June 9th
Holidays and Festivals
National Heroes' Day (Uganda)
Autonomy Day (Åland Islands)
La Rioja Day (La Rioja)
Third day of the Vestalia (Roman Empire)
Murcia Day (Murcia)
Donald Duck Day
Feast of Saint Columba (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Saint Diomedes (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Saint Edmund (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Saint Ephrem (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Saint Liborius (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Saint Primus and Felicianus
Feast of Saint Pelagia
Feast of Aidan of Lindisfarne (Lutheranism) Fête de la Barbeau Translation: Cornflower Day (French Republican) The 21st day of the Month of Prairial in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May we breakfast with Health,
dine with Friendship,
crack a bottle with Mirth,
and sup with the goddess Contentment."
- Anonymous
Drink of The Day
Sex on the Beach (3)
1 Part Vodka
1 Part Midori Melon Liqueur
1 Part Chambord
1 Part Pineapple
1 Part Cranberry Juice
Shaken together with ice in a shaker and are served in a highball glass.
Mix in smaller amounts to be served as a shooter.
- See 5/18 for Sex on the Beach 1, 5/27 for Sex on the Beach 2
Wine of The Day
Grande River Vineyards (2008) Reserve
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Grand Valley
$40
Beer of The Day
The Legend of the Liquid Brain Imperial Stout
Brewer - Bull & Bush Brewery Denver, CO
Style - Wood Aged Imperial Stout
Strong
- In Celebration of The Legend of the Liquid Brain Day, June 9th (2010 Denver CO Bull & Bush Brewery)
Joke of The Day
A doctor and a lawyer were talking at a party. Their conversation was constantly interrupted by people describing their ailments and asking the doctor for free medical advice. After an hour of this, the exasperated doctor asked the lawyer, "What do you do to stop people from asking you for legal advice when you're out of the office?"
"I give it to them," replied the lawyer, "and then I send them a bill." The doctor was shocked, but agreed to give it a try. The next day, still feeling slightly guilty, the doctor prepared the bills. When he went to place them in his mailbox, he found a bill from the lawyer.
Quote of The Day
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether."
- Anonymous
Whisky of The Day
$130
- In Celebration of Saint Columba Day or Colmcille (Apostle of the Picts) on June 9th.
June Observances
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month
Aquarium Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Black Music Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Corn and Cucumber Month
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Dairy Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fight the Filthy Fly Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
Home Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
International Surf Music Month
Lane Courtesy Month
Lemon and Mango Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Adopt a Cat Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Candy Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Family Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also September)
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Awareness Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Lady Lawyers Month
National Migraine Awareness Month
National Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
National R.O.S.E. Month
National Rescue a Cat Month
National Rivers Month
National Safety Month
National Smile Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Student Safety Month
National Tire Safety Month
National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son Thursday before the Second Saturday in March through Second Saturday in June
Okra & Pluot and Aprium Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Turkey Lovers' Month
Vision Research Month
Women's Golf Month
World Infertility Month
World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere)
Observances this Week
National Automotive Service Professionals Week, Second Week in June
Families in Business Week, Second Week in June
Email Week, Second Week of June
International Clothesline Week, First Saturday through Second Saturday
Jim Thorpe Native American Games, Second Sunday through Third Sunday in June
National Men's Health Week, 7 Days Ending with Father’s Day
National Automotive Service Professionals Week, Full Week of June 12th
National Flag Week, Week of June 14th * CLICK HERE
Historical Events on June 9th
53 Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia
62 Claudia Octavia is executed.
68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging after quoting Homer's Iliad.
641 Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria
721 Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
922 French republic chooses Robert I, King of France
1075 Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen
1310 Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1525 Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch
1529 Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons
1531 Pope Clemens VII & Francois I sign secret treaty against Karel V
1534 Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
1549 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England
1549 England enforces Act of Supremacy
1572 Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland
1628 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass
1650 The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
1667 The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in a decisive victory by the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1720 Sweden & Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm
1732 James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.
1742 Battle of Bloody Marsh-Spanish assault on Simons Island, Georgia
1752 French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India
1772 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion
1772 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI. The British ship Gaspee is burned off the coast.
1784 John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions
1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I
1790 1st book copyrighted under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book"
1802 US Academy at West Point founded
1815 End of the Congress of Vienna: New European political situation is set.
1822 Charles Graham patents false teeth
1851 SF Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time)
1856 Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1860 1st US "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs Ann Stevens
1862 Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp
1863 Battle of Brandy Station, VA (Fleetwood, Beverly Ford), American Civil War
1864 Battle of Big Shanty, GA
1864 Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, GA (Pine Mt, Pine Knob, Golgotha)
1865 Battle of Grand Gulf, MS
1868 1st meeting of Board of Regents, University of California
1869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer (Phila)
1870 Pres Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud
1873 Alexandra Palace burnt down, after being open for only 16 days.
1877 11th Belmont, C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:46
1883 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El)
1883 17th Belmont, Jim McLaughlin aboard George Kinney wins in 2:42.5
1887 21st Belmont, Jim McLaughlin aboard Hanover wins in 2:43.5
1888 22nd Belmont, Jim McLaughlin aboard Sir Dixon wins in 2:40.25
1890 Opera "Robin Hood" premieres in Chicago
1891 Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti
1892 26th Belmont, W Hayward aboard Patron wins in 2:12
1898 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years
1899 James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1901 NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cin Reds 25-13
1902 1st Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut St, Phila)
1906 Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3
1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
1910 Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland)
1914 Honus Wagner, is 2nd to get 3,000 hits
1915 William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1919 General steel strike in France
1919 Red Army captures Ufa
1922 First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University.
1923 55th Belmont, Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:19
1923 Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans
1923 Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski & King Boris III overthrown by Bulgaria's military in a coup.
1924 "Jelly-Roll Blues," is recorded by blues great, Jelly Roll Morton
1928 60th Belmont, Clarence Kummer aboard Vito wins in 2:33.2
1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith & Charles Ulm are first to fly across the Pacific (in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane) when they end their flight from California to Brisbane, the Southern Cross.
1929 Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free
1930 Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1930 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile (29:36.4)
1931 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented (R Goddard)
1933 Spanish president Zamora takes power
1933 Walter Johnson takes over as Cleveland manager
1934 38th US Golf Open, Olin Dutra shoots a 293 at Merion Cricket Club PA
1934 66th Belmont, Wayne D Wright aboard Peace Chance wins in 2:29.2
1934 Donald Duck made his 1st screen appearance ("The Wise Little Hen")
1934 Olin Dutra beats Gene Sarazen by 1 stroke for US Open
1935 Ho-Umezu Agreement, the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
1936 Page Miss Glory (1936), premieres in USA
1938 Second Chamber agrees to return Jews to nazi-Germany
1940 44th US Golf Open, Lawson Little shoots a 287 at Canterbury GC OH
1940 General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill
1940 Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II
1941 Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500
1941 Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio
1942 Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government
1942 German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe
1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice Czechoslovakia
1943 "Pay-as-you-go" (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized
1944 Russian offensive in Carelia
1944 99 civilians are hung from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks, World War II.
1944 World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
1945 "Gruesome Twosome," premieres in USA
1945 Australian troops lands in Brunei Bay North-Borneo
1945 71st Kentucky Derby, Eddie Arcaro aboard Hoop Jr wins in 2:07
1945 Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him
1946 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire (Dubuque Iowa)
1946 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest
1946 Bhumibol Adulyadej, becomes king of Thailand
1946 Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1946 King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
1946 NY Giant Mel Ott is 1st mgr ejected from both games of a doubleheader
1948 WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of US
1951 "Doodles Weaver Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1953 "Milton Berle Show/Texaco Star Theater," last airs on NBC-TV
1953 Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94, 1310 injured, 10,000 homeless.
1953 South African premier Malan visits Netherlands
1954 Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
1955 100°F Hottest day in Seattle Washington
1955 Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, v South Africa, Trent Bridge
1956 Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed
1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM
1957 First ascent of Broad Peak (the world's 12th highest mountain).
1958 "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1
1958 HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
1959 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)
1959 The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
1960 ABC & AFL sign a 5 year contract
1960 Typhoon Mary in China killed at least 1,600
1961 Ryne Duren sets AL record with 7 straight strikeouts against Red Sox
1962 "Bill of Hare," premieres in USA
1962 94th Belmont, Bill Shoemaker aboard Jaipur wins in 2:28.8
1962 Tony Bennett debuts in concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC
1963 1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0
1963 Barbara Romack wins LPGA Rock City Ladies Golf Open
1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "Ed Sullivan Show"
1963 Colt .45s beat Giants 3-0 in major leagues' 1st Sunday night game
1963 Equal Pay Act enacted
1963 Movie "Cleopatra" opens in NY
1964 Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament
1965 Frenchman, Machal Jazy, runs record mile in 3:53.6
1966 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, & Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4
1967 Boycott scores 246* v India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
1967 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
1967 Monkees appear at Hollywood Bowl
1967 Six-Day War, Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
1968 38th French Mens Tennis, Ken Rosewall beats R Laver (63 61 26 62)
1968 38th French Womens Tennis, Nancy Richey beats Anne H Jones (57 64 61)
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational
1968 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1968 Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms
1969 Brian Jones quits (sic) Rolling Stones because of his drug problems
1969 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
1970 Argentine milt junta under lt-gen Lanusse drives out pres Ongania
1970 Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University
1970 Harry A Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1971 Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan
1971 Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold
1972 1st all-nite grad parties
1972 14" of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 237
1972 Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia
1973 105th Belmont, Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 2:24
1973 Secretariat becomes 1st Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning horse racing's Belmont Stakes
1974 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Desert Inn Golf Classic
1974 Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
1974 Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert
1975 107th Belmont, Bill Shoemaker aboard Avatar wins in 2:28.2
1975 Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners & 1 guard (Sanford Fla)
1975 House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for 1st time
1975 Tony Orlando & Dawn receives gold record for "He Don't Love You"
1977 50th National Spelling Bee, John Paola wins spelling cambist
1977 George & Patti Harrison divorce
1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks
1978 Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London
1978 Larry Holmes beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood.
1979 49th French Womens Tennis, Chris Evert beats Wendy Turnbull (62 60)
1979 111th Belmont, Ruben Hernandez aboard Coastal wins in 2:28.6
1979 Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes
1979 Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st & last time
1979 The Ghost Train Fire at Luna Park, North Sydney, kills seven.
1979 Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome
1980 14th Music City News Country Awards, Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
1980 Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine
1980 Phillies & SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM
1980 Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
1982 General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala
1982 Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
1983 56th National Spelling Bee, Blake Giddens wins spelling purim
1983 M Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election
1983 Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, v Australia
1984 "Laserphonic Fantasy" premieres
1984 54th French Womens Tennis, Martina Navratilova beats C Evert (63 61)
1984 116th Belmont, Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:27.2
1984 Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 "Time After Times"
1984 Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland
1984 Jurgen Hingsen of West Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts
1984 NASA suffers a launch vehicle failure launching Intelsat 509
1984 Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD
1984 Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater
1985 39th NBA Championship, LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1985 55th French Mens Tennis, Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (36 64 62 62)
1985 Alice Miller wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon (not released until 1991).
1985 Bernard Hinault wins Tour de France
1985 USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
1986 20th Music City News Country Awards, Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
1986 Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats White Sox Tom Seaver (306 wins) 3-0
1986 Dow Jones-index hits record 45.71 points
1986 The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, blames Morton Thiokol.
1988 "Bloodsport (1987)," premieres in Germany
1988 Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK
1989 "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," premieres in USA
1989 Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football
1989 Michael Chang's French Open tennis win makes him youngest male to go to finals
1989 Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1
1990 60th French Womens Tennis, Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (76 64)
1990 122nd Belmont, Michael Kinane aboard Go & Go wins in 2:27.2
1990 Czechoslovakia beats US 5-1 in World Cup soccer
1990 Dodger Eddie Murray ties Mickey Mantle with baseball's switch hit HRs in 10 games
1990 Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) & Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed
1990 Michael Jackson is hospitalized with inflamed rib cartilage
1990 Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf for French Open tennis title
1991 9th Seniors Players Golf Championship, Jim Albus
1991 61st French Mens Tennis, Jim Courier beats A Agassi (36 64 26 61 64)
1991 Bruce Springsteen weds his backup singer Patty Scialfa
1991 Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI
1991 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1991 WLAF 1st world bowl London Monarchs defeat Barlecona Dragons 21-0
1993 "Amantes" (1991), premieres in France
1993 "Body Snatchers" (1993), premieres in France
1993 "Ce que femme veut" (1993), premieres in France
1993 "Passion Fish" (1992), premieres in France
1993 "Tout capour ca!" (1993), premieres in France
1993 "What's Love Got to Do with It" (1993), premieres
1993 Japanese crown prince Naruhito weds Masaka Owada
1993 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens beat LA Kings, 4 games to 1
1993 The Minnesota North Stars were relocated to Dallas, and were renamed the Dallas Stars.
1993 Tickets for Indians 1st season in Jacobs Field go on sale
1994 "Hudsucker Proxy," premieres in Germany
1994 5.6 earthquake strikes South-Mexico
1994 Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed)
1995 Brady Bunch Movie, (1995), premieres in UK
1995 Congo (1995), premieres in USA
1995 Dumb & Dumber (1994), premieres in Sweden
1995 Killer (1994), premieres in UK
1995 Kiss of Death (1995), premieres in UK
1995 Man of the House (1995), premieres in UK
1995 Neak Sre (1993), premieres in UK
1995 Party Girl (1995), premieres in USA
1995 Smoke (1995), premieres in USA
1995 Wigstock The Movie (1994), premieres in USA
1996 66th French Mens Tennis, Yevgeny Kafelnikov beats M Stich (76, 75, 76)
1996 Michelle McGann wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1996 Sunday League cricket game Kent 6-314 overhaul Leicestershire's 4-311
1997 British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
1997 Detroit Tigers baseball team bat out of order against Oakland A's in 1st inning
1999 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty, Kosovo War
2008 In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drained as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back
2012 Burma riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
2013 Edward Snowden publically makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents
2013 Inbee Park wins the 59th LPGA Championship
2012 It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling banks
2012 John Velazquez aboard Union Rags wins the 144th Belmont in 2:30.42
2013 Kinky Boots & Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike win at the 67th Tony Awards
2013 Rafael Nadal beats David Ferrer (6-3, 6-2, 6-3) in the 112th Men's French Open
2014 Laverne Cox becomes the first transgender person to appear on the cover of "Time" Magazione
2015 Chris Heston of the San Francisco Giants becomes the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the 2015 MLB season
2016 Successful attempts to turn CO2 gases into stone underground in Iceland published in the journal "Science"
2016 US President Barack Obama officially endorses Hillary Clinton as Democratic Presidential nominee
2016 World Health Organisation advises delaying pregnancy in areas with the Zika virus
Born on June 9th
1508 Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
1510 Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Harlem
1573 Henricus Hondius, Dutch etcher/publisher
1580 Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666)
1595 King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
1597 Pieter J Saenredam, architecture painter
1640 Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705) (d. 1705)
1661 Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
1672 Peter the Great (Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov), tsar of Russia (1682-1725) (d. 1725)
1686 Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
1768 Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
1781 George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer, inventor (RR locomotive) (d. 1848)
1791 John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home)
1792 Frederic L G, Earl of Merode, Belgian revolutionary
1810 (Carl) Otto (Ehrenfried) Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
1812 Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens)
1812 Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (discovered Neptune) (d. 1910)
1828 Carlo Marsili, composer
1829 Gaetano Braga, composer
1833 John Rogers Cooke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1836 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st woman mayor in England (Aldeburgh)
1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist (Nobel laureate 1905) (d. 1914)
1845 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
1849 Joseph Vezina, composer
1849 Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
1851 Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
1854 Gerardus J P J Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society)
1861 Floris H Verster (van Wulverhorst), painter, cartoonist, etcher
1865 Albéric Magnard, French composer (d. 1914)
1865 Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (Det Uuslukkelige) (d. 1931)
1865 Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, composer
1875 Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist (Nobel laureate 1936) (d. 1968)
1877 Rudolf Borchardt, writer
1879 Dudley Digges
1879 Oscar Back, Austrian-Dutch viola player
1882 Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
1884 Johannes Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/conductor
1886 Kusaku Yamada, composer
1888 Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer
1888 Hugo Kauder, composer
1890 Leslie Banks, British actor (Jamaica Inn, 48 Hours) (d. 1952)
1891 Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate) (d. 1964)
1893 Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1893 Samuel N Behrman, US screenwriter (Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs)
1896 Aura Abranches, Lisbon Portugal, actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio)
1896 Catherine Filene Shouse, philanthropist (Wolf Trap Institute)
1898 Curzio Malaparte (Kurt E Suckert), Italian author (Kaputt)
1898 Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
1900 Fred Waring, American bandleader, inventor (Waring Blender) (d. 1984)
1900 Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot
1901 George Price, cartoonist
1901 Marion Gering, actress (Sarumba, Rumba, Ready for Love, 24 Hours)
1905 Harry "Bull" Alexander, cricketer (Aus quick 1 Test Bodyline series)
1905 Walter Kraft, composer
1906 Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and entrepreneur (d. 1997)
1906 Tonio Selwart, German actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja)
1908 J F Williams-Wynne, Lord-Lieutenant (Gwynedd)
1908 Robert Cummings, Joplin Mo, actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder)
1909 Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher
1910 Geoffrey Musson, British General
1910 Robert Cummings, American actor (d. 1990)
1910 Vbilmos Demian, composer
1911 George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
1912 Edgar Evans, tenor
1912 Ingolf Dahl, American composer (Andante & Arioso) (d. 1970)
1912 Philip Simmons, American ornamental ironworker (d. 2009)
1913 Alida Margaretha Bosshardt, lt-colonel of Dutch Salvation Army
1914 Barbara Mullen, Boston MA, actress (Thunder Rock, Innocent Sinners)
1914 Hermann Haller, composer
1915 Jane Cowan, cello teacher
1915 Les Paul, American guitarist, inventor (Les Paul guitar) (d. 2009)
1916 Robert S McNamara, U.S. Defense Secretary (1961-68) and President of the World Bank (d. 2009)
1918 John Hospers, American philosopher
1918 Rob de Vries, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/dir/actor (Ciske de Rat)
1919 Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player
1920 Isobel June Braybrooke English, novellist
1921 Agnes Keleti, Hungary, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1921 Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
1922 Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist Radio and TV animator (d. 1988)
1922 George Axelrod, American producer, playwright and director (Breakfast at Tiffany, Bus Stop) (d. 2003)
1922 John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
1922 P G Beazley, MEP
1924 Christine Goitschel, France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1964)
1924 Ed Farhat, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1924 Peter Heatly, CEO (Commonwealth Games Federation)
1924 Tony Britton, Birmingham England, actor (Day of Jackal, Girl in my Soup)
1925 Keith Laumer, American author (d. 1993)
1925 Roy Hughes, MP
1925 (John) Keith Laumer (Anthony LeBaron), US sf author (Retief's War)
1926 Mona Freeman, Baltimore, actress (Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress)
1926 Roy Smalley, shortstop (Cubs, Braves, Phillies, Twins, Yankees)
1927 Franco Donatoni, composer
1927 Norman Sisisky, (Rep-D-VA, 1983)
1928 Geraint Gruffydd, director (U of Wales Centre for Welsh Studies)
1929 Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander, Jr.), American rhythm and blues singer (My Song) (d. 1954)
1929 June O'Dell, deputy CEO (Equal Opportunities Commission)
1929 Keith A St H Gardner, Jamaica, 4x400m runner (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1929 Robert E Badham, (Rep-R-CA, 1977)
1930 Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
1930 Lin(wood) (Vrooman) Carter, US, sci-fi author (Thongor of Lemuria)
1930 Marvin Kalb, NYC, educator/newscaster (CBS/NBC, Meet the Press)
1931 Bill Virdon, American baseball player, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards) and manager (NY Yankees)
1931 Jackie Mason, Wisc, comedian (World According to Me, Chicken Soup)
1931 Joe Santos, American actor
1932 Douglas Smith, CEO (Acas)
1933 Dick Orkin, Williamsport Pa, actor (Tim Conway Show)
1933 Don Young, (Rep-R-AK, 1973)
1933 Patrick Symons, British vice-admiral
1934 Donald Duck, famous disney cartoon character
1934 Helga Haase, German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 Jackie Wilson, American singer (Lonely Teardrops, Night) (d. 1984)
1934 Joe Santos, Bkln NY, actor (Rockford Files, AKA Pablo, Shamus)
1934 Michael Mates, MP
1934 Pal Karolyi, composer
1934 Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist
1935 Diana Van Der Vlis, actress (Lovespell, Girl in Black Stockings)
1936 Jackie Mason, American comedian
1936 Mick O'Dwyer, Gaelic footballer and manager
1937 Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
1937 Sven Conrad Stayers, cricketer (WI fast bowler 1962)
1938 Anne Kenny, Mudgee NSW, golfer (1968, 71 Australian Champ)
1938 Charles Wuorinen, American composer (Pulitzer 1980)
1938 Jeremy Hardie, CEO (W H Smith Group)
1938 Peter Sanders, CEO (Commission for Racial Equality)
1938 Roger Hurn, CEO (Smith's Industries)
1939 Charles Webb, American author
1939 David Hobbs, English racecar driver and commentator
1939 Derek Hunt, CEO (MFI Furniture Group)
1939 Dick Vitale, American sportscaster (ESPN, ABC "Oh Baby!")
1939 Ileana Cotrubas, Romanian soprano
1941 Billy Hatton, rocker
1941 Jon Lord, English musician, keyboardist (Deep Purple, White Snake) (d. 2012)
1941 Peter Wilson, CEO (Gallaher)
1942 Nicholas Lloyd, editor (Daily Express)
1942 Richard Hutton, cricketer (son of Len, 5 Tests 1971)
1943 Charles Saatchi, English magnate (Saatchi & Saatchi)
1943 Joe (William) Haldeman, American science fiction writer (Hugo, Nebula, Worlds Apart)
1944 23 puppies, (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler Penn
1944 Brigid Bazlen, Wisc, actress (Pam-Too Young to go Steady)
1944 Viscount Craigavon
1945 Faina Myelink, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1972)
1945 Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
1945 Nike Wagner, German art festival director
1946 Peter Kilfoyle, British MP
1947 John Gurda, American historian
1947 Ken Singleton, Major League Baseball player
1947 Kiran Bedi, Indian police officer
1948 Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
1948 Jim Bailey, NCAA punter (most punts in season-101, Va Milt Academy)
1948 Nathaniel Rosen, Altadena Ca, cellist (Tchaikovsky-gold-1978)
1949 Douglas Henderson, British MP
1951 Benny Neyman, Dutch singer (I Don't Know How)
1951 Dave Parker, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, NL MVP 1978)
1951 James Newton Howard, American film composer
1952 Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (d. 2004)
1954 Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada
1954 George Pérez, American comic book artist
1954 Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer
1954 Paul Chapman, Welsh rock musician
1954 Pete Byrne Bath English rocker (Naked Eyes)
1955 Stephen Pewsey, historian
1956 Patricia Cornwell, American author
1957 Elly van Holly, running star (3k indoor world record)
1958 Donald Michael Santini, Mass, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1959 Christian Wulff, German politician, Prime minister of Lower Saxony
1959 Peter Fowler, Hornsby NSW, Australasia golfer
1960 Nancy Taylor, SF CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Rochester Intl-54th)
1960 Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist
1961 Aaron Sorkin, American writer
1961 Michael J. Fox, Canadian actor (Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen Wolf)
1962 Eddie Lundon, rocker (China Crisis-Christian)
1962 Yuval Banai, Israeli musician and singer
1963 David Koepp, American screenwriter and director
1963 Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
1963 Johnny Depp, American actor (21 Jump Street, Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Caribean)
1964 Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress (Jeanie Boulet-ER)
1964 Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
1964 Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player, NBA center/forward (Phoenix Suns) and jazz bassist (d. 2009)
1965 Gloria Reuben, actress (Jeanie Boulet-ER)
1965 Jeff Williams, Santa Monica California, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1965 Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner
1966 Anthony Martino, CFL punter (Calgary Stampeders)
1967 Richard Cooey, American murderer (d. 2008)
1967 Robert Reading, Buffalo NY, 110m hurdler
1968 Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper
1968 Tom Rouen, NFL punter (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1969 Eric Wynalda, American footballer
1969 Keith Alex, NFL guard (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 Mitch McLee (Douglas Lee Mitchell), Miles Mi, drummer (Southgang)
1969 Nick Kiriazis, American actor
1970 Erika Miklósa, Hungarian coloratura soprano
1970 Harry Van Hofwegen, CFL defensive tackle (BC Lions)
1970 Russ Romaniuk, Winnipeg, NHL left wing (Phila Flyers)
1971 D'Marco Farr, defensive tackle (St Louis Rams)
1971 Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer
1971 Joey Gullion, Gallopolis OH, Nike golfer (NIKE SC Classic-18th)
1971 John McKeown, Scottish musician (Yummy Fur, 1990s)
1971 Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
1971 Roderick Lewis, NFL tight end (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1971 Romano Sion, soccer player (Dordrecht '90/FC Groningen)
1972 Bryan Strang, cricket pace bowler (brother of Paul Zimbabwe 1995)
1972 Matt Horsley, Australian footballer
1972 Steven Salter, CFL offensive linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
1972 Wardell Rouse, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1973 Chris Villarrial, center/guard (Chicago Bears)
1973 Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director
1973 Grant Marshall, Mississauga, NHL right wing (Dallas Stars)
1973 Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal
1973 Orlondo Steinauer, CFL cornerback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1973 Tedy Bruschi, American football player, linebacker (New England Patriots)
1974 Jana Nejedly, Prague Czech, Canadian tennis player (Olympics-96)
1974 Jon Harris, defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1974 Randy Winn, American baseball player
1974 Samoth, Norwegian guitarist (Emperor, Zyklon)
1974 Tim Shaw, British radio personality
1975 Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
1975 Carolyne Lepage, Montreal Quebec, 48 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1975 Jeff Saturday, American football player
1975 Otto Addo, Ghanaian footballer
1975 Paul Agostino, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1977 Amisha Patel, Indian actress
1977 Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
1977 Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
1977 Zephnad Wattimury, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen
1978 Elizabeth Reid, Fairfax Va, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1978 Lucia Povraznikova, Miss Slovak republic Universe (1997)
1978 Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
1978 Michaela Conlin, American actress
1978 Miroslav Klose, German footballer
1978 Shandi Finnessey, American beauty queen, game hostess
1980 D'Banj, Nigerian Musician
1980 Lehlohonolo Seema, Lesotho footballer
1980 Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
1980 Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
1981 Anoushka Shankar, English-born sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar
1981 Natalie Portman (Natalie Hershlag), Israeli actress (Professional, Everyone Says I Love You)
1981 Vic Zhou, Taiwanese actor, singer (JVKV) and model
1982 Amber Yoder, Miss Indiana Teen USA (1997)
1982 Andrew Walker, Canadian actor
1982 Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
1983 Alektra Blue, American pornographic actress
1983 Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player
1983 Firas Al Khatib, Syrian footballer
1983 Jim Tang, Hong Kong actor
1984 Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1984 Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
1984 Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
1984 Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
1985 Anthimos Ananiadis, Greek actor
1985 Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
1985 Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
1986 Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
1986 Karan Wahi, Indian actor
1986 Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
1988 Mae Whitman, American Actress
1988 Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Greek footballer
1991 Abraham Joseph Groening, son of Simpson creator Matt Groening
1993 Danielle Chuchran, American actress
Died on June 9th
62 Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
68 Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (54-68), commits suicide (b. 37)
373 Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist (b. 306)
597 St. Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
630 King Shahrbaraz of Persia
1171 Jacob Ben Meir (Rabbenu Tam), French Tosofist
1361 Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet (b. 1291)
1382 Philip of Lead, lawyer of Utrecht
1563 William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
1572 Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
1583 Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1597 Jose de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary
1656 Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
1681 William Lilly, English astrologer
1716 Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed) (b. 1670)
1717 Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
1717 Louis Le Quointe, composer
1799 Chevalier de Saint-Georges "Black Mozart", African-French Swordsman, Soldier of Fortune, and Composer (b. 1745)
1820 Wilhelmina FS, princess of Prussia/Orange
1825 M Pauline Bonaparte, Corsican duchess of Parma/Guastalla
1832 Manuel Garcia, composer
1834 William Carey, English minister and missionary, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
1839 Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800)
1847 Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orphée)
1863 Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle
1868 James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (1841-68)
1870 Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield) (b. 1812)
1870 Erik Drake, composer
1875 Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
1892 Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer
1892 Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist (b. 1839)
1892 William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
1897 Alvin Graham Clark, dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40"
1901 Walter Besant, novelist/philanthropist
1907 Manuel Estrada Vabrera, president Guatemala, murdered
1908 Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os meus amores)
1911 Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader
1912 Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852)
1922 Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher
1923 Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1846)
1929 Lewis Bennison
1931 Henrique Oswald, composer
1932 Natalia Janotha, composer
1939 Owen Moore, actor (She Done Him Wrong), commits suicide
1944 99 inhabitants of Tulle, hanged by SS
1946 Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)
1946 Rama VIII, king of Siam (1935-46)
1947 Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40)
1952 Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
1953 Ugo Betti, dramatist
1957 Robert Oboussier, composer
1958 Robert Donat, English actor (Citadel, Goodbye Mr Chips, 39 Steps) (b. 1905)
1959 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
1960 René Maran, Martiniques writer (Batouala, Prix Goncourt)
1961 Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
1962 Henry Kendall, actor (Shadow, Romance & Riches)
1964 Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born tycoon and politician, newspaper owner (Leatherhead) (b. 1879)
1964 W Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Engl Min of Info
1967 Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer
1968 Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
1971 Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)
1973 Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
1974 Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
1974 Phillip Tead, actor (Lightnin', Fighting Blade)
1975 David Frederick Barlow, composer
1976 James A Farley, US Postmaster General (1932-38)
1976 Paul T B Rodenko, Dutch poet/writer (Never Marry a Witch)
1976 Sybil Thorndike, actress (Melba, Major Barbara)
1977 Bill Merritt, cricketer (6 Tests of leg-spin for NZ, 12 wkts)
1977 Hans Andreus (Johan W van de Zant), Dutch poet
1979 Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
1980 Leonard Huizinga, journalist/writer (Olivier & Adrian)
1981 Allen Ludden, American game show host (Password) (b. 1917)
1981 Russell Hayden, actor (Hidden Gold, Apache Chief, Justice)
1982 Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish politician
1982 Hank Ladd, TV host (Arrow Show, Waiting for the Break)
1987 Grandon Rhodes, actor (Gentleman From Nowhere)
1987 Madge Kennedy, actress (Marrying Kind, 3 Bad Sisters)
1989 George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1989 Piet(er J) Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance (1945-52)
1989 Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
1989 W Schnurre, writer
1991 Bob Irwin, Comedian
1991 Charles Loloma, painter/sculptor
1991 Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist and composer (b. 1903)
1991 Max van Praag, Dutch singer
1992 Cathy Bennett, jury selection expert
1992 Clarence Miller, blues/jazz vocalist
1993 Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (Follies) (b. 1921)
1993 Arthur Alexander, singer/songwriter (You Better Move On)
1993 Ian Mikardo, British politician
1993 Thomas Ammann, Swiss art dealer and collector (b. 1950)
1994 Angela Lakeberg, siamese twin, dies at 11 months
1994 Dhirendra Bhramachari (Flying Swami), hindu leader
1994 Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (Plan of Labor) (Nobel laureate 1969) (b. 1903)
1994 Lloyd Lindroth, the Liberace of the Harp
1995 Charles Rowe, cricket (scored 0 in only Test for NZ v Aust 1946)
1995 Frank Chacksfield, conductor/arranger
1995 Walter Landor, designer
1996 Edward Morris Bernstein, economist
1996 Robert Kidd, marine geoscientist
1996 Walter Pardon, carpenter/traditional singer
1997 Reid Shelton, actor (Daddy Warbucks-Annie)
1997 Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
2000 Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
2004 Brian Williamson, Jamaican Gay Activist (b. 1945)
2004 Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
2006 Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
2007 Frankie Abernathy, American reality TV personality (The Real World: San Diego) (b. 1981)
2008 Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)
2008 Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian (b. 1919)
2009 Dick May, Former NASCAR racecar driver
2011 M. F. Husain, Indian artist, painter (b. 1915)
2013 Iain Banks, British novelist (b. 1954)
2014 Rik Mayall, English actor and comedian
2014 Bob Welch, American MLB pitcher
2015 James Last, German-born composer and big band leader
