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January 31

Pre-1600

 * 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
 * 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the throne as King Eric X of Sweden.
 * 1504 – The Treaty of Lyon ends the Italian War, confirming French domination of northern Italy, while Spain receives the Kingdom of Naples.
 * 1578 – Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War: The Battle of Gembloux is a victory for Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria over a rebel army of Dutch, Flemish, English, Scottish, German, French and Walloons.

1601–1900

 * 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Four of the conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, are executed for treason by hanging, drawing and quartering, for plotting against Parliament and King James.
 * 1609 – Wisselbank of Amsterdam established
 * 1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
 * 1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina).
 * 1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, the United States towns of Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify to create the City of Milwaukee.
 * 1848 – John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
 * 1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5 in telescope now located at Northwestern University.
 * 1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery, and submits it to the states for ratification.
 * 1865  – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief of all Confederate armies.
 * 1891 – History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
 * 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.

1901–present

 * 1901 – Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters premieres at Moscow Art Theatre in Russia.
 * 1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
 * 1917 – World War I: Kaiser Wilhelm II orders the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
 * 1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
 * 1918  – Finnish Civil War: The Suinula massacre, which changes the nature of the war in a more hostile direction, takes place in Kangasala.
 * 1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, during a campaign for shorter working hours.
 * 1928 – Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
 * 1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
 * 1943 – World War II: German field marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed two days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
 * 1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
 * 1944  – World War II: During the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
 * 1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
 * 1945  – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
 * 1945  – World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
 * 1946 – Cold War: Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
 * 1946 – The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
 * 1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
 * 1950 – President Truman orders the development of thermonuclear weapons.
 * 1951 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to the Korean War is adopted.
 * 1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
 * 1957 – Eight people (five total crew from two aircraft and three on the ground) in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
 * 1958 – Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
 * 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: The chimpanzee Ham travels into outer space.
 * 1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
 * 1968 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
 * 1968  – Nauru gains independence from Australia.
 * 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
 * 1971  – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize alleged war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
 * 1978 – The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) goes on public display after being returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
 * 1988 – Doug Williams becomes the first African American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl and leads the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII.
 * 1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
 * 2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
 * 2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
 * 2001  – Two Japan Airlines planes nearly collide over Suruga Bay in Japan.
 * 2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
 * 2007 – Emergency officials in Boston mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards depicting characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), causing a panic.
 * 2009 – At least 113 people are killed in Kenya and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
 * 2018 – Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur.
 * 2019 – Abdullah of Pahang is sworn in as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
 * 2020 – The United Kingdom's membership within the European Union ceases in accordance with Article 50, after 47 years of being a member state.
 * 2022 – Sue Gray, a senior civil servant in the United Kingdom, publishes an initial version of her report on the Downing Street Partygate controversy.
 * 2023 – The last Boeing 747, the first wide-body airliner, is delivered.

Pre-1600

 * 1512 – Henry, King of Portugal (d. 1580)
 * 1543 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1616)
 * 1583 – Peter Bulkley, English and later American Puritan (d. 1659)
 * 1597 – John Francis Regis, French priest and saint (d. 1640)

1601–1900

 * 1607 – James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (d. 1651)
 * 1624 – Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher and academic (d. 1669)
 * 1673 – Louis de Montfort, French priest and saint (d. 1716)
 * 1686 – Hans Egede, Norwegian missionary and explorer (d. 1758)
 * 1752 – Gouverneur Morris, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (d. 1816)
 * 1759 – François Devienne, French flute player and composer (d. 1803)
 * 1769 – André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (d. 1823)
 * 1785 – Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová, Czech cookbook author (d. 1845)
 * 1797 – Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1828)
 * 1799 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist (d. 1846)
 * 1820 – William B. Washburn, American politician, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
 * 1835 – Lunalilo of Hawaii (d. 1874)
 * 1854 – David Emmanuel, Romanian mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
 * 1865 – Henri Desgrange, French cyclist and journalist (d. 1940)
 * 1865  – Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader, founded BAPS (d. 1951)
 * 1868 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
 * 1872 – Zane Grey, American author (d. 1939)
 * 1881 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
 * 1884 – Theodor Heuss, German journalist and politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1963)
 * 1884  – Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician, 1st President of The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (d. 1955)
 * 1889 – Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958)
 * 1892 – Eddie Cantor, American singer-songwriter, actor, and dancer (d. 1964)
 * 1894 – Isham Jones, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1956)
 * 1896 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (d. 1966)
 * 1900 – Betty Parsons, American artist, art dealer and collector (d. 1982)

1901–present

 * 1902 – Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman, founded White Spot (d. 1978)
 * 1902  – Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
 * 1902  – Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
 * 1902  – Julian Steward, American anthropologist (d. 1972)
 * 1905 – John O'Hara, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1970)
 * 1909 – Miron Grindea, Romanian-English journalist (d. 1995)
 * 1913 – Don Hutson, American football player and coach (d. 1997)
 * 1914 – Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer and police officer (d. 1994)
 * 1915 – Bobby Hackett, American trumpet player and cornet player (d. 1976)
 * 1915  – Alan Lomax, American historian, author, and scholar (d. 2002)
 * 1915  – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (d. 1968)
 * 1915  – Garry Moore, American comedian and game show host (d. 1993)
 * 1916 – Frank Parker, American tennis player (d. 1997)
 * 1917 – Fred Bassetti, American architect and academic, founded Bassetti Architects (d. 2013)
 * 1919 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1972)
 * 1920 – Stewart Udall, American lawyer and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 2010)
 * 1920  – Bert Williams, English footballer (d. 2014)
 * 1921 – John Agar, American actor (d. 2002)
 * 1921  – Carol Channing, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2019)
 * 1921  – E. Fay Jones, American architect, designed the Thorncrown Chapel (d. 2004)
 * 1921  – Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (d. 1959)
 * 1922 – Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)
 * 1923 – Norman Mailer, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
 * 1925 – Benjamin Hooks, American minister, lawyer, and activist (d. 2010)
 * 1926 – Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
 * 1926  – Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (d. 1958)
 * 1927 – Norm Prescott, American animator, producer, and composer, co-founded Filmation Studios (d. 2005)
 * 1928 – Irma Wyman, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 2015)
 * 1929 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
 * 1929  – Jean Simmons, English-American actress (d. 2010)
 * 1930 – Joakim Bonnier, Swedish race car driver (d. 1972)
 * 1930  – Al De Lory, American composer, conductor, and producer (d. 2012)
 * 1931 – Ernie Banks, American baseball player and coach (d. 2015)
 * 1931  – Christopher Chataway, English runner, journalist, and politician (d. 2014)
 * 1932 – Miron Babiak, Polish sea captain (d. 2013)
 * 1933 – Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1997)
 * 1933  – Morton Mower, American cardiologist and inventor (d. 2022)
 * 1934 – Ernesto Brambilla, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver (d. 2020)
 * 1934  – Gene DeWeese, American author (d. 2012)
 * 1934  – James Franciscus, American actor and producer (d. 1991)
 * 1934  – Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2005)
 * 1935 – Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)
 * 1936 – Can Bartu, Turkish footballer and basketball player (d. 2019)
 * 1937 – Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor (d. 2022)
 * 1937  – Andrée Boucher, Canadian educator and politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (d. 2007)
 * 1937  – Philip Glass, American composer
 * 1937  – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)
 * 1938 – Beatrix of the Netherlands
 * 1938  – Lynn Carlin, American actress
 * 1938  – James G. Watt, American lawyer and politician, 43rd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 2023)
 * 1939 – Jerry Brudos, American serial killer (d. 2006)
 * 1940 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby player and coach (d. 1998)
 * 1940  – Stuart Margolin, American actor and director (d. 2022)
 * 1941 – Len Chappell, American basketball player (d. 2018)
 * 1941  – Dick Gephardt, American lawyer and politician
 * 1941  – Gerald McDermott, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
 * 1941  – Jessica Walter, American actress (d. 2021)
 * 1942 – Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
 * 1942  – Derek Jarman, English director, stage designer, and author (d. 1994)
 * 1944 – John Inverarity, Australian cricketer and coach
 * 1944  – Charlie Musselwhite, American musician and singer-songwriter
 * 1945 – Rynn Berry, American historian and author (d. 2014)
 * 1945  – Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, English lawyer, judge, and academic
 * 1945  – Joseph Kosuth, American sculptor and theorist
 * 1946 – Terry Kath, American guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
 * 1946  – Medin Zhega, Albanian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
 * 1947 – Jonathan Banks, American actor
 * 1947  – Matt Minglewood, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1947  – Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
 * 1947  – Glynn Turman, American actor
 * 1948 – Volkmar Groß, German footballer (d. 2014)
 * 1948  – Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
 * 1949 – Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and journalist
 * 1949  – Norris Church Mailer, American model and educator (d. 2010)
 * 1949  – Ken Wilber, American sociologist, philosopher, and author
 * 1950 – Denise Fleming, American author and illustrator
 * 1950  – Alexander Korzhakov, Russian general and bodyguard
 * 1950  – Janice Rebibo, American-Israeli author and poet (d. 2015)
 * 1951 – Harry Wayne Casey, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
 * 1954 – Faoud Bacchus, Guyanese cricketer
 * 1954  – Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch guitarist and songwriter
 * 1955 – Virginia Ruzici, Romanian tennis player and manager
 * 1956 – John Lydon, English singer-songwriter
 * 1956  – Guido van Rossum, Dutch programmer, creator of the Python programming language
 * 1957 – Shirley Babashoff, American swimmer
 * 1958 – Armin Reichel, German footballer and manager
 * 1959 – Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor and producer
 * 1959  – Kelly Lynch, American model and actress
 * 1960 – Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist and author
 * 1960  – Grant Morrison, Scottish author and screenwriter
 * 1960  – Željko Šturanović, Montenegrin politician, 31st Prime Minister of Montenegro (d. 2014)
 * 1961 – Elizabeth Barker, Baroness Barker, English politician
 * 1961  – Fatou Bensouda, Gambian lawyer and judge
 * 1961  – Lloyd Cole, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1963 – Gwen Graham, American lawyer and politician
 * 1964 – Martha MacCallum, American journalist
 * 1964  – Dawn Prince-Hughes, American scientist
 * 1965 – Giorgos Gasparis, Greek basketball player and coach
 * 1965  – Ofra Harnoy, Israeli-Canadian cellist
 * 1965  – Peter Sagal, American author and radio host
 * 1966 – Dexter Fletcher, English actor and director
 * 1966  – Thant Myint-U, Myanmar historian, diplomat, conservationist, and former presidential advisor.
 * 1967 – Fat Mike, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
 * 1968 – John Collins, Scottish footballer and manager
 * 1968  – Matt King, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1968  – Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician, 2nd Swedish Minister for Infrastructure
 * 1968  – Patrick Stevens, Belgian sprinter
 * 1969 – Dov Charney, Canadian-American fashion designer and businessman, founded American Apparel
 * 1969  – Daniel Moder, American cinematographer
 * 1970 – Minnie Driver, English singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1970  – Danny Michel, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
 * 1971 – Patricia Velásquez, Venezuelan model and actress
 * 1973 – Portia de Rossi, Australian-American actress
 * 1974 – Othella Harrington, American basketball player and coach
 * 1974  – Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
 * 1975 – Preity Zinta, Indian actress, producer, and television host
 * 1976 – Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer and manager
 * 1976  – Buddy Rice, American race car driver
 * 1977 – Bobby Moynihan, American actor and comedian
 * 1977  – Kerry Washington, American actress
 * 1978 – Fabián Caballero, Argentine footballer and manager
 * 1979 – Daniel Tammet, English author and educator
 * 1980 – James Adomian, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
 * 1980  – Gary Doherty, Irish footballer
 * 1980  – Shim Yi-young, South Korean actress
 * 1981 – Julio Arca, Argentine footballer
 * 1981  – Mark Cameron, Australian cricketer
 * 1981  – Gemma Collins, English media personality and businesswoman
 * 1981  – Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
 * 1982 – Maret Ani, Estonian tennis player
 * 1982  – Allan McGregor, Scottish footballer
 * 1982  – Jānis Sprukts, Latvian ice hockey player
 * 1983 – Fabio Quagliarella, Italian footballer
 * 1984 – Vernon Davis, American football player
 * 1984  – Mikhail Grabovski, German-Belarusian ice hockey player
 * 1984  – Josh Johnson, Canadian-American baseball player
 * 1984  – Jeremy Wariner, American runner
 * 1984  – Alessandro Zanni, Italian rugby player
 * 1985 – Adam Federici, Australian footballer
 * 1985  – Mario Williams, American football player
 * 1986 – Walter Dix, American sprinter
 * 1986  – Megan Ellison, American film producer, founded Annapurna Pictures
 * 1986  – George Elokobi, Cameroonian footballer
 * 1986  – Yves Ma-Kalambay, Belgian footballer
 * 1986  – Pauline Parmentier, French tennis player
 * 1987 – Marcus Mumford, American-English singer-songwriter
 * 1988 – Brett Pitman, English footballer
 * 1988  – Taijo Teniste, Estonian footballer
 * 1989 – Tommy La Stella, American baseball player
 * 1990 – Cro, German rapper
 * 1990  – Jacopo Fortunato, Italian footballer
 * 1990  – Nicolás Laprovíttola, Argentine basketball player
 * 1990  – Jacob Markström, Swedish ice hockey player
 * 1990  – Kota Yabu, Japanese singer-songwriter, model, and actor
 * 1992 – Tyler Seguin, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1993 – Qiu Bo, Chinese diver
 * 1994 – Kenneth Zohore, Danish footballer
 * 1996 – Joel Courtney, American actor
 * 1996  – Nikita Dragun, American Youtuber
 * 1997 – Arnaut Danjuma, Dutch footballer
 * 1997  – Donte DiVincenzo, American basketball player
 * 1998 – Jalen McDaniels, American basketball player
 * 2000 – Julián Álvarez, Argentine footballer
 * 2006 – Sára Bejlek, Czech tennis player

Pre-1600

 * 632 – Máedóc of Ferns, Irish bishop and saint (b. 550)
 * 876 – Hemma of Altdorf, Frankish queen
 * 985 – Ryōgen, Japanese monk and abbot (b. 912)
 * 1030 – William V, duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
 * 1216 – Theodore II, patriarch of Constantinople
 * 1398 – Sukō, emperor of Japan (b. 1334)
 * 1418 – Mircea I, prince of Wallachia (b. 1355)
 * 1435 – Xuande, emperor of China (b. 1398)
 * 1561 – Bairam Khan, Mughalan general (b. 1501)
 * 1561  – Menno Simons, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1496)
 * 1580 – Henry, king of Portugal (b. 1512)

1601–1900

 * 1606 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (b. 1570)
 * 1606  – Ambrose Rookwood, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (b. 1578)
 * 1606  – Thomas Wintour, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (b. 1571)
 * 1615 – Claudio Acquaviva, Italian priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1543)
 * 1632 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
 * 1665 – Johannes Clauberg, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1622)
 * 1686 – Jean Mairet, French playwright (b. 1604)
 * 1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1654)
 * 1729 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
 * 1736 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect and set designer, designed the Basilica of Superga (b. 1678)
 * 1790 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-born American lawyer and surveyor (b. 1718)
 * 1794 – Mariot Arbuthnot, English admiral and politician, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (b. 1711)
 * 1811 – Manuel Alberti, Argentinian priest and journalist (b. 1763)
 * 1815 – José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan soldier (b. 1775)
 * 1828 – Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek general (b. 1792)
 * 1836 – John Cheyne, English physician and author (b. 1777)
 * 1844 – Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
 * 1856 – 11th Dalai Lama (b. 1838)
 * 1870 – Cilibi Moise, Moldavian Romanian journalist and author (b. 1812)
 * 1888 – John Bosco, Italian priest and educator, founded the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
 * 1892 – Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (b. 1834)
 * 1900 – John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman (b. 1844)

1901–present

 * 1907 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)
 * 1911 – Paul Singer, German politician (b. 1844)
 * 1923 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
 * 1933 – John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
 * 1942 – Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
 * 1944 – Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)
 * 1954 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
 * 1954  – Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)
 * 1955 – John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
 * 1956 – A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright, created Winnie-the-Pooh (b. 1882)
 * 1958 – Karl Selter, Estonian politician, 14th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1898)
 * 1960 – Auguste Herbin, French painter (b. 1882)
 * 1961 – Krishna Singh, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)
 * 1966 – Arthur Percival, English general (b. 1887)
 * 1967 – Eddie Tolan, American sprinter and educator (b. 1908)
 * 1969 – Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)
 * 1971 – Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian historian and linguist (b. 1891)
 * 1973 – Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
 * 1974 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish American film producer, co-founded Goldwyn Pictures (b. 1882)
 * 1976 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (b. 1941)
 * 1976  – Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (b. 1890)
 * 1985 – Reginald Baker, English Australian film producer (b. 1896)
 * 1985  – Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese author (b. 1905)
 * 1987 – Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
 * 1989 – William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy (b. 1896)
 * 1990 – Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist and academic (b. 1901)
 * 1990  – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian American biochemist and academic (b. 1935)
 * 1995 – George Abbott, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1887)
 * 1997 – John Joseph Scanlan, Irish American bishop (b. 1930)
 * 1999 – Giant Baba, Japanese wrestler and trainer, co-founded All Japan Pro Wrestling (b. 1938)
 * 1999  – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
 * 2000 – Gil Kane, Latvian American author and illustrator (b. 1926)
 * 2001 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian American author (b. 1923)
 * 2002 – Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (b. 1919)
 * 2004 – Eleanor Holm, American swimmer and actress (b. 1913)
 * 2004  – Suraiya, Indian actress and playback singer (b. 1929)
 * 2006 – Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and ballerina (b. 1926)
 * 2007 – Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (b. 1944)
 * 2007  – Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and politician (b. 1929)
 * 2008 – František Čapek, Czechoslovakian canoeist (b. 1914)
 * 2011 – Bartolomeu Anania, Romanian bishop and poet (b. 1921)
 * 2011  – Mark Ryan, English guitarist and playwright (b. 1959)
 * 2012 – Mani Ram Bagri, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1920)
 * 2012  – Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal (b. 1923)
 * 2012  – Tristram Potter Coffin, American author, scholar, and academic (b. 1922)
 * 2012  – Dorothea Tanning, American painter and sculptor (b. 1910)
 * 2013 – Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (b. 1923)
 * 2013  – Hassan Habibi, Iranian lawyer and politician, 1st Vice President of Iran (b. 1937)
 * 2014 – Francis M. Fesmire, American cardiologist and physician (b. 1959)
 * 2014  – Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer, co-founded Anna Records (b. 1922)
 * 2014  – Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somalian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1924)
 * 2014  – Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
 * 2014  – Joseph Willcox Jenkins, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1928)
 * 2014  – Christopher Jones, American actor (b. 1941)
 * 2015 – Vic Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
 * 2015  – Udo Lattek, German footballer, coach, and journalist (b. 1935)
 * 2015  – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (b. 1922)
 * 2015  – Richard von Weizsäcker, German captain and politician, 6th President of Germany (b. 1920)
 * 2016 – Terry Wogan, Irish radio and television host (b. 1938)
 * 2017 – Rob Stewart, Canadian filmmaker (b. 1979)
 * 2018 – Rasual Butler, American professional basketball player (b. 1979)
 * 2018  – Leah LaBelle, American singer (b. 1986)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Domitius (Domice) of Amiens
 * Francis Xavier Bianchi
 * Geminianus
 * John Bosco
 * Julius of Novara
 * Blessed Ludovica
 * Máedóc (Mogue, Aiden)
 * Marcella of Marseille
 * Marcella of Rome
 * Samuel Shoemaker (Episcopal Church (USA))
 * Tysul
 * Ulphia
 * Wilgils
 * January 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Amartithi (Meherabad, India, followers of Meher Baba)
 * Independence Day (Nauru), celebrates independence from Australia in 1968.
 * Street Children's Day (Austria)

title: January 31


text:
June 6

Pre-1600

 * 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed by Constantine's uncle Alexander on his deathbed.
 * 1505 – The M8.2–8.8 Lo Mustang earthquake affects Tibet and Nepal, causing severe damage in Kathmandu and parts of the Indo-Gangetic plain.
 * 1513 – Battle of Novara. In the Italian Wars, Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis II de la Trémoille, forcing them to abandon Milan; Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
 * 1523 – Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the country's national day.

1601–1900

 * 1654 – Swedish Queen Christina abdicated her throne in favour of her cousin Charles Gustav and converted to Catholicism.
 * 1674 – Shivaji is crowned as the first Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire at Raigad Fort.
 * 1762 – In the Seven Years' War, British forces begin the Siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city.
 * 1813 – The Battle of Stoney Creek, considered a critical turning point in the War of 1812. A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
 * 1822 – Alexis St Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.
 * 1832 – The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard.
 * 1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
 * 1859 – Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales. The date is still celebrated as Queensland Day.
 * 1862 – The First Battle of Memphis, a naval engagement fought on the Mississippi results in the capture of Memphis, Tennessee by Union forces from the Confederates.
 * 1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
 * 1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
 * 1892 – The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
 * 1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.

1901–present

 * 1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
 * 1918 – Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I: the U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry (the losses are exceeded at the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943).
 * 1925 – The original Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Chrysler from the remains of the Maxwell Motor Company.
 * 1933 – The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
 * 1934 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
 * 1942 – The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part—JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER Akagi, JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER Kaga, JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER Sōryū and JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER Hiryū—are sunk, as is the heavy cruiser JAPANESE CRUISER Mikuma. The American carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) and the destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412) are also sunk.
 * 1944 – Commencement of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred to as D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. By the end of the day, the Allies have landed on five invasion beaches and are pushing inland.
 * 1966 – March Against Fear: African-American civil rights activist James Meredith is wounded in an ambush by white sniper James Aubrey Norvell. Meredith and Norvell are photographed by Jack R. Thornell, whose photo will receive the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in Photography, the last one to be awarded in the category.
 * 1971 – Soyuz 11 is launched. The mission ends in disaster when all three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are suffocated by uncontrolled decompression of the capsule during re-entry on 29 June.
 * 1971  – Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collides with a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the United States Marine Corps over the San Gabriel Mountains, killing 50.
 * 1975 – British referendum results in continued membership of the European Economic Community, with 67% of votes in favour.
 * 1976 – Chief Minister of Sabah Faud Stephens, Peter Joinud Mojuntin, and several other politicians are killed in a plane crash near Kota Kinabalu International Airport in Malaysia.
 * 1982 – The Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
 * 1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
 * 1992 – Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes into the Darién Gap in Panama, killing all 47 aboard.
 * 1993 – Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia.
 * 1994 – China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board.
 * 2002 – Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
 * 2017 – Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to capture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
 * 2023 – Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam during the Russo-Ukrainian war.
 * 2024 – The launch of SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4)

Pre-1600

 * 1436 – Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg), German mathematician, astronomer, and bishop (d. 1476)
 * 1519 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (d. 1603)
 * 1599 – Diego Velázquez (date of baptism), Spanish painter and educator (d. 1660)

1601–1900

 * 1606 – Pierre Corneille, French playwright and producer (d. 1684)
 * 1622 – Claude-Jean Allouez, French-American missionary and explorer (d. 1689)
 * 1714 – Joseph I of Portugal, King of Portugal from 31 July 1750 until his death (d. 1777)
 * 1755 – Nathan Hale, American soldier (d. 1776)
 * 1756 – John Trumbull, American soldier and painter (d. 1843)
 * 1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian author and poet (d. 1837)
 * 1810 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German philologist and scholar (d. 1856)
 * 1825 – Friedrich Bayer, German pharmacist, founded Bayer (d. 1880)
 * 1841 – Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (d. 1910)
 * 1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1909 for physics (d. 1918)
 * 1851 – Angelo Moriondo, Italian inventor of the espresso machine (d. 1914)
 * 1857 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1918)
 * 1862 – Henry Newbolt, English historian, author, and poet (d. 1938)
 * 1867 – David T. Abercrombie, American entrepreneur and co-founder of lifestyle brand Abercrombie & Fitch (d. 1931)
 * 1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, English sailor and explorer (d. 1912)
 * 1872 – Alix of Hesse, German princess and Russian empress (d. 1918)
 * 1875 – Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
 * 1890 – Ted Lewis, American singer, clarinet player, and bandleader (d. 1971)
 * 1891 – Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Indian author and academic (d. 1986)
 * 1891  – Erich Marcks, German general in WWII who planned Operation Barbarossa (d. 1944)
 * 1896 – Henry Allingham, English World War I soldier and supercentenarian (d. 2009)
 * 1896  – Italo Balbo, Italian air marshal and fascist politician who played a key role in developing Mussolini's air force (d. 1940)
 * 1897 – Joel Rinne, Finnish actor (d. 1981)
 * 1898 – Jacobus Johannes Fouché, South African politician, 2nd State President of South Africa (d. 1980)
 * 1898  – Ninette de Valois, English ballerina, choreographer, and director (d. 2001)
 * 1900 – Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (d. 1957)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Jan Struther, English author, poet and hymnwriter who created the character Mrs Miniver (d. 1953)
 * 1901  – Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
 * 1902 – Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1947)
 * 1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (d. 1978)
 * 1906 – Max August Zorn, German mathematician and academic who is noted for Zorn's Lemma (d. 1993)
 * 1907 – Bill Dickey, American baseball player and manager who played in eight World Series, winning seven (d. 1993)
 * 1909 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian and philosopher (d. 1997)
 * 1915 – Vincent Persichetti, American pianist and composer (d. 1987)
 * 1916 – Hamani Diori, Nigerien academic and politician, 1st President of Niger (d. 1989)
 * 1917 – Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, founded the Tracinda Corporation (d. 2015)
 * 1918 – Kenneth Connor, English comedy actor (d. 1993)
 * 1918  – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
 * 1919 – Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, English army officer and politician, 6th Secretary General of NATO (d. 2018)
 * 1923 – V. C. Andrews, American author, illustrator, and painter (d. 1986)
 * 1923  – Jean Pouliot, Canadian broadcaster (d. 2004)
 * 1925 – Maxine Kumin, American poet and author (d. 2014)
 * 1925  – Frank Chee Willeto, American soldier and politician, 4th Vice President of the Navajo Nation and a noted code talker during World War II (d. 2013)
 * 1926 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
 * 1929 – James Barnor, Ghanaian photographer
 * 1929  – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (d. 2005)
 * 1930 – Frank Tyson, English-Australian cricketer, coach and journalist (d. 2015)
 * 1932 – David Scott, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut who was the commander of Apollo 15
 * 1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
 * 1934 – Albert II, King of the Belgians from 9 August 1993 to 21 July 2013 (abdicated)
 * 1934  – Taichi Yamada, Japanese screenwriter and novelist (d. 2023)
 * 1935 – Jon Henricks, Australian swimmer; winner of two Olympic gold medals in 1956
 * 1936 – D. Ramanaidu, Indian actor, director, and producer, founded Suresh Productions (d. 2015)
 * 1936  – Levi Stubbs, American soul singer; lead vocalist of the Four Tops (d. 2008)
 * 1939 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer (d. 2021)
 * 1939  – Gary U.S. Bonds, American singer-songwriter
 * 1940 – Willie John McBride, Northern Irish rugby player who toured with the British Lions five times
 * 1943 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1996 for chemistry (d. 2005)
 * 1944 – Monty Alexander, Jamaican jazz pianist
 * 1944  – Phillip Allen Sharp, American molecular biologist; 1993 Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine)
 * 1944  – Tommie Smith, American sprinter and football player; winner of 1968 Olympic 200m gold medal in a world record time
 * 1946 – Tony Levin, American bass player and songwriter
 * 1947 – David Blunkett, British Labour politician; Home Secretary 2001–2004
 * 1947  – Robert Englund, American actor; best known for Nightmare on Elm Street
 * 1947  – Ada Kok, Dutch butterfly stroke swimmer; winner of three Olympic medals including gold in 1968
 * 1947  – Keith Daniel Williams, American convicted rapist and triple murderer (d. 1996)
 * 1948 – Arlene Harris, American entrepreneur, inventor, investor and policy advocate
 * 1949 – Holly Near, American folk singer and songwriter
 * 1951 – Dwight Twilley, American pop/rock singer and songwriter (d. 2023)
 * 1954 – Harvey Fierstein, American actor and playwright; winner of four Tony Awards
 * 1954  – Wladyslaw Zmuda, Polish footballer and manager; 91 caps for Poland and voted Best Young Player at the 1974 FIFA World Cup
 * 1955 – Sam Simon, American director, producer and screenwriter; co-developer of The Simpsons (d. 2015)
 * 1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player; winner of eleven Grand Slam singles titles including five consecutive Wimbledons
 * 1959 – Colin Quinn, American comedian and actor
 * 1960 – Steve Vai, American musician
 * 1963 – Jason Isaacs, English actor
 * 1966 – Sophie Jamal, Canadian endocrinologist involved in scientific misconduct
 * 1966  – Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
 * 1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor and producer
 * 1972 – Natalie Morales, American television journalist and NBC News anchor
 * 1974 – Uncle Kracker, American musician
 * 1974  – Sonya Walger, British-American actress
 * 1977 – David Connolly, Irish footballer
 * 1979 – Roberto De Zerbi, Italian football manager
 * 1983 – Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer
 * 1985 – Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer
 * 1985  – Drew McIntyre, Scottish professional wrestler
 * 1985  – Becky Sauerbrunn, American footballer; twice a winner of the FIFA Women's World Cup, also an Olympic gold medallist
 * 1988 – Anthony Pilkington, Irish footballer
 * 1990 – Gavin Hoyte, English born footballer who represented Trinidad and Tobago
 * 1990  – Anthony Rendon, American baseball player
 * 1990  – Pape Souaré, Senegalese footballer
 * 1992 – DeAndre Hopkins, American football player
 * 1993 – Vic Mensa, American rapper and singer
 * 1994 – Yvon Mvogo, Swiss footballer
 * 1995 – Julian Green, American soccer player
 * 1996 – Jack Hetherington, Australian rugby league player
 * 1998 – Kenny Pickett, American football player
 * 2001 – Rayan Aït-Nouri, French-Algerian footballer

Pre-1600

 * 184 – Qiao Xuan, Chinese official (b. c. 110)
 * 863 – Abu Musa Utamish, vizier to the Abbasid Caliphate
 * 913 – Alexander III, Byzantine emperor (b. 870)
 * 1097 – Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon and Navarre
 * 1134 – Norbert of Xanten, German bishop and saint (b. 1060)
 * 1217 – Henry I, King of Castile and Toledo (b. 1204)
 * 1251 – William III of Dampierre, Count of Flanders
 * 1252 – Robert Passelewe, Bishop of Chichester
 * 1480 – Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (b. 1412)
 * 1548 – João de Castro, Portuguese soldier and politician, Governor of Portuguese India (b. 1500)
 * 1583 – Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese daimyo (b. 1556)

1601–1900

 * 1661 – Martino Martini, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1614)
 * 1799 – Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (b. 1736)
 * 1813 – Antonio Cachia, Maltese architect, engineer and archaeologist (b. 1739)
 * 1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English jurist and philosopher (b. 1748)
 * 1861 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
 * 1865 – William Quantrill, American Confederate guerrilla band leader (b. 1837)
 * 1878 – Robert Stirling, Scottish minister and engineer, invented the stirling engine (b. 1790)
 * 1881 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1820)
 * 1891 – John A. Macdonald, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)

1901–present

 * 1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (b. 1859)
 * 1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (b. 1860)
 * 1935 – Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and politician, 12th Governor-General of Canada (b. 1862)
 * 1939 – Constantin Noe, Megleno-Romanian editor and professor (b. 1883)
 * 1941 – Louis Chevrolet, American race car driver and businessman, founded Chevrolet and Frontenac Motor Corporation (b. 1878)
 * 1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
 * 1947 – James Agate, English author and critic (b. 1877)
 * 1948 – Louis Lumière, French film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1864)
 * 1955 – Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter and educator (b. 1875)
 * 1961 – Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (b. 1875)
 * 1962 – Yves Klein, French painter (b. 1928)
 * 1962  – Tom Phillis, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1934)
 * 1963 – William Baziotes, American painter and academic (b. 1912)
 * 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (b. 1925)
 * 1976 – J. Paul Getty, American businessman, founded the Getty Oil Company (b. 1892)
 * 1979 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1897)
 * 1982 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and academic (b. 1905)
 * 1983 – Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright who wrote the lyrics of Lili Marleen (b. 1893)
 * 1991 – Stan Getz, American saxophonist and jazz innovator (b. 1927)
 * 1994 – Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935)
 * 1994  – Barry Sullivan, American film actor (b. 1912)
 * 1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist; awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 for his studies of histocompatibility (b. 1903)
 * 2005 – Anne Bancroft, American film actress; winner of the 1963 Academy Award for Best Actress for The Miracle Worker (b. 1931)
 * 2006  – Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1946)
 * 2009 – Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (b. 1916)
 * 2012 – Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player; together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line. (b. 1960)
 * 2013 – Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (b. 1918)
 * 2013  – Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
 * 2014 – Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician; pioneered studies of autism (b. 1928)
 * 2015 – Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author; prosecuting attorney in the Tate–LaBianca murders case (b. 1934)
 * 2015  – Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author; noted for The Two Thousand Words which inspired the Prague Spring (b. 1926)
 * 2016 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster; arguably the best player never to become World Chess Champion (b. 1931)
 * 2016  – Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter; works included Equus and Amadeus (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Claudius of Besançon
 * Ini Kopuria (Anglican Church of Melanesia, Church of England, Episcopal Church)
 * Marcellin Champagnat
 * Norbert
 * June 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * D-Day Invasion Anniversary
 * Engineer's Day in Taiwan
 * Korean Children's Union Foundation Day in North Korea
 * Memorial Day in South Korea
 * National Day of Sweden, marking the end of the Danish-ruled Kalmar Union and the coronation of King Gustav Vasa
 * National Huntington's Disease Awareness Day in the United States
 * Queensland Day
 * UN Russian Language Day

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June 7

Pre-1600

 * 421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
 * 879 – Pope John VIII recognises the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state.
 * 1002 – Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany.
 * 1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
 * 1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.
 * 1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

1601–1900

 * 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
 * 1640 – Corpus de Sang in Barcelona: Catalan reapers rioted against Spanish Royal soldiers and officers, killing the Viceroy of Catalonia, Dalmau de Queralt. Escalation of hostilities between the Principality of Catalonia and the Spanish Monarchy, leading to the Reapers' War.
 * 1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
 * 1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
 * 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
 * 1788 – French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
 * 1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
 * 1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
 * 1832 – The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent.
 * 1832  – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
 * 1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
 * 1866 – One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.
 * 1880 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
 * 1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
 * 1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.

1901–present

 * 1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
 * 1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
 * 1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
 * 1919 – Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
 * 1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
 * 1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
 * 1938  – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
 * 1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
 * 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
 * 1942  – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
 * 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
 * 1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
 * 1946 – The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II.
 * 1948 – Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
 * 1948  – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
 * 1955 – Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
 * 1962 – The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
 * 1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
 * 1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
 * 1971 – The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
 * 1971  – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
 * 1971  – Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 crashes on approach to Tweed New Haven Airport in New Haven, Connecticut, killing 28 of 31 aboard.
 * 1975 – Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.
 * 1977 – Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
 * 1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
 * 1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
 * 1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
 * 1991 – Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 km high.
 * 2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
 * 2017 – A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.

Pre-1600

 * 1003 – Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia (d. 1048)
 * 1402 – Ichijō Kaneyoshi, Japanese noble (d. 1481)
 * 1422 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero (d. 1482)
 * 1502 – John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
 * 1529 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (d. 1615)
 * 1561 – John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count and military theorist (d. 1623) 🇦🇹 (1911). "Johan VII". In: 🇦🇹 en 🇦🇹 (redactie), Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (in Dutch). Vol. Eerste deel. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff. p. 1221; ; ; ; ; ; 🇦🇹 (2004). "Die Fürstengruft zu Siegen und die darin von 1669 bis 1781 erfolgten Beisetzungen". In: 🇦🇹 u.a. (Redaktion), Siegener Beiträge. Jahrbuch für regionale Geschichte (in German). Vol. 9. Siegen: Geschichtswerkstatt Siegen – Arbeitskreis für Regionalgeschichte e.V. p. 193; 🇦🇹 (1882). Het vorstenhuis Oranje-Nassau. Van de vroegste tijden tot heden (in Dutch). Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff/Utrecht: J.L. Beijers. p. 115

1601–1900

 * 1687 – Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian actor and singer (d. 1734)
 * 1702 – Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1761)
 * 1757 – Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
 * 1761 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
 * 1770 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
 * 1778 – Beau Brummell, English cricketer and fashion designer (d. 1840)
 * 1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician (d. 1870)
 * 1831 – Amelia Edwards, English journalist and author (d. 1892)
 * 1837 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (d. 1903)
 * 1840 – Carlota of Mexico (d. 1927)
 * 1845 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1930)
 * 1847 – George Washington Ball, American legislator from Iowa (d. 1915)
 * 1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (d. 1903)
 * 1851 – Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)
 * 1861 – Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (d. 1942)
 * 1862 – Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
 * 1863 – Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager (d. 1952)
 * 1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect (d. 1928)
 * 1877 – Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer (d. 1960)
 * 1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer (d. 1933)
 * 1879  – Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1963)
 * 1883 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1948)
 * 1884 – Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect (d. 1931)
 * 1886 – Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (d. 1972)
 * 1888 – Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator (d. 1958)
 * 1890 – Karl Lashley, American psychologist and behaviorist (d. 1958)
 * 1892 – Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
 * 1893 – Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (d. 1938)
 * 1894 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (d. 1974)
 * 1896 – Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1990)
 * 1896  – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
 * 1896  – Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1958)
 * 1897 – George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1970)
 * 1899 – Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic (d. 1973)

1901–present

 * 1902 – Georges Van Parys, French composer (d. 1971)
 * 1902  – Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic (d. 2000)
 * 1905 – James J. Braddock, American world heavyweight boxing champion (d. 1974)
 * 1906 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1963)
 * 1907 – Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (d. 2002)
 * 1909 – Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (d. 1974)
 * 1909  – Peter W. Rodino, American lawyer, and politician (d. 2005)
 * 1909  – Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (d. 1994)
 * 1910 – Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (d. 2014)
 * 1910  – Til Kiwe, German actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)
 * 1910  – Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach (d. 1989)
 * 1910  – Bradford Washburn, American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (d. 2007)
 * 1910  – Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (d. 1990)
 * 1910  – Bluey, Australian cattle dog, second-oldest recorded dog (d. 1939)
 * 1911 – Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (d. 1995)
 * 1912 – Jacques Hélian, French bandleader (d. 1986)
 * 1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
 * 1917  – Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995)
 * 1920 – Georges Marchais, French mechanic and politician (d. 1997)
 * 1923 – Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2000)
 * 1925 – Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017)
 * 1926 – Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2020)
 * 1927 – Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)
 * 1928 – James Ivory, American director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1929 – John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)
 * 1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress and author
 * 1932 – Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (d. 2013)
 * 1935 – Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2012)
 * 1936 – Bert Sugar, American author and boxing historian (d. 2012)
 * 1938 – Ian St John, Scottish international footballer and manager (d. 2021)
 * 1939 – Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian cellist, conductor and educator (d. 2013)
 * 1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor
 * 1940  – Ronald Pickup, English actor (d. 2021)
 * 1943 – "Superstar" Billy Graham, American wrestler (d. 2023)
 * 1944 – Clarence White, American guitarist and singer (d. 1973)
 * 1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian lawyer and politician, 26th Chancellor of Austria
 * 1946 – Zbigniew Seifert, Polish musician (d. 1979)
 * 1947 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
 * 1952 – Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor
 * 1952  – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1954 – Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet
 * 1957 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, composer, and record producer.
 * 1958 – Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (d. 2016)
 * 1959 – Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana
 * 1960 – Bill Prady, American screenwriter and producer
 * 1962  – Lance Reddick,  American actor (d. 2023)
 * 1965 – Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector
 * 1965  – Mick Foley, American wrestler
 * 1967 – Dave Navarro, American musician
 * 1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
 * 1974 – Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host
 * 1975 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player
 * 1978 – Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
 * 1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
 * 1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor and musician
 * 1990 – Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model
 * 1991 – Fetty Wap, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
 * 1991  – Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress
 * 1992 – Jordan Clarkson, Filipino-American basketball player
 * 1993 – George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
 * 1993  – Swae Lee, American rapper
 * 1996 – Christian McCaffrey, American football player
 * 1997 – David Montgomery, American football player

Pre-1600

 * 555 – Vigilius, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 500)
 * 862 – Al-Muntasir, Abbasid caliph (b. 837)
 * 929 – Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (b. 877)
 * 940 – Qian Hongzun, heir apparent of Wuyue (b. 925)
 * 951 – Lu Wenji, Chinese chancellor (b. 876)
 * 1329 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (b. 1274)
 * 1337 – William I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1286)
 * 1341 – An-Nasir Muhammad, Egyptian sultan (b. 1285)
 * 1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shōgun (b. 1305)
 * 1394 – Anne of Bohemia, English queen (b. 1366)
 * 1492 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 (b. 1427)
 * 1594 – Rodrigo Lopez, physician of Queen Elizabeth I (b. 1525)

1601–1900

 * 1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
 * 1660 – George II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1621)
 * 1711 – Henry Dodwell, Irish scholar and theologian (b. 1641)
 * 1740 – Alexander Spotswood, Moroccan-American colonial and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (b. 1676)
 * 1779 – William Warburton, English bishop and critic (b. 1698)
 * 1792 – Benjamin Tupper, American general and surveyor (b. 1738)
 * 1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher (b. 1765)
 * 1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1787)
 * 1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
 * 1843 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet and author (b. 1770)
 * 1853 – Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (b. 1787)
 * 1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
 * 1859 – David Cox, English painter (b. 1783)
 * 1861 – Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (b. 1777)
 * 1863 – Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (b. 1790)
 * 1866 – Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (b. 1780)
 * 1879 – William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (b. 1836)
 * 1896 – Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)

1901–present

 * 1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
 * 1915 – Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (b. 1822)
 * 1916 – Émile Faguet, French author and critic (b. 1847)
 * 1921 – Patrick Maher, executed Irish republican (b. 1889)
 * 1921  – Edmond Foley, executed Irish republican (b. 1897)
 * 1924 – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (b. 1847)
 * 1927 – Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (b. 1905)
 * 1927  – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
 * 1932 – John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (b. 1856)
 * 1933 – Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian lawyer, judge, and poet (b. 1875)
 * 1936 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
 * 1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
 * 1942 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer (b. 1903)
 * 1945 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher and academic (b. 1870)
 * 1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)
 * 1956 – John Willcock, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1879)
 * 1965 – Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
 * 1966 – Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
 * 1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)
 * 1967  – Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (b. 1893)
 * 1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
 * 1970 – E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1879)
 * 1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
 * 1980 – Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (b. 1883)
 * 1980  – Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (b. 1913)
 * 1980  – Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (b. 1891)
 * 1985 – Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (b. 1906)
 * 1987 – Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1940)
 * 1992 – Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (b. 1909)
 * 1995 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (b. 1918)
 * 2001 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
 * 2001  – Betty Neels, English nurse and author (b. 1910)
 * 2002 – Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (b. 1915)
 * 2012 – Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (b. 1925)
 * 2013 – Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)
 * 2013  – Richard Ramirez, American serial killer and sex offender (b. 1960)
 * 2015 – Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
 * 2023 – The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler and actor (b. 1942)
 * 2024 – William Anders, American astronaut and lunar explorer (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Antonio Maria Gianelli
 * Colmán of Dromore
 * St Gottschalk
 * Landulf of Yariglia (Asti)
 * Meriasek
 * Paul I of Constantinople
 * Robert of Newminster
 * Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)
 * Blessed Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière
 * Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church)
 * Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA))
 * June 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Battle of Arica Day (Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile)
 * Flag Day (Peru)
 * Journalist Day (Argentina)
 * Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
 * Birthday of Prince Joachim (Denmark)
 * Sette Giugno (Malta)
 * Union Dissolution Day (Independence Day of Norway)
 * Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day

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June 11

Pre-1600

 * 173 – Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain".
 * 631 – Emperor Taizong of Tang sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang.
 * 786 – A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh.
 * 980 – Vladimir the Great consolidates the Kievan realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. He is proclaimed ruler (knyaz) of all Kievan Rus'.
 * 1011 – Lombard Revolt: Greek citizens of Bari rise up against the Lombard rebels led by Melus and deliver the city to Basil Mesardonites, Byzantine governor (catepan) of the Catepanate of Italy.
 * 1118 – Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch, captures Azaz from the Seljuk Turks.
 * 1157 – Albert I of Brandenburg, also called The Bear (Ger: Albrecht der Bär), becomes the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany and the first margrave.
 * 1345 – The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
 * 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Start of the Battle of Jargeau.
 * 1488 – Battle of Sauchieburn: Fought between rebel Lords and James III of Scotland, resulting in the death of the king.
 * 1509 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
 * 1559 – Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sails for Florida with party of 1,500, intending to settle on gulf coast (Vera Cruz, Mexico).
 * 1594 – Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).

1601–1900

 * 1702 – Anglo-Dutch forces skirmish with French forces before the walls of Nijmegen and prevent its fall.
 * 1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach leads his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (O eternity, you word of thunder), BWV20, on the first Sunday after Trinity, beginning his second cycle, the chorale cantata cycle. (Note: the Sunday is 2 June in 2024.)
 * 1748 – Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries.
 * 1770 – British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
 * 1775 – The Coronation of Louis XVI in Reims, the last coronation before the French Revolution.
 * 1775 – The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
 * 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
 * 1788 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
 * 1805 – A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
 * 1825 – The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
 * 1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
 * 1865 – The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
 * 1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
 * 1895 – Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
 * 1898 – The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)

1901–present

 * 1901 – The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
 * 1903 – A group of Serbian officers storms the royal palace and assassinates King Alexander I of Serbia and his wife, Queen Draga.
 * 1917 – King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, is deemed to have abdicated under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
 * 1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
 * 1920 – During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
 * 1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
 * 1936 – The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
 * 1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
 * 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
 * 1940 – World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.
 * 1942 – World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
 * 1942  – Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
 * 1944 – USS Missouri (BB-63), the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
 * 1955 – Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least one hundred are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
 * 1956 – Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
 * 1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
 * 1963 – American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
 * 1963  – Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
 * 1963  – John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would revolutionize American society by guaranteeing equal access to public facilities, ending segregation in education, and guaranteeing federal protection for voting rights.
 * 1964 – World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
 * 1968 – Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
 * 1970 – After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army general officers, becoming the first women to do so.
 * 1971 – The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
 * 1978 – Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
 * 1981 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
 * 1987 – Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
 * 1998 – Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
 * 2001 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
 * 2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
 * 2004 – Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
 * 2007 – Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
 * 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
 * 2008  – The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
 * 2010 – The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa.
 * 2012 – More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
 * 2013 – Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

Pre-1600

 * 1403 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
 * 1456 – Anne Neville, Princess of Wales and Queen of England (d. 1485)
 * 1540 – Barnabe Googe, English poet and translator (d. 1594)
 * 1555 – Lodovico Zacconi, Italian composer and theorist (d. 1627)
 * 1572 – Ben Jonson, English poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1637)
 * 1585 – Evert Horn, Swedish soldier (d. 1615)
 * 1588 – George Wither, English poet (d. 1667)

1601–1900

 * 1620 – John Moore, English businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1702)
 * 1655 – Antonio Cifrondi, Italian painter (d. 1730)
 * 1662 – Tokugawa Ienobu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1712)
 * 1672 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
 * 1690 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, Italian composer (d. 1764)
 * 1696 – James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
 * 1697 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist and composer (d. 1780)
 * 1704 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese harpsichord player and composer (d. 1742)
 * 1709 – Joachim Martin Falbe, German painter (d. 1782)
 * 1712 – Benjamin Ingham, American missionary (d. 1772)
 * 1723 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
 * 1726 – Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (d. 1746)
 * 1741 – Joseph Warren, American physician and general (d. 1775)
 * 1776 – John Constable, English painter and academic (d. 1837)
 * 1796 – François-Louis Cailler, Swiss chocolatier (d. 1852)
 * 1797 – José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran philosopher and theorist (d. 1855)
 * 1807 – James F. Schenck, American admiral (d. 1882)
 * 1815 – Julia Margaret Cameron, Indian-Sri Lankan photographer (d. 1879)
 * 1818 – Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher and academic (d. 1903)
 * 1829 – Edward Braddon, English-Australian politician, 18th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1904)
 * 1832 – Lucy Pickens, American wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens (d. 1899)
 * 1834 – Johann Bauschinger, German mechanical engineer and physicist (d. 1893)
 * 1842 – Carl von Linde, German engineer and academic (d. 1934)
 * 1846 – William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
 * 1847 – Millicent Fawcett, English academic and activist (d. 1929)
 * 1861 – Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (d. 1933)
 * 1864 – Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
 * 1867 – Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (d. 1945)
 * 1871 – Stjepan Radić, Croatian lawyer and politician (d. 1928)
 * 1876 – Alfred L. Kroeber, American-French anthropologist and ethnologist (d. 1960)
 * 1877 – Renée Vivien, English-French poet and author (d. 1909)
 * 1879 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and manager (d. 1944)
 * 1880 – Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (d. 1973)
 * 1881 – Spiros Xenos, Greek-Swedish painter (d. 1963)
 * 1881  – Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (d. 1983)
 * 1881  – Maggie Gripenberg, Finnish dancer and choreographer (d. 1976)
 * 1888 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-American anarchist and convicted criminal (d. 1927)
 * 1889 – Hugo Wieslander, Swedish decathlete (d. 1976)
 * 1894 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (d. 1952)
 * 1895 – Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (d. 1975)
 * 1897 – Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian activist, founded the Hindustan Republican Association (d. 1927)
 * 1897  – Reg Latta, Australian rugby league player  (d. 1970)
 * 1899 – Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Cap Fear, Canadian football player and rower (d. 1978)
 * 1901  – Benny Wearing, Australian rugby league player  (d. 1968)
 * 1902 – Eric Fraser, British illustrator and graphic designer (d. 1983)
 * 1903 – Ernie Nevers, American football player and coach (d. 1976)
 * 1908 – Karl Hein, German hammer thrower (d. 1982)
 * 1908  – Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint (d. 1919)
 * 1909 – Natascha Artin Brunswick, German-American mathematician and photographer (d. 2003)
 * 1910 – Carmine Coppola, American flute player and composer (d. 1991)
 * 1910  – Jacques Cousteau, French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (d. 1997)
 * 1912 – James Algar, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
 * 1912  – William Baziotes, American painter and academic (d. 1963)
 * 1912  – Mohammad Hassan Ganji, Iranian meteorologist and academic (d. 2012)
 * 1913 – Vince Lombardi, American football player, coach, and manager (d. 1970)
 * 1913  – Risë Stevens, American soprano and actress (d. 2013)
 * 1914 – Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (d. 2012)
 * 1915 – Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1997)
 * 1915  – Nicholas Metropolis, American mathematician and physicist (d. 1999)
 * 1918 – Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player and manager (d. 1980)
 * 1919 – Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian and author (d. 2008)
 * 1919  – Richard Todd, Irish-English actor (d. 2009)
 * 1920 – Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American singer, actress, and pianist (d. 1981)
 * 1920  – Keith Seaman, Australian lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (d. 2013)
 * 1922 – Jean Sutherland Boggs, Peruvian-Canadian historian, academic, and civil servant (d. 2014)
 * 1922  – Michael Cacoyannis, Greek Cypriot director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
 * 1925 – Johnny Esaw, Canadian sportscaster (d. 2013)
 * 1925  – William Styron, American novelist and essayist (d. 2006)
 * 1926 – Carlisle Floyd, American composer and educator (d. 2021)
 * 1927 – Beryl Grey, English ballerina (d. 2022)
 * 1927  – John W. O'Malley, American Catholic historian, academic and Jesuit priest (d. 2022)
 * 1927  – Kit Pedler, English parapsychologist and author (d. 1981)
 * 1928 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium (d. 2014)
 * 1929 – Ayhan Şahenk, Turkish businessman (d. 2001)
 * 1930 – Charles Rangel, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
 * 1932 – Athol Fugard, South African-American actor, director, and playwright
 * 1932  – Tim Sainsbury, English businessman and politician, Minister of State for Trade
 * 1933 – Gene Wilder, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2016)
 * 1937 – Chad Everett, American actor and director (d. 2012)
 * 1937  – Robin Warren, Australian pathologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1939 – Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer and journalist (d. 2017)
 * 1939  – Jackie Stewart, Scottish racing driver and sports presenter
 * 1942 – Parris Glendening, American politician, 59th Governor of Maryland
 * 1943 – Henry Hill, American mobster (d. 2012)
 * 1945 – Adrienne Barbeau, American actress
 * 1948 – Dave Cash, American baseball player and coach
 * 1948  – Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian politician, 20th Chief Minister of Bihar
 * 1948  – Lynsey de Paul, English singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, cartoonist and actress (d. 2014)
 * 1949 – Frank Beard, American drummer and songwriter
 * 1950 – Graham Russell, English-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1951 – Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese painter and photographer
 * 1952 – Yekaterina Podkopayeva, Russian runner
 * 1952  – Donnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1953 – Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton, English politician
 * 1953  – José Bové, French farmer and politician
 * 1954 – John Dyson, Australian cricketer
 * 1954  – Johnny Neel, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
 * 1955 – Yuriy Sedykh, Ukrainian hammer thrower (d. 2021)
 * 1955  – Duncan Steel, English-Australian astronomer and author
 * 1956 – Joe Montana, American football player and sportscaster
 * 1959 – Hugh Laurie, English actor and screenwriter
 * 1960 – Mehmet Oz, American surgeon, author, and television host
 * 1962 – Mano Menezes, Brazilian footballer and coach
 * 1963 – Gioia Bruno, American singer-songwriter
 * 1963  – Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler and sportscaster (d. 2000)
 * 1964 – Jean Alesi, French race car driver
 * 1964  – Kim Gallagher, American runner (d. 2002)
 * 1964  – Penny Ford, American singer
 * 1965 – Georgios Bartzokas, Greek former professional basketball player
 * 1966 – Bruce Robison, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1967 – Graeme Bachop, New Zealand rugby player
 * 1967  – João Garcia, Portuguese mountaineer
 * 1968 – Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
 * 1968  – Manoa Thompson, Fijian rugby player
 * 1969 – Peter Dinklage, American actor and producer
 * 1969  – Olaf Kapagiannidis, German footballer
 * 1971 – Vladimir Gaidamașciuc, Moldovan footballer
 * 1971  – Liz Kendall, British politician
 * 1971  – Mark Richardson, New Zealand cricketer
 * 1972 – Stephen Kearney, New Zealand rugby league player and coach
 * 1973 – José Manuel Abundis, Mexican footballer and coach
 * 1974 – Fragiskos Alvertis, Greek basketball player, coach, and manager
 * 1976 – Reiko Tosa, Japanese runner
 * 1977 – Ryan Dunn, American stunt performer (d. 2011)
 * 1977  – Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
 * 1978 – Joshua Jackson, Canadian-American actor
 * 1978  – Daryl Tuffey, New Zealand cricketer
 * 1979 – Ali Boussaboun, Moroccan-Dutch footballer
 * 1979  – Amy Duggan, Australian footballer and sportscaster
 * 1980 – Yhency Brazoban, Dominican baseball player
 * 1981 – Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer
 * 1981  – Kristo Tohver, Estonian footballer and referee
 * 1982 – Vanessa Boslak, French pole vaulter
 * 1982  – Jacques Freitag, South African high jumper (d. 2024)
 * 1982  – Joey Graham, American basketball player
 * 1982  – Stephen Graham, American basketball player
 * 1982  – Reni Maitua, Australian rugby league player
 * 1982  – Eldar Rønning, Norwegian skier
 * 1982  – Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
 * 1983 – Chuck Hayes, American basketball player
 * 1983  – José Reyes, Dominican baseball player
 * 1984 – Andy Lee, Irish boxer
 * 1984  – Vágner Love, Brazilian footballer
 * 1985 – Tim Hoogland, German footballer
 * 1986 – Sebastian Bayer, German long jumper
 * 1986  – Shia LaBeouf, American actor
 * 1987 – Marsel İlhan, Turkish tennis player
 * 1987  – Didrik Solli-Tangen, Norwegian singer
 * 1988 – Jesús Fernández Collado, Spanish footballer
 * 1988  – Claire Holt, Australian actress
 * 1988  – Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress, voice actress, singer-songwriter, model, radio host
 * 1989 – Maya Moore, American basketball player
 * 1990 – Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter
 * 1991 – Daniel Howell, English YouTuber
 * 1993 – Brittany Boyd, American basketball player
 * 1994 – Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
 * 1996 – Ayaka Sasaki, Japanese singer
 * 1997 – Kodak Black, American rapper
 * 1998 – Charlie Tahan, American actor
 * 1999 – Eartha Cumings, Scottish footballer
 * 1999 – Kai Havertz, German footballer
 * 2004 – Katrina Scott, American tennis player

Pre-1600

 * 573 – Emilian of Cogolla, Iberic saint (b. 472)
 * 786 – Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Abid, anti-Abbasid rebel leader
 * 840 – Junna, emperor of Japan (b. 785)
 * 884 – Shi Jingsi, general of the Tang Dynasty
 * 888 – Rimbert, archbishop of Bremen (b. 830)
 * 1183 – Henry the Young King of England (b. 1155)
 * 1216 – Henry of Flanders, emperor of the Latin Empire (b. c. 1174)
 * 1248 – Adachi Kagemori, Japanese samurai
 * 1253 – Amadeus IV, count of Savoy (b. 1197)
 * 1298 – Yolanda of Poland (b. 1235)
 * 1323 – Berengar Fredol the Elder, French lawyer and bishop (b. 1250)
 * 1345 – Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire
 * 1347 – Bartholomew of San Concordio, Italian Dominican canonist and man of letters (b. 1260)
 * 1446 – Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick (b. 1425)
 * 1479 – John of Sahagun, hermit and saint (b. 1419)
 * 1488 – James III of Scotland (b. 1451)
 * 1557 – John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
 * 1560 – Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1515)

1601–1900

 * 1683 – Nikita Pustosvyat, a leader of the Russian Old Believers, beheaded (b. unknown)
 * 1695 – André Félibien, French historian and author (b. 1619)
 * 1712 – Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (b. 1654)
 * 1727 – George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
 * 1748 – Felice Torelli, Italian painter (b. 1667)
 * 1796 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded the Whitbread Company (b. 1720)
 * 1847 – John Franklin, English admiral and politician (b. 1786)
 * 1852 – Karl Bryullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
 * 1859 – Klemens von Metternich, German-Austrian politician, 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire (b. 1773)
 * 1879 – William, Prince of Orange (b. 1840)
 * 1882 – Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (b. 1804)
 * 1885 – Matías Ramos Mejía, Argentinian colonel (b. 1810)
 * 1897 – Henry Ayers, English-Australian politician, 8th Premier of South Australia (b. 1821)

1901–present

 * 1903 – Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1837)
 * 1903  – Alexander I of Serbia (b. 1876)
 * 1903  – Draga Mašin, Serbian wife of Alexander I of Serbia (b. 1864)
 * 1911 – James Curtis Hepburn, American physician and missionary (b. 1815)
 * 1913 – Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 279th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1856)
 * 1914 – Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
 * 1920 – William F. Halsey, Sr., American captain (b. 1853)
 * 1924 – Théodore Dubois, French organist, composer, and educator (b. 1837)
 * 1927 – William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
 * 1934 – Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian psychologist and theorist (b. 1896)
 * 1936 – Robert E. Howard, American author and poet (b. 1906)
 * 1937 – R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire (b. 1895)
 * 1941 – Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, founded the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
 * 1955 – Pierre Levegh, French race car driver (b. 1905)
 * 1962 – Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (b. 1900)
 * 1963 – Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (b. 1897)
 * 1965 – Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic (b. 1908)
 * 1965  – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
 * 1970 – Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (b. 1884)
 * 1974 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian general and politician, 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)
 * 1974  – Julius Evola, Italian philosopher and author (b. 1898)
 * 1976 – Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)
 * 1979 – Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher (b. 1893)
 * 1979  – John Wayne, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
 * 1982 – H. Radclyffe Roberts, American entomologist (b. 1906)
 * 1983 – Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian businessman and politician (b. 1894)
 * 1984 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)
 * 1986 – Chesley Bonestell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1888)
 * 1991 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)
 * 1992 – Rafael Orozco Maestre, Colombian singer (b. 1954)
 * 1993 – Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952)
 * 1994 – A. Thurairajah, Sri Lankan engineer and academic (b. 1934)
 * 1995 – Rodel Naval, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1953)
 * 1996 – George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
 * 1996  – Brigitte Helm, German-Swiss actress (b. 1908)
 * 1998 – Catherine Cookson, English author (b. 1906)
 * 1999 – DeForest Kelley, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
 * 2001 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b. 1968)
 * 2001  – Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (b. 1923)
 * 2003 – David Brinkley, American journalist and author (b. 1920)
 * 2004 – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b. 1946)
 * 2005 – Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese general and politician, 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1922)
 * 2005  – Anne-Marie Alonzo, Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher (b. 1951)
 * 2006 – Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b. 1944)
 * 2006  – Bruce Shand, English soldier (b. 1917)
 * 2007 – Imre Friedmann, American biologist and academic (b. 1921)
 * 2007  – Mala Powers, American actress (b. 1931)
 * 2008 – Ove Andersson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1938)
 * 2008  – Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1922)
 * 2011 – Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1947)
 * 2011  – Seth Putnam, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1968)
 * 2012 – Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress (b. 1917)
 * 2012  – Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer and engineer (b. 1952)
 * 2013 – Miller Barber, American golfer (b. 1931)
 * 2013  – Carl W. Bauer, American lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
 * 2013  – Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
 * 2013  – James Grimsley, Jr., American general (b. 1921)
 * 2013  – Rory Morrison, English journalist (b. 1964)
 * 2013  – Kristiāns Pelšs, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1992)
 * 2013  – Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1929)
 * 2014 – Ruby Dee, American actress (b. 1922)
 * 2014  – Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (b. 1933)
 * 2014  – Susan B. Horwitz, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic (b. 1955)
 * 2014  – Mipham Chokyi Lodro, Tibetan lama and educator (b. 1952)
 * 2014  – Benjamin Mophatlane, South African businessman (b. 1973)
 * 2014  – Carlton Sherwood, American soldier and journalist (b. 1947)
 * 2015 – Jim Ed Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
 * 2015  – Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (b. 1930)
 * 2015  – Ian McKechnie, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1941)
 * 2015  – Ron Moody, English actor and singer (b. 1924)
 * 2015  – Dusty Rhodes, American wrestler (b. 1945)
 * 2016 – Rudi Altig, German track and road racing cyclist (b. 1937)
 * 2020 – Stella Pevsner, children's author (b. 1921)
 * 2022 – Hilary Devey, English businesswoman, television presenter (b. 1957)
 * 2024 – Tony Lo Bianco, American actor (b. 1936)
 * 2024 – Howard Fineman, American journalist (b. 1948)
 * 2024 – Françoise Hardy, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1944)
 * 2024 – Majed Abu Maraheel, Palestinian long-distance runner and football player (b. 1963)

Holidays and observances

 * American Evacuation Day (Libya)
 * Brazilian Navy Day (Brazil)
 * Christian feast day:
 * Barnabas the Apostle
 * Bartholomew the Apostle (Eastern Christianity)
 * Blessed Ignatius Maloyan (Armenian Catholic Church)
 * Paula Frassinetti
 * Riagail of Bangor
 * June 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Davis Day (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada)
 * King Kamehameha I Day (Hawaii, United States)
 * Student Day (Honduras)

title: June 11