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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
188 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
4 AD – Augustus adopts Tiberius. ·
221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as
his heir and receives the title of Caesar. ·
363 – Roman
emperor Julian is
killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire. ·
684 – Pope Benedict II is chosen. ·
699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and
apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. ·
1243 – Mongols defeat
the Seljuk Turks at
the Battle of Köse
Dağ. ·
1295 – Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The
white eagle is added to the Polish coat of
arms. ·
1407 – Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand
Master of the Teutonic Knights. ·
1409 – Western Schism: The Roman Catholic
Church is led into a double schism as
Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon. ·
1460 – Richard
Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of
March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London. ·
1483 – Richard III becomes
King of England.[1] ·
1522 – Ottomans begin
the second Siege of Rhodes. ·
1541 – Francisco Pizarro is
assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion
and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro
is later caught and executed. ·
1579 – Livonian
campaign of Stephen Báthory begins. ·
1718 – Alexei
Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies
after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him. ·
1723 – After a siege
and bombardment by cannon, Baku
surrenders to the Russians. ·
1740 – A combined
force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at
the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during
the War of Jenkins' Ear. ·
1794 – French
Revolutionary Wars: Battle of
Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft. ·
1830 – William
IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover. ·
1843 – Treaty of Nanking comes
into effect, Hong Kong Island is
ceded to the British "in perpetuity". ·
1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in
Paris. ·
1857 – The first
investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park,
London. ·
1870 – The Christian
holiday of Christmas is
declared a federal holiday in
the United States. ·
1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time. ·
1889 – Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and
Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo. ·
1906 – The first Grand Prix motor
race is held at Le Mans.[2] ·
1909 – The Science Museum in
London comes into existence as an independent entity. ·
1917 – World War I: The American
Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will
first enter combat four months later. ·
1918 – World War
I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm,
German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau
Wood. ·
1924 – The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends
after eight years. ·
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens
on Coney Island. ·
1934 – United States
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit
Union Act, which establishes credit unions. ·
1936 – Initial flight
of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61,
the first practical helicopter. ·
1940 – World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop
Pact, the Soviet Union presents
an ultimatum to Romania requiring
it to cede Bessarabia and
the northern part of Bukovina. ·
1941 – World War II:
Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to
declare war the next day. ·
1942 – The first
flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat. ·
1944 – World War
II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly
bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading
to 35 civilian deaths. ·
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles
between Nazi Germany and Polish
resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter. ·
1945 – The United Nations
Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California. ·
1948 – Cold War: The first supply flights are made
in response to the Berlin Blockade. ·
1948 – William Shockley files the original
patent for the grown-junction
transistor, the first bipolar
junction transistor. ·
1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine. ·
1952 – The Pan-Malayan
Labour Party is founded in Malaya,
as a union of statewide labour parties. ·
1953 – Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD,
is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and
other members of the Politburo. ·
1955 – The South
African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of
the People in Kliptown. ·
1959 – Swedish
boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes
world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout
after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium. ·
1960 – The former
British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains
its independence as Somaliland. ·
1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from
France. ·
1963 – Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner"
speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall. ·
1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II)
made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI. ·
1974 – The Universal Product
Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of
Wrigley's chewing gum at
the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. ·
1975 – Two FBI agents
and a member of the American Indian
Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of
the murders in a controversial trial. ·
1977 – Elvis Presley held his final concert in
Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena. ·
1978 – Air Canada Flight
189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into
the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board
perish. ·
1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's
Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia. ·
1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa
Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin
Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état. ·
1997 – The U.S.
Supreme Court rules that the Communications
Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. ·
2000 – The Human Genome Project announces
the completion of a "rough draft" sequence. ·
2003 – The U.S.
Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that
gender-based sodomy laws are
unconstitutional. ·
2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime
Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest. ·
2007 – Pope Benedict XVI reinstates
the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must
receive two-thirds of the votes. ·
2008 – A suicide
bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people. ·
2012 – The Waldo Canyon fire descends
into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado
Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing
two people. ·
2013 – Riots in
China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people
and injure 21 others. ·
2013 – The U.S.
Supreme Court ruled, 5–4,
that Section 3 of the Defense of
Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of
the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. ·
2015 – Five different
terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on
what was dubbed Bloody
Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were
either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks. ·
2015 – The U.S.
Supreme Court ruled, 5–4,
that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Births[edit]
·
12 BC – Agrippa Postumus, Roman son of Marcus Vipsanius
Agrippa and Julia the Elder (d. 14) ·
1399 – John, Count of
Angoulême (d. 1467) ·
1575 – Anne
Catherine of Brandenburg (d. 1612) ·
1581 – San Pedro Claver, Spanish Jesuit saint (d.
1654) ·
1600 – Juan de Palafox
y Mendoza, Spanish-born bishop and viceroy of New Spain (d. 1659) ·
1681 – Hedvig Sophia of
Sweden (d. 1708) ·
1689 – Edward Holyoke, American pastor and academic
(d. 1769) ·
1694 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and
mineralogist (d. 1768) ·
1699 – Marie
Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French businesswoman (d. 1777) ·
1702 – Philip Doddridge, English hymn-writer and
educator (d. 1751) ·
1703 – Thomas Clap, American minister and academic
(d. 1767) ·
1726 – Victor
Amadeus III of Sardinia (d. 1796) ·
1730 – Charles Messier, French astronomer and
academic (d. 1817) ·
1764 – Jan
Paweł Łuszczewski, Polish politician (d. 1812) ·
1796 – Jan Paweł
Lelewel, Polish painter and engineer (d. 1847) ·
1798 – Wolfgang Menzel, German poet and critic (d.
1873) ·
1817 – Branwell Brontë,
English painter and poet (d. 1848) ·
1819 – Abner Doubleday, American general (d. 1893) ·
1821 – Bartolomé Mitre,
Argentinian soldier, journalist, and politician, 6th President of
Argentina (d. 1906) ·
1824 – William
Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer
(d. 1907) ·
1835 – Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and
author (d. 1896) ·
1839 – Sam Watkins, American soldier and author (d.
1901) ·
1852 – Daoud Corm, Lebanese painter (d. 1930) ·
1854 – Robert Laird Borden,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister
of Canada (d. 1937) ·
1865 – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-American
historian and author (d. 1959) ·
1866 – George
Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and banker
(d. 1923) ·
1869 – Martin Andersen Nexø,
Danish journalist and author (d. 1954) ·
1878 – Leopold Löwenheim,
German mathematician and logician (d. 1957) ·
1880 – Mitchell Lewis, American actor (d. 1956) ·
1881 – Ya'akov Cohen,
Israeli linguist, poet, and playwright (d. 1960) ·
1892 – Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist,
short story writer Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1973) ·
1893 – Dorothy Fuldheim, American journalist and
news anchor(d. 1989) ·
1895 – George Hainsworth,
Canadian ice hockey player and politician (d. 1950) ·
1898 – Willy Messerschmitt,
German engineer and businessman (d. 1978) ·
1898 – Chesty Puller, US general (d. 1971) ·
1899 – Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d.
1918) ·
1901 – Stuart Symington, American lieutenant and
politician, 1st United
States Secretary of the Air Force (d. 1988) ·
1902 – Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor and educator (d.
2010) ·
1903 – Big Bill Broonzy, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 1958) ·
1904 – Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer and
academic (d. 1951) ·
1904 – Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor and
singer (d. 1964) ·
1905 – Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator
(d. 1985) ·
1906 – Alberto Rabagliati,
Italian singer (d. 1974) ·
1906 – Viktor Schreckengost,
American sculptor and educator (d. 2008) ·
1907 – Debs Garms, American baseball player (d.
1984) ·
1908 – Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and
politician, 29th President of Chile (d.
1973) ·
1909 – Colonel Tom Parker,
Dutch-American talent manager (d. 1997) ·
1909 – Wolfgang Reitherman,
German-American animator, director, and producer (d. 1985) ·
1911 – Babe Didrikson
Zaharias, American golfer and basketball player (d. 1956) ·
1911 – Bronisław
Żurakowski, Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2009) ·
1913 – Aimé Césaire,
French poet, author, and politician (d. 2008) ·
1913 – Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist
and physicist (d. 2010) ·
1914 – Laurie Lee, English author and poet (d.
1997) ·
1914 – Princess
Sophie of Greece and Denmark, European royalty (d. 2001) ·
1915 – Paul Castellano, American gangster (d. 1985) ·
1915 – George Haigh, English professional
footballer (d. 2019) ·
1915 – Charlotte Zolotow,
American author and poet (d. 2013) ·
1916 – Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and
author (d. 1988) ·
1916 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian actor and singer
(d. 2010) ·
1917 – Idriz Ajeti, Albanian albanologist (d. 2019) ·
1918 – Leo Rosner, Polish-born Austrian Jewish
musician (d. 2008) ·
1918 – Raleigh Rhodes, American combat fighter
pilot (d. 2007) ·
1918 – J. B. Fuqua, American entrepreneur and
philanthropist (d. 2006) ·
1919 – Richard Neustadt, American political
scientist and academic (d. 2003) ·
1919 – Jimmy Newberry, American pitcher (d. 1983) ·
1919 – George Athan Billias,
American historian (d. 2018) ·
1919 – Donald M. Ashton, English art director (d.
2004) ·
1920 – Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian-American baseball
player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2014) ·
1921 – Violette Szabo, French-British secret agent
(d. 1945) ·
1921 – Robert
Everett, American computer scientist (d. 2018) ·
1922 – Walter Farley, American author (d. 1989) ·
1922 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013) ·
1922 – Enzo Apicella, English artist, cartoonist,
designer, and restaurateur (d. 2018) ·
1923 – Franz-Paul Decker,
German conductor (d. 2014) ·
1923 – Ed Bearss, American military historian and
author (d. 2020) ·
1924 – Kostas Axelos, Greek-French philosopher and
author (d. 2010) ·
1924 – James W. McCord Jr.,
CIA officer (d. 2017) ·
1925 – Pavel Belyayev, Russian soldier, pilot, and
astronaut (d. 1970) ·
1925 – Wolfgang Unzicker,
German chess player (d. 2006) ·
1925 – Jean Frydman, French resistant and businessman ·
1926 – Kenny Baker,
American fiddler (d.2011) ·
1926 – Mahendra Bhatnagar,
Indian poet ·
1926 – Fernando
Mönckeberg Barros, Chilean surgeon[3] ·
1926 – Dinu Zamfirescu, Romanian politician ·
1927 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author and poet
(d. 2011) ·
1928 – Jacob Druckman, American composer and
academic (d. 1996) ·
1928 – Yoshiro Nakamatsu,
Japanese inventor ·
1928 – Bill Sheffield, American politician; 5th
Governor of Alaska ·
1928 – Samuel Belzberg, Canadian businessman and
philanthropist (d. 2018) ·
1929 – June Bronhill, Australian soprano and
actress (d. 2005) ·
1929 – Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer
and author (d. 2013) ·
1929 – Milton Glaser, American illustrator and
graphic designer ·
1930 – Jackie Fargo, American wrestler and trainer
(d. 2013) ·
1930 – Wolfgang Schwanitz,
East German secret police ·
1931 – Colin Wilson, English philosopher and author
(d. 2013) ·
1931 – Robert Colbert, American actor ·
1932 – Dame Marguerite Pindling,
Bahamian politician; Governor-General of the Bahamas ·
1932 – Don Valentine, American venture capitalist
(d. 2019) ·
1933 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (d. 2014) ·
1933 – Gene Green,
American baseball player (d. 1981) ·
1933 – David Winnick, English politician ·
1934 – Dave Grusin, American pianist and composer ·
1934 – Toru Goto, Japanese swimmer ·
1935 – Carlo Facetti, Italian race car driver ·
1935 – Sandro Riminucci, Italian basketball player ·
1935 – Dwight York, American singer ·
1936 – Benjamin Adekunle,
Nigerian general (d. 2014) ·
1936 – Hal Greer, American basketball player (d.
2018) ·
1936 – Robert
Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart, Scottish politician (d.
2020) ·
1936 – Edith Pearlman, American short story writer ·
1936 – Jean-Claude Turcotte,
Canadian cardinal (d. 2015) ·
1936 – Nancy Willard, American author and poet (d.
2017) ·
1937 – Robert Coleman
Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2013) ·
1937 – Reggie Workman, American bassist and
composer ·
1938 – Neil Abercrombie, American sociologist and
politician, 7th Governor of Hawaii ·
1938 – Billy Davis Jr., American pop-soul singer ·
1938 – Gerald North, American climatologist and
academic ·
1939 – Chuck Robb, American soldier, lawyer, and
politician, 64th Governor of Virginia ·
1939 – Zainuddin Maidin, Malaysian politician (d.
2018)[4] ·
1941 – Yves Beauchemin, Canadian author and
academic ·
1942 – J.J. Dillon, American wrestler and manager ·
1942 – Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and politician, Brazilian
Minister of Culture ·
1943 – Georgie Fame, English singer, pianist, and
keyboard player ·
1943 – Warren Farrell, American author and educator ·
1944 – Gennady Zyuganov, Russian colonel and
politician ·
1946 – Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and
pharmacologist (d. 2013) ·
1949 – Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and
author (d. 2015) ·
1949 – Adrian Gurvitz, English singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1949 – Mary Styles Harris,
American biologist and geneticist ·
1951 – Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and
manager (d. 2014) ·
1952 – Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer and
manager ·
1952 – Olive Morris, Jamaican-English civil rights
activist (d. 1979)[5] ·
1954 – Luis Arconada, Spanish footballer ·
1955 – Mick Jones,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1955 – Gedde Watanabe, American actor ·
1956 – Chris Isaak, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1956 – Catherine Samba-Panza,
interim president of the Central African
Republic [6] ·
1956 – Patrick Mercer, English colonel and
politician ·
1957 – Al Hunter Ashton, English actor and
screenwriter (d. 2007) ·
1957 – Philippe Couillard,
Canadian surgeon and politician, 31st Premier of Quebec ·
1957 – Patty Smyth, American singer-songwriter and
musician ·
1959 – Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and
screenwriter ·
1960 – Mark Durkan, Irish politician ·
1961 – Greg LeMond, American cyclist ·
1961 – Terri Nunn, American singer-songwriter and
actress ·
1962 – Jerome Kersey, American basketball player
and coach (d. 2015) ·
1963 – Mikhail Khodorkovsky,
Russian-Swiss businessman and philanthropist ·
1963 – Mark McClellan, American economist and
politician ·
1963 – Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays, English singer-songwriter ·
1964 – Tommi Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver ·
1966 – Dany Boon, French actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1966 – Kirk McLean, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1966 – Jürgen Reil, American drummer ·
1967 – Inha Babakova, Ukrainian high jumper ·
1967 – Olivier Dahan, French director and
screenwriter ·
1968 – Guðni Th.
Jóhannesson, Icelandic lecturer and politician, 6th President of Iceland ·
1968 – Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer ·
1968 – Shannon Sharpe, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1969 – Colin Greenwood, English bass player and
songwriter ·
1969 – Ingrid Lempereur, Belgian swimmer ·
1969 – Geir Moen, Norwegian sprinter ·
1969 – Mike Myers,
American baseball player ·
1970 – Paul Thomas Anderson,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1970 – Paul Bitok, Kenyan runner ·
1970 – Irv Gotti, American record producer,
co-founded Murder Inc Records ·
1970 – Sean Hayes,
American actor ·
1970 – Adam Ndlovu, Zimbabwean footballer ·
1970 – Chris O'Donnell, American actor ·
1970 – Nick Offerman, American actor ·
1971 – Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer ·
1972 – Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper and
police officer ·
1973 – Gretchen Wilson, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1974 – Derek Jeter, American baseball player ·
1974 – Jason Kendall, American baseball player ·
1975 – Chris
Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1975 – Terry Skiverton, English footballer and
manager ·
1976 – Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1976 – Pommie Mbangwa, Zimbabwean cricketer and
sportscaster ·
1976 – Chad Pennington, American football player
and sportscaster ·
1976 – Dave Rubin, American political commentator ·
1977 – Quincy Lewis, American basketball player ·
1979 – Ryō Fukuda, Japanese race car driver ·
1979 – Walter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball
player ·
1979 – Ryan Tedder, American singer-songwriter,
pianist, and producer ·
1980 – Hamílton
Hênio Ferreira Calheiros, Togolese footballer ·
1980 – Michael
Jackson, English footballer ·
1980 – Jason Schwartzman,
American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor ·
1980 – Chris Shelton, American baseball player ·
1980 – Michael Vick, American football player ·
1981 – Natalya Antyukh, Russian sprinter and
hurdler ·
1981 – Paolo Cannavaro, Italian footballer ·
1981 – Kanako Kondō, Japanese voice actress
and singer ·
1981 – Takashi Toritani, Japanese baseball player ·
1982 – Zuzana Kučová,
Slovak tennis player ·
1983 – Vinícius
Rodrigues Almeida, Brazilian footballer ·
1983 – Nick Compton, South African-English
cricketer ·
1983 – Toyonoshima Daiki,
Japanese sumo wrestler ·
1983 – Felipe Melo, Brazilian footballer ·
1983 – Antonio Rosati, Italian footballer ·
1984 – Indila, French singer ·
1984 – José Juan Barea,
Puerto Rican-American basketball player ·
1984 – Yankuba Ceesay, Gambian footballer ·
1984 – Elijah Dukes, American baseball player ·
1984 – Raymond Felton, American basketball player ·
1984 – Priscah Jeptoo, Kenyan runner ·
1984 – Jūlija Tepliha,
Latvian figure skater ·
1984 – Deron Williams, American basketball player ·
1984 – Preslava, Bulgarian singer ·
1985 – Ogyen Trinley Dorje,
Tibetan spiritual leader, 17th Karmapa Lama ·
1986 – Duvier Riascos, Colombian footballer ·
1987 – Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian race car driver ·
1987 – Samir Nasri, French footballer ·
1988 – Oliver Stang, German footballer ·
1990 – Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner ·
1990 – Igor Subbotin, Estonian footballer ·
1991 – Houssem Chemali, French footballer ·
1991 – Diego Falcinelli, Italian footballer ·
1991 – Dustin Martin, Australian rules footballer ·
1992 – Joel Campbell, Costa Rican footballer ·
1992 – Rudy Gobert, French basketball player ·
1992 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress and
singer-songwriter ·
1993 – Ariana Grande, American singer-songwriter,
dancer, and actress ·
1994 – Hollie Arnold, English javelin thrower ·
1994 – Leonard Carow, German actor ·
1997 – Baek Ye-rin, South Korean singer ·
1997 – Callum
Taylor, English cricketer ·
2002 – Chandler Smith, American racing driver[7] ·
2009 – Yesha Camile, Filipino child actress Deaths[edit]
·
116 BC – Ptolemy VIII,
king of Egypt ·
363 – Julian the Apostate, Roman emperor (b. 332) ·
405 – Vigilius,
bishop of Trent (b. 353) ·
822 – Saichō, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 767) ·
969 – George El Mozahem,
Egyptian martyr (b. 940) ·
985 – Ramiro III,
king of León ·
1090 – Jaromír,
bishop of Prague ·
1095 – Robert,
bishop of Hereford ·
1265 – Anne
of Bohemia, duchess of Silesia (b. 1203 or 1204) ·
1274 – Nasir al-Din al-Tusi,
Persian scientist and writer (b. 1201) ·
1487 – John Argyropoulos,
Byzantine philosopher and scholar (b. 1415) ·
1541 – Francisco Pizarro,
Spanish explorer and politician, Governor of New Castile (b.
c. 1471) ·
1574 – Gabriel,
comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (b.
1530) ·
1688 – Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher and
academic (b. 1617) ·
1752 – Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664) ·
1757 – Maximilian
Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) ·
1784 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and
politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (b.
1728) ·
1793 – James
Dickey, Irish revolutionary (b. 1776) ·
1793 – Gilbert White, English ornithologist and
ecologist (b. 1720) ·
1795 – Johannes Jährig,
German linguist and translator (b. 1747) ·
1808 – Ludwik Tyszkiewicz,
Polish poet and politician (b. 1748) ·
1810 – Joseph-Michel
Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1740) ·
1830 – George IV
of the United Kingdom (b. 1762) ·
1836 – Claude
Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French soldier and composer (b. 1760) ·
1856 – Max Stirner, German philosopher and author
(b. 1806) ·
1870 – Armand Barbès, French lawyer and politician
(b. 1809) ·
1878 – Mercedes of Orléans (b.
1860) ·
1879 – Richard H. Anderson,
American general (b. 1821) ·
1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer,
geophysicist, and ornithologist (b. 1788) ·
1918 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and author (b.
1843) ·
1922 – Albert I,
Prince of Monaco (b. 1848) ·
1927 – Armand Guillaumin,
French painter (b. 1841) ·
1932 – Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and
academic (b. 1900) ·
1932 – William Murray
McPherson, Australian politician, 31st Premier of Victoria (b.
1865) ·
1938 – James Weldon Johnson,
American poet, lawyer and politician (b. 1871) ·
1938 – Daria Pratt, American golfer (b. 1859) ·
1939 – Ford Madox Ford, English novelist, poet, and
critic (b. 1873) ·
1943 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and
physician, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1868) ·
1945 – Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician,
3rd President of
Czechoslovakia (b. 1872) ·
1946 – Max Kögel, German SS officer
(b. 1895) ·
1946 – Yōsuke Matsuoka,
Japanese politician, Japanese
Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1880) ·
1947 – R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 11th Prime Minister
of Canada (b. 1870) ·
1949 – Kim Koo, South Korean educator and politician,
13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic
of Korea (b. 1876) ·
1955 – Engelbert Zaschka,
German engineer (b. 1895) ·
1956 – Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and
composer (b. 1930) ·
1956 – Richie Powell, American pianist (b. 1931) ·
1957 – Alfred Döblin, Polish-German physician and
author (b. 1878) ·
1957 – Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet (b.
1909) ·
1958 – George Orton, Canadian runner and hurdler
(b. 1873) ·
1958 – Andrija Štampar,
Croatian physician and scholar (b. 1888) ·
1964 – Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian businessman
(b. 1889) ·
1967 – Françoise Dorléac,
French actress and singer (b. 1942) ·
1975 – Josemaría Escrivá,
Spanish priest and saint (b. 1902) ·
1979 – Akwasi Afrifa, Ghanaian soldier and
politician, 3rd Head of
State of Ghana (b. 1936) ·
1989 – Howard Charles Green,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian
Minister of Public Works (b. 1895) ·
1990 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (b. 1909) ·
1992 – Buddy Rogers,
American wrestler (b. 1921) ·
1993 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1921) ·
1993 – William H. Riker, American political
scientist and academic (b. 1920) ·
1994 – Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi author and
activist (b. 1929) ·
1996 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958) ·
1996 – Necmettin
Hacıeminoğlu, Turkish linguist and academic (b. 1932) ·
1997 – Don Hutson, American football player and
coach (b. 1913) ·
1998 – Hacı
Sabancı, Turkish businessman and philanthropist (b. 1935) ·
2002 – Jay Berwanger, American football player (b.
1914) ·
2002 – Arnold
Brown, English-Canadian 11th General of
The Salvation Army (b. 1913) ·
2003 – Marc-Vivien Foé,
Cameroon footballer (b. 1975) ·
2003 – Denis Thatcher, English soldier and
businessman (b. 1915) ·
2003 – Strom Thurmond, American general, lawyer,
and politician, 103rd Governor of
South Carolina (b. 1902) ·
2004 – Ott Arder, Estonian poet and translator (b.
1950) ·
2004 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer,
founded Dharma Productions (b.
1929) ·
2004 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (b.
1930) ·
2005 – Tõnno Lepmets, Estonian basketball player
(b. 1938) ·
2005 – Richard Whiteley, English journalist and
game show host (b. 1943) ·
2006 – Tommy Wonder,
Dutch magician (b. 1953) ·
2007 – Liz
Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne (b. 1929) ·
2007 – Joey Sadler, New Zealand rugby player (b.
1914) ·
2010 – Algirdas Brazauskas,
Lithuanian engineer and politician, 2nd President of
Lithuania (b. 1932) ·
2010 – Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and
academic (b. 1912) ·
2011 – Edith Fellows, American actress (b. 1923) ·
2011 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer and coach
(b. 1948) ·
2012 – Sverker Åström,
Swedish diplomat, Swedish Permanent Representative to the United Nations (b.
1915) ·
2012 – Pat Cummings, American basketball player (b.
1956) ·
2012 – Nora Ephron, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1941) ·
2012 – Mario O'Hara, Filipino director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1944) ·
2012 – Doris Singleton, American actress (b. 1919) ·
2012 – Risley C. Triche, American lawyer and
politician (b. 1927) ·
2013 – Henrik Otto Donner,
Finnish trumpet player and composer (b. 1939) ·
2013 – Edward Huggins
Johnstone, Brazilian-American sergeant and judge (b. 1922) ·
2013 – Byron Looper, American politician (b. 1964) ·
2013 – Justin
Miller, American baseball player (b. 1977) ·
2013 – Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman (b.
1934) ·
2014 – Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician,
and diplomat, 12th White House
Chief of Staff (b. 1925) ·
2014 – Bill Frank, American-Canadian football
player (b. 1938) ·
2014 – Rollin King, American businessman,
co-founded Southwest Airlines (b.
1931) ·
2014 – Bob Mischak, American football player and
coach (b. 1932) ·
2014 – Julius Rudel, Austrian-American conductor
(b. 1921) ·
2014 – Mary Rodgers, American composer and author (b.
1931) ·
2015 – Yevgeny Primakov, Ukrainian-Russian
journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister
of Russia (b. 1929) ·
2015 – Chris
Thompson, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1952) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Day
of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan ·
Christian feast day: o Isabel Florence
Hapgood (Episcopal
Church) o José María
Robles Hurtado (one of Saints of the
Cristero War) o Mar Abhai (Syriac Orthodox
Church) o June
26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the independence of Madagascar from France in 1960. (Madagascar) ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the independence of British Somaliland from
the British in 1960. (Somalia) ·
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit
Trafficking (International) ·
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (International) ·
Ratcatcher's Day (Hamelin, Germany) ·
World
Refrigeration Day (International) |
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