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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
186 days remain until the end of the year. In
common years it is always in ISO week 26. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1098 Fighters of
the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. ·
1360 Muhammed
VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after
killing his brother-in-law Ismail II. ·
1461 Edward, Earl of
March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.[1] ·
1519 Charles V is
elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. ·
1575 Sengoku period of Japan: The combined
forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in
the Battle of Nagashino.[2] ·
1635 Guadeloupe becomes a French colony. ·
1651 The Battle of
Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts. ·
1709 Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of
Sweden at the Battle of Poltava. ·
1745 A New England colonial army captures the
French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style). ·
1776 American
Revolutionary War: The Battle of
Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to
the commemoration of Carolina Day. ·
1776 American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard
to General George Washington,
is hanged for mutiny and sedition. ·
1778 American
Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the
British in the Battle of Monmouth
Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal
under cover of darkness. ·
1797 French troops
disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands. ·
1807 Second British
invasion of the Rνo de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on
an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the
locals. ·
1838 Coronation
of Queen Victoria of the United
Kingdom.[3] ·
1841 The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier. ·
1846 Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone. ·
1855 Sigma Chi fraternity is
founded in North America. ·
1859 The first conformation dog show is
held in Newcastle upon Tyne,
England. ·
1865 The Army of the Potomac is
disbanded. ·
1880
Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan. ·
1881 The AustroSerbian
Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed. ·
1882 The Anglo-French
Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries
between Guinea and Sierra Leone. ·
1894 Labor Day becomes an official US
holiday. ·
1895 The United
States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reaviss claim to Barony of Arizona is
"wholly fictitious and fraudulent." ·
1896 An explosion in
the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results
in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners. ·
1902 The U.S. Congress passes
the Spooner Act,
authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to
acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal. ·
1904 The SS Norge runs aground
on Hasselwood Rock in
the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the
sinking. ·
1911 The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest
signs of aqueous processes on Mars,
falls to Earth, landing in Egypt. ·
1914 Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is
the casus belli of World War I. ·
1917 World War
I: Greece joins the
Allied powers. ·
1919 The Treaty of Versailles is
signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War
I. ·
1921 Serbian
King Alexander I proclaims
the new constitution of the Kingdom
of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan
Constitution. ·
1922 The Irish Civil War begins with the
shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces. ·
1926 Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies. ·
1936 The Japanese
puppet state of Mengjiang is
formed in northern China. ·
1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum. ·
1942 World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic
summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue. ·
1945 Poland's
Soviet-allied Provisional
Government of National Unity is formed over a month
after V-E Day. ·
1948 Cold War: The TitoStalin Split results
in the expulsion of the League
of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform. ·
1948 Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black
British boxing champion in the modern era. ·
1950 Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers
(between 60,000 to 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre. ·
1950 Korean War: Packed with its own
refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean
forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in
an attempt to slow North Korea's
offensive. The city falls later that day. ·
1950 Korean War: North Korean Army conducts
the Seoul
National University Hospital massacre. ·
1956 in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go
to the streets, sparking one of the first major
protests against communist government both in Poland and
Europe. ·
1964 Malcolm X forms the Organization
of Afro-American Unity. ·
1969 Stonewall riots begin in New York City,
marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement. ·
1973 Elections are
held for the Northern
Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time. ·
1976 The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and
prison terms in the Luanda Trial. ·
1978 The United
States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars
quota systems in college admissions. ·
1981 A
powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic
Republican Party. ·
1987 For the first
time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed
the Iranian town of Sardasht. ·
1989 On the 600th
anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan
Miloević delivers the Gazimestan speech at
the site of the historic battle. ·
1997 HolyfieldTyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third
round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's
ear. ·
2001 Slobodan
Miloević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial. ·
2004 Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to
the interim
government of Iraq by the Coalition
Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation. ·
2009 Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by
a local military coup following a failed request to hold a
referendum to rewrite the Honduran
Constitution. This was the start of the 2009
Honduran constitutional crisis. ·
2016 A
terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatόrk
Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others. Births[edit]
·
751 Carloman I, king of the Franks (d. 771) ·
1243 Emperor Go-Fukakusa of
Japan (d. 1304) ·
1444 Charlotte,
Queen of Cyprus (d. 1487) ·
1476 Pope Paul IV (d. 1559) ·
1490 Albert of
Brandenburg, German archbishop (d. 1545) ·
1491 Henry VIII of
England (d. 1547) ·
1503 Giovanni della Casa,
Italian author and poet (d. 1556) ·
1547 Cristofano Malvezzi,
Italian organist and composer (d. 1599) ·
1557 Philip
Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (d. 1595) ·
1560 Giovanni Paolo
Lascaris, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1657) ·
1573 Henry
Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, English noble (d. 1644) ·
1577 Peter Paul Rubens,
Flemish painter and diplomat (d. 1640) ·
1582 William
Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English politician (d. 1662) ·
1604 Heinrich
Albert, German composer and poet (d. 1651) ·
1641 Marie
Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, consort to King John III
Sobieski (d. 1716) ·
1653 Muhammad Azam Shah,
Mughal emperor (d. 1707) ·
1703 John Wesley, English cleric and theologian
(d. 1791) ·
1712 Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (d. 1778) ·
1719 Ιtienne
Franηois, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime
Minister of France (d. 1785) ·
1734 Jean-Jacques
Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French organist and composer (d. 1794) ·
1742 William Hooper, American physician, lawyer,
and politician (d. 1790) ·
1824 Paul Broca, French physician, anatomist, and
anthropologist (d. 1880) ·
1825 Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist (d. 1909) ·
1831 Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist,
composer, and conductor (d. 1907) ·
1836 Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist and
author (d. 1904) ·
1844 John Boyle O'Reilly,
Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (d. 1890) ·
1852 Charles Cruft,
English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show (d.
1938) ·
1867 Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist,
novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1936) ·
1873 Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and
biologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1944) ·
1875 Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and
academic (d. 1941) ·
1879 Wilhelm Steinkopf,
German chemist (d. 1949) ·
1880 John Meyers,
American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1971) ·
1883 Pierre Laval, French soldier and politician,
101st Prime Minister
of France (d. 1945) ·
1884 Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leonean banker and
politician (d. 1964) ·
1888 George Challenor, Barbadian cricketer (d.
1947) ·
1888 Stefi Geyer, Hungarian violinist and educator
(d. 1956) ·
1891 Esther Forbes, American historian and author
(d. 1968) ·
1891 Carl Spaatz, American general (d. 1974) ·
1892 Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d.
1930) ·
1893 August Zamoyski, Polish-French sculptor (d.
1970) ·
1894 Francis Hunter, American tennis player (d.
1981) ·
1902 Richard Rodgers, American playwright and
composer (d. 1979) ·
1906 Maria Goeppert Mayer,
Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1972) ·
1907 Jimmy Mundy, American saxophonist and
composer (d. 1983) ·
1907 Yvonne Sylvain, First female Haitian
physician (d. 1989)[4] ·
1909 Eric Ambler, English author and screenwriter
(d. 1998) ·
1912 Carl
Friedrich von Weizsδcker, German physicist and philosopher (d.
2007) ·
1913 Franz Antel, Austrian director and producer
(d. 2007) ·
1913 George Lloyd,
English soldier and composer (d. 1998) ·
1913 Walter Oesau, German colonel and pilot (d.
1944) ·
1914 Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician and Nazi war criminal (d.
1992) ·
1917 A. E. Hotchner, American author and
playwright (d. 2020) ·
1918 William
Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, Scottish-English
politician, Deputy
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1999) ·
1919 Joseph P. Lordi, American government official
(d. 1983) ·
1920 Clarissa Eden, Spouse of the Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom ·
1921 P. V. Narasimha Rao,
Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of
India (d. 2004)[5] ·
1922 Hans Frauenfelder,
American physicist and biophysicist ·
1923 Pete Candoli, American trumpet player (d.
2008) ·
1923 Adolfo Schwelm Cruz,
Argentinian racing driver (d. 2012) ·
1923 Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
2010) ·
1926 George Booth,
American cartoonist ·
1926 Mel Brooks, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1926 Robert Ledley, American academic and
inventor (d. 2012) ·
1927 Correlli Barnett, English historian and
author ·
1927 Frank Sherwood
Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2012) ·
1928 Hans Blix, Swedish politician and diplomat,
33rd Swedish
Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1928 Patrick Hemingway,
American writer ·
1928 Harold Evans, English-American historian and
journalist ·
1928 Peter Heine, South African cricketer (d.
2005) ·
1928 Cyril Smith, English politician (d. 2010) ·
1929 Alfred Miodowicz, Polish politician ·
1930 William
C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist and parasitologist, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
1930 Itamar Franco, Brazilian engineer and
politician, 33rd President of Brazil (d.
2011) ·
1930 Jack Gold, English director and producer (d.
2015) ·
1931 Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1931 Junior Johnson, American race car driver (d.
2019) ·
1931 Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995) ·
1932 Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005) ·
1933 Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist and
politician (d. 2011) ·
1934 Robert
Carswell, Baron Carswell, Northern Irish lawyer and judge, Lord
Chief Justice of Northern Ireland ·
1934 Roy Gilchrist, Jamaican cricketer (d. 2001) ·
1934 Bette Greene, American journalist and author ·
1934 Carl Levin, American lawyer and politician[6] ·
1934 Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French journalist
and cartoonist (d. 2015) ·
1935 John Inman, English actor (d. 2007) ·
1936 Chuck Howley, American football player ·
1937 George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989) ·
1937 Fernand Labrie, Canadian endocrinologist and
academic ·
1937 Ron Luciano, American baseball player and
umpire (d. 1995) ·
1938 John Byner, American actor and comedian ·
1938 Leon Panetta, American lawyer and
politician, 23rd United
States Secretary of Defense ·
1938 S. Sivamaharajah, Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper
publisher and politician (d. 2006) ·
1938 Simon
Douglas-Pennant, 7th Baron Penrhyn, British baron ·
1939 Klaus Schmiegel, German chemist ·
1940 Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and
politician (d. 2014) ·
1940 Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1941 Al Downing,
American baseball player and sportscaster ·
1941 Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist
and academic, developed the OBJ language (d.
2006) ·
1941 David Johnston, Canadian academic, lawyer,
and politician, 28th Governor
General of Canada ·
1942 Chris Hani, South African politician (d.
1993) ·
1942 Hans-Joachim Walde,
German decathlete (d. 2013) ·
1942 Frank Zane, American professional
bodybuilder and author ·
1943 Jens Birkemose, Danish painter ·
1943 Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and
academic ·
1943 Klaus von Klitzing,
German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1945 Ken Buchanan, Scottish boxer ·
1945 David Knights, English bass player and
producer ·
1945 Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (d. 1989) ·
1945 Tόrkan Şoray,
Turkish actress, director, and screenwriter ·
1946 Robert Asprin, American soldier and author
(d. 2008) ·
1946 Bruce Davison, American actor and director ·
1946 David Duckham, English rugby player ·
1946 Robert Xavier
Rodrνguez, American classical composer ·
1946 Jaime Guzmαn, Chilean lawyer and politician
(d. 1991) ·
1946 Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian
(d. 1989) ·
1947 Mark Helprin, American novelist and
journalist ·
1947 Laura Tyson, American economist and academic ·
1948 Kathy Bates, American actress ·
1948 Sergei Bodrov, Russian-American director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1948 Deborah Moggach, English author and
screenwriter ·
1948 Daniel Wegner, Canadian-American
psychologist and academic (d. 2013) ·
1949 Don Baylor, American baseball player and
coach (d. 2017) ·
1950 Philip Fowke, English pianist and educator ·
1950 Mauricio Rojas, Chilean-Swedish economist
and politician ·
1950 Chris Speier, American baseball player and
coach ·
1951 Mick Cronin,
Australian rugby league player and coach ·
1951 Mark Shand, English conservationist and
author (d. 2014) ·
1951 Lalla Ward, English actress and author ·
1952 Enis Batur, Turkish poet and author ·
1952 Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter and
politician (d. 2013) ·
1952 Jean-Christophe
Rufin, French physician and author ·
1954 A. A. Gill, Scottish author and critic (d.
2016) ·
1954 Alice Krige, South African actress ·
1955 Shirley Cheriton, British actress ·
1956 Amira Hass, Israeli journalist and author ·
1956 Noel Mugavin, Australian footballer and
coach ·
1957 Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1957 Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian historian and
politician, 4th President of Bulgaria ·
1957 Mike Skinner,
American race car driver ·
1957 Jim Spanarkel, American basketball player
and sportscaster ·
1958 Donna Edwards, American lawyer and
politician ·
1958 Fιlix Gray, Tunisian-French
singer-songwriter ·
1959 Clint Boon, English singer and keyboard
player ·
1959 John Shelley,
British illustrator ·
1960 John Elway, American football player and
manager ·
1960 Roland Melanson, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1961 Jeff Malone, American basketball player and
coach ·
1962 Anișoara
Cușmir-Stanciu, Romanian long jumper ·
1962 Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (d. 2013) ·
1962 Ann-Louise Skoglund,
Swedish hurdler ·
1963 Peter Baynham, Welsh actor, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1963 Charlie Clouser, American keyboard player,
songwriter, and producer ·
1964 Christina Ashcroft,
Canadian sport shooter[7] ·
1964 Mark Grace, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1964 Bernie McCahill, New Zealand rugby player ·
1964 Dan Stains, Australian rugby league player
and coach ·
1964 Steve Williamson, English saxophonist and
composer ·
1965 Jessica Hecht, American actress ·
1965 Tiaan Strauss, South African rugby player ·
1966 Peeter Allik, Estonian painter and illustrator
(d. 2019) ·
1966 Bobby Bare Jr., American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1966 John Cusack, American actor and screenwriter ·
1966 Mary Stuart
Masterson, American actress ·
1967 Leona Aglukkaq, Canadian politician,
7th Canadian
Minister of Health ·
1967 Gil Bellows, Canadian actor and producer ·
1967 Zhong Huandi, Chinese runner ·
1967 Lars Riedel, German discus thrower ·
1968 Chayanne, Puerto Rican-American
singer-songwriter and actor ·
1969 Tichina Arnold, American actress and singer ·
1969 Stιphane Chapuisat,
Swiss footballer ·
1969 Fabrizio Mori, Italian hurdler ·
1970 Mushtaq Ahmed,
Pakistani cricketer and coach ·
1970 Tom Merritt, American journalist ·
1970 Mike White,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1971 Lorenzo Amoruso, Italian footballer ·
1971 Fabien Barthez, French footballer ·
1971 Bobby Hurley, American basketball player and
coach ·
1971 Ron Mahay, American baseball player and
scout ·
1971 Elon Musk, South African-born American
businessman ·
1971 Aileen Quinn, American actress and singer ·
1972 Ngτ Bảo Chβu,
Vietnamese-French mathematician and academic ·
1972 Chris Leslie, English politician, Shadow
Chancellor of the Exchequer ·
1972 Geeta Tripathee, Nepali poet, lyricist and
literary critic ·
1972 Alessandro Nivola,
American actor ·
1973 Adriαn Annus, Hungarian hammer thrower ·
1973 Corey Koskie, Canadian baseball player ·
1974 Rob Dyrdek, American skateboarder,
entrepreneur, and reality television star ·
1975 Jon Nφdtveidt, Swedish singer-songwriter,
and guitarist (d. 2006) ·
1976 Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player ·
1976 Seth Wescott, American snowboarder[8] ·
1977 Chris Spurling, American baseball player ·
1977 Mark Stoermer, American bass player,
songwriter, and producer ·
1977 Harun Tekin, Turkish singer and guitarist ·
1978 Simon Larose, Canadian tennis player ·
1979 Randy McMichael, American football player ·
1979 Neil Shanahan, Irish racing driver (d. 1999) ·
1979 Florian Zeller, French author and playwright ·
1980 Jevgeni Novikov, Estonian footballer ·
1981 Savage, New Zealand rapper ·
1981 Michael Crafter, Australian
singer-songwriter ·
1981 Guillermo
Martνnez, Cuban javelin thrower ·
1981 Brandon Phillips, American baseball player ·
1982 Ibrahim Camejo, Cuban long jumper ·
1985 Phil Bardsley, English footballer ·
1985 Colt Hynes, American baseball player ·
1986 Kellie Pickler, American singer-songwriter ·
1987 Sonata
Tamoaitytė, Lithuanian hurdler ·
1987 Terrence Williams,
American basketball player ·
1989 Jason Clark,
Australian rugby league player ·
1989 Andrew Fifita, Australian rugby league
player ·
1989 David
Fifita, Australian rugby league player ·
1989 Julia Zlobina, Russian-Azerbaijani figure
skater ·
1989 Markiplier, American internet personality ·
1989 Nicole Rottmann, Austrian tennis player ·
1991 Seohyun, South Korean singer, dancer, and
actress ·
1991 Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer ·
1991 Kang Min-hyuk, South Korean singer, drummer,
and actor ·
1992 Oscar Hiljemark, Swedish footballer ·
1992 Elaine Thompson, Jamaican sprinter[9] ·
1993 Bradley Beal, American basketball player ·
1994 Hussein,
Crown Prince of Jordan[10] ·
1994 Emily Blue, American singer-songwriter ·
1996 Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player[11] ·
1996 Larissa Werbicki, Canadian rower[12] ·
1999 Markιta Vondrouovα,
Czech tennis player[13] ·
2002 Marta Kostyuk, Ukrainian tennis player[14] Deaths[edit]
·
202 Yuan Shao, Chinese warlord ·
548 Theodora I,
Byzantine empress ·
572 Alboin, King of the Lombards[15] ·
683 Leo II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 611) ·
767 Paul I, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 700) ·
928 Louis the Blind, Holy Roman emperor (b. 880) ·
975 Cyneweard,
bishop of Wells ·
1031 Taira no Tadatsune,
Japanese governor ·
1061 Floris I,
count of Holland ·
1175 Andrey Bogolyubsky,
Russian Grand Prince (b. 1111) ·
1189 Matilda
of England, Duchess of Saxony, (b. 1156) ·
1194 Xiao Zong,
Chinese emperor (b. 1127) ·
1385 Andronikos IV,
Byzantine emperor (b. 1348) ·
1497 James
Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley, English rebel leader (b. c. 1463) ·
1575 Yonekura Shigetsugu,
Japanese samurai ·
1586 Primo Trubar, Slovenian author and reformer
(b. 1508) ·
1598 Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and
geographer (b. 1527) ·
1607 Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (b.
1543) ·
1716 George
FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1665) ·
1757 Sophia
Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (b.
1687)[citation
needed] ·
1798 John Henry Colclough,
Irish revolutionary (b. c. 1769) ·
1813 Gerhard von
Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian
Minister of War (b. 1755) ·
1834 Joseph Bovι, Russian architect, designed the Triumphal Arch
of Moscow (b. 1784) ·
1836 James Madison, American academic and
politician, 4th President
of the United States (b. 1751) ·
1880 Texas Jack Omohundro,
American soldier and hunter (b. 1846) ·
1881 Jules Armand Dufaure,
French politician, 33rd Prime Minister
of France (b. 1798) ·
1889 Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and
academic (b. 1818) ·
1892 Alexandros
Rizos Rangavis, Greek poet and politician, Greek
Foreign Minister (b. 1810) ·
1913 Manuel
Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Brazil (b.
1841) ·
1914 Sophie,
duchess of Hohenberg (b. 1868) ·
1914 Franz
Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (b. 1863) ·
1915 Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b.
1877) ·
1917 Ștefan Luchian,
Romanian painter and educator (b. 1868) ·
1922 Velimir Khlebnikov,
Russian poet and playwright (b. 1885) ·
1929 Edward Carpenter, English poet and
philosopher (b. 1844) ·
1936 Alexander Berkman,
American author and activist (d. 1870) ·
1939 Douglas H. Johnston,
governor of the Chickasaw Nation (b.
1856) ·
1940 Italo Balbo, Italian air marshal and
politician (b. 1896) ·
1944 Friedrich Dollmann,
German general (b. 1882) ·
1945 Yunus Nadi
Abalıoğlu, Turkish journalist (b. 1879) ·
1947 Stanislav Kostka
Neumann, Czech writer, poet and journalist (b. 1875) ·
1960 Jake Swirbul, American businessman,
co-founded the Grumman
Aircraft Engineering Corporation (b. 1898) ·
1962 Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player
and manager (b. 1903) ·
1962 Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b.
1878) ·
1965 Red Nichols, American cornet player,
bandleader, and composer (b. 1905) ·
1966 Mehmet Fuat Kφprόlό,
Turkish historian and politician, 21st Deputy
Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1890) ·
1971 Franz Stangl, Austrian SS officer
(b. 1908) ·
1974 Vannevar Bush, American engineer and
academic (b. 1890) ·
1975 Constantinos
Apostolou Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913) ·
1975 Rod Serling, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1924) ·
1978 Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian lawyer
and politician, 1st President of
Rhodesia (b. 1905) ·
1980 Josι Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor
(b. 1895) ·
1981 Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (b.
1958) ·
1983 Alf Francis, German-English motor racing
mechanic and racing car constructor (b. 1918) ·
1984 Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist,
general, and politician (b. 1917) ·
1985 Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator
(b. 1905) ·
1989 Joris Ivens, Dutch journalist, director, and
producer (b. 1898) ·
1992 Guy Nθve, Belgian racing driver (b. 1955) ·
1992 Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936) ·
1995 Petri Walli, Finnish singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (b. 1969) ·
2000 Jane
Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English publisher and
politician (b. 1913) ·
2000 Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director, and
screenwriter (b. 1908) ·
2001 Mortimer J. Adler,
American philosopher and author (b. 1902) ·
2003 Joan Lowery Nixon,
American journalist and author (b. 1927) ·
2004 Anthony Buckeridge,
English author (b. 1912) ·
2005 Brenda Howard, American activist (b. 1946) ·
2005 Michael P. Murphy,
American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1976) ·
2006 Jim Baen, American publisher, founded Baen Books (b. 1943) ·
2006 Peter
Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English lawyer and
politician, Attorney
General for England and Wales (b. 1919) ·
2006 George Unwin, English pilot and commander
(b. 1913) ·
2007 Eugene B. Fluckey,
American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient
(b. 1913) ·
2007 Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese lawyer and
politician, 78th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1919) ·
2009 A. K. Lohithadas, Indian director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1955) ·
2009 Billy Mays, American TV personality (b.
1958) ·
2010 Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician
(b. 1917) ·
2012 Richard Isay, American psychiatrist and
author (b. 1934) ·
2012 Leontine T. Kelly,
American bishop (b. 1920) ·
2012 Robert Sabatier, French author and poet (b.
1923) ·
2012 Doris Sams, American baseball player (b.
1927) ·
2013 Ted Hood, American sailor and architect (b.
1927) ·
2013 Tamαs Katona, Hungarian historian and
politician (b. 1932) ·
2013 Kenneth Minogue, New Zealand-Australian
political scientist and academic (b. 1930) ·
2013 F. D. Reeve, American author and academic
(b. 1928) ·
2013 David Rubitsky, American sergeant (b. 1917) ·
2014 Seymour Barab, American cellist and composer
(b. 1921) ·
2014 Jim Brosnan, American baseball player (b.
1929) ·
2014 On Kawara, Japanese painter (b. 1933) ·
2014 Meshach Taylor, American actor (b. 1947) ·
2015 Jack Carter,
American actor and comedian (b. 1922) ·
2015 Jope Seniloli, Fijian politician, Vice-President of
Fiji (b. 1939) ·
2015 Wally Stanowski, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1919) ·
2016 Scotty Moore, American guitarist (b. 1931) ·
2016 Pat Summitt, American women's college
basketball head coach (b. 1952) ·
2016 Buddy Ryan, American football coach (b.
1931) ·
2018 Harlan Ellison, American writer (b. 1934)[16] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Irenaeus of Lyon (Western Christianity) o Heimerad o Paulus I o June
28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest day on which Vardavar can fall, while August 1 is
the latest; celebrated on the 14th weeks after Easter (Armenia) ·
Poznań
Remembrance Day (Poland) ·
Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus and an important day in
Serbian history. (Eastern Orthodox
Church) ·
Tau Day, a day similar to Pi Day celebrating the number Tau,
which is equivalent to 2*Pi. |
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