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What happend on 21. June in History
In our data base we found 419 events happened on 21. June:
• 1002: Pope Leo IX (d. 1054) [category: Births]
• 1040: Fulk III, Count of Anjou (b. 972) [category: Deaths]
• 1171: Walter de Luci, English brother of Richard de Luci (b. 1103) [category: Deaths]
• 1205: Enrico Dandolo, Italian noble, 42nd Doge of Venice (b. 1107) [category: Deaths]
• 1208: Philip of Swabia (b. 1177) [category: Deaths]
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• 1226: Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279) [category: Births]
• 1305: Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (b. 1271) [category: Deaths]
• 1307: Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan. [category: Events]
• 1377: Edward III of England (b. 1312) [category: Deaths]
• 1421: Jean Le Maingre, French marshal (b. 1366) [category: Deaths]
• 1521: Leonardo Loredan, Italian noble, 76th Doge of Venice (b. 1436) [category: Deaths]
• 1527: Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and author (b. 1469) [category: Deaths]
• 1528: Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1603) [category: Births]
• 1529: John Skelton, English poet [category: Deaths]
• 1529: French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac. [category: Events]
• 1535: Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596) [category: Births]
• 1547: Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485) [category: Deaths]
• 1558: Piero Strozzi, Italian military leader (b. 1558) [category: Deaths]
• 1582: Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534) [category: Deaths]
• 1582: Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga is forced to commit suicide in Honnō-ji, Kyoto. [category: Events]
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• 1591: Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568) [category: Deaths]
• 1596: Jean Liebault, French agronomist (b. 1535) [category: Deaths]
• 1621: Kryštof Harant, Czech soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564) [category: Deaths]
• 1621: Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1575) [category: Deaths]
• 1621: Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain. [category: Events]
• 1631: John Smith, English soldier and explorer (b. c. 1580) [category: Deaths]
• 1639: Increase Mather, American minister and author (d. 1723) [category: Births]
• 1646: Maria Francisca of Savoy (d. 1683) [category: Births]
• 1652: Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House and Wilton House (b. 1573) [category: Deaths]
• 1661: Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (b. 1599) [category: Deaths]
• 1676: Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729) [category: Births]
• 1706: John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761) [category: Births]
• 1710: James Short, English mathematician (d. 1768) [category: Births]
• 1712: Luc Urbain de Bouexic, Count of Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790) [category: Births]
• 1730: Motoori Norinaga, Japanese scholar (d. 1801) [category: Births]
• 1732: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791) [category: Births]
• 1734: In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city. [category: Events]
• 1736: Enoch Poor, American general (d. 1780) [category: Births]
• 1737: Matthieu Marais, French jurist (b. 1664) [category: Deaths]
• 1738: Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674) [category: Deaths]
• 1741: Benedetto, Duke of Chablais, Italian general (d. 1808) [category: Births]
• 1749: Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded. [category: Events]
• 1750: Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker (d. 1818) [category: Births]
• 1750: Thomas Spence, English writer (d. 1814) [category: Births]
• 1759: Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817) [category: Births]
• 1763: Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher (d. 1845) [category: Births]
• 1764: Sidney Smith, English admiral (d. 1840) [category: Births]
• 1768: James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court. [category: Events]
• 1774: Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician (d. 1825) [category: Births]
• 1781: Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840) [category: Births]
• 1786: Charles Edward Horn, English singer and composer (d. 1849) [category: Births]
• 1788: Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850) [category: Births]
• 1788: New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1791: Robert Napier, Scottish engineer (d. 1876) [category: Births]
• 1791: King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution. [category: Events]
• 1792: Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian (d. 1860) [category: Births]
• 1796: Richard Gridley, American soldier (b. 1710) [category: Deaths]
• 1798: Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill. [category: Events]
• 1805: Charles Thomas Jackson, American polymath (d. 1880) [category: Births]
• 1811: Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868) [category: Births]
• 1812: Moses Hess, French-German philosopher (d. 1875) [category: Births]
• 1813: Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria. [category: Events]
• 1823: Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1824: Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773) [category: Deaths]
• 1824: Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea. [category: Events]
• 1825: William Stubbs, English historian, Bishop of Oxford (d. 1901) [category: Births]
• 1826: Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas. [category: Events]
• 1828: Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (d. 1904) [category: Births]
• 1834: Elizabeth Jane Caulfeild, Countess of Charlemont (d. 1882) [category: Births]
• 1834: Frans de Cort, Flemish writer (d. 1878) [category: Births]
• 1839: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1848: In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government. [category: Events]
• 1850: Daniel Carter Beard, American illustrator and author, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1850: Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1854: The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands. [category: Events]
• 1858: Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1859: Henry Ossawa Tanner, American painter (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1862: Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1863: Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1864: Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss historian (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1864: American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins. [category: Events]
• 1864: New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends. [category: Events]
• 1865: Frances Adeline Seward, American wife of William H. Seward (b. 1824) [category: Deaths]
• 1868: Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1870: Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1874: Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814) [category: Deaths]
• 1876: Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1876: Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican politician, President of Mexico (b. 1794) [category: Deaths]
• 1877: The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons. [category: Events]
• 1880: Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1880: Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English civil servant, industrialist, and banker (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1882: Lluís Companys, Spanish politician (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1882: Rockwell Kent, American painter, printmaker and illustrator (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1883: Daisy Turner, American storyteller, centarian, and daughter of ex-slaves (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1883: Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1884: Claude Auchinleck, English field marshal (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1887: Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1889: Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1889: Tadeusz Jan Kowalski, Polish orientalist (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1890: Frank S. Land, American businessman, founder of the Order of DeMolay (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1891: Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1891: Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1892: Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1893: Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1893: Leland Stanford, American industrialist and politician, founder of Stanford University (b. 1824) [category: Deaths]
• 1894: Milward Kennedy, English writer (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1896: Charles Momsen, American admiral, inventor of the Momsen lung (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1898: Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1898: The United States captures Guam from Spain. [category: Events]
• 1899: Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton, English horse breeder (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1900: Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departed Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return. [category: Events]
• 1900: Boxer Rebellion. China formally declared war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Dowager Empress Cixi. [category: Events]
• 1902: Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1903: Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1905: Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1906: Grete Sultan, German-American pianist (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1906: Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1906: Helene Costello, American actress (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1906: Nusch Éluard, French model and artist (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1908: William Frankena, American philosopher (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1908: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844) [category: Deaths]
• 1910: Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1911: Chester Wilmot, American war correspondent (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1912: Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1912: Mary McCarthy, American author (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1912: Vishnu Prabhakar, Indian writer (d.2009) [category: Births]
• 1913: Madihe Pannaseeha Thero, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and meditation master (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1914: William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1914: Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) [category: Deaths]
• 1915: The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens. [category: Events]
• 1916: Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1916: Joseph Cyril Bamford, English businessman, founded J. C. Bamford (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1917: Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Dee Molenaar, American mountaineer, author and artist [category: Births]
• 1918: Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1918: James Clyde Mitchell, English sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1918: Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1919: Gérard Pelletier, French-Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1919: Paolo Soleri, Italian-American architect [category: Births]
• 1919: Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess player (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1919: Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I. [category: Events]
• 1919: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike. [category: Events]
• 1921: Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1921: Jean de Broglie, French politician (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1921: Judy Holliday, American actress (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1921: William Edwin Self, American actor and producer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1923: Jacques Hébert, Canadian author, journalist, and politician (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1924: Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor [category: Births]
• 1924: Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1924: Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1924: Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1925: Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1925: Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1926: Conrad Hall, Tahitian-American cinematographer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1926: Lorne Currie, British sailor (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Carl Stokes, American politician (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1928: Wolfgang Haken, German-American mathematician [category: Births]
• 1929: Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1929: Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian guitarist (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1929: Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English politician, journalist, and sociologist (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1929: An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico. [category: Events]
• 1930: Gerald Kaufman, English politician [category: Births]
• 1930: Mike McCormack, American football player and coach [category: Births]
• 1930: One-year conscription comes into force in France. [category: Events]
• 1931: Jan Trąbka, Polish scientist and philosopher [category: Births]
• 1931: Margaret Heckler, American politician, 15th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services [category: Births]
• 1931: Zlatko Grgić, Croatian animator (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1932: Bernard Ingham, English journalist and civil servant [category: Births]
• 1932: Lalo Schifrin, Argentine composer, pianist, and composer [category: Births]
• 1932: O. C. Smith, American singer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1933: Bernie Kopell, American actor [category: Births]
• 1934: Maggie Jones, British actress (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1934: Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1935: Monte Markham, American actor [category: Births]
• 1936: Joseph Gosnell, Canadian Indian tribal leader [category: Births]
• 1938: John W. Dower, American author and historian [category: Births]
• 1938: Michael M. Richter, German mathematician [category: Births]
• 1938: Ron Ely, American actor [category: Births]
• 1939: Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician [category: Births]
• 1940: Mariette Hartley, American actress [category: Births]
• 1940: Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher [category: Births]
• 1940: Smedley Butler, American general (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [category: Events]
• 1941: Aloysius Paul D'Souza, Indian bishop [category: Births]
• 1941: Cecil Gordon, American race car driver (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1941: Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1941: Lyman Ward, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1942: Dan Henning, American football player [category: Births]
• 1942: Henry S. Taylor, American writer [category: Births]
• 1942: Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, American journalist and politician [category: Births]
• 1942: Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney, 3rd United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs [category: Births]
• 1942: World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland. [category: Events]
• 1942: World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces. [category: Events]
• 1943: Salomé, Spanish singer [category: Births]
• 1944: Corinna Tsopei, Greek model and actress, Miss Universe 1964 [category: Births]
• 1944: Ray Davies, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Kinks) [category: Births]
• 1944: Tony Scott, British director and producer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1945: Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher and poet [category: Births]
• 1945: Philippe Sarde, French composer [category: Births]
• 1945: World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island. [category: Events]
• 1946: Brenda Holloway, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1946: Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, Iraqi businessman, founder of M&C Saatchi and Saatchi & Saatchi [category: Births]
• 1946: Rob Dyson, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1946: Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian, actor, director, and author [category: Births]
• 1947: Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher and author [category: Births]
• 1947: Joey Molland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger and Natural Gas) [category: Births]
• 1947: Meredith Baxter, American actress [category: Births]
• 1947: Michael Gross, American actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, judge, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1948: Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer [category: Births]
• 1948: Ian McEwan, English writer [category: Births]
• 1948: Jovan Aćimović, Serbian footballer [category: Births]
• 1948: Lionel Rose, Australian boxer [category: Births]
• 1948: Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York. [category: Events]
• 1950: Anne Carson, Canadian poet [category: Births]
• 1950: Enn Reitel, English actor [category: Births]
• 1950: Gérard Lanvin, French actor [category: Births]
• 1950: Joey Kramer, American drummer and songwriter (Aerosmith) [category: Births]
• 1950: Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1951: Jim Douglas, American politician [category: Births]
• 1951: Nils Lofgren, American singer-songwriter and musician (E Street Band and Crazy Horse) [category: Births]
• 1951: Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Gustave Sandras, French gymnast (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese director [category: Births]
• 1952: Wop May, Canadian flying ace (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. [category: Events]
• 1953: Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1953: Maurice Boucher, Canadian criminal and murderer [category: Births]
• 1953: Michael Bowen, American actor [category: Births]
• 1954: Anne Kirkbride, English actress [category: Births]
• 1954: Kathy Sullivan, American attorney and politician [category: Births]
• 1954: Mark Kimmitt, American general [category: Births]
• 1954: Müjde Ar, Turkish actress [category: Births]
• 1954: Robert Menasse, Austrian writer [category: Births]
• 1954: Robert Pastorelli, American actor (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1954: Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer, developed the zipper (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Aloysius Amwano, Nauruan politician [category: Births]
• 1955: Jean-Pierre Mader, French singer-songwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1955: Leigh McCloskey, American actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Michel Platini, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1955: Tim Bray, Canadian software developer, co-founded the Open Text Corporation [category: Births]
• 1957: Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist and author [category: Births]
• 1957: Lucien DeBlois, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1957: Luís Antonio Tagle, Filipino archbishop [category: Births]
• 1957: Claude Farrère, French writer (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister. [category: Events]
• 1958: Gennady Padalka, Russian astronaut [category: Births]
• 1959: Kathy Mattea, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1959: Marcella Detroit, American singer-songwriter and musician (Shakespear's Sister) [category: Births]
• 1959: Tom Chambers, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1960: Kevin Harlan, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1961: Karen Barber, English ice dancer [category: Births]
• 1961: Kip Winger, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Winger) [category: Births]
• 1961: Manu Chao, French singer, musician, and producer (Mano Negra, Hot Pants, and Los Carayos) [category: Births]
• 1961: Sascha Konietzko, German singer, musician, and producer (KMFDM, MDFMK, Excessive Force, Schwein, and KGC) [category: Births]
• 1962: Takeshi Asami, Japanese race car driver [category: Births]
• 1962: Viktor Tsoi, Soviet singer-songwriter and guitarist (Kino) (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1963: Dario Marianelli, Italian composer [category: Births]
• 1963: Luc(as) de Groot, Dutch type designer [category: Births]
• 1963: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI. [category: Events]
• 1964: David Morrissey, English actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Dimitris Papaioannou, Greek director, choreographer, and artist [category: Births]
• 1964: Doug Savant, American actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Sammi Davis, English actress [category: Births]
• 1964: Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist and murder victim (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: James Chaney, American civil rights activist and murder victim (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist and murder victim (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. [category: Events]
• 1965: Lana Wachowski, American director, producer, and writer [category: Births]
• 1965: Yang Liwei, Chinese pilot and astronaut [category: Births]
• 1966: Nan Woods, American actress [category: Births]
• 1966: Pierre Thorsson, Swedish handball player [category: Births]
• 1966: Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1967: Carrie Preston, American actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Derrick Coleman, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1967: Jim Breuer, American comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American businessman, founded eBay [category: Births]
• 1967: Yingluck Shinawatra, Thai businesswoman and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Thailand [category: Births]
• 1968: Sonique, English singer-songwriter and DJ [category: Births]
• 1968: Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, Danish actress (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier [category: Births]
• 1969: Harun Isa, Albanian footballer [category: Births]
• 1969: Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Pete Rock, American rapper and producer (Pete Rock & CL Smooth) [category: Births]
• 1970: Sindee Coxx, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Sukarno, Indonesian politician, 1st President of Indonesia (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date. [category: Events]
• 1971: Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish and Alyson Avenue) [category: Births]
• 1972: Alon Hilu, Israeli writer [category: Births]
• 1972: Neil Doak, Irish cricketer [category: Births]
• 1973: Juliette Lewis, American actress and singer (Juliette and the Licks) [category: Births]
• 1973: In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law. [category: Events]
• 1974: Craig Lowndes, Australian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1974: Flavio Roma, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Natasha Desborough, English radio host, producer, and author [category: Births]
• 1974: Neely Jenkins, American singer and bassist (Park Ave. and Tilly and the Wall) [category: Births]
• 1974: Rob Kelly, American football player [category: Births]
• 1976: Antonio Cochran, American football player [category: Births]
• 1976: Mike Einziger, American guitarist and songwriter (Incubus and Time Lapse Consortium) [category: Births]
• 1976: Nigel Lappin, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Margaret Herrick, American librarian and director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1977: Michael Gomez, Irish boxer [category: Births]
• 1977: Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey. [category: Events]
• 1978: Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Dejan Ognjanović, Montenegrin footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Erica Durance, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Jack Guzman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Jean-Pascal Lacoste, French singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Luke Kirby (actor), Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Rim'K, French rapper and songwriter (113) [category: Births]
• 1979: Chris Pratt, American actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Kostas Katsouranis, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Angus MacLise, American musician, composer, and poet (Velvet Underground and Theatre of Eternal Music) (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Luca Anania, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Richard Jefferson, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader, musician, and songwriter (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Brandon Flowers, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Killers) [category: Births]
• 1981: David Bortolussi, French-Italian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1981: Garrett Jones, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1982: Prince William, Duke of Cambridge [category: Births]
• 1982: Rob Mills, Australian singer-songwriter and television host [category: Births]
• 1982: John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. [category: Events]
• 1984: Franck Perera, French race car driver [category: Births]
• 1984: Jujubee, American drag queen performer [category: Births]
• 1985: Anthony Morelli, American football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Byron Schammer, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Kris Allen, American singer-songwriter and musician [category: Births]
• 1985: Ettore Boiardi, Italian chef, founder of Chef Boyardee (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Tage Erlander, Swedish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Hideaki Wakui, Japanese baseball player [category: Births]
• 1986: Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter and model [category: Births]
• 1986: Assi Rahbani, Lebanese singer, composer, and producer (Rahbani Brothers) (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Dale Thomas, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Kim Ryeowook, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (Super Junior) [category: Births]
• 1987: Pablo Barrera, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Madman Muntz, American businessman and engineer, founded the Muntz Car Company (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Alejandro Ramírez, Costa Rican chess player [category: Births]
• 1988: Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball and volleyball player [category: Births]
• 1988: Paolo Tornaghi, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Abubaker Kaki, Sudanese runner [category: Births]
• 1989: Finn Atkins, English actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Jascha Washington, American actor [category: Births]
• 1989: Madison Parker, Hungarian porn actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Patrick Schönfeld, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Kasumi Suzuki, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1990: Pietro Baccolo, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Cedric Belfrage, English-American journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Gaël Kakuta, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Li Xiannian, Chinese politician, President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bengali poet (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Başak Eraydın, Turkish tennis player [category: Births]
• 1994: Chisato Okai, Japanese singer (Cute and Tanpopo) [category: Births]
• 1994: William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Rebecca Black, American singer, dancer, and actress [category: Births]
• 1997: Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labor leader (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Al Campanis, American baseball player and executive (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Anastasio Ballestrero, Italian cardinal (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American composer (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote. [category: Events]
• 2001: Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen. [category: Events]
• 2002: Timothy Findley, Canadian novelist and playwright (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. [category: Events]
• 2005: Jaime Sin, Filipino archbishop (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Jared C. Monti, American soldier, Medal Of Honor recipient (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra. [category: Events]
• 2007: Bob Evans, American businessman, founded Bob Evans Restaurants (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Kermit Love, American actor and puppeteer (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Scott Kalitta, American race car driver (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Greenland assumes self-rule. [category: Events]
• 2010: Irwin Barker, Canadian comedian and writer (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author and poet (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Abid Hussain, Indian economist and diplomat (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Anna Schwartz, American economist and author (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Drew Turnbull, Scottish rugby player (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Gilbert Blaize Rego, Indian bishop (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: J. Michael Adams, American educator, President of Fairleigh Dickinson University [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Joviano de Lima Júnior, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Radha Vinod Raju, Indian police officer (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Richard Adler, American composer and producer (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Sunil Janah, Indian photographer and journalist (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Teddy Scott, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: A boat carrying more than 200 refugees capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 other missing, [category: Events]
• 217_bc: The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene. [category: Events]
• 223: Liu Bei, Chinese Emperor (b. 161) [category: Deaths]
• 533: A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily. [category: Events]
• _: Alban of Mainz [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Aloysius Gonzaga [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Day of Private Reflection [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Day of the Martyrs (Togo) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Engelmund of Velsen [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Father's Day (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Uganda) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Go Skateboarding Day [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Surfing Day [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: June 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Martin of Tongres [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Aboriginal Day (Canada) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Day (Greenland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Official holiday of the Belgian historical region Het Meetjesland [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Solstice-related observances (also see June 20): [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: We Tripantu, a winter solstice festival in the southern hemisphere. (Mapuche in southern Chile) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Humanist Day (Humanism) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Music Day [category: Holidays and observances]