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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
191 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor
of Eastern Wu. ·
1266 – War of Saint Sabas:
In the Battle of Trapani,
the Venetians defeat
a larger Genoese fleet,
capturing all its ships. ·
1280 –
The Spanish Reconquista:
In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate of Granada ambush
a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for
the Kingdom of Castile.[1] ·
1305 –
A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed
at Athis-sur-Orge. ·
1314 – First
War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of
Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.[2] ·
1532 – Henry VIII of
England and Francis I of France sign
the "Treaty of Closer Amity With France" (also known as the
Pommeraye treaty), pledging mutual aid against Charles V,
Holy Roman Emperor.[3] ·
1565 – Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta. ·
1594 –
The Action of Faial,
Azores. The Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas, loaded with slaves
and treasure, is attacked and sunk by English ships with only 13 survivors
out of over 700 on board.[4] ·
1611 –
The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's
fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an
open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again. ·
1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty
with Lenni Lenape Indians
in Pennsylvania. ·
1713 –
The French residents of Acadia are given one
year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada. ·
1757 – Battle of Plassey:
Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong
Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey. ·
1758 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld:
British, Hanoverian, and Prussian forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany. ·
1760 –
Seven Years' War: Battle of
Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia. ·
1780 – American Revolution: Battle of
Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills,
formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township). ·
1794 –
Empress Catherine II of
Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kyiv. ·
1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company. ·
1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the
restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons
for going to war. ·
1860 –
The United States
Congress establishes the Government
Printing Office. ·
1865 – American Civil War:
At Fort Towson in
the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last
significant Confederate army. ·
1868 – Christopher
Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called
the "Type-Writer". ·
1887 –
The Rocky Mountains
Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's
first national park, Banff National Park. ·
1894 –
The International
Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in
Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. ·
1913 – Second Balkan War:
The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran. ·
1914 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta. ·
1917 –
In a game against the Washington
Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row
after replacing Babe Ruth, who had
been ejected for punching the umpire. ·
1919 – Estonian War
of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in
the Battle of
Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia. ·
1926 –
The College Board administers
the first SAT exam. ·
1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt
Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a
single-engine plane. ·
1938 –
The Civil Aeronautics
Act is signed into law, forming the Civil
Aeronautics Authority in the United States. ·
1940 – Adolf Hitler goes on a three-hour tour
of the architecture of
Paris with architect Albert Speer and sculptor Arno Breker in his only visit to the
city. ·
1940
– Henry Larsen begins
the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from
Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada.[5] ·
1941 –
The Lithuanian
Activist Front declares independence from
the Soviet Union and
forms the Provisional
Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks
later. ·
1942 – World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190,
is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales. ·
1946 –
The 1946
Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. ·
1947 –
The United States Senate follows
the United
States House of Representatives in overriding U.S.
President Harry S. Truman's veto of
the Taft–Hartley Act. ·
1951 –
The ocean liner SS United States is
christened and launched. ·
1956 –
The French National
Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers
from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa. ·
1959 –
Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine
years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a
scientific career. ·
1960 –
The United States Food and
Drug Administration declares Enovid to
be the first officially approved combined
oral contraceptive pill in the world. ·
1961 –
The Antarctic Treaty
System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and
limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes
into force. ·
1967 –
Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets
with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New
Jersey for the three-day Glassboro
Summit Conference. ·
1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief
Justice of the United
States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren. ·
1969
– IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and
services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry. ·
1972 – Watergate scandal:
U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about
using the Central
Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal
Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.[6] ·
1972
– Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act
of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any
educational program receiving federal funds. ·
1973 –
A fire at a house in Hull,
England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it
later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven
years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale. ·
1985 –
A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita
International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same
group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182,
bringing the Boeing 747 down
off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.[7] ·
1994 – NASA's Space
Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International
Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.[8] ·
2001 –
The 8.4 Mw southern
Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami
followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured. ·
2012 – Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon
world record at the United States Olympic Trials.[9] ·
2013 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first man
to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope. ·
2013
– Militants stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan,
Pakistan killing
ten climbers, and a local guide. ·
2014 –
The last of Syria's declared
chemical weapons are shipped
out for destruction. ·
2016 –
The United Kingdom votes
in a referendum to leave the European Union,
by 52% to 48%. ·
2017 – A series of
terrorist attacks took place in Pakistan resulting in 96 deaths and
wounded 200 others. Births[edit] ·
47 BC – Caesarion, Egyptian king (d. 30 BC) ·
1385 – Stefan, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (d.
1459) ·
1433 – Francis II,
Duke of Brittany (d. 1488) ·
1456 – Margaret
of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (d. 1486) ·
1489 – Charles II,
Duke of Savoy, Italian nobleman (d. 1496) ·
1534 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582) ·
1596 – Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (d. 1641) ·
1616 – Shah Shuja,
Mughal prince (d. 1661) ·
1625 – John Fell,
English churchman and influential academic (d. 1686) ·
1668 – Giambattista Vico,
Italian jurist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1744) ·
1683 – Étienne Fourmont,
French orientalist and sinologist (d. 1745) ·
1711 – Giovanni
Battista Guadagnini, Italian instrument maker (d. 1786) ·
1716 – Fletcher
Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor
General for England and Wales (d. 1789) ·
1750 – Déodat Gratet
de Dolomieu, French geologist and academic (d. 1801) ·
1763 – Joséphine de
Beauharnais, French wife of Napoleon I (d. 1814) ·
1799 – John Milton
Bernhisel, American physician and politician (d. 1881) ·
1800 – Karol Marcinkowski,
Polish physician and activist (d. 1846) ·
1824 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and
conductor (d. 1910) ·
1843 – Paul Heinrich von
Groth, German scientist (d. 1927) ·
1860 – Albert Giraud, Belgian poet and librarian
(d. 1929) ·
1863 – Sándor Bródy,
Hungarian author and journalist (d. 1924) ·
1877 – Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and
actor (d. 1929) ·
1879 – Huda Sha'arawi, Egyptian feminist and
journalist (d. 1947)[10] ·
1884 – Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player
and politician (d. 1979) ·
1888 – Bronson M. Cutting,
American publisher and politician (d. 1935) ·
1889 – Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet and
author (d. 1966) ·
1889
– Verena Holmes,
English engineer (d. 1964) ·
1894 – Harold Barrowclough,
New Zealand military leader, lawyer and Chief
Justice (d. 1972) ·
1894
– Alfred Kinsey,
American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956) ·
1894
– Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom (d.
1972) ·
1899 – Amédée Gordini,
Italian-born French race car driver and sports car manufacturer (d. 1979) ·
1900 – Blanche Noyes, American aviator, winner of
the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race (d.
1981) [11] ·
1901 – Ahmet Hamdi
Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (d. 1962) ·
1903 – Paul Martin Sr., Canadian lawyer and
politician (d. 1992) ·
1904 – Quintin McMillan, South African cricketer
(d. 1938) ·
1905 – Jack Pickersgill, Canadian civil servant and
politician, 35th Secretary
of State for Canada (d. 1997) ·
1906 – Tribhuvan of Nepal (d.
1955) ·
1907 – Dercy Gonçalves,
Brazilian actress and singer (d. 2008) ·
1907
– James Meade, English economist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1995) ·
1909 – David Lewis,
Russian-Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1981) ·
1909
– Georges Rouquier,
French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989) ·
1910 – Jean Anouilh, French playwright and
screenwriter (d. 1987) ·
1910
– Gordon B. Hinckley,
American religious leader, 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (d. 2008) ·
1910
– Milt Hinton, American bassist and
photographer (d. 2000) ·
1910
– Bill King,
English commander and author (d. 2012) ·
1910
– Lawson Little,
American golfer (d. 1968) ·
1912 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and
computer scientist (d. 1954)[12] ·
1913 – William P. Rogers,
American commander, lawyer, and politician, 55th United
States Secretary of State (d. 2001) ·
1915 – Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor
(d. 2016) ·
1916 – Len Hutton, English cricketer and soldier
(d. 1990) ·
1916
– Irene Worth, American actress (d. 2002) ·
1916
– Al G. Wright,
American bandleader and conductor (d. 2020) ·
1919 – Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician, President
of Algeria (d. 1992) ·
1920 – Saleh Ajeery, Kuwaiti astronomer ·
1921 – Paul Findley, American politician (d. 2019) ·
1922 – Morris R. Jeppson,
American lieutenant and physicist (d. 2010) ·
1922
– Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (d. 1998) ·
1923 – Peter Corr, Irish-English footballer and
manager (d. 2001) ·
1923
– Elroy Schwartz,
American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013) ·
1923
– Doris Johnson,
American politician ·
1923
– Jerry Rullo, American professional
basketball player (d. 2016) ·
1923
– Giuseppina Tuissi,
Italian communist and Partisan (d. 1945) ·
1924 – Frank Bolle, American comic-strip artist,
comic-book artist and illustrator (d. 2020) ·
1925 – Miriam Karlin, English actress (d. 2011) ·
1925
– Art Modell, American businessman (d. 2012) ·
1925
– Anna Chennault,
Chinese widow of Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault (d.
2018) ·
1926 – Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior,
English microbiologist and parasitologist (d. 2017) ·
1926
– Magda Herzberger,
Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust ·
1926
– Annette Mbaye
d'Erneville, Senegalese writer ·
1926
– Arnaldo Pomodoro,
Italian sculptor ·
1927 – Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer,
choreographer, and director (d. 1987) ·
1927
– John Habgood,
Baron Habgood, English archbishop (d. 2019) ·
1928 – Jean Cione, American baseball player (d.
2010) ·
1928
– Klaus von Dohnányi,
German politician ·
1928
– Michael Shaara,
American author and academic (d. 1988) ·
1929 – June Carter Cash, American
singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (d. 2003) ·
1929
– Mario Ghella,
Italian racing cyclist ·
1930 – Donn F. Eisele, American colonel, pilot, and
astronaut (d. 1987) ·
1930
– John Elliott,
English historian and academic ·
1930
– Francis
Newall, 2nd Baron Newall, English businessman and politician ·
1930
– Anthony Thwaite,
English poet, critic, and academic ·
1930
– Marie-Thérèse
Houphouët-Boigny, former First Lady of Ivory Coast ·
1931 – Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (d. 1981) ·
1931
– Ola Ullsten, Swedish politician and diplomat
(d. 2018) ·
1932 – Peter
Millett, Baron Millett, English lawyer and judge ·
1934 – Keith Sutton,
English bishop (d. 2017) ·
1934
– Bill Torrey, Canadian businessman (d. 2018) ·
1934
– Virbhadra Singh,
Indian politician ·
1935 – Maurice Ferré, Puerto Rican-American
politician, 32nd Mayor of Miami ·
1935
– Keith Burkinshaw,
English footballer and manager ·
1936 – Richard Bach, American novelist and essayist ·
1936
– Costas Simitis,
Greek economist, lawyer, and politician, 180th Prime Minister
of Greece ·
1937 – Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish captain and
politician, 10th President of Finland, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1937
– Alan Haselhurst,
English academic and politician ·
1937
– Niki Sullivan,
American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2004) ·
1939 – Scott Burton, American sculptor (d. 1989) ·
1940 – Adam Faith, English singer (d. 2003) ·
1940
– George Feigley,
American sex cult leader and two-time prison escapee (d. 2009) ·
1940
– Derry
Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Scottish lawyer, judge, and
politician, Lord High Chancellor of
Great Britain ·
1940
– Wilma Rudolph,
American runner (d. 1994) ·
1940
– Mike Shrimpton,
New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 2015) ·
1940
– Stuart Sutcliffe,
Scottish painter and musician (d. 1962) ·
1940
– Diana Trask, Australian singer-songwriter ·
1941 – Robert Hunter,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019) ·
1941
– Roger McDonald,
Australian author and screenwriter ·
1941
– Keith Newton,
English footballer (d. 1998) ·
1942 – Martin
Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, English cosmologist and astrophysicist ·
1943 – Patrick Bokanowski,
French filmmaker ·
1943
– Ellyn Kaschak,
American psychologist and academic ·
1943
– James Levine,
American pianist and conductor ·
1945 – Kjell Albin
Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and author ·
1945
– John Garang, Sudanese colonel and
politician, President
of Southern Sudan (d. 2005) ·
1946 – Julian Hipwood, English polo player and
coach ·
1946
– Ted Shackelford,
American actor ·
1947 – Bryan Brown, Australian actor and producer ·
1948 – Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and
judge, United States
Supreme Court Justice ·
1949 – Gordon Bray, Australian journalist and
sportscaster ·
1949
– Sheila
Noakes, Baroness Noakes, English accountant and politician ·
1951 – Angelo Falcón, Puerto Rican-American
political scientist, activist, and academic, founded the National
Institute for Latino Policy ·
1951
– Michèle Mouton,
French race car driver and manager ·
1951 – Raj Babbar, Indian actor and politician ·
1953 – Armen Sarkissian, Armenian physicist, politician
and current President of Armenia[13] ·
1955 – Pierre Corbeil, Canadian dentist and
politician ·
1955
– Glenn Danzig,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1955
– Jean Tigana, French footballer and manager ·
1956 – Daniel J. Drucker,
Canadian academic and educator ·
1956
– Tony Hill,
American football player and sportscaster ·
1956
– Randy Jackson,
American bass player and producer ·
1957 – Dave Houghton,
Zimbabwean cricketer and coach ·
1957
– Frances McDormand,
American actress, winner of the Triple Crown of
Acting ·
1958 – John
Hayes, English politician, Minister of State at the Department of Energy and
Climate Change ·
1960 – Donald Harrison, American saxophonist,
composer, and producer ·
1960
– Tatsuya Uemura,
Japanese composer and programmer ·
1961 – Richard Arnold,
English lawyer and judge ·
1961
– Zoran Janjetov,
Serbian singer and illustrator ·
1961
– LaSalle Thompson,
American basketball player, coach, and manager ·
1962 – Chuck Billy,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1963 – Colin Montgomerie,
Scottish golfer ·
1964 – Nicolas Marceau, Canadian economist and
politician ·
1964
– Tara Morice, Australian actress and singer ·
1964
– Joss Whedon, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1964
– Lou Yun, Chinese gymnast ·
1965 – Paul Arthurs, English guitarist ·
1965
– Sylvia Mathews
Burwell, American government and non-profit executive ·
1965
– Peter O'Malley,
Australian golfer ·
1966 – Chico DeBarge, American singer and pianist ·
1969 – Martin Klebba, American actor, producer, and
stuntman ·
1970 – Robert Brooks, American football player ·
1970
– Martin Deschamps,
Canadian singer-songwriter ·
1970
– Yann Tiersen,
French singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1971 – Fred Ewanuick, Canadian actor and producer ·
1971
– Félix Potvin,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1972 – Selma Blair, American actress ·
1972
– Louis Van Amstel,
Dutch dancer and choreographer ·
1972
– Zinedine Zidane,
French footballer and manager ·
1974 – Joel Edgerton, Australian actor ·
1974
– Mark Hendrickson,
American basketball and baseball player ·
1975 – Kevin Dyson, American football player and
coach ·
1975
– David Howell,
English golfer ·
1975
– Mike
James, American basketball player ·
1975
– KT Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter and
musician ·
1976 – Wade Barrett,
American soccer player and manager ·
1976
– Joe Becker,
American guitarist and composer ·
1976
– Savvas Poursaitidis,
Greek-Cypriot footballer and scout ·
1976
– Brandon Stokley,
American football player ·
1976
– Paola Suárez,
Argentinian tennis player ·
1976
– Emmanuelle Vaugier,
Canadian actress and singer ·
1976
– Patrick Vieira,
French footballer and manager ·
1977 – Miguel Ángel Angulo,
Spanish footballer ·
1977
– Hayden Foxe, Australian footballer and
manager ·
1977
– Jaan Jüris,
Estonian ski jumper ·
1977
– Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1977
– Shaun O'Hara,
American football player and sportscaster ·
1978 – Memphis Bleek, American rapper, producer,
and actor ·
1978
– Frederic Leclercq,
French heavy metal musician ·
1978
– Matt Light, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1979 – LaDainian Tomlinson,
American football player ·
1980 – Becky Cloonan, American author and
illustrator ·
1980
– Melissa Rauch,
American actress ·
1980
– Ramnaresh Sarwan,
Guyanese cricketer ·
1980
– Francesca Schiavone,
Italian tennis player[14] ·
1981 – Antony Costa, English singer-songwriter ·
1981
– Rolf Wacha, German rugby player ·
1982 – Derek Boogaard, Canadian-American ice hockey
player (d. 2011) ·
1983 – Brooks Laich, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1983
– José
Manuel Rojas, Chilean footballer ·
1984 – Duffy, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress ·
1984
– Takeshi Matsuda,
Japanese swimmer ·
1984
– Levern Spencer,
Saint Lucian high jumper ·
1985 – Marcel Reece, American football player ·
1986 – Christy Altomare, American actress and
singer songwriter ·
1987 – Alessia Filippi, Italian swimmer ·
1988 – Chet Faker, Australian singer-songwriter ·
1988
– Chellsie Memmel,
American gymnast ·
1989 – Lisa Carrington, New Zealand flatwater
canoeist[15] ·
1989
– Jordan Nolan,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1990 – Clevid Dikamona, French footballer ·
1990
– Vasek Pospisil,
Canadian tennis player ·
1990
– Laura Ràfols,
Spanish footballer[16] ·
1991 – Katie Armiger, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1992 – Luiza Galiulina, Uzbekistani gymnast ·
1992
– Nampalys Mendy,
French footballer ·
1993 – Tim Anderson,
American baseball player ·
1993
– Marvin Grumann,
German footballer ·
2004 – Alexandra Trusova,
Russian figure skater Deaths[edit] ·
AD 79 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (b. AD 9) ·
679 – Æthelthryth, English saint (b. 636) ·
947 – Li Congyi, prince of Later Tang (b. 931) ·
947
– Wang,
imperial consort of Later Tang ·
960 – Feng Yanji, chancellor of Southern Tang (b.
903) ·
994 – Lothair Udo
I, count of Stade (b. 950) ·
1018 – Henry I,
margrave of Austria ·
1137 – Adalbert of Mainz,
German archbishop ·
1222 – Constance of Aragon,
Hungarian queen (b. 1179) ·
1290 – Henryk IV Probus, duke of Wrocław and
high duke of Kraków (b. c. 1258) ·
1314 – Henry de Bohun, English knight ·
1324 – Aymer
de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (b. 1270) ·
1343 – Giacomo
Gaetani Stefaneschi, Italian cardinal (b. c. 1270) ·
1356 – Margaret
II, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1311) ·
1537 – Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (b.
1487) ·
1565 – Dragut, Ottoman admiral (b. 1485) ·
1582 – Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese commander (b.
1537) ·
1615 – Mashita Nagamori, Japanese daimyō (b.
1545) ·
1677 – William
Louis, duke of Württemberg (b. 1647) ·
1686 – William Coventry, English politician (b.
1628) ·
1707 – John Mill,
English theologian and author (b. 1645) ·
1733 – Johann Jakob
Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (b. 1672) ·
1770 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician
(b. 1721) ·
1775 – Karl Ludwig von
Pöllnitz, German adventurer and author (b. 1692) ·
1779 – Mikael Sehul, Ethiopian warlord (b. 1691) ·
1806 – Mathurin Jacques
Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (b. 1723) ·
1811 – Nicolau
Tolentino de Almeida, Portuguese poet and author (b. 1740) ·
1832 – Sir James
Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist (b. 1761) ·
1836 – James Mill, Scottish economist, historian,
and philosopher (b. 1773) ·
1848 – Maria
Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1776) ·
1856 – Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian philosopher and
critic (b. 1806) ·
1881 – Matthias Jakob
Schleiden, German botanist and academic (b. 1804) ·
1891 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber,
German physicist and academic (b. 1804) ·
1891
– Samuel Newitt Wood,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1825) ·
1893 – William Fox,
English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime
Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812) ·
1893
– Theophilus Shepstone,
English-South African politician (b. 1817) ·
1914 – Bhaktivinoda Thakur,
Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1838) ·
1945 – Giuseppina Tuissi,
Italian journalist and activist (b. 1923) ·
1953 – Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881) ·
1954 – Salih Omurtak, Turkish general (b. 1889) ·
1956 – Reinhold Glière,
Russian composer and educator (b. 1875) ·
1959 – Boris Vian, French author, poet, and
playwright (b. 1920) ·
1959
– Hidir Lutfi, Iraqi poet. (b. 1880) ·
1969 – Volmari Iso-Hollo,
Finnish runner (b. 1907) ·
1970 – Roscoe Turner, American soldier and pilot
(b. 1895) ·
1973 – Gerry Birrell, Scottish race car driver (b.
1944) ·
1980 – Sanjay Gandhi, Indian engineer and
politician (b. 1946) ·
1980
– Clyfford Still,
American painter and academic (b. 1904) ·
1989 – Werner Best, German police officer and
jurist (b. 1903) ·
1990 – Harindranath
Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor, and politician (b. 1898) ·
1992 – Eric Andolsek, American football player (b.
1966) ·
1995 – Roger Grimsby, American journalist (b. 1928) ·
1995
– Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician
(b. 1914) ·
1995
– Anatoli Tarasov,
Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918) ·
1996 – Andreas Papandreou,
Greek economist and politician, 174th Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1919) ·
1996
– Ray Lindwall,
Australian cricketer and rugby player (b. 1921) ·
1997 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and
activist (b. 1936) ·
1998 – Maureen O'Sullivan,
Irish-American actress (b. 1911) ·
2000 – Peter
Dubovský, Slovak footballer (b. 1972) ·
2002 – Pedro Alcázar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975) ·
2005 – Shana Alexander, American journalist and
author (b. 1926) ·
2005
– Manolis Anagnostakis,
Greek poet and critic (b. 1925) ·
2006 – Aaron Spelling, American actor, producer,
and screenwriter, founded Spelling Television (b.
1923) ·
2007 – Rod Beck, American baseball player (b. 1968) ·
2008 – Claudio Capone, Italian-Scottish actor (b.
1952) ·
2008
– Arthur Chung,
Guyanese surveyor and politician, 1st President of Guyana (b.
1918) ·
2008
– Marian Glinka,
Polish actor and bodybuilder (b. 1943) ·
2009 – Raymond Berthiaume,
Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1931) ·
2009
– Ed McMahon, American game show host and
announcer (b. 1923) ·
2009
– Jerri Nielsen,
American physician and explorer (b. 1952) ·
2010 – John Burton,
Australian public servant and diplomat (b. 1915) ·
2011 – Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927) ·
2011
– Dennis Marshall,
Costa Rican footballer (b. 1985) ·
2011
– Fred Steiner,
American composer and conductor (b. 1923) ·
2012 – James Durbin, English economist and
statistician (b. 1923) ·
2012
– Brigitte Engerer,
French pianist and educator (b. 1952) ·
2012
– Alan
McDonald, Northern Ireland footballer and manager (b. 1963) ·
2012
– Frank Chee Willeto,
American soldier and politician, 4th Vice
President of the Navajo Nation (b. 1925) ·
2012
– Walter J. Zable,
American football player and businessman, founded the Cubic Corporation (b.
1915) ·
2013 – Bobby Bland, American singer-songwriter (b.
1930) ·
2013
– Gary David Goldberg,
American screenwriter and producer (b. 1944) ·
2013
– Frank Kelso, American admiral and
politician, United
States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1933) ·
2013
– Kurt Leichtweiss,
German mathematician and academic (b. 1927) ·
2013
– Richard Matheson,
American author and screenwriter (b. 1926) ·
2013
– Darryl Read, English singer-songwriter,
drummer, and actor (b. 1951) ·
2013
– Sharon Stouder,
American swimmer (b. 1948) ·
2014 – Nancy Garden, American author (b. 1938)[17] ·
2014
– Euros Lewis, Welsh cricketer (b. 1942) ·
2014
– Paula Kent Meehan,
American businesswoman, co-founded Redken (b. 1931) ·
2015 – Miguel Facussé
Barjum, Honduran businessman (b. 1924) ·
2015
– Nirmala Joshi,
Indian nun, lawyer, and social worker (b. 1934) ·
2015
– Dick Van Patten,
American actor (b. 1928) ·
2016 – Ralph Stanley, American singer and banjo
player (b. 1927) ·
2020 – Jampel Lodoy, Russian-Tuvan Buddhist
lama, Kamby Lama of Tuva (b.
1975) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o June
23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest
day on which Feast of
Raḥmat can fall, while June 24 is the latest. (Bahá'í Faith) ·
Father's Day (Nicaragua, Poland) ·
Grand
Duke's Official Birthday (Luxembourg) ·
International
Widows Day (international) ·
National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada) ·
Okinawa Memorial Day (Okinawa Prefecture) ·
St John's Eve and the first day of
the Midsummer celebrations [although this
is not the real summer solstice;
see June 20] (Roman Catholic
Church, Europe): o Bonfires of Saint
John (Spain) o First night of Festa de São
João do Porto (Porto) o First day of Golowan Festival (Cornwall) o Kupala Night (Belarus, Lithuania,
Poland, Russia, Ukraine) o Last day of Drăgaica fair (Buzău, Romania) ·
United Nations
Public Service Day (International) ·
Victory Day (Estonia) |
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