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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 5 is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
209 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.[1] ·
1283 – Battle of
the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon,
destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno.[2] ·
1288 –
The Battle of Worringen ends
the War of the
Limburg Succession, with John I, Duke of
Brabant, being one of the more important victors.[3] ·
1610 –
The masque Tethys' Festival is
performed at Whitehall Palace to
celebrate the investiture of Henry
Frederick, Prince of Wales.[4] ·
1644 –
The Qing dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor take Beijing during the
collapse of the Ming dynasty.[5] ·
1798 – The Battle of
New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish
Rebellion into Munster is defeated. ·
1817 –
The first Great Lakes steamer,
the Frontenac,
is launched. ·
1829 – HMS Pickle captures the
armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. ·
1832 –
The June Rebellion breaks
out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis Philippe. ·
1837 – Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas. ·
1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional
monarchy by the signing of a new constitution. ·
1851 – Harriet Beecher
Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin,
or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National
Era abolitionist newspaper.[6] ·
1862 –
As the Treaty of Saigon is
signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla
leader Trương
Định decides to defy Emperor Tự
Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans. ·
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces
under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army
at Piedmont,
Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. ·
1873 –
Sultan Barghash
bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the
terms of a treaty with Great Britain.[7] ·
1883 –
The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris. ·
1888 –
The Rio de la
Plata earthquake takes place. ·
1893 –
The trial of Lizzie Borden for
the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford,
Massachusetts. ·
1900 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria. ·
1915 –
Denmark amends its constitution to
allow women's suffrage. ·
1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice
of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American
Jew to hold such a position. ·
1916
– World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out. ·
1917 –
World War I: Conscription begins
in the United States as "Army registration day". ·
1940 – World War II: After a brief lull in
the Battle of France,
the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south
of the River Somme in
Operation Fall Rot ("Case
Red"). ·
1941 –
World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during
the Bombing of Chongqing. ·
1942 –
World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary,
and Romania. ·
1944 –
World War II: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs
on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day. ·
1945 –
The Allied Control
Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany,
formally takes power. ·
1946 –
A fire in the La Salle Hotel in
Chicago, Illinois, kills 61
people. ·
1947 – Cold War: Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University,
the United
States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid
to war-torn Europe. ·
1949 – Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member
of Thailand's
Parliament. ·
1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new
single, "Hound Dog",
on The Milton Berle
Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip
movements. ·
1959 –
The first government of Singapore is
sworn in. ·
1963 –
The British Secretary of
State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair". ·
1963
– Movement of 15
Khordad: Protests against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by
the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are
confronted by tanks and paratroopers. ·
1964 – DSV Alvin is commissioned. ·
1967 –
The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes
against Egyptian air-fields in response to the
mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border. ·
1968 –
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.[8] ·
1975 –
The Suez Canal opens for the first time
since the Six-Day War. ·
1975
– The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on membership of the European
Economic Community (EEC). ·
1976 –
The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses. ·
1981 –
The "Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report" of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people
in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with
weakened immune systems,
in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS. ·
1983 –
More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr
Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge. The collision
caused a freight train to derail, further damaging the vessel yet the
ship remained afloat and was eventually restored and returned to service.[9] ·
1984 – Operation Blue Star:
Under orders from India's prime
minister, Indira Gandhi, the Indian Army begins an
invasion of the Golden Temple,
the holiest site of the Sikh religion.[10] ·
1989 –
The Tank Man halts the progress of a column
of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen
Square protests of 1989. ·
1993 –
Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough,
North Yorkshire, UK, fall into the sea following a landslide. ·
1995 –
The Bose–Einstein
condensate is first created. ·
1997 –
The Second
Republic of the Congo Civil War begins. ·
1998 –
A strike begins
at the General Motors parts
factory in Flint, Michigan,
that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven
weeks. ·
2000 –
The Six-Day War in
Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the
city is destroyed. ·
2001 – Tropical Storm
Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical
storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes
$5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical
storm in U.S. history. ·
2003 –
A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as
temperatures exceed 50 °C (122 °F) in the region. ·
2004 – Noël Mamère, Mayor of Bègles,
celebrates marriage for
two men for the first time in France. ·
2006 – Serbia declares independence from
the State
Union of Serbia and Montenegro. ·
2009 –
After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in
clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru. ·
2013 –
A building
collapse in Philadelphia kills six and wounds 14
other people. ·
2015 –
An earthquake with a
moment magnitude of 6.0 struck Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia killing
18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that
occurred during the earthquake. This is the strongest earthquake to strike
Malaysia since 1975. ·
2017 – Montenegro becomes the 29th member of
the NATO. ·
2017
– Six Arab countries—Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates—cut
diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the
region. Births[edit] ·
1341 – Edmund
of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of King Edward III of
England and Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports (d. 1402)[11] ·
1412 – Ludovico
III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, Italian ruler (d. 1478) ·
1493 – Justus Jonas, German priest and academic (d.
1555) ·
1523 – Margaret
of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573) ·
1554 – Benedetto
Giustiniani, Italian clergyman (d. 1621) ·
1587 – Robert
Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English colonial administrator and
admiral (d. 1658) ·
1596 – Peter Wtewael, Dutch Golden Age painter (d.
1660) ·
1640 – Pu Songling, Chinese author (d. 1715) ·
1646 – Elena Cornaro
Piscopia, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1684) ·
1660 – Sarah
Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744) ·
1757 – Pierre Jean
George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (d. 1808) ·
1760 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist,
and mineralogist (d. 1852) ·
1771 – Ernest
Augustus, King of Hanover (d. 1851)[12] ·
1781 – Christian Lobeck, German scholar and
academic (d. 1860) ·
1801 – William Scamp, English architect and
engineer (d. 1872)[13] ·
1819 – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and
astronomer (d. 1892)[14] ·
1830 – Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (d. 1905) ·
1850 – Pat Garrett, American sheriff (d. 1908) ·
1862 – Allvar Gullstrand,
Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1930) ·
1868 – James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish rebel
leader (d. 1916) ·
1870 – Bernard de Pourtalès,
Swiss captain and sailor (d. 1935) ·
1876 – Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and
academic (d. 1957) ·
1877 – Willard Miller, Canadian-American
sailor, Medal of Honor recipient
(d. 1959) ·
1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican general and
politician, Governor of
Chihuahua (d. 1923) ·
1879 – Robert
Mayer, German-English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1985) ·
1883 – John Maynard Keynes,
English economist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1946) ·
1884 – Ralph Benatzky, Czech-Swiss composer (d.
1957) ·
1884
– Ivy Compton-Burnett,
English author (d. 1969) ·
1884
– Frederick Lorz,
American runner (d. 1914) ·
1892 – Jaan Kikkas, Estonian weightlifter (d. 1944) ·
1894 – Roy
Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher
and academic (d. 1976) ·
1895 – William Boyd,
American actor and producer (d. 1972) ·
1895
– William Roberts,
English soldier and painter (d. 1980) ·
1898 – Salvatore Ferragamo,
Italian shoe designer, founded Salvatore
Ferragamo S.p.A. (d. 1960) ·
1898
– Federico García
Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (d. 1936) ·
1899 – Otis Barton, American diver, engineer, and
actor, designed the bathysphere (d.
1992) ·
1899
– Theippan Maung Wa,
Burmese writer (d. 1942) ·
1900 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist
and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1979) ·
1902 – Arthur Powell Davies,
American minister, author, and activist (d. 1957) ·
1905 – Wayne Boring, American illustrator (d. 1987) ·
1912 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist and
author (d. 2003) ·
1912
– Eric Hollies,
English cricketer (d. 1981) ·
1913 – Conrad Marca-Relli,
American-Italian painter and academic (d. 2000) ·
1914 – Beatrice de Cardi,
English archaeologist and academic (d. 2016) ·
1916 – Sid Barnes, Australian cricketer (d. 1973) ·
1916
– Eddie Joost, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2011) ·
1919 – Richard Scarry, American-Swiss author and
illustrator (d. 1994) ·
1920 – Marion Motley, American football player and
coach (d. 1999) ·
1920
– Cornelius Ryan,
Irish-American journalist and author (d. 1974) ·
1922 – Paul Couvret, Dutch-Australian soldier,
pilot, and politician (d. 2013) ·
1922
– Sheila Sim, English actress (d. 2016) ·
1923 – Jorge Daponte, Argentinian racing driver (d.
1963) ·
1923
– Roger Lebel, Canadian actor (d. 1994) ·
1923
– Daniel Pinkham,
American organist and composer (d. 2006) ·
1924 – Lou Brissie, American baseball player and
scout (d. 2013) ·
1924
– Art Donovan, American football player and
radio host (d. 2013) ·
1925 – Bill Hayes,
American actor and singer ·
1926 – Paul Soros, Hungarian-American engineer and
businessman (d. 2013) ·
1928 – Robert Lansing,
American actor (d. 1994) ·
1928
– Umberto Maglioli,
Italian racing driver (d. 1999) ·
1928
– Tony Richardson,
English-American director and producer (d. 1991) ·
1930 – Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian author (d. 1996) ·
1931 – Yves Blais, Canadian businessman and
politician (d. 1998) ·
1931
– Jacques Demy,
French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1990) ·
1931
– Jerzy Prokopiuk,
Polish anthropologist and philosopher ·
1932 – Christy Brown, Irish painter and author (d.
1981) ·
1932
– Dave Gold, American businessman, founded
the 99 Cents Only Stores (d.
2013) ·
1933 – Bata
Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (d. 2016) ·
1934 – Vilhjálmur Einarsson,
Icelandic triple jumper, painter, and educator (d. 2019) ·
1934
– Bill Moyers, American journalist, 13th White House
Press Secretary ·
1937 – Hélène Cixous,
French author, poet, and critic ·
1938 – Moira Anderson, Scottish singer ·
1938
– Karin Balzer,
German hurdler (d. 2019) ·
1938
– Roy Higgins, Australian jockey (d. 2014) ·
1939 – Joe Clark, Canadian journalist and
politician, 16th Prime Minister
of Canada ·
1939
– Margaret Drabble,
English novelist, biographer, and critic ·
1941 – Martha Argerich, Argentinian pianist ·
1941
– Erasmo Carlos,
Brazilian singer-songwriter ·
1941
– Spalding Gray,
American writer, actor, and monologist (d. 2004) ·
1941
– Robert Kraft,
American businessman, founded The Kraft Group ·
1941
– Jeff Rooker,
Baron Rooker, English academic and politician, Minister
of State for Immigration ·
1941
– Gudrun Sjödén,
Swedish designer ·
1942 – Teodoro
Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatoguinean lieutenant and politician,
2nd President
of Equatorial Guinea ·
1943 – Abraham Viruthakulangara,
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nagpur, Maharashtra, India (d. 2018) ·
1944 – Whitfield Diffie, American cryptographer and
academic ·
1945 – John Carlos, American runner and football
player ·
1945
– André Lacroix,
Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach ·
1946 – John Du Cann, English guitarist (d. 2001) ·
1946
– Bob Grant,
Australian rugby league player ·
1946
– Patrick Head,
English engineer and businessman, co-founded Williams F1 ·
1946
– Wanderléa, Brazilian
singer and television host ·
1947 – Laurie Anderson, American singer-songwriter
and violinist ·
1947
– Tom Evans,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1983) ·
1947
– David Hare,
English director, playwright, and screenwriter ·
1947
– Freddie Stone,
American singer, guitarist, and pastor ·
1949 – Ken Follett, Welsh author ·
1949
– Elizabeth Gloster,
English lawyer and judge ·
1949
– Alexander
Scrymgeour, 12th Earl of Dundee, Scottish politician ·
1950 – Ronnie Dyson, American singer and actor (d.
1990) ·
1950
– Abraham Sarmiento,
Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (d. 1977) ·
1951 – Suze Orman, American financial adviser,
author, and television host ·
1952 – Pierre
Bruneau, Canadian journalist and news anchor ·
1952
– Carole Fredericks,
American singer (d. 2001) ·
1952
– Nicko McBrain,
English drummer and songwriter ·
1953 – Kathleen
Kennedy, American film producer, co-founded Amblin Entertainment ·
1954 – Alberto Malesani, Italian footballer and
manager ·
1954
– Phil Neale, English cricketer, coach, and
manager ·
1954
– Nancy Stafford,
American model and actress ·
1955 – Edino Nazareth Filho,
Brazilian footballer and manager ·
1956 – Richard Butler,
English singer-songwriter ·
1956
– Kenny G, American saxophonist, songwriter,
and producer ·
1957 – Charles Nolan, American fashion designer (d.
2011) ·
1958 – Avigdor Lieberman,
Moldavian-Israeli soldier and politician, Deputy Prime
Minister of Israel ·
1958
– Ahmed
Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, Comorian businessman and politician, President of Comoros ·
1959 – Mark Ella, Australian rugby player ·
1959
– Werner Schildhauer,
German runner ·
1960 – Boris Dugan, Estonian footballer and coach ·
1960
– Claire Fox, English author and academic ·
1961 – Anke Behmer, German heptathlete ·
1961
– Mary Kay Bergman,
American voice actress (d. 1999) ·
1961
– Anthony Burger,
American singer and pianist (d. 2006) ·
1961
– Aldo Costa, Italian engineer ·
1961
– Ramesh Krishnan,
Indian tennis player and coach ·
1962 – Jeff Garlin, American actor, comedian,
director, and screenwriter ·
1962
– Tõnis Lukas,
Estonian historian and politician, 34th Estonian
Minister of Education ·
1964 – Lisa Cholodenko, American director and
screenwriter ·
1964
– Karl Sanders,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1965 – Michael E. Brown, American astronomer and
author ·
1965
– Sandrine Piau,
French soprano ·
1965
– Alfie Turcotte,
American ice hockey player ·
1967 – Matt Bullard, American basketball player and
sportscaster ·
1967
– Joe DeLoach, American sprinter ·
1967
– Ray Lankford,
American baseball player ·
1967
– Ron Livingston,
American actor ·
1968 – Ed Vaizey, English lawyer and
politician, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative
Industries ·
1969 – Brian McKnight, American singer-songwriter,
producer, and actor ·
1970 – Martin Gélinas,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1971 – Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress ·
1971
– Alex Mooney, American politician[15] ·
1971
– Takaya Tsubobayashi,
Japanese racing driver ·
1971
– Mark Wahlberg,
American model, actor, producer, and rapper ·
1972 – Yogi Adityanath, Indian priest and
politician ·
1972
– Paweł Kotla,
Polish conductor and academic ·
1973 – Lamon Brewster, American boxer ·
1973
– Gella Vandecaveye,
Belgian martial artist ·
1974 – Mervyn Dillon, Trinidadian cricketer ·
1974
– Scott Draper,
Australian tennis player and golfer ·
1974
– Russ Ortiz, American baseball player ·
1975 – Zydrunas Ilgauskas,
Lithuanian-American basketball player ·
1975
– Duncan Patterson,
English drummer and keyboard player ·
1975
– Sandra Stals,
Belgian runner ·
1976 – Giannis Giannoulis,
Canadian basketball player ·
1976
– Torry Holt, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1977 – Liza Weil, American actress ·
1978 – Fernando Meira, Portuguese footballer ·
1979 – Stefanos Kotsolis,
Greek footballer ·
1979
– Matthew Scarlett,
Australian footballer ·
1979
– Pete Wentz, American singer-songwriter, bass
player, actor, and fashion designer ·
1979
– Jason
White, American race car driver ·
1980 – Mike Fisher,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1980
– Antonio
García, Spanish racing driver ·
1981 – Serhat Akın, Turkish footballer ·
1981
– Sébastien Lefebvre,
Canadian singer and guitarist ·
1982 – Ryan Dallas Cook, American trombonist (d.
2005) ·
1983 – Marques Colston, American football player ·
1984 – Robert Barbieri, Canadian-Italian rugby
player ·
1984
– Eric
Traoré, Senegalese footballer ·
1985 – Jeremy Abbott, American figure skater ·
1985
– Ekaterina Bychkova,
Russian tennis player ·
1986 – Dave Bolland, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1986
– Vernon Gholston,
American football player ·
1987 – Marcus
Thornton, American basketball player ·
1988 – Alessandro Salvi, Italian footballer ·
1989 – Cam Atkinson, American ice hockey player ·
1989
– Megumi Nakajima,
Japanese voice actress and singer ·
1990 – Radko Gudas, Czech ice hockey defenceman ·
1991 – Sören Bertram, German footballer ·
1992 – Joazhiño Arroe,
Peruvian footballer ·
1992
– Emily Seebohm,
Australian swimmer ·
1993 – Roger Tuivasa-Sheck,
Samoan-New Zealand rugby league player [16] ·
1995 – Troye Sivan, South African–born Australian
singer-songwriter, actor, and YouTuber[17] ·
1995
– Ross Wilson,
English table tennis player[18] ·
1997 – Sam Darnold, American football player[19] ·
1998 – Yulia Lipnitskaya,
Russian figure skater Deaths[edit] ·
301 – Sima Lun, Chinese emperor (b. 249) ·
535 – Epiphanius,
patriarch of Constantinople ·
567 – Theodosius
I, patriarch of Alexandria ·
708 – Jacob of Edessa, Syrian bishop (b. 640) ·
754 – Eoban, bishop of Utrecht ·
754
– Boniface,
English missionary and martyr (b. 675) ·
879 – Ya'qub ibn
al-Layth, Persian emir (b. 840) ·
928 – Louis the Blind, king of Provence ·
1017 – Sanjō, emperor of Japan (b. 976) ·
1118 – Robert
de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Norman nobleman and politician
(b. 1049) ·
1296 – Edmund Crouchback,
English politician, Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1245) ·
1310 – Amalric,
prince of Tyre ·
1316 – Louis X,
king of France (b. 1289) ·
1383 – Dmitry of Suzdal, Russian grand prince (b.
1324) ·
1400 – Frederick
I, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ·
1424 – Braccio da Montone,
Italian nobleman (b. 1368) ·
1434 – Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (b. 1374) ·
1443 – Ferdinand,
Portuguese prince (b. 1402) ·
1445 – Leonel Power, English composer ·
1530 – Mercurino Gattinara,
Italian statesman and jurist (b. 1465) ·
1568 – Lamoral, Count
of Egmont (b. 1522) ·
1625 – Orlando Gibbons, English organist and
composer (b. 1583) ·
1667 – Francesco
Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607) ·
1708 – Ignatius George II,
Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (b. 1648)[20] ·
1716 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician and
academic (b. 1682) ·
1722 – Johann Kuhnau, German organist and composer
(b. 1660) ·
1738 – Isaac de Beausobre,
French pastor and theologian (b. 1659) ·
1740 – Henry Grey,
1st Duke of Kent, English politician and courtier (b. 1671) ·
1791 – Frederick Haldimand,
Swiss-Canadian general and politician, 22nd Governor
of Quebec (b. 1718) ·
1816 – Giovanni Paisiello,
Italian composer and educator (b. 1741) ·
1825 – Odysseas Androutsos,
Greek soldier (b. 1788) ·
1826 – Carl Maria von Weber,
German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1786) ·
1866 – John McDouall Stuart,
Scottish explorer and surveyor (b. 1815) ·
1899 – Antonio Luna, Filipino general (b. 1866) ·
1900 – Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and
short story writer (b. 1871) ·
1906 – Karl
Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (b.
1842) ·
1910 – O. Henry, American short story writer (b.
1862) ·
1913 – Chris von der Ahe,
German-American businessman (b. 1851) ·
1916 – Herbert
Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish-born British field marshal
and politician, Secretary of
State for War (b. 1850) ·
1920 – Rhoda Broughton, Welsh-English author (b.
1840) ·
1921 – Will Crooks, English trade unionist and
politician (b. 1852) ·
1921
– Georges Feydeau,
French playwright (b. 1862) ·
1930 – Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (b. 1880)[21] ·
1930
– Pascin, Bulgarian-French painter and
illustrator (b. 1885) ·
1934 – Emily Dobson, Australian philanthropist (b.
1842)[22] ·
1934
– William Holman,
English-Australian politician, 19th Premier of New
South Wales (b. 1871) ·
1947 – Nils Olaf Chrisander,
Swedish-American actor and director (b. 1884) ·
1967 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philologist,
philosopher, and academic (b. 1878) ·
1967
– Harry Brown,
Australian public servant (b. 1878) ·
1993 – Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1933) ·
1996 – Acharya Kuber Nath
Rai, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1933) ·
1997 – J. Anthony Lukas, American journalist and
author (b. 1933) ·
1998 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911) ·
1998
– Sam Yorty, American soldier and politician,
37th Mayor of Los Angeles (b.
1909) ·
1999 – Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter (b.
1925) ·
2000 – Don Liddle, American baseball player (b.
1925) ·
2002 – Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter
and bass player (b. 1951) ·
2003 – Jürgen Möllemann,
German soldier and politician, 10th Vice-Chancellor
of Germany (b. 1945) ·
2003
– Manuel Rosenthal,
French composer and conductor (b. 1904) ·
2004 – Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor
(b. 1941) ·
2004
– Ronald Reagan,
American actor and politician, 40th President
of the United States (b. 1911) ·
2005 – Adolfo Aguilar
Zínser, Mexican scholar and politician (b. 1949) ·
2005
– Wee Chong Jin,
Singaporean judge (b. 1917)[23] ·
2006 – Frederick Franck, Dutch-American painter,
sculptor, and author (b. 1909) ·
2006
– Edward L. Moyers,
American businessman (b. 1928) ·
2009 – Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1978) ·
2012 – Ray Bradbury, American science fiction
writer and screenwriter (b. 1920) ·
2012
– Hal Keller, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1928) ·
2012
– Mihai
Pătrașcu, Romanian-American computer scientist (b. 1982) ·
2012
– Charlie Sutton,
Australian footballer and coach (b. 1924) ·
2013 – Helen McElhone, Scottish politician (b.
1933) ·
2013
– Stanisław Nagy,
Polish cardinal (b. 1921) ·
2013
– Ruairí Ó Brádaigh,
Irish republican activist and politician (b. 1932) ·
2013
– Michel Ostyn,
Belgian physiologist and physician (b. 1924) ·
2014 – Abu Abdulrahman
al-Bilawi, Iraqi commander (b. 1971) ·
2014
– Don Davis,
American songwriter and producer (b. 1938) ·
2014
– Reiulf Steen,
Norwegian journalist and politician, Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications (b.
1933) ·
2015 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi journalist and
politician, Iraqi
Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1936) ·
2015
– Alan Bond,
English-Australian businessman (b. 1938) ·
2015
– Richard Johnson,
English actor (b. 1927) ·
2015
– Roger Vergé,
French chef and author (b. 1930) ·
2016 – Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (b.
1915) ·
2017 – Andy Cunningham,
English actor (b. 1950) ·
2017
– Cheick Tioté,
Ivorian footballer (b. 1986) ·
2018 – Kate Spade, American fashion designer (b.
1962)[24] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Arbor Day (New Zealand) ·
Christian feast day: o Boniface (Roman Catholic
Church) o Blessed Meinwerk o June
5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Father's Day (Denmark) ·
Feast
of Núr, the first day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í calendar (Bahá'í Faith)
(only if Bahá'í Naw-Rúz falls
on March 21) ·
Indian
Arrival Day (Suriname) ·
Khordad Movement
Anniversary (Iran) (Only if March equinox falls on March 20) ·
President's
Day (Equatorial Guinea) ·
Reclamation
Day (Azerbaijan) ·
World Day Against Speciesism (International) ·
World Environment
Day (International) |
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