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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 12 is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
202 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
910 – Battle of
Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic
warriors. ·
1240 –
At the instigation of Louis IX of France,
an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris,
starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis. ·
1381 – Peasants' Revolt:
In England,
rebels assemble at Blackheath,
just outside London.[1] ·
1418 – Armagnac–Burgundian
Civil War: Parisians slaughter Bernard
VII, Count of Armagnac and his suspected sympathizers, along
with all prisoners, foreign bankers, and students and faculty of the College of Navarre. ·
1429 – Hundred Years' War:
On the second day of the Battle of Jargeau, Joan of Arc leads the French army in
their capture of the city and the English commander, William
de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk. ·
1550 –
The city of Helsinki, Finland
(belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden. ·
1653 – First Anglo-Dutch
War: The Battle of the
Gabbard begins, lasting until the following day.[2] ·
1665 – Thomas Willett is appointed the first
mayor of New York City.[3] ·
1758 – French and Indian
War: Siege of
Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova
Scotia, commences.[4] ·
1772 –
French explorer Marc-Joseph
Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men killed by Māori in New Zealand. ·
1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts.
The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There
would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be
hanged. ·
1776 –
The Virginia
Declaration of Rights is adopted. ·
1798 – Irish Rebellion
of 1798: Battle of
Ballynahinch. ·
1817 –
The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais. ·
1821 – Badi VII, king of Sennar,
surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that
Sudanese kingdom.[5] ·
1830 –
Beginning of the Invasion of
Algiers: Thiry-four thousand French soldiers land 27 kilometers
west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch. ·
1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold
Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate
forces under Robert E. Lee a
victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor,
Virginia and moves south. ·
1898 – Philippine
Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.[6] ·
1899 – New Richmond tornado:
The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S.
history kills 117 people and injures around 200. ·
1914 – Massacre of Phocaea:
Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others
in an ethnic cleansing operation
in the Ottoman Empire. ·
1921 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders
the use of chemical weapons against
the Tambov Rebellion,
bringing an end to the peasant uprising.[7] ·
1935 –
A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War. ·
1939 –
Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film
photographed in three-strip Technicolor.[8] ·
1939
– The Baseball Hall of
Fame opens in Cooperstown, New
York. ·
1940 – World War II: Thirteen thousand British and
French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux. ·
1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. ·
1943 – The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in
Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are
led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot. ·
1944 –
World War II: Operation Overlord:
American paratroopers of
the 101st Airborne
Division secure the
town of Carentan, Normandy, France. ·
1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the
time of his death, as a saint, making him at the
time the youngest unmartyred saint in
the Roman Catholic Church.
In 2017, Francisco and
Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are
declared saints. ·
1963 – NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of
his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during
the civil rights
movement. ·
1964 –
Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in
prison for sabotage in South Africa. ·
1967 –
The United
States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares
all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to
be unconstitutional. ·
1975 –
India, Judge Jagmohanlal Sinha of the city of Allahabad ruled that India's Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi had used corrupt practices to win her
seat in the Indian Parliament, and that she should be banned from holding any
public office. Mrs. Gandhi sent word that she refused to resign. ·
1979 – Bryan Allen wins
the second Kremer prize for
a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross. ·
1987 –
The Central African
Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is
sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule. ·
1987
– Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S.
President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. ·
1988 – Austral
Líneas Aéreas Flight 46, a McDonnell Douglas
MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing
all 22 people on board.[9] ·
1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares
its sovereignty. ·
1991 –
Russians first
democratically elected Boris Yeltsin as the President of Russia. ·
1991
– Kokkadichcholai
massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152
minority Tamil civilians
in the village of Kokkadichcholai near
the eastern province town of Batticaloa. ·
1993 –
An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood
Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Its results are later annulled by the
military Government of Ibrahim Babangida. ·
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are murdered outside
Simpson's home in Los Angeles. Her estranged husband, O.J. Simpson is later charged with the
murders, but is acquitted by a jury. ·
1997 –
Queen Elizabeth II reopens
the Globe Theatre in
London. ·
1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint
Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia. ·
2009 –
Analog television stations (excluding low-powered
stations) switch to digital television following
the DTV Delay Act. ·
2009
– A disputed presidential
election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and
international protests. ·
2016 –
Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a
gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with
police. ·
2017 –
American student Otto Warmbier returns
home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week
later. ·
2018 – United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first meeting between leaders of their
two countries in Singapore.[10] Births[edit] ·
950 – Reizei, Japanese emperor (d. 1011) ·
1107 – Gao Zong,
Chinese emperor (d. 1187) ·
1161 – Constance,
Duchess of Brittany (d. 1201) ·
1519 – Cosimo
I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574) ·
1561 – Anna of Württemberg,
German princess (d. 1616) ·
1564 – John
Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (d. 1633) ·
1573 – Robert
Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, soldier (d. 1629) ·
1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and
mathematician (d. 1643) ·
1580 – Adriaen van Stalbemt,
Flemish painter (d. 1662) ·
1653 – Maria Amalia of
Courland, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1711) ·
1686 – Marie-Catherine
Homassel Hecquet, French writer (d. 1764) ·
1711 – Louis Legrand,
French priest and theologian (d. 1780) ·
1760 – Jean-Baptiste
Louvet de Couvrai, French author, playwright, journalist, and
politician (d. 1797) ·
1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant (Lewis and
Clark Expedition) and author (d. 1870) ·
1775 – Karl Freiherr
von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851) ·
1777 – Robert
Clark, American physician and politician (d. 1837) ·
1795 – John Marston,
American sailor (d. 1885) ·
1798 – Samuel Cooper,
American general (d. 1876) ·
1800 – Samuel Wright Mardis,
American politician (d. 1836) ·
1802 – Harriet Martineau,
English sociologist and author (d. 1876) ·
1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer,
designed the Brooklyn Bridge (d.
1869) ·
1807 – Ante Kuzmanić, Croatian physician and
journalist (d. 1879) ·
1812 – Edmond Hébert, French geologist and academic
(d. 1890) ·
1819 – Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian,
and author (d. 1875) ·
1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss author, best known
for Heidi (d. 1901) ·
1831 – Robert Herbert, English-Australian
politician, 1st Premier of
Queensland (d. 1905) ·
1841 – Watson Fothergill,
English architect, designed the Woodborough
Road Baptist Church (d. 1928) ·
1843 – David Gill,
Scottish-English astronomer and author (d. 1914) ·
1851 – Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic
(d. 1940) ·
1857 – Maurice Perrault, Canadian architect,
engineer, and politician, 15th Mayor of
Longueuil (d. 1909) ·
1858 – Harry Johnston, English botanist and
explorer (d. 1927) ·
1858
– Henry Scott Tuke,
English painter and photographer (d. 1929) ·
1861 – William Attewell, English cricketer and
umpire (d. 1927) ·
1864 – Frank
Chapman, American ornithologist, photographer, and author (d.
1945) ·
1877 – Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and
politician (d. 1971) ·
1883 – Fernand Gonder, French pole vaulter (d.
1969) ·
1883
– Robert Lowie,
Austrian-American anthropologist and academic (d. 1957) ·
1888 – Zygmunt Janiszewski,
Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1920) ·
1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian soldier and painter
(d. 1918) ·
1892 – Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist,
and playwright (d. 1982) ·
1895 – Eugénie Brazier,
French chef (d. 1977) ·
1897 – Anthony Eden, English soldier and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977) ·
1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann,
German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1986) ·
1899
– Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer and
journalist (d. 1968) ·
1902 – Hendrik Elias, Belgian lawyer and
politician, Mayor of Ghent (d.
1973) ·
1905 – Ray Barbuti, American sprinter and football
player (d. 1988) ·
1906 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977) ·
1908 – Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian broadcaster (d. 1988) ·
1908
– Marina Semyonova,
Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2010) ·
1908
– Otto Skorzeny,
German SS officer (d. 1975) ·
1910 – Bill Naughton, Irish-English playwright and
author (d. 1992) ·
1912 – Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (d. 1993) ·
1912
– Carl Hovland,
American psychologist and academic (d. 1961) ·
1913 – Jean Victor Allard,
Canadian general (d. 1996) ·
1913
– Desmond Piers,
Canadian admiral (d. 2005) ·
1914 – William Lundigan, American actor (d. 1975) ·
1914
– Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (d. 2014) ·
1915 – Priscilla Lane, American actress (d. 1995) ·
1915
– Christopher Mayhew,
English soldier and politician (d. 1997) ·
1915
– David Rockefeller,
American banker and businessman (d. 2017) ·
1916 – Irwin Allen, American director and producer
(d. 1991) ·
1916
– Raúl Héctor Castro,
Mexican-American politician and diplomat, 14th Governor of Arizona (d.
2015) ·
1918 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d.
2001) ·
1918
– Georgia
Louise Harris Brown, American architect (d. 1999)[11] ·
1918
– Christie
Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and
academic (d. 2001) ·
1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress and
educator (d. 2004) ·
1920 – Dave Berg,
American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2002) ·
1920
– Peter Jones,
English actor and screenwriter (d. 2000) ·
1921 – Luis García Berlanga,
Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2010) ·
1921
– Christopher Derrick,
English author, critic, and academic (d. 2007) ·
1921
– James Archibald
Houston, Canadian author and illustrator (d. 2005) ·
1922 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and
author (d. 2013) ·
1924 – George H. W. Bush,
American lieutenant and politician, 41st President
of the United States (d. 2018) ·
1924
– Grete Dollitz,
German-American guitarist and radio host (d. 2013) ·
1928 – Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and
actor (d. 2018) ·
1928
– Petros Molyviatis,
Greek politician and diplomat, Greek
Minister for Foreign Affairs ·
1928
– Richard M. Sherman,
American composer and director ·
1929 – Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (d.
1995) ·
1929
– Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of
the Holocaust (d. 1945)[12] ·
1929
– Jameel Jalibi,
Pakistani linguist and academic ·
1929
– John
McCluskey, Baron McCluskey, Scottish lawyer, judge, and
politician, Solicitor
General for Scotland (d. 2017) ·
1930 – Jim Burke,
Australian cricketer (d. 1979) ·
1930
– Donald Byrne,
American chess player (d. 1976) ·
1930
– Innes Ireland,
Scottish race car driver and engineer (d. 1993) ·
1930
– Jim Nabors, American actor and singer (d.
2017) ·
1931 – Trevanian, American author and scholar (d.
2005) ·
1931
– Rona Jaffe, American novelist (d. 2005) ·
1932 – Mimi Coertse, South African soprano and
producer ·
1932
– Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (d. 2002) ·
1933 – Eddie Adams,
American photographer and journalist (d. 2004) ·
1934 – John A. Alonzo, American actor and cinematographer
(d. 2001) ·
1934
– Kevin Billington,
English director and producer ·
1935 – Ian Craig, Australian cricketer (d. 2014) ·
1935
– Paul Kennedy,
English lawyer and judge ·
1937 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian-French
mathematician and academic (d. 2010) ·
1937
– Klaus Basikow,
German footballer and manager (d. 2015) ·
1937
– Antal Festetics,
Hungarian-Austrian biologist and zoologist ·
1937
– Chips Moman, American record producer,
guitarist, and songwriter (d. 2016) ·
1938 – Jean-Marie Doré,
Guinean lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister
of Guinea (d. 2016) ·
1938
– Tom Oliver, English-Australian actor ·
1939 – Ron Lynch,
Australian rugby league player and coach ·
1939
– Frank McCloskey,
American sergeant and politician (d. 2003) ·
1940 – Jacques Brassard, Canadian educator and
politician ·
1941 – Marv Albert, American sportscaster ·
1941
– Chick Corea, American pianist and composer ·
1941
– Roy Harper,
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ·
1941
– Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (d.
2013) ·
1941
– Lucille
Roybal-Allard, American politician ·
1942 – Len Barry, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1942
– Bert Sakmann,
German physiologist and biologist, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
1945 – Pat Jennings, Irish footballer and coach ·
1946 – Michel
Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1946
– Bobby Gould, English footballer and manager ·
1946
– Catherine Bréchignac,
French physicist and academic ·
1948 – Hans Binder, Austrian race car driver ·
1948
– Herbert Meyer,
German footballer ·
1948
– Len Wein, American comic book writer and
editor (d. 2017) ·
1949 – Jens Böhrnsen, German judge and politician ·
1949
– Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1949
– John Wetton, English singer-songwriter, bass
player, and producer (d. 2017) ·
1950 – Oğuz Abadan, Turkish singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1950
– Michael Fabricant,
English politician ·
1950
– Sonia Manzano,
American actress of Puerto Rican descent, noted for playing Maria on Sesame Street ·
1950 – Bun E. Carlos, American drummer ·
1951 – Brad Delp, American musician and singer (d.
2007) ·
1951
– Andranik Margaryan,
Armenian engineer and politician, 10th Prime Minister
of Armenia (d. 2007) ·
1952 – Spencer Abraham, American academic and
politician, 10th United
States Secretary of Energy ·
1952
– Junior Brown,
American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1952
– Pete Farndon,
English bass player and songwriter (d. 1983) ·
1953 – Rocky Burnette, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1954 – Tim Razzall,
Baron Razzall, English lawyer and politician ·
1956 – Terry Alderman, Australian cricketer and
sportscaster ·
1957 – Timothy Busfield, American actor, director,
and producer ·
1957
– Javed Miandad,
Pakistani cricketer and coach ·
1958 – Meredith Brooks, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1959 – John Linnell, American singer-songwriter and
musician ·
1959
– Scott Thompson,
Canadian actor and comedian ·
1960 – Joe Kopicki, American basketball player and
coach ·
1962 – Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist,
professor and cultural critic ·
1963 – Philippe Bugalski,
French race car driver (d. 2012) ·
1963
– Warwick Capper,
Australian footballer, coach, and actor ·
1963
– Tim DeKay, American actor ·
1963
– Jerry Lynn, American wrestler ·
1964 – Derek Higgins, Irish race car driver ·
1964
– Kent Jones,
American journalist ·
1964
– Paula Marshall,
American actress ·
1964
– Peter Such, Scottish-born, English cricketer ·
1965 – Adrian Toole, Australian rugby league player ·
1965
– Gwen Torrence,
American sprinter ·
1965
– Cathy Tyson, English actress ·
1966 – Marc Glanville, Australian rugby league
player ·
1966
– Tom Misteli, Swiss cell biologist ·
1967 – Aivar Kuusmaa, Estonian basketball player
and coach ·
1967
– Frances O'Connor,
English-Australian actress ·
1968 – Scott Aldred, American baseball player and
coach ·
1968
– Htay Kywe, Burmese activist ·
1968
– Bobby Sheehan,
American bass player and songwriter (d. 1999) ·
1969 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (d. 2007) ·
1969
– Héctor Garza,
Mexican wrestler (d. 2013) ·
1969
– Mathieu Schneider,
American ice hockey player ·
1969
– Heinz-Christian
Strache, Austrian politician ·
1971 – Mark Henry, American weightlifter and
wrestler ·
1971
– Ryan Klesko, American baseball player ·
1971
– Jérôme Romain,
Caribbean-Dominican triple jumper and coach ·
1973 – Jason Caffey, American basketball player and
coach ·
1973
– Darryl White,
Australian footballer ·
1974 – Flávio Conceição,
Brazilian footballer ·
1974
– Hideki Matsui,
Japanese baseball player ·
1974
– Jason Mewes, American actor and producer ·
1974
– Kerry Kittles,
American basketball player ·
1975 – Bryan Alvarez, American wrestler and
journalist ·
1975
– Stéphanie Szostak,
French-American actress ·
1976 – Antawn Jamison, American basketball player
and sportscaster ·
1976
– Ray Price,
Zimbabwean cricketer ·
1976
– Thomas Sørensen,
Danish footballer ·
1977 – Wade Redden, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1977
– Kenny Wayne Shepherd,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1978 – Lewis Moody, English rugby player ·
1979 – Dallas Clark, American football player ·
1979
– Martine Dugrenier,
Canadian wrestler ·
1979
– Diego Milito,
Argentine footballer ·
1979
– Robyn, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician,
and record producer ·
1979
– Earl Watson, American basketball player and
coach ·
1980 – Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player ·
1980
– Larry Foote, American football player ·
1980
– Ifet Taljević,
German footballer ·
1981 – Raitis Grafs, Latvian basketball player ·
1981
– Paul Hasleby,
Australian footballer ·
1981
– Adriana Lima,
Brazilian model and actress ·
1982 – Ben Blackwell, American drummer ·
1982
– Diem Brown, German-American journalist and
activist (d. 2014) ·
1982
– Jason David, American football player ·
1982
– Shailaja Pujari,
Indian weightlifter[13] ·
1982
– James Tomlinson,
English cricketer ·
1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player ·
1983
– Alexander Pipa,
German rugby player ·
1983
– Christine Sinclair,
Canadian soccer player ·
1984 – James Kwalia, Kenyan-Qatari runner ·
1984
– Bruno Soriano,
Spanish footballer ·
1985 – Blake Ross, American computer programmer,
co-created Mozilla Firefox ·
1985
– Sam Thaiday, Australian rugby league player ·
1985
– Kendra Wilkinson,
American model, actress, and author ·
1985
– Chris Young,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1986 – Salim Mehajer, Australian politician ·
1986
– Harry
Taylor, Australian footballer ·
1987 – Seyi Ajirotutu, American football player ·
1987
– Antonio Barragán,
Spanish footballer ·
1988 – Artūrs
Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player ·
1988
– Eren Derdiyok,
Swiss footballer ·
1988
– Mauricio Isla,
Chilean footballer ·
1988
– Dave Melillo,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1988
– Dakota Morton,
Canadian actor and radio host ·
1989 – Emma Eliasson, Swedish ice hockey player[14] ·
1989
– Ibrahim Jeilan,
Ethiopian runner[15] ·
1990 – Jrue Holiday, American basketball player ·
1990
– Kevin López,
Spanish runner ·
1990
– David Worrall,
English footballer ·
1991 – Avisail García,
Venezuelan baseball player ·
1992 – Philippe Coutinho,
Brazilian footballer Deaths[edit] ·
796 – Hisham I,
Muslim emir (b. 757) ·
816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750) ·
918 – Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great (b. 870) ·
1020 – Lyfing,
English archbishop (b. 999) ·
1036 – Tedald,
Italian bishop (b. 990) ·
1144 – Al-Zamakhshari, Persian theologian (b. 1075) ·
1152 – Henry of Scotland,
3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1114) ·
1266 – Henry
II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben (b. 1215) ·
1294 – John I of
Brienne, Count of Eu ·
1418 – Bernard
VII, Count of Armagnac (b. 1360) ·
1435 – John
FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English commander (b. 1408) ·
1478 – Ludovico
III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (b. 1412) ·
1524 – Diego
Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (b. 1465) ·
1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506) ·
1560
– Imagawa Yoshimoto,
Japanese daimyō (b. 1519) ·
1565 – Adrianus Turnebus,
French philologist and scholar (b. 1512) ·
1567 – Richard
Rich, 1st Baron Rich, English politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490) ·
1647 – Thomas Farnaby, English scholar and educator
(b. 1575) ·
1668 – Charles
Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician (b. 1599) ·
1675 – Charles
Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634) ·
1734 – James
FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French-English general and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Hampshire (b. 1670) ·
1758 – Prince
Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722) ·
1772 – Marc-Joseph
Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724) ·
1778 – Philip Livingston,
American merchant and politician (b. 1716) ·
1816 – Pierre Augereau, French general (b. 1757) ·
1818 – Egwale Seyon, Ethiopian emperor ·
1841 – Konstantinos
Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist, and philologist (b.
1786) ·
1900 – Lucretia Peabody
Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820) ·
1904 – Camille of
Renesse-Breidbach (b. 1836) ·
1912 – Frédéric Passy,
French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1822) ·
1917 – Teresa Carreño,
Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (b. 1853) ·
1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and
politician, Prime
Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852) ·
1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky,
Russian general (b. 1893) ·
1944 – Erich Marcks, German general (b. 1891) ·
1946 – Médéric Martin,
Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1869) ·
1952 – Harry Lawson, Australian politician,
27th Premier of Victoria (b.
1875) ·
1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist,
composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California
Ramblers) (b. 1904) ·
1962 – John Ireland,
English composer and educator (b. 1879) ·
1963 – Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist
(b. 1925) ·
1966 – Hermann Scherchen,
German viola player and conductor (b. 1891) ·
1968 – Herbert Read, English poet and critic (b.
1893) ·
1969 – Aleksandr Deyneka,
Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899) ·
1972 – Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist,
and editor (b. 1895) ·
1972
– Dinanath Gopal
Tendulkar, Indian writer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1909) ·
1976 – Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and
scholar (b. 1887) ·
1978 – Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and
poet (b. 1892) ·
1978
– Georg Siimenson,
Estonian footballer (b. 1912) ·
1980 – Billy Butlin, South African-English
businessman, founded the Butlins Company (b.
1899) ·
1980
– Masayoshi Ōhira,
Japanese politician, 68th Prime minister of
Japan (b. 1910) ·
1980
– Milburn Stone,
American actor (b. 1904) ·
1982 – Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953) ·
1982
– Karl von Frisch,
Austrian-German ethologist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1886) ·
1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b.
1902) ·
1989 – Bruce
Hamilton, Australian public servant (b. 1911) ·
1990 – Terence
O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, English captain and
politician, 4th Prime
Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1914) ·
1994 – Menachem
Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi and author (b. 1902) ·
1995 – Arturo
Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920) ·
1995
– Pierre Russell,
American basketball player (b. 1949) ·
1997 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1924) ·
1998 – Leo Buscaglia, American author and educator
(b. 1924) ·
1998
– Theresa Merritt,
American actress and singer (b. 1922) ·
1999 – J. F. Powers, American novelist and short
story writer (b. 1917) ·
2000 – Purushottam
Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1919) ·
2000
– Sandro Rosa do
Nascimento, Brazilian criminal (b. 1978) ·
2002 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer,
founded Bill Blass Limited (b.
1922) ·
2002
– Zena Sutherland,
American reviewer of children's literature (b. 1915)[16] ·
2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor and political
activist (b. 1916) ·
2005 – Scott Young,
Canadian journalist and author (b. 1918) ·
2006 – Nicky Barr, Australian rugby player and
fighter pilot (b. 1915) ·
2006
– György Ligeti,
Romanian-Hungarian composer and educator (b. 1923) ·
2006
– Kenneth
Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art
collector (b. 1923) ·
2008 – Miroslav
Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1951) ·
2008
– Derek Tapscott,
Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1932) ·
2010 – Al Williamson, American illustrator (b.
1931) ·
2011 – René Audet, Canadian bishop (b. 1920) ·
2011
– Carl Gardner,
American singer (The Coasters) (b.
1928) ·
2012 – Hector Bianciotti,
Argentinian-French journalist and author (b. 1930) ·
2012
– Henry Hill, American mobster (b. 1943) ·
2012
– Margarete
Mitscherlich-Nielsen, Danish-German psychoanalyst and author (b.
1917) ·
2012
– Medin Zhega, Albanian footballer and manager
(b. 1946) ·
2012
– Elinor Ostrom,
American political scientist and economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1933) ·
2012
– Pahiño, Spanish footballer (b. 1923) ·
2012
– Frank
Walker, Australian judge and politician, 41st Attorney
General of New South Wales (b. 1942) ·
2013 – Teresita Barajuen,
Spanish nun (b. 1908) ·
2013
– Jason Leffler,
American race car driver (b. 1975) ·
2013
– Joseph A. Unanue,
American sergeant and businessman (b. 1925) ·
2014 – Nabil Hemani, Algerian footballer (b. 1979) ·
2014
– Dan Jacobson,
South African-English author and critic (b. 1929) ·
2014
– Frank Schirrmacher,
German journalist (b. 1959) ·
2015 – Fernando Brant, Brazilian journalist, poet,
and composer (b. 1946) ·
2015
– Frederick Pei Li,
Chinese-American physician and academic (b. 1940) ·
2015
– Patrick Lennox
Tierney, American historian and academic (b. 1914) ·
2016 – Omar Mateen, American mass murderer (b.
1986) ·
2016
– George Voinovich,
American politician (b. 1936) ·
2016
– Janet Waldo, American actress and voice
artist (b. 1920) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay) ·
Christian feast day: o Basilides,
Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius o Enmegahbowh (Episcopal
Church) o Eskil o First Ecumenical
Council (Lutheran) o Ternan o June
12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Helsinki Day (Finland) ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the independence of the Philippines from Spain in 1898. ·
June 12
Commemoration (Lagos State) ·
Russia Day (Russia) ·
World Day
Against Child Labour, and its related observances: o Children's Day (Haiti) |
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