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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 14 is the 165th day of the year (166th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
200 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
1158 – Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the
river Isar. ·
1216 – First Barons' War:
Prince Louis of France captures
the city of Winchester and
soon conquers over half of the Kingdom of England. ·
1276 –
While taking exile in Fuzhou, away from the
advancing Mongol
invaders, the remnants of the Song dynasty court hold the coronation
ceremony for Emperor Duanzong. ·
1285 – Second Mongol
invasion of Vietnam: Forces led by Prince Trần Quang
Khải of the Trần dynasty destroy most of the
invading Mongol naval
fleet in a battle at Chuong Duong. ·
1287 – Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan
and other traditionalist Borjigin princes
in East Mongolia and Manchuria. ·
1381 – Richard II of
England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt at Mile End. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels
who enter without resistance. ·
1404 –
Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared
himself Prince of Wales,
allies himself with the French against King Henry IV of England. ·
1618 –
Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante
uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date). ·
1645 – English Civil War: Battle of Naseby: Twelve thousand Royalist forces are beaten by
15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers. ·
1667 –
The Raid on the Medway by
the Dutch fleet in
the Second Anglo-Dutch
War ends. It had lasted for five days and resulted in the
worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy. ·
1690 –
King William III of
England (William of Orange) lands in Ireland to confront the
former King James II. ·
1775 – American
Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by
the Continental Congress,
marking the birth of the United States Army. ·
1777 –
The Second
Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and
Stripes as the Flag of the United States. ·
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors
including Captain William Bligh and
18 others reach Timor after a nearly
7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat. ·
1800 –
The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats
the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in
Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy. ·
1807 –
Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in
Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast)
ending the War of the
Fourth Coalition. ·
1821 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to
Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, bringing the 300 year old
Sudanese kingdom to an end. ·
1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in
a paper to the Royal
Astronomical Society. ·
1830 –
Beginning of the French colonization of
Algeria: Thirty-four thousand French soldiers begin their invasion of
Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj. ·
1839 – Henley Royal Regatta:
the village of Henley-on-Thames,
on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta. ·
1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins: Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California,
start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic. ·
1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle
of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of
Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town
of Winchester, Virginia. ·
1863
– Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during
the American Civil War. ·
1872 – Trade unions are legalized in Canada. ·
1881 –
The White Rajahs territories
become the British protectorate of Sarawak. ·
1900 – Hawaii becomes
a United States
territory. ·
1900
– The second German Naval Law calls
for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German
naval arms race. ·
1907 –
The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds
in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. ·
1919 – John
Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's,
Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. ·
1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations. ·
1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and
only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially
as a state holiday. ·
1937
– U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax
Act. ·
1940 – World War II: The German occupation of Paris begins. ·
1940
– The
Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in
Lithuanian loss of independence. ·
1940
– Seven hundred twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of
the Auschwitz
concentration camp. ·
1941 – June deportation: the first major wave of
Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins. ·
1944 –
World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture
the German-occupied
town of Caen. ·
1945 –
World War II: Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army liberate
the captured in Ilocos Sur and
start the Battle of Bessang
Pass in Northern Luzon. ·
1949 –
Albert II, a rhesus monkey,
rides a V-2 rocket to
an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space. ·
1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S.
Census Bureau. ·
1954 –
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs
a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United
States Pledge
of Allegiance. ·
1955 – Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires
copyright treaty. ·
1959 – Disneyland
Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the
Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California. ·
1959
– Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and
land in the Dominican Republic to
overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or
executed. ·
1962 –
The European
Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later
becoming the European Space
Agency. ·
1966 –
The Vatican announces
the abolition of the Index
Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited
books"), which was originally instituted in 1557. ·
1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus. ·
1982 – Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally
surrender to British forces. ·
1986 – The Mindbender derails
and kills three riders at the Fantasyland (known
today as Galaxyland) indoor amusement park in Edmonton, Alberta. ·
1994 –
The 1994
Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers
win the Stanley Cup from
Vancouver, causing an estimated C$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests
and injuries. ·
2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000
miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth
and the Moon. ·
2014 –
A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter
is shot down, killing all 49 people on board. ·
2017 – London: A fire in a high-rise
apartment building in North Kensington leaves 72 people dead
and another 74 injured. ·
2017
– In Alexandria, Virginia, Republican member
of Congress and House Majority
Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana is shot while
practicing for charity baseball. Births[edit] ·
1444 – Nilakantha Somayaji,
Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1544) ·
1479 – Giglio Gregorio
Giraldi, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1552)[1] ·
1529 – Ferdinand
II, Archduke of Austria (d. 1595) ·
1627 – Johann Abraham Ihle,
German astronomer (d. 1699) ·
1691 – Jan Francisci, Slovak organist and composer
(d. 1758)[2] ·
1726 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh ornithologist and
historian (d. 1798)[3] ·
1730 – Antonio Sacchini, Italian composer and
educator (d. 1786) ·
1736 – Charles-Augustin
de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (d. 1806) ·
1763 – Simon Mayr, German composer and educator (d.
1845) ·
1780 – Henry Salt,
English historian and diplomat, British Consul-General in Egypt (d.
1827) ·
1796 – Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian
mathematician and academic (d. 1866) ·
1798 – František Palacký,
Czech historian and politician (d. 1876) ·
1801 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader
(d. 1868) ·
1811 – Harriet Beecher
Stowe, American author and activist (d. 1896)[4] ·
1812 – Fernando Wood, American merchant and
politician, 73rd Mayor of New York
City (d. 1881) ·
1819 – Henry Gardner, American merchant and
politician, 23rd Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1892) ·
1820 – John Bartlett,
American author and publisher (d. 1905) ·
1829 – Bernard Petitjean,
French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (d. 1884) ·
1838 – Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese Field Marshal and
politician, 3rd and 9th Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 1922) ·
1840 – William F. Nast, American businessman (d.
1893) ·
1848 – Bernard
Bosanquet, English philosopher and theorist (d. 1923) ·
1848 – Max Erdmannsdörfer,
German conductor and composer (d. 1905) ·
1855 – Robert M. La
Follette, American lawyer and politician, 20th Governor of
Wisconsin (d. 1925) ·
1856 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and
theorist (d. 1922) ·
1862 – John Ulric Nef,
Swiss-American chemist and academic (d. 1915) ·
1864 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and
neuropathologist (d. 1915) ·
1868 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and
physician, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1943) ·
1868
– Anna B. Eckstein,
German peace activist (d. 1947)[5] ·
1870 – Sophia of Prussia (d.
1932) ·
1871 – Hermanus Brockmann,
Dutch rower (d. 1936) ·
1871
– Jacob Ellehammer,
Danish mechanic and engineer (d. 1946) ·
1872 – János Szlepecz,
Slovene priest and author (d. 1936) ·
1877 – Jane Bathori, French soprano (d. 1970) ·
1877
– Ida MacLean, British biochemist, the first
woman admitted to the London Chemical Society (d. 1944)[6] ·
1878 – Léon Thiébaut,
French fencer (d. 1943) ·
1879 – Arthur Duffey, American sprinter and coach
(d. 1955) ·
1884 – John McCormack,
Irish tenor and actor (d. 1945) ·
1884
– Georg Zacharias,
German swimmer (d. 1953) ·
1890 – May Allison, American actress (d. 1989) ·
1894 – Marie-Adélaïde,
Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924) ·
1894
– José Carlos
Mariátegui (d. 1930) ·
1894
– W. W. E. Ross,
Canadian geophysicist and poet (d. 1966) ·
1895 – Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey
player, coach, and manager (d. 1968) ·
1900 – Ruth Nanda Anshen,
American writer, editor, and philosopher (d. 2003) ·
1900
– June Walker, American stage and film actress
(d. 1966) ·
1903 – Alonzo Church, American mathematician and
logician (d. 1995) ·
1903
– Rose Rand, Austrian-American logician and
philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1980) ·
1904 – Margaret
Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (d. 1971) ·
1905 – Steve Broidy, American businessman (d. 1991) ·
1905
– Arthur Davis,
American animator and director (d. 2000) ·
1907 – Nicolas Bentley, English author and
illustrator (d. 1978) ·
1907
– René Char, French
poet and author (d. 1988) ·
1909 – Burl Ives, American actor and singer (d.
1995) ·
1910 – Rudolf Kempe, German pianist and conductor
(d. 1976) ·
1913 – Joe Morris,
English-Canadian lieutenant and trade union leader (d. 1996) ·
1916 – Dorothy McGuire, American actress (d. 2001) ·
1917 – Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist, author,
and screenwriter ·
1917
– Gilbert Prouteau,
French poet and director (d. 2012) ·
1917
– Atle Selberg,
Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2007) ·
1918 – Fred Baur, American chemist and founder
of Pringles (d. 2008) ·
1919 – Gene Barry, American actor (d. 2009) ·
1919
– Sam Wanamaker,
American actor and director (d. 1993)[7] ·
1921 – Martha Greenhouse,
American actress (d. 2013) ·
1923 – Judith Kerr, German-English author and
illustrator (d. 2019)[8] ·
1923
– Green Wix Unthank,
American soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 2013) ·
1924 – James Black,
Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2010) ·
1925 – Pierre Salinger, American journalist and
politician, 11th White House
Press Secretary (d. 2004) ·
1926 – Don Newcombe, American baseball player (d.
2019) ·
1928 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara,
Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, guerrilla leader and politician (d.
1967) ·
1929 – Cy Coleman, American pianist and composer
(d. 2004) ·
1929
– Alan Davidson,
Australian cricketer ·
1929
– Johnny Wilson,
Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2011) ·
1931 – Marla Gibbs, American actress and comedian ·
1931
– Ross Higgins,
Australian actor (d. 2016) ·
1931
– Junior Walker,
American saxophonist (d. 1995) ·
1933 – Jerzy Kosiński,
Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (d. 1991) ·
1933
– Vladislav
Rastorotsky, Russian gymnast and coach ·
1936 – Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2005) ·
1936
– Irmelin Sandman
Lilius, Finnish author, poet, and translator ·
1938 – Julie Felix, American-English
singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020) ·
1939 – Steny Hoyer, American lawyer and politician ·
1939
– Peter Mayle, English author and screenwriter
(d. 2018) ·
1939
– Colin Thubron,
English journalist and author ·
1942 – Jonathan Raban, English author and academic ·
1942
– Roberto
García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (d. 2008) ·
1943 – Barry Burman, English painter and academic
(d. 2001) ·
1943
– Jennifer
Gretton, Baroness Gretton, English politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Leicestershire ·
1943
– John Miles,
English racing driver and journalist ·
1943
– Harold Wheeler,
American composer, conductor, and producer ·
1944 – Laurie Colwin, American novelist and short
story writer (d. 1992) ·
1945 – Rod Argent, English singer-songwriter and
keyboard player ·
1945
– Carlos Reichenbach,
Brazilian director and producer (d. 2012) ·
1945
– Richard Stebbins,
American sprinter and educator ·
1946 – Robert Louis-Dreyfus,
French-Swiss businessman (d. 2009) ·
1946
– Tõnu Sepp, Estonian
instrument maker and educator ·
1946
– Donald Trump,
American businessman, television personality and 45th President
of the United States ·
1947 – Roger Liddle,
Baron Liddle, English politician ·
1947
– Barry Melton,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1947
– Paul Rudolph,
Canadian singer, guitarist, and cyclist ·
1948 – Laurence Yep, American author and playwright ·
1949 – Jim Lea,
English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ·
1949
– Roger Powell,
English-Australian scientist and academic ·
1949
– Antony Sher, South African-British actor,
director, and screenwriter ·
1949
– Harry Turtledove,
American historian and author ·
1949
– Alan White,
English drummer and songwriter ·
1950 – Rowan Williams, Welsh archbishop and
theologian[9] ·
1951 – Paul Boateng, English lawyer and
politician, British High Commissioner to South Africa ·
1951
– Danny Edwards,
American golfer ·
1952 – Robert Lepikson, Estonian racing driver and
politician, Estonian
Minister of the Interior (d. 2006) ·
1952
– Pat Summitt, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2016) ·
1952
– Leon Wieseltier,
American philosopher, journalist, and critic ·
1953 – Janet Mackey, New Zealand lawyer and
politician ·
1954 – Will Patton, American actor ·
1955 – Michael D. Duvall,
American businessman and politician ·
1955
– Paul O'Grady,
English television host, producer, and drag performer[10] ·
1955
– Kirron Kher, Indian theatre, film &
television actress, TV talk show host, politician and Member of Parliament ·
1956 – Fred Funk, American golfer and coach ·
1956
– King Diamond (Kim
Bendix Petersen), heavy metal musician ·
1957 – Suzanne Nora Johnson,
American lawyer and businesswoman ·
1957
– Mona Simpson,
American novelist ·
1958 – Pamela Geller, American activist and blogger ·
1959 – Marcus Miller, American bass player,
composer, and producer ·
1960 – Tonie Campbell, American hurdler ·
1960
– Mike Laga, American baseball player ·
1961 – Boy George, English singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1961
– Dušan Kojić,
Serbian singer-songwriter and bass player ·
1961
– Sam Perkins, American basketball player ·
1963 – Grant Kenny, Australian iron man and
canoeist ·
1964 – Peter Gilliver, English lexicographer and
academic ·
1967 – Dedrick Dodge, American football player and
coach ·
1968 – Campbell
Brown, American journalist ·
1968
– Faizon Love, Cuban-American actor and
screenwriter ·
1969 – Éric Desjardins,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1969
– Steffi Graf, German tennis player ·
1970 – Heather McDonald, American comedian,
actress, and author ·
1971 – Bruce Bowen, American basketball player and
sportscaster ·
1971
– Ramon Vega, Swiss footballer ·
1972 – Rick Brunson, American basketball player and
coach ·
1972
– Matthias Ettrich,
German computer scientist and engineer, founded KDE ·
1972
– Dominic Brown,
English guitarist and songwriter ·
1972
– Claude Henderson,
South African cricketer ·
1972
– Danny McFarlane,
Jamaican hurdler and sprinter ·
1973 – Sami Kapanen, Finnish-American ice hockey
player and manager ·
1976 – Alan Carr, English comedian, actor, and
screenwriter ·
1976
– Massimo Oddo,
Italian footballer and manager ·
1977 – Boeta Dippenaar, South African cricketer ·
1977
– Chris McAlister,
American football player ·
1977
– Joe Worsley, English rugby player and coach ·
1978 – Steve Bégin, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1978
– Diablo Cody, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1978
– Annia Hatch, Cuban-American gymnast and
coach ·
1978
– Nikola
Vujčić, Croatian former professional basketball player ·
1979 – Shannon Hegarty, Australian rugby league
player ·
1981 – Elano, Brazilian footballer and manager ·
1982 – Jamie Green, English racing driver ·
1982
– Nicole Irving,
Australian swimmer ·
1982
– Lang Lang, Chinese pianist[11] ·
1983 – Trevor Barry, Bahamian high jumper ·
1983
– Louis Garrel,
French actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1984 – Lorenzo Booker, American football player ·
1984
– Mark Cosgrove,
Australian cricketer ·
1984
– Siobhán Donaghy,
English singer-songwriter ·
1984
– Yury Prilukov,
Russian swimmer ·
1985 – Oleg Medvedev. Russian luger ·
1985
– Andy Soucek, Spanish racing driver ·
1986 – Matt Read, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1987 – Andrew Cogliano, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1987
– Mohamed Diamé,
Senegalese footballer ·
1988 – Adrián Aldrete,
Mexican footballer ·
1988
– Kevin McHale,
American actor, singer, dancer and radio personality[12] ·
1989 – Lucy Hale, American actress and
singer-songwriter ·
1989
– Brad Takairangi,
Australian-Cook Islands rugby league player ·
1990 – Patrice Cormier, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1991 – Kostas Manolas, Greek footballer ·
1991
– Jesy Nelson, English singer[13] ·
1992 – Devante Smith-Pelly,
Canadian ice hockey player[14] ·
1993 – Gunna, American rapper[15] ·
1997 – David Bangala, French football defender[16] ·
1999 – Tzuyu, Taiwanese singer[17] Deaths[edit] ·
809 – Ōtomo no
Otomaro, Japanese general (b. 731) ·
847 – Methodius I,
patriarch of Constantinople ·
957 – Guadamir, bishop of Vic (Spain) ·
976 – Aron, Bulgarian nobleman ·
1161 – Emperor Qinzong of the Song dynasty (b.
1100) ·
1205 – Walter III,
Count of Brienne ·
1349 – Günther von
Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304) ·
1381 – Simon Sudbury, English archbishop (b. 1316) ·
1497 – Giovanni
Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía, Italian son of Pope Alexander VI (b.
1474) ·
1516 – John III of Navarre (b.
1469) ·
1544 – Antoine, Duke
of Lorraine (b. 1489) ·
1548 – Carpentras,
French composer (b. 1470) ·
1583 – Shibata Katsuie, Japanese samurai (b. 1522) ·
1594 – Jacob Kroger, German goldsmith, hanged in
Edinburgh for stealing the jewels of Anne of Denmark.[18] ·
1594
– Orlande de Lassus,
Flemish composer and educator (b. 1532) ·
1662 – Henry Vane the
Younger, English-American politician, Governor
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1613) ·
1674 – Marin le Roy
de Gomberville, French author and poet (b. 1600) ·
1679 – Guillaume Courtois,
French painter and illustrator (b. 1628)[19] ·
1746 – Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b.
1698) ·
1794 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford,
English courtier and politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1718) ·
1800 – Louis Desaix, French general (b. 1768) ·
1800
– Jean-Baptiste Kléber,
French general (b. 1753)[20] ·
1801 – Benedict Arnold, American general during
the American Revolution later
turned British spy (b. 1741) ·
1825 – Pierre Charles
L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (b. 1754) ·
1837 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and
philosopher (b. 1798) ·
1864 – Leonidas Polk, American general and bishop
(b. 1806) ·
1887 – Mary Carpenter, English educational
and social reformer (b.
1807) ·
1883 – Edward
FitzGerald, English poet and author (b. 1809) ·
1886 – Alexander Ostrovsky,
Russian director and playwright (b. 1823) ·
1907 – William Le Baron
Jenney, American architect and engineer, designed the Home Insurance
Building (b. 1832) ·
1907
– Bartolomé Masó,
Cuban soldier and politician (b. 1830) ·
1908 – Frederick
Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, English captain and politician,
6th Governor
General of Canada (b. 1841) ·
1914 – Adlai Stevenson I,
American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice
President of the United States (b. 1835) ·
1916 – João Simões Lopes
Neto, Brazilian author (b. 1865) ·
1920 – Max Weber, German sociologist and economist
(b. 1864) ·
1923 – Isabelle Bogelot, French philanthropist (b.
1838) ·
1926 – Mary Cassatt, American-French painter (b.
1843) ·
1927 – Ottavio Bottecchia,
Italian cyclist (b. 1894) ·
1927
– Jerome K. Jerome,
English author (b. 1859) ·
1928 – Emmeline Pankhurst,
English activist and academic (b. 1857) ·
1932 – Dorimène Roy
Desjardins, Canadian businesswoman, co-founded Desjardins Group (b. 1858) ·
1933 – Justinien de Clary,
French target shooter (b. 1860) ·
1936 – G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet,
playwright, and novelist (b. 1874) ·
1936
– Hans Poelzig,
German architect, painter, and designer, designed the IG Farben Building (b.
1869) ·
1946 – John Logie Baird, Scottish-English physicist
and engineer (b. 1888) ·
1946
– Jorge Ubico, 21st President of
Guatemala (b. 1878) ·
1953 – Tom Cole,
Welsh-American racing driver (b. 1922) ·
1968 – Salvatore Quasimodo,
Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize Laureate
(b. 1901) ·
1972 – Dündar Taşer,
Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1925) ·
1977 – Robert Middleton, American actor (b. 1911) ·
1977
– Alan Reed, American actor, original voice
of Fred Flintstone (b.1907) ·
1979 – Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer-songwriter (b.
1946) ·
1980 – Charles Miller,
American saxophonist and flute player (b. 1939) ·
1986 – Jorge Luis Borges,
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (b. 1899) ·
1986
– Alan Jay Lerner,
American composer and songwriter (b. 1918) ·
1987 – Stanisław
Bareja, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929) ·
1990 – Erna Berger, German soprano and actress (b.
1900) ·
1991 – Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (b. 1907) ·
1994 – Lionel Grigson, English pianist, composer,
and educator (b. 1942) ·
1994
– Henry Mancini,
American composer and conductor (b. 1924) ·
1994
– Marcel Mouloudji,
French singer and actor (b. 1922) ·
1995 – Els Aarne, Ukrainian-Estonian pianist,
composer, and educator (b. 1917) ·
1995
– Rory Gallagher,
Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1949) ·
1995
– Roger Zelazny,
American author and poet (b. 1937) ·
1996 – Noemí Gerstein,
Argentinian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1908) ·
1997 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926) ·
1999 – Bernie Faloney, American-Canadian football
player and sportscaster (b. 1932) ·
2000 – Attilio Bertolucci,
Italian poet and author (b. 1911) ·
2002 – June Jordan, American author and activist
(b. 1936) ·
2003 – Dale Whittington, American race car driver
(b. 1959) ·
2004 – Ulrich Inderbinen,
Swiss mountaineer and guide (b. 1900) ·
2005 – Carlo Maria Giulini,
Italian conductor and director (b. 1914) ·
2005
– Mimi Parent, Canadian-Swiss painter (b.
1924) ·
2006 – Monty Berman, English director, producer,
and cinematographer (b. 1905) ·
2006
– Jean Roba, Belgian author and illustrator
(b. 1930) ·
2007 – Ruth Graham, Chinese-American author, poet,
and painter (b. 1920) ·
2007
– Robin Olds, American general and pilot (b.
1922) ·
2007
– Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General
of the United Nations, Austrian politician, 9th President of Austria (b.
1918)[21] ·
2009 – Bob Bogle, American musician (The Ventures) (b. 1934) ·
2009
– William McIntyre,
Canadian soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1918) ·
2012 – Peter
Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, English lawyer and
politician, Solicitor
General for England and Wales (b. 1926) ·
2012
– Bob Chappuis,
American football player and soldier (b. 1923) ·
2012
– Margie Hyams,
American pianist and vibraphone player (b. 1920) ·
2012
– Karl-Heinz
Kämmerling, German pianist and academic (b. 1930) ·
2012
– Carlos Reichenbach,
Brazilian director and producer (b. 1945) ·
2012
– Gitta Sereny,
Austrian-English historian, journalist, and author (b. 1921) ·
2013 – Elroy Schwartz, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1923) ·
2014 – Alberto Cañas
Escalante, Costa Rican journalist and politician (b. 1920) ·
2014
– Isabelle Collin
Dufresne, French actress (b. 1935)[22] ·
2014
– Robert Lebeck,
German photographer and journalist (b. 1929) ·
2014
– James E.
Rogers, American lawyer, businessman, and academic (b. 1938) ·
2015 – Richard
Cotton, Australian geneticist and academic (b. 1940) ·
2015
– Anne Nicol Gaylor,
American activist, co-founded the Freedom
From Religion Foundation (b. 1926) ·
2015
– Qiao Shi, Chinese politician (b. 1924) ·
2016 – Ann Morgan Guilbert,
American actress and singer (b. 1928) ·
2016
– Gilles Lamontagne,
Canadian politician, Lieutenant
Governor of Quebec (b. 1919)[23] ·
2020 – Sushant Singh Rajput,
Indian film actor (b. 1986)[24] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Elisha (Roman Catholic and Lutheran) o Fortunatus of Naples (Roman
Catholic) o Blessed Francisca de Paula de Jesus (Nhá Chica) o Joseph the
Hymnographer (Roman Catholic: Orthodox April 3) o Methodios I
of Constantinople o Richard Baxter (Church
of England) o June
14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Commemoration
of the Soviet Deportation related
observances: o Baltic Freedom Day (United States) o Mourning
and Commemoration Day or Leinapäev (Estonia) o Mourning and Hope
Day (Lithuania) ·
Day of
Memory for Repressed People (Armenia) ·
Liberation
Day (Falkland Islands and South
Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) |
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