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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 2 is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
212 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
455 Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the
city for two weeks.[1] ·
1098 First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader
forces take the city; the second siege began five days later.[2] ·
1615
The first Rιcollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France. ·
1676 Franco-Dutch War: France ensured
the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its
victory in the Battle of Palermo. ·
1692 Bridget Bishop is the first person to
be tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts;
she was found guilty and later hanged. ·
1763 Pontiac's Rebellion:
At what is now Mackinaw City,
Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by
diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort. ·
1774 Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a
governor in colonial America to
house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other
buildings if suitable quarters are not provided. ·
1793 French Revolution: Franηois Hanriot,
leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for
the Reign of Terror. ·
1805 Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond
Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading
to Fort-de-France,
from the British. ·
1835 P. T. Barnum and his circus start their
first tour of the United States. ·
1848
The Slavic
congress in Prague begins. ·
1866
The Fenians defeat
Canadian forces at Ridgeway and Fort Erie,
but the raids end soon after. ·
1896 Guglielmo Marconi applies
for a patent for his wireless telegraph. ·
1909 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister
of Australia for the third time. ·
1910 Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited,
becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane. ·
1919 Anarchists simultaneously set
off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities. ·
1924
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs
the Indian Citizenship
Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native
Americans born within the territorial limits of the United
States. ·
1941 World War II: German paratroopers murder
Greek civilians in the villages of Kondomari and Alikianos. ·
1946 Birth
of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from
a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is
exiled. ·
1953
The coronation
of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and
Territories & Head of the
Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised. ·
1955
The USSR and Yugoslavia sign
the Belgrade declaration and
thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948. ·
1962
During the FIFA World Cup,
police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players
in one
of the most violent games in football history. ·
1964
The Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed.[3] ·
1966 Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on
the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another
world. ·
1967 Luis Monge is
executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution
in the United States. ·
1967
Protests in West Berlin against
the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn
into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police
officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June. ·
1979 Pope John Paul II starts
his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to
visit a Communist country. ·
1983
After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three
passengers aboard Air Canada Flight
797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors
open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in
place. ·
1990
The Lower
Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes
in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio,
killing 12. ·
1997
In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15
counts of murder and conspiracy for
his role in the 1995 bombing of
the Alfred
P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He
was executed four years later. ·
2003
Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars.
The European Space
Agency's Mars Express probe launches from
the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. ·
2012
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for
his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian
revolution. ·
2014 Telangana officially becomes the
29th state of India,
formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh. Births[edit] ·
1305 Abu Sa'id Bahadur
Khan, ruler of Ilkhanate (d. 1335) ·
1423 Ferdinand I of
Naples (d. 1494) ·
1489 Charles, Duke of
Vendτme (d. 1537)[4] ·
1535 Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)[5] ·
1602 Rudolf
Christian, Count of East Frisia, Ruler of East Frisia (d. 1628) ·
1621 Rutger von Ascheberg,
Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (d. 1693)[6] ·
1621
(baptized) Isaac van Ostade,
Dutch painter (d. 1649)[7] ·
1638 Henry
Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (d. 1709) ·
1644 William Salmon, English medical writer (d.
1713) ·
1739 Jabez Bowen, American colonel and
politician, 45th Deputy
Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1815) ·
1740 Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and
politician (d. 1814) ·
1743 Alessandro
Cagliostro, Italian occultist and explorer (d. 1795) ·
1773 John Randolph of
Roanoke, American planter and politician, 8th United
States Ambassador to Russia (d. 1833) ·
1774 William Lawson,
English-Australian explorer and politician (d. 1850) ·
1813 Daniel Pollen, Irish-New Zealand politician,
9th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1896) ·
1823 Gιdιon Ouimet,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (d.
1905) ·
1835 Pope Pius X (d. 1914) ·
1838 Duchess
Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (d. 1900) ·
1840 Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (d.
1928) ·
1840
Ιmile Munier,
French artist (d. 1895) ·
1857 Edward Elgar, English composer and educator
(d. 1934) ·
1857
Karl Adolph
Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1919) ·
1861 Concordia Selander,
Swedish actress and manager (d. 1935) ·
1863 Felix Weingartner,
Croatian-Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1942) ·
1865 George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901) ·
1865
Adelaide
Casely-Hayford, Sierra Leone
Creole advocate and
activist for cultural nationalism (d.
1960)[8] ·
1869 Jack O'Connor,
American baseball player and manager (d. 1937) ·
1875 Charles Stewart Mott,
American businessman and politician, 50th Mayor
of Flint, Michigan (d. 1973) ·
1878 Wallace Hartley, English violinist and
bandleader (d. 1912) ·
1881 Walter Egan,
American golfer (d. 1971) ·
1891 Thurman Arnold, American lawyer and judge
(d. 1969) ·
1891
Takijirō
Ōnishi, Japanese admiral and pilot (d. 1945) ·
1899 Lotte Reiniger, German animator and director
(d. 1981) ·
1899
Edwin Way Teale,
American environmentalist and photographer (d. 1980) ·
1904 Frank Runacres, English painter and educator
(d. 1974) ·
1904
Johnny Weissmuller,
Hungarian-American swimmer and actor (d. 1984) ·
1907 Dorothy West, American journalist and author
(d. 1998) ·
1907
John Lehmann,
English poet and publisher (d. 1987) ·
1910 Hector Dyer, American sprinter (d. 1990) ·
1911 Joe McCluskey, American runner (d. 2002) ·
1913 Barbara Pym, English author (d. 1980) ·
1913
Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong educator and
politician (d. 2015) ·
1914 Johnny Bulla, American golfer (d. 2003) ·
1915 Alexandru Nicolschi,
Romanian spy (d. 1992) ·
1917 Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and
director (d. 2006) ·
1918 Ruth Atkinson, Canadian-American illustrator
(d. 1997) ·
1918
Kathryn Tucker
Windham, American journalist and author (d. 2011) ·
1919 Nat Mayer Shapiro,
American painter (d. 2005) ·
1920 Frank G. Clement, American lawyer and
politician, 41st Governor of
Tennessee (d. 1969) ·
1920
Yolande Donlan,
American-English actress (d. 2014) ·
1920
Marcel Reich-Ranicki,
Polish-German author and critic (d. 2013) ·
1920
Tex Schramm, American businessman (d. 2003) ·
1920
Johnny Speight,
English screenwriter and producer (d. 1998) ·
1921 Betty Freeman, American photographer and
philanthropist (d. 2009) ·
1921
Ernie Royal, American trumpet player (d.
1983) ·
1921
Sigmund Sternberg,
Hungarian-English businessman and philanthropist (d. 2016) ·
1921
Andrαs Szennay,
Hungarian priest (d. 2012) ·
1922 Juan Antonio Bardem,
Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002) ·
1922
Carmen Silvera,
Canadian-English actress (d. 2002) ·
1923 Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and
economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2016) ·
1924 June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author,
and activist (d. 2007) ·
1926 Chiyonoyama Masanobu,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (d. 1977) ·
1926
Milo O'Shea,
Irish-American actor (d. 2013) ·
1927 W. Watts Biggers, American author,
screenwriter, and animator (d. 2013) ·
1927
Colin Brittan,
English footballer (d. 2013)[9] ·
1927
Christopher Slade,
English lawyer and judge ·
1928 Erzsi Kovαcs, Hungarian singer (d. 2014) ·
1928
Rafael A. Lecuona,
Cuban-American gymnast and academic (d. 2014) ·
1928
Ron
Reynolds, English footballer (d. 1999)[10] ·
1929 Norton Juster, American architect, author,
and academic ·
1929
Ken McGregor,
Australian tennis player (d. 2007) ·
1930 Pete Conrad, American captain, pilot, and
astronaut (d. 1999) ·
1933 Jerry Lumpe, American baseball player and
coach (d. 2014) ·
1933
Lew
"Sneaky Pete" Robinson, drag racer (d. 1971)[11] ·
1934 Johnny Carter,
American singer (d. 2009) ·
1935 Carol Shields, American-Canadian novelist
and short story writer (d. 2003) ·
1935
Dimitri Kitsikis,
Greek poet and educator ·
1936 Volodymyr Holubnychy,
Ukrainian race walker ·
1937 Rosalyn Higgins, English lawyer and judge ·
1937
Sally Kellerman,
American actress ·
1937
Jimmy Jones,
American singer-songwriter (d. 2012) ·
1937
Robert Paul, Canadian figure skater and
choreographer ·
1937
Deric Washburn,
American screenwriter and playwright ·
1938 Kevin Brownlow, English historian and author ·
1938
George
William Penrose, Lord Penrose, Scottish lawyer and judge ·
1939 Charles Miller,
American musician (d. 1980) ·
1939
John Schlee, American golfer (d. 2000) ·
1940 Constantine II
of Greece ·
1941 άnal Aysal, Turkish businessman ·
1941
Stacy Keach, American actor ·
1941
Lou Nanne, Canadian-American ice hockey
player and manager ·
1941
Charlie Watts,
English drummer, songwriter, and producer ·
1942 Mike
Ahern, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of
Queensland ·
1943 Charles Haid, American actor and director ·
1943
Crescenzio Sepe,
Italian cardinal ·
1944 Robert
Elliott, American actor (d. 2004) ·
1944
Marvin Hamlisch,
American composer and conductor (d. 2012) ·
1945 Richard Long,
English painter, sculptor, and photographer ·
1945
Bonnie Newman,
American businesswoman and politician ·
1946 Lasse Hallstrφm,
Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1946
Peter Sutcliffe,
UK serial killer ·
1948 Jerry Mathers, American actor ·
1949 Heather Couper, English astronomer and
physicist (d. 2020) ·
1949
Frank Rich, American journalist and critic ·
1950 Jonathan
Evans, Welsh lawyer and politician ·
1950
Joanna Gleason,
Canadian actress and singer ·
1950
Anne Phillips,
English theorist and academic ·
1950
Momčilo
Vukotić, Serbian footballer and manager ·
1951 Gilbert Baker,
American artist, gay rights activist, and designer of the rainbow flag (d.
2017) ·
1951
Arnold Mόhren,
Dutch footballer and manager ·
1951
Larry Robinson,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1951
Alexander
Wylie, Lord Kinclaven, Scottish lawyer, judge, and educator ·
1952 Gary Bettman, American commissioner of the
National Hockey League ·
1953 Vidar Johansen,
Norwegian saxophonist ·
1953
Craig Stadler,
American golfer ·
1953
Cornel West, American philosopher, author,
and academic ·
1954 Dennis Haysbert, American actor and producer ·
1955 Dana Carvey, American comedian and actor ·
1955
Nandan Nilekani,
Indian businessman, co-founded Infosys ·
1955
Mani Ratnam, Indian director, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1955
Michael Steele,
American singer-songwriter and bass player ·
1956 Jan Lammers, Dutch race car driver ·
1957 Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and
manager ·
1958 Lex Luger, American wrestler and football
player ·
1959 Rineke Dijkstra, Dutch photographer ·
1959
Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actress ·
1959
Erwin Olaf, Dutch photographer ·
1960 Olga Bondarenko, Russian runner ·
1960
Tony Hadley, English singer-songwriter and
actor ·
1960
Kyle Petty, American race car driver and
sportscaster ·
1961 Dez Cadena, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1962 Mark Plaatjes, South African-American runner
and coach ·
1963 Anand Abhyankar, Indian actor (d. 2012) ·
1964 Caroline Link, German director and
screenwriter ·
1965 Russ Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1965
Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer and
journalist ·
1965
Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer ·
1966 Dayana Cadeau, Haitian born
Canadian-American professional bodybuilder[12][13] ·
1966
Candace Gingrich,
American activist[14] ·
1966
Pedro Guerra,
Spanish singer-songwriter ·
1966
Petra van Staveren,
Dutch swimmer ·
1967 Remigija
Nazarovienė, Lithuanian heptathlete and coach ·
1967
Mike
Stanton, American baseball player ·
1968 Merril Bainbridge,
Australian singer-songwriter ·
1968
Andy
Cohen, American television host ·
1969 Kurt Abbott, American baseball player ·
1969
Paulo
Sιrgio, Brazilian footballer ·
1969
David Wheaton,
American tennis player, radio host, and author ·
1970 B Real, American rapper and actor ·
1971 Kateřina
Jacques, Czech translator and politician ·
1972 Wayne Brady, American actor, comedian, game
show host, and singer ·
1972
Raϊl Ibaρez,
American baseball player ·
1972
Wentworth Miller,
American actor and screenwriter ·
1973 Marko Kristal, Estonian footballer and
manager ·
1973
Neifi Pιrez,
Dominican-American baseball player ·
1974 Gata Kamsky, Russian-American chess player ·
1974
Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist ·
1975 Salvatore Scibona,
American author ·
1976 Earl Boykins, American basketball player ·
1976
Martin Čech,
Czech ice hockey player (d. 2007) ·
1976
Antτnio Rodrigo
Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer ·
1976
Tim Rice-Oxley,
English singer-songwriter and keyboard player ·
1977 Teet Allas, Estonian footballer ·
1977
A.J. Styles, American wrestler ·
1977
Zachary Quinto,
American actor and producer ·
1978 Dominic Cooper, English actor ·
1978
Nikki Cox, American actress ·
1978
Justin Long, American actor ·
1978
Yi So-yeon, biotechnologist and astronaut, the first Korean in space ·
1978
Luke Williamson,
Australian rugby league player ·
1979 Morena Baccarin, Brazilian-American actress ·
1979
Butterfly Boucher,
Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1979
Natalia
Rodrνguez, Spanish runner ·
1980 Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-American drummer ·
1980
Bobby Simmons,
American basketball player ·
1980
Richard Skuse,
English rugby player ·
1980
Abby Wambach,
American soccer player and coach ·
1980
Tomasz Wrσblewski,
Polish bass player and songwriter ·
1981 Nikolay Davydenko,
Russian tennis player ·
1981
Chin-hui Tsao,
Taiwanese baseball player ·
1982 Jewel Staite, Canadian actress ·
1983 Chris Higgins,
American ice hockey player ·
1983
Leela James, American singer-songwriter ·
1983
Toni Livers, Swiss skier ·
1983
Brooke White,
American singer-songwriter and actress ·
1984 Jack Afamasaga, New Zealand rugby league
player ·
1984
Max Boyer, Canadian wrestler ·
1984
Feleti Mateo,
Australian-Tongan rugby league player ·
1985 Miyuki Sawashiro, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
1985
Maggie Thrash,
American graphic novelist and writer ·
1986 Todd Carney, Australian rugby league player ·
1987 Maryka Holtzhausen,
South African netball player ·
1987
Yoann Huget, French rugby player ·
1987
Matthew Koma,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1987
Angelo Mathews,
Sri Lankan cricketer ·
1987
Darin Zanyar,
Swedish singer-songwriter ·
1987
Sonakshi Sinha,
Indian actress ·
1988 Sergio Agόero, Argentinian footballer ·
1988
Patrik Berglund,
Swedish ice hockey player ·
1988
Staniliya Stamenova,
Bulgarian canoeist[15] ·
1989 Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-American footballer ·
1989
Steve Smith,
Australian cricketer ·
1990 Jack Lowden, Scottish actor ·
1992 Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer ·
1993 Adam Taggart, Australian footballer ·
1994 Mike Grzesiek, Esports player and streamer ·
1999 Campbell Graham, Australian rugby league
player ·
2000 Lilimar Hernandez,
Venezuelan actress Deaths[edit] ·
657 Pope Eugene I[16] ·
891 Al-Muwaffaq, Abbasid general (b. 842) ·
910 Richilde of Provence (b.
845) ·
1200
Bishop John of Oxford[17] ·
1258 Peter I, Count
of Urgell ·
1292 Rhys ap Maredudd, Welsh nobleman and rebel
leader ·
1418 Katherine of Lancaster,
queen of Henry III of Castile ·
1453 Αlvaro
de Luna, Duke of Trujillo, Constable of Castile ·
1567 Shane
O'Neill, head of the O'Neill dynasty in Ireland (b. 1530) ·
1572 Thomas
Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (b. 1536) ·
1581 James
Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, Scottish soldier and
politician, Lord
Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1525) ·
1603 Bernard of
Wąbrzeźno, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1575) ·
1693 John Wildman, English soldier and
politician, Postmaster
General of the United Kingdom (b. 1621) ·
1701 Madeleine de Scudιry,
French author (b. 1607) ·
1716 Ogata Kōrin, Japanese painter and
educator (b. 1658) ·
1754 Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister and
theologian (b. 1680) ·
1761 Jonas Alstrφmer,
Swedish businessman (b. 1685) ·
1785 Jean Paul de
Gua de Malves, French mathematician and academic (b. 1713) ·
1806 William Tate,
English painter (b. 1747) ·
1853 Henry
Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English general (b. 1777) ·
1865 Ner Middleswarth, American judge and
politician (b. 1783) ·
1875 Jσzef Kremer, Polish psychologist,
historian, and philosopher (b. 1806) ·
1881 Ιmile Littrι,
French lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1801) ·
1882 Giuseppe Garibaldi,
Italian general and politician (b. 1807) ·
1901 George Leslie Mackay,
Canadian missionary and author (b. 1844) ·
1927 Hόseyin Avni Lifij,
Turkish painter (b. 1886) ·
1929 Enrique Gorostieta,
Mexican general (b. 1889) ·
1933 Frank Jarvis, American runner and triple
jumper (b. 1878) ·
1937 Louis Vierne, French organist and composer
(b. 1870) ·
1941 Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b.
1903) ·
1942 Bunny Berigan, American singer and trumpet
player (b. 1908) ·
1947 John
Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, English sailor and politician (b.
1867) ·
1948 Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904) ·
1948
Karl Brandt, German SS officer
(b. 1904) ·
1948
Karl Gebhardt,
German physician (b. 1897) ·
1948
Waldemar Hoven,
German physician (b. 1903) ·
1948
Wolfram Sievers,
German SS officer (b. 1905) ·
1952 Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect, designed
the Central Sofia
Market Hall (b. 1880) ·
1956 Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and
director (b. 1886) ·
1959 Lyda Borelli, Italian actress (b. 1884) ·
1961 George S. Kaufman,
American director, producer, and playwright (b. 1889) ·
1962 Vita Sackville-West,
English author and poet (b. 1892)[18] ·
1967 Benno Ohnesorg, German student and activist
(b. 1940) ·
1968 Andrι Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer
(b. 1929) ·
1969 Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917) ·
1970 Orhan Kemal, Turkish author (b. 1914) ·
1970
Albert Lamorisse,
French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) ·
1970
Bruce McLaren,
New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (b. 1937) ·
1970
Giuseppe Ungaretti,
Italian soldier, journalist, and academic (b. 1888) ·
1974 Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese race car driver (b.
1949) ·
1976 Kenneth Mason,
English soldier and geographer (b. 1887) ·
1976
Juan Josι Torres,
Bolivian general and politician, 61st President of Bolivia (b.
1920) ·
1977 Albert Bittlmayer,
German footballer (b. 1952) ·
1977
Stephen Boyd,
Northern Irish-born American actor (b. 1931) ·
1978 Santiago Bernabιu
Yeste, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1895) ·
1979 Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934) ·
1982 Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry,
Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of
Pakistan (b. 1904) ·
1983 Stan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter (b.
1949) ·
1983
Ray Stehr, Australian rugby league player
and coach (b. 1913) ·
1986 Aurθle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1901) ·
1987 Anthony de Mello, Indian-American priest and
psychotherapist (b. 1931) ·
1987
Sammy Kaye, American bandleader and
songwriter (b. 1910) ·
1987
Andrιs Segovia,
Spanish guitarist (b. 1893) ·
1988 Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and
producer (b. 1924) ·
1989 Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer and
footballer (b. 1907) ·
1990 Jack Gilford, American actor and comedian
(b. 1908) ·
1990
Rex Harrison,
English actor (b. 1908) ·
1991 Ahmed Arif, Turkish poet and author (b.
1927) ·
1992 Philip Dunne,
American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908) ·
1993 Johnny Mize, American baseball player,
coach, and sportscaster (b. 1913) ·
1993
Tahar Djaout,
Algerian journalist, writer and poet (b. 1954) ·
1994 David Stove, Australian philosopher, author,
and academic (b. 1927) ·
1996 John Alton, Hungarian-American
cinematographer and director (b. 1901) ·
1996
Leon Garfield,
English author (b. 1921) ·
1996
Ray Combs, American game show host (b. 1956) ·
1997 Doc Cheatham, American trumpet player,
singer, and bandleader (b. 1905) ·
1997
Helen Jacobs,
American tennis champion (b. 1908)[19] ·
1999 Junior Braithwaite,
Jamaican singer (b. 1949) ·
2000 Svyatoslav Fyodorov,
Russian ophthalmologist, academic, and politician (b. 1927) ·
2000
John Schlee, American golfer (b. 1939) ·
2000
Gerald James Whitrow,
English mathematician, cosmologist, and historian (b. 1912) ·
2001 Imogene Coca, American actress and comedian
(b. 1908) ·
2001
Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922) ·
2002 Hugo van Lawick, Dutch director and
photographer (b. 1937) ·
2003 Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and
manager (b. 1918) ·
2003
Alma Ricard, Canadian broadcaster and
philanthropist (b. 1906) ·
2005 Lucien Cliche, Canadian lawyer and
politician (b. 1916) ·
2005
Gunder Gundersen,
Norwegian skier (b. 1930) ·
2005
Samir Kassir,
Lebanese journalist and educator (b. 1950) ·
2005
Melita Norwood,
English civil servant and spy (b. 1912) ·
2006 Keith Smith,
English rugby player and coach (b. 1952) ·
2007 Kentarō Haneda,
Japanese pianist and composer (b. 1949) ·
2007
Huang Ju, Chinese engineer and politician,
1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b.
1938) ·
2008 Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1928) ·
2008
Mel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1917) ·
2008
Cevher Φzden,
Turkish banker and businessman (b. 1933) ·
2009 David Eddings, American author (b. 1931) ·
2012 Avraham Botzer, Polish-Israeli commander (b.
1929) ·
2012
Adolfo Calero,
Nicaraguan businessman and political activist (b. 1931) ·
2012
Richard Dawson,
English-American soldier, actor, television personality, and game show host
(b. 1932) ·
2012
LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player (b.
1940) ·
2012
Kathryn Joosten,
American actress (b. 1939) ·
2012
Jan Gmelich Meijling,
Dutch commander and politician (b. 1943) ·
2013 Mario Bernardi, Canadian pianist and
conductor (b. 1930) ·
2013
Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (b. 1930) ·
2013
Mandawuy Yunupingu,
Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1956) ·
2014 Ivica Brzić, Serbian footballer and
manager (b. 1941) ·
2014
Anjan Das, Indian director and producer (b.
1951) ·
2014
Gennadi Gusarov,
Russian footballer and manager (b. 1937) ·
2014
Nikolay Khrenkov,
Russian bobsledder (b. 1984) ·
2014
Duraisamy Simon
Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (b. 1924) ·
2014
Kuaima Riruako,
Namibian politician (b. 1935) ·
2014
Alexander Shulgin,
American pharmacologist and chemist (b. 1925) ·
2015 Fernando de Araϊjo, East Timorese politician, President of East
Timor (b. 1963) ·
2015
Irwin Rose, American biologist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1926) ·
2017 Peter Sallis, English actor (b. 1921) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Children's Day (North Korea) ·
Christian feast day: o Elmo o Martyrs of Lyon, including Blandina o Pothinus o June
2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Civil Aviation Day (Azerbaijan) ·
Coronation of
King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, also Social Forestry Day (Bhutan) ·
Day of Hristo Botev (Bulgaria) ·
Festa della
Repubblica (Italy) ·
International
Sex Workers Day ·
Telangana Day (Telangana, India) |
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