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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
192 days remain until the end of the year. On this day the Summer solstice may occur in the
Northern Hemisphere, and the Winter solstice may occur in the
Southern Hemisphere. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events ·
217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV
Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the
Great of the Seleucid kingdom.[1] ·
168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius
Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who
surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.[2] ·
813 – Battle of Versinikia:
The Bulgars led by Krum defeat
the Byzantine army
near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is
forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.[3] ·
910 –
The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard,
Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine). ·
1527 – Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces
from Sunda Kelapa, now
regarded as the foundation of Jakarta. ·
1593 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops
defeat the Ottomans. ·
1633 –
The Holy
Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the
Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after
heated controversy. ·
1774 –
The British pass the Quebec Act, setting
out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America. ·
1783 –
A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of
the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France. ·
1807 –
In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British
warship HMS Leopard attacks
and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake. ·
1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American
plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer
journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon. ·
1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are
assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota,
which had resulted in the Trail of Tears. ·
1870 –
The United
States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress. ·
1893 –
The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally
rams the British
Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which
sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral
Sir George Tryon. ·
1897 – British colonial officers Charles
Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and
Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged. ·
1898 – Spanish–American War:
In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S.
Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba,
about 16 miles (26 km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y
Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them
two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.[4] ·
1907 –
The London Underground's Charing
Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens. ·
1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen
of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ·
1911
– Mexican Revolution:
Government forces bring an end to the Magonista
rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of
Tijuana.[5][6] ·
1918 –
The Hammond Circus
Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana. ·
1940 – World War II: France is forced to sign
the Second
Compičgne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which
the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918. ·
1941 –
World War II: Nazi Germany invades
the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. ·
1942 –
World War II: Erwin Rommel is
promoted to Field Marshal after
the Axis capture of
Tobruk. ·
1942
– The Pledge
of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress. ·
1944 –
World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against
the Army Group Centre. ·
1944
– U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of
1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill. ·
1945 –
World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes
to an end. ·
1948 –
The ship HMT Empire
Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern
immigration to the United Kingdom.[7] ·
1948
– King George VI formally
gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after
Britain actually gave up its rule of India.[8] ·
1965 –
The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the
Republic of Korea is signed.[9] ·
1966 – Vietnamese Buddhist activist
leader Thích Trí Quang was
arrested as the military junta of Nguyen Cao Ky crushed the Buddhist Uprising.[10][11] ·
1969 –
The Cuyahoga River catches
fire in Cleveland, Ohio,
drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of
the Clean Water Act and
the creation of the Environmental
Protection Agency.[12] ·
1978 – Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to
be discovered, was first seen at the United
States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy. ·
1984 – Virgin Atlantic launches with its first
flight from London to Newark.[13] ·
1986 –
The famous Hand of God goal,
scored by Diego Maradona in
the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match
between Argentina and
England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century.
Argentina wins 2–1 and later goes on to win the World Cup. ·
1990 – Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is
dismantled in Berlin. ·
2000 – Wuhan Airlines
Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.[14] ·
2002 –
An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a
region of northwestern Iran killing at least
261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public
anger due to the slow official response. ·
2009 –
A Washington D.C Metro
train traveling southbound near Fort Totten
station collides
into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people
are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at
least 80 others are injured.[15] ·
2012 – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from
office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco. ·
2012
– A Turkish Air Force McDonnell
Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot
down by the Syrian Armed Forces,
killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations
between Turkey and Syria. ·
2015 –
The Afghan
National Assembly building is attacked by
gunmen after a suicide bombing. All six of the gunmen are
killed and 18 people are injured. Births ·
662 – Rui Zong,
emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 716) ·
916 – Sayf al-Dawla, founder of the Emirate of
Aleppo (d. 967) ·
1000 – Robert I,
duke of Normandy (d. 1035) ·
1373 – Elizabeth Bonifacia,
heiress of Poland (d. 1399) ·
1427 – Lucrezia Tornabuoni,
Italian writer and wife of Piero di
Cosimo de' Medici (d. 1482) ·
1450 – Eleanor
of Naples, duchess of Ferrara (d. 1493) ·
1477 – Thomas
Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, English nobleman (d. 1530) ·
1593 – Sir John Gell,
1st Baronet, English politician and militarian (d. 1671) ·
1680 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister and
theologian (d. 1754) ·
1684 – Francesco Manfredini,
Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762) ·
1704 – John
Taylor, English author and scholar (d. 1766) ·
1713 – John Sackville,
English cricketer and politician (d. 1765) ·
1738 – Jacques Delille, French poet and translator
(d. 1813) ·
1757 – George Vancouver, English lieutenant and
explorer (d. 1798) ·
1763 – Étienne Méhul,
French pianist and composer (d. 1817) ·
1767 – Wilhelm von Humboldt,
German philosopher, academic, and politician, Interior
Minister of Prussia (d. 1835) ·
1792 – James Beaumont
Neilson, Scottish engineer and businessman (d. 1865) ·
1805 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian journalist and
politician (d. 1872) ·
1820 – James Hutchison
Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (d. 1909) ·
1834 – William Chester
Minor, American surgeon and linguist (d. 1920) ·
1837 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884) ·
1837
– Ernst Ziller,
German-Greek architect, designed the Presidential
Mansion (d. 1923) ·
1844 – Oscar von Gebhardt,
German theologian and academic (d. 1906) ·
1845 – Tom Dula, American soldier (d. 1868) ·
1845
– Richard Seddon,
English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister
of New Zealand (d. 1906) ·
1855 – Samuel Morris,
Australian cricketer (d. 1931) ·
1856 – Henry Rider Haggard, English novelist (d.
1925) ·
1861 – Maximilian von Spee,
Danish-German admiral (d. 1914) ·
1864 – Hermann Minkowski,
German mathematician and academic (d. 1909) ·
1871 – William
McDougall, English psychologist and polymath (d. 1938) ·
1873 – Filippo Silvestri,
Italian entomologist and academic (d. 1949) ·
1874 – Walter Friedrich
Otto, German philologist and scholar (d. 1958) ·
1876 – Pascual Díaz y
Barreto, Mexican archbishop (d. 1936) ·
1879 – Thibaudeau Rinfret,
Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of
Canada (d. 1962) ·
1880 – Johannes Drost, Dutch swimmer (d. 1954) ·
1884 – James Rector, American sprinter and lawyer
(d. 1949) ·
1885 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess
player (d. 1962) ·
1887 – Julian Huxley, English biologist and
academic (d. 1975) ·
1888 – Harold Hitz Burton,
American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of
Cleveland (d. 1964) ·
1890 – Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and
politician, 4th Prime
Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 1970) ·
1891 – Franz Alexander, Hungarian psychoanalyst and
physician (d. 1964) ·
1892 – Robert Ritter von
Greim, German general and pilot (d. 1945) ·
1894 – Bernard Ashmole, English archaeologist and
art historian (d. 1988) ·
1896 – Leonard W. Murray,
Canadian admiral (d. 1971) ·
1897 – Edmund A. Chester,
American journalist and broadcaster (d. 1973) ·
1897
– Norbert Elias,
German-Dutch sociologist and philosopher (d. 1990) ·
1898 – Erich Maria Remarque,
German-Swiss soldier and author (d. 1970) ·
1899 – Richard Gurley Drew,
American engineer, invented Masking tape (d. 1980) ·
1899
– Michał Kalecki,
Polish economist and academic (d. 1970) ·
1900 – Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract
artist, filmmaker, and painter (d. 1967) ·
1901 – Elias Katz, Finnish runner and coach (d.
1947) ·
1902 – Marguerite De La
Motte, American actress (d. 1950) ·
1903 – John Dillinger, American criminal (d. 1934) ·
1903
– Carl Hubbell,
American baseball player (d. 1988) ·
1906 – William Kneale, English logician and
philosopher (d. 1990) ·
1906
– Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, American pilot and author (d. 2001) ·
1906
– Billy Wilder,
Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002) ·
1907 – Eriks Ādamsons,
Latvian writer, poet, and novelist (d. 1946) ·
1909 – Katherine Dunham, American dancer and
choreographer (d. 2006) ·
1909
– Infanta Beatriz
of Spain, Spanish aristocratic (d. 2002) ·
1909
– Mike Todd, American producer and manager (d.
1958) ·
1910 – John Hunt, Baron
Hunt, Indian-English lieutenant and mountaineer (d. 1998) ·
1910
– Anne Ziegler,
English singer (d. 2003) ·
1910
– Konrad Zuse, German computer scientist and
engineer, invented the Z3 computer (d. 1995) ·
1911 – Vernon Kirby, South African tennis player
(d. 1994) ·
1912 – Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d.
1983) ·
1912
– Raymonde Allain,
French model and actress (d. 2008) ·
1913 – Sándor Weöres,
Hungarian poet and author (d. 1989) ·
1914 – Mei Zhi, Chinese author and essayist (d.
2004) ·
1915 – Dolf van der Linden,
Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1999) ·
1915
– Cornelius Warmerdam,
American pole vaulter and coach (d. 2001) ·
1915
– Randolph Hokanson,
American pianist (d. 2018) ·
1915
– Thomas Quinn Curtiss,
American writer, and film and theatre critic (d. 2000) ·
1916 – Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer
(d. 1982) ·
1916
– Richard Eastham,
American actor (d. 2005) ·
1916
– Emil Fackenheim,
Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi (d. 2003) ·
1918 – Cicely Saunders, English Anglican nurse,
social worker, physician and writer (d. 2005) ·
1918
– Yeoh Ghim Seng,
Singaporean politician, acting President of
Singapore (d. 1993)[16] ·
1919 – Gower Champion, American dancer and
choreographer (d. 1980) ·
1919
– Henri Tajfel,
Polish social psychologist (d. 1982) ·
1919
– Clifton McNeely,
American basketball player and coach (d. 2003) ·
1920 – James H. Pomerene,
American computer scientist and engineer (d. 2008) ·
1920
– Jovito Salonga,
Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President
of the Senate of the Philippines (d. 2016)[17] ·
1921 – Joseph Papp, American director and producer
(d. 1991) ·
1921
– Barbara Vucanovich,
American lawyer and politician (d. 2013) ·
1921
– Radovan Ivšić,
Croatian writer (d. 2009) ·
1921
– Barbara Perry,
American actress (d. 2019) ·
1922 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer,
founded Bill Blass Group (d.
2002) ·
1922
– Clair Cameron
Patterson, American scientist (d. 1995) ·
1923 – José Giovanni, French-Swiss director and
screenwriter (d. 2004) ·
1924 – Christopher Booth,
English clinician and historian (d. 2012) ·
1924
– Larkin Kerwin,
Canadian physicist and academic (d. 2004) ·
1926 – George Englund, American film editor,
director, producer and actor (d. 2017) ·
1926
– Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister
of Lebanon (d. 2014) ·
1926
– Doreen Mantle,
South African-English actress ·
1927 – Anthony Low, Indian-English historian and
academic (d. 2015) ·
1928 – Ralph Waite, American actor and director (d.
2014) ·
1929 – Bruce Kent, English activist and laicised
Roman Catholic priest ·
1930 – Yuri Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer,
and astronaut (d. 1998) ·
1930
– Walter Bonatti,
Italian journalist and mountaineer (d. 2011) ·
1931 – Ruby Garrard Woodson,
American educator and cultural historian (d. 2008)[18] ·
1932 – Soraya
Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Princess of Iran (d. 2001) ·
1932
– Yevgeny Kychanov,
Russian orientalist, historian, and academic (d. 2013) ·
1932
– Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005) ·
1932
– June Salter, Australian actress (d. 2001) ·
1932
– Prunella Scales,
English actress ·
1932
– John Wakeham,
Baron Wakeham, English businessman and politician, Leader of
the House of Lords ·
1933 – Dianne Feinstein, American politician ·
1934 – James Bjorken, American physicist, author,
and academic ·
1936 – Kris Kristofferson,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ·
1936
– Ferran Olivella,
Spanish footballer ·
1936
– Hermeto Pascoal,
Brazilian accordion player and composer ·
1937 – Chris Blackwell, English record producer,
co-founded Island Records ·
1937
– Bernie McGann,
Australian saxophonist and composer (d. 2013) ·
1939 – Don Matthews, American-Canadian football
player and coach (d. 2017) ·
1939
– Ed Paschke, Polish-American painter and
academic (d. 2004) ·
1940 – Joan Busfield, English sociologist,
psychologist, and academic ·
1940
– Hubert Chesshyre,
English historian and author ·
1940
– Abbas Kiarostami,
Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016) ·
1940
– Esther Rantzen,
English journalist ·
1941 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006) ·
1941
– Terttu Savola,
Finnish journalist and politician ·
1943 – Brit Hume, American journalist and author ·
1943
– Klaus Maria
Brandauer, Austrian actor and director ·
1944 – Peter Asher, English singer, guitarist, and
producer ·
1944
– Helmut Dietl,
German director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015) ·
1945 – Rainer Brüderle,
German economist and politician, German Minister of Economics and Technology ·
1946 – Linda Bond, Canadian 19th General of
The Salvation Army ·
1946
– Sheila
Hollins, Baroness Hollins, English psychiatrist and academic ·
1946
– Eliades Ochoa,
Cuban singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1946
– Józef Oleksy,
Polish economist and politician, 7th Prime Minister
of Poland (d. 2015) ·
1946
– Stephen Waley-Cohen,
English journalist and businessman ·
1947 – Octavia E. Butler,
American author (d. 2006) ·
1947
– Howard Kaylan,
American pop-rock singer-songwriter and musician ·
1947
– Pete Maravich,
American basketball player (d. 1988) ·
1947
– Jerry Rawlings,
Ghanaian lieutenant and politician, President of Ghana ·
1948 – James
Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss, Scottish businessman ·
1948
– Todd Rundgren,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1949 – Larry Junstrom, American bass player ·
1949
– Brian Leveson,
English lawyer and judge ·
1949
– Alan Osmond, American singer and producer ·
1949
– Meryl Streep,
American actress and singer ·
1949
– Luís Filipe Vieira,
Portuguese businessman ·
1949
– Lindsay Wagner,
American actress ·
1949
– Elizabeth Warren,
American academic and politician ·
1950 – Sharon Maughan, English actress ·
1950
– Adrian Năstase,
Romanian lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister
of Romania ·
1950
– Greg Oliphant,
Australian rugby league player ·
1950
– Zenonas Petrauskas,
Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009) ·
1950
– Tom Alter, Indian actor (d. 2017) ·
1951 – Brian Cookson, British cyclist and sports
administrator ·
1951
– Craig Gruber,
American bass player (d. 2015) ·
1951
– Humphrey Ocean,
English painter and academic ·
1952 – Graham Greene,
Canadian actor ·
1952
– Santokh Singh,
Malaysian football player ·
1953 – Wim Eijk, Dutch cardinal ·
1953
– Mauro Francaviglia,
Italian mathematician and academic (d. 2013) ·
1953
– Cyndi Lauper,
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress ·
1953
– Bruce McAvaney,
Australian journalist and sportscaster ·
1954 – Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor
(d. 1977) ·
1955 – Green Gartside, Welsh singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1955
– Christine Orengo,
British academic and educator ·
1956 – Darryl Brohman, Australian rugby league
player and sportscaster ·
1956
– Alfons De Wolf,
Belgian cyclist ·
1956
– Shah Mehmood Qureshi,
Pakistani agriculturist and politician, 25th Pakistani
Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1956
– Tim Russ, American actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1956
– Markus Schatte,
German footballer, manager, and coach ·
1956
– Derek Forbes,
Scottish bass player and guitarist ·
1957 – Danny Baker, English journalist and
screenwriter ·
1957
– Garry Gary Beers,
Australian bass player, songwriter, and producer ·
1957
– Kevin
Bond, English footballer and manager ·
1957
– Michael Stratton,
English geneticist and academic ·
1958 – Rocío Banquells,
Mexican pop singer and actress[19] ·
1958
– Bruce Campbell,
American actor, director, producer and writer ·
1959 – Michael Kinane, Irish jockey ·
1959
– Nicola Sirkis,
French singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1959
– Daniel Xuereb,
French footballer ·
1960 – Erin Brockovich, American lawyer and
environmentalist ·
1960
– Margrit Klinger,
German runner ·
1960
– Tracy Pollan,
American actress ·
1961 – Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter ·
1962 – Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1962
– Bobby Gillespie,
Scottish musician and singer-songwriter ·
1962
– Clyde Drexler,
American basketball player and coach ·
1962
– Gerald Hillringhaus,
German footballer ·
1963 – Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 61st Yokozuna ·
1963
– John Tenta, Canadian-American wrestler (d. 2006) ·
1964 – Cadillac Anderson,
American basketball player ·
1964
– Amy Brenneman,
American actress ·
1964
– Dan Brown, American author and academic ·
1964
– Miroslav Kadlec,
Czech footballer ·
1965 – Uwe Boll, German director, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1965
– Ľubomír
Moravčík, Czech footballer and manager ·
1966 – Michael Park,
English racing driver (d. 2005) ·
1966
– Emmanuelle Seigner,
French actress ·
1966
– Dean Woods, Australian cyclist ·
1968 – Darrell Armstrong,
American basketball player and coach ·
1968
– Miri Yu, Zainichi, Korean novelist ·
1971 – Gary Connolly, English rugby player ·
1971
– Mary Lynn Rajskub,
American actress and comedian ·
1971
– Kurt Warner, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1972 – Damien Oliver, Australian jockey ·
1973 – Carson Daly, American radio and television
host[20] ·
1974 – Jo Cox, British MP (d. 2016)[21] ·
1974
– Vijay, Indian
film actor in Tamil cinema[22] ·
1975 – Urmas Reinsalu, Estonian academic and
politician, 28th Estonian
Minister of Defence ·
1978 – Champ Bailey, American football player ·
1978
– Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (d. 2011) ·
1979 – Joey Cheek, American speed skater ·
1979
– Thomas Voeckler,
French cyclist ·
1980 – Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player ·
1980
– Stephanie Jacobsen,
Hong Kong-Australian actress ·
1981 – Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player ·
1981
– Aquivaldo Mosquera,
Colombian footballer ·
1982 – Andoni Iraola, Spanish footballer ·
1982
– Ian Kinsler, American baseball player ·
1982
– Soraia Chaves,
Portuguese actress and model ·
1983 – Allar Raja, Estonian rower ·
1984 – Dustin Johnson, American golfer ·
1984
– Rubén Iván Martínez,
Spanish footballer ·
1984
– Jerome Taylor,
Jamaican cricketer ·
1984
– Janko
Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player ·
1985 – Thomas Leuluai, New Zealand rugby league
player ·
1987 – Danny Green,
American basketball player ·
1987
– Nikita Rukavytsya,
Ukrainian-Australian footballer ·
1988 – Omri Casspi, Israeli basketball player ·
1989 – Cédric Mongongu,
Congolese footballer ·
1989
– Jung Yong-hwa,
South Korean singer-songwriter and actor ·
1990 – Sebastian Jung, German footballer ·
1991 – Hugo Mallo, Spanish footballer ·
1992 – Ura Kazuki, Japanese sumo wrestler ·
1992
– Harry Reid,
British actor ·
1993 – Loris Karius, German footballer ·
1994 – Sebastien Haller, French footballer ·
1994
– Carlos
Vinícius Santos de Jesus, Brazilian footballer ·
1996 – Mikel Merino, Spanish footballer ·
1999 – Sam Retford, Australian-English actor Deaths ·
431 – Paulinus of Nola, Christian bishop and poet
(b. 354) ·
910 – Gebhard,
Frankish nobleman ·
910
– Gerhard I,
Frankish nobleman ·
947 – Qian Hongzuo, king of Wuyue (b. 928) ·
1017 – Leo Passianos, Byzantine general ·
1101 – Roger I of Sicily,
Norman nobleman (b. 1031) ·
1276 – Innocent V, pope of the Catholic Church (b.
1225) ·
1343 – Aimone, Count of
Savoy (b. 1291) ·
1429 – Jamshīd
al-Kāshī, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380) ·
1521 – Leonardo Loredan, Italian politician,
76th Doge of Venice (b.
1436)[23] ·
1535 – John Fisher, English bishop and saint (b.
1469) ·
1632 – James Whitelocke, English judge and
politician, Chief Justice of
Chester (b. 1570) ·
1634 – Johann von Aldringen,
Austrian field marshal (b. 1588) ·
1664 – Katherine Philips,
Anglo-Welsh poet (b. 1631) ·
1699 – Josiah Child, English merchant, economist,
and politician (b. 1630) ·
1714 – Matthew Henry, Welsh minister and author (b.
1662) ·
1766 – Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (b.
1696)[24] ·
1868 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader
(b. 1801) ·
1872 – Rudecindo Alvarado,
Argentinian general (b. 1792) ·
1874 – Howard Staunton, English chess player (b.
1810) ·
1892 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet,
French mathematician and academic (b. 1819) ·
1894 – Alexandre-Antonin
Taché, Canadian archbishop and missionary (b. 1823) ·
1905 – Francis Lubbock, American colonel and
politician, 9th Governor of
Texas (b. 1815) ·
1913 – Ștefan
Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet and translator (b. 1875) ·
1925 – Felix Klein, German mathematician and
academic (b. 1849) ·
1928 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator and
painter (b. 1851) ·
1931 – Armand Falličres,
French politician, 9th President of France (b.
1841) ·
1933 – Tim Birkin, English racing driver and
lieutenant (b. 1896) ·
1935 – Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and
diplomat (b. 1866) ·
1936 – Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist
and philosopher (b. 1882) ·
1938 – C. J. Dennis, Australian poet and author (b.
1876) ·
1940 – Monty Noble, Australian cricketer and
sportscaster (b. 1873) ·
1942 – August Froehlich, German priest and activist
(b. 1891) ·
1945 – Isamu Chō, Japanese general (b. 1895) ·
1945
– Mitsuru Ushijima,
Japanese general (b. 1887) ·
1956 – Walter de la Mare,
English poet, short story writer and novelist (b. 1873) ·
1959 – Hermann Brill, German educator and
politician, 8th Minister-President
of Thuringia (b. 1895) ·
1964 – Havank, Dutch journalist and author (b.
1904) ·
1965 – David O. Selznick,
American screenwriter and producer (b. 1902) ·
1966 – Thaddeus Shideler,
American hurdler (b. 1883) ·
1969 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer
(b. 1922) ·
1970 – Đặng
Thůy Trâm, Vietnamese surgeon and author (b. 1942) ·
1974 – Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator
(b. 1892) ·
1977 – Jacqueline Audry, French director and
screenwriter (b. 1908) ·
1977
– Peter Laughner,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the
Tombs and Pere Ubu) (b. 1952) ·
1979 – Louis Chiron, Monégasque race car driver (b.
1899) ·
1984 – Joseph Losey, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1909) ·
1987 – Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer (b.
1899) ·
1988 – Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b.
1916) ·
1990 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1908) ·
1993 – Pat Nixon, American educator, 37th First
Lady of the United States (b. 1912) ·
1995 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter
(b. 1931) ·
1995
– Al Hansen, American sculptor and author (b.
1927) ·
1997 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (b.
1956) ·
1997
– Gérard Pelletier,
Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1919) ·
2003 – Vasil Bykaŭ, Belarusian war novelist
(b. 1924) ·
2004 – Bob Bemer, American computer scientist and
engineer (b. 1920) ·
2004
– Mattie Stepanek,
American poet and author (b. 1990) ·
2007 – Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player
(b. 1964) ·
2008 – Natalia Bekhtereva,
Russian neuroscientist and psychologist (b. 1924) ·
2008
– George Carlin,
American comedian, actor, and author (b. 1937) ·
2008
– Dody Goodman,
American actress and dancer (b. 1914) ·
2011 – Coşkun
Özarı, Turkish footballer and coach (b. 1931) ·
2012 – Juan Luis Galiardo,
Spanish actor and producer (b. 1922) ·
2013 – Henning Larsen, Danish architect, designed
the Copenhagen Opera
House (b. 1925) ·
2013
– Allan
Simonsen, Danish race car driver (b. 1978) ·
2014 – Fouad Ajami, Lebanese-American author and
academic (b. 1945) ·
2014
– Rama Narayanan,
Indian director and producer (b. 1949) ·
2015 – James Horner, American composer and
conductor (b. 1953) ·
2017 – Mao Kobayashi,
Japanese newscaster and actress (b. 1982) ·
2017
– Quett Masire,
Botswanan politician (b. 1926) ·
2018 – Vinnie Paul, American musician (b. 1964)[25] Holidays and observances ·
Christian feast day: o Alban, first recorded Martyr in Britain
(commemoration, Anglicanism) o Blessed Pope Innocent V o Eusebius of Samosata (Orthodox Church) o John Fisher (Catholic Church) o Thomas More (Catholic Church) o June
22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Anti-Fascist
Struggle Day (Croatia) ·
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great
Patriotic War (Belarus) ·
Father's Day (Guernsey, Isle of Man, and Jersey) |
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