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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
193 days remain until the end of the year. This day usually marks the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and
the winter solstice in
the Southern Hemisphere,
which is the day of the year with the most hours of daylight in the Northern
Hemisphere and the fewest hours of daylight in the Southern Hemisphere. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events ·
533
A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople
to attack the Vandals in
Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date). ·
1307 Kόlόg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan. ·
1529 French forces
are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during
the War of the
League of Cognac. ·
1582 Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the
Japanese daimyōs,
is forced to commit
suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide. ·
1621 Execution of 27
Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a
consequence of the Battle of White
Mountain. ·
1734
In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name
of Marie-Joseph
Angιlique is put to death, having been convicted of setting
the fire that destroyed much of the city. ·
1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia,
is founded. ·
1768 James Otis Jr. offends the King and
Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court. ·
1788 New Hampshire becomes the ninth state
to ratify the Constitution
of the United States.[1] ·
1791
King Louis XVI of France and
his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during
the French Revolution. ·
1798 Irish Rebellion
of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar
Hill. ·
1813 Peninsular War: Wellington defeats Joseph
Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria. ·
1824 Greek War of
Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea. ·
1826 Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim
Pasha in the Battle of Vergas. ·
1848
In the Wallachian
Revolution, Ion Heliade
Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of
Islaz and create a new republican government. ·
1864 American Civil War:
The Battle of Jerusalem
Plank Road begins. ·
1898
The United States captures Guam from
Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are
misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the
two nations were at war.[2] ·
1900 Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war
on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued
from the Empress Dowager Cixi. ·
1905
The New York
Central Railroad's flagship passenger train, the 20th Century Limited,
is derailed in
an apparent act of sabotage in Mentor, Ohio, killing 21. ·
1915
The U.S.
Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United
States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation
which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks. ·
1919
The Royal
Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of
unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general
strike. ·
1919
Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles
the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last
casualties of World War I. ·
1929
An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney
Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico. ·
1930
One-year conscription comes
into force in France. ·
1940 World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful
invasion of France. ·
1942
World War II: Tobruk falls to
Italian and German forces. ·
1942
World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in
Oregon, firing 17
shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by
Japan against the United States mainland. ·
1945
World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends
when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese
Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip
of the main island. ·
1952
The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to
Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic
University of the Philippines. ·
1957 Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as
Canada's first female Cabinet Minister. ·
1963
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI. ·
1964
Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are
murdered in Neshoba
County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. ·
1970 Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S.
corporate bankruptcy to date.[3] ·
1973
In its decision in Miller v. California,
413 U.S. 15, the Supreme
Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether
something is obscene and not
protected speech under the U.S. constitution.[4] ·
1978
The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perσn, opens at the Prince Edward
Theatre, London. ·
1982 John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for
the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. ·
1989
The U.S. Supreme Court rules
in Texas v. Johnson,
491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest
protected by the First Amendment.[5] ·
2000 Section 28 (of the Local
Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is
repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote. ·
2001
A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia,
indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American
servicemen. ·
2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first
privately funded spaceplane to
achieve spaceflight. ·
2005 Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been
unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and
Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case
had been reopened in 2004). ·
2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are
officially named Nix and Hydra. ·
2009 Greenland assumes self-rule. ·
2012
A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in
the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island,
killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing. Births ·
598 Pope Martin I (d. 656) ·
906 Abu Ja'far
Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Saffarid emir (d. 963) ·
1002 Pope Leo IX (d. 1054) ·
1226 Bolesław
V the Chaste of Poland (d. 1279) ·
1521 John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Haderslev (d.
1580) ·
1528 Maria
of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1603) ·
1535 Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and
botanist (d. 1596) ·
1630 Samuel Oppenheimer,
German Jewish banker and diplomat (d. 1703)[6] ·
1636 Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of
Bouillon, French noble (d. 1721) ·
1639
(O.S.) Increase Mather, American minister and
author (d. 1723) ·
1676
(O.S.) Anthony Collins, English philosopher and
author (d. 1729) ·
1706 John Dollond, English optician and
astronomer (d. 1761) ·
1710 James Short,
Scottish-English mathematician and optician (d. 1768) ·
1712 Luc
Urbain de Bouλxic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790) ·
1730 Motoori Norinaga, Japanese poet and scholar
(d. 1801) ·
1732 Johann
Christoph Friedrich Bach, German pianist and composer (d. 1791) ·
1736 Enoch Poor, American general (d. 1780) ·
1741 Prince
Benedetto, Duke of Chablais (d. 1808) ·
1750 Pierre-Nicolas
Beauvallet, French sculptor and illustrator (d. 1818) ·
1759 Alexander
J. Dallas, American lawyer and politician, 6th United
States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1817) ·
1763 Pierre Paul
Royer-Collard, French philosopher and academic (d. 1845) ·
1764 Sidney
Smith, English admiral and politician (d. 1840) ·
1774 Daniel D. Tompkins,
American lawyer and politician, 6th Vice
President of the United States (d. 1825) ·
1781 Simιon Denis Poisson,
French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840) ·
1786 Charles Edward Horn,
English singer-songwriter (d. 1849) ·
1792 Ferdinand
Christian Baur, German theologian and scholar (d. 1860) ·
1797 Wilhelm Kόchelbecker,
Russian poet and author (d. 1846) ·
1802 Karl Zittel, German theologian (d. 1871) ·
1805 Karl Friedrich
Curschmann, German composer and singer (d. 1841) ·
1805
Charles Thomas
Jackson, American physician and geologist (d. 1880) ·
1811 Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and
neurophysiologist (d. 1868) ·
1814 Anton Nuhn, German anatomist and academic
(d. 1889) ·
1823 Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873) ·
1825 Thomas Edward
Cliffe Leslie, Irish economist and jurist (d. 1882) ·
1825
William Stubbs,
English bishop and historian (d. 1901) ·
1828 Ferdinand Andrι
Fouquι, French geologist and academic (d. 1904) ·
1828
Nikolaus Nilles,
German Catholic writer and teacher (d. 1907) ·
1834 Frans de Cort, Flemish poet and author (d.
1878) ·
1836 Luigi Tripepi, Italian theologian (d. 1906) ·
1839 Joaquim
Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (d.
1908) ·
1845 Samuel Griffith, Welsh-Australian
politician, 9th Premier of
Queensland (d. 1920) ·
1845
Arthur Cowper
Ranyard, English astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1894) ·
1846 Marion Adams-Acton,
Scottish-English author and playwright (d. 1928) ·
1846
Enrico Coleman,
Italian painter (d. 1911)[7] ·
1850 Daniel Carter Beard,
American author and illustrator, co-founded the Boy Scouts of
America (d. 1941) ·
1858 Giuseppe De Sanctis,
Italian painter (d. 1924) ·
1858
Medardo Rosso,
Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1928) ·
1859 Henry Ossawa Tanner,
American-French painter and illustrator (d. 1937) ·
1862 Damrong Rajanubhab,
Thai historian and author (d. 1943) ·
1863 Max Wolf, German astronomer and academic (d.
1932) ·
1864 Heinrich Wφlfflin,
Swiss historian and critic (d. 1945) ·
1867 Oscar Florianus
Bluemner, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1938) ·
1867
William Brede
Kristensen, Norwegian historian of religion (d. 1953) ·
1868 Edwin Stephen
Goodrich, English zoologist and anatomist (d. 1946) ·
1870 Clara Immerwahr, Jewish-German chemist and
academic (d. 1915) ·
1870
Anthony Michell,
English-Australian engineer (d. 1959) ·
1870
Julio Ruelas,
Mexican painter (d. 1907)[8] ·
1876 Swami Kalyan Dev, philosopher [year
disputed] (d. 2004) ·
1876
Willem Hendrik
Keesom, Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1956) ·
1880 Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and
pediatrician (d. 1961) ·
1880
Josiah
Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant (d.
1941) ·
1881
(O.S.) Natalia Goncharova,
Russian painter, costume designer, and illustrator (d. 1962)[9] ·
1882 Lluνs Companys,
Spanish lawyer and politician, 123rd President of
Catalonia (d. 1940) ·
1882
Adrianus de Jong,
Dutch fencer and soldier (d. 1966) ·
1882
Rockwell Kent,
American painter and illustrator (d. 1971) ·
1883 Feodor Gladkov, Russian author and educator
(d. 1958) ·
1884 Claude Auchinleck,
English field marshal (d. 1981) ·
1887 Norman L. Bowen, Canadian geologist and
petrologist (d. 1956) ·
1889 Ralph Craig, American sprinter and sailor
(d. 1972) ·
1891 Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect and
engineer, co-designed the Pirelli Tower and Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (d.
1979) ·
1891
Hermann Scherchen,
German-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 1966) ·
1892 Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and
academic (d. 1971) ·
1893 Alois Hαba, Czech composer and educator (d.
1973) ·
1894 Milward Kennedy, English journalist and
civil servant (d. 1968) ·
1896 Charles Momsen, American admiral, invented
the Momsen lung (d.
1967) ·
1898 Donald C. Peattie,
American botanist and author (d. 1964) ·
1899 Pavel Haas, Czech composer (d. 1944) ·
1903 Hermann Engelhard,
German runner and coach (d. 1984) ·
1903
Al Hirschfeld,
American caricaturist, painter and illustrator (d. 2003) ·
1905 Jacques Goddet, French journalist (d. 2000) ·
1905
Jean-Paul Sartre,
French philosopher and author (d. 1980) ·
1908 William Frankena, American philosopher and
academic (d. 1994) ·
1910 Aleksandr Tvardovsky,
Russian poet and author (d. 1971) ·
1911 Irving Fein, American producer and manager
(d. 2012) ·
1912 Kazimierz Leski, Polish pilot and engineer
(d. 2000) ·
1912
Mary McCarthy,
American novelist and critic (d. 1989) ·
1912
Vishnu Prabhakar,
Indian author and playwright (d. 2009) ·
1913 Madihe Pannaseeha
Thero, Sri Lankan monk and scholar (d. 2003) ·
1913
Luis Taruc, Filipino political activist (d.
2005) ·
1914 William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1996) ·
1915 Wilhelm Gliese, German soldier and
astronomer (d. 1993) ·
1916 Joseph Cyril Bamford,
English businessman, founded J. C. Bamford (d. 2001) ·
1916
Tchan Fou-li,
Chinese photographer (d. 2018) ·
1916
Herbert Friedman,
American physicist and astronomer (d. 2000) ·
1916
Buddy O'Connor,
Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977) ·
1918 Robert A. Boyd, Canadian engineer (d. 2006) ·
1918
James Joll, English historian, author, and
academic (d. 1994) ·
1918
Eddie Lopat, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (d. 1992) ·
1918
Dee Molenaar,
American mountaineer (d. 2020)[10] ·
1918
Robert Roosa,
American economist and banker (d. 1993)[11] ·
1918
Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician and
academic (d. 1955) ·
1918
Josephine Webb,
American engineer ·
1919 Antonia Mesina, Italian martyr and saint (d.
1935) ·
1919
Gιrard Pelletier,
Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1997) ·
1919
Vladimir Simagin,
Russian chess player and coach (d. 1968) ·
1919
Paolo Soleri,
Italian-American architect, designed the Cosanti (d. 2013) ·
1920 Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater (d.
2017) ·
1921 Judy Holliday, American actress and singer
(d. 1965) ·
1921
Jane Russell,
American actress and singer (d. 2011) ·
1921
William Edwin Self,
American actor, producer, and production manager (d. 2010) ·
1922 Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkinabι historian,
politician and writer (d. 2006) ·
1923 Jacques
Hιbert, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2007) ·
1924 Pontus Hultιn, Swedish art collector and
historian (d. 2006) ·
1924
Ezzatolah Entezami,
Iranian actor (d. 2018) ·
1924
Wally Fawkes,
British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and a satirical cartoonist ·
1924
Jean Laplanche,
French psychoanalyst and academic (d. 2012) ·
1925 Larisa Avdeyeva, Russian mezzo-soprano (d.
2013) ·
1925
Stanley Moss,
American poet, publisher, and art dealer ·
1925
Giovanni Spadolini,
Italian journalist and politician, 45th Prime Minister of
Italy (d. 1994) ·
1925
Maureen Stapleton,
American actress (d. 2006) ·
1926 Fred Cone,
American football player ·
1926
Conrad Hall, French-American cinematographer
(d. 2003) ·
1927 Carl Stokes, American lawyer, politician,
and diplomat, United
States Ambassador to Seychelles (d. 1996) ·
1928 Wolfgang Haken, German-American
mathematician and academic ·
1928
Fiorella Mari,
Brazilian-Italian actress ·
1928
Margit Bara, Hungarian actress (d. 2016) ·
1929 Alexandre Lagoya, Egyptian-Greek guitarist
and composer (d. 1999) ·
1930 Gerald Kaufman, English journalist and
politician, Shadow Foreign
Secretary (d. 2017) ·
1930
Mike
McCormack, American football player and coach (d. 2013) ·
1931 Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian
animator, director, and screenwriter (d. 1988) ·
1931
Margaret Heckler,
American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services ·
1931
David Kushnir,
Israeli Olympic long-jumper ·
1932 Bernard Ingham, English journalist and civil
servant ·
1932
Lalo Schifrin,
Argentinian pianist, composer, and conductor ·
1932
O.C. Smith, American R&B/jazz singer (d.
2001) ·
1933 Bernie Kopell, American actor and comedian ·
1935 Franηoise Sagan,
French author and playwright (d. 2004) ·
1937 John Edrich, English cricketer and coach ·
1938 Don Black,
English songwriter ·
1938
John W. Dower,
American historian and author ·
1938
Michael M. Richter,
German mathematician and computer scientist ·
1940 Mariette Hartley, American actress and
television personality ·
1940
Michael Ruse,
Canadian philosopher and academic ·
1941 Aloysius Paul
D'Souza, Indian bishop ·
1941
Joe Flaherty,
American-Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1941
Lyman Ward,
Canadian actor ·
1942 Clive
Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe, English businessman and
politician ·
1942
Marjorie Margolies,
American journalist and politician ·
1942
Henry S. Taylor,
American author and poet ·
1942
Togo D. West, Jr.,
American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 3rd United
States Secretary of Veterans Affairs ·
1943 Eumir Deodato, Brazilian pianist, composer,
and producer ·
1943
Diane Marleau,
Canadian accountant and politician, Canadian
Minister of Health (d. 2013) ·
1943
Brian Sternberg,
American pole vaulter (d. 2013) ·
1944 Ray Davies, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1944
Tony Scott, English-American director and
producer (d. 2012) ·
1945 Robert Dewar, English-American computer
scientist and academic (d. 2015) ·
1945
Adam Zagajewski,
Polish author and poet ·
1946 Per Eklund, Swedish race car driver ·
1946
Kate Hoey, Northern Irish-British academic
and politician, Minister
for Sport and the Olympics ·
1946
Brenda Holloway,
American singer-songwriter ·
1946
Trond Kirkvaag,
Norwegian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2007) ·
1946
Malcolm Rifkind,
Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary
of State for Scotland ·
1946
Maurice
Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, Iraqi-British businessman, founded M&C Saatchi and Saatchi &
Saatchi ·
1947 Meredith Baxter, American actress ·
1947
Shirin Ebadi,
Iranian lawyer, judge, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1947
Michael Gross,
American actor ·
1947
Joey Molland,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1947
Wade Phillips,
American football coach ·
1947
Fernando Savater,
Spanish philosopher and author ·
1948 Jovan
Aćimović, Serbian footballer and manager ·
1948
Ian McEwan, British novelist and
screenwriter[12] ·
1948
Andrzej Sapkowski,
Polish author and translator ·
1948
Philippe Sarde,
French composer and conductor ·
1949 John Agard, Guyanese-English author, poet,
and playwright ·
1949
Derek Emslie,
Lord Kingarth, Scottish lawyer and judge ·
1950 Anne Carson, Canadian poet and academic ·
1950
Joey Kramer, American rock drummer and
songwriter (Aerosmith) ·
1950
Enn Reitel, Scottish actor and screenwriter ·
1950
Trygve Thue, Norwegian guitarist and record
producer ·
1950
John Paul Young,
Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter ·
1951 Jim Douglas, American academic and politician,
80th Governor of Vermont ·
1951
Terence Etherton,
English lawyer and judge ·
1951
Alan Hudson, English footballer ·
1951
Nils Lofgren,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1951
Lenore Manderson,
Australian anthropologist and academic ·
1951
Mona-Lisa Pursiainen,
Finnish sprinter (d. 2000) ·
1952 Judith Bingham, English singer-songwriter ·
1952
Jeremy Coney, New
Zealand cricketer and sportscaster ·
1952
Patrick Dunleavy,
English political scientist and academic ·
1952
Kōichi Mashimo,
Japanese director and screenwriter ·
1953 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani financier and
politician, 11th Prime Minister
of Pakistan (d. 2007) ·
1954 Mαr Guπmundsson,
Icelandic economist, former Governor of Central Bank of
Iceland ·
1954
Mark Kimmitt,
American general and politician, 16th Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Political-Military Affairs ·
1954
Robert Menasse,
Austrian author and academic ·
1955 Tim Bray, Canadian software developer and
businessman ·
1955
Michel Platini,
French footballer and manager ·
1956 Rick Sutcliffe, American baseball player and
broadcaster[13] ·
1957 Berkeley Breathed,
American author and illustrator ·
1957
Luis Antonio Tagle,
Filipino cardinal ·
1958 Vνctor Montoya,
Bolivian journalist and author ·
1958
Gennady Padalka,
Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut ·
1959 John Baron,
English captain and politician ·
1959
Tom Chambers,
American basketball player and sportscaster ·
1959
Marcella Detroit,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1959
Kathy Mattea,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1960 Kate Brown, American politician, 38th Governor of Oregon [14] ·
1960
Karl Erjavec,
Slovenian politician ·
1961 Manu Chao, French singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1961
Sascha Konietzko,
German keyboard player and producer ·
1961
Joko Widodo, Indonesian businessman and
politician, 7th President of
Indonesia ·
1961
Kip Winger, American rock singer-songwriter
and musician ·
1961
Iztok Mlakar,
Slovenian actor and singer-songwriter ·
1962 Shōhei Takada, Japanese shogi player and theoretician [15] ·
1962
Viktor Tsoi, Russian singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1990) ·
1963 Dario Marianelli, Italian pianist and
composer ·
1963
Mike Sherrard,
American football player ·
1964 David Morrissey, English actor and director ·
1964
Dimitris Papaioannou,
Greek director and choreographer ·
1964
Dean Saunders,
Welsh footballer and manager ·
1964
Doug Savant, American actor ·
1965 David Beerling, English biologist and
academic ·
1965
Yang Liwei, Chinese general, pilot, and
astronaut ·
1965
Ewen McKenzie,
Australian rugby player and coach ·
1965
Lana Wachowski,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1966 Gretchen Carlson, American model and
television journalist, Miss America 1989 ·
1967 Jim Breuer, American comedian, actor, and
producer ·
1967
Derrick Coleman,
American basketball player and sportscaster ·
1967
Pierre Omidyar,
French-American businessman, founded eBay ·
1967
Carrie Preston,
American actress, director, and producer ·
1967
Yingluck Shinawatra,
Thai businesswoman and politician, 28th Prime Minister
of Thailand ·
1968 Sonique,
English singer-songwriter and DJ ·
1970 Eric Reed,
American pianist and composer ·
1971 Tyronne Drakeford,
American football player ·
1972 Nobuharu Asahara, Japanese sprinter and long
jumper ·
1972
Neil Doak, Northern Irish cricketer and
rugby player ·
1972
Irene van Dyk,
South African-New Zealand netball player ·
1973 Juliette Lewis, American actress and
singer-songwriter ·
1973
John Mitchell,
English guitarist, vocalist and songwriter ·
1974 Rob Kelly,
American football player ·
1974
Craig Lowndes,
Australian race car driver ·
1974
Flavio Roma, Italian footballer ·
1975 Brian Simmons, American football player ·
1976 Shelley Craft, Australian television host ·
1976
Mike Einziger,
American guitarist and songwriter ·
1976
Nigel Lappin,
Australian footballer and coach ·
1977 Michael Gomez, Irish boxer ·
1977
Al Wilson, American football player ·
1978 Thomas Blondeau, Flemish writer (d. 2013)[16] ·
1978
Matt Kuchar, American golfer ·
1978
Cristiano Lupatelli,
Italian footballer ·
1978
Gervase
Markham, British software engineer (d. 2018)[17] ·
1978
Dejan
Ognjanović, Montenegrin footballer ·
1978
Rim'K, French rapper[18] ·
1979 Kostas Katsouranis,
Greek footballer ·
1979
Chris Pratt, American actor ·
1980 Michael Crocker, Australian rugby league
player and sportscaster ·
1980
Łukasz
Cyborowski, Polish chess player ·
1980
Richard Jefferson,
American basketball player ·
1980
Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player ·
1981 Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1981
Garrett Jones,
American baseball player ·
1981
Brandon Flowers,
American singer-songwriter ·
1981
Brad Walker,
American pole vaulter ·
1982 Lee Dae-ho, South Korean baseball player ·
1982
Prince
William, Duke of Cambridge ·
1982
Jussie Smollett,
American actor and singer[19] ·
1983 Edward Snowden, American activist and
academic ·
1985 Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter ·
1985
Sentayehu Ejigu,
Ethiopian runner ·
1985
Byron Schammer,
Australian footballer ·
1986 Kathleen
O'Kelly-Kennedy, Australian wheelchair
basketball player ·
1986
Hideaki Wakui,
Japanese baseball player ·
1987 Pablo Barrera, Mexican footballer ·
1987
Sebastian Prφdl,
Austrian footballer ·
1987
Dale Thomas,
Australian footballer ·
1988 Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball and
volleyball player ·
1988
Paolo Tornaghi,
Italian footballer ·
1988
Thaddeus Young,
American basketball player ·
1989 Abubaker Kaki, Sudanese runner ·
1990 Ričardas
Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player ·
1990
Lunar C, English rapper[20] ·
1990
Franηois Moubandje,
Swiss footballer[21] ·
1990
Hεvard Nordtveit,
Norwegian footballer ·
1991 Gaλl Kakuta, French footballer ·
1992 MAX, American singer, songwriter, actor,
dancer and model ·
1994 Başak
Eraydın, Turkish tennis player ·
1996 Tyrone May, Australian rugby league player ·
1997 Rebecca Black, American singer-songwriter ·
1997
Derrius Guice,
American football player ·
2011 Lil Bub, American celebrity cat[22] Deaths ·
532 Emperor
Jiemin of Northern Wei, former Northern Wei emperor ·
866 Rodulf,
Frankish archbishop ·
868 Ali al-Hadi, the tenth Imam of Shia Islam
(b. 829)[23] ·
870 Al-Muhtadi, Muslim caliph ·
947 Zhang Li,
official of the Liao Dynasty ·
1040 Fulk III, Count
of Anjou (b. 972) ·
1171 Walter de Luci, French-English monk (b.
1103) ·
1208 Philip of Swabia (b. 1177) ·
1305 Wenceslaus II of
Bohemia (b. 1271) ·
1359 Erik Magnusson,
king of Sweden (b. 1339) ·
1377 Edward III of
England (b. 1312)[24] ·
1421 Jean Le Maingre, French general (b. 1366) ·
1527 Niccolς Machiavelli,
Italian historian and author (b. 1469)[25] ·
1529 John Skelton, English poet and educator (b.
1460) ·
1547 Sebastiano del Piombo,
Italian painter and educator (b. 1485) ·
1558 Piero Strozzi, Italian general (b. 1510) ·
1582 Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534) ·
1585 Henry
Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1532) ·
1591 Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)[26] ·
1596 Jean Liebault, French agronomist and
physician (b. 1535) ·
1621 Louis III,
Cardinal of Guise (b. 1575) ·
1621
Krytof Harant,
Czech soldier and composer (b. 1564) ·
1622 Salomon Schweigger,
German theologian (b. 1551) ·
1631 John Smith,
English admiral and explorer (b. 1580) ·
1652 Inigo Jones, English architect, designed
the Queen's House and Wilton House (b. 1573) ·
1661 Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (b. 1599) ·
1737 Matthieu Marais, French author, critic, and
jurist (b. 1664) ·
1738 Charles
Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1674) ·
1796 Richard Gridley, American soldier and engineer
(b. 1710) ·
1824 Ιtienne Aignan,
French playwright and translator (b. 1773) ·
1865 Frances Adeline
Seward, American wife of William H. Seward (b.
1824) ·
1874 Anders Jonas
Εngstrφm, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814) ·
1876 Antonio Lσpez
de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (b.
1794) ·
1880 Theophilus H. Holmes,
American general (b. 1804) ·
1893 Leland Stanford, American businessman and
politician, 8th Governor of
California (b. 1824)[27] ·
1908 Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1844) ·
1914 Bertha von Suttner,
Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1843) ·
1929 Leonard Trelawny
Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (b. 1864) ·
1934 Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892) ·
1940 Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1881) ·
1940
Ιdouard Vuillard,
French painter (b. 1868) ·
1951 Charles Dillon
Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867) ·
1951
Gustave Sandras,
French gymnast (b. 1872) ·
1952 Wop May, Canadian captain and pilot (b.
1896) ·
1954 Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer,
developed the zipper (b. 1880) ·
1957 Claude Farrθre,
French captain and author (b. 1876) ·
1957
Johannes Stark,
German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1874) ·
1964 James Chaney, American civil rights activist
(b. 1943) ·
1964
Andrew Goodman,
American civil rights activist (b. 1943) ·
1964
Michael Schwerner,
American civil rights activist (b. 1939) ·
1967 Theodore
Sizer, American professor of the history of art (b. 1892) ·
1969 Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b.
1934) ·
1970 Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician,
1st President of
Indonesia (b. 1901) ·
1970
Piers Courage,
English race car driver (b. 1942) ·
1976 Margaret Herrick, American librarian (b.
1902) ·
1980 Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and
composer (b. 1923) ·
1981 Don Figlozzi, American illustrator and
animator (b. 1909) ·
1985 Hector Boyardee, Italian-American chef and
businessman, founded Chef Boyardee (b. 1897) ·
1985
Tage Erlander,
Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister
of Sweden (b. 1901) ·
1986 Assi Rahbani, Lebanese singer-songwriter and
producer (b. 1923) ·
1987 Madman Muntz, American engineer and
businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company (b.
1914) ·
1988 Bobby Dodd, American football coach (b.
1908) ·
1990 Cedric Belfrage, English journalist and
author, co-founded the National Guardian (b.
1904) ·
1990
June Christy,
American singer (b. 1925) ·
1992 Ben
Alexander, Australian rugby league player (b. 1971) ·
1992
Arthur Gorrie,
Australian hobby shop proprietor (b. 1922) ·
1992
Rudra Mohammad
Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (b. 1956) ·
1992
Li Xiannian, Chinese captain and politician,
3rd President
of the People's Republic of China (b. 1909) ·
1994 William Wilson
Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906) ·
1997 Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer,
director, and producer (b. 1931) ·
1997
Fidel Velαzquez
Sαnchez, Mexican trade union leader (b. 1900) ·
1998 Harry Cranbrook
Allen, English historian (b. 1917) ·
1998
Anastasio
Ballestrero, Italian cardinal (b. 1913) ·
1998
Al Campanis, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1916) ·
1999 Kami, Japanese drummer (b. 1973) ·
2000 Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist
and composer (b. 1911) ·
2001 John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1917) ·
2001
Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress and singer (b.
1942) ·
2001
Carroll O'Connor,
American actor and producer (b. 1924) ·
2002 Timothy Findley, Canadian author and
playwright (b. 1930) ·
2003 Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach (b. 1934) ·
2003
Leon Uris, American soldier and author (b.
1924) ·
2004 Leonel Brizola, Brazilian engineer and
politician, Governor of
Rio de Janeiro (b. 1922) ·
2004
Ruth Leach Amonette,
American businesswoman (b. 1916) ·
2005 Jaime Sin, Filipino cardinal (b. 1928) ·
2006 Jared C. Monti, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1975) ·
2007 Bob Evans,
American businessman, founded Bob Evans
Restaurants (b. 1918) ·
2008 Scott Kalitta, American race car driver (b.
1962) ·
2010 Russell Ash, English author (b. 1946)[28] ·
2010
Irwin Barker,
Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1956) ·
2010
İlhan Selηuk,
Turkish lawyer, journalist, and author (b. 1925) ·
2011 Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author and poet
(b. 1927) ·
2012 Richard Adler, American composer and
producer (b. 1921) ·
2012
Abid Hussain,
Indian economist and diplomat, Indian
Ambassador to the United States (b. 1926) ·
2012
Sunil Janah, Indian photographer and
journalist (b. 1918) ·
2012
Anna Schwartz,
American economist and author (b. 1915) ·
2013 James P. Gordon, American physicist and
academic (b. 1928) ·
2013
Elliott Reid,
American actor and screenwriter (b. 1920) ·
2014 Yozo Ishikawa, Japanese politician, Japanese
Minister of Defense (b. 1925) ·
2014
Walter Kieber,
Austrian-Liechtenstein politician, 7th Prime
Minister of Liechtenstein (b. 1931) ·
2014
Wong Ho Leng,
Malaysian lawyer and politician (b. 1959) ·
2015 Darryl Hamilton, American baseball player
and sportscaster (b. 1964) ·
2015
Veijo Meri, Finnish author and poet (b.
1928) ·
2015
Remo Remotti,
Italian actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1924) ·
2015
Alexander
Schalck-Golodkowski, German soldier and politician (b. 1932) ·
2015
Gunther Schuller,
American horn player, composer, and conductor (b. 1925) ·
2016 Pierre Lalonde, Canadian television host and
singer (b. 1941) ·
2018 Charles Krauthammer,
American columnist and conservative political commentator (b.1950) Holidays and observances ·
Christian feast day: o June
21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Father's Day (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Uganda, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates) ·
International Yoga
Day (international) ·
National
Aboriginal Day (Canada) ·
Solstice-related observances (see
also June 20): o We Tripantu, a winter solstice festival in
the southern hemisphere. (Mapuche, southern Chile) o Willkakuti, an Andean-Amazonic New Year (Aymara) ·
World Humanist Day (Humanism) ·
World Hydrography
Day (international) |
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