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Pre-1600

 * 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
 * 656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
 * 860 – Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople.
 * 1053 – Battle of Civitate: Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.
 * 1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
 * 1265 – A draft Byzantine–Venetian treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, but is not ratified by Doge Reniero Zeno.
 * 1391 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.
 * 1429 – Charles VII's army defeats an English army under John Talbot at the Battle of Patay during the Hundred Years' War. The English lost 2,200 men, over half their army, crippling their efforts during this segment of the war.

1601–1900

 * 1633 – Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.
 * 1684 – The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
 * 1757 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
 * 1778 – American Revolutionary War: The British Army abandons Philadelphia.
 * 1799 – Action of 18 June 1799: A frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith.
 * 1803 – Haitian Revolution: The Royal Navy led by Rear-Admiral John Thomas Duckworth commence the blockade of Saint-Domingue against French forces.
 * 1812 – The United States declaration of war upon the United Kingdom is signed by President James Madison, beginning the War of 1812.
 * 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
 * 1822 – Konstantinos Kanaris blows up the Ottoman navy's flagship at Chios, killing the Kapudan Pasha Nasuhzade Ali Pasha.
 * 1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
 * 1859 – First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
 * 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
 * 1887 – The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
 * 1900 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.

1901–present

 * 1908 – Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
 * 1908  – The University of the Philippines is established.
 * 1920 – The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920–1922) begin with a week of sectarian violence in Derry.
 * 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
 * 1935 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
 * 1940 – Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle.
 * 1940  – The "Finest Hour" speech is delivered by Winston Churchill.
 * 1945 – William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
 * 1946 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa.
 * 1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
 * 1948  – Britain, France and the United States announce that on June 21, the Deutsche Mark will be introduced in western Germany and West Berlin. Over the next six days, Communists increasingly restrict access to Berlin.
 * 1953 – The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
 * 1953  – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
 * 1954 – Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
 * 1958 – Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival.
 * 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States Air Force uses B-52 bombers to attack guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
 * 1972 – Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen people are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes minutes after takeoff from London's Heathrow Airport.
 * 1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
 * 1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
 * 1982 – Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
 * 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
 * 1983  – Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
 * 1984 – A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of striking miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
 * 1994 – The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
 * 1998 – Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec, Canada, killing 11.
 * 2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
 * 2007 – The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters.
 * 2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
 * 2018 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.
 * 2023 – Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, imploded while attempting to view the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board including the co-founder and CEO of the company, Stockton Rush in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Pre-1600

 * 1269 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (d. 1298)
 * 1318 – Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
 * 1332 – John V Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1391)
 * 1466 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
 * 1511 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor, designed the Ponte Santa Trinita (d. 1592)
 * 1517 – Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
 * 1521 – Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu (d. 1577)

1601–1900

 * 1667 – Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
 * 1673 – Antonio de Literes, Spanish composer (d. 1747)
 * 1677 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1726)
 * 1716 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter and educator (d. 1809)
 * 1717 – Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1757)
 * 1757 – Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French pianist and composer (d. 1831)
 * 1757  – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine lawyer and politician 1st Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (d. 1833)
 * 1769 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (d. 1822)
 * 1799 – William Lassell, English astronomer and merchant (d. 1880)
 * 1812 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian journalist and author (d. 1891)
 * 1815 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (d. 1881)
 * 1816 – Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, French daughter of Napoleon (d. 1907)
 * 1816  – Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepali ruler (d. 1877)
 * 1833 – Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and President (1880-1884) (d. 1893)
 * 1834 – Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher and academic (d. 1895)
 * 1839 – William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (d. 1920)
 * 1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1922)
 * 1850 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (d. 1914)
 * 1854 – E. W. Scripps, American publisher, founded the E. W. Scripps Company (d. 1926)
 * 1857 – Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Folger Shakespeare Library (d. 1930)
 * 1858 – Andrew Forsyth, Scottish-English mathematician and academic (d. 1942)
 * 1858  – Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1927)
 * 1862 – Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet (d. 1942)
 * 1863 – George Essex Evans, English-Australian poet and author (d. 1909)
 * 1868 – Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (d. 1957)
 * 1870 – Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1954)
 * 1877 – James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (d. 1960)
 * 1881 – Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1956)
 * 1882 – Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian compositor and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1949)
 * 1884 – Édouard Daladier, French captain and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1970)
 * 1886 – George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (d. 1924)
 * 1886  – Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (d. 1978)
 * 1887 – Tancrède Labbé, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1956)
 * 1896 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
 * 1897 – Martti Marttelin, Finnish runner (d. 1940)
 * 1900 – Vlasta Vraz, Czech-American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser (d. 1989)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
 * 1901  – Llewellyn Rees, English actor (d. 1994)
 * 1902 – Louis Alter, American musician (d. 1980)
 * 1902  – Paavo Yrjölä, Finnish decathlete (d. 1980)
 * 1903 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
 * 1903  – Raymond Radiguet, French author and poet (d. 1923)
 * 1904 – Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (d. 1991)
 * 1904  – Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
 * 1905 – Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1982)
 * 1907 – Frithjof Schuon, Swiss-American metaphysicist, philosopher, and author (d. 1998)
 * 1908 – Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (d. 1969)
 * 1908  – Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (d. 1997)
 * 1908  – Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
 * 1910 – Dick Foran, American actor and singer (d. 1979)
 * 1910  – Avon Long, American actor and singer (d. 1984)
 * 1910  – Ray McKinley, American singer, drummer, and bandleader (d. 1995)
 * 1912 – Glenn Morris, American decathlete (d. 1974)
 * 1913 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon (d. 2005)
 * 1913  – Sammy Cahn, American pianist and composer (d. 1993)
 * 1913  – Sylvia Porter, American economist and journalist (d. 1991)
 * 1913  – Françoise Loranger, Canadian playwright and producer (d. 1995)
 * 1913  – Robert Mondavi, American winemaker and philanthropist (d. 2008)
 * 1913  – Oswald Teichmüller, German mathematician (d. 1943)
 * 1914 – E. G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
 * 1914  – Efraín Huerta, Mexican poet (d. 1982)
 * 1915 – Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
 * 1915  – Robert Kanigher, American author (d. 2002)
 * 1915  – Alice T. Schafer, American mathematician (d. 2009)
 * 1916 – Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (d. 2005)
 * 1917 – Richard Boone, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1981)
 * 1917  – Jack Karnehm, English snooker player and sportscaster (d. 2002)
 * 1917  – Erik Ortvad, Danish painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
 * 1918 – Alf Francis, West Prussia-born, English motor racing mechanic and race car constructor (d. 1983)
 * 1918  – Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
 * 1918  – Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
 * 1919 – Jüri Järvet, Estonian actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)
 * 1920 – Ian Carmichael, English actor and singer (d. 2010)
 * 1920  – Aster Berkhof, Belgian author and academic (d. 2020)
 * 1922 – Claude Helffer, French pianist and educator (d. 2004)
 * 1924 – George Mikan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2005)
 * 1925 – Robert Beadell, American composer and educator (d. 1994)
 * 1926 – Philip B. Crosby, American businessman and author (d. 2001)
 * 1926  – Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 2010)
 * 1926  – Tom Wicker, American journalist and author (d. 2011)
 * 1927 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-English actress (d. 1998)
 * 1927  – Paul Eddington, English actor (d. 1995)
 * 1928 – Michael Blakemore, Australian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2023)
 * 1928  – David T. Lykken, American geneticist and academic (d. 2006)
 * 1929 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
 * 1929  – Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2015)
 * 1931 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazilian sociologist, academic, and politician, 34th President of Brazil
 * 1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1932  – Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic (d. 2016)
 * 1933 – Colin Brumby, Australian composer and conductor (d. 2018)
 * 1933  – Tommy Hunt, American singer
 * 1934 – Brian Kenny, English general (d. 2017)
 * 1934  – Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 2004)
 * 1934  – Barack Obama Sr., Kenyan economist (d. 1982)
 * 1936 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (d. 1992)
 * 1936  – Ronald Venetiaan, Surinamese politician, 6th President of Suriname
 * 1937 – Del Harris, American basketball player and coach
 * 1937  – Jay Rockefeller, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of West Virginia
 * 1937  – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and historian (d. 2006)
 * 1937  – Vitaly Zholobov, Ukrainian colonel, engineer, and astronaut
 * 1938 – Kevin Murray, Australian footballer and coach
 * 1939 – Lou Brock, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2020)
 * 1939  – Jean-Claude Germain, Canadian historian, author, and journalist
 * 1939  – Brooks Firestone, American businessman and politician
 * 1941 – Roger Lemerre, French footballer and manager
 * 1941  – Paul Mayersberg, English director and screenwriter
 * 1941  – Delia Smith, English chef and author
 * 1942 – John Bellany, Scottish painter (d. 2013)
 * 1942  – Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
 * 1942  – Pat Hutchins, English author and illustrator (d. 2017)
 * 1942  – Thabo Mbeki, South African politician and 2nd President of South Africa
 * 1942  – Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1942  – Richard Perry, American record producer
 * 1942  – Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (d. 1980)
 * 1942  – Nick Tate, Australian actor and director
 * 1942  – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
 * 1943 – Barry Evans, English actor (d. 1997)
 * 1943  – Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, and actress (d. 2021)
 * 1943  – Éva Marton, Hungarian soprano and actress
 * 1944 – Bruce DuMont, American broadcaster and political analyst
 * 1944  – Sandy Posey, American pop/country singer
 * 1946 – Russell Ash, English journalist and author (d. 2010)
 * 1946  – Bruiser Brody, American wrestler (d. 1988)
 * 1946  – Fabio Capello, Italian footballer and manager
 * 1946  – Maria Bethânia, Brazilian singer
 * 1946  – Gordon Murray, British automobile designer
 * 1947 – Ivonne Coll, Puerto Rican-American model and actress, Miss Puerto Rico 1967
 * 1947  – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
 * 1947  – Linda Thorson, Canadian actress
 * 1948 – Philip Jackson, English actor
 * 1948  – Sherry Turkle, American academic, psychologist, and sociologist
 * 1949 – Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
 * 1949  – Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Poland
 * 1949  – Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (d. 2010)
 * 1950 – Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer and producer (d. 2014)
 * 1950  – Annelie Ehrhardt, German hurdler
 * 1950  – Mike Johanns, American lawyer and politician, 28th United States Secretary of Agriculture
 * 1950  – Jackie Leven, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
 * 1951 – Mohammed Al-Sager, Kuwaiti journalist and politician
 * 1951  – Miriam Flynn, American actress and comedian
 * 1951  – Ian Hargreaves, English-Welsh journalist and academic
 * 1951  – Stephen Hopper, Australian botanist and academic
 * 1951  – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (d. 2014)
 * 1952 – Tiiu Aro, Estonian physician and politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs
 * 1952  – Denis Herron, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1952  – Carol Kane, American actress
 * 1952  – Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1952  – Lee Soo-man, South Korean singer and businessman, founded S.M. Entertainment
 * 1953 – Peter Donohoe, English pianist and educator
 * 1955 – Ed Fast, Canadian lawyer and politician
 * 1956 – Brian Benben, American actor and producer
 * 1956  – John Scott, English organist and conductor (d. 2015)
 * 1957 – Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish footballer and manager
 * 1957  – Richard Powers, American novelist
 * 1958 – Peter Altmaier, German jurist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany
 * 1958  – Gary Martin, British voice actor and actor
 * 1959 – Joe Ansolabehere, American animation screenwriter and producer
 * 1960 – Barbara Broccoli, American director and producer
 * 1960  – Steve Murphy, Canadian journalist
 * 1961 – Oz Fox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1961  – Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player
 * 1961  – Angela Johnson, American novelist and poet
 * 1961  – Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter
 * 1962 – Lisa Randall, American physicist and academic
 * 1963 – Dizzy Reed, American keyboard player and songwriter
 * 1963  – Bruce Smith, American football player
 * 1964 – Uday Hussein, Iraqi commander (d. 2003)
 * 1964  – Patti Webster, American publicist and author (d. 2013)
 * 1966 – Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater, choreographer, and sportscaster
 * 1966  – Troy Kemp, Bahamian high jumper
 * 1968 – Frank Müller, German decathlete
 * 1969 – Haki Doku, Albanian cyclist
 * 1969  – Christopher Largen, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
 * 1970 – Katie Derham, English journalist
 * 1970  – Ivan Kozák, Slovak footballer
 * 1970  – Greg Yaitanes, American director and producer
 * 1971 – Kerry Butler, American actress and singer
 * 1971  – Jason McAteer, English-Irish footballer and manager
 * 1971  – Nathan Morris, American soul singer
 * 1971  – Nigel Owens, Welsh rugby referee and TV presenter
 * 1972 – Anu Tali, Estonian pianist and conductor
 * 1972  – Wikus du Toit, South African actor, director, and composer
 * 1973 – Julie Depardieu, French actress
 * 1973  – Stephen Thomas Erlewine, American author and music critic
 * 1973  – Ray LaMontagne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1973  – Alexandra Meissnitzer, Austrian skier
 * 1973  – Matt Parsons, Australian rugby league player
 * 1973  – Gavin Wanganeen, Australian footballer and coach
 * 1974 – Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer and manager
 * 1974  – Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer and coach (d. 2015)
 * 1975 – Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
 * 1975  – Aleksandrs Koliņko, Latvian footballer
 * 1975  – Martin St. Louis, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1976 – Blake Shelton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1978 – Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
 * 1978  – Tara Platt, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1979 – Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * 1979  – Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1980 – Antonio Gates, American football player
 * 1980  – Sergey Kirdyapkin, Russian race walker
 * 1980  – Craig Mottram, Australian runner
 * 1980  – Antero Niittymäki, Finnish ice hockey player
 * 1981 – Scooter Braun, American music executive
 * 1981  – Clint Newton, American-Australian rugby league player
 * 1981  – Marco Streller, Swiss footballer
 * 1982 – Nadir Belhadj, French-Algerian footballer
 * 1982  – Marco Borriello, Italian footballer
 * 1982  – Nathan Cavaleri, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
 * 1983 – Billy Slater, Australian rugby league player
 * 1983  – Cameron Smith, Australian rugby league player
 * 1984 – Nanyak Dala, Canadian rugby player
 * 1985 – Chris Coghlan, American baseball player
 * 1985  – Alex Hirsch, American animator and television producer
 * 1986 – Edgars Eriņš, Latvian decathlete
 * 1986  – Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
 * 1986  – Richard Madden, Scottish actor
 * 1987 – Omar Arellano, Mexican footballer
 * 1987  – Moeen Ali, English cricketer
 * 1988 – Elini Dimoutsos, Greek footballer
 * 1988  – Josh Dun, American musician
 * 1989 – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, French-born Gabonese footballer
 * 1989  – Chris Harris Jr., American football player
 * 1990 – Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1990  – Sandra Izbașa, Romanian gymnast
 * 1990  – Derek Stepan, American ice hockey player
 * 1990  – Christian Taylor, American triple jumper
 * 1993 – Dennis Lloyd, Israeli musician, producer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
 * 1994 – Sean McMahon, Australian rugby player
 * 1994  – Takeoff, American rapper (d. 2022)
 * 1995 – Maxim Kovtun, Russian figure skater
 * 1996 – Alen Halilović, Croatian footballer
 * 1996  – Niki Wories, Dutch figure skater
 * 1997 – Katharina Hobgarski, German tennis player
 * 1997  – Latrell Mitchell, Australian rugby league player
 * 1999 – Choi Ye-won, South Korean singer and actress
 * 1999  – Trippie Redd, American rapper

Pre-1600

 * 741 – Leo III the Isaurian, Byzantine emperor (b. 685)
 * 908 – Zhang Hao, general of Yang Wu
 * 1095 – Sophia of Hungary (b. c. 1050)
 * 1164 – Elisabeth of Schönau, German Benedictine visionary (b. c. 1129)
 * 1234 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (b. 1218)
 * 1250 – Theresa of Portugal, Queen of León
 * 1291 – Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
 * 1333 – Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1312)
 * 1464 – Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1400)
 * 1588 – Robert Crowley, English minister and poet (b. 1517)

1601–1900

 * 1629 – Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch admiral (b. 1577)
 * 1650 – Christoph Scheiner, German priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1575)
 * 1673 – Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (b. 1606)
 * 1704 – Tom Brown, English author and translator (b. 1662)
 * 1726 – Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
 * 1742 – John Aislabie, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1670)
 * 1749 – Ambrose Philips, English poet and politician (b. 1674)
 * 1772 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German jurist and scholar (b. 1706)
 * 1772  – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician and reformer (b. 1700)
 * 1788 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
 * 1794 – François Buzot, French lawyer and politician (b. 1760)
 * 1794  – James Murray, Scottish-English general and politician, 20th Governor of the Province of Quebec (b. 1721)
 * 1804 – Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma (b. 1746)
 * 1815 – Thomas Picton, Welsh-English general and politician (b. 1758)
 * 1833 – Robert Hett Chapman, American minister, missionary, and academic (b. 1771)
 * 1835 – William Cobbett, English farmer and journalist (b. 1763)
 * 1860 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (b. 1783)
 * 1866 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)

1901–present

 * 1902 – Samuel Butler, English novelist, satirist, and critic (b. 1835)
 * 1905 – Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (b. 1830)
 * 1916 – Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1890)
 * 1917 – Titu Maiorescu, Romanian critic and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1840)
 * 1921 – Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri, Indian Islamic scholar and author (b. 1867)
 * 1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
 * 1926 – Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Queen consort of the Hellenes (b. 1851)
 * 1928 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer (b. 1872)
 * 1936 – Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1868)
 * 1937 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (b. 1863)
 * 1942 – Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, bandleader, and politician (b. 1870)
 * 1943 – Elias Degiannis, Greek commander (b. 1912)
 * 1945 – Florence Bascom, American geologist and educator (b. 1862)
 * 1945  – Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (b. 1886)
 * 1947 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
 * 1948 – Edward Brooker, English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1891)
 * 1959 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
 * 1963 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (b. 1912)
 * 1964 – Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (b. 1890)
 * 1967 – Geki, Italian race car driver (b. 1937)
 * 1967  – Beat Fehr, Swiss race car driver (b. 1942)
 * 1971 – Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
 * 1971  – Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
 * 1974 – Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and academic (b. 1896)
 * 1974  – Georgy Zhukov, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
 * 1975 – Hugo Bergmann, German-Israeli philosopher and author (b. 1883)
 * 1978 – Walter C. Alvarez, American physician and author (b. 1884)
 * 1980 – Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
 * 1980  – André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
 * 1982 – Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright (b. 1892)
 * 1982  – John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1912)
 * 1982  – Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor and director (b. 1915)
 * 1984 – Alan Berg, American lawyer and radio host (b. 1934)
 * 1985 – Paul Colin, French illustrator (b. 1892)
 * 1986 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American journalist (b. 1921)
 * 1989 – I. F. Stone, American journalist and author (b. 1907)
 * 1992 – Kofoworola Abeni Pratt, the first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria (b. 1910)
 * 1992  – Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944)
 * 1992  – Mordecai Ardon, Polish-Israeli painter and educator (b. 1896)
 * 1993 – Craig Rodwell, American activist, founded the Oscar Wilde Bookshop (b. 1940)
 * 1996 – Endel Puusepp, Estonian-Soviet military pilot and politician (b. 1909)
 * 1997 – Lev Kopelev, Ukrainian-German author and academic (b. 1912)
 * 1998 – Felix Knight, American actor and tenor (b. 1908)
 * 2000 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
 * 2003 – Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (b. 1923)
 * 2005 – Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
 * 2005  – Manuel Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
 * 2006 – Vincent Sherman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
 * 2006  – Joseph Zobel, Martinique-French author (b. 1915)
 * 2007 – Bernard Manning, English comedian and actor (b. 1930)
 * 2007  – Hank Medress, American singer and producer (b. 1938)
 * 2007  – Georges Thurston, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
 * 2008 – Jean Delannoy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
 * 2008  – Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (b. 1915)
 * 2008  – Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (b. 1928)
 * 2010 – Trent Acid, American wrestler (b. 1980)
 * 2010  – José Saramago, Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
 * 2010  – Okan Demiriş, Turkish composer (b. 1942)
 * 2011 – Yelena Bonner, Russian activist (b. 1923)
 * 2011  – Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)
 * 2011  – Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist (b. 1942)
 * 2012 – Horacio Coppola, Argentinian photographer and director (b. 1906)
 * 2012  – Lina Haag, German author and activist (b. 1907)
 * 2012  – Tom Maynard, Welsh cricketer (b. 1989)
 * 2012  – Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín, Peruvian general and politician, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1919)
 * 2012  – Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1934)
 * 2012  – William Van Regenmorter, American businessman and politician (b. 1939)
 * 2013 – Brent F. Anderson, American engineer and politician (b. 1932)
 * 2013  – Alastair Donaldson, Scottish bass player (b. 1955)
 * 2013  – Garde Gardom, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (b. 1924)
 * 2013  – Michael Hastings, American journalist and author (b. 1980)
 * 2013  – David Wall, English ballet dancer (b. 1946)
 * 2014 – Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer (b. 1923)
 * 2014  – Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1928)
 * 2014  – Claire Martin, Canadian author (b. 1914)
 * 2014  – Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (b. 1957)
 * 2014  – Horace Silver, American pianist and composer (b. 1928)
 * 2015 – Phil Austin, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
 * 2015  – Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman, co-founded Comcast (b. 1920)
 * 2015  – Danny Villanueva, American football player and broadcaster, co-founded Univision (b. 1937)
 * 2015  – Allen Weinstein, American historian and academic (b. 1937)
 * 2016 – Jeppiaar, Indian educationist, founder and chancellor of Sathyabama University (b. 1931)
 * 2018 – XXXTentacion, American rapper (b. 1998)
 * 2018  – Big Van Vader (also known as Vader) American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
 * 2018  – Jimmy Wopo, American rapper (b. 1997)
 * 2020 – Vera Lynn, English singer who was the "Forces' Sweetheart" in World War II (b. 1917)
 * 2022 – Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Danish politician, minister of foreign affairs (b. 1941)
 * 2022  – Adibah Noor, Malaysian actress, singer, master of ceremonies (b. 1970)

 * 2023 – Notable victims of the Titan submersible implosion:
 * Shahzada Dawood, Pakistani-British businessman (b. 1975)
 * Hamish Harding, British businessman (b. 1964)
 * Paul-Henri Nargeolet, French navy commander and explorer (b. 1946)
 * Stockton Rush, American businessman, CEO and founder of OceanGate (b. 1962)
 * 2024 – James Chance, American musician (b. 1953)
 * 2024 – Anouk Aimée, French actress (b. 1932)
 * 2024 – Yoyong Martirez, Filipino basketball player (b. 1946)
 * 2024 – Willie Mays, American baseball player (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances

 * Autistic Pride Day (International)
 * Christian feast day:
 * Bernard Mizeki (Anglican and Episcopal Church)
 * Elisabeth of Schönau
 * Gregorio Barbarigo
 * Leontius, Hypatius and Theodulus
 * Marina the Monk (Maronite Church, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)
 * Mark and Marcellian
 * June 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Foundation Day (Benguet)
 * Human Rights Day (Azerbaijan)
 * National Day (Seychelles)
 * Queen Mother's Birthday (Cambodia)
 * Waterloo Day (United Kingdom)

title: June 18


text:
June 13

Pre-1600

 * 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.
 * 1325 – Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years).
 * 1381 – In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, comes to a head, as rebels set fire to the Savoy Palace.
 * 1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.
 * 1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.

1601–1900

 * 1625 – King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.
 * 1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
 * 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
 * 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
 * 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
 * 1850 – The American League of Colored Laborers, the first African American labor union in the United States, is established in New York City.
 * 1855 – Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris.
 * 1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
 * 1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
 * 1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
 * 1895 – Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about 15 mph.
 * 1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.

1901–present

 * 1917 – World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
 * 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City.
 * 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.
 * 1944  – World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
 * 1944  – World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
 * 1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
 * 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as "Mirandizing").
 * 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
 * 1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
 * 1973 – In a game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium, Los Angeles Dodgers teammates Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell play together as an infield for the first time, going on to set the Major League Baseball record of staying together for $8 1/2$ years.
 * 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
 * 1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
 * 1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
 * 1982  – Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
 * 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
 * 1990 – First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
 * 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
 * 1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
 * 1996  – Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170.
 * 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
 * 1997  – The Uphaar Cinema Fire took place at Green Park, Delhi, resulting in the deaths of 59 people and seriously injured 103 others.
 * 1999 – BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans
 * 2000 – President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
 * 2000  – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
 * 2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
 * 2005 – The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of his charges for allegedly sexually molesting a child in 1993.
 * 2007 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
 * 2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback.
 * 2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
 * 2015 – A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.
 * 2018 – Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.
 * 2021 – A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.
 * 2023 – At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.
 * 2023  – Three people are killed and another three injured in an early morning stabbing and van ramming attack in Nottingham, England.

Pre-1600

 * AD 40 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (d. 93)
 * 823 – Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 877)
 * 839 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 888)
 * 1367 – Taejong of Joseon (d. 1422)
 * 1500 – Ernest of Bavaria, pledge lord of the County of Glatz (d. 1560)
 * 1508 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1579)
 * 1539 – Jost Amman, Swiss printmaker (d. 1591)
 * 1555 – Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer (d. 1617)
 * 1580 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1626)
 * 1595 – Jan Marek Marci, Czech physician and scientist (d. 1667)

1601–1900

 * 1617 – Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1656)
 * 1649 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
 * 1711 – Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1773)
 * 1752 – Frances Burney, English novelist and playwright (d. 1840)
 * 1761 – Antonín Vranický, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820)
 * 1763 – José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (d. 1838)
 * 1773 – Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (d. 1829)
 * 1775 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian composer and politician (d. 1833)
 * 1786 – Winfield Scott, American general (d. 1866)
 * 1790 – José Antonio Páez, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 1873)
 * 1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German psychiatrist and author (d. 1894)
 * 1822 – Carl Schmidt, Latvian-German chemist and academic (d. 1894)
 * 1827 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
 * 1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (d. 1879)
 * 1840 – Augusta Lundin, the first international Swedish fashion designer (d. 1919)
 * 1854 – Charles Algernon Parsons, English engineer, founded C. A. Parsons and Company (d. 1931)
 * 1863 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
 * 1864 – Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and academic (d. 1922)
 * 1864  – Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (d. 1939)
 * 1865 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer (d. 1932)
 * 1865  – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
 * 1868 – Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic (d. 1919)
 * 1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
 * 1872 – Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1951)
 * 1873 – Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (d. 1942)
 * 1875 – Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician (d. 1932)
 * 1876 – William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
 * 1879 – Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (d. 1941)
 * 1879  – Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (d. 1929)
 * 1884 – Leon Chwistek, Polish painter, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1944)
 * 1884  – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and academic (d. 1978)
 * 1885 – Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (d. 1969)
 * 1887 – André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (d. 1978)
 * 1887  – Bruno Frank, German-American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1945)
 * 1888 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (d. 1935)
 * 1892 – Basil Rathbone, South African-born British-American actor (d. 1967)
 * 1893 – Alan Arnold Griffith, English engineer (d. 1963)
 * 1893  – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (d. 1957)
 * 1894 – Leo Kanner, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (d. 1981)
 * 1894  – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (d. 1986)
 * 1897 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner and coach (d. 1973)
 * 1899 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (d. 1978)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
 * 1902 – Carolyn Eisele, American mathematician and historian (d. 2000)
 * 1903 – Willard Harrison Bennett, American physicist and chemist (d. 1987)
 * 1905 – James T. Rutnam, Sri Lankan historian and author (d. 1988)
 * 1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
 * 1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 1998)
 * 1910 – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1999)
 * 1910  – Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
 * 1910  – Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (d. 2001)
 * 1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
 * 1911  – Maurice Copeland, American actor (d. 1985)
 * 1911  – Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic (d. 1977)
 * 1912 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (d. 1943)
 * 1913 – Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host (d. 2005)
 * 1913  – Yitzhak Pundak, Israeli general, diplomat and politician (d. 2017)
 * 1914 – Frederic Franklin, English-American ballet dancer and director (d. 2013)
 * 1915 – Don Budge, American tennis player and coach (d. 2000)
 * 1916 – Wu Zhengyi, Chinese botanist and academic (d. 2013)
 * 1917 – Teddy Turner, English actor (d. 1992)
 * 1917  – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (d. 2005)
 * 1918 – Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (d. 1996)
 * 1918  – Helmut Lent, German soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
 * 1918  – Percy Rodriguez, Canadian-American actor (d. 2007)
 * 1920 – Rolf Huisgen, German chemist and academic (d. 2020)
 * 1920  – Iosif Vorovich, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 2001)
 * 1921 – Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (d. 2004)
 * 1922 – Etienne Leroux, South African author (d. 1989)
 * 1923 – Lloyd Conover, American chemist and inventor (d. 2017)
 * 1925 – Kristine Miller, American actress (d. 2015)
 * 1926 – Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (d. 1994)
 * 1926  – Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
 * 1927 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
 * 1928 – Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
 * 1928  – Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (d. 2009)
 * 1928  – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
 * 1929 – Ralph McQuarrie, American illustrator (d. 2012)
 * 1929  – Robert W. Scott, American farmer and politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
 * 1930 – Gotthard Graubner, German painter and educator (d. 2013)
 * 1930  – Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel and spy (d. 2004)
 * 1930  – Paul Veyne, French archaeologist, historian, and academic (d. 2022)
 * 1931 – Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (d. 2009)
 * 1931  – Reed Scowen, Canadian politician (d. 2020)
 * 1931  – Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist and academic
 * 1932 – Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, English politician
 * 1932  – Bob McGrath, American singer and actor (d. 2022)
 * 1932  – Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
 * 1933 – Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
 * 1933  – Norman Lloyd-Edwards, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan
 * 1934 – Bill Blakeley, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
 * 1934  – Lucjan Brychczy, Polish footballer and coach
 * 1934  – Manuel Clouthier, Mexican businessman and politician (d. 1989)
 * 1934  – James Anthony Griffin, American bishop
 * 1934  – Uriel Jones, American drummer (d. 2009)
 * 1934  – Leonard Kleinrock, American computer scientist and engineer
 * 1935 – Christo, Bulgarian-French sculptor and painter (d. 2020)
 * 1935  – Jeanne-Claude, Moroccan sculptor and painter (d. 2009)
 * 1935  – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009)
 * 1937 – Eleanor Holmes Norton, American lawyer and politician
 * 1937  – Erich Ribbeck, German footballer and manager
 * 1937  – Andreas Whittam Smith, English journalist and publisher, co-founded The Independent
 * 1940 – Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2017)
 * 1940  – Dallas Long, American shot putter and physician
 * 1941 – Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach, and manager
 * 1941  – Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (d. 1998)
 * 1941  – Marv Tarplin, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2011)
 * 1942 – Yiannis Boutaris, Greek businessman and politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki
 * 1943 – Harry Collins, English sociologist, author, and academic
 * 1943  – Malcolm McDowell, English actor and producer
 * 1943  – Jim Guy Tucker,  American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas
 * 1944 – Christine Beasley, English nursing administrator
 * 1944  – David Curry, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
 * 1944  – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
 * 1945 – Whitley Strieber, American author
 * 1946 – Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepalese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal
 * 1946  – Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1946  – Gabriel of Komana, Belgian-Dutch archbishop (d. 2013)
 * 1948 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian-American ice hockey player and scout (d. 2001)
 * 1948  – Joe Roth, American director and producer, co-founded Morgan Creek Productions
 * 1949 – Ann Druyan, American popular science writer
 * 1949  – Dennis Locorriere, American singer and musician
 * 1949  – Ulla Schmidt, German educator and politician, German Federal Minister of Health
 * 1949  – Red Symons, English-Australian musician, television, and radio personality
 * 1950 – Nick Brown, English politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
 * 1950  – Gerd Zewe, German footballer and manager
 * 1951 – Howard Leese, American guitarist and producer
 * 1951  – Richard Thomas, American actor, director, and producer
 * 1951  – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
 * 1952 – Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian martial artist and politician
 * 1953 – Tim Allen, American actor, comedian, and producer
 * 1954 – Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (d. 2011)
 * 1954  – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria
 * 1955 – Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
 * 1955  – Leah Ward Sears, German-American lawyer and jurist
 * 1956 – Blair Chapman, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1956  – Sal Paolantonio, American lieutenant and journalist
 * 1957 – Ron Areshenkoff, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
 * 1957  – Roy Cooper, American lawyer and politician, 75th Governor of North Carolina
 * 1957  – Bruce Flowers,  American basketball player
 * 1957  – Andrzej Morozowski, Polish journalist and author
 * 1957  – Dicky Thompson, American golfer
 * 1959 – Boyko Borissov, Bulgarian footballer and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
 * 1959  – Maurice G. Dantec, French-born Canadian science fiction writer (d. 2016)
 * 1959  – Steve Georganas, Australian politician
 * 1959  – Klaus Iohannis, Romanian educator and politician, 5th President of Romania
 * 1960 – Jacques Rougeau, Canadian wrestler
 * 1962 – Davey Hamilton, American race car driver
 * 1962  – Glenn Michibata, Canadian-American tennis player and coach
 * 1962  – Ally Sheedy, American actress and author
 * 1962  – Hannah Storm, American journalist and author
 * 1963 – Bettina Bunge, Swiss-German tennis player
 * 1963  – Sarah Connolly, English soprano and actress
 * 1963  – Audrey Niffenegger, American author and academic
 * 1964 – Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian organist, composer, and educator
 * 1964  – Kathy Burke, English actress, director, and playwright
 * 1964  – Piyush Goyal, Indian politician, Minister of Railways
 * 1964  – Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
 * 1965 – Sunny Balwani, Pakistani-American businessman and criminal
 * 1965  – Infanta Cristina Federica of Spain
 * 1965  – Vassilis Karapialis, Greek footballer
 * 1965  – Lukas Ligeti, Austrian-American drummer and composer
 * 1965  – Maninder Singh, Indian cricketer
 * 1966 – Henry Bond, English photographer and curator
 * 1966  – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
 * 1966  – Naoki Hattori, Japanese race car driver
 * 1967 – Taşkın Aksoy, German-Turkish footballer and manager
 * 1968 – Fabio Baldato, Italian cyclist
 * 1968  – Peter DeBoer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 * 1968  – Darren Dreger, Canadian sportscaster
 * 1968  – David Gray, English-Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1968  – Denise Pearson, English singer-songwriter
 * 1968  – Marcel Theroux, Ugandan-English journalist and author
 * 1969 – Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Spanish actress, director, and screenwriter
 * 1969  – Virginie Despentes, French author, screenwriter, and director
 * 1969  – Laura Kightlinger, American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1969  – Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian shot putter
 * 1969  – Søren Rasted, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1970 – Rivers Cuomo, American rock musician
 * 1970  – Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
 * 1971 – Nóra Köves, Hungarian tennis player
 * 1972 – Natalie MacMaster, Canadian fiddler
 * 1972  – Marek Jerzy Minakowski, Polish philosopher, historian, genealogist
 * 1973 – Sam Adams, American football player
 * 1973  – Tanner Foust, American race car driver and television host
 * 1973  – Mattias Hellberg, Swedish singer-songwriter
 * 1973  – Stuart Karppinen, Australian cricketer and coach
 * 1973  – Ville Laihiala, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1974 – Valeri Bure, Russian-American ice hockey player
 * 1974  – Steve-O, American stunt performer
 * 1975 – Ante Covic, Australian footballer
 * 1975  – Jeff Davis, American screenwriter and producer
 * 1975  – Jennifer Nicole Lee, American model, actress, and author
 * 1975  – Jaan Pehk, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1975  – Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
 * 1976 – Kym Marsh, English singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1977 – Romain Mesnil, French pole vaulter
 * 1977  – Earthwind Moreland, American football player
 * 1977  – Riikka Purra, Finnish politician
 * 1978 – Ethan Embry, American actor
 * 1978 – Vishwananda, Hindu guru
 * 1979 – Esther Anderson, Australian actress
 * 1979  – Nila Håkedal, Norwegian volleyball player
 * 1979  – Miguel Pate, American long jumper
 * 1979  – Ryan Pickett, American director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1980 – Florent Malouda, French footballer
 * 1980  – Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (d. 2012)
 * 1980  – Jamario Moon, American basketball player
 * 1980  – Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
 * 1980  – Darius Vassell, English footballer
 * 1980  – Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver
 * 1981 – Chris Evans, American actor and producer
 * 1981  – Blake Judd, American actor, director, and producer
 * 1981  – David Madden, founder and executive director of the National History Bee and the National History Bowl
 * 1981  – Radim Vrbata, Czech ice hockey player
 * 1982 – Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian runner
 * 1982  – Krzysztof Bosak, Polish politician
 * 1982  – Nate Jones, American football player
 * 1983 – Steve Novak, American basketball player
 * 1983  – Jason Spezza, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1983  – Rachel Taylor, Welsh rugby union player
 * 1984 – Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
 * 1984  – Kaori Icho, Japanese wrestler
 * 1984  – Antje Möldner-Schmidt, German runner
 * 1985 – Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver
 * 1985  – Silvio Bankert, German footballer
 * 1985  – Pedro Strop, Dominican baseball player
 * 1985  – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1986 – Kat Dennings, American actress and comedian
 * 1986  – Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer
 * 1986  – Jonathan Lucroy, American baseball catcher
 * 1986  – Ashley Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman
 * 1986  – Mary-Kate Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman
 * 1986  – DJ Snake, French DJ and record producer
 * 1986  – Lea Verou, Greek computer scientist and author
 * 1986  – Måns Zelmerlöw, Swedish singer
 * 1987 – Marko Grgić, Croatian footballer
 * 1988 – Gabe Carimi, American football player
 * 1988  – Kerttu Niskanen, Finnish cross-country skier
 * 1988  – Reece Noi, British actor
 * 1988  – Cody Walker, American actor
 * 1989 – Ben Barba, Australian rugby league player
 * 1989  – James Calado, English racing driver
 * 1989  – Ryan McDonagh, American ice hockey defenseman
 * 1989  – Daniel Mortimer, Australian rugby league player
 * 1989  – Andreas Samaris, Greek footballer
 * 1989  – Tommy Searle, English motocross racer
 * 1989  – Hassan Whiteside, American basketball player
 * 1989  – Erica Wiebe, Canadian wrestler
 * 1990 – James McCann, American baseball player
 * 1990  – Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player
 * 1990  – Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor
 * 1991 – Will Claye, American jumper
 * 1991  – Ryan Mason, English footballer
 * 1992 – Semi Radradra, Fijian rugby league player
 * 1993 – Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (d. 2011)
 * 1993  – Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (d. 2018)
 * 1994 – Deepika Kumari, Indian archer
 * 1995 – Emily Fanning, New Zealand tennis player
 * 1995  – Laura Ucrós, Colombian tennis player
 * 2000 – Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer

Pre-1600

 * 220 – Xiahou Dun, Chinese general
 * 976 – Mansur I, Samanid emir
 * 995 – Fujiwara no Michikane, Japanese nobleman (b. 961)
 * 1036 – Ali az-Zahir, Fatimid caliph (b. 1005)
 * 1231 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (b. 1195)
 * 1256 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
 * 1348 – Juan Manuel, Spanish prince (b. 1282)
 * 1432 – Uko Fockena, Frisian chieftain (b. c. 1408)
 * 1550 – Veronica Gambara, Italian poet (b. 1485)

1601–1900

 * 1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
 * 1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai (b. 1584)
 * 1661 – Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, English politician (b. 1595)
 * 1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
 * 1762 – Dorothea Erxleben, first German female doctor (b. 1715)
 * 1784 – Henry Middleton, American farmer and politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
 * 1846 – Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer and author (b. 1767)
 * 1861 – Henry Gray, English anatomist and surgeon (b. 1827)
 * 1881 – Joseph Škoda, Czech physician and dermatologist (b. 1805)
 * 1886 – Ludwig II, king of Bavaria (b. 1845)
 * 1894 – John Cox Bray, Australian politician, 15th Premier of South Australia (b. 1842)
 * 1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)

1901–present

 * 1904 – Nikiforos Lytras, Greek painter and educator (b. 1832)
 * 1917 – Louis-Philippe Hébert, Canadian sculptor (b. 1850)
 * 1918 – Michael Alexandrovich, Russian Grand Duke (b. 1878)
 * 1930 – Henry Segrave, American-English racing driver (b. 1896)
 * 1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1851)
 * 1939 – Arthur Coningham, Australian cricketer (b. 1863)
 * 1943 – Kočo Racin, Macedonian author and activist (b. 1908)
 * 1943 – Sava Kovačević, Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander and People's Hero of Yugoslavia (b. 1905)
 * 1948 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (b. 1909)
 * 1951 – Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
 * 1957 – Irving Baxter, American high jumper and pole vaulter (b. 1876)
 * 1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (b. 1887)
 * 1965 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (b. 1878)
 * 1965  – David Drummond, Australian farmer and politician (b. 1890)
 * 1969 – Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
 * 1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
 * 1972  – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
 * 1979 – Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1945)
 * 1980 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
 * 1981 – Olivério Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and physician (b. 1896)
 * 1984 – António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
 * 1986 – Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1909)
 * 1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
 * 1989 – Fran Allison, American television personality and puppeteer (b. 1907)
 * 1993 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
 * 1993  – Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1924)
 * 1994 – Nadia Gray, Romanian-French actress (b. 1923)
 * 1997 – Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer and academic (b. 1909)
 * 1998 – Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (b. 1899)
 * 1998  – Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1911)
 * 1998  – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist  (b. 1917)
 * 2002 – John Hope, American navigator and meteorologist (b. 1919)
 * 2002  – Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author (b. 1927)
 * 2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
 * 2004 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist and author (b. 1952)
 * 2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese academic and politician (b. 1913)
 * 2005  – David Diamond, American pianist and composer (b. 1915)
 * 2006 – Charles Haughey, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1925)
 * 2007 – Walid Eido, Lebanese judge and politician (b. 1942)
 * 2008 – Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (b. 1950)
 * 2009 – Fathi Yakan, Lebanese scholar and politician (b. 1933)
 * 2010 – Jimmy Dean, American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (b. 1928)
 * 2012 – Sam Beddingfield, American pilot and engineer (b. 1933)
 * 2012  – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
 * 2012  – Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (b. 1913)
 * 2012  – Jože Humer, Slovenian composer and translator (b. 1934)
 * 2012  – Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer for Lollywood (b. 1927)
 * 2013 – David Deutsch, American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (b. 1929)
 * 2013  – Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930)
 * 2013  – Albert White Hat, American educator and activist (b. 1938)
 * 2014 – Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (b. 1933)
 * 2014  – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
 * 2014  – Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
 * 2014  – Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
 * 2014  – Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1924)
 * 2015 – Buddy Boudreaux, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1917)
 * 2015  – Sergio Renán, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
 * 2015  – Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (b. 1940)
 * 2021 – Ned Beatty, American actor (b. 1937)
 * 2023 – Cormac McCarthy, American author (b. 1933)
 * 2024 – Angela Bofill, American R&B singer (b. 1954)
 * 2024  – Benji Gregory, American child actor (b. 1978)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church
 * Aquilina
 * Cetteus (Peregrinus)
 * Felicula
 * G. K. Chesterton (Episcopal Church (USA))
 * Gerard of Clairvaux
 * Psalmodius
 * Ragnebert (Rambert)
 * Blessed Thomas Woodhouse
 * Triphyllius
 * June 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Inventors' Day (Hungary)
 * Suleimaniah City Fallen and Martyrs Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
 * International Albinism Awareness Day (international)

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June 19

Pre-1600

 * 325 – The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.
 * 1179 – The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
 * 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
 * 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.

1601–1900

 * 1718 – At least 73,000 people died in the 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake due to landslides in the Qing dynasty.
 * 1770 – New Church Day: Emanuel Swedenborg wrote: "The Lord sent forth His twelve disciples, who followed Him in the world into the whole spiritual world to preach the Gospel that the Lord God Jesus Christ reigns. This took place on the 19th day of June, in the year 1770."
 * 1785 – The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, without the Nicene Creed, establishing it as the first Unitarian congregation in the United States.
 * 1800 – War of the Second Coalition Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria.
 * 1811 – The Carlton House Fête is held in London to celebrate the establishment of the Regency era.
 * 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
 * 1821 – Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
 * 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23–1. Cartwright umpired.
 * 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
 * 1862 – Congress prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories, and President Lincoln quickly signs the legislation.
 * 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are officially informed of their freedom. The anniversary was officially celebrated in Texas and other states as Juneteenth. On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States.
 * 1867 – Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
 * 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.

1901–present

 * 1903 – Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
 * 1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
 * 1913 – Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
 * 1921 – The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, is burned by British forces.
 * 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
 * 1943 – The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
 * 1947 – Pan Am Flight 121 crashes in the Syrian Desert near Mayadin, Syria, killing 15 and injuring 21.
 * 1953 – Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
 * 1960 – Charlotte Motor Speedway holds its first NASCAR race, the inaugural World 600.
 * 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
 * 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
 * 1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
 * 1978 – Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
 * 1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
 * 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
 * 1987  – Aeroflot Flight N-528 crashes at Berdiansk Airport in present-day Ukraine, killing eight people.
 * 1988 – Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
 * 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
 * 1990  – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
 * 1991 – The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn.
 * 2005 – Following a series of Michelin tire failures during the United States Grand Prix weekend at Indianapolis, and without an agreement being reached, 14 cars from seven teams in Michelin tires withdrew after completing the formation lap, leaving only six cars from three teams on Bridgestone tires to race.
 * 2007 – The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
 * 2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
 * 2009  – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
 * 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requests asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
 * 2018 – The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.
 * 2018  – Antwon Rose II is fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.
 * 2020  – Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario.

Pre-1600

 * 1301 – Prince Morikuni, shōgun of Japan (d. 1333)
 * 1417 – Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini (d. 1468)
 * 1566 – James VI and I of the United Kingdom (d. 1625)
 * 1590 – Philip Bell, British colonial governor (d. 1678)
 * 1595 – Hargobind, sixth Sikh guru (d. 1644)
 * 1598 – Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1677)

1601–1900

 * 1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (d. 1649)
 * 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1662)
 * 1633 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch author and theologian (d. 1712)
 * 1701 – François Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1775)
 * 1731 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
 * 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general and politician (d. 1850)
 * 1771 – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1859)
 * 1776 – Francis Johnson, American lawyer and politician (d. 1842)
 * 1783 – Friedrich Sertürner, German chemist and pharmacist (d. 1841)
 * 1793 – Joseph Earl Sheffield, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1882)
 * 1795 – James Braid, Scottish-English surgeon (d. 1860)
 * 1797 – Hamilton Hume, Australian explorer (d. 1873)
 * 1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (d. 1872)
 * 1816 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist, founded the Webb Institute (d. 1899)
 * 1833 – Mary Tenney Gray, American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (d. 1904)
 * 1834 – Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (d. 1892)
 * 1840 – Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz, German entomologist and academic (d. 1917)
 * 1843 – Mary Sibbet Copley, American philanthropist (d. 1929)
 * 1845 – Cléophas Beausoleil, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1904)
 * 1846 – Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1928)
 * 1850 – David Jayne Hill, American historian and politician, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1932)
 * 1851 – Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
 * 1851  – Silvanus P. Thompson, English physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1916)
 * 1854 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (d. 1893)
 * 1854  – Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and theorist (d. 1933)
 * 1855 – George F. Roesch, American lawyer and politician (d. 1917)
 * 1858 – Sam Walter Foss, American poet and librarian (d. 1911)
 * 1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (d. 1928)
 * 1861  – Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist (d. 1927)
 * 1861  – José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (d. 1896)
 * 1865 – May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
 * 1871 – Alajos Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper, and physician (d. 1932)
 * 1872 – Theodore Payne, English-American gardener and botanist (d. 1963)
 * 1874 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (d. 1941)
 * 1876 – Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (d. 1941)
 * 1877 – Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
 * 1881 – Maginel Wright Enright, American illustrator (d. 1966)
 * 1883 – Gladys Mills Phipps, American horse breeder (d. 1970)
 * 1884 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French painter and historian (d. 1974)
 * 1886 – Finley Hamilton, American lawyer and politician (d. 1940)
 * 1888 – Arthur Massey Berry, Canadian soldier and pilot (d. 1970)
 * 1891 – John Heartfield, German photographer and activist (d. 1968)
 * 1896 – Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (d. 1974)
 * 1896  – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward VIII (d. 1986)
 * 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
 * 1897  – Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)

1901–present

 * 1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (d. 1977)
 * 1903 – Mary Callery, American-French sculptor and academic (d. 1977)
 * 1903  – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
 * 1903  – Wally Hammond, English cricketer and coach (d. 1965)
 * 1903  – Hans Litten, German lawyer (d. 1938)
 * 1905 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
 * 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
 * 1906  – Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (d. 1975)
 * 1906  – Walter Rauff, German SS officer (d. 1984)
 * 1907 – Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
 * 1909 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
 * 1909  – Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (d. 1948)
 * 1910 – Sydney Allard, English race car driver, founded the Allard Company (d. 1966)
 * 1910  – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
 * 1910  – Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1982)
 * 1912 – Don Gutteridge, American baseball player and manager (d. 2008)
 * 1912  – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (d. 2005)
 * 1913 – Helene Madison, American swimmer (d. 1970)
 * 1914 – Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (d. 2000)
 * 1914  – Lester Flatt, American bluegrass singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player (d. 1979)
 * 1915 – Pat Buttram, American actor (d. 1994)
 * 1915  – Julius Schwartz, American publisher and agent (d. 2004)
 * 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean guerrilla leader and politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 1999)
 * 1919 – Pauline Kael, American film critic (d. 2001)
 * 1920 – Yves Robert, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
 * 1921 – Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (d. 2015)
 * 1922 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
 * 1922  – Marilyn P. Johnson, American educator and diplomat, 8th United States Ambassador to Togo  (d. 2022)
 * 1923 – Bob Hank, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
 * 1926 – Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician and inventor
 * 1927 – Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Argentine general and human rights violator (d. 2018)
 * 1928 – Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist (d. 2020)
 * 1928  – Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
 * 1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
 * 1930  – Boris Parygin, Soviet philosopher, psychologist, and author (d. 2012)
 * 1932 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress, twin sister to Marisa Pavan (d. 1971)
 * 1932  – José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (d. 2011)
 * 1932  – Marisa Pavan, Italian actress, twin sister to Pier Angeli (d. 2023)
 * 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)
 * 1934 – Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2023)
 * 1936 – Marisa Galvany, American soprano and actress
 * 1937 – André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (d. 2015)
 * 1938 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)
 * 1939 – Bernd Hoss, German footballer and manager (d. 2016)
 * 1939  – John F. MacArthur, American minister and theologian
 * 1941 – Václav Klaus, Czech economist and politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic
 * 1942 – Merata Mita, New Zealand director and producer (d. 2010)
 * 1944 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer, composer, writer and poet
 * 1945 – Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician and convicted war criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska
 * 1945  – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1945  – Tobias Wolff, American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist
 * 1945  – Peter Bardens, British keyboardist (d. 2002)
 * 1946 – Jimmy Greenhoff, English footballer and manager
 * 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian-English novelist and essayist
 * 1947  – John Ralston Saul, Canadian philosopher and author
 * 1948 – Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter (d. 1974)
 * 1948  – Phylicia Rashad, American actress
 * 1950 – Neil Asher Silberman, American archaeologist and historian
 * 1950  – Ann Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician
 * 1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2022)
 * 1951  – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
 * 1952 – Bob Ainsworth, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence
 * 1954 – Mike O'Brien, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales
 * 1954  – Lou Pearlman, American music producer and fraudster (d. 2016)
 * 1954  – Kathleen Turner, American actress
 * 1954  – Richard Wilkins, New Zealand-Australian journalist and television presenter
 * 1955 – Mary O'Connor, New Zealand runner
 * 1955  – Mary Schapiro, American lawyer and politician
 * 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, 39th Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2003)
 * 1957  – Jean Rabe, American journalist and author
 * 1957  – Subcomandante Marcos, Mexican insurgent and EZLN leader
 * 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Russian-American ice hockey player and coach
 * 1959 – Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player
 * 1959  – Christian Wulff, German lawyer and politician, 10th President of Germany
 * 1960 – Andrew Dilnot, English economist and academic
 * 1960  – Johnny Gray, American runner and coach
 * 1960  – Luke Morley, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
 * 1960  – Patti Rizzo, American golfer
 * 1962 – Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and presenter
 * 1962  – Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
 * 1962  – Ashish Vidyarthi, Indian actor
 * 1963 – Laura Ingraham, American radio host and author
 * 1963  – Margarita Ponomaryova, Russian hurdler
 * 1963  – Rory Underwood, English rugby player, lieutenant, and pilot
 * 1964 – Brent Goulet, American soccer player and manager
 * 1964  – Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and former Mayor of London
 * 1964  – Brian Vander Ark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1965 – Sabine Braun, German heptathlete
 * 1965  – Sadie Frost, English actress and producer
 * 1966 – Michalis Romanidis, Greek basketball player
 * 1967 – Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier and businessman
 * 1968 – Alastair Lynch, Australian footballer and sportscaster
 * 1968  – Timothy Morton, American philosopher and academic
 * 1968  – Kimberly Anne "Kim" Walker, American film and television actress (d. 2001)
 * 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
 * 1970  – Quincy Watts, American sprinter and football player
 * 1970  – Brian Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1971 – José Emilio Amavisca, Spanish footballer
 * 1971  – Chris Armstrong, English footballer
 * 1972 – Jean Dujardin, French actor
 * 1972  – Ilya Markov, Russian race walker
 * 1972  – Brian McBride, American soccer player and coach
 * 1972  – Robin Tunney, American actress
 * 1973 – Jahine Arnold, American football player
 * 1973  – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer
 * 1973  – Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
 * 1974 – Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player, coach, and manager
 * 1974  – Mustaque Ahmed Ruhi, Bangladeshi member of parliament
 * 1975 – Hugh Dancy, English actor and model
 * 1975  – Anthony Parker, American basketball player
 * 1976  – Dennis Crowley, American businessman, co-founded Foursquare
 * 1976  – Bryan Hughes, English footballer and manager
 * 1976  – Anita Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
 * 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
 * 1978  – Zoe Saldana, American actress
 * 1978  – Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
 * 1979 – José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
 * 1980 – Jean Carroll, Irish cricketer
 * 1980  – Dan Ellis, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1980  – Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer and manager
 * 1980  – Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
 * 1981 – Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi, Saudi Arabian long jumper
 * 1981  – Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer
 * 1982 – Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
 * 1982  – Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
 * 1982  – Michael Yarmush, American actor
 * 1983 – Macklemore, American rapper
 * 1983  – Aidan Turner, Irish actor
 * 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor
 * 1984  – Wieke Dijkstra, Dutch field hockey player
 * 1984  – Andri Eleftheriou, Cypriot sport shooter
 * 1985 – Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer
 * 1985  – José Ernesto Sosa, Argentinian footballer
 * 1985  – Dire Tune, Ethiopian runner
 * 1986 – Aoiyama Kōsuke, Bulgarian sumo wrestler
 * 1986  – Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter
 * 1986  – Marvin Williams, American basketball player
 * 1987 – Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
 * 1988 – Jacob deGrom, American baseball player
 * 1990 – Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter
 * 1990  – Xavier Rhodes, American football player
 * 1992 – Keaton Jennings, South African-English cricketer
 * 1992  – C. J. Mosley, American football player
 * 1993 – Olajide Olatunji, English YouTuber
 * 1999 – Jordan Poole, American basketball player
 * 2004 – Millie Gibson, English actress

Pre-1600

 * 404 – Huan Xuan, Jin-dynasty warlord and emperor of Huan Chu (b. 369)
 * 626 – Soga no Umako, Japanese son of Soga no Iname (b. 551)
 * 930 – Xiao Qing, chancellor of Later Liang (b. 862)
 * 1027 – Romuald, Italian mystic and saint (b. 951)
 * 1185 – Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (b. 1147)
 * 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, Welsh princess (b. 1252)
 * 1312 – Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English politician (b. 1284)
 * 1341 – Juliana Falconieri, Italian nun and saint (b. 1270)
 * 1364 – Elisenda of Montcada, queen consort and regent of Aragon (b. 1292)
 * 1504 – Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)
 * 1542 – Leo Jud, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1482)
 * 1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian Lutheran lawyer and jurist (b. 1509)
 * 1567 – Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg (b. 1507)

1601–1900

 * 1608 – Alberico Gentili, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1551)
 * 1650 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and publisher (b. 1593)
 * 1747 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer and educator (b. 1669)
 * 1747  – Nader Shah, Persian leader (b. 1688)
 * 1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (b. 1702)
 * 1768 – Benjamin Tasker Sr., American soldier and politician, 10th Colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
 * 1786 – Nathanael Greene, American general (b. 1742)
 * 1805 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter and educator (b. 1724)
 * 1820 – Joseph Banks, English botanist and author (b. 1743)
 * 1844 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French zoologist and biologist (b. 1772)
 * 1864 – Richard Heales, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Victoria (b. 1822)
 * 1864  – Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, American soldier (b. 1843)
 * 1865 – Evangelos Zappas, Greek-Romanian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1800)
 * 1867 – Miguel Miramón, Unconstitutional president of Mexico, 1859-1860 (b. 1832)
 * 1867  – Maximilian I of Mexico (b. 1832)
 * 1874 – Ferdinand Stoliczka, Moravian palaeontologist and ornithologist (b. 1838)
 * 1884 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian-French politician and diplomat (b. 1810)

1901–present

 * 1903 – Herbert Vaughan, English cardinal (b. 1832)
 * 1918 – Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (b. 1888)
 * 1921 – Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet and author (b. 1888)
 * 1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (b. 1874)
 * 1932 – Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (b. 1876)
 * 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (b. 1860)
 * 1939 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
 * 1940 – Maurice Jaubert, French composer and conductor (b. 1900)
 * 1941 – C. V. Hartman, Swiss botanist and anthropologist (b. 1862)
 * 1941  – Otto Hirsch, German jurist and politician (b. 1885)
 * 1949 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian philosopher and academic (b. 1885)
 * 1951 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884)
 * 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1915)
 * 1953  – Julius Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1918)
 * 1956 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (b. 1874)
 * 1962 – Frank Borzage, American film director and actor (b. 1894)
 * 1966 – Ed Wynn, American actor and comedian (b. 1886)
 * 1968 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
 * 1973 – Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Haitian writer (b. 1916)
 * 1975 – Sam Giancana, American mob boss (b. 1908)
 * 1977 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and philosopher (b. 1933)
 * 1979 – Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (b. 1888)
 * 1981 – Anya Phillips, Chinese-American band manager (b. 1955)
 * 1981  – Subhash Mukherjee, Indian scientist and physician who created India's first, and the world's second, child using in-vitro fertilisation (b. 1931)
 * 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter and educator (b. 1908)
 * 1986 – Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
 * 1987 – Margaret Carver Leighton, American author (b. 1896)
 * 1988 – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (b. 1922)
 * 1988  – Gladys Spellman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
 * 1989 – Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)
 * 1990 – George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (b. 1911)
 * 1990  – Isobel Andrews, New Zealand writer (b. 1905)
 * 1991 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
 * 1993 – William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 * 1995 – Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)
 * 2001 – Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1912)
 * 2001  – John Heyer, Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
 * 2004 – Clayton Kirkpatrick, journalist and newspaper editor (b. 1915)
 * 2007 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
 * 2007  – Alberto Mijangos, Mexican-American painter and educator (b. 1925)
 * 2007  – Terry Hoeppner, American football player and coach (b. 1947)
 * 2007  – Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist and author (b. 1932)
 * 2008 – Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist, founded Bartaman (b. 1934)
 * 2009 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese engineer and surveyor (b. 1895)
 * 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (b. 1962)
 * 2010  – Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (b. 1925)
 * 2010  – Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (b. 1938)
 * 2012 – Norbert Tiemann, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
 * 2013 – Vince Flynn, American author (b. 1966)
 * 2013  – James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
 * 2013  – Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
 * 2013  – Dave Jennings, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1952)
 * 2013  – Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist  (b. 1965)
 * 2013  – Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
 * 2014 – Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt, German general (b. 1915)
 * 2014  – Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
 * 2014  – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
 * 2015 – James Salter, American novelist and short-story writer (b. 1925)
 * 2016 – Anton Yelchin, American actor (b. 1989)
 * 2017 – Otto Warmbier, American college student detained in North Korea (b. 1994)
 * 2018 – Koko, western lowland gorilla and user of American Sign Language (b. 1971)
 * 2019 – Etika, American YouTuber and streamer (b. 1990)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Deodatus (or Didier) of Nevers (or of Jointures)
 * Gervasius and Protasius (Catholic Church)
 * Hildegrim of Châlons
 * Juliana Falconieri
 * Romuald
 * Ursicinus of Ravenna
 * Zosimus
 * June 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * New Church feast day
 * New Church Day
 * Day of the Independent Hungary (Hungary)
 * Feast of Forest (Palawan)
 * Juneteenth (United States)
 * Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
 * Laguna Day (Laguna)
 * Birthday of Jose Gervasio Artigas (Uruguay)
 * World Sickle Cell Day (International)
 * Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's commencement of work at the Workers' Party Central Committee (DPRK)

title: June 19