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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 1 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
213 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events ·
1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the
control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong
of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu. ·
1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León. ·
1298 –
Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of
Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.[1] ·
1495 –
A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch
of Scotch whisky.[citation needed] ·
1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.[2] ·
1535 –
Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack
and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of
Tunis. ·
1648 –
The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in
the Second English
Civil War.[3] ·
1649 –
Start of the Sumuroy
Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish
colonial authorities. ·
1670 –
In Dover, England, Charles II of
England and Louis XIV of France sign
the Secret Treaty of
Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch
War. ·
1676 –
Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the
Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79). ·
1679 –
The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of
Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog. ·
1773 – Wolraad Woltemade rescues
14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from
the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into
the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt. ·
1779 –
The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American
Revolutionary War, begins.[4] ·
1792 – Kentucky is admitted as
the 15th state of the
United States. ·
1794 –
The battle of the Glorious First of
June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain
and France during the French
Revolutionary Wars. ·
1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state
of the United States. ·
1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to
declare war on the United Kingdom. ·
1813 – Capture of USS
Chesapeake. ·
1815 – Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a
plebiscite. ·
1831 – James Clark Ross becomes the first
European at the North Magnetic Pole. ·
1849 –
Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of
Minnesota officially established. ·
1855 –
The American adventurer William
Walker conquers Nicaragua. ·
1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is
published. ·
1861 – American Civil War:
The Battle
of Fairfax Court House is fought. ·
1862 –
American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign:
The Battle of Seven
Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with
both sides claiming victory. ·
1868 –
The Treaty of Bosque
Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands
in Arizona and New Mexico. ·
1879 – Napoléon Eugène,
the last dynastic Bonaparte,
is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War. ·
1890 –
The United States
Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to
count census returns. ·
1913 –
The Greek–Serbian
Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War. ·
1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew
appointed to the United States
Supreme Court. ·
1918 – World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau
Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German
Forces under Wilhelm,
German Crown Prince. ·
1922 –
The Royal Ulster
Constabulary is founded. ·
1929 –
The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin
America is held in Buenos Aires. ·
1930 –
The Deccan Queen is
introduced as first intercity train between Bombay VT (Now Mumbai CST) and Poona (Pune)
to run on electric locomotives. ·
1939 –
First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft. ·
1941 – World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany. ·
1941
– The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and
as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes. ·
1943 – BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over
the Bay of Biscay by
German Junkers Ju 88s,
killing British actor Leslie Howard and
leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill. ·
1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator"
("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed. ·
1950 –
The Chinchaga fire ignites.
By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North
America.[5] ·
1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes
out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months. ·
1961 –
The Canadian Bank
of Commerce and Imperial Bank of
Canada merge to form the Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian
history. ·
1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel. ·
1964 – Kenya becomes a republic with Jomo Kenyatta (1897 – 22 August 1978)
as its first President (1964
to 1978). ·
1974 –
The Heimlich maneuver for
rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency
Medicine.[6] ·
1975 –
The Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others. ·
1978 –
The first international applications under the Patent
Cooperation Treaty are filed. ·
1979 –
The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power. ·
1980 – Cable
News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting. ·
1988 – European Central
Bank is founded in Brussels. ·
1988
– The Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect. ·
1990 – Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign
a treaty to end chemical weapon production. ·
1993 – Dobrinja mortar
attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar
shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo. ·
1994 – Republic of
South Africa becomes a Commonwealth
republic.[7] ·
1999 – American
Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing
at Little Rock
National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock. ·
2001 – Nepalese royal
massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots
and kills several members of his family including his father and mother. ·
2001
– Dolphinarium
discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a
disco in Tel Aviv. ·
2004 – Oklahoma City
bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is sentenced to 161
consecutive life terms without the possibility of a parole, breaking a Guinness World
Record. ·
2008 – A fire on the back
lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the
attraction King Kong Encounter and
a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which
was not revealed until 2019. ·
2009 – Air France Flight
447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil
on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to
Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed. ·
2009
– General Motors files for Chapter
11 bankruptcy. It is the
fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history. ·
2011 –
A rare
tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado
strikes Springfield,
Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people. ·
2011
– Space
Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after
25 flights.[8] ·
2015 –
A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people. Births ·
1134 – Geoffrey, Count
of Nantes (d. 1158)[9] ·
1300 – Thomas
of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, English politician, Lord Marshal of
England (d. 1338)[10] ·
1451 – Giles
Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (d. 1508)[11] ·
1460 – Enno I,
Count of East Frisia, German noble (d. 1491) ·
1480 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (d. 1550) ·
1498 – Maarten van
Heemskerck, Dutch painter (d. 1574) ·
1522 – Dirck
Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch writer and scholar (d. 1590) ·
1563 – Robert
Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Secretary of
State for England (d. 1612) ·
1612 – Frans Post, Dutch painter (d. 1680) ·
1633 – Geminiano Montanari,
Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1687) ·
1637 – Jacques Marquette,
French missionary and explorer (d. 1675) ·
1653 – Georg Muffat, French organist and composer
(d. 1704) ·
1675 – Francesco
Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist and playwright
(d. 1755) ·
1762 – Edmund Ignatius Rice,
Irish priest and missionary, founded the Irish Christian
Brothers (d. 1844) ·
1765 – Christiane Vulpius,
mistress and wife of Johann Wolfgang
Goethe (d. 1816)[12] ·
1770 – Friedrich Laun, German author (d. 1849) ·
1790 – Ferdinand Raimund,
Austrian actor and playwright (d. 1836) ·
1796 – Nicolas
Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (d. 1832) ·
1800 – Edward Deas Thomson,
Australian educator and politician, Chief
Secretary of New South Wales (d. 1879) ·
1801 – Brigham Young, American religious leader,
2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (d. 1877)[13] ·
1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)[14] ·
1808 – Henry
Parker, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of New
South Wales (d. 1881) ·
1815 – Otto of Greece (d. 1862)[15] ·
1819 – Francis V, Duke
of Modena (d. 1875) ·
1822 – Clementina
Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, English portrait photographer (d.
1865) ·
1825 – John Hunt Morgan, American general (d. 1864)[16] ·
1831 – John Bell Hood, American general (d. 1879) ·
1833 – John Marshall Harlan,
American lawyer, judge, and politician, Attorney
General of Kentucky (d. 1911) ·
1843 – Henry Faulds, Scottish physician and
missionary, developed fingerprinting (d. 1930) ·
1844 – John J. Toffey, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1911) ·
1869 – Richard Wünsch,
German philologist (d. 1915) ·
1873 – Elena Alistar, Bessarabian politician (d.
1955) ·
1874 – Yury Nikolaevich
Voronov, Russian botanist (d. 1931) ·
1878 – John Masefield, English author and poet (d.
1967) ·
1879 – Max Emmerich, American triathlete and
gymnast (d. 1956) ·
1882 – Nicolae Bivol, Moldovan businessman and
politician, Mayor of
Chișinău (d. 1940) ·
1887 – Clive Brook, English actor (d. 1974) ·
1889 – James Daugherty, American author,
illustrator, and painter (d. 1974) ·
1889
– Charles Kay Ogden,
English linguist and philosopher (d. 1957) ·
1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949) ·
1892 – Amanullah Khan, sovereign of the Kingdom of
Afghanistan, (d. 1960) ·
1899 – Edward Charles
Titchmarsh, English mathematician and academic (d. 1963) ·
1901 – Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player,
referee, and manager (d. 1990) ·
1901
– Tom Gorman,
Australian rugby league player (d. 1978) ·
1901
– John Van Druten,
English-American playwright and director (d. 1957) ·
1903 – Vasyl Velychkovsky,
Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (d. 1973) ·
1903
– Hans Vogt,
Norwegian linguist and academic (d. 1986) ·
1905 – Robert Newton, English-American actor (d.
1956) ·
1907 – Jan Patočka, Czech philosopher (d.
1977) ·
1907
– Frank Whittle,
English airman and engineer, developed the jet engine (d. 1996) ·
1908 – Julie Campbell
Tatham, American author (d. 1999) ·
1909 – Yechezkel Kutscher,
Slovakian-Israeli philologist and linguist (d. 1971) ·
1910 – Gyula Kállai, Hungarian communist
leader, Chairman of
the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of
Hungary (d. 1996)[17] ·
1912 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, author,
and mountaineer (d. 1987) ·
1913 – Bill Deedes, English journalist and
politician (d. 2007) ·
1915 – John Randolph,
American actor (d. 2004) ·
1916 – Jean Jérôme Hamer,
Belgian Cardinal (d. 1996) ·
1917 – William Standish
Knowles, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2012)[18] ·
1920 – Robert Clarke, American actor and producer
(d. 2005) ·
1921 – Nelson Riddle, American composer and
bandleader (d. 1985)[19] ·
1922 – Joan Caulfield, American model and actress (d.
1991) ·
1922
– Povel Ramel, Swedish singer-songwriter and
pianist (d. 2007) ·
1924 – William Sloane
Coffin, American minister and activist (d. 2006) ·
1925 – Dilia Díaz Cisneros,
Venezuelan teacher (d. 2017) ·
1926 – Johnny Berry, English footballer (d. 1994) ·
1926
– Andy Griffith,
American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012) ·
1926
– Marilyn Monroe,
American model and actress (d. 1962)[20] ·
1926
– George Robb, English international
footballer and teacher (d. 2011)[21] ·
1926
– Richard Schweiker,
American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (d.
2015) ·
1928 – Georgy Dobrovolsky,
Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (d. 1971) ·
1928
– Steve Dodd, Australian actor and composer
(d. 2014) ·
1928
– Bob Monkhouse,
English actor and screenwriter (d. 2003)[22] ·
1929 – Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981)[23] ·
1929
– James H. Billington,
American academic and Thirteenth Librarian of Congress (d. 2018) ·
1930 – John Lemmon, English logician and
philosopher (d. 1966) ·
1930
– Richard Levins,
American ecologist and geneticist (d. 2016) ·
1930
– Matt Poore, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2020)[24] ·
1930
– Edward Woodward,
English actor (d. 2009)[25] ·
1931 – Walter Horak, Austrian footballer (d. 2019) ·
1932 – Frank Cameron, New Zealand cricketer[26] ·
1932
– Christopher Lasch,
American historian and critic (d. 1994) ·
1933 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician,
1st President of Palau (d.
1985) ·
1933
– Charles
Wilson, American lieutenant and politician (d. 2010) ·
1934 – Pat Boone, American singer-songwriter and
actor[27] ·
1934
– Peter Masterson,
American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2018) ·
1934
– Doris Buchanan Smith,
American author (d. 2002) ·
1935 – Norman
Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, English architect,
founded Foster and Partners ·
1935
– Reverend Ike,
American minister and television host (d. 2009) ·
1935
– Jack Kralick,
American baseball player (d. 2012) ·
1935
– Percy Adlon, German director, screenwriter
and producer ·
1935
– John C. Reynolds,
American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013) ·
1936 – Anatoly Albul, Soviet and Russian wrestler
(d. 2013) ·
1936
– André Bourbeau,
Canadian politician (d. 2018) ·
1936
– Bekim Fehmiu,
Bosnian actor (d. 2010) ·
1936
– Gerald Scarfe,
English illustrator and animator[28] ·
1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor and producer ·
1937
– Rosaleen Linehan,
Irish actress ·
1937
– Colleen McCullough,
Australian neuroscientist and author (d. 2015) ·
1939 – Cleavon Little, American actor and comedian
(d. 1992) ·
1940 – René Auberjonois,
American actor (d. 2019)[29] ·
1940
– Katerina Gogou,
Greek writer and actress (d. 1993) ·
1940
– Kip Thorne, American physicist, astronomer,
and academic ·
1941 – Dean Chance, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2015) ·
1941
– Toyo Ito, Japanese architect, designed
the Torre Realia BCN and Hotel Porta Fira ·
1941
– Alexander V.
Zakharov, Russian physicist and astronomer ·
1942 – Parveen Kumar, Pakistani-English physician
and academic ·
1943 – Orietta Berti, Italian singer and actress ·
1943
– Richard Goode,
American pianist[30] ·
1943
– Lorrie Wilmot,
South African cricketer (d. 2004) ·
1944 – Colin Blakemore, British neurobiologist ·
1944
– Robert Powell,
English actor ·
1945 – Jim McCarty,
American blues rock guitarist ·
1945
– Linda Scott, American singer ·
1945
– Lydia Shum, Chinese-Hong Kong actress (d.
2008) ·
1945
– Kerry Vincent,
Australian chef and author ·
1945
– Frederica von Stade,
American soprano and actress ·
1946 – Brian Cox,
Scottish actor ·
1947 – Ron Dennis, English businessman, founded
the McLaren Group ·
1947
– Jonathan Pryce,
Welsh actor and singer ·
1947
– Ronnie Wood, English guitarist, songwriter,
and producer ·
1948 – Powers Boothe, American actor (d. 2017) ·
1948
– Tomáš Halík, Czech
Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian and scholar ·
1948
– Michel Plasse,
Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006) ·
1948
– Juhan Viiding,
Estonian poet and actor (d. 1995) ·
1950 – Perrin Beatty, Canadian businessman and
politician ·
1950
– Charlene,
American singer-songwriter ·
1950
– Jean Lambert,
English educator and politician ·
1950
– Michael
McDowell, American author and screenwriter (d. 1999) ·
1952 – Şenol
Güneş, Turkish footballer and manager ·
1952
– David Lan, South African-English director
and playwright ·
1952
– Mihaela Loghin,
Romanian shot putter ·
1953 – Ronnie Dunn, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1953
– Ted Field, American entrepreneur and race
car driver ·
1954 – Jill Black, English lawyer and judge ·
1955 – Chiyonofuji Mitsugu,
Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2016) ·
1955
– Lorraine Moller,
New Zealand runner ·
1955
– Tony Snow, American journalist, 26th White House
Press Secretary (d. 2008) ·
1956 – Patrick Besson, French writer and journalist ·
1956
– Lisa Hartman Black,
American actress ·
1956
– Petra Morsbach,
German author[31] ·
1958 – Nambaryn Enkhbayar,
Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia[32] ·
1958
– Gennadiy Valyukevich,
Belarusian triple jumper (d. 2019) ·
1959 – Martin Brundle, English racing driver and
sportscaster ·
1959
– Alan Wilder, English singer-songwriter,
keyboard player, and producer ·
1960 – Simon Gallup, English musician (The Cure) ·
1960
– Vladimir Krutov,
Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2012) ·
1960
– Sergey
Kuznetsov, Russian footballer and manager ·
1960
– Giorgos Lillikas,
Cypriot politician, 8th Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1960
– Lucy McBath, American politician[33] ·
1960
– Elena Mukhina,
Russian gymnast (d. 2006) ·
1961 – Paul Coffey, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1961
– Mark Curry,
American actor ·
1961
– Werner Günthör,
Swiss shot putter and bobsledder ·
1961
– John Huston,
American golfer ·
1961
– Peter Machajdík,
Slovakian-German pianist and composer ·
1963 – Vital Borkelmans, Belgian footballer ·
1963
– Miles J. Padgett,
Scottish physicist and academic ·
1963
– David Westhead,
English actor and producer ·
1965 – Larisa Lazutina, Russian skier ·
1965
– Olga Nazarova,
Russian sprinter ·
1965
– Nigel Short, English chess player and
journalist ·
1966 – Greg Schiano, American football player and
coach ·
1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer ·
1968
– Jeff Hackett,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1968
– Mathias Rust,
German aviator ·
1969 – Luis García Postigo,
former Mexican footballer ·
1969
– Teri Polo, American actress ·
1970 – Georgie Gardner, Australian journalist and
television host ·
1970
– Alexi Lalas, American soccer player,
manager, and sportscaster ·
1971 – Mario Cimarro, Cuban-American actor and
singer ·
1973 – Frédérik
Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer ·
1973
– Adam Garcia, Australian actor ·
1973
– Derek Lowe, American baseball player ·
1973
– Heidi Klum, German-American model, fashion
designer, and producer ·
1974 – Alanis Morissette,
Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress ·
1974
– Michael
Rasmussen, Danish cyclist ·
1974
– Sarah Teather,
English politician ·
1974
– Akis Zikos, Greek footballer and coach ·
1975 – Michal Grošek, Czech-Swiss ice hockey player
and coach ·
1975
– Frauke Petry,
German politician ·
1975
– Ēriks Rags,
Latvian javelin thrower ·
1976 – Marlon Devonish, English sprinter and coach ·
1976
– Kōhei Murakami,
Japanese actor ·
1977 – Andrea Bogart, American actress ·
1977
– Arsen Gitinov,
Russian and Kyrgyzstani freestyle wrestler ·
1977
– Danielle Harris,
American actress ·
1977
– Brad Wilkerson,
American baseball player and coach ·
1977
– Sarah Wayne Callies,
American actress ·
1978 – Antonietta Di
Martino, Italian high jumper ·
1978
– Matthew Hittinger,
American poet and author ·
1979 – Santana Moss, American football player ·
1979
– Markus Persson,
Swedish game designer, founded Mojang ·
1981 – Brandi Carlile, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1981
– Amy Schumer, American actress[34] ·
1981
– Carlos Zambrano,
Venezuelan-American baseball player ·
1981
– Aleksei
Mikhailovich Uvarov, Russian footballer ·
1982 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player ·
1983 – Tetyana
Hamera-Shmyrko, Ukrainian runner ·
1983
– Tõnis Sahk,
Estonian long jumper ·
1984 – Jean Beausejour, Chilean footballer ·
1984
– Olivier Tielemans,
Dutch racing driver ·
1985 – Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian runner ·
1985
– Mário Hipólito,
Angolan footballer ·
1985
– Dinesh Karthik,
Indian cricketer ·
1985
– Nick Young,
American basketball player ·
1985
– Sam Young,
American basketball player ·
1986 – Moses Ndiema Masai,
Kenyan runner ·
1986
– Chinedu Obasi,
Nigerian footballer ·
1986
– Ben Smith,
New Zealand rugby player ·
1987 – Zoltán Harsányi,
Slovakian footballer ·
1987
– Jerel McNeal,
American basketball player ·
1987
– Yarisley Silva,
Cuban pole vaulter ·
1988 – Javier Hernández,
Mexican footballer ·
1989 – Nataliya
Goncharova, Ukrainian/Russian volleyball player ·
1989
– Sammy Alex Mutahi,
Kenyan runner ·
1990 – Miller Bolaños,
Ecuadoran footballer ·
1990
– Kennie Chopart,
Danish footballer ·
1990
– Carlota Ciganda,
Spanish golfer ·
1990
– Martin Pembleton,
English footballer ·
1990
– Bianca Perie,
Romanian hammer thrower ·
1991 – Tyrone Roberts, Australian rugby league
player ·
1993 – Sam Anas, American ice hockey player ·
1994 – Kagayaki Taishi, Japanese sumo wrestler ·
1996 – Edvinas Gertmonas,
Lithuanian footballer ·
1996
– Tom Holland,
English actor ·
1999 – Dmitri Aliev, Russian figure skater Deaths ·
195 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han (b.
256 BC) ·
193 – Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)[35] ·
352 – Ran Min, "Heavenly Prince" (Tian Wang) during the Sixteen Kingdoms[citation needed] ·
654 – Pyrrhus, patriarch
of Constantinople[36] ·
829 – Li Tongjie, general of the Tang Dynasty ·
847 – Xiao,
empress of the Tang Dynasty ·
896 – Theodosius Romanus, Syriac Orthodox patriarch
of Antioch ·
932 – Thietmar,
duke of Saxony ·
1146 – Ermengarde
of Anjou, Duchess regent of Brittany (b. 1068) ·
1186 – Minamoto no Yukiie, Japanese warlord ·
1220 – Henry
de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (b. 1176)[37] ·
1310 – Marguerite Porete,
French mystic ·
1354 – Kitabatake Chikafusa (b.
1293)[38] ·
1434 –
King Wladislaus
II of Poland ·
1571 – John Story,
English martyr (b. 1504) ·
1616 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543) ·
1625 – Honoré d'Urfé,
French author and poet (b. 1568)[39] ·
1639 – Melchior Franck, German composer (b. 1579) ·
1660 – Mary Dyer, English-American martyr (b. 1611) ·
1662 – Zhu Youlang, Chinese emperor (b. 1623) ·
1681 – Cornelis Saftleven,
Dutch genre painter (b. 1607) ·
1710 – David
Mitchell, Scottish admiral and politician (b. 1642) ·
1740 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657) ·
1769 – Edward Holyoke, American pastor and academic
(b. 1689) ·
1773 – Wolraad Woltemade,
South African folk hero (b. 1708) ·
1795 – Pierre-Joseph
Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (b. 1744) ·
1815 – Louis-Alexandre
Berthier, French general and politician, French
Minister of War (b. 1753) ·
1823 – Louis-Nicolas Davout,
French general and politician, French
Minister of War (b. 1770) ·
1826 – J. F. Oberlin, French pastor and
philanthropist (b. 1740) ·
1830 – Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader (b.
1781) ·
1833 – Oliver Wolcott Jr.,
American lawyer and politician, 2nd United
States Secretary of the Treasury, 24th Governor of
Connecticut (b. 1760) ·
1841 – David Wilkie,
Scottish painter and academic (b. 1785) ·
1846 – Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765) ·
1861 – John Quincy Marr, American captain (b. 1825) ·
1864 – Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel, led the Taiping Rebellion (b.
1812) ·
1868 – James Buchanan, American lawyer and
politician, 15th President
of the United States (b. 1791) ·
1872 – James Gordon
Bennett, Sr., American publisher, founded the New York Herald (b. 1795) ·
1873 – Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and
politician, 5th Premier of Nova
Scotia (b. 1804) ·
1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and journalist
(b. 1848) ·
1879 – Napoléon,
Prince Imperial of France (b. 1856) ·
1908 – Allen Butler Talcott,
American painter (b. 1867) ·
1927 – Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (b.
1860) ·
1927
– J. B. Bury, Irish historian, philologist,
and scholar (b. 1861) ·
1934 – Sir
Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel and polo player (b.
1867) ·
1935 – Arthur Arz
von Straußenburg, Romanian-Hungarian general (d. 1857) ·
1938 – Ödön von Horváth,
Croatian-French author and playwright (b. 1901) ·
1941 – Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic
(b. 1873) ·
1941
– Hugh Walpole, New
Zealand-English author (b. 1884) ·
1943 – Leslie Howard,
English actor, director, and producer (b. 1893) ·
1943
– Wilfrid Israel,
English-German businessman and philanthropist (b. 1899) ·
1946 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian marshal and
politician, 43rd Prime Minister
of Romania (b. 1882) ·
1948 – Alex Gard, Russian-American cartoonist (b.
1900) ·
1952 – John Dewey, American psychologist and
philosopher (b. 1859) ·
1953 – Emanuel Vidović,
Croatian painter and illustrator (b. 1870) ·
1954 – Martin Andersen Nexø,
Danish-German journalist and author (b. 1869) ·
1960 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach (b. 1883) ·
1960
– Paula Hitler,
German-Austrian sister of Adolf Hitler (b. 1896) ·
1962 – Adolf Eichmann, a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (b.
1906) ·
1963 – Walter
Lee, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Tasmania (b.
1874) ·
1965 – Curly Lambeau, American football player and
coach, founded the Green Bay Packers (b.
1898) ·
1966 – Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and
bandleader (b. 1873) ·
1968 – Helen Keller, American author and activist
(b. 1880) ·
1968
– André Laurendeau,
Canadian playwright, journalist, and politician (b. 1912) ·
1969 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (b.
1904) ·
1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and
academic (b. 1892) ·
1979 – Werner Forssmann, German physician and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1904) ·
1980 – Arthur Nielsen, American businessman,
founded the ACNielsen company (b.
1897) ·
1981 – Carl Vinson, American lawyer and politician
(b. 1883) ·
1983 – Prince
Charles, Count of Flanders (b. 1903) ·
1985 – Richard Greene, English actor and soldier
(b. 1918) ·
1986 – Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (b. 1958) ·
1987 – Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and
politician, 32nd Prime Minister
of Lebanon (b. 1921) ·
1988 – Herbert Feigl, Austrian philosopher from the
Vienna Circle (b. 1902) ·
1989 – Aurelio Lampredi, Italian engineer, designed
the Ferrari Lampredi
engine (b. 1917) ·
1991 – David Ruffin, American singer-songwriter (b.
1941) ·
1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy,
Indian politician, 6th President of India (b.
1913) ·
1999 – Christopher
Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (b. 1910) ·
2000 – Tito Puente, American drummer, composer, and
producer (b. 1923) ·
2001 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist,
created Dennis
the Menace (b. 1920) ·
2001
– notable victims of the Nepalese royal
massacre o Aishwarya of Nepal (b.
1949) o Birendra of Nepal (b.
1945) o Dhirendra of Nepal (b.
1950) o Prince Nirajan of
Nepal (b. 1978) o Princess Shruti
of Nepal (b. 1976) ·
2002 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b.
1969) ·
2004 – William Manchester,
American historian and author (b. 1922) ·
2005 – Hilda Crosby
Standish, American physician (b. 1902) ·
2005
– George Mikan,
American basketball player and coach (b. 1924) ·
2006 – Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b.
1944) ·
2007 – Tony Thompson,
American singer and songwriter (Hi-Five) (b. 1975) ·
2008 – Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and
politician, 17th Justice
Minister of Israel (b. 1931) ·
2008
– Yves Saint
Laurent, French fashion designer, founded Saint Laurent Paris (b.
1936) ·
2009 – Bob Christie,
American race car driver (b. 1924) ·
2009
– Vincent O'Brien,
Irish horse trainer (b. 1917) ·
2010 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (b. 1906) ·
2010
– Andrei Voznesensky,
Russian poet (b. 1933) ·
2011 – Haleh Sahabi, Iranian humanitarian and
activist (b. 1957) ·
2012 – Faruq Z. Bey, American saxophonist and
composer (b. 1942) ·
2012
– Pádraig Faulkner,
Irish educator and politician, 19th Irish
Minister of Defence (b. 1918) ·
2012
– Milan Gaľa,
Slovak politician (b. 1953) ·
2013 – James Kelleher, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 33rd Solicitor
General of Canada (b. 1930) ·
2014 – Ann B. Davis, American actress (b. 1926) ·
2014
– Valentin Mankin,
Ukrainian sailor (b. 1938) ·
2015 – Charles Kennedy, Scottish journalist and
politician (b. 1959) ·
2015
– Joan Kirner, Australian educator and
politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria (b.
1938) ·
2015
– Nicholas Liverpool,
Dominican lawyer and politician, 6th President
of Dominica (b. 1934) ·
2015
– Jacques Parizeau,
Canadian economist and politician, 26th Premier of Quebec (b.
1930) ·
2015
– Jean Ritchie,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1922) ·
2018 – Sinan Sakić, Serbian pop-folk singer
(b. 1956) ·
2019 – Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician,
6th First Lady of
Indonesia. (b. 1952)[40][41] Holidays and observances ·
Children's Day (International),
and its related observances: o The Day of
Protection of Children Rights (Armenia) o Mothers' and
Children's Day (Mongolia) ·
Christian feast day: o Justin Martyr (Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran) o June
1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest
day on which Canadian Forces Day can
fall, while June 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday in June.
(Canada) ·
Earliest
day on which Father's Day can
fall, while June 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday in June.
(Lithuania) ·
Earliest
day on which June Holiday can
fall, while June 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday in June. (Ireland) ·
Earliest
day on which Labour Day can
fall, while June 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Friday in June. (The Bahamas) ·
Earliest
day on which Teacher's Day can
fall, while June 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday in June.
(Hungary) ·
Earliest
day on which the Queen's Birthday can
fall, while June 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday in June.
(New Zealand, Cook Islands,
Fiji) ·
Earliest
day on which Seamen's Day can
fall, while June 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday in June.
(Iceland) ·
Earliest
day on which Western Australia
Day can fall, while June 7 is the latest; celebrated on the
first Sunday in June. (Western Australia) ·
Global Day of
Parents (International) ·
Independence Day,
celebrates the independence of Samoa from New Zealand in 1962. ·
Madaraka Day (Kenya) ·
National
Maritime Day (Mexico) ·
National Tree Planting Day (Cambodia) ·
The
beginning of Crop over,
celebrated until the first Monday of August. (Barbados) ·
World Milk Day (International) |
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