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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 17 is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
197 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to
Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism.[1] ·
1242 –
Following the Disputation of Paris,
twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were burnt
in Paris.[2] ·
1397 –
The Kalmar Union is
formed under the rule of Margaret I of
Denmark. ·
1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts
to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night
Attack at Târgovişte), forcing him to retreat from Wallachia. ·
1497 – Battle of
Deptford Bridge: Forces under King Henry VII defeat
troops led by Michael An Gof. ·
1565 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates
the 13th Ashikaga shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru. ·
1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he
calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England. ·
1596 –
The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic
archipelago of Spitsbergen. ·
1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth.
Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17
years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal. ·
1665 – Battle of Montes
Claros: Portugal definitively secured independence from Spain in
the last battle of the Portuguese
Restoration War.[3] ·
1673 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and
become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course. ·
1767 – Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain,
sights Tahiti and is considered the first
European to reach the island. ·
1773 – Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de
Cuéllar. ·
1775 – American
Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British
forces while losing the Battle of Bunker
Hill.[4] ·
1789 –
In France, the Third Estate declares
itself the National
Assembly. ·
1794 –
Foundation of Anglo-Corsican
Kingdom. ·
1795 –
The burghers of Swellendam expel
the Dutch East India
Company magistrate and declare a republic. ·
1839 –
In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which
gives Roman Catholics the
freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii
Catholic Church and the Cathedral
of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result. ·
1843 –
The Wairau Affray,
the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in
the New Zealand Wars,
takes place. ·
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of
Vienna, Virginia. ·
1863 –
American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign. ·
1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the
Rosebud: 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek
in Montana Territory.[5] ·
1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of
White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at
White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory. ·
1885 –
The Statue of Liberty arrives
in New York Harbor. ·
1898 –
The United States Navy
Hospital Corps is established. ·
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and
Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China. ·
1901 –
The College Board introduces
its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT. ·
1910 – Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight. ·
1922 – Portuguese
naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first
aerial crossing of the South Atlantic. ·
1929 –
The town of Murchison, New
Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude
earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst
natural disaster. ·
1930 –
U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs
the Smoot–Hawley
Tariff Act into law. ·
1932 – Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I
veterans amass at the United States
Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers
a bill that would give them certain benefits. ·
1933 – Union Station
massacre: In Kansas City,
Missouri, four FBI agents
and captured fugitive Frank Nash are
gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash. ·
1939 –
Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is
executed in Versailles outside
the Saint-Pierre prison. ·
1940 – World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked
and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are
killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster. ·
1940
– World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces. ·
1940
– The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union. ·
1944 – Iceland declares independence from
Denmark and becomes a republic.[6] ·
1948 – United
Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel,
Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board. ·
1952 –
Guatemala passes Decree 900,
ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land. [7] ·
1953 – Cold War: East
Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a
division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion. ·
1958 –
The Ironworkers
Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to
connect Vancouver and North
Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers
and injuring others.[8] ·
1960 –
The Nez Perce tribe
is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty. ·
1963 –
The United States
Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington
School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting
of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public
schools. ·
1963
– A day after South Vietnamese
President Ngô Đình Diệm announced
the Joint Communiqué to
end the Buddhist crisis,
a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed. ·
1967 – Nuclear weapons
testing: China announces
a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon. ·
1972 – Watergate scandal:
Five White House operatives
are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic
National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration
of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the
political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert
the democratic process.[9] ·
1985 – Space Shuttle
program: STS-51-G mission: Space
Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan
bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim
in space, as a payload specialist. ·
1987 –
With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside
sparrow becomes extinct. ·
1991 – Apartheid: The South African
Parliament repeals the Population
Registration Act which required racial classification of all
South Africans at birth. ·
1992 –
A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by
U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later
codified in START II). ·
1994 –
Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of
his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson,
and her friend Ronald Goldman. ·
2015 –
Nine people are killed in a mass
shooting at Emanuel
African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston,
South Carolina. ·
2017 –
A series of
wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and
injure 204 others. Births[edit] ·
801 – Drogo of Metz, Frankish bishop (d. 855) ·
1239 – Edward I,
English king (d. 1307) ·
1530 – François de
Montmorency, French nobleman (d. 1579) ·
1571 – Thomas Mun, English writer on economics (d.
1641) ·
1603 – Joseph of Cupertino,
Italian mystic and saint (d. 1663) ·
1604 – John
Maurice, Dutch nobleman (d. 1679) ·
1610 – Birgitte Thott, Danish scholar, writer and
translator (b. 1662)[10] ·
1631 – Gauharara Begum, Mughal princess (d. 1706) ·
1682 – Charles XII,
Swedish king (d. 1718) ·
1691 – Giovanni Paolo
Panini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765) ·
1693 – Johann Georg Walch,
German theologian and author (d. 1775) ·
1704 – John Kay,
English engineer, invented the Flying shuttle (d. 1780) ·
1714 – César-François
Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer (d. 1784) ·
1718 – George
Howard, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Minorca (d.
1796) ·
1778 – Gregory Blaxland, English-Australian
explorer (d. 1853) ·
1800 – William
Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, English-Irish astronomer and
politician (d. 1867) ·
1808 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian poet,
playwright, and linguist (d. 1845) ·
1810 – Ferdinand
Freiligrath, German poet and translator (d. 1876) ·
1811 – Jón Sigurðsson,
Icelandic scholar and politician (d. 1879) ·
1818 – Charles Gounod, French composer and academic
(d. 1893) ·
1818
– Sophie of
Württemberg, queen of the Netherlands (d. 1877) ·
1821 – E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and
journalist (d. 1888) ·
1832 – William Crookes, English chemist and
physicist (d. 1919) ·
1833 – Manuel González
Flores, Mexican general and president (d. 1893)[11] ·
1858 – Eben Sumner Draper,
American businessman and politician, 44th Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1914) ·
1861 – Pete Browning, American baseball player (d.
1905) ·
1861
– Omar Bundy, American general (d. 1940) ·
1863 – Charles
Michael, duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1934) ·
1865 – Susan La Flesche
Picotte, Native American physician (d. 1915) ·
1867 – Flora Finch, English-American actress (d.
1940) ·
1867
– John Robert Gregg,
Irish-born American educator, publisher, and humanitarian (d. 1948) ·
1867
– Henry Lawson,
Australian poet and author (d. 1922) ·
1871 – James Weldon Johnson,
American author, journalist, and activist (d. 1938) ·
1876 – William Carr,
American rower (d. 1942) ·
1876
– Edward Anthony
Spitzka, American anatomist and author (d. 1922) ·
1880 – Carl Van Vechten, American author and
photographer (d. 1964) ·
1881 – Tommy Burns,
Canadian boxer and promoter (d. 1955) ·
1882 – Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918) ·
1882
– Igor Stravinsky,
Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1971) ·
1888 – Heinz Guderian, German general (d. 1954) ·
1897 – Maria Izilda de Castro Ribeiro, Brazilian
girl, popular saint (d.
1911) ·
1898 – M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator (d. 1972) ·
1898
– Carl Hermann,
German physicist and academic (d. 1961) ·
1898
– Harry Patch, English soldier and firefighter
(d. 2009) ·
1900 – Martin Bormann, German politician (d. 1945) ·
1900
– Evelyn Irons,
Scottish journalist and war correspondent (d. 2000) [12] ·
1902 – Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer
(d. 1989) ·
1902
– Alec Hurwood,
Australian cricketer (d. 1982) ·
1903 – Ruth Graves
Wakefield, American chef, created the chocolate chip
cookie (d. 1977) ·
1904 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (d. 1991) ·
1904
– J. Vernon McGee,
American pastor and theologian (d. 1988) ·
1904
– Patrice
Tardif, Canadian farmer and politician (d. 1989) ·
1907 – Maurice Cloche, French director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 1990) ·
1909 – Elmer L. Andersen,
American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of
Minnesota (d. 2004) ·
1909
– Ralph E. Winters,
Canadian-American film editor (d. 2004) ·
1910 – Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1968) ·
1910
– George Hees, Canadian football player and
politician (d. 1996) ·
1914 – John Hersey, American journalist and author
(d. 1993) ·
1915 – David
"Stringbean" Akeman, American singer and banjo player
(d. 1973) ·
1915
– Marcel Cadieux,
Canadian civil servant and diplomat, Canadian
Ambassador to the United States (d. 1981) ·
1916 – Terry Gilkyson, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 1999) ·
1917 – Dufferin Roblin, Canadian politician,
14th Premier of Manitoba (d.
2010) ·
1918 – Ajahn Chah, Thai monk and educator (d. 1992) ·
1919 – William Kaye Estes,
American psychologist and academic (d. 2011) ·
1919
– John
Moffat, Scottish lieutenant and pilot (d. 2016) ·
1919
– Beryl Reid, English actress (d. 1996) ·
1920 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American lawyer and
politician (d. 1981) ·
1920
– Setsuko Hara,
Japanese actress (d. 2015) ·
1920
– François Jacob,
French biologist and geneticist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2013) ·
1920
– Peter Le Cheminant,
English air marshal and politician, Lieutenant
Governor of Guernsey (d. 2018) ·
1922 – John Amis, English journalist and critic (d.
2013) ·
1923 – Elroy Hirsch, American football player (d.
2004) ·
1923
– Arnold S. Relman,
American physician and academic (d. 2014) ·
1923
– Dale C. Thomson,
Canadian historian and academic (d. 1999) ·
1925 – Alexander Shulgin,
American pharmacologist and chemist (d. 2014) ·
1927 – Martin Böttcher,
German composer and conductor (d. 2019) ·
1927
– Wally Wood, American author, illustrator,
and publisher (d. 1981) ·
1928 – Juan María
Bordaberry, President of Uruguay (d. 2011) ·
1929 – Bud Collins, American journalist and
sportscaster (d. 2016) ·
1929
– Tigran Petrosian,
Armenian chess player (d. 1984) ·
1930 – Cliff Gallup, American rock & roll
guitarist (d. 1988) ·
1930
– Brian Statham,
English cricketer (d. 2000) ·
1931 – John Baldessari, American painter and
illustrator (d. 2020) ·
1932 – Derek Ibbotson, English runner (d. 2017) ·
1932
– John Murtha, American colonel and politician
(d. 2010) ·
1933 – Harry Browne, American soldier and
politician (d. 2006) ·
1933
– Christian Ferras,
French violinist (d. 1982) ·
1933
– Maurice Stokes,
American basketball player (d. 1970)[13] ·
1936 – Vern Harper, Canadian tribal leader and
activist (d. 2018) ·
1936
– Ken Loach, English director, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1937 – Peter
Fitzgerald, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2013) ·
1937
– Ted Nelson, American sociologist and
philosopher ·
1937
– Clodovil Hernandes,
Brazilian fashion designer, television presenter and politician (d. 2009) ·
1940 – George Akerlof, American economist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1940
– Bobby Bell, American football player ·
1940
– Chuck Rainey,
American bassist ·
1941 – Nicholas C. Handy,
English chemist and academic (d. 2012) ·
1942 – Mohamed ElBaradei,
Egyptian politician, Vice President of
Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1942
– Doğu Perinçek,
Turkish lawyer and politician ·
1942
– Roger Steffens,
American actor and producer ·
1943 – Newt Gingrich, American historian and
politician, 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ·
1943
– Barry Manilow,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1943
– Chantal Mouffe,
Belgian theorist and author ·
1943
– Burt Rutan, American engineer and pilot ·
1944 – Randy Johnson,
American football player (d. 2009) ·
1944
– Chris Spedding,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1945 – Tommy Franks, American general ·
1945
– Ken Livingstone,
English politician, 1st Mayor of London ·
1945
– Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist and
sportscaster ·
1945
– Art Bell, American broadcaster and author
(d. 2018) ·
1946 – Peter Rosei, Austrian author, poet, and
playwright ·
1947 – Christopher Allport,
American actor (d. 2008) ·
1947
– Timothy Wright,
American gospel singer, pastor (d. 2009) ·
1947
– Linda Chavez,
American journalist and author ·
1947
– George S. Clinton,
American composer and songwriter ·
1947
– Gregg Rolie, American rock singer-songwriter
and keyboard player ·
1947
– Paul Young,
English singer-songwriter (d. 2000) ·
1948 – Dave Concepción,
Venezuelan baseball player and manager ·
1948
– Jacqueline Jones,
American historian and academic ·
1948
– Aurelio López,
Mexican baseball player and politician (d. 1992) ·
1948
– Karol Sikora,
English physician and academic ·
1949 – Snakefinger, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1987) ·
1949
– John Craven,
English economist and academic ·
1949
– Russell Smith,
American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019) ·
1950 – Lee Tamahori, New Zealand film director ·
1951 – Starhawk, American author and activist ·
1951
– John Garrett,
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster ·
1951
– Joe Piscopo, American actor, comedian, and
screenwriter ·
1952 – Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player,
coach, and manager ·
1952
– Estelle
Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, English educator and
politician, Secretary
of State for Education ·
1953 – Vernon Coaker, English educator and
politician, Shadow
Secretary of State for Defence ·
1953
– Juan Muñoz, Spanish
sculptor and storyteller (d. 2001) ·
1954 – Mark Linn-Baker, American actor and director ·
1955 – Mati Laur, Estonian historian, author, and
academic ·
1955
– Bob Sauvé, Canadian
ice hockey player and coach ·
1955
– Cem Hakko, Turkish fashion designer and
businessman ·
1956 – Iain Milne, Scottish rugby player ·
1957 – Philip Chevron, Irish singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2013) ·
1957
– Martin Dillon,
American tenor and educator (d. 2005) ·
1957
– Uģis
Prauliņš, Latvian composer ·
1958 – Pierre Berbizier, French rugby player and
coach ·
1958
– Jello Biafra,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1958
– Bobby Farrelly,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1958
– Sam Hamad, Syrian-Canadian academic and
politician ·
1958
– Jon Leibowitz,
American lawyer and politician ·
1958
– Daniel McVicar,
American actor ·
1959 – Carol Anderson, American author and
historian ·
1959
– Lawrence Haddad,
South African-English economist and academic ·
1959
– Nikos Stavropoulos,
Greek basketball player and coach ·
1960 – Adrián Campos, Spanish race car driver ·
1960
– Thomas Haden Church,
American actor ·
1961 – Kōichi Yamadera,
Japanese actor and singer ·
1962 – Michael Monroe, Finnish singer-songwriter
and saxophonist ·
1963 – Greg Kinnear, American actor, television
presenter, and producer ·
1964 – Rinaldo Capello, Italian race car driver ·
1964
– Michael Gross,
German swimmer ·
1964
– Steve Rhodes,
English cricketer and coach ·
1965 – Dermontti Dawson, American football player
and coach ·
1965
– Dan Jansen, American speed skater and
sportscaster ·
1965
– Dara O'Kearney,
Irish runner and poker player ·
1966 – Mohammed Ghazy
Al-Akhras, Iraqi journalist and author ·
1966
– Tory Burch, American fashion designer and
philanthropist ·
1966
– Ken Clark,
American football player (d. 2013) ·
1966
– Diane Modahl,
English runner ·
1966
– Jason Patric,
American actor ·
1967 – Dorothea Röschmann,
German soprano and actress ·
1967
– Eric Stefani,
American keyboard player and composer ·
1968 – Steve Georgallis, Australian rugby league
player and coach ·
1968
– Minoru Suzuki,
Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist ·
1969 – Paul Tergat, Kenyan runner ·
1969
– Geoff Toovey,
Australian rugby league player and coach ·
1969
– Ilya Tsymbalar,
Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager (d. 2013) ·
1970 – Stéphane Fiset,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1970
– Will Forte, American actor, comedian, and
screenwriter ·
1970
– Jason Hanson,
American football player ·
1970
– Popeye Jones,
American basketball player and coach ·
1970
– Michael Showalter,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1970
– Alan Dowson, English football manager and
former professional player ·
1971 – Paulina Rubio, Mexican pop singer ·
1971
– Mildred Fox, Irish politician ·
1973 – Leander Paes, Indian tennis player ·
1974 – Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer ·
1975 – Joshua Leonard, American actor, director,
and screenwriter ·
1975
– Juan Carlos Valerón,
Spanish footballer ·
1975
– Phiyada Akkraseranee,
Thai actress and model ·
1976 – Scott Adkins, English actor and martial
artist ·
1976
– Sven Nys, Belgian cyclist ·
1977 – Tjaša Jezernik,
Slovenian tennis player ·
1977
– Mark Tauscher,
American football player and sportscaster ·
1978 – Isabelle Delobel, French ice dancer ·
1978
– Travis Roche,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1979 – Nick Rimando, American soccer player ·
1979
– Tyson Apostol,
American television personality ·
1979
– Young Maylay,
American rapper, producer, and voice actor ·
1980 – Elisa Rigaudo, Italian race walker ·
1980
– Jeph Jacques,
American author and illustrator ·
1980
– Venus Williams,
American tennis player[14] ·
1981 – Kyle Boller, American football player ·
1981
– Shane Watson,
Australian cricketer ·
1982 – Alex Rodrigo
Dias da Costa, Brazilian footballer ·
1982
– Marek Svatoš,
Slovak ice hockey player (d. 2016) ·
1982
– Stanislava Hrozenská,
Slovak tennis player ·
1982
– Stefan Hodgetts,
English racing driver ·
1982
– Arthur Darvill,
English actor ·
1982
– Jodie Whittaker,
English actress ·
1983 – Lee Ryan, English singer/actor ·
1983
– Vlasis Kazakis,
Greek footballer ·
1984 – Michael Mathieu, Bahamian sprinter ·
1984
– Si Tianfeng, Chinese race walker ·
1985 – Özge Akın, Turkish sprinter ·
1985
– Marcos Baghdatis,
Cypriot tennis player ·
1985
– Rafael Sóbis,
Brazilian footballer ·
1986 – Apoula Edel, Armenian footballer ·
1986
– Helen Glover,
English rower ·
1987 – Kendrick Lamar, American rapper ·
1987
– Nozomi Tsuji,
Japanese singer and actress ·
1988 – Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player ·
1988
– Shaun MacDonald,
Welsh footballer ·
1988
– Stephanie Rice,
Australian swimmer ·
1989 – Georgios Tofas, Cypriot footballer ·
1989
– Simone Battle,
American singer and actress (d. 2014) ·
1990 – Jordan Henderson, English footballer[15] ·
1990
– Josh Mansour,
Australian rugby league player[16] ·
1991 – Daniel Tupou, Australian-Tongan rugby league
player[17] ·
1994 – Amari Cooper, American football player[18] ·
1995 – Clément Lenglet,
French footballer[19] Deaths[edit] ·
656 – Uthman, caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate (b.
579) ·
676 – Adeodatus,
pope of the Catholic Church ·
811 – Sakanoue no
Tamuramaro, Japanese shōgun (b. 758) ·
850 – Tachibana no Kachiko,
Japanese empress (b. 786) ·
900 – Fulk,
French archbishop and chancellor ·
1025 – Bolesław I
the Brave, Polish king (b. 967) ·
1091 – Dirk V,
count of Holland (b. 1052) ·
1207 – Daoji, Chinese buddhist monk (b. 1130) ·
1219 – David of
Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon ·
1361 – Ingeborg of Norway,
princess consort and regent of Sweden (b. 1301) ·
1400 – Jan of Jenštejn,
archbishop of Prague (b. 1348) ·
1463 – Catherine of
Portugal, Portuguese princess (b. 1436) ·
1501 – John I Albert, Polish king (b. 1459) ·
1565 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru,
Japanese shōgun (b. 1536) ·
1631 – Mumtaz Mahal, Mughal princess (b. 1593) ·
1649 – Injo of Joseon, Korean king (b. 1595) ·
1674 – Jijabai, Dowager Queen, mother of Shivaji
(b. 1598)[20] ·
1694 – Philip Howard,
English cardinal (b. 1629) ·
1696 – John III Sobieski,
Polish king (b. 1629) ·
1719 – Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet,
playwright, and politician (b. 1672) ·
1734 – Claude
Louis Hector de Villars, French general and politician, French
Secretary of State for War (b. 1653) ·
1740 – Sir
William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, English politician, Chancellor of
the Exchequer (b. 1687) ·
1762 – Prosper
Jolyot de Crébillon, French poet and playwright (b. 1674) ·
1771 – Daskalogiannis, Greek rebel leader (b. 1722) ·
1775 – John Pitcairn, Scottish-English soldier (b.
1722) ·
1797 – Mohammad Khan Qajar,
Persian tribal chief (b. 1742) ·
1813 – Charles
Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician
(b. 1726) ·
1821 – Martín Miguel de
Güemes, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1785) ·
1839 – Lord William
Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General
of India (b. 1774) ·
1866 – Joseph Méry, French poet and author (b.
1798) ·
1889 – Lozen, Chiracaua Apache warrior woman (b.
~1840)[21] ·
1898 – Edward Burne-Jones,
English soldier and painter (b. 1833) ·
1904 – Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian soldier and
politician, Governor-General
of Finland (b. 1839) ·
1936 – Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist,
politician, and diplomat, Estonian
Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883) ·
1939 – Allen Sothoron, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (b. 1893) ·
1939
– Eugen Weidmann,
German criminal (b. 1908) ·
1940 – Arthur Harden, English biochemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1865) ·
1941 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer
(b. 1862) ·
1942 – Charles Fitzpatrick,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Chief Justice of
Canada (b. 1853) ·
1952 – Jack
Parsons, American chemist and engineer (b. 1914) ·
1954 – Danny Cedrone, American guitarist and
bandleader (b. 1920) ·
1956 – Percival
Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (b. 1878) ·
1956
– Paul Rostock,
German surgeon and academic (b. 1892) ·
1956
– Bob Sweikert,
American race car driver (b. 1926) ·
1957 – Dorothy Richardson,
English journalist and author (b. 1873) ·
1957
– J. R. Williams,
Canadian-American cartoonist (b. 1888) ·
1961 – Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918) ·
1963 – Aleksander Kesküla,
Estonian politician (b. 1882) ·
1968 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and
manager (b. 1901) ·
1974 – Refik Koraltan, Turkish lawyer and
politician, 8th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b.
1889) ·
1975 – James Phinney
Baxter III, American historian and academic (b. 1893) ·
1979 – Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and
politician (b. 1898) ·
1979
– Duffy Lewis, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1888) ·
1981 – Richard O'Connor,
Indian-English general (b. 1889) ·
1981
– Zerna Sharp, American author and educator
(b. 1889) ·
1982 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920) ·
1983 – Peter Mennin, American composer and educator
(b. 1923) ·
1985 – John Boulting, English director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1913) ·
1986 – Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907) ·
1987 – Dick Howser, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (b. 1936) ·
1996 – Thomas Kuhn, American historian and
philosopher (b. 1922) ·
1996
– Curt Swan, American illustrator (b. 1920) ·
1999 – Basil Hume, English cardinal (b. 1923) ·
2000 – Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and
jurist, 17th Chief
Justice of South Africa (b. 1931) ·
2001 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1919) ·
2001
– Thomas Winning,
Scottish cardinal (b. 1925) ·
2002 – Willie Davenport, American sprinter and
hurdler (b. 1943) ·
2002
– Fritz Walter,
German footballer (b. 1920) ·
2004 – Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (b.
1926) ·
2006 – Bussunda, Brazilian comedian (b. 1962) ·
2007 – Gianfranco Ferré,
Italian fashion designer (b. 1944) ·
2007
– Serena Wilson,
American dancer and choreographer (b. 1933) ·
2008 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer
(b. 1922) ·
2009 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-English sociologist
and politician (b. 1929) ·
2009
– Darrell Powers,
American sergeant (b. 1923) ·
2011 – Rex Mossop, Australian rugby player and
sportscaster (b. 1928) ·
2012 – Stéphane Brosse,
French mountaineer (b. 1971) ·
2012
– Patricia Brown,
American baseball player (b. 1931) ·
2012
– Nathan Divinsky,
Canadian mathematician and chess player (b. 1925) ·
2012
– Rodney King, American victim of police brutality (b. 1965) ·
2012
– Fauzia Wahab,
Pakistani actress and politician (b. 1956) ·
2013 – Michael Baigent, New Zealand-English
theorist and author (b. 1948) ·
2013
– Atiqul Haque
Chowdhury, Bangladeshi playwright and producer (b. 1930) ·
2013
– Pierre F. Côté,
Canadian lawyer and civil servant (b. 1927) ·
2013
– Bulbs Ehlers,
American basketball player (b. 1923) ·
2013
– James Holshouser,
American politician, 68th Governor of
North Carolina (b. 1934) ·
2014 – Patsy Byrne, English actress (b. 1933) ·
2014
– Éric Dewailly,
Canadian epidemiologist and academic (b. 1954) ·
2014
– Stanley Marsh 3,
American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1938) ·
2014
– Arnold S. Relman,
American physician and academic (b. 1923) ·
2014
– Larry Zeidel,
Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1928) ·
2015 – Ron Clarke, Australian runner and
politician, Mayor of the Gold
Coast (b. 1937) ·
2015
– John David Crow,
American football player and coach (b. 1935) ·
2015
– Süleyman Demirel,
Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (b.
1924) ·
2015
– Roberto M.
Levingston, Argentinian general and politician, 36th President of
Argentina (b. 1920) ·
2015
– Clementa C. Pinckney,
American minister and politician (b. 1973) ·
2017 – Baldwin Lonsdale, president of Vanuatu (b.
1948) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Botolph (England and Scandinavia) o Hervé o Hypatius of Bithynia (Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches) o Samuel and Henrietta Barnett (Church
of England) o June
17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Father's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala) ·
Icelandic National
Day, celebrates the independence of Iceland from Kingdom of Denmark in
1944. ·
Occupation
of the Latvian Republic Day (Latvia) ·
Remembrance
to East German
uprising of 1953, public holiday in West Germany between 1954 and
1990 (today German Unity Day)
is the public holiday day) ·
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (International) ·
Zemla Intifada Day (Sahrawi
Arab Democratic Republic) |
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