Events
1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.
1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
1797 – The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.
1807 – The Harwich ferry disaster occurred near the North Sea port of Harwich on the Essex coast (England) in which 60-90 people drowned during the capsizing of a small ferry boat.
1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.
1848 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
1857 – "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
1864 – Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1923 – Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens.
1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
1954 – Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
1955 – 29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
1958 – A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
1961 – The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
1974 – The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore's dry port.
1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency.
1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game is suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
1983 – A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
2007 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
2007 – A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
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Births
1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
1590 – Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1617)
1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
1648 – Jeanne Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747)
1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker (d. 1810)
1759 – Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (d. 1823)
1771 – Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820)
1772 – David Ricardo, English economist (d. 1823)
1797 – Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (d. 1877)
1813 – James McCune Smith, American physician and author (d. 1865)
1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874)
1819 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895)
1838 – Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist (d. 1912)
1857 – Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938)
1857 – Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935)
1858 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist (d. 1962)
1863 – Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat (d. 1942)
1863 – Linton Hope, English architect and sailor (d. 1920)
1864 – Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (d. 1916)
1873 – Ernst Reckeweg, American gymnast
1874 – Abd-ru-shin, German author (d. 1941)
1874 – Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author (d. 1938)
1877 – Vicente Sotto, Filipino politician (d. 1950)
1879 – Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962)
1880 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968)
1882 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (d. 1964)
1882 – Leopold Stokowski, Polish-English conductor (d. 1977)
1884 – Jaan Anvelt, Estonian communist revolutionary and writer (d. 1937)
1888 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1889 – Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970)
1893 – Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944)
1896 – Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948)
1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001)
1898 – Patrick Hennessy, Irish businessman (d. 1981)
1901 – Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967)
1901 – László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975)
1902 – Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
1902 – Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi (d. 1994)
1904 – Pigmeat Markham, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1981)
1905 – Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1990)
1905 – George H. Hitchings, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1907 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (d. 1995)
1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist (d. 2011)
1914 – Claire Martin, Canadian author
1915 – Joy Davidman, American poet and author (d. 1960)
1916 – Carl Burgos, American illustrator (d. 1984)
1916 – Doug Peden, Canadian basketball player (d. 2005)
1917 – Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1947)
1917 – Frederica of Hanover (d. 1981)
1918 – Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer
1918 – André Bazin, French critic and theorist (d. 1958)
1918 – Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
1918 – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, founded CliffsNotes (d. 2001)
1918 – Tony Mottola, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1919 – Vondell Darr, American actress (d. 2012)
1919 – Virginia O'Brien, American actress and singer (d. 2001)
1920 – John F. Wiley, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1921 – Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)
1922 – Barbara Hale, American actress
1923 – Alfred Bieler, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2013)
1923 – Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, British engineer, politician and chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission
1924 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
1924 – Henry Hyde, American politician (d. 2007)
1924 – Roy Mason, Lord Mason of Barnsley, British politician
1925 – Bob Hastings, American actor
1925 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2005)
1926 – Günter Meisner, German actor (d. 1994)
1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (d. 2008)
1927 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013)
1929 – Peter Hordern, British politician
1930 – Clive Revill, New Zealand-English actor
1931 – Bill Miles, American director and producer (d. 2013)
1934 – James Drury, American actor
1934 – George Shirley, American tenor
1935 – Jerry Dexter, American voice actor (d. 2013)
1935 – Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1936 – Vladimir Hütt, Estonian philosopher (d. 1997)
1936 – Tommy Ivo, American actor and race car driver
1937 – Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (d. 2009)
1937 – Edward 'Teddy' Taylor, British politician
1939 – William McKay, British government administrator, Clerk to the House of Commons
1939 – Thomas J. Moyer, American jurist
1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Jaak Lipso, Estonian basketball player
1940 – Mike Vickers, English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter (Manfred Mann)
1941 – Michael D. Higgins, Irish politician, 9th President of Ireland
1942 – Michael Beloff, British human rights barrister
1942 – Steve Blass, American baseball player and sportscaster
1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic
1942 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (d. 1970)
1944 – Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza, British scientist and life peer in the House of Lords
1944 – Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent and spy
1945 – Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author (d. 2009)
1945 – Margaret Hassan, Irish aid worker (d. 2004)
1946 – Jean-François Balmer, Swiss actor
1946 – Irene Fernandez, Malaysian activist (d. 2014)
1946 – Hayley Mills, English actress and singer
1946 – Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (d. 1999)
1947 – Kathy Acker, American author and poet (d. 1997)
1947 – Moses Blah, Liberian politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013)
1947 – Dorothy Lyman, American actress, director, and producer
1947 – Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
1947 – Cindy Pickett, American actress
1947 – Greg Quill, Australian-Canadian singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2013)
1947 – Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, screenwriter, and director
1947 – James Woods, American actor and producer
1948 – Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter
1949 – Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
1950 – Paul Callery, Australian footballer
1950 – Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer
1951 – Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach
1951 – Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician
1953 – Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter
1956 – Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress
1956 – Eric Roberts, American actor
1956 – Melody Thomas Scott, American actress
1958 – Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1999)
1958 – Tarmo Teder, Estonian writer, poet and critic
1959 – Susan Faludi, American journalist and author
1959 – Frank Mulholland, Scottish lawyer and Lord Advocate
1961 – Kelly Hansen, American singer-songwriter (Foreigner and Hurricane)
1961 – Jane Leeves, English actress and dancer
1961 – Steve Lombardi, American wrestler and agent
1961 – John Podhoretz, American journalist and author
1962 – Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress
1962 – Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist and comedian
1962 – Nick Farr-Jones, Australian rugby union footballer
1963 – Mike Mangini, American drummer (Dream Theater, Annihilator, Extreme, and Tribe of Judah)
1963 – Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor and producer
1963 – Conan O'Brien, American actor, screenwriter, producer, and talk show host
1963 – Peter Van Loan, Canadian politician
1964 – Bez, English drummer (Happy Mondays and Black Grape)
1964 – Jim Ellison, American singer-songwriter (Material Issue) (d. 1996)
1964 – Niall Ferguson, Scottish historian
1964 – Rithy Panh, Cambodian director and screenwriter
1965 – Steven Stayner, American kidnap victim (d. 1989)
1965 – Rob Stenders, Dutch radio host
1966 – Camille Coduri, English actress
1966 – Trine Hattestad, Norwegian javelin thrower
1966 – Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player
1967 – Maria Bello, American actress and singer
1968 – Mary Birdsong, American actress and singer
1968 – David Hewlett, English-Canadian actor
1969 – Keith R. A. DeCandido, American author
1969 – Sayako Kuroda, Japanese daughter of Akihito
1969 – Stefan Schwarz, Swedish footballer and manager
1970 – Rico Brogna, American baseball player and coach
1970 – Greg Eklund, American drummer and guitarist (Everclear and The Oohlas)
1970 – Saad Hariri, Saudi Arabian-Lebanese politician, 66th Prime Minister of Lebanon
1970 – François Leroux, Canadian ice hockey player and radio host
1970 – Esther Schweins, German actress
1970 – Tatiana Stefanidou, Greek journalist and television host
1971 – Tamara Braun, American actress
1971 – Samantha Cameron, English businesswoman
1971 – Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player
1971 – Fredro Starr, American rapper and actor (Onyx)
1971 – David Tennant, Scottish actor
1972 – Rosa Clemente, American journalist and activist
1972 – Eli Roth, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Jad Abumrad, American radio host and producer
1973 – Derrick Brooks, American football player
1973 – Brady Clark, American baseball player
1973 – Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian runner
1974 – Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer and actress
1974 – Mark Tremonti, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Creed and Alter Bridge)
1974 – Edgar Wright, English director and screenwriter
1975 – GoonRock, American songwriter and producer
1975 – Jeong Jae-heon, South Korean voice actor
1975 – Sergei Terehhov, Estonian footballer
1976 – Fayray, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
1976 – Gavin Creel, American actor and singer
1976 – Jo Gibb, Scottish actress
1976 – Melissa Joan Hart, American actress, director, and producer
1976 – Sean Maguire, English actor and singer
1976 – Kevin Rankin, American actor
1976 – Justin Ross, American politician
1977 – Dan LaCouture, American ice hockey player
1977 – Cindy Taylor, Paraguayan model and actress
1979 – Michael Bradley, American basketball player and coach
1979 – Ethan Cohn, American actor
1979 – Anthony Davidson, English race car driver
1979 – Nuria Fergó, Spanish singer and actress
1979 – Kourtney Kardashian, American model, actress, and businesswoman
1979 – Matthew Upson, English footballer
1979 – Karl Wolf, Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (Sky)
1980 – Rabiu Afolabi, Nigerian footballer
1980 – Carolina Crescentini, Italian actress
1980 – Justin Levens, American mixed martial artist (d. 2008)
1980 – Laura Mennell, Canadian actress
1980 – Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Priit Võigemast, Estonian actor
1981 – Elastinen, Finnish rapper and producer (Fintelligens)
1981 – Brian Buscher, American baseball player
1981 – Jamie Davis, English actor
1981 – Mai Hoshimura, Japanese singer-songwriter
1981 – Milan Jovanović, Serbian footballer
1981 – Aldo Ramírez, Colombian footballer
1982 – Ibrahim al-Asiri, Saudi Arabian terrorist
1982 – Greg Camarillo, American football player
1982 – Ricardo Colclough, Canadian-American football player
1982 – Simone Farina, Italian footballer
1982 – Scott Hartnell, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Kristina Sisco, American actress
1982 – Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (d. 2009)
1982 – Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
1983 – Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 – Reeve Carney, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1983 – Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer
1983 – Cheryl Haworth, American weightlifter
1983 – Cristina Nardozzi, American model, Miss Massachusetts USA 2005
1984 – Sokoudjou, Cameroonian mixed martial artist
1984 – America Ferrera, American actress and producer
1985 – Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
1985 – Sasa Handa, Japanese model and actress
1985 – Jessica Lu, American actress
1985 – Karl Reindler, Australian race car driver
1985 – Rachel Smith, Panamanian-American model, Miss USA 2007
1985 – Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
1986 – Billy Butler, American baseball player
1986 – Maurice Edu, American soccer player
1986 – Eleanor James, English actress and dancer
1986 – Denice Klarskov, Danish porn actress, producer, and radio host
1986 – Conrad Logan, Irish footballer
1986 – Efraín Velarde, Mexican footballer
1987 – Brett Deledio, Australian footballer
1987 – Danny Guthrie, English footballer
1987 – Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
1987 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English model and actress
1987 – Samantha Jade, Australian singer-songwriter
1987 – Cara Mia Wayans, American actress
1988 – Anagabriela Espinoza, Mexican model, Miss International 2009
1988 – Andre Frolov, Estonian footballer
1988 – Alexander Hauck, South African-German rugby player
1989 – Simas Buterlevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
1989 – Jessica Jung, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation)
1989 – Alia Shawkat, American actress
1989 – Chaiwat Thongsaeng, Thai actor and model
1990 – Henderson Alvarez, Venezuelan baseball player
1990 – Jake Howells, English footballer
1990 – Britt Robertson, American actress
1990 – Wojciech Szczęsny, Polish footballer
1990 – Junior Torunarigha, Nigerian footballer
1990 – Inna Zlidnis, Estonian footballer
1992 – Misa Eguchi, Japanese tennis player
1993 – Nathan Sykes, English singer-songwriter (The Wanted)
1994 – Moisés Arias, American actor
1995 – Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
2007 – Princess Haya bint Al Hamzah of Jordan
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Deaths
1161 – Theobald of Bec, French-English archbishop (b. 1090)
1552 – John Leland, English poet (b. 1502)
1556 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and politician (b. 1495)
1567 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
1587 – John Foxe, English historian and author (b. 1516)
1636 – Julius Caesar, English judge and politician (b. 1557)
1650 – Simonds d'Ewes, English politician (b. 1602)
1674 – John Graunt, English demographer (b. 1620)
1689 – George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Welsh judge and politician (b. 1648)
1732 – Louis Feuillée, French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (b. 1660)
1763 – Marie-Josephte Corriveau, Canadian murderer (b. 1733)
1794 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
1796 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
1802 – Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
1859 – Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
1864 – Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist (b. 1832)
1873 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist (b. 1803)
1898 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
1904 – Sumner Paine, American target shooter (b. 1868)
1906 – Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
1917 – Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
1935 – Panait Istrati, Romanian author (b. 1884)
1936 – Milton Brown, American singer (Light Crust Doughboys) (b. 1903)
1936 – Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)
1938 – George Bryant, American archer (b. 1878)
1942 – Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
1942 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
1943 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
1945 – John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)
1945 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
1945 – William, Prince of Albania (b. 1876)
1947 – Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)
1949 – Will Hay, English actor and director (b. 1888)
1951 – Óscar Carmona, Portuguese politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
1955 – Albert Einstein, German-American physicist (b. 1879)
1958 – Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (b. 1872)
1959 – Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)
1959 – Percy Smith, English footballer and manager (b. 1880)
1963 – Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
1964 – Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
1965 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican engineer (b. 1917)
1967 – Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
1974 – Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1895)
1976 – Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer (b. 1911)
1986 – Marcel Dassault, French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (b. 1892)
1988 – Pierre Desproges, French journalist, comedian, and actor (b. 1939)
1990 – Gory Guerrero, American wrestler (b. 1921)
1990 – Victoria O'Keefe, English actress (b. 1969)
1993 – Masahiko Kimura, Japanese martial artist (b. 1917)
1995 – Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)
1995 – Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (b. 1927)
1996 – Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
1996 – Bernard Edwards, American bass player and producer (Chic) (b. 1952)
1998 – Terry Sanford, American politician, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)
2002 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer (b. 1914)
2002 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
2003 – Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)
2004 – Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (b. 1920)
2005 – Sam Mills, American football player and coach (b. 1959)
2007 – Iccho Itoh, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
2008 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist (b. 1907)
2009 – Stephanie Parker, English-Welsh actress (b. 1987)
2011 – Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (b. 1985)
2012 – Dick Clark, American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (b. 1929)
2012 – Cora Hansen, American-Canadian super-centenarian (b. 1899)
2012 – René Lépine, Canadian businessman (b. 1929)
2012 – John O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
2012 – K. D. Wentworth, American author (b. 1951)
2013 – Estella Diggs, American politician (b. 1916)
2013 – Ilona Edelsheim-Gyulai, Hungarian-English wife of István Horthy (b. 1918)
2013 – Cordell Mosson, American bass player (Parliament-Funkadelic) (b. 1952)
2013 – Storm Thorgerson, English illustrator (b. 1944)
2013 – Hans-Joachim Walde, German decathlete (b. 1942)
2013 – Anne Williams, English activist (b. 1951)
1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.
1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
1797 – The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.
1807 – The Harwich ferry disaster occurred near the North Sea port of Harwich on the Essex coast (England) in which 60-90 people drowned during the capsizing of a small ferry boat.
1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.
1848 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
1857 – "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
1864 – Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1923 – Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens.
1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
1954 – Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
1955 – 29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
1958 – A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
1961 – The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
1974 – The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore's dry port.
1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency.
1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game is suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
1983 – A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
2007 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
2007 – A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
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Births
1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
1590 – Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1617)
1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
1648 – Jeanne Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747)
1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker (d. 1810)
1759 – Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (d. 1823)
1771 – Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820)
1772 – David Ricardo, English economist (d. 1823)
1797 – Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (d. 1877)
1813 – James McCune Smith, American physician and author (d. 1865)
1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874)
1819 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895)
1838 – Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist (d. 1912)
1857 – Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938)
1857 – Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935)
1858 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist (d. 1962)
1863 – Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat (d. 1942)
1863 – Linton Hope, English architect and sailor (d. 1920)
1864 – Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (d. 1916)
1873 – Ernst Reckeweg, American gymnast
1874 – Abd-ru-shin, German author (d. 1941)
1874 – Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author (d. 1938)
1877 – Vicente Sotto, Filipino politician (d. 1950)
1879 – Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962)
1880 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968)
1882 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (d. 1964)
1882 – Leopold Stokowski, Polish-English conductor (d. 1977)
1884 – Jaan Anvelt, Estonian communist revolutionary and writer (d. 1937)
1888 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1889 – Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970)
1893 – Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944)
1896 – Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948)
1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001)
1898 – Patrick Hennessy, Irish businessman (d. 1981)
1901 – Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967)
1901 – László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975)
1902 – Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
1902 – Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi (d. 1994)
1904 – Pigmeat Markham, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1981)
1905 – Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1990)
1905 – George H. Hitchings, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1907 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (d. 1995)
1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist (d. 2011)
1914 – Claire Martin, Canadian author
1915 – Joy Davidman, American poet and author (d. 1960)
1916 – Carl Burgos, American illustrator (d. 1984)
1916 – Doug Peden, Canadian basketball player (d. 2005)
1917 – Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1947)
1917 – Frederica of Hanover (d. 1981)
1918 – Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer
1918 – André Bazin, French critic and theorist (d. 1958)
1918 – Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
1918 – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, founded CliffsNotes (d. 2001)
1918 – Tony Mottola, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1919 – Vondell Darr, American actress (d. 2012)
1919 – Virginia O'Brien, American actress and singer (d. 2001)
1920 – John F. Wiley, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1921 – Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)
1922 – Barbara Hale, American actress
1923 – Alfred Bieler, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2013)
1923 – Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, British engineer, politician and chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission
1924 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
1924 – Henry Hyde, American politician (d. 2007)
1924 – Roy Mason, Lord Mason of Barnsley, British politician
1925 – Bob Hastings, American actor
1925 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2005)
1926 – Günter Meisner, German actor (d. 1994)
1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (d. 2008)
1927 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013)
1929 – Peter Hordern, British politician
1930 – Clive Revill, New Zealand-English actor
1931 – Bill Miles, American director and producer (d. 2013)
1934 – James Drury, American actor
1934 – George Shirley, American tenor
1935 – Jerry Dexter, American voice actor (d. 2013)
1935 – Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1936 – Vladimir Hütt, Estonian philosopher (d. 1997)
1936 – Tommy Ivo, American actor and race car driver
1937 – Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (d. 2009)
1937 – Edward 'Teddy' Taylor, British politician
1939 – William McKay, British government administrator, Clerk to the House of Commons
1939 – Thomas J. Moyer, American jurist
1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Jaak Lipso, Estonian basketball player
1940 – Mike Vickers, English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter (Manfred Mann)
1941 – Michael D. Higgins, Irish politician, 9th President of Ireland
1942 – Michael Beloff, British human rights barrister
1942 – Steve Blass, American baseball player and sportscaster
1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic
1942 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (d. 1970)
1944 – Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza, British scientist and life peer in the House of Lords
1944 – Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent and spy
1945 – Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author (d. 2009)
1945 – Margaret Hassan, Irish aid worker (d. 2004)
1946 – Jean-François Balmer, Swiss actor
1946 – Irene Fernandez, Malaysian activist (d. 2014)
1946 – Hayley Mills, English actress and singer
1946 – Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (d. 1999)
1947 – Kathy Acker, American author and poet (d. 1997)
1947 – Moses Blah, Liberian politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013)
1947 – Dorothy Lyman, American actress, director, and producer
1947 – Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
1947 – Cindy Pickett, American actress
1947 – Greg Quill, Australian-Canadian singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2013)
1947 – Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, screenwriter, and director
1947 – James Woods, American actor and producer
1948 – Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter
1949 – Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
1950 – Paul Callery, Australian footballer
1950 – Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer
1951 – Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach
1951 – Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician
1953 – Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter
1956 – Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress
1956 – Eric Roberts, American actor
1956 – Melody Thomas Scott, American actress
1958 – Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1999)
1958 – Tarmo Teder, Estonian writer, poet and critic
1959 – Susan Faludi, American journalist and author
1959 – Frank Mulholland, Scottish lawyer and Lord Advocate
1961 – Kelly Hansen, American singer-songwriter (Foreigner and Hurricane)
1961 – Jane Leeves, English actress and dancer
1961 – Steve Lombardi, American wrestler and agent
1961 – John Podhoretz, American journalist and author
1962 – Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress
1962 – Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist and comedian
1962 – Nick Farr-Jones, Australian rugby union footballer
1963 – Mike Mangini, American drummer (Dream Theater, Annihilator, Extreme, and Tribe of Judah)
1963 – Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor and producer
1963 – Conan O'Brien, American actor, screenwriter, producer, and talk show host
1963 – Peter Van Loan, Canadian politician
1964 – Bez, English drummer (Happy Mondays and Black Grape)
1964 – Jim Ellison, American singer-songwriter (Material Issue) (d. 1996)
1964 – Niall Ferguson, Scottish historian
1964 – Rithy Panh, Cambodian director and screenwriter
1965 – Steven Stayner, American kidnap victim (d. 1989)
1965 – Rob Stenders, Dutch radio host
1966 – Camille Coduri, English actress
1966 – Trine Hattestad, Norwegian javelin thrower
1966 – Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player
1967 – Maria Bello, American actress and singer
1968 – Mary Birdsong, American actress and singer
1968 – David Hewlett, English-Canadian actor
1969 – Keith R. A. DeCandido, American author
1969 – Sayako Kuroda, Japanese daughter of Akihito
1969 – Stefan Schwarz, Swedish footballer and manager
1970 – Rico Brogna, American baseball player and coach
1970 – Greg Eklund, American drummer and guitarist (Everclear and The Oohlas)
1970 – Saad Hariri, Saudi Arabian-Lebanese politician, 66th Prime Minister of Lebanon
1970 – François Leroux, Canadian ice hockey player and radio host
1970 – Esther Schweins, German actress
1970 – Tatiana Stefanidou, Greek journalist and television host
1971 – Tamara Braun, American actress
1971 – Samantha Cameron, English businesswoman
1971 – Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player
1971 – Fredro Starr, American rapper and actor (Onyx)
1971 – David Tennant, Scottish actor
1972 – Rosa Clemente, American journalist and activist
1972 – Eli Roth, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Jad Abumrad, American radio host and producer
1973 – Derrick Brooks, American football player
1973 – Brady Clark, American baseball player
1973 – Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian runner
1974 – Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer and actress
1974 – Mark Tremonti, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Creed and Alter Bridge)
1974 – Edgar Wright, English director and screenwriter
1975 – GoonRock, American songwriter and producer
1975 – Jeong Jae-heon, South Korean voice actor
1975 – Sergei Terehhov, Estonian footballer
1976 – Fayray, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
1976 – Gavin Creel, American actor and singer
1976 – Jo Gibb, Scottish actress
1976 – Melissa Joan Hart, American actress, director, and producer
1976 – Sean Maguire, English actor and singer
1976 – Kevin Rankin, American actor
1976 – Justin Ross, American politician
1977 – Dan LaCouture, American ice hockey player
1977 – Cindy Taylor, Paraguayan model and actress
1979 – Michael Bradley, American basketball player and coach
1979 – Ethan Cohn, American actor
1979 – Anthony Davidson, English race car driver
1979 – Nuria Fergó, Spanish singer and actress
1979 – Kourtney Kardashian, American model, actress, and businesswoman
1979 – Matthew Upson, English footballer
1979 – Karl Wolf, Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (Sky)
1980 – Rabiu Afolabi, Nigerian footballer
1980 – Carolina Crescentini, Italian actress
1980 – Justin Levens, American mixed martial artist (d. 2008)
1980 – Laura Mennell, Canadian actress
1980 – Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Priit Võigemast, Estonian actor
1981 – Elastinen, Finnish rapper and producer (Fintelligens)
1981 – Brian Buscher, American baseball player
1981 – Jamie Davis, English actor
1981 – Mai Hoshimura, Japanese singer-songwriter
1981 – Milan Jovanović, Serbian footballer
1981 – Aldo Ramírez, Colombian footballer
1982 – Ibrahim al-Asiri, Saudi Arabian terrorist
1982 – Greg Camarillo, American football player
1982 – Ricardo Colclough, Canadian-American football player
1982 – Simone Farina, Italian footballer
1982 – Scott Hartnell, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Kristina Sisco, American actress
1982 – Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (d. 2009)
1982 – Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
1983 – Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 – Reeve Carney, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1983 – Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer
1983 – Cheryl Haworth, American weightlifter
1983 – Cristina Nardozzi, American model, Miss Massachusetts USA 2005
1984 – Sokoudjou, Cameroonian mixed martial artist
1984 – America Ferrera, American actress and producer
1985 – Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
1985 – Sasa Handa, Japanese model and actress
1985 – Jessica Lu, American actress
1985 – Karl Reindler, Australian race car driver
1985 – Rachel Smith, Panamanian-American model, Miss USA 2007
1985 – Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
1986 – Billy Butler, American baseball player
1986 – Maurice Edu, American soccer player
1986 – Eleanor James, English actress and dancer
1986 – Denice Klarskov, Danish porn actress, producer, and radio host
1986 – Conrad Logan, Irish footballer
1986 – Efraín Velarde, Mexican footballer
1987 – Brett Deledio, Australian footballer
1987 – Danny Guthrie, English footballer
1987 – Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
1987 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English model and actress
1987 – Samantha Jade, Australian singer-songwriter
1987 – Cara Mia Wayans, American actress
1988 – Anagabriela Espinoza, Mexican model, Miss International 2009
1988 – Andre Frolov, Estonian footballer
1988 – Alexander Hauck, South African-German rugby player
1989 – Simas Buterlevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
1989 – Jessica Jung, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation)
1989 – Alia Shawkat, American actress
1989 – Chaiwat Thongsaeng, Thai actor and model
1990 – Henderson Alvarez, Venezuelan baseball player
1990 – Jake Howells, English footballer
1990 – Britt Robertson, American actress
1990 – Wojciech Szczęsny, Polish footballer
1990 – Junior Torunarigha, Nigerian footballer
1990 – Inna Zlidnis, Estonian footballer
1992 – Misa Eguchi, Japanese tennis player
1993 – Nathan Sykes, English singer-songwriter (The Wanted)
1994 – Moisés Arias, American actor
1995 – Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
2007 – Princess Haya bint Al Hamzah of Jordan
***
Deaths
1161 – Theobald of Bec, French-English archbishop (b. 1090)
1552 – John Leland, English poet (b. 1502)
1556 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and politician (b. 1495)
1567 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
1587 – John Foxe, English historian and author (b. 1516)
1636 – Julius Caesar, English judge and politician (b. 1557)
1650 – Simonds d'Ewes, English politician (b. 1602)
1674 – John Graunt, English demographer (b. 1620)
1689 – George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Welsh judge and politician (b. 1648)
1732 – Louis Feuillée, French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (b. 1660)
1763 – Marie-Josephte Corriveau, Canadian murderer (b. 1733)
1794 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
1796 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
1802 – Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
1859 – Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
1864 – Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist (b. 1832)
1873 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist (b. 1803)
1898 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
1904 – Sumner Paine, American target shooter (b. 1868)
1906 – Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
1917 – Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
1935 – Panait Istrati, Romanian author (b. 1884)
1936 – Milton Brown, American singer (Light Crust Doughboys) (b. 1903)
1936 – Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)
1938 – George Bryant, American archer (b. 1878)
1942 – Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
1942 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
1943 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
1945 – John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)
1945 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
1945 – William, Prince of Albania (b. 1876)
1947 – Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)
1949 – Will Hay, English actor and director (b. 1888)
1951 – Óscar Carmona, Portuguese politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
1955 – Albert Einstein, German-American physicist (b. 1879)
1958 – Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (b. 1872)
1959 – Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)
1959 – Percy Smith, English footballer and manager (b. 1880)
1963 – Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
1964 – Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
1965 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican engineer (b. 1917)
1967 – Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
1974 – Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1895)
1976 – Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer (b. 1911)
1986 – Marcel Dassault, French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (b. 1892)
1988 – Pierre Desproges, French journalist, comedian, and actor (b. 1939)
1990 – Gory Guerrero, American wrestler (b. 1921)
1990 – Victoria O'Keefe, English actress (b. 1969)
1993 – Masahiko Kimura, Japanese martial artist (b. 1917)
1995 – Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)
1995 – Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (b. 1927)
1996 – Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
1996 – Bernard Edwards, American bass player and producer (Chic) (b. 1952)
1998 – Terry Sanford, American politician, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)
2002 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer (b. 1914)
2002 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
2003 – Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)
2004 – Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (b. 1920)
2005 – Sam Mills, American football player and coach (b. 1959)
2007 – Iccho Itoh, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
2008 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist (b. 1907)
2009 – Stephanie Parker, English-Welsh actress (b. 1987)
2011 – Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (b. 1985)
2012 – Dick Clark, American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (b. 1929)
2012 – Cora Hansen, American-Canadian super-centenarian (b. 1899)
2012 – René Lépine, Canadian businessman (b. 1929)
2012 – John O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
2012 – K. D. Wentworth, American author (b. 1951)
2013 – Estella Diggs, American politician (b. 1916)
2013 – Ilona Edelsheim-Gyulai, Hungarian-English wife of István Horthy (b. 1918)
2013 – Cordell Mosson, American bass player (Parliament-Funkadelic) (b. 1952)
2013 – Storm Thorgerson, English illustrator (b. 1944)
2013 – Hans-Joachim Walde, German decathlete (b. 1942)
2013 – Anne Williams, English activist (b. 1951)
