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Pre-1600

 * 4 – 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 the last pope to require confirmation by the Byzantine emperor before taking office.
 * 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 XIII in Avignon.
 * 1460 – War of the Roses: 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.
 * 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.

1601–1900

 * 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 marks the first successful military use of aircraft and turns the tide of the War of the First Coalition.
 * 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.
 * 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.

1901–present

 * 1906 – The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
 * 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 in the Battle of Hamel on July 4.
 * 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.
 * 1981 – Dan-Air Flight 240, flying to East Midlands Airport, crashes in Nailstone, Leicestershire. All three crew members perish.
 * 1988 – The first crash of an Airbus A320 occurs when Air France Flight 296Q crashes at Mulhouse–Habsheim Airfield in Habsheim, France, during an air show, killing three of the 136 people on board.
 * 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.
 * 1997  – J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in United Kingdom.
 * 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 sex-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.
 * 2024 – Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, returns to Australia after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage in a Saipan court and subsequently being released by the United States Department of Justice.

Pre-1600

 * 12 BC – Agrippa Postumus, Roman son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder (d. 14)
 * 1399 – John, Count of Angoulême (d. 1467)
 * 1467 – Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
 * 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)

1601–1900

 * 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)
 * 1786 – Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (d. 1855)
 * 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–present

 * 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 – 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  – Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and teacher (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, Soviet soldier, pilot and cosmonaut (d. 1970)
 * 1925  – Wolfgang Unzicker, German chess player (d. 2006)
 * 1925  – Jean Frydman, French resistant and businessman (d. 2021)
 * 1926 – Kenny Baker, American fiddler (d. 2011)
 * 1926  – Mahendra Bhatnagar, Indian poet (d. 2020)
 * 1926  – Fernando Mönckeberg Barros, Chilean surgeon
 * 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 (d. 2022)
 * 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 (d. 2020)
 * 1930 – Jackie Fargo, American wrestler and trainer (d. 2013)
 * 1930  – Wolfgang Schwanitz, East German secret police (d. 2022)
 * 1931 – Colin Wilson, English philosopher and author (d. 2013)
 * 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
 * 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 (d. 2023)
 * 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)
 * 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 politician
 * 1945  – Issa al-Haadi al-Mahdi (Dwight York), American criminal, black supremacist, pedophile, convicted child molester, and musician
 * 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 (d. 2023)
 * 1952  – Olive Morris, Jamaican-English civil rights activist (d. 1979)
 * 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
 * 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, 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
 * 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  – Matt Letscher, American actor and playwright
 * 1970  – Adam Ndlovu, Zimbabwean footballer (d. 2012)
 * 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 – J. J. Barea, Puerto Rican-American basketball player
 * 1984  – Yankuba Ceesay, Gambian footballer
 * 1984  – Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
 * 1984  – Raymond Felton, American basketball player
 * 1984  – Indila, French singer
 * 1984  – Priscah Jeptoo, Kenyan runner
 * 1984  – Aubrey Plaza, American actress
 * 1984  – Preslava, Bulgarian singer
 * 1984  – Jūlija Tepliha, Latvian figure skater
 * 1984  – Deron Williams, American basketball player
 * 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
 * 1988  – King Bach, Canadian-American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer and social media personality
 * 1990 – Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner
 * 1990  – Iman Shumpert, American basketball player
 * 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  – Jacob Elordi, Australian actor
 * 1997  – Callum Taylor, English cricketer
 * 2000 – Ann Li, American tennis player
 * 2002 – Chandler Smith, American race car driver
 * 2004 – Mikey Williams, American basketball player
 * 2005 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

Pre-1600

 * 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)

1601–1900

 * 1677 – Francesco Buonamici, Italian architect, painter and engraver (b. 1596)
 * 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 – Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (b. 1720)
 * 1795 – Johannes Jährig, German linguist and translator (b. 1747)
 * 1798 – James Dickey, Irish revolutionary (b. 1776)
 * 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)

1901–present

 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 2001 – Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano (b. 1900)
 * 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, 4th 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)
 * 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)
 * 2019 – Beth Chapman, American reality Television star, Bounty Hunter (b. 1967)
 * 2020 – Milton Glaser, American graphic designer (b. 1929)
 * 2021 – Mike Gravel, American politician (b. 1930)
 * 2022 – Margaret Keane, American artist (b. 1927)
 * 2024 – Taiki Matsuno, Japanese voice actor (b. 1967)

Holidays and observances

 * Day of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan
 * Christian feast day:
 * Anthelm of Belley
 * David the Dendrite
 * Hermogius
 * Isabel Florence Hapgood (Episcopal Church)
 * Jeremiah (Lutheran)
 * John and Paul
 * José María Robles Hurtado (one of Saints of the Cristero War)
 * Josemaría Escrivá
 * Mar Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)
 * Pelagius of Córdoba
 * Vigilius of Trent
 * June 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Flag Day (Romania)
 * Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Madagascar from France in 1960. (Madagascar)
 * Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Somaliland from United Kingdom in 1960. (Somaliland)
 * International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (International)
 * International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (International)
 * Ratcatcher's Day (Hamelin, Germany)
 * Sunthorn Phu Day (Thailand)
 * World Refrigeration Day (International)

title: June 26


text:
June 27

Pre-1600

 * 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
 * 1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
 * 1499 – Amerigo Vespucci sights what is now Amapá State in Brazil.
 * 1556 – The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.

1601–1900

 * 1743 – In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
 * 1760 – Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
 * 1806 – British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.
 * 1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
 * 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign.
 * 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
 * 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.

1901–present

 * 1905 – During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
 * 1914 – The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is now the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.
 * 1924 – The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens after five years of construction, providing a land connection for road and rail vehicles travelling between Johor and Singapore.
 * 1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
 * 1928 – The Rovaniemi township decree is promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi secedes from the old rural municipality as its own market town on January 1, 1929.
 * 1941 – Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
 * 1941  – World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
 * 1944 – World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese.
 * 1946 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
 * 1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
 * 1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
 * 1954  – The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
 * 1957 – Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
 * 1973 – The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
 * 1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
 * 1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PFLP and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
 * 1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
 * 1977 – Constitution for the Federation of Earth, also known as Earth Constitution, was adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria.
 * 1980 – The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.
 * 1981 – The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
 * 1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
 * 1988 – The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.
 * 1988  – Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.
 * 1991 – Two days after it had declared independence, Slovenia is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
 * 1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
 * 2007 – Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. His Chancellor, Gordon Brown succeeds him.
 * 2007  – The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
 * 2008 – In a highly scrutinized election, President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
 * 2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space probe to observe the Sun.
 * 2014 – At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
 * 2015 – Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.
 * 2017 – A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe.

Pre-1600

 * 850 – Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir (d. 902)
 * 1350 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1425)
 * 1430 – Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Lancastrian leader (d. 1475)
 * 1462 – Louis XII, king of France (d. 1515)
 * 1464 – Ernst II of Saxony, Archbishop of Magdeburg (1476–1513) (d. 1513)
 * 1497 – Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1546)
 * 1550 – Charles IX, king of France (d. 1574)
 * 1596 – Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein (d. 1655)

1601–1900

 * 1696 – William Pepperrell, American merchant and soldier (d. 1759)
 * 1717 – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (d. 1799)
 * 1767 – Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer and academic (d. 1843)
 * 1805 – Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
 * 1806 – Augustus De Morgan, English mathematician and logician (d. 1871)
 * 1812 – Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston, American writer (d. 1899)
 * 1817 – Louise von François, German author (d. 1893)
 * 1828 – Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (d. 1905)
 * 1838 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1894)
 * 1838  – Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (d. 1914)
 * 1846 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (d. 1891)
 * 1850 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1919)
 * 1850  – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (d. 1904)
 * 1862 – May Irwin, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1938)
 * 1865 – John Monash, Australian engineer and general (d. 1931)
 * 1869 – Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist (d. 1961)
 * 1869  – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist (d. 1940)
 * 1869  – Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
 * 1870 – Frank Rattray Lillie, American zoologist and embryologist (d. 1947)
 * 1872 – Heber Doust Curtis, American astronomer (d. 1942)
 * 1872  – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1906)
 * 1880 – Helen Keller, American author, academic, and activist (d. 1968)
 * 1882 – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and academic (d. 1963)
 * 1884 – Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
 * 1885 – Pierre Montet, French historian and academic (d. 1966)
 * 1885  – Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist (d. 1950)
 * 1886 – Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (d. 1958)
 * 1888 – Lewis Bernstein Namier, Polish-English historian and academic (d. 1960)
 * 1888  – Antoinette Perry, American actress and director (d. 1946)
 * 1892 – Paul Colin, French illustrator (d. 1985)
 * 1899 – Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (d. 1981)
 * 1900 – Dixie Brown, British boxer (d. 1957)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Merle Tuve, American geophysicist and academic (d. 1982)
 * 1905 – Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
 * 1906 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh-American poet and painter (d. 1967)
 * 1907 – John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991)
 * 1908 – João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian physician and author (d. 1967)
 * 1911 – Marion M. Magruder, American Marine officer, commander of the VMF(N)-533 squadron (d. 1997)
 * 1912 – E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat (d. 2016)
 * 1913 – Elton Britt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972)
 * 1913  – Philip Guston, American painter and academic (d. 1980)
 * 1913  – Willie Mosconi, American pool player (d. 1993)
 * 1914 – Robert Aickman, English author and activist, co-founded the Inland Waterways Association (d. 1981)
 * 1914  – Helena Benitez, Filipina academic and administrator (d. 2016)
 * 1914  – Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (d. 1988)
 * 1915 – Grace Lee Boggs, American philosopher, author, and activist (d. 2015)
 * 1915  – John Alexander Moore, American zoologist and academic (d. 2002)
 * 1916 – Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (d. 1998)
 * 1918 – Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (d. 2017)
 * 1919 – M. Carl Holman, American author, educator, poet, and playwright (d. 1988)
 * 1919  – Amala Shankar, Indian danseuse (d. 2020)
 * 1920 – Fernando Riera, Chilean football player and manager (d. 2010)
 * 1921 – Muriel Pavlow, English actress (d. 2019)
 * 1922 – George Walker, American composer (d. 2018)
 * 1923 – Jacques Berthier, French organist and composer (d. 1994)
 * 1923  – Elmo Hope, American pianist and composer (d. 1967)
 * 1924 – Bob Appleyard, English cricketer and businessman (d. 2015)
 * 1925 – Leonard Lerman, American geneticist and biologist (d. 2012)
 * 1925  – Doc Pomus, American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
 * 1925  – Wayne Terwilliger, American second baseman, coach, and manager (d. 2021)
 * 1927 – Bob Keeshan, American actor and producer (d. 2004)
 * 1928 – Rudy Perpich, American dentist and politician, 34th Governor of Minnesota (d. 1995)
 * 1929 – Dick the Bruiser, American football player and wrestler (d. 1991)
 * 1929  – Peter Maas, American journalist and author (d. 2001)
 * 1930 – Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (d. 2019)
 * 1930  – Tommy Kono, Japanese American weightlifter (d. 2016)
 * 1931 – Charles Bronfman, Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist
 * 1931  – Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
 * 1932 – Eddie Kasko, American baseball player and manager (d. 2020)
 * 1932  – Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (d. 2006)
 * 1932  – Hugh Wood, English composer (d. 2021)
 * 1936 – Lucille Clifton, American author and poet (d. 2010)
 * 1936  – Shirley Anne Field, English actress (d. 2023)
 * 1937 – Joseph P. Allen, American physicist and astronaut
 * 1937  – Otto Herrigel, Namibian lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
 * 1937  – Kirkpatrick Sale, American author and scholar
 * 1938 – Bruce Babbitt, American lawyer and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Interior
 * 1938  – David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Scottish lieutenant and judge
 * 1938  – Konrad Kujau, German illustrator (d. 2000)
 * 1939 – R. D. Burman, Indian singer-songwriter (d. 1994)
 * 1939  – Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (d. 2000)
 * 1939  – Brereton C. Jones, American politician, 58th Governor of Kentucky (d. 2023)
 * 1940 – Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
 * 1941 – Bill Baxley, American lawyer and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama
 * 1941  – James P. Hogan, English-Irish author (d. 2010)
 * 1941  – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
 * 1942 – Bruce Johnston, American singer-songwriter and producer
 * 1942  – Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer
 * 1942  – Danny Schechter, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
 * 1943 – Ravi Batra, Indian-American economist and academic
 * 1944 – Angela King, English environmentalist and author, co-founded Common Ground
 * 1944  – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (d. 2019)
 * 1945 – Joey Covington, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 2013)
 * 1945  – Norma Kamali, American fashion designer
 * 1948 – Camile Baudoin, American guitarist
 * 1949 – Vera Wang, American fashion designer
 * 1951 – Ulf Andersson, Swedish chess player
 * 1951  – Julia Duffy, American actress
 * 1951  – Gilson Lavis, English drummer and portrait artist
 * 1951  – Mary McAleese, Irish academic and politician, 8th President of Ireland
 * 1952 – Madan Bhandari, Nepalese politician (d. 1993)
 * 1953 – Igor Gräzin, Estonian academic and politician
 * 1953  – Alice McDermott, American novelist
 * 1954 – Richard Ibbotson, English admiral
 * 1955 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress
 * 1956 – Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player and politician
 * 1957 – Gabriella Dorio, Italian runner
 * 1958 – Lisa Germano, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1958  – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
 * 1959 – Dan Jurgens, American author and illustrator
 * 1959  – Lorrie Morgan, American singer
 * 1960 – Craig Hodges, American basketball player and coach
 * 1960  – Michael Mayer, American theatre director
 * 1960  – Robert King, English harpsichordist and conductor
 * 1960  – Jeremy Swift, English actor
 * 1962 – Michael Ball, English actor and singer
 * 1962  – Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hong Kong actor and singer
 * 1962  – Sunanda Pushkar, India-born Canadian businesswoman (d. 2014)
 * 1963 – Wendy Alexander, Scottish politician, Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning
 * 1963  – Johnny Benson Jr., American race car driver
 * 1964 – Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1964  – Chuck Person, American basketball player and coach
 * 1965 – Simon Sebag Montefiore, English journalist, historian, and author
 * 1965  – S. Manikavasagam, Malaysian politician and social activist
 * 1965  – Óscar Vega, Spanish boxer
 * 1966 – J. J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1966  – Jörg Bergen, German footballer and manager
 * 1966  – Jeff Conine, American baseball player and sportscaster
 * 1966  – Aigars Kalvītis, Latvian politician, businessman, and former Prime Minister of Latvia
 * 1967 – Sylvie Fréchette, Canadian swimmer and coach
 * 1967  – George Hamilton, Northern Irish police officer
 * 1967  – Vasiliy Kaptyukh, Belarusian discus thrower
 * 1967  – Phil Kearns, Australian rugby player and sportscaster
 * 1968 – Kelly Ayotte, American lawyer and politician, New Hampshire Attorney General
 * 1969 – Viktor Petrenko, Ukrainian figure skater
 * 1970 – Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (d. 2001)
 * 1970  – John Eales, Australian rugby player and businessman
 * 1970  – Jim Edmonds, American baseball player and sportscaster
 * 1970  – Jo Frost, English nanny, television personality, and author
 * 1971 – Serginho, Brazilian footballer
 * 1972 – Dawud Wharnsby, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1973 – Abbath Doom Occulta, Norwegian musician
 * 1973  – Simon Archer, English badminton player
 * 1974 – Christian Kane, American singer-songwriter and actor
 * 1974  – Christopher O'Neill, English-American businessman
 * 1975 – Ace Darling, American wrestler
 * 1975  – Bianca Del Rio, American drag queen and comedian
 * 1975  – Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer
 * 1975  – Tobey Maguire, American actor
 * 1975  – Daryle Ward, American baseball player
 * 1976 – Johnny Estrada, American baseball player
 * 1976  – Leigh Nash, American singer-songwriter
 * 1977 – Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
 * 1978 – Apparat, German musician
 * 1979 – Martin Bourboulon, French film director and screenwriter
 * 1980 – Hugo Campagnaro, Argentinian footballer
 * 1980  – Jennifer Goodridge, American keyboard player
 * 1980  – Alexander Peya, Austrian tennis player
 * 1980  – Kevin Pietersen, South African-English cricketer
 * 1980  – Craig Terrill, American football player
 * 1981 – Andrew Embley, Australian footballer
 * 1983 – Jim Johnson, American baseball player
 * 1983  – Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
 * 1983  – Nikola Rakočević, Serbian actor
 * 1984 – Aiden Blizzard, Australian cricketer
 * 1984  – Khloé Kardashian, American model, businesswoman, and radio host
 * 1984  – D.J. King, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1984  – Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer
 * 1985 – James Hook, Welsh rugby player
 * 1985  – Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
 * 1985  – Nico Rosberg, German race car driver
 * 1986 – Sam Claflin, British actor
 * 1986  – Drake Bell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
 * 1986  – Bryan Fletcher, American skier
 * 1986  – LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
 * 1987 – India de Beaufort, English actress
 * 1987  – Ed Westwick, English actor
 * 1988 – Stefani Bismpikou, Greek gymnast
 * 1988  – Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer
 * 1988  – Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
 * 1989 – Hana Birnerová, Czech tennis player
 * 1989  – Matthew Lewis, English actor
 * 1990 – Bobby Wagner, American football player
 * 1992 – Ahn So-hee, South Korean singer and actress
 * 1992  – Karthika Nair, Indian actress
 * 1993 – Johanna Talihärm, Estonian biathlete
 * 1993  – Alberto Campbell-Staines, Australian athlete
 * 1994 – Anita Husarić, Bosnian tennis player
 * 1995 – Monté Morris, American basketball player
 * 1997 – Yordan Álvarez, Cuban baseball player
 * 1997  – Jehyve Floyd, American basketball player
 * 1997  – H.E.R., American singer-songwriter
 * 1999 – Will Levis, American football player
 * 1999  – Chandler Riggs, American actor
 * 2000 – Chris Olave, American football player
 * 2002 – Kelee Ringo, American football player

Pre-1600

 * 992 – Conan I of Rennes, Duke of Brittany
 * 1162 – Odo II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
 * 1194 – King Sancho VI of Navarre (b. 1132)
 * 1296 – Floris V, Count of Holland (b. 1254)
 * 1458 – Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
 * 1497 – Michael An Gof, rebel leader
 * 1497  – Thomas Flamank, rebel leader
 * 1574 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian historian, painter, and architect (b. 1511)

1601–1900

 * 1601 – Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys (b. 1525)
 * 1603 – Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1539)
 * 1627 – John Hayward, English historian, journalist, and politician (b. 1564)
 * 1636 – Date Masamune, Japanese strongman (b. 1567)
 * 1654 – Johannes Valentinus Andreae, German theologian (b. 1586)
 * 1655 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1598)
 * 1672 – Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (b. 1597)
 * 1720 – Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet and author (b. 1639)
 * 1729 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichord player and composer (b. 1665)
 * 1794 – Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (b. 1711)
 * 1794  – Philippe de Noailles, French general (b. 1715)
 * 1827 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (b. 1754)
 * 1829 – James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1765)
 * 1831 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1776)
 * 1831  – Konstantin Pavlovich, grand duke of Russia and the son of Emperor Paul I of Russia (b. 1779)
 * 1839 – Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire (b. 1780)
 * 1844 – Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
 * 1844  – Joseph Smith, American religious leader, founded the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1805)
 * 1878 – Sidney Breese, American jurist and politician (b. 1800)
 * 1894 – Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1834)
 * 1896 – John Berryman, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1825)

1901–present

 * 1905 – Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player (b. 1867)
 * 1907 – Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator, co-founded Radcliffe College (b. 1822)
 * 1911 – Victor Surridge, English motorcycle racer (b. 1882)
 * 1912 – George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (b. 1855)
 * 1917 – Karl Allmenröder, German soldier and pilot (b. 1896)
 * 1919 – Peter Sturholdt, American boxer (b. 1885)
 * 1920 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1839)
 * 1934 – Francesco Buhagiar, Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1876)
 * 1935 – Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American inventor (b. 1857)
 * 1944 – Milan Hodža, Czech journalist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1878)
 * 1946 – Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator (b. 1893)
 * 1948 – Dorothea Bleek, South African anthropologist and philologist (b. 1873)
 * 1949 – Frank Smythe, English botanist and mountaineer (b. 1900)
 * 1950 – Milada Horáková, Czech politician, victim of judicial murder (b. 1901)
 * 1952 – Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1878)
 * 1957 – Hermann Buhl, Austrian soldier and mountaineer (b. 1924)
 * 1960 – Lottie Dod, English tennis player, golfer, and archer (b. 1871)
 * 1960  – Harry Pollitt, British politician and Secretary General of the Communist Party of Great Britain (b. 1890)
 * 1962 – Paul Viiding, Estonian author, poet, and critic (b. 1904)
 * 1967 – Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (b. 1878)
 * 1970 – Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler and scholar (b. 1902)
 * 1973 – Ida Mett, Belarusian Jewish anarchist (b. 1901)
 * 1975 – G.I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1886)
 * 1977 – Arthur Perdue, American businessman (b. 1885)
 * 1986 – George Nēpia, New Zealand rugby player and referee (b. 1905)
 * 1987 – Billy Snedden, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1926)
 * 1989 – A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and academic (b. 1910)
 * 1991 – Milton Subotsky, American-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1921)
 * 1996 – Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
 * 1998 – Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1935)
 * 1999 – Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
 * 2000 – Pierre Pflimlin, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
 * 2001 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author, illustrator, and painter (b. 1914)
 * 2001  – Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
 * 2001  – Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
 * 2002 – John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass guitarist, and producer (b. 1944)
 * 2002  – Robert L. J. Long, American admiral (b. 1920)
 * 2003 – David Newman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
 * 2004 – George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
 * 2004  – Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
 * 2005 – Shelby Foote, American historian and author (b. 1916)
 * 2005  – Ray Holmes, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1914)
 * 2005  – John T. Walton, American businessman, co-founded the Children's Scholarship Fund (b. 1946)
 * 2006 – Eileen Barton, American singer (b. 1924)
 * 2006  – Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer (b. 1960)
 * 2007 – William Hutt, Canadian actor (b. 1920)
 * 2008 – Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (b. 1914)
 * 2009 – Gale Storm, American actress (b. 1922)
 * 2010 – Corey Allen, American film and television actor, writer, director, and producer (b. 1934)
 * 2011 – Mike Doyle, English footballer (b. 1946)
 * 2012 – Stan Cox, English runner (b. 1918)
 * 2012  – Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet and illustrator (b. 1920)
 * 2013 – Stefano Borgonovo, Italian footballer (b. 1964)
 * 2013  – Ian Scott, English-New Zealand painter (b. 1945)
 * 2014 – Edmond Blanchard, Canadian jurist and politician (b. 1954)
 * 2014  – Allen Grossman, American poet, critic, and academic (b. 1932)
 * 2014  – Leslie Manigat, Haitian educator and politician, 43rd President of Haiti (b. 1930)
 * 2014  – Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (b. 1919)
 * 2014  – Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1926)
 * 2015 – Zvi Elpeleg, Polish-Israeli diplomat, author, and academic (b. 1926)
 * 2015  – Knut Helle, Norwegian historian and professor (b. 1930)
 * 2015  – Chris Squire, English musician (bass guitarist), singer and songwriter, member of the rock band Yes (b. 1948)
 * 2016 – Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
 * 2017 – Peter L. Berger, Austrian sociologist (b. 1929)
 * 2018 – Joe Jackson, American manager, father of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson (b. 1928)
 * 2018  – Liz Jackson, Australian journalist and former barrister (b. 1951)
 * 2018  – William McBride, Australian obstetrician (b. 1927)
 * 2024 – Kinky Friedman, American country musician (b. 1944)
 * 2024 – Martin Mull, American actor (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Arialdo
 * Crescens, one of the Seventy disciples
 * Cyril of Alexandria (Coptic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion and Lutheran Church)
 * Ladislaus I of Hungary
 * Our Lady of Perpetual Help
 * Sampson the Hospitable
 * Zoilus
 * June 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Canadian Multiculturalism Day (Canada)
 * Commemoration Day for the Victims of the Communist Regime (Czech Republic)
 * Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art and poetry of Magtymguly Pyragy (Turkmenistan)
 * Helen Keller Day (United States)
 * Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Djibouti from France in 1977.
 * Mixed Race Day (Brazil)
 * National PTSD Awareness Day (United States)
 * Seven Sleepers' Day or Siebenschläfertag (Germany)
 * Unity Day (Tajikistan)

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June 28

Pre-1600

 * 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
 * 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.
 * 1495 – A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.
 * 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.

1601–1900

 * 1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
 * 1651 – The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
 * 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 Río 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.
 * 1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
 * 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.
 * 1870 – The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New Year Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).
 * 1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
 * 1881 – The Austro–Serbian 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 Reavis’s 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.

1901–present

 * 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 km 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 Tito–Stalin 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 and 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: The Korean People's Army kills almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers in 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.
 * 1982 – Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people.
 * 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 Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
 * 1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
 * 2001 – Slobodan Milošević 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 Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.

Pre-1600

 * 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)

1601–1900

 * 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 – Étienne François, 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 – Jessie Baetz, Canadian-American artist, composer and pianist (d. 1974 or later)
 * 1894  – Francis Hunter, American tennis player (d. 1981)

1901–present

 * 1902 – Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (d. 1979)
 * 1906 – Maria Goeppert Mayer, German-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)
 * 1909 – Eric Ambler, English author and screenwriter (d. 1998)
 * 1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, 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 (d. 2021)
 * 1921 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
 * 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)
 * 1924 – Kalevi Keihänen, Finnish entrepreneur (d. 1995)
 * 1926 – George Booth, American cartoonist (d. 2022)
 * 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 (d. 2022)
 * 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 (d. 2020)
 * 1928  – Peter Heine, South African cricketer (d. 2005)
 * 1928  – Cyril Smith, English politician (d. 2010)
 * 1929 – Alfred Miodowicz, Polish politician (d. 2021)
 * 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 (d. 2017)
 * 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 (d. 2023)
 * 1934  – Roy Gilchrist, Jamaican cricketer (d. 2001)
 * 1934  – Bette Greene, American journalist and author (d. 2020)
 * 1934  – Carl Levin, American lawyer and politician (d. 2021)
 * 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 (d. 2019)
 * 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 (d. 2022)
 * 1943  – Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and academic
 * 1943  – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1945 – Ken Buchanan, Scottish boxer (d. 2023)
 * 1945  – David Knights, English bass player and producer
 * 1945  – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1989)
 * 1945  – Türkan 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 (d. 2023)
 * 1946  – Robert Xavier Rodríguez, American classical composer
 * 1946  – Jaime Guzmán, 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  – Félix 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 – Kurt Eichenwald, American journalist
 * 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
 * 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  – Stéphane 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 entrepreneur
 * 1971  – Aileen Quinn, American actress and singer
 * 1972 – Ngô Bảo Châu, 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 – Adrián Annus, Hungarian hammer thrower
 * 1973  – Corey Koskie, Canadian baseball player
 * 1974 – Rob Dyrdek, American skateboarder, entrepreneur, and reality television star
 * 1975 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish singer-songwriter, and guitarist (d. 2006)
 * 1976 – Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
 * 1976  – Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
 * 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 – Felicia Day, American actress and writer
 * 1979  – Randy McMichael, American football player
 * 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 Martínez, 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 Tamošaitytė, 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
 * 1993 – Bradley Beal, American basketball player
 * 1994 – Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan
 * 1996 – Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player
 * 1996  – Larissa Werbicki, Canadian rower
 * 1997 – Tadasuke Makino, Japanese racing driver
 * 1997  – Shakur Stevenson, American boxer
 * 1999 – Markéta Vondroušová, Czech tennis player
 * 2002 – Marta Kostyuk, Ukrainian tennis player

Pre-1600

 * 202 – Yuan Shao, Chinese warlord
 * 548 – Theodora I, Byzantine empress
 * 572 – Alboin, King of the Lombards
 * 683 – Leo II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 611)
 * 767 – Paul I, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 700)
 * 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 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian author and reformer (b. 1508)
 * 1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (b. 1527)

1601–1900

 * 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)
 * 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 Bové, 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)

1901–present

 * 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)
 * 1925 – Georgina Febres-Cordero, Venezuelan nun (b. 1861)
 * 1925 – Henry C. Berghoff, German-American politician (b. 1856)
 * 1929 – Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (b. 1844)
 * 1936 – Alexander Berkman, American author and activist (b. 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 Köprülü, 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 – José 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 Nève, Belgian racing driver (b. 1955)
 * 1992  – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
 * 1995 – Petri Walli, Finnish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)
 * 1999 – Vere Bird, first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1910)
 * 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  – Tamás 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)
 * 2023 – Lowell Weicker, French-American politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1931)
 * 2024 – Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1937)
 * 2024 – Audrey Flack, American artist (b. 1931)
 * 2024 – Mohamed Osman Jawari, Somali attorney and politician, 12th Speaker of the Parliament of Somalia (b. 1945)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Basilides and Potamiana
 * Irenaeus of Lyon (Western Christianity)
 * Heimerad
 * Blessed Maria Pia Mastena
 * Paulus I
 * Vincenza Gerosa
 * June 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Constitution Day (Ukraine)
 * Poznań Remembrance Day (Poland)
 * Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus and an important day in Serbian history. (Eastern Orthodox Church)

title: June 28