June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 193 days remaining until the end of the year.
On non-leap years (until 2039), this day marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, and is the day of the year with the most hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere and the least hours of daylight in the southern hemisphere.
Events
- 217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
- 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
- 1529 – French forces were driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
- 1582 – Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga is forced to commit suicide in Honnō-ji, Kyoto.
- 1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
- 1734 – In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
- 1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
- 1768 – James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
- 1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
- 1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
- 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
- 1813 – Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
- 1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
- 1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
- 1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
- 1854 – The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
- 1864 – New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
- 1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
- 1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain.
- 1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declared war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Dowager Empress Cixi.
- 1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departed Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
- 1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
- 1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
- 1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
- 1929 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
- 1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
- 1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- 1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
- 1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
- 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
- 1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
- 1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
- 1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
- 1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
- 1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
- 1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
- 1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law.
- 1977 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey.
- 1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
- 2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
- 2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
- 2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
- 2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.
- 2012 – A boat carrying more than 200 refugees capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 other missing,
Births
- 1002 – Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
- 1226 – Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
- 1528 – Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1603)
- 1535 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)
- 1639 – Increase Mather, American minister and author (d. 1723)
- 1646 – Maria Francisca of Savoy (d. 1683)
- 1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
- 1706 – John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
- 1710 – James Short, English mathematician (d. 1768)
- 1712 – Luc Urbain de Bouexic, Count of Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
- 1730 – Motoori Norinaga, Japanese scholar (d. 1801)
- 1732 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791)
- 1736 – Enoch Poor, American general (d. 1780)
- 1741 – Benedetto, Duke of Chablais, Italian general (d. 1808)
- 1750 – Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker (d. 1818)
- 1750 – Thomas Spence, English writer (d. 1814)
- 1759 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
- 1763 – Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher (d. 1845)
- 1764 – Sidney Smith, English admiral (d. 1840)
- 1774 – Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician (d. 1825)
- 1781 – Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
- 1786 – Charles Edward Horn, English singer and composer (d. 1849)
- 1788 – Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)
- 1791 – Robert Napier, Scottish engineer (d. 1876)
- 1792 – Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian (d. 1860)
- 1805 – Charles Thomas Jackson, American polymath (d. 1880)
- 1811 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
- 1812 – Moses Hess, French-German philosopher (d. 1875)
- 1823 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
- 1825 – William Stubbs, English historian, Bishop of Oxford (d. 1901)
- 1828 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (d. 1904)
- 1834 – Frans de Cort, Flemish writer (d. 1878)
- 1834 – Elizabeth Jane Caulfeild, Countess of Charlemont (d. 1882)
- 1839 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (d. 1908)
- 1850 – Daniel Carter Beard, American illustrator and author, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941)
- 1850 – Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1928)
- 1858 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (d. 1928)
- 1859 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American painter (d. 1937)
- 1862 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian (d. 1943)
- 1863 – Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
- 1864 – Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss historian (d. 1945)
- 1868 – Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
- 1870 – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)
- 1876 – Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist (d. 1956)
- 1880 – Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)
- 1880 – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English civil servant, industrialist, and banker (d. 1941)
- 1882 – Lluís Companys, Spanish politician (d. 1940)
- 1882 – Rockwell Kent, American painter, printmaker and illustrator (d. 1971)
- 1883 – Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer (d. 1958)
- 1884 – Claude Auchinleck, English field marshal (d. 1981)
- 1887 – Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
- 1889 – Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
- 1889 – Tadeusz Jan Kowalski, Polish orientalist (d. 1948)
- 1890 – Frank S. Land, American businessman, founder of the Order of DeMolay (d. 1959)
- 1891 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (d. 1979)
- 1891 – Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
- 1892 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (d. 1971)
- 1893 – Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
- 1894 – Milward Kennedy, English writer (d. 1968)
- 1896 – Charles Momsen, American admiral, inventor of the Momsen lung (d. 1967)
- 1898 – Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
- 1899 – Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton, English horse breeder (d. 1968)
- 1902 – Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1937)
- 1903 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)
- 1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer (d. 1980)
- 1906 – Helene Costello, American actress (d. 1957)
- 1906 – Nusch Éluard, French model and artist (d. 1946)
- 1906 – Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
- 1906 – Grete Sultan, German-American pianist (d. 2005)
- 1908 – William Frankena, American philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1910 – Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
- 1911 – Chester Wilmot, American war correspondent (d. 1954)
- 1912 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer (d. 2000)
- 1912 – Mary McCarthy, American author (d. 1989)
- 1912 – Vishnu Prabhakar. Indian writer (d.2009)
- 1914 – William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
- 1916 – Joseph Cyril Bamford, English businessman, founded J. C. Bamford (d. 2001)
- 1916 – Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977)
- 1918 – Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)
- 1918 – James Clyde Mitchell, English sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1995)
- 1919 – Gérard Pelletier, French-Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
- 1919 – Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess player (d. 1968)
- 1919 – Paolo Soleri, Italian-American architect
- 1921 – Jean de Broglie, French politician (d. 1976)
- 1921 – Judy Holliday, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1921 – Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1921 – William Edwin Self, American actor and producer (d. 2010)
- 1923 – Jacques Hébert, French-Canadian author, journalist, and politician (d. 2007)
- 1924 – Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor
- 1924 – Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (d. 2006)
- 1924 – Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)
- 1925 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994)
- 1925 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1926 – Conrad Hall, Tahitian-American cinematographer (d. 2003)
- 1927 – Carl Stokes, American politician (d. 1996)
- 1929 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
- 1929 – Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian guitarist (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Gerald Kaufman, English politician
- 1930 – Mike McCormack, American football player and coach
- 1931 – Zlatko Grgić, Croatian animator (d. 1988)
- 1931 – Margaret Heckler, American politician, 15th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
- 1931 – Jan Trąbka, Polish scientist and philosopher
- 1932 – Bernard Ingham, English journalist and civil servant
- 1932 – Lalo Schifrin, Argentine composer, pianist, and composer
- 1932 – O. C. Smith, American singer (d. 2001)
- 1933 – Bernie Kopell, American actor
- 1935 – Monte Markham, American actor
- 1935 – Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)
- 1936 – Joseph Gosnell, Canadian Indian tribal leader
- 1938 – John W. Dower, American author and historian
- 1938 – Ron Ely, American actor
- 1939 – Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician
- 1940 – Mariette Hartley, American actress
- 1940 – Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher
- 1941 – Aloysius Paul D'Souza, Indian bishop
- 1941 – Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor
- 1941 – Lyman Ward, Canadian actor
- 1942 – Dan Henning, American football player
- 1942 – Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, American TV reporter and Congresswoman
- 1942 – Henry S. Taylor, American writer
- 1942 – Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney, 3rd United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- 1943 – Salomé, Spanish singer
- 1944 – Ray Davies, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Kinks)
- 1944 – Corinna Tsopei, Greek model and actress, Miss Universe 1964
- 1945 – Philippe Sarde, French composer
- 1945 – Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher and poet
- 1946 – Rob Dyson, American race car driver
- 1946 – Brenda Holloway, American singer-songwriter
- 1946 – Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian, actor, director, and author
- 1946 – Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, Iraqi businessman, founder of M&C Saatchi and Saatchi & Saatchi
- 1947 – Meredith Baxter, American actress
- 1947 – Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, judge, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 – Michael Gross, American actor
- 1947 – Joey Molland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger and Natural Gas)
- 1947 – Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher and author
- 1948 – Jovan Aćimović, Serbian footballer
- 1948 – Ian McEwan, English writer
- 1948 – Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
- 1948 – Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
- 1950 – Anne Carson, Canadian poet
- 1950 – Joey Kramer, American drummer and songwriter (Aerosmith)
- 1950 – Gérard Lanvin, French actor
- 1950 – Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1950 – Enn Reitel, English actor
- 1951 – Jim Douglas, American politician
- 1951 – Nils Lofgren, American singer-songwriter and musician (E Street Band and Crazy Horse)
- 1952 – Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese director
- 1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 2007)
- 1953 – Maurice Boucher, Canadian criminal and murderer
- 1953 – Michael Bowen, American actor
- 1954 – Müjde Ar, Turkish actress
- 1954 – Mark Kimmitt, American general
- 1954 – Anne Kirkbride, English actress
- 1954 – Robert Menasse, Austrian writer
- 1954 – Robert Pastorelli, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1954 – Kathy Sullivan, American attorney and politician
- 1955 – Aloysius Amwano, Nauruan politician
- 1955 – Tim Bray, Canadian software developer, co-founded the Open Text Corporation
- 1955 – Jean-Pierre Mader, French singer-songwriter and producer
- 1955 – Leigh McCloskey, American actor
- 1955 – Michel Platini, French footballer
- 1957 – Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist and author
- 1957 – Lucien DeBlois, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1957 – Luís Antonio Tagle, Filipino archbishop
- 1958 – Gennady Padalka, Russian astronaut
- 1959 – Tom Chambers, American basketball player
- 1959 – Marcella Detroit, American singer-songwriter and musician (Shakespear's Sister)
- 1959 – Kathy Mattea, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1960 – Kevin Harlan, American sportscaster
- 1961 – Karen Barber, English ice dancer
- 1961 – Manu Chao, French singer, musician, and producer (Mano Negra, Hot Pants, and Los Carayos)
- 1961 – Sascha Konietzko, German singer, musician, and producer (KMFDM, MDFMK, Excessive Force, Schwein, and KGC)
- 1961 – Kip Winger, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Winger)
- 1962 – Takeshi Asami, Japanese race car driver
- 1962 – Viktor Tsoi, Soviet singer-songwriter and guitarist (Kino) (d. 1990)
- 1963 – Luc(as) de Groot, Dutch type designer
- 1963 – Dario Marianelli, Italian composer
- 1964 – Sammi Davis, English actress
- 1964 – David Morrissey, English actor
- 1964 – Dimitris Papaioannou, Greek director, choreographer, and artist
- 1964 – Doug Savant, American actor
- 1965 – Yang Liwei, Chinese pilot and astronaut
- 1965 – Larry Wachowski, American director, producer, and writer
- 1966 – Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
- 1966 – Pierre Thorsson, Swedish handball player
- 1966 – Nan Woods, American actress
- 1967 – Jim Breuer, American comedian and actor
- 1967 – Derrick Coleman, American basketball player
- 1967 – Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American businessman, founded eBay
- 1967 – Carrie Preston, American actress
- 1967 – Yingluck Shinawatra, Thai businesswoman and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Thailand
- 1968 – Sonique, English singer-songwriter and DJ
- 1969 – Harun Isa, Albanian footballer
- 1969 – Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier
- 1970 – Sindee Coxx, American porn actress
- 1970 – Pete Rock, American rapper and producer (Pete Rock & CL Smooth)
- 1971 – Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish and Alyson Avenue)
- 1972 – Neil Doak, Irish cricketer
- 1972 – Alon Hilu, Israeli writer
- 1973 – Juliette Lewis, American actress and singer (Juliette and the Licks)
- 1974 – Natasha Desborough, English radio host, producer, and author
- 1974 – Neely Jenkins, American singer and bassist (Park Ave. and Tilly and the Wall)
- 1974 – Rob Kelly, American football player
- 1974 – Craig Lowndes, Australian race car driver
- 1976 – Antonio Cochran, American football player
- 1976 – Mike Einziger, American guitarist and songwriter (Incubus and Time Lapse Consortium)
- 1976 – Nigel Lappin, Australian rules footballer
- 1977 – Michael Gomez, Irish boxer
- 1977 – Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player
- 1978 – Rim'K, French rapper and songwriter (113)
- 1978 – Erica Durance, Canadian actress
- 1978 – Jack Guzman, American actor
- 1978 – Luke Kirby (actor), Canadian actor
- 1978 – Jean-Pascal Lacoste, French singer and actor
- 1978 – Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer
- 1978 – Dejan Ognjanović, Montenegrin footballer
- 1979 – Kostas Katsouranis, Greek footballer
- 1979 – Chris Pratt, American actor
- 1980 – Luca Anania, Italian footballer
- 1980 – Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
- 1980 – Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 – David Bortolussi, French-Italian rugby player
- 1981 – Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 – Brandon Flowers, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Killers)
- 1981 – Garrett Jones, American baseball player
- 1982 – Rob Mills, Australian singer-songwriter and television host
- 1982 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
- 1984 – Jujubee, American drag queen performer
- 1984 – Alicia Alighatti, American porn actress
- 1984 – Franck Perera, French race car driver
- 1985 – Kris Allen, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1985 – Anthony Morelli, American football player
- 1985 – Byron Schammer, Australian rules footballer
- 1986 – Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter and model
- 1986 – Hideaki Wakui, Japanese baseball player
- 1987 – Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer
- 1987 – Kim Ryeowook, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (Super Junior)
- 1987 – Dale Thomas, Australian rules footballer
- 1988 – Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball and volleyball player
- 1988 – Alejandro Ramírez, Costa Rican chess player
- 1988 – Paolo Tornaghi, Italian footballer
- 1989 – Finn Atkins, English actress
- 1989 – Abubaker Kaki, Sudanese runner
- 1989 – Madison Parker, Hungarian porn actress
- 1989 – Patrick Schönfeld, German footballer
- 1989 – Jascha Washington, American actor
- 1990 – Pietro Baccolo, Italian footballer
- 1990 – Kasumi Suzuki, Japanese actress
- 1991 – Gaël Kakuta, French footballer
- 1994 – Chisato Okai, Japanese singer (Cute and Tanpopo)
- 1997 – Rebecca Black, American singer, dancer, and actress
Deaths
- 223 – Liu Bei, Chinese Emperor (b. 161)
- 1040 – Fulk III, Count of Anjou (b. 972)
- 1171 – Walter de Luci, English brother of Richard de Luci (b. 1103)
- 1205 – Enrico Dandolo, Italian noble, 42nd Doge of Venice (b. 1107)
- 1208 – Philip of Swabia (b. 1177)
- 1305 – Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (b. 1271)
- 1377 – Edward III of England (b. 1312)
- 1421 – Jean Le Maingre, French marshal (b. 1366)
- 1521 – Leonardo Loredan, Italian noble, 76th Doge of Venice (b. 1436)
- 1527 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and author (b. 1469)
- 1529 – John Skelton, English poet
- 1547 – Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
- 1558 – Piero Strozzi, Italian military leader (b. 1558)
- 1582 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
- 1591 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)
- 1596 – Jean Liebault, French agronomist (b. 1535)
- 1621 – Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1575)
- 1621 – Kryštof Harant, Czech soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
- 1631 – John Smith, English soldier and explorer (b. c. 1580)
- 1652 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House and Wilton House (b. 1573)
- 1661 – Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (b. 1599)
- 1737 – Matthieu Marais, French jurist (b. 1664)
- 1738 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
- 1796 – Richard Gridley, American soldier (b. 1710)
- 1824 – Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
- 1865 – Frances Adeline Seward, American wife of William H. Seward (b. 1824)
- 1874 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
- 1876 – Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican politician, President of Mexico (b. 1794)
- 1893 – Leland Stanford, American industrialist and politician, founder of Stanford University (b. 1824)
- 1908 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
- 1914 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
- 1917 – Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1856)
- 1929 – Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English politician, journalist, and sociologist (b. 1864)
- 1934 – Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
- 1940 – Smedley Butler, American general (b. 1881)
- 1951 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
- 1952 – Wop May, Canadian flying ace (b. 1896)
- 1954 – Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer, developed the zipper (b. 1880)
- 1957 – Claude Farrère, French writer (b. 1876)
- 1957 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
- 1964 – James Chaney, American civil rights activist and murder victim (b. 1943)
- 1964 – Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist and murder victim (b. 1943)
- 1964 – Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist and murder victim (b. 1939)
- 1968 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, Danish actress (b. 1895)
- 1969 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
- 1970 – Sukarno, Indonesian politician, 1st President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
- 1976 – Margaret Herrick, American librarian and director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (b. 1902)
- 1979 – Angus MacLise, American musician, composer, and poet (Velvet Underground and Theatre of Eternal Music) (b. 1938)
- 1980 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader, musician, and songwriter (b. 1923)
- 1985 – Ettore Boiardi, Italian chef, founder of Chef Boyardee (b. 1897)
- 1985 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
- 1986 – Assi Rahbani, Lebanese singer, composer, and producer (Rahbani Brothers) (b. 1923)
- 1987 – Madman Muntz, American businessman and engineer, founded the Muntz Car Company (b. 1914)
- 1990 – Cedric Belfrage, English-American journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (b. 1904)
- 1992 – Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bengali poet (b. 1956)
- 1992 – Li Xiannian, Chinese politician, President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1909)
- 1993 – Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
- 1994 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer (b. 1906)
- 1997 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1931)
- 1997 – Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labor leader (b. 1900)
- 1998 – Anastasio Ballestrero, Italian cardinal (b. 1913)
- 1998 – Al Campanis, American baseball player and executive (b. 1916)
- 1999 – Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
- 2000 – Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American composer (b. 1911)
- 2001 – John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1916)
- 2001 – Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
- 2001 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2002 – Timothy Findley, Canadian novelist and playwright (b. 1930)
- 2003 – Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967)
- 2003 – Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
- 2003 – Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
- 2004 – Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
- 2005 – Jaime Sin, Filipino archbishop (b. 1928)
- 2006 – Jared C. Monti, American soldier, Medal Of Honor recipient (b. 1975)
- 2007 – Bob Evans, American businessman, founded Bob Evans Restaurants (b. 1918)
- 2008 – Scott Kalitta, American race car driver (b. 1962)
- 2008 – Kermit Love, American actor and puppeteer (b. 1916)
- 2010 – Irwin Barker, Canadian comedian and writer (b. 1956)
- 2011 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author and poet (b. 1927)
- 2012 – J. Michael Adams, American educator, President of Fairleigh Dickinson University
- 2012 – Richard Adler, American composer and producer (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Abid Hussain, Indian economist and diplomat (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Sunil Janah, Indian photographer and journalist (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Joviano de Lima Júnior, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Radha Vinod Raju, Indian police officer (b. 1949)
- 2012 – Gilbert Blaize Rego, Indian bishop (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Anna Schwartz, American economist and author (b. 1915)
- 2012 – Teddy Scott, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Drew Turnbull, Scottish rugby player (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
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