June 13 is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 201 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
Events
313 – The Edict of Milan , signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire , is posted in Nicomedia .
1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.
1381 – The Peasants' Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace .
1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu , at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.
1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora , against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
1625 – King Charles I of England marries Henrietta Maria of France , Princess of France
1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine .
1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1777 – American Revolutionary War : Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina , in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition : scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River .
1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia .
1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
1910 – The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines .
1917 – World War I : The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1944 – World War II : The Battle of Villers-Bocage - German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division , destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger 1 tank.
1944 – World War II : German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan .
1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
1952 – Catalina affair : A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
1955 – Mir mine , the first diamond mine in the USSR , is discovered.
1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court .
1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments , into the University of Texas at Dallas .
1970 – "The Long and Winding Road " becomes The Beatles ' last U.S. number one song.
1971 – Vietnam War : The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers .
1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant , fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II .
1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid .
1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune .
1990 – First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska , blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing .
1997 – Uphaar cinema fire , in New Delhi , India , killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.
2000 – President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il , leader of North Korea , for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang .
2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca , the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty .
2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch .
2007 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time .
2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa , containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa , returns to Earth.
2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq , including Baghdad , Hillah and Kirkuk , kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
2013 – Czech investigative authorities start a raid against organized crime , affecting the top levels of Czech politics .
2015 – A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in the Texas city of Dallas , while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.
Births
40 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola , Roman general (d. 93)
823 – Charles the Bald , Holy Roman Emperor (d. 877)
839 – Charles the Fat , Holy Roman Emperor (d. 888)
1508 – Alessandro Piccolomini , Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1579)
1595 – Jan Marek Marci , Czech physician and scientist (d. 1667)
1561 – Anna Maria of Anhalt (d. 1605)
1649 – Adrien Baillet , French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
1672 – Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1741)
1711 – Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell , English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1773)
1752 – Frances Burney , English novelist and playwright (d. 1840)
1761 – Antonín Vranický , Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820)
1763 – José Bonifácio de Andrada , Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (d. 1838)
1773 – Thomas Young , English physicist and physiologist (d. 1829)
1775 – Antoni Radziwiłł , Polish-Lithuanian composer and politician (d. 1833)
1786 – Winfield Scott , American general (d. 1866)
1790 – José Antonio Páez , Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 1873)
1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann , German psychiatrist and author (d. 1894)
1822 – Carl Schmidt , Latvian-German chemist and academic (d. 1894)
1827 – Alberto Henschel , German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
1831 – James Clerk Maxwell , Scottish physicist and mathematician (d. 1879)
1854 – Charles Algernon Parsons , English engineer, founded C. A. Parsons and Company (d. 1931)
1863 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon , English fashion designer (d. 1935)
1864 – Rudolf Kjellén , Swedish political scientist and academic (d. 1922)
1864 – Dwight B. Waldo , American historian and academic (d. 1939)
1865 – Karl Blossfeldt , German photographer (d. 1932)
1865 – W. B. Yeats , Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
1868 – Wallace Clement Sabine , American physicist and academic (d. 1919)
1870 – Jules Bordet , Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1872 – Thomas N. Heffron , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1951)
1873 – Karin Swanström , Swedish actress, director, and producer (d. 1942)
1875 – Paul Neumann , Austrian swimmer and physician (d. 1932)
1876 – William Sealy Gosset , English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
1877 – Joseph Stella , Italian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1946)
1879 – Heinrich Gutkin , Estonian businessman and politician (d. 1941)
1879 – Charalambos Tseroulis , Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (d. 1929)
1884 – Leon Chwistek , Polish painter, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1944)
1884 – Anton Drexler , German politician (d. 1942)
1884 – Gerald Gardner , English religious leader, founded Gardnerian Wicca (d. 1964)
1884 – Étienne Gilson , French philosopher and academic (d. 1978)
1885 – Henry George Lamond , Australian farmer and author (d. 1969)
1887 – André François-Poncet , French politician and diplomat (d. 1978)
1887 – Bruno Frank , German-American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1945)
1888 – Fernando Pessoa , Portuguese poet and critic (d. 1935)
1892 – Basil Rathbone , South African-American actor (d. 1967)
1893 – Alan Arnold Griffith , English engineer (d. 1963)
1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers , English author and poet (d. 1957)
1894 – Leo Kanner , Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (d. 1981)
1894 – Jacques Henri Lartigue , French photographer and painter (d. 1986)
1897 – Paavo Nurmi , Finnish runner and coach (d. 1973)
1899 – Carlos Chávez , Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (d. 1978)
1901 – Tage Erlander , Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
1903 – Willard Harrison Bennett , American physicist and chemist (d. 1987)
1903 – Red Grange , American football player and actor (d. 1991)
1905 – Doc Cheatham , American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (McKinney's Cotton Pickers ) (d. 1997)
1905 – James T. Rutnam , Sri Lankan historian and author (d. 1988)
1905 – Xian Xinghai , Chinese composer (d. 1945)
1906 – Bruno de Finetti , Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad , Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 1998)
1910 – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester , Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1999)
1910 – Mary Wickes , American actress and singer (d. 1995)
1910 – Mary Whitehouse , English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (d. 2001)
1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
1911 – Maurice Copeland , American actor (d. 1985)
1911 – Erwin Wilhelm Müller , German physicist and academic (d. 1977)
1912 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau , Canadian poet and painter (d. 1943)
1913 – Ralph Edwards , American radio and television host (d. 2005)
1913 – Yitzhak Pundak , Israeli general, diplomat and politician
1914 – Frederic Franklin , English-American ballet dancer and director (d. 2013)
1914 – Barbara Reynolds , English lexicographer and author (d. 2015)
1915 – Don Budge , American tennis player and coach (d. 2000)
1916 – Wu Zhengyi , Chinese botanist and academic (d. 2013)
1917 – Teddy Turner , English actor (d. 1992)
1918 – Ben Johnson , American actor and stuntman (d. 1996)
1918 – Helmut Lent , German soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
1918 – Percy Rodriguez , Canadian-American actor (d. 2007)
1920 – Rolf Huisgen , German chemist and academic
1920 – Iosif Vorovich , Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 2001)
1921 – Ralph Anstruther , Scottish courtier (d. 2002)
1921 – Lennart Strand , Swedish runner (d. 2004)
1922 – Etienne Leroux , South African author (d. 1989)
1925 – Kristine Miller , Argentinian-American actress (d. 2015)
1926 – Jérôme Lejeune , French pediatrician and geneticist (d. 1994)
1926 – Paul Lynde , American actor (d. 1982)
1927 – Slim Dusty , Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2003)
1927 – Friedrich Katz , Austrian-born historian of Mexico, especially the Mexican Revolution (d. 2010)
1928 – Giacomo Biffi , Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
1928 – Renée Morisset , Canadian pianist (d. 2009)
1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr. , American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1929 – Alan Civil , English horn player (d. 1989)
1929 – Ralph McQuarrie , American illustrator (d. 2012)
1929 – Robert W. Scott , American farmer and politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
1930 – Gotthard Graubner , German painter and educator (d. 2013)
1930 – Ryszard Kukliński , Polish colonel and spy (d. 2004)
1930 – Paul Veyne , French archaeologist, historian, and academic
1931 – Nora Kovach , Hungarian-American ballerina (d. 2009)
1931 – Reed Scowen , Canadian politician
1931 – Irvin D. Yalom , American psychotherapist and academic
1932 – Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton , English politician
1932 – Billy Williams , American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
1933 – Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater , English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
1933 – Norman Lloyd-Edwards , Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan
1934 – Bill Blakeley , American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
1934 – Lucjan Brychczy , Polish footballer and coach
1934 – Manuel Clouthier , Mexican businessman and politician (d. 1989)
1934 – James Anthony Griffin , American bishop
1934 – Uriel Jones , American drummer (The Funk Brothers ) (d. 2009)
1934 – Janet Pilgrim , American model
1934 – Leonard Kleinrock , American computer scientist and engineer
1935 – Christo , Bulgarian-French sculptor and painter
1935 – Jeanne-Claude , Moroccan sculptor and painter (d. 2009)
1935 – Samak Sundaravej , Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009)
1936 – Michel Jazy , French runner
1936 – Michael H. Jordan , American businessman (d. 2010)
1937 – Eleanor Holmes Norton , American lawyer and politician
1937 – Erich Ribbeck , German footballer and manager
1937 – Andreas Whittam Smith , English journalist and publisher, co-founded The Independent
1939 – Tom Cheek , American sportscaster (d. 2005)
1939 – Siegfried Fischbacher , German-American magician
1940 – Bobby Freeman , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1940 – Dallas Long , American shot putter and physician
1941 – Marcel Lachemann , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1941 – Serge Lemoyne , Canadian painter (d. 1998)
1941 – Esther Ofarim , Israeli singer-songwriter
1941 – Marv Tarplin , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2011)
1942 – Yiannis Boutaris , Greek businessman and politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki
1942 – James Carr , American singer (d. 2001)
1942 – Walter Rodney , Guyanese historian and activist (d. 1980)
1942 – Viktor Suslin , Russian-German composer (d. 2012)
1943 – Harry Collins , English sociologist, author, and academic
1943 – Malcolm McDowell , English actor and producer
1943 – Jim Guy Tucker , American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas
1944 – Christine Beasley , English nursing administrator
1944 – David Curry , English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
1944 – Ban Ki-moon , South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
1945 – Whitley Strieber , American author
1946 – Sher Bahadur Deuba , Nepalese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal
1946 – Paul L. Modrich , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 – Gabriel of Komana , Belgian-Dutch archbishop (d. 2013)
1948 – Garnet Bailey , Canadian-American ice hockey player and scout (d. 2001)
1948 – Joe Roth , American director and producer, co-founded Morgan Creek Productions
1949 – Ann Druyan , American popular science writer
1949 – Ulla Schmidt , German educator and politician, German Federal Minister of Health
1949 – Red Symons , English-Australian guitarist, actor, and radio host
1950 – Belinda Bauer , Australian-American actress and psychologist
1950 – Nick Brown , English politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
1950 – Gerd Zewe , German footballer and manager
1951 – Howard Leese , American guitarist and producer
1951 – Richard Thomas , American actor, director, and producer
1951 – Stellan Skarsgård , Swedish actor
1951 – Robert P. Young, Jr. , American lawyer and jurist
1952 – Jean-Marie Dedecker , Belgian martial artist and politician
1953 – Tim Allen , American actor, comedian, and producer
1954 – Andrzej Lepper , Polish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (d. 2011)
1954 – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , Nigerian economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria
1955 – Alan Hansen , Scottish footballer and sportscaster
1955 – Leah Ward Sears , German-American lawyer and jurist
1956 – Blair Chapman , Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Pedro Larraquy , Argentinian footballer and manager
1956 – Sal Paolantonio , American lieutenant and journalist
1957 – Ron Areshenkoff , Canadian ice hockey player
1957 – Roy Cooper , American lawyer and politician, 48th North Carolina Attorney General
1957 – Bruce Flowers , American basketball player
1957 – Andrzej Morozowski , Polish journalist and author
1957 – Dicky Thompson , American golfer
1958 – Gary Martin , British voice actor and actor
1959 – Boyko Borissov , Bulgarian footballer and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1959 – Steve Georganas , Australian politician
1959 – Klaus Iohannis , Romanian educator and politician, 5th President of Romania
1959 – Lance Kinsey , Canadian-American actor and screenwriter
1960 – Jacques Rougeau , Canadian wrestler
1961 – Bob Crow , English union leader (d. 2014)
1961 – Kaire Indrikson , Estonian swimmer and coach
1961 – Anders Järryd , Swedish tennis player
1962 – Davey Hamilton , American race car driver
1962 – Glenn Michibata , Canadian-American tennis player and coach
1962 – Rudolf Povarnitsyn , Ukrainian high jumper
1962 – Ally Sheedy , American actress and author
1962 – Hannah Storm , American journalist and author
1963 – Bettina Bunge , Swiss-German tennis player
1963 – Sarah Connolly , English soprano and actress
1963 – Paul De Lisle , American bass player and songwriter
1963 – Catarina Lindqvist , Swedish-American tennis player
1963 – Audrey Niffenegger , American author and academic
1964 – Christian Wilhelm Berger , Romanian organist, composer, and educator
1964 – Kathy Burke , English actress, director, and playwright
1964 – Šarūnas Marčiulionis , Lithuanian basketball player
1965 – Infanta Cristina Federica of Spain
1965 – Vassilis Karapialis , Greek footballer
1965 – Lukas Ligeti , Austrian-American drummer and composer
1965 – Maninder Singh , Indian cricketer
1966 – Henry Bond , English photographer and curator
1966 – Naoki Hattori , Japanese race car driver
1966 – Grigori Perelman , Russian mathematician and academic
1967 – Taşkın Aksoy , German-Turkish footballer and manager
1967 – Elmo Tiisvald , Estonian conductor
1968 – Fabio Baldato , Italian cyclist
1968 – Peter DeBoer , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1968 – Darren Dreger , Canadian sportscaster
1968 – David Gray , English-Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1968 – Tim Leveque , Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Denise Pearson , English singer-songwriter
1968 – Marcel Theroux , Ugandan-English journalist and author
1969 – Cayetana Guillén Cuervo , Spanish actress, director, and screenwriter
1969 – Virginie Despentes , French author, screenwriter, and director
1969 – Joseph Keter , Kenyan runner
1969 – Laura Kightlinger , American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1969 – Svetlana Krivelyova , Russian shot putter
1969 – Søren Rasted , Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1969 – Jamie Walters , American actor and singer
1970 – Chris Cairns , New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
1970 – Rivers Cuomo , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 – Nóra Köves , Hungarian tennis player
1972 – Meelis Aasmäe , Estonian skier
1972 – Kristjan Järvi , Estonian-American conductor
1972 – Natalie MacMaster , Canadian fiddler
1973 – Sam Adams , American football player
1973 – Tanner Foust , American race car driver and television host
1973 – Mattias Hellberg , Swedish singer-songwriter
1973 – Stuart Karppinen , Australian cricketer and coach
1973 – Ville Laihiala , Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Valeri Bure , Russian-American ice hockey player
1974 – Mathew Goggin , Australian golfer
1974 – Steve-O , American actor, comedian and stunt performer
1975 – Ante Covic , Australian footballer
1975 – Jeff Davis , American screenwriter and producer
1975 – Jennifer Nicole Lee , American model, actress, and author
1975 – Jaan Pehk , Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Riccardo Scimeca , English footballer
1976 – Kym Marsh , English singer-songwriter and actress
1977 – Dragoș Bucur , Romanian actor and producer
1977 – Tarmo Kikerpill , Estonian basketball player
1977 – Romain Mesnil , French pole vaulter
1977 – Earthwind Moreland , American football player
1978 – Ethan Embry , American actor
1979 – Esther Anderson , Australian actress
1979 – Nila Håkedal , Norwegian volleyball player
1979 – Miguel Pate , American long jumper
1979 – Ryan Pickett , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1980 – Sarah Connor , German singer-songwriter and dancer
1980 – Florent Malouda , French footballer
1980 – Diego Mendieta , Paraguayan footballer (d. 2012)
1980 – Jamario Moon , American basketball player
1980 – Juan Carlos Navarro , Spanish basketball player
1980 – Darius Vassell , English footballer
1980 – Markus Winkelhock , German race car driver
1981 – Daryl Blonder , American actor and author (d. 2012)
1981 – Chris Evans , American actor and producer
1981 – Blake Judd , American actor, director, and producer
1981 – Radim Vrbata , Czech-American ice hockey player
1982 – Kenenisa Bekele , Ethiopian runner
1982 – Krzysztof Bosak , Polish politician
1982 – Jessica Caban , American model and actress
1982 – Nate Jones , American football player
1982 – Jess Manafort , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1983 – Steve Novak , American basketball player
1983 – Jason Spezza , Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Nery Castillo , Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
1984 – Kaori Icho , Japanese wrestler
1984 – Antje Möldner-Schmidt , German runner
1985 – Raz-B , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1985 – Filipe Albuquerque , Portuguese race car driver
1985 – Silvio Bankert , German footballer
1985 – Danny Syvret , Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Kat Dennings , American actress and comedian
1986 – Keisuke Honda , Japanese footballer
1986 – Ashley Olsen , American child actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman
1986 – Mary-Kate Olsen , American child actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman
1986 – Lea Verou , Greek computer scientist and author
1987 – Marko Grgić , Croatian footballer
1988 – Gabe Carimi , American football player
1988 – Cody Walker , American actor
1989 – Ben Barba , Australian rugby league player
1989 – James Calado , English racing driver
1989 – Daniel Mortimer , Australian rugby league player
1989 – Tommy Searle , English motocross racer
1990 – Nicole Riner , Swiss tennis player
1990 – Aaron Taylor-Johnson , English actor
1991 – Will Claye , American jumper
1991 – Ryan Mason , English footballer
1992 – Semi Radradra , Fijian rugby league player
1993 – Simona Senoner , Italian ski jumper (d. 2011)
1993 – Denis Ten , Kazakhstani figure skater
1995 – Emily Fanning , New Zealand tennis player
1995 – Laura Ucrós , Colombian tennis player
2000 – Penny Oleksiak , Canadian swimmer
Deaths
220 – Xiahou Dun , Chinese general
1036 – Ali az-Zahir , Egyptian caliph (b. 1005)
1231 – Anthony of Padua , Portuguese priest and saint (b. 1195)
1256 – Tankei , Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly , Scottish politician (b. 1562)
1645 – Miyamoto Musashi , Japanese samurai (b. 1584)
1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer , Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
1760 – Antoine Court , French minister and historian (b. 1696)
1784 – Henry Middleton , American farmer and politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
1846 – Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès , French geographer and author (b. 1767)
1881 – Joseph Škoda , Czech physician and dermatologist (b. 1805)
1886 – Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau , Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
1904 – Nikiforos Lytras , Greek painter and educator (b. 1832)
1917 – Louis-Philippe Hébert , Canadian sculptor (b. 1850)
1918 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878)
1930 – Henry Segrave , American-English race car driver (b. 1896)
1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō , Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1851)
1943 – Kočo Racin , Macedonian author and activist (b. 1908)
1948 – Osamu Dazai , Japanese author (b. 1909)
1951 – Ben Chifley , Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1957 – Irving Baxter , American high jumper and pole vaulter (b. 1876)
1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett , English poet and academic (b. 1887)
1965 – Martin Buber , Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (b. 1878)
1965 – David Drummond , Australian farmer and politician (b. 1890)
1969 – Pralhad Keshav Atre , Indian journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
1972 – Georg von Békésy , Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe , Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
1979 – Demetrio Stratos , Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1945)
1980 – Walter Rodney , Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
1981 – Olivério Pinto , Brazilian zoologist and physician (b. 1896)
1982 – Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
1982 – Riccardo Paletti , Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
1984 – António Variações , Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
1986 – Benny Goodman , American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1909)
1987 – Geraldine Page , American actress (b. 1924)
1989 – Fran Allison , American television personality and puppeteer (b. 1907)
1991 – Ljubov Rebane , Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1929)
1992 – Erik Paaske , Danish actor and singer (b. 1933)
1993 – Gérard Côté , Canadian runner (b. 1913)
1993 – Deke Slayton , American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1924)
1994 – Nadia Gray , Romanian-French actress (b. 1923)
1997 – Nguyen Manh Tuong , Vietnamese lawyer and academic (b. 1909)
1998 – Alfred Gerrard , English sculptor and academic (b. 1899)
1998 – Birger Ruud , Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1911)
1998 – Reg Smythe , English cartoonist (b. 1917)
2002 – John Hope , American navigator and meteorologist (b. 1919)
2002 – Maia Wojciechowska , Polish-American author (b. 1927)
2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid , Pakistani lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
2004 – Dick Durrance , American skier (b. 1914)
2004 – Ralph Wiley , American journalist and author (b. 1952)
2005 – Jonathan Adams , English actor and singer (b. 1931)
2005 – Álvaro Cunhal , Portuguese academic and politician (b. 1913)
2005 – David Diamond , American pianist and composer (b. 1915)
2006 – Charles Haughey , Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1925)
2007 – Walid Eido , Lebanese judge and politician (b. 1942)
2008 – Tim Russert , American journalist and lawyer (b. 1950)
2009 – Mitsuharu Misawa , Japanese wrestler (b. 1962)
2009 – Fathi Yakan , Lebanese scholar and politician (b. 1933)
2010 – Jimmy Dean , American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (b. 1928)
2012 – Sam Beddingfield , American pilot and engineer (b. 1933)
2012 – Graeme Bell , Australian pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
2012 – Roger Garaudy , French philosopher and author (b. 1913)
2012 – Jože Humer , Slovenian composer and translator (b. 1934)
2012 – Erica Kennedy , American journalist and author (b. 1970)
2013 – Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi , Saudi Arabian footballer (b. 1971)
2013 – David Deutsch , American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (b. 1929)
2013 – Sam Most , American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930)
2013 – Edmund Pellegrino , American ethicist and academic (b. 1920)
2013 – Albert White Hat , American educator and activist (b. 1938)
2014 – Mahdi Elmandjra , Moroccan economist and sociologist (b. 1933)
2014 – Gyula Grosics , Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
2014 – Jim Keays , Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
2014 – Chuck Noll , American football player and coach (b. 1932)
2014 – Robert Peters , American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1924)
2015 – Buddy Boudreaux , American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1917)
2015 – Sergio Renán , Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2015 – Mike Shrimpton , New Zealand cricketer and coach (b. 1940)
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