychologist and academic
1943 – James Levine, American pianist and conductor
1945 – Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and author
1945 – John Garang, Sudanese colonel and politician, President of Southern Sudan (d. 2005)
1946 – Julian Hipwood, English polo player and coach
1946 – Ted Shackelford, American actor
1947 – Bryan Brown, Australian actor and producer
1948 – Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and judge, United States Supreme Court Justice
1949 – Gordon Bray, Australian journalist and sportscaster
1949 – Sheila Noakes, Baroness Noakes, English accountant and politician
1951 – Angelo Falcón, Puerto Rican-American political scientist, activist, and academic, founded the National Institute for Latino Policy
1951 – Michèle Mouton, French race car driver and manager
1951 – Raj Babbar, Indian actor and politician
1953 – Armen Sarkissian, Armenian physicist, politician and current President of Armenia
1955 – Pierre Corbeil, Canadian dentist and politician
1955 – Glenn Danzig, American singer-songwriter and producer
1955 – Jean Tigana, French footballer and manager
1956 – Daniel J. Drucker, Canadian academic and educator
1956 – Tony Hill, American football player and sportscaster
1956 – Randy Jackson, American bass player and producer
1957 – Dave Houghton, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
1957 – Frances McDormand, American actress, winner of the Triple Crown of Acting
1958 – John Hayes, English politician, Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change
1960 – Donald Harrison, American saxophonist, composer, and producer
1960 – Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese composer and programmer
1961 – Richard Arnold, English lawyer and judge
1961 – Zoran Janjetov, Serbian singer and illustrator
1961 – LaSalle Thompson, American basketball player, coach, and manager
1962 – Chuck Billy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
1964 – Nicolas Marceau, Canadian economist and politician
1964 – Tara Morice, Australian actress and singer
1964 – Joss Whedon, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1964 – Lou Yun, Chinese gymnast
1965 – Paul Arthurs, English guitarist
1965 – Sylvia Mathews Burwell, American government and non-profit executive
1965 – Peter O’Malley, Australian golfer
1966 – Chico DeBarge, American singer and pianist
1969 – Martin Klebba, American actor, producer, and stuntman
1970 – Robert Brooks, American football player
1970 – Martin Deschamps, Canadian singer-songwriter
1970 – Yann Tiersen, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 – Fred Ewanuick, Canadian actor and producer
1971 – Félix Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1972 – Selma Blair, American actress
1972 – Louis Van Amstel, Dutch dancer and choreographer
1972 – Zinedine Zidane, French footballer and manager
1974 – Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
1974 – Mark Hendrickson, American basketball and baseball player
1975 – Kevin Dyson, American football player and coach
1975 – David Howell, English golfer
1975 – Mike James, American basketball player
1975 – KT Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician
1976 – Wade Barrett, American soccer player and manager
1976 – Joe Becker, American guitarist and composer
1976 – Savvas Poursaitidis, Greek-Cypriot footballer and scout
1976 – Brandon Stokley, American football player
1976 – Paola Suárez, Argentinian tennis player
1976 – Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress and singer
1976 – Patrick Vieira, French footballer and manager
1977 – Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish footballer
1977 – Hayden Foxe, Australian footballer and manager
1977 – Jaan Jüris, Estonian ski jumper
1977 – Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Shaun O’Hara, American football player and sportscaster
1978 – Memphis Bleek, American rapper, producer, and actor
1978 – Frederic Leclercq, French heavy metal musician
1978 – Matt Light, American football player and sportscaster
1979 – LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
1980 – Becky Cloonan, American author and illustrator
1980 – Melissa Rauch, American actress
1980 – Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
1980 – Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player
1981 – Antony Costa, English singer-songwriter
1981 – Rolf Wacha, German rugby player
1982 – Derek Boogaard, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1983 – Brooks Laich, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – José Manuel Rojas, Chilean footballer
1984 – Duffy, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress
1984 – Takeshi Matsuda, Japanese swimmer
1984 – Levern Spencer, Saint Lucian high jumper
1985 – Marcel Reece, American football player
1986 – Christy Altomare, American actress and singer songwriter
1987 – Alessia Filippi, Italian swimmer
1988 – Chet Faker, Australian singer-songwriter
1988 – Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
1989 – Lisa Carrington, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
1989 – Jordan Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Clevid Dikamona, French footballer
1990 – Vasek Pospisil, Canadian tennis player
1990 – Laura Ràfols, Spanish footballer
1991 – Katie Armiger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1992 – Luiza Galiulina, Uzbekistani gymnast
1992 – Nampalys Mendy, French footballer
1993 – Tim Anderson, American baseball player
1993 – Marvin Grumann, German footballer
2004 – Alexandra Trusova, Russian figure skater

Deaths on June 23

AD 79 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (b. AD 9)
679 – Æthelthryth, English saint (b. 636)
947 – Li Congyi, prince of Later Tang (b. 931)
947 – Wang, imperial consort of Later Tang
960 – Feng Yanji, chancellor of Southern Tang (b. 903)
994 – Lothair Udo I, count of Stade (b. 950)
1018 – Henry I, margrave of Austria
1137 – Adalbert of Mainz, German archbishop
1222 – Constance of Aragon, Hungarian queen (b. 1179)
1290 – Henryk IV Probus, duke of Wrocław and high duke of Kraków (b. c. 1258)
1314 – Henry de Bohun, English knight
1324 – Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (b. 1270)
1343 – Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi, Italian cardinal (b. c. 1270)
1356 – Margaret II, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1311)
1537 – Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (b. 1487)
1565 – Dragut, Ottoman admiral (b. 1485)
1582 – Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese commander (b. 1537)
1615 – Mashita Nagamori, Japanese daimyō (b. 1545)
1677 – William Louis, duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
1686 – William Coventry, English politician (b. 1628)
1707 – John Mill, English theologian and author (b. 1645)
1733 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (b. 1672)
1770 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
1775 – Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and author (b. 1692)
1779 – Mikael Sehul, Ethiopian warlord (b. 1691)
1806 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (b. 1723)
1811 – Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, Portuguese poet and author (b. 1740)
1832 – Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist (b. 1761)
1836 – James Mill, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1773)
1848 – Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1776)
1856 – Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1806)
1881 – Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist and academic (b. 1804)
1891 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (b. 1804)
1891 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer and politician (b. 1825)
1893 – William Fox, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
1893 – Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (b. 1817)
1914 – Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1838)
1945 – Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1923)
1953 – Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881)
1954 – Salih Omurtak, Turkish general (b. 1889)
1956 – Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and educator (b. 1875)
1959 – Boris Vian, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
1959 – Hidir Lutfi, Iraqi poet. (b. 1880)
1969 – Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish runner (b. 1907)
1970 – Roscoe Turner, American soldier and pilot (b. 1895)
1973 – Gerry Birrell, Scottish race car driver (b. 1944)
1980 – Sanjay Gandhi, Indian engineer and politician (b. 1946)
1980 – Clyfford Still, American painter and academic (b. 1904)
1989 – Werner Best, German police officer and jurist (b. 1903)
1990 – Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor, and politician (b. 1898)
1992 – Eric Andolsek, American football player (b. 1966)
1995 – Roger Grimsby, American journalist (b. 1928)
1995 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
1995 – Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
1996 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 174th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
1996 – Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer and rugby player (b. 1921)
1997 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (b. 1936)
1998 – Maureen O’Sullivan, Irish-American actress (b. 1911)
2000 – Peter Dubovský, Slovak footballer (b. 1972)
2002 – Pedro Alcázar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
2005 – Shana Alexander, American journalist and author (b. 1926)
2005 – Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet and critic (b. 1925)
2006 – Aaron Spelling, American actor, producer, and screenwriter, founded Spelling Television (b. 1923)
2007 – Rod Beck, American baseball player (b. 1968)
2008 – Claudio Capone, Italian-Scottish actor (b. 1952)
2008 – Arthur Chung, Guyanese surveyor and politician, 1st President of Guyana (b. 1918)
2008 – Marian Glinka, Polish actor and bodybuilder (b. 1943)
2009 – Raymond Berthiaume, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1931)
2009 – Ed McMahon, American game show host and announcer (b. 1923)
2009 – Jerri Nielsen, American physician and explorer (b. 1952)
2010 – John Burton, Australian public servant and diplomat (b. 1915)
2011 – Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
2011 – Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1985)
2011 – Fred Steiner, American composer and conductor (b. 1923)
2012 – James Durbin, English economist and statistician (b. 1923)
2012 – Brigitte Engerer, French pianist and educator (b. 1952)
2012 – Alan McDonald, Northern Ireland footballer and manager (b. 1963)
2012 – Frank Chee Willeto, American soldier and politician, 4th Vice President of the Navajo Nation (b. 1925)
2012 – Walter J. Zable, American football player and businessman, founded the Cubic Corporation (b. 1915)
2013 – Bobby Bland, American singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
2013 – Gary David Goldberg, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1944)
2013 – Frank Kelso, American admiral and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1933)
2013 – Kurt Leichtweiss, German mathematician and academic (b. 1927)
2013 – Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2013 – Darryl Read, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (b. 1951)
2013 – Sharon Stouder, American swimmer (b. 1948)
2014 – Nancy Garden, American author (b. 1938)
2014 – Euros Lewis, Welsh cricketer (b. 1942)
2014 – Paula Kent Meehan, American businesswoman, co-founded Redken (b. 1931)
2015 – Miguel Facussé Barjum, Honduran businessman (b. 1924)
2015 – Nirmala Joshi, Indian nun, lawyer, and social worker (b. 1934)
2015 – Dick Van Patten, American actor (b. 1928)
2016 – Ralph Stanley, American singer and banjo player (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances on June 23

Christian feast day:
- Æthelthryth
- Marie of Oignies
- Joseph Cafasso
- June 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Feast of Raḥmat can fall, while June 24 is the latest. (Bahá’í Faith)
Father’s Day (Nicaragua, Poland)
Grand Duke’s Official Birthday (Luxembourg)
International Widows Day (international)
National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada)
Okinawa Memorial Day (Okinawa Prefecture)
St John’s Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations [although this is not the real summer solstice; see June 20] (Roman Catholic Church, Europe):
- Bonfires of Saint John (Spain)
- First night of Festa de São João do Porto (Porto)
- First day of Golowan Festival (Cornwall)
- Jaaniõhtu (Estonia)
- Jāņi (Latvia)
- Kupala Night (Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
- Last day of Drăgaica fair (Buzău, Romania)
United Nations Public Service Day (International)
Victory Day (Estonia)

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On This Day

June 14 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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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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June 8 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England – the country’s penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.
1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre, beginning his crusade.
1663 – Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial ensures Portugal’s independence from Spain.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution’s new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
1867 – Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the ‘Art of Compiling Statistics’, which was his punched card calculator.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1918 – A solar eclipse is observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing (“Northern Capital”).
1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
1940 – World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
1941 – World War II: The Allies commence the Syria–Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1949 – Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
1959 – USS Barbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
1966 – Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an “F5” on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1966 – The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970.
1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1972 – Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
1987 – New Zealand’s Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
1992 – The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
2001 – Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
2004 – The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State’s worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
2008 – At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
2008 – At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
2009 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
2014 – At least 28 people are killed in an attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan.

Births on June 8

862 – Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888)
1508 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
1552 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet and author (d. 1638)
1593 – George I Rákóczi, prince of Transylvania (d. 1648)
1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712)
1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1751)
1717 – John Collins, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1795)
1724 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (d. 1794)
1745 – Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (d. 1818)
1757 – Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (d. 1824)
1788 – Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1869)
1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (d. 1856)
1829 – John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator (d. 1896)
1831 – Thomas J. Higgins, Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1917)
1842 – John Q. A. Brackett, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
1851 – Jacques-Arsène d’Arsonval, French physician and physicist (d. 1940)
1852 – Guido Banti, Italian physician and pathologist (d. 1925)
1854 – Douglas Cameron, Canadian politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (d. 1921)
1855 – George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (d. 1924)
1858 – Charlotte Scott, English mathematician (d. 1931)
1859 – Smith Wigglesworth, English evangelist (d. 1947)
1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940)
1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959)
1868 – Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (d. 1942)
1872 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (d. 1949)
1875 – Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (d. 1934)
1876 – Alexandre Tuffère, Greek-French triple jumper (d. 1958)
1885 – Karl Genzken, German physician (d. 1957)
1891 – William Funnell, Australian public servant (d. 1962)
1893 – Ernst Marcus, German zoologist (d. 1968)
1893 – Gaby Morlay, French actress (d. 1964)
1894 – Erwin Schulhoff, Czech composer and pianist (d. 1942)
1895 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1978)
1897 – John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974)
1899 – Eugène Lapierre, Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator (d. 1970)
1899 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (d. 1945)
1900 – Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (d. 1945)
1903 – Ralph Yarborough, American colonel and politician (d. 1996)
1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1987)
1910 – C. C. Beck, American illustrator (d. 1989)
1910 – John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (d. 1971)
1910 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French-American photographer, sculptor, and painter (d. 2003)
1911 – Edmundo Rivero, Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
1912 – Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, British abstract painter (d. 2004)
1912 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
1912 – Harry Holtzman, American painter (d. 1987)
1915 – Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet (d. 2015)
1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1916 – Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator (d. 1992)
1917 – Byron White, American football player and judge (d. 2002)
1918 – George Edward Hughes, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (d. 1994)
1918 – Robert Preston, American captain, actor, and singer (d. 1987)
1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist and academic (d. 2016)
1918 – John H. Ross, American captain and pilot (d. 2013)
1919 – John R. Deane, Jr., American general (d. 2013)
1920 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (d. 1995)
1921 – Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (d. 1986)
1921 – Olga Nardone, American actress (d. 2010)
1921 – LeRoy Neiman, American soldier and painter (d. 2012)
1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (d. 1993)
1921 – Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
1924 – Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2013)
1924 – Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist and academic (d. 2013)
1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)
1927 – Jerry Stiller, American actor, comedian and producer (d. 2020)
1929 – Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist and author (d. 2013)
1930 – Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 – Marcel Léger, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1993)
1931 – James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1931 – Dana Wynter, British actress (d. 2011)
1932 – Ray Illingworth, English cricketer and sportscaster
1932 – Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, Scottish lawyer and judge (d. 2017)
1933 – Rommie Loudd, American football player and coach (d. 1998)
1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (d. 2014)
1933 – Robert Stevens, English lawyer and academic
1934 – Millicent Martin, English actress and singer
1935 – Molade Okoya-Thomas, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
1936 – James Darren, American actor
1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1937 – Gillian Clarke, Welsh poet and playwright
1938 – Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal
1939 – Herb Adderley, American football player
1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress
1941 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician and activist (d. 1981)
1941 – George Pell, Australian cardinal
1942 – Nikos Konstantopoulos, Greek politician, Greek Minister of the Interior
1942 – Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
1943 – Colin Baker, English actor
1943 – William Calley, American lieutenant
1943 – Willie Davenport, American colonel and hurdler (d. 2002)
1943 – Peter Eggert, German footballer and manager
1943 – Pierre-André Fournier, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 2015)
1944 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1944 – Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
1944 – Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 – Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (d. 2014)
1945 – Derek Underwood, English cricketer
1946 – Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1947 – Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter
1947 – Sara Paretsky, American author
1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, geneticist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate
1949 – Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator
1949 – Hildegard Falck, German runner
1950 – Kathy Baker, American actress
1950 – Sônia Braga, Brazilian actress and producer
1951 – Tony Rice, American guitarist and songwriter
1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter
1953 – Billy Hayes, English union leader
1953 – Sandy Nairne, English historian and curator
1953 – Ivo Sanader, Croatian historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia
1953 – Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1954 – Greg Ginn, American punk rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (Black Flag)
1954 – Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (d. 2013)
1954 – Sergei Storchak, Ukrainian-Russian politician
1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
1955 – José Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer and manager
1955 – Griffin Dunne, American actor, director, and producer
1956 – Udo Bullmann, German politician
1956 – Jonathan Potter, English psychologist, sociolinguist, and academic
1957 – Scott Adams, American author and illustrator
1957 – Don Robinson, American baseball player and politician
1957 – Sonja Vectomov, Czech/Finnish sculptor
1958 – Louise Richardson, Irish political scientist and academic
1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1959 – Mohsen Kadivar, Iranian philosopher
1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter
1960 – Terje Gewelt, Norwegian bassist
1960 – Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1961 – Mary Bonauto, American lawyer and gay rights activist
1962 – John Gibbons, American baseball player and manager
1962 – Andreas Keim, German footballer
1962 – Nick Rhodes, English keyboard player and producer
1963 – Karen Kingsbury, American journalist and author
1963 – Antoaneta Todorova, Bulgarian javelin thrower
1964 – Butch Reynolds, American runner and coach
1965 – Kevin Farley, American screenwriter
1965 – Rob Pilatus, German model, dancer and singer (Milli Vanilli) (d. 1998)
1966 – Julianna Margulies, American actress
1966 – Doris Pearson, English singer-songwriter and choreographer
1967 – Dan Futterman, American actor, screenwriter and producer
1967 – Russell E. Morris, Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of St Andrews
1968 – Rob Ray, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1969 – David Barnhill, Australian rugby league player and coach
1969 – J. P. Manoux, American actor
1969 – Marcos Siega, American director and producer
1970 – Gabrielle Giffords, American businesswoman, politician and activist
1970 – Kwame Kilpatrick, American educator and politician, 68th Mayor of Detroit
1970 – Steve Renouf, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1970 – Troy Vincent, American football player
1971 – Mark Feuerstein, American actor, director, and producer
1972 – Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer
1973 – Lexa Doig, Canadian model and actress
1973 – Bryant Reeves, American basketball player
1974 – Pål Arne Fagernes, Norwegian javelin thrower (d. 2003)
1974 – Lauren Burns, Australian taekwondo practitioner
1974 – Alma Lepina, Latvian figure skater
1975 – Emm Gryner, Canadian singer-songwriter
1975 – Bryan McCabe, Canadian-American ice hockey player
1975 – Mark Ricciuto, Australian footballer and sportscaster
1975 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress and producer
1976 – Eion Bailey, American actor
1976 – Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player
1976 – Catherine McKinnell, English lawyer and politician
1977 – Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
1978 – Eun Ji-won, South Korean rapper, dancer, and producer
1978 – Maria Menounos, American television journalist
1979 – Alexei Kozlov, Estonian figure skater
1979 – Pete Orr, Canadian-American baseball player
1979 – Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player
1979 – İpek Şenoğlu, Turkish tennis player
1980 – Gustavo Manduca, Brazilian footballer
1980 – Jamie Spencer, Irish jockey
1981 – Alex Band, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1981 – Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author
1981 – Matteo Meneghello, Italian race car driver
1981 – Sara Watkins, American singer-songwriter and fiddler
1982 – Matteo Barbini, Italian rugby player
1982 – Michael Cammalleri, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
1982 – Irina Lăzăreanu, Romanian-Canadian model and singer
1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
1983 – Gaines Adams, American football player (d. 2010)
1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
1983 – Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer
1983 – Coby Karl, American basketball player
1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
1985 – Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver
1985 – Rosanna Pansino, American actress, writer and TV personality
1986 – Patrick Kaleta, American ice hockey player
1986 – Andrej Sekera, Slovak ice hockey player
1987 – Coralie Balmy, French swimmer
1987 – Issiar Dia, Senegalese footballer
1989 – Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
1989 – Mitchell Schwartz, American football player
1990 – Todd Barclay, New Zealand politician
1990 – Mickey Bushell, English wheelchair racer
1992 – Sebá, Brazilian footballer
1996 – Doğanay Kılıç, Turkish footballer
1997 – Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player

Deaths on June 8

632 – Muhammad, the central figure of Islam, widely regarded as its founder (b. 570/571)
696 – Chlodulf, bishop of Metz (or 697)
951 – Zhao Ying, Chinese chancellor (b. 885)
1042 – Harthacnut, English-Danish king (b. 1018)
1154 – William of York, English archbishop and saint
1290 – Beatrice Portinari, object of Dante Alighieri’s adoration (b. 1266)
1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
1383 – Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1338)
1384 – Kan’ami, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1333)
1405 – Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York (b. c.1350)
1405 – Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk (b. 1385)
1476 – George Neville, English archbishop and academic (b. 1432)
1492 – Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of England (b. 1437)
1501 – George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, Earl of Huntly and Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1440)
1505 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
1600 – Edward Fortunatus, German nobleman (b. 1565)
1611 – Jean Bertaut, French bishop and poet (b. 1552)
1612 – Hans Leo Hassler, German organist and composer (b. 1562)
1621 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (b. 1567)
1628 – Rudolph Goclenius, German lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1547)
1651 – Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1604)
1714 – Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
1716 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German son of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1658)
1727 – August Hermann Francke, German-Lutheran pietist, philanthropist, and scholar (b. 1663)
1768 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and scholar (b. 1717)
1771 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1716)
1795 – Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
1809 – Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (b. 1737)
1831 – Sarah Siddons, Welsh actress (b. 1755)
1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian economist and jurist (b. 1761)
1845 – Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1846 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist (b. 1799)
1857 – Douglas William Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (b. 1803)
1874 – Cochise, American tribal chief (b. 1805)
1876 – George Sand, French author and playwright (b. 1804)
1885 – Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (b. 1799)
1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (b. 1844)
1899 – Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (b. 1863)
1924 – Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1902)
1924 – George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886)
1929 – Bliss Carman, Canadian-American poet and playwright (b. 1861)
1945 – Karl Hanke, Polish-German soldier and politician (b. 1903)
1951 – Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1874)
1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter and sculptor (b. 1883)
1959 – Leslie Johnson, English race car driver (b. 1912)
1965 – Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
1966 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (b. 1890)
1968 – Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
1968 – Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1933)
1969 – Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
1970 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1908)
1971 – J.I. Rodale, American author and playwright (b. 1898)
1976 – Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and psychologist (b. 1894)
1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (b. 1906)
1984 – Gordon Jacob, English composer and academic (b. 1895)
1987 – Alexander Iolas, Egyptian-American art collector (b. 1907)
1997 – George Turner, Australian author and critic (b. 1916)
1997 – Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and academic (b. 1948)
1998 – Sani Abacha, Nigerian general and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
2000 – Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (b. 1948)
2001 – Alex de Renzy, American director and producer (b. 1935)
2004 – Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1930)
2004 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
2006 – Jaxon, American illustrator and publisher, co-founded Rip Off Press (b. 1941)
2006 – Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk, theologian, and author (b. 1919)
2008 – Šaban Bajramović, Serbian singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese captain and politician, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
2010 – Crispian St. Peters, English singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
2012 – Pete Brennan, American basketball player (b. 1936)
2012 – Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1940)
2012 – Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1926)
2013 – Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1948)
2013 – Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (b. 1930)
2013 – Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Spouse of Indonesia (b. 1942)
2014 – Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (b. 1903)
2014 – Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (b. 1948)
2015 – Chea Sim, Cambodian commander and politician (b. 1932)
2017 – Sam Panopoulos, Greek cook (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances on June 8

Christian feast day:
- Blessed Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan
- Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart (Droste zu Vischering)
- Chlodulf of Metz
- Jacques Berthieu, S.J.
- Jadwiga (Hedwig) of Poland
- Medard
- Melania the Elder
- Roland Allen (Episcopal Church (USA))
- Thomas Ken (Church of England)
- William of York
- June 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Queen’s Birthday can fall, while June 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in June. (Australia, except Western Australia and Queensland)
Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)
Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Engineer’s Day (Peru)
Pranav Sivakumar Day (Illinois, United States)
Primož Trubar Day (Slovenia)
World Brain Tumor Day
World Oceans Day

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June 7- History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
879 – Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state.
1002 – Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany.
1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.
1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
1788 – French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
1832 – The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent.
1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1866 – One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.
1880 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the “whites-only” car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
1905 – Norway’s parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
1906 – Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
1919 – Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
1946 – The United Kingdom’s BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of the Second World War.
1948 – Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
1948 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
1955 – Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
1962 – The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
1971 – The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
1977 – Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
1991 – Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
2013 – A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people and injuring more than 34 others.
2013 – A gunman opens fire at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, after setting a house on fire nearby, killing six people, including the suspect.
2014 – At least 37 people are killed in an attack in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s South Kivu province.

Births on June 7

1003 – Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia (d. 1048)
1402 – Ichijō Kaneyoshi, Japanese noble (d. 1481)
1422 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero (d. 1482)
1502 – John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1529 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (d. 1615)
1687 – Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian actor and singer (d. 1734)
1702 – Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1761)
1757 – Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
1761 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
1770 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
1778 – Beau Brummell, English cricketer and fashion designer (d. 1840)
1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician (d. 1870)
1831 – Amelia Edwards, English journalist and author (d. 1892)
1837 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (d. 1903)
1840 – Carlota of Mexico (d. 1927)
1845 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1930)
1847 – George Washington Ball, American legislator from Iowa (d. 1915)
1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (d. 1903)
1851 – Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)
1861 – Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (d. 1942)
1862 – Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
1863 – Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager (d. 1952)
1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect (d. 1928)
1877 – Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer (d. 1960)
1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer (d. 1933)
1879 – Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1963)
1884 – Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect (d. 1931)
1883 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1948)
1886 – Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (d. 1972)
1888 – Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator (d. 1958)
1892 – Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
1893 – Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (d. 1938)
1894 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (d. 1974)
1896 – Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1990)
1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1958)
1897 – George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1970)
1899 – Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic (d. 1973)
1902 – Georges Van Parys, French composer (d. 1971)
1902 – Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic (d. 2000)
1905 – James J. Braddock, American lieutenant and boxer (d. 1974)
1906 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1963)
1907 – Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (d. 2002)
1909 – Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (d. 1974)
1909 – Peter W. Rodino, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 2005)
1909 – Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (d. 1994)
1910 – Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (d. 2014)
1910 – Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach (d. 1989)
1910 – Bradford Washburn, American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (d. 2007)
1910 – Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (d. 1990)
1911 – Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (d. 1995)
1912 – Jacques Hélian, French bandleader (d. 1986)
1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
1917 – Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995)
1920 – Georges Marchais, French mechanic and politician (d. 1997)
1921 – Myrtle Edwards, Australian cricketer and softball player (d. 2010)
1921 – Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2012)
1922 – Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1923 – Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2000)
1925 – Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017)
1926 – Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2020)
1927 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian race car driver (d. 1953)
1927 – Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)
1928 – Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 1995)
1928 – James Ivory, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1928 – Randolph Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)
1929 – Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (d. 1983)
1929 – John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada
1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress and author
1932 – Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (d. 2013)
1933 – Romeo Galán, Argentine athlete
1935 – Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2012)
1935 – Shyama, Indian actress (d. 2017)
1936 – Bert Sugar, American author and boxing historian (d. 2012)
1938 – Ian St John, Scottish international footballer, forward and manager
1939 – Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian cellist, conductor and educator (d. 2013)
1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor
1940 – Ronald Pickup, English actor
1944 – Annette Lu, Taiwanese lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of the Republic of China
1944 – Clarence White, American guitarist and singer (d. 1973)
1945 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1945 – John Olsen, Australian politician, 42nd Premier of South Australia
1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian lawyer and politician, 26th Chancellor of Austria
1947 – Don Money, American baseball player and coach
1947 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1948 – Jim Walton, American businessman
1952 – Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor
1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1953 – Johnny Clegg, English- born South African singer-songwriter, guitarist and anthropologist (d. 2019)
1954 – Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet
1955 – William Forsythe, American actor and producer
1955 – Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
1956 – L.A. Reid, American songwriter and producer, co-founded LaFace Records
1957 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer-songwriter and producer
1957 – Paddy McAloon, English singer-songwriter
1958 – Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (d. 2016)
1958 – Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai politician and diplomat
1959 – Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana
1960 – Hirohiko Araki, Japanese manga artist and creator of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
1960 – Bill Prady, American screenwriter and producer
1961 – Dave Catching, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1962 – Thierry Hazard, French singer-songwriter
1962 – Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese race car driver
1963 – Gordon Gano, American musician
1964 – Gia Carides, Australian actress
1964 – Graeme Labrooy, Sri Lankan cricketer
1965 – Mick Foley, American wrestler, actor, and author
1965 – Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
1965 – Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector
1966 – Eric Kretz, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
1966 – Tom McCarthy, American director, screenwriter and actor
1966 – Stéphane Richer, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Dave Navarro, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1970 – Helen Baxendale, English actress
1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
1970 – Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player
1970 – Mike Modano, American ice hockey player
1972 – Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
1974 – Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host
1975 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player
1976 – Necro, American rapper, producer, and director
1976 – Mirsad Türkcan, Turkish basketball player
1977 – Marcin Baszczyński, Polish footballer
1978 – Mini Andén, Swedish-American model, actress, and producer
1978 – Bill Hader, Two-time Emmy winning American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
1979 – Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer
1979 – Anna Torv, Australian actress
1980 – Ed Moses, American swimmer
1981 – Stephen Bywater, English footballer
1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
1983 – Milan Jurčina, Slovak ice hockey player
1983 – Piotr Małachowski, Polish discus thrower
1984 – Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer-songwriter
1984 – Eri Yanetani, Japanese snowboarder
1985 – Arkadiusz Piech, Polish footballer
1985 – Charlie Simpson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1985 – Richard Thompson, Trinidadian sprinter
1986 – Keegan Bradley, American golfer
1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor
1988 – Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper
1990 – T. J. Brodie, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Allison Schmitt, American swimmer
1991 – Cenk Tosun, Turkish professional footballer
1991 – Fetty Wap, American rapper
1992 – Sara Niemietz, American singer-songwriter and actress
1992 – Mathias Gehrt, Danish professional footballer
1992 – Alípio, Brazilian footballer
1993 – George Ezra, English singer, songwriter and guitarist

Deaths on June 7

555 – Vigilius, Pope of the Catholic Church (b. 500)
862 – Al-Muntasir, Abbasid caliph (b. 837)
929 – Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (b. 877)
940 – Qian Hongzun, heir apparent of Wuyue (b. 925)
951 – Lu Wenji, Chinese chancellor (b. 876)
1329 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (b. 1274)
1337 – William I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1286)
1341 – An-Nasir Muhammad, Egyptian sultan (b. 1285)
1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shōgun (b. 1305)
1394 – Anne of Bohemia, English queen (b. 1366)
1492 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 (b. 1427)
1594 – Rodrigo Lopez, physician of Queen Elizabeth (b. 1525)
1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
1660 – George II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1621)
1711 – Henry Dodwell, Irish scholar and theologian (b. 1641)
1779 – William Warburton, English bishop and critic (b. 1698)
1792 – Benjamin Tupper, American general and surveyor (b. 1738)
1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher (b. 1765)
1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1787)
1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
1843 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet (b. 1770)
1853 – Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (b. 1787)
1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1859 – David Cox, English painter (b. 1783)
1861 – Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (b. 1777)
1863 – Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (b. 1790)
1866 – Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (b. 1780)
1879 – William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (b. 1836)
1896 – Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
1915 – Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (b. 1822)
1916 – Émile Faguet, French author and critic (b. 1847)
1927 – Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (b. 1905)
1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
1932 – John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (b. 1856)
1933 – Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian lawyer, judge, and poet (b. 1875)
1936 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
1942 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer (b. 1903)
1945 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher and academic (b. 1870)
1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)
1956 – John Willcock, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1879)
1961 – Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English navy officer and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (b. 1885)
1963 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
1965 – Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
1966 – Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)
1967 – Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (b. 1893)
1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
1970 – E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1879)
1978 – Charles Moran, American race car driver (b. 1906)
1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1979 – Asa Earl Carter, American Ku Klux Klan leader (b. 1925)
1980 – Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (b. 1883)
1980 – Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (b. 1913)
1980 – Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (b. 1891)
1985 – Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (b. 1906)
1987 – Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1940)
1988 – Martin Sommer, German SS officer (b. 1915)
1989 – Chico Landi, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1907)
1989 – William McLean Hamilton, Canadian politician, Postmaster General of Canada (b. 1919)
1992 – Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (b. 1909)
1993 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer 2002 (b. 1964)
1995 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (b. 1918)
1995 – Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat, High Commission of Canada to the United Kingdom (b. 1906)
1996 – Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
1997 – Jacques Canetti, French music executive and talent agent (b. 1909)
2001 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
2001 – Carole Fredericks, French singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
2001 – Betty Neels, English nurse and author (b. 1910)
2002 – Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (b. 1915)
2002 – B. D. Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (b. 1912)
2002 – Lilian, Princess of Réthy (b. 1916)
2004 – Quorthon, Swedish musician (b. 1966)
2008 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor and producer (b. 1953)
2008 – Jim McKay, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1921)
2008 – Dino Risi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
2009 – Hugh Hopper, English bass player and songwriter (b. 1945)
2011 – Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
2012 – Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (b. 1925)
2012 – Bob Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
2013 – Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)
2014 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1978)
2014 – Dora Akunyili, Nigerian academic and politician (b. 1954)
2014 – Epainette Mbeki, South African activist (b. 1916)
2015 – Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
2015 – Sheikh Razzak Ali, Bangladeshi journalist and politician (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances on June 7

Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
Birthday of Prince Joachim (Denmark)
Christian feast day:
- Antonio Maria Gianelli
- Colmán of Dromore
- Landulf of Yariglia (Asti)
- Meriasek
- Paul I of Constantinople
- Robert of Newminster
- Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)
- Blessed Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière
- June 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church)
- Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA))
Battle of Arica Day (Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile)
Flag Day (Peru)
Journalist Day (Argentina)
Sette Giugno (Malta)
Union Dissolution Day (Independence Day of Norway)

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June 2 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later.
1615 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to be tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts; she was found guilty and later hanged.
1763 – Pontiac’s Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison’s attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
1793 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1866 – The Fenians defeat Canadian forces at Ridgeway and Fort Erie, but the raids end soon after.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1910 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1941 – World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the villages of Kondomari and Alikianos.
1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1962 – During the FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed.
1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado’s gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane’s doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12.
1997 – In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
2012 – Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
2014 – Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh.

Births on June 2

1305 – Abu Sa’id Bahadur Khan, ruler of Ilkhanate (d. 1335)
1423 – Ferdinand I of Naples (d. 1494)
1489 – Charles, Duke of Vendôme (d. 1537)
1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
1602 – Rudolf Christian, Count of East Frisia, Ruler of East Frisia (d. 1628)
1621 – Rutger von Ascheberg, Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (d. 1693)
1621 – (baptized) Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1649)
1638 – Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (d. 1709)
1644 – William Salmon, English medical writer (d. 1713)
1739 – Jabez Bowen, American colonel and politician, 45th Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1815)
1740 – Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and politician (d. 1814)
1743 – Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian occultist and explorer (d. 1795)
1773 – John Randolph of Roanoke, American planter and politician, 8th United States Ambassador to Russia (d. 1833)
1774 – William Lawson, English-Australian explorer and politician (d. 1850)
1813 – Daniel Pollen, Irish-New Zealand politician, 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1896)
1823 – Gédéon Ouimet, Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1905)
1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
1838 – Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (d. 1900)
1840 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (d. 1928)
1840 – Émile Munier, French artist (d. 1895)
1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer and educator (d. 1934)
1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1861 – Concordia Selander, Swedish actress and manager (d. 1935)
1863 – Felix Weingartner, Croatian-Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1942)
1865 – George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
1865 – Adelaide Casely-Hayford, Sierra Leone Creole advocate and activist for cultural nationalism (d. 1960)
1869 – Jack O’Connor, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
1875 – Charles Stewart Mott, American businessman and politician, 50th Mayor of Flint, Michigan (d. 1973)
1878 – Wallace Hartley, English violinist and bandleader (d. 1912)
1881 – Walter Egan, American golfer (d. 1971)
1891 – Thurman Arnold, American lawyer and judge (d. 1969)
1891 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral and pilot (d. 1945)
1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German animator and director (d. 1981)
1899 – Edwin Way Teale, American environmentalist and photographer (d. 1980)
1904 – Frank Runacres, English painter and educator (d. 1974)
1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, Hungarian-American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
1907 – Dorothy West, American journalist and author (d. 1998)
1907 – John Lehmann, English poet and publisher (d. 1987)
1910 – Hector Dyer, American sprinter (d. 1990)
1911 – Joe McCluskey, American runner (d. 2002)
1913 – Barbara Pym, English author (d. 1980)
1913 – Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong educator and politician (d. 2015)
1914 – Johnny Bulla, American golfer (d. 2003)
1915 – Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian spy (d. 1992)
1917 – Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and director (d. 2006)
1918 – Ruth Atkinson, Canadian-American illustrator (d. 1997)
1918 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American journalist and author (d. 2011)
1919 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
1920 – Frank G. Clement, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
1920 – Yolande Donlan, American-English actress (d. 2014)
1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German author and critic (d. 2013)
1920 – Tex Schramm, American businessman (d. 2003)
1920 – Johnny Speight, English screenwriter and producer (d. 1998)
1921 – Betty Freeman, American photographer and philanthropist (d. 2009)
1921 – Ernie Royal, American trumpet player (d. 1983)
1921 – Sigmund Sternberg, Hungarian-English businessman and philanthropist (d. 2016)
1921 – András Szennay, Hungarian priest (d. 2012)
1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1922 – Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress (d. 2002)
1923 – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
1924 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author, and activist (d. 2007)
1926 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (d. 1977)
1926 – Milo O’Shea, Irish-American actor (d. 2013)
1927 – W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (d. 2013)
1927 – Colin Brittan, English footballer (d. 2013)
1927 – Christopher Slade, English lawyer and judge
1928 – Erzsi Kovács, Hungarian singer (d. 2014)
1928 – Rafael A. Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast and academic (d. 2014)
1928 – Ron Reynolds, English footballer (d. 1999)
1929 – Norton Juster, American architect, author, and academic
1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
1930 – Pete Conrad, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1999)
1933 – Jerry Lumpe, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
1933 – Lew “Sneaky Pete” Robinson, drag racer (d. 1971)
1934 – Johnny Carter, American singer (d. 2009)
1935 – Carol Shields, American-Canadian novelist and short story writer (d. 2003)
1935 – Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek poet and educator
1936 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian race walker
1937 – Rosalyn Higgins, English lawyer and judge
1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
1937 – Jimmy Jones, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
1937 – Robert Paul, Canadian figure skater and choreographer
1937 – Deric Washburn, American screenwriter and playwright
1938 – Kevin Brownlow, English historian and author
1938 – George William Penrose, Lord Penrose, Scottish lawyer and judge
1939 – Charles Miller, American musician (d. 1980)
1939 – John Schlee, American golfer (d. 2000)
1940 – Constantine II of Greece
1941 – Ünal Aysal, Turkish businessman
1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
1941 – Lou Nanne, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
1941 – Charlie Watts, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
1942 – Mike Ahern, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Queensland
1943 – Charles Haid, American actor and director
1943 – Crescenzio Sepe, Italian cardinal
1944 – Robert Elliott, American actor (d. 2004)
1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (d. 2012)
1945 – Richard Long, English painter, sculptor, and photographer
1945 – Bonnie Newman, American businesswoman and politician
1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, UK serial killer
1948 – Jerry Mathers, American actor
1949 – Heather Couper, English astronomer and physicist (d. 2020)
1949 – Frank Rich, American journalist and critic
1950 – Jonathan Evans, Welsh lawyer and politician
1950 – Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and singer
1950 – Anne Phillips, English theorist and academic
1950 – Momčilo Vukotić, Serbian footballer and manager
1951 – Gilbert Baker, American artist, gay rights activist, and designer of the rainbow flag (d. 2017)
1951 – Arnold Mühren, Dutch footballer and manager
1951 – Larry Robinson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1951 – Alexander Wylie, Lord Kinclaven, Scottish lawyer, judge, and educator
1952 – Gary Bettman, American commissioner of the National Hockey League
1953 – Vidar Johansen, Norwegian saxophonist
1953 – Craig Stadler, American golfer
1953 – Cornel West, American philosopher, author, and academic
1954 – Dennis Haysbert, American actor and producer
1955 – Dana Carvey, American comedian and actor
1955 – Nandan Nilekani, Indian businessman, co-founded Infosys
1955 – Mani Ratnam, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Michael Steele, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1956 – Jan Lammers, Dutch race car driver
1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and manager
1958 – Lex Luger, American wrestler and football player
1959 – Rineke Dijkstra, Dutch photographer
1959 – Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1959 – Erwin Olaf, Dutch photographer
1960 – Olga Bondarenko, Russian runner
1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer-songwriter and actor
1960 – Kyle Petty, American race car driver and sportscaster
1961 – Dez Cadena, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 – Mark Plaatjes, South African-American runner and coach
1963 – Anand Abhyankar, Indian actor (d. 2012)
1964 – Caroline Link, German director and screenwriter
1965 – Russ Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer and journalist
1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
1966 – Dayana Cadeau, Haitian born Canadian-American professional bodybuilder
1966 – Candace Gingrich, American activist
1966 – Pedro Guerra, Spanish singer-songwriter
1966 – Petra van Staveren, Dutch swimmer
1967 – Remigija Nazarovienė, Lithuanian heptathlete and coach
1967 – Mike Stanton, American baseball player
1968 – Merril Bainbridge, Australian singer-songwriter
1968 – Andy Cohen, American television host
1969 – Kurt Abbott, American baseball player
1969 – Paulo Sérgio, Brazilian footballer
1969 – David Wheaton, American tennis player, radio host, and author
1970 – B Real, American rapper and actor
1971 – Kateřina Jacques, Czech translator and politician
1972 – Wayne Brady, American actor, comedian, game show host, and singer
1972 – Raúl Ibañez, American baseball player
1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor and screenwriter
1973 – Marko Kristal, Estonian footballer and manager
1973 – Neifi Pérez, Dominican-American baseball player
1974 – Gata Kamsky, Russian-American chess player
1974 – Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist
1975 – Salvatore Scibona, American author
1976 – Earl Boykins, American basketball player
1976 – Martin Čech, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1976 – Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer
1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1977 – Teet Allas, Estonian footballer
1977 – A.J. Styles, American wrestler
1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor and producer
1978 – Dominic Cooper, English actor
1978 – Nikki Cox, American actress
1978 – Justin Long, American actor
1978 – Yi So-yeon, biotechnologist and astronaut, the first Korean in space
1978 – Luke Williamson, Australian rugby league player
1979 – Morena Baccarin, Brazilian-American actress
1979 – Butterfly Boucher, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1979 – Natalia Rodríguez, Spanish runner
1980 – Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-American drummer
1980 – Bobby Simmons, American basketball player
1980 – Richard Skuse, English rugby player
1980 – Abby Wambach, American soccer player and coach
1980 – Tomasz Wróblewski, Polish bass player and songwriter
1981 – Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
1981 – Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
1982 – Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
1983 – Chris Higgins, American ice hockey player
1983 – Leela James, American singer-songwriter
1983 – Toni Livers, Swiss skier
1983 – Brooke White, American singer-songwriter and actress
1984 – Jack Afamasaga, New Zealand rugby league player
1984 – Max Boyer, Canadian wrestler
1984 – Feleti Mateo, Australian-Tongan rugby league player
1985 – Miyuki Sawashiro, Japanese voice actress and singer
1985 – Maggie Thrash, American graphic novelist and writer
1986 – Todd Carney, Australian rugby league player
1987 – Maryka Holtzhausen, South African netball player
1987 – Yoann Huget, French rugby player
1987 – Matthew Koma, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1987 – Angelo Mathews, Sri Lankan cricketer
1987 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer-songwriter
1987 – Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
1988 – Sergio Agüero, Argentinian footballer
1988 – Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
1988 – Staniliya Stamenova, Bulgarian canoeist
1989 – Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-American footballer
1989 – Steve Smith, Australian cricketer
1990 – Jack Lowden, Scottish actor
1992 – Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer
1993 – Adam Taggart, Australian footballer
1994 – Mike Grzesiek, Esports player and streamer
1999 – Campbell Graham, Australian rugby league player
2000 – Lilimar Hernandez, Venezuelan actress

Deaths on June 2

657 – Pope Eugene I
891 – Al-Muwaffaq, Abbasid general (b. 842)
910 – Richilde of Provence (b. 845)
1200 – Bishop John of Oxford
1258 – Peter I, Count of Urgell
1292 – Rhys ap Maredudd, Welsh nobleman and rebel leader
1418 – Katherine of Lancaster, queen of Henry III of Castile
1453 – Álvaro de Luna, Duke of Trujillo, Constable of Castile
1567 – Shane O’Neill, head of the O’Neill dynasty in Ireland (b. 1530)
1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (b. 1536)
1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1525)
1603 – Bernard of Wąbrzeźno, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1575)
1693 – John Wildman, English soldier and politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1621)
1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (b. 1607)
1716 – Ogata Kōrin, Japanese painter and educator (b. 1658)
1754 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister and theologian (b. 1680)
1761 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish businessman (b. 1685)
1785 – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician and academic (b. 1713)
1806 – William Tate, English painter (b. 1747)
1853 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English general (b. 1777)
1865 – Ner Middleswarth, American judge and politician (b. 1783)
1875 – Józef Kremer, Polish psychologist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1806)
1881 – Émile Littré, French lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1801)
1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (b. 1807)
1901 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary and author (b. 1844)
1927 – Hüseyin Avni Lifij, Turkish painter (b. 1886)
1929 – Enrique Gorostieta, Mexican general (b. 1889)
1933 – Frank Jarvis, American runner and triple jumper (b. 1878)
1937 – Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1942 – Bunny Berigan, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1908)
1947 – John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, English sailor and politician (b. 1867)
1948 – Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
1948 – Karl Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1904)
1948 – Karl Gebhardt, German physician (b. 1897)
1948 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
1948 – Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (b. 1905)
1952 – Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Central Sofia Market Hall (b. 1880)
1956 – Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director (b. 1886)
1959 – Lyda Borelli, Italian actress (b. 1884)
1961 – George S. Kaufman, American director, producer, and playwright (b. 1889)
1962 – Vita Sackville-West, English author and poet (b. 1892)
1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, German student and activist (b. 1940)
1968 – André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1929)
1969 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
1970 – Orhan Kemal, Turkish author (b. 1914)
1970 – Albert Lamorisse, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1970 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (b. 1937)
1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian soldier, journalist, and academic (b. 1888)
1974 – Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese race car driver (b. 1949)
1976 – Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer (b. 1887)
1976 – Juan José Torres, Bolivian general and politician, 61st President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
1977 – Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (b. 1952)
1977 – Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish-born American actor (b. 1931)
1978 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1895)
1979 – Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
1982 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan (b. 1904)
1983 – Stan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
1983 – Ray Stehr, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1913)
1986 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
1987 – Anthony de Mello, Indian-American priest and psychotherapist (b. 1931)
1987 – Sammy Kaye, American bandleader and songwriter (b. 1910)
1987 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
1988 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1924)
1989 – Ted a’Beckett, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1907)
1990 – Jack Gilford, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
1990 – Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
1991 – Ahmed Arif, Turkish poet and author (b. 1927)
1992 – Philip Dunne, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1993 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1913)
1993 – Tahar Djaout, Algerian journalist, writer and poet (b. 1954)
1994 – David Stove, Australian philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1927)
1996 – John Alton, Hungarian-American cinematographer and director (b. 1901)
1996 – Leon Garfield, English author (b. 1921)
1996 – Ray Combs, American game show host (b. 1956)
1997 – Doc Cheatham, American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (b. 1905)
1999 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican singer (b. 1949)
2000 – Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist, academic, and politician (b. 1927)
2000 – John Schlee, American golfer (b. 1939)
2000 – Gerald James Whitrow, English mathematician, cosmologist, and historian (b. 1912)
2001 – Imogene Coca, American actress and comedian (b. 1908)
2001 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
2002 – Hugo van Lawick, Dutch director and photographer (b. 1937)
2003 – Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager (b. 1918)
2003 – Alma Ricard, Canadian broadcaster and philanthropist (b. 1906)
2005 – Lucien Cliche, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1916)
2005 – Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier (b. 1930)
2005 – Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and educator (b. 1950)
2005 – Melita Norwood, English civil servant and spy (b. 1912)
2006 – Keith Smith, English rugby player and coach (b. 1952)
2007 – Kentarō Haneda, Japanese pianist and composer (b. 1949)
2007 – Huang Ju, Chinese engineer and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China (b. 1938)
2008 – Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
2008 – Mel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1917)
2008 – Cevher Özden, Turkish banker and businessman (b. 1933)
2009 – David Eddings, American author (b. 1931)
2012 – Avraham Botzer, Polish-Israeli commander (b. 1929)
2012 – Adolfo Calero, Nicaraguan businessman and political activist (b. 1931)
2012 – Richard Dawson, English-American soldier, actor, television personality, and game show host (b. 1932)
2012 – LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player (b. 1940)
2012 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
2012 – Jan Gmelich Meijling, Dutch commander and politician (b. 1943)
2013 – Mario Bernardi, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1930)
2013 – Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (b. 1930)
2013 – Mandawuy Yunupingu, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1956)
2014 – Ivica Brzić, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1941)
2014 – Anjan Das, Indian director and producer (b. 1951)
2014 – Gennadi Gusarov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1937)
2014 – Nikolay Khrenkov, Russian bobsledder (b. 1984)
2014 – Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (b. 1924)
2014 – Kuaima Riruako, Namibian politician (b. 1935)
2014 – Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist (b. 1925)
2015 – Fernando de Araújo, East Timorese politician, President of East Timor (b. 1963)
2015 – Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
2017 – Peter Sallis, English actor (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances on June 2

Children’s Day (North Korea)
Christian feast day:
- Alexander (martyr)
- Elmo
- Felix of Nicosia
- Marcellinus and Peter
- Martyrs of Lyon, including Blandina
- Pope Eugene I
- Pothinus
- June 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Civil Aviation Day (Azerbaijan)
Coronation of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, also Social Forestry Day (Bhutan)
Day of Hristo Botev (Bulgaria)
Decoration Day (Canada)
Festa della Repubblica (Italy)
International Sex Workers Day
Telangana Day (Telangana, India)

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