June 15th
Holidays and Festivals
Native American Citizenship Day (USA)
National Salvation Day (Azerbaijan)
Flag Day (Denmark) * CLICK HERE
"Día del Árbol" (Costa Rica) * CLICK HERE
Cagayan de Oro Charter Day (Cagayan de Oro City)
Admission Day (Arkansas)
Separation Day (Delaware)
Smile Power Day
Nature Photography Day
Husband Caregiver Day
Mangaia Gospel Day (Mangaia)
First day of the month of Harh (Sikhism)
Ninth and final day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta (Roman Empire)
Augustine of Hippo's Feast in many Eastern Orthodox Churches
Feast of Saint Vitus (observed with Sts. Modestus and Crescentia), patron of actors and epileptics
Feast of Saint Landelin (7th century)
Feast of Saint Edburga of Winchester (d. 960)
Feast of Saint Germaine Cousin, (d. 1601), patron of shepherdesses and of victims of child abuse
Commemoration of Evelyn Underhill (Anglican mystic and poet)
* Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 10 – 23 (6of14) (2010)
* Meltdown Festival London, UK June 11 - 20 (5of10) (2010)
Toast of The Day
"Here's health to your enemies' enemies!"
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Dirty White Mother
1 Part Brandy
1 Part Kahlua
1 Part Cream
Pour over Ice
Wine of The Day
Davis Family (2008) "Soul Patch" Estate Grown
Style - Pinot Noir
Russian River Valley
$50
Beer of The Day
Anchor Liberty Ale
Brewer - Anchor Brewing
Style - American Pale Ale
ABV - 6%
Joke of The Day
The police came to my front door last night with a picture of my wife.
They said, "Is this your wife, sir?"
Shocked, I answered, "Yes."
They said, "I'm afraid it looks like she's been hit by a bus."
I said, "I know, but she has a lovely personality and she's good with the kids."
Quote of The Day
"Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little."
- Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen (June 15th 1875 – January 5th 1987), a Norwegian-Canadian supercentenarian
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
Jim Thorpe Native American Games Second Sunday through Third Sunday in June
National Nursing Assistants Week Week Starting the Second Thursday in June
Great American Brass Band Week Day before and after the Second Saturday in June
National Men's Health Week 7 Days Ending with Father’s Day
US Open Golf Championship 4 Days ending on Father's Day
Duct Tape Days 3 Days Ending on Father's Day
Universal Father's Week Third Full Week in June
Consumer Awareness Week Third Week in June
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week Third Full Week in June
National Health Care Risk Management Week Third Work Week in June
Meet A Mate Week Third Full Week in June
Old Time Fiddlers Week (Weiser, Idaho) Third Full Week in June
Dragaica fair (Buzau, Romania) June 10th through 24th
Historical Events on June 15th
(763 BC) Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
923 Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
1094 Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren
1184 King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the battle of Fimreite.
1215 King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.
1219 King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark, Dannebrog oldest national flag in the world and flag of Denmark. According to legend, fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in Estonia, and turned the Danes' luck.
1246 Battle at Leitha, Hungary-Austrian
1246 With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
1389 Battle of Kosovo, The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
1520 Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in papal bull Exsurge Domine.
1567 Battle at Carberry Scot, Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army
1567 Genoa Italy expels Jews
1580 Phillip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
1590 Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther
1626 King Charles I disbands English parliament
1643 Able Tasmania returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania
1664 NJ established
1667 The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1741 Capt Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America
1752 Ben Franklin's performs his kite-flying experiment, proves that lightning is electricity.
1762 Austria uses 1st paper currency
1775 George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
1776 Delaware Separation Day, Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
1779 General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx
1785 Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
1802 Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Héros
1804 New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document, deals with manner of choosing president.
1808 Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
1834 Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews
1836 Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
1844 Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
1846 The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory
1857 SF Water Works organized
1859 Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British-Canadian settlers, the Pig War.
1860 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)
1861 Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry
1862 Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"
1863 2nd battle at Winchester Va, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualities
1864 Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia
1864 The Siege of Petersburg begins, American Civil War.
1864 Arlington National Cemetery, VA is established when 200 acres (0.81 km2) around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
1864 Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line
1864 Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James R Va
1864 Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers
1866 Prussia attacks Austria
1867 Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
1869 Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout
1871 Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school
1876 Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention
1876 Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000
1877 Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
1878 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
1887 Carlisle D Graham survives 2nd ride in Niagara waterfall in barrel
1887 NY Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 29-1
1887 Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo
1888 Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II and is the last emperor of the German Empire.
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adv "Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG)
1894 Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8
1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed, The most destructive tsunami in Japan's history
1897 Liberals and social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1898 US House of Reps accept annexation of Hawaii
1898 US marines attack Spanish off Guantánamo Cuba
1901 7th US Golf Open, Willie Anderson shoots a 331 at Myopia Hunt Club MA
1902 Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time
1902 Minor League's most lopsided baseball game, Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game
1904 A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1000.
1904 Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in NY's East River (1,031 die)
1905 Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
1907 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
1908 World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam
1909 Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
1911 Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
1912 26th US Womens Tennis, Mary K Browne beats Eleonora Sears (64 62)
1913 The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines concludes.
1915 US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo
1916 Boys Scouts of America forms
1916 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
1918 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania
1918 50th Belmont, Frank Robinson aboard Johren wins in 2:20.6
1919 John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
1920 A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
1920 De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal
1920 Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
1921 Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot
1923 Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post & railroad strike
1924 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal
1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile
1924 J Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI
1924 Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
1925 Phila A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15
1926 7th French government of Briand falls
1928 Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th & final time
1929 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
1931 Eddie Collins & Harry Heilmann, retire from baseball
1931 Poland & USSR sign friendship & trade treaty
1934 The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
1937 A German expedition led by Karl Wien lost sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. The worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
1938 1st night game at Bkln Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter
1940 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province
1940 Bread & flour rationed in Holland
1940 France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris
1940 Soviet Army occupies Lithuania
1943 Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms
1944 In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government of North America.
1944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific, Battle of Saipan, World War II.
1945 The political party General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in in Concert building in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1947 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1)
1947 47th US Golf Open, Lew Worsham shoots a 282 at St Louis CC in MO
1948 1st night game at Briggs Stadium, Detroit Tigers beat Phila A's
1948 Bradman is out for a duck, but Australia win Test Cricket anyway
1948 WPIX TV channel 11 in NYC, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
1948 WTNH TV channel 8 in New Haven, CT (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel
1950 Dutch police seize condoms
1951 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila
1951 Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory
1953 Browns end Yankees win streak at 18 & Browns 14-game losing streak
1953 Johnny Mize is 93rd player to get 2,000 hits
1953 NYC Transit Authority forms
1953 WLFI TV channel 18 in Lafayette, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factory nationalized
1954 UEFA (Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland.
1955 Australia score 8-758 v West Indies at Kingston, their best ever
1955 The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.
1956 John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1957 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 123 perf
1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)
1957 57th US Golf Open, Dick Mayer shoots a 282 at Inverness Club in Toledo
1957 89th Belmont, Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6
1957 Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran
1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1960 Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races
1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann
1961 Expansion Wash Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games
1962 Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win
1962 South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes
1962 Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement.
1962 WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1963 "Sound of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 1443 perfs
1963 "Sukiyaki" hits #1
1963 Buddy Nobles runs world record marathon (2:14:28)
1963 Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns
1963 SF Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0
1964 Last French troops leave Algeria
1965 Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965 Denny McLain in relief strikesout 1st 7 batters faced & record 14 in 6 2/3 innings, Bill Freehan ties catcher record of 19 putouts
1965 South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products
1967 Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
1968 "How Now, Dow Jones" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 220 perfs
1968 "I Do! I Do!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 561 performances
1968 "New Faces of 1965" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 52 performances
1968 15th Curtis Cup, US wins 10½-7½ at Royal County Down Golf Club (Newcastle, Northern Ireland)
1968 John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral
1968 Yummy Yummy Yummy by Ohio Express hits #4
1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV
1969 69th US Golf Open, Orville Moody shoots a 281 at Champs GC in Houston
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1969 Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon
1970 16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn
1971 Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League
1972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die
1972 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof
1973 "American Graffiti" opens in NYC
1974 "Streak" by Ray Stevens hit #1 on UK pop chart
1975 45th French Mens Tennis, Bjorn Borg beats Guillermo Vilas (62 63 64)
1975 Carol Mann wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Classic
1976 Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team & umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium
1976 Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman
1977 NY Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry
1977 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years)
1977 Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam
1978 Belgian government resigns
1978 Italy's pres Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair
1978 King Hussein of Jordan marries American Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American, who takes the name Queen Noor.
1978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
1979 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds
1980 "Fearless Frank" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 12 performances
1980 80th US Golf Open, Jack Nicklaus shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1980 Dale Lundquis wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1980 Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game
1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
1982 Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education
1983 Cards trade Keith Hernandez to Mets for Neil Allen & Rick Ownbey
1983 Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion
1984 "Thicke Of The Night," TV Talk Show last airs in syndication
1984 Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran
1984 Vitesse soccer team forms in Arnhem
1985 "Pryor's Place," children show last airs on CBS-TV
1985 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
1985 Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man later judged insane; he threw sulfuric acid on the canvas and cut it twice with his knife.
1985 Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
1986 86th US Golf Open, Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills GC NY
1986 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
1986 Raymond Floyd wins US Open golf tournament
1987 Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy
1987 Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-213
1988 Turkish premier Özal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens
1989 Balt Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees)
1990 "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty & Madonna premieres
1991 Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc Québécois.
1991 Carolyn Tanny & Bob Trischel wed
1991 Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines
1992 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years
1992 Dan Quayle, relying on faulty card, erroneously instructs Trenton NJ, elementary student to spell "potato," "potatoe" during spelling bee
1992 Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford
1992 Erie Sailors (Fla Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 13
1992 Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)
1992 Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' save record with #342
1992 The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the USA to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
1994 Disney's "Lion King," opens in theaters with $42 million
1994 Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
1994 NY Giants cut quarterback Phil Simms
1994 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1995 "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" opens at Plymouth NYC for 55 perfs
1995 Mark Ilott takes 9-19 incl all lbw hat-trick, Essex v Northants
1995 Northants all out 46 v Essex & wins game next day
1996 In Manchester, United Kingdom, a IRA bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre at 11.17am.
1997 "Little Foxes," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1997 97th US Golf Open, Ernie Els shoots a 276 Congressional CC Bethesda Md
1997 British model Naomi Campbell, hospitalized on drug overdose
1997 Danielle Ammaccapane wins Edina Realty LPGA Classic
1997 Du Mauier Senior Golf Champions
2002 Near earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon
2003 Jim Furyk shoots a 272 at Olympia Fields CC IL to win the 103rd US Golf Open
2003 San Antonio Spurs beat New Jersey Nets, 4 games to 2 to win the 57th NBA Championship
2004 Detroit Pistons beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1 to win the 58th NBA Championship
2008 In the Heights & August: Osage County win at the 62nd Tony Awards
2011 Boston Bruins defeat Vancouver Canucks 4-3 to win the Stanley Cup
2012 Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
2012 Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive credit rating downgrades of one and two notch downgrades
2014 Juan Manuel Santos is reelected President of Columbia
2014 Martin Kaymer shoots a 271 at Pinehurst Resort, North Carolina to win the 114th US Golf Open
2014 San Antonio Spurs beat Miami Heat, 4 games to 1 to win the 68th NBA Championship
2015 800 year anniversary of "the birthplace of modern democracy,", the signing of the Magna Carta by King John at Runymeade, England
2015 Chicago Blackhawks defeat Tampa Bay Lightning 4-2 to win the Stanley Cup
2015 Real estate mogul Donald Trump launches his campaign for US President
2015 Remains of a 2,000 year old women dubbed "the sleeping beauty" are announced discovered in Northern Ethiopia from ancient kingdom of Aksum
Born on June 15th
1221 Frederik II, (Strijdbare), duke of Austria
1330 Edward, the Black Prince, Prince of Wales (1343-1376) (d. 1376)
1519 Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1536)
1542 Richard Grenville, English parliament leader/vice-admiral (Roanoke)
1553 Ernst, archduke of Austria/governor of the Netherlands
1594 Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
1623 Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (Chatham) (d. 1672)
1624 Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
1636 Johann David Mayer, composer
1638 Samuel Apostool, Dutch vicar/theologist (The Sun)
1640 Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715)
1728 Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer
1734 Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer
1749 George Joseph Vogler, composer
1755 Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (d. 1809)
1763 Franz Danzi, composer
1765 Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831)
1767 Rachel Donelson Jackson, First Lady of the United States (1828-37) (d. 1828)
1777 David Daniel Davis, British politician (d. 1841)
1789 Josiah Henson, American slave and settlement founder (d. 1883)
1801 Benjamin Raymond, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1883)
1805 William Butler Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)
1809 François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
1821 Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
1833 Edward Moody McCook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers) (d. 1909)
1843 Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Norwegian composer (Bewitched One) (d. 1907)
1848 Parumala Thirumeni, Gheevarghese Mor Gregorios (d. 1902)
1864 Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer/=
1865 L H Perquin, Dutch religious radio speaker
1865 Paul Gilson, composer
1867 K Balmont, writer
1875 Herman Smith-Johannsen, cross-country skier (d. 1987)
1878 Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director/critic (Pygmalion)
1880 Mahlon Hamilton, VA, actor (Honky Tonk, High School Girl, Mississippi)
1882 Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946)
1884 Harry Langdon, American actor and director (Strong Man) (d. 1944)
1886 Charles Wood, composer
1888 Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota) (d. 1921)
1893 Jacob HA van Coeverden, boer/edelman
1894 Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1947)
1894 Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and arranger (Oklahoma!) (d. 1981)
1898 Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong, organist
1898 Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist
1900 Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (d. 1984)
1900 Otto Clarence Luening, German-American composer (Sonority Canon) (d. 1996)
1900 Paul J Mares, US, jazz trumpetist/composer (Farewell blues)
1901 John Wesley Work, composer
1901 Peter Shankland, film maker/writer
1902 David Brooks, psychologist
1902 Erik H Erickson, psychologist (Existentionalist) (d. 1994)
1905 James Robertson Justice, Scotland, actor (Above Us the Waves)
1906 Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor (Zoelen)
1906 Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (d. 1994)
1908 Sam Giancana, American mafioso (d. 1975)
1910 Berend Giltay, composer
1910 David Rose, American songwriter, composer and orchestra leader (Red Skelton Show, Stripper) (d. 1990)
1911 W.V. Awdry, British children's writer (d. 1997)
1913 Trevor Huddleston, English pastor/chairman (Anti-Apartheid)
1914 Cees (Cornelis A B) Bantzinger, Dutch cartoonist/illustrator
1914 Hilda Terry, American Cartoonist (d. 2006)
1914 Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist and illustrator (New Yorker) (d. 1999)
1914 Yuri Andropov, Russian KGB chief, 1st secretary (d. 1984)
1915 Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
1916 Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
1916 Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor (Chic Daily News, Sunday Times)
1916 Olga Erteszek, American undergarment designer and lingerie company owner (d. 1989)
1917 Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Black Lash, Lash of the West)
1917 John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1917 Lash La Rue, American actor (d. 1996)
1917 Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer and composer (d. 2005)
1918 Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader
1918 N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad
1919 Alberto Sordi, Rome Italy, actor (Miser, Taxi Driver in NY)
1919 Van Barfoot, Edinburg, Mississippi, Army colonel and Medal of Honour recipient, (d. 2012)
1920 Alberto Sordi, Italian actor and director (d. 2003)
1920 Alla Kazanskaya, Russian stage and film actress (d. 2008)
1920 Amy Clampitt, poet
1920 George Ernest Leslie, trade union official
1921 Errol Garner, American musician (d. 1977)
1922 John Veale, English composer (d. 2006)
1922 Mo(rris K) Udall, (Rep-D-AZ, 1961)
1923 Erland Josephson, Stockholm Sweden, actor/dramatist (Utflykt)
1923 Errol Garner, American jazz pianist (Misty) (d. 1977)
1924 Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
1924 Mohammed Ghazali, cricketer (Pak off-spinner wicketless in 2 Tests 54)
1925 Gene Baker, baseball player
1925 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Tarumba, Maltiempes)
1926 Jan Carlstedt, composer
1926 Mac McGarry, American quiz show host
1926 Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
1927 Hugo Pratt, Italian comic book creator (d. 1995)
1927 Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet (d. 1978)
1929 Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, piano accompnaist
1929 Gideon N N Nxumalo, composer
1929 Nigel Pickering, guitarist (Spanky & Our Gang)
1930 Marcel Pronovost, Canadian professional ice hockey player
1932 Einar K Enevoldson, US, Nasa test pilot (X-24B)
1932 Mario Cuomo, American politician (Gov-D-NY, 1982-94)
1933 Mark Jones, English footballer (d. 1958)
1933 Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (d. 2005)
1934 Jerry Buss, American basketball team owner
1934 Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter. (d. 2008)
1934 Ruby Nash Cutis, Akron Oh, rocker (Ruby & The Romantics)
1935 Belinda Lee, Devon England, actress (Who Done It, Runaway Bus)
1935 Fernand Schokweiler, British judge
1936 Alexandru Hrisanide, composer
1936 Claude Brasseur, French actor (Josepha, Pardon Mon Affair)
1936 William Joseph Levada, American Catholic prelate
1937 Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji, cricketer (Indian keeper in 60's)
1937 Ray Coleman, journalist
1937 Rolf Riehm, composer
1937 Waylon Jennings, American singer and guitarist (Ramblin' Man) (d. 2002)
1938 Billy Williams, baseball player (Cubs)
1939 Brian Jacques, British author
1939 Ward Connerly, American political figure
1940 Willem Frederik Bon, Dutch composer
1941 Harry Nilsson, American singer and composer, guitarist (Midnight Cowboy) (d. 1994)
1942 Bruce DalCanton, baseball player
1942 John E. McLaughlin, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1942 Tony Coelho, (Rep-D-CA, 1979)
1942 Xaveria Hollander (DeVries), Surabaya Indonesia, auth (Happy Hooker)
1943 Aron Kincaid, LA California, actor (Warren-Bachelor Father, Ski Party)
1943 Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor
1943 Lee Shallat-Chemel, American television director
1943 Muff Winwood, British songwriter and bassist (Spencer Davis Group)
1943 Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark
1943 Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author
1944 Inna Ryskai, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-2 gold/2 silver-1964-76)
1944 Robert Keppel, American criminologist
1945 Lawrence Wilkerson, American retired military officer
1945 Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Philippine senator
1945 Nicola Pagett, British actress (Oliver's Story, Privates on Parade)
1945 Rod Argent, England, keyboardist (Zombies-She's Not There)
1946 Demis Roussos, Greek singer
1946 Janet Lennon, vocalist (Lennon Sisters)
1946 Judy Pace, LA California, actress (Young Lawyers)
1946 Ken Henderson, baseball player
1946 Noddy Holder, British singer (Slade)
1946 Roger Tolchard, cricketer (Engl keeper played Tests as a batsman 1977)
1947 John Hoagland, American photographer
1947 Lee Purcell, American actress (Big Wednesday, Mr Majestyk)
1947 Paul Patterson, composer
1948 Champ Summers, baseball player
1948 Mike Holmgren, American football coach
1949 Dusty Baker, baseball player (LA Dodgers) and manager
1949 Jim Varney, American actor (Ernest Goes to Jail, Hey Vern) (d. 2000)
1949 Michael Lutz, bassist (Brownsville Station)
1949 Russell Hitchcock, Australian singer (Air Supply)
1949 Simon Callow, British actor (Good Father)
1950 Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist
1950 Mark Arnott, Chicago IL, actor (Return of the Secaucus 7)
1950 Noddy Holder, rock vocalist/guitarist (Slade-Cum On Feel The Noize)
1951 Steve Walsh, American singer (Kansas)
1951 Tom Forzani, CFL wide receiver (Calgary Stampeders)
1952 Lorna Young, salesperson
1952 Sandra Cassel, American actress
1953 Rita Lee, American model and Playboy Playmate (November, 1977)
1954 Beverley Whitfield, Australian swimmer (d. 1996)
1954 James Belushi, American actor (Sat Night Live, Trading Places)
1954 Paul Rusesabagina, Rwandan hotel manager
1954 Terri Gibbs, Augusta Ga, blind singer (Somebody's Knockin')
1955 Cathy Morse, LPGA golfer
1955 David Kennedy, Kennedy family member (d. 1984)
1955 Julie Hagerty, American actress (Airplane, Princesses)
1955 Sally E Silverstone, Walthamstow England, Co-Captain (Biosphere 2)
1955 Tree Rollins, Winter Haven Fla, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1956 Ava Cadell, American actress (Do or Die)
1956 Lance Parrish, baseball player
1956 Polly Draper, American actress (Ellyn-30 Something, Hooters)
1956 Robin Curtis, American actress
1957 Brad Gillis, rock guitarist/vocalist (Night Ranger)
1957 Brett Butler, comedian (Grace Under Fire)
1957 Clio Goldsmith, Paris France, actress (Gift, Heat of Desire)
1957 Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
1958 Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (d. 1982)
1958 Wade Boggs, American baseball player, 3rd baseman (Red Sox/Yankees) (AL bat champ 1985-88)
1959 Alan Brazil, British footballer
1959 Eileen Davidson, American actress (Kristen-Days of our Life)
1960 Denise Haigh, LPGA golfer
1960 Marieke van Doorn, Dutch field hockey player
1960 Michèle Laroque, French actress
1961 Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer
1961 Kai Eckhardt, German musician (Garaj Mahal)
1961 Scott Norton, American professional wrestler
1961 Yoshimi Iwasaki, Japanese singer/actress
1962 Andrea Rost, Hungarian soprano
1962 Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor
1963 Blanca Portillo, Spanish actress
1963 Helen Hunt, American actress (Jamie-Mad About You, Twister)
1963 Mario Gosselin, Quebec ice hockey player
1963 Nigel Walker, Welsh athlete and rugby union player
1963 Scott Rockenfield, drummer (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1964 Courteney Cox, American actress (Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends)
1964 Gavin Greenaway, British composer
1964 Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer
1965 Adam Smith, American politician
1965 Annelies Bredael, Belgian rower
1965 Carrie Mitchum, LA California, actress (Donna-Bold & Beautiful)
1965 David Bolton, Guyana, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Lando Mem Amateur)
1966 Idalis DeLeon, American actress/singer
1967 Yuji Ueda, Japanese voice actor
1968 Demtra Hampton, Phila, model (Garda)
1968 Karoly Guttler, Hungarian swimmer
1968 Oh Dal-su, South Korean actor
1968 Tim Lester, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1969 Cédric Pioline, French tennis player (1996 Coopenhagen)
1969 Ice Cube, American rapper and actor (Boyz in the Hood, Friday)
1969 Jesse Belanger, St-georges De Beau, NHL center (Vancouver Canucks)
1969 Maurice Odumbe, Kenyan cricketer (Kenyan batsman & 1996 World Cup captain)
1969 Oliver Kahn, German footballer
1969 Sheldon Kennedy, Brandon, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1970 Amanda Cromwell, Wash DC, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
1970 Christian Bauman, American novelist and essayist
1970 Gaëlle Méchaly, French soprano
1970 Janie Eickhoff, Long Beach California, US cyclist (Olympic-92)
1970 Janie Quigley, Long Beach California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1970 Leah Remini, American actress
1970 Zan Tabak, NBA center (Toronto Raptors)
1971 Bif Naked, Canadian musician
1971 Edwin Brienen, Dutch director
1971 Jake Busey, American actor
1971 Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer
1971 Stuart Howell, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1972 Andy (Andrew) Pettitte, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1972 Chloe Dao, American designer and winner of Project Runway (season 2)
1972 DeWayne Patterson, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 Hank Von Helvete, Turbonegro Frontman
1972 Jean Francois Labbe, Sherbrooke, NHL goalie (Colorado Avalanche)
1972 Justin (C G) Leonard, American golfer, PGA tour (1994 Anheuser-Busch-3rd)
1972 Lianne Bennion, Seattle Wash, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Marcus Hahnemann, American soccer player
1972 Ramiro Mendoza, Los Santos Panama, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1972 Sandy Mccarthy, Toronto, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1972 Tony Clark, Newton KS, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1973 Dean McAmmond, Grand Cache, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1973 Greg Vaughan, American actor
1973 Matt Stevens, safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 Neil Patrick Harris, American actor (Doogie Howser MD)
1973 Pia Miranda, Australian actress
1973 Tore André Flo, Norwegian footballer
1974 Any Lynn Ciccolella, Monument Colorado, Miss America-Colorado (1996)
1974 Scott Tunkin, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1975 Agathe Neuner, Miss Germany Universe (1997)
1975 Elizabeth Reaser, American actress
1975 Rachel Wacholder, American beach volleyballer
1976 Gary Lightbody, Northern Irish musician (Snow Patrol)
1977 Michael Doleac, American basketball player
1977 Nina Liu, Australian actress
1978 RoRo (Romell Chapman), Atlanta Ga, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1978 Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
1978 Zach Day, American baseball player
1979 Alita Dawson, Miss Connecticut Teen USA (1997)
1979 Charles Zwolsman Jr., Dutch racing driver
1979 Danielle Lineker, Welsh lingerie model
1979 Julia Schultz, American model, playmate (Feb, 1998)
1979 Yulia Nestsiarenka, Belarusian athlete
1980 Almudena Cid Tostado, Spanish gymnast
1980 Cara Zavaleta, American model
1980 Christopher Castile, American actor
1980 Mary Carey, American pornographic actress
1981 Cristin Duren, Miss Florida Teen USA (Miss Photogenic-1997)
1981 Daniel Vosovic, American fashion designer
1981 Jeremy Reed, American baseball player
1981 John Paintsil, Ghanaian footballer
1981 Jordi Vilasuso, American actor
1981 William Dean Martin, American musician (Good Charlotte)
1982 Abdur Razzak, Bangladeshi cricketer
1982 Haley Scarnato, American singer
1982 Katie Chapman, English footballer
1983 Derek Anderson, American football player
1983 Julia Fischer, German violinist
1983 Laura Imbruglia, Australian musician
1984 Luke Hodge, Australian AFL player
1984 Mauro Rizzo, Italian footballer
1984 Tim Lincecum, American baseball player, pitcher (SF Giants)
1985 Nadine Coyle, Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud)
1987 Colin Robinson, American photographer
1988 Miku Ishida, Japanese teen idol
1990 Denzel Whitaker, American actor
1996 Cedric Pioline, Neuilly/Seine France, tennis pro (US open final-93)
Died on June 15th
923 Robert I, King of France (922-23), dies in battle (b. 866)
948 Romanus I Lecapenus, Armenian emperor of Byzantium (919-44)
991 Theophano, German Empress, wife of Emperor Otto II (b. 960)
1073 Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (b. 1034)
1246 Frederik II "the Strijdbare", Duke of Austria, dies in battle (b. 1219)
1337 Angelus Clarenus/da Cingoli, Italian leader
1341 Andronicus III Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1328-41) (b. 1297)
1381 John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England
1381 Wat Tyler, English rebel, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London (b. 1341)
1383 John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor
1389 Lazar I, Serbian prince, dies in battle
1389 Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
1389 Prince Lazar, Serbian Orthodox saint (b. 1329)
1397 Count of Eu, French knight, dies in Turkish captivity
1467 Philip III, the Good, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
1521 Tamás Bakócz. Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
1557 Sebastiaan Van Noyen, military master builder
1580 Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Haarlem
1614 Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
1666 Pieter de Bitter, Dutch admiral (Colombo, Goa)
1677 Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer
1679 Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
1702 Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer
1703 Gillis Schey, Dutch admiral (battle at Lowestoft)
1708 Romeyn de Hooghe, painter/goldsmith
1724 Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
1750 Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684)
1760 Antoine Court, French reformed theologist
1768 James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
1772 Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (La Rose) (b. 1694)
1814 Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician
1828 Brizio Petrucci, composer,
1831 Peter Fuchs, composer
1839 Hans Skramstad, composer
1844 Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (Ye Mariners of England) (b. 1777)
1845 Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat
1849 James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (1845-1849) (b. 1795)
1856 David Cox, English painter (Treatise on Landscape Paint)
1858 Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter and sculptor (b. 1795)
1865 Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide
1865 Jakob Zeugheer, composer
1869 Albert Grisar, composer
1875 Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer
1888 Frederik III NK van Hohenzollern, German Emperor, King of Prussia (b. 1831)
1889 Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (Luceafarul) (b. 1850)
1895 Richard Genee, composer
1905 Hermann von Wissmann, German African expl/gov East-Africa
1907 William Le Baron Jenney, US architect
1914 A G Steel, cricketer (13 Tests, 29 wkts, Eng capt 1886)
1917 Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
1917 Lillian Bassman, Russian emigrant to America, photographer and painter (Harper's Bazaar)
1920 Michel-Gaston Carraud, composer
1923 Alexander Stamboeliski, premier Bulgaria (1919-23)
1934 Alfred Bruneau, French composer (b. 1857)
1938 Ernst L Kirchner, German painter
1941 Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
1941 Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
1942 Vera Figner, writer
1943 Cecil Parkin, cricketer (32 wkts in 10 Tests for Eng 1920-24)
1952 Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist
1958 Francois de Vries, economist
1961 Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
1962 Alfred Cortot, Franco-Swiss pianist (b. 1877)
1965 E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902)
1965 Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
1967 Edward Eagan, boxer (Oly-gold-20)/bobsledder (Oly-gold-32)
1968 Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher (b. 1880)
1968 Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist, dies of a heart attack (b. 1925)
1971 Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1976 Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
1978 Anton Roosjen, politician/NCRV-chairman
1979 Ernst Meister, writer
1982 Art(hur E) Pepper, US, alto saxophonist
1982 Neil Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Bride of Frankenstein)
1983 Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910)
1984 Meredith Willson, American composer (Meredith Willson Show) (b. 1902)
1984 Ned Glass, actor (Charade, Street Music)
1985 Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b. 1927)
1985 Len Hopwood, cricketer (took 0-155 in two Tests Eng v Aust 1934)
1985 Percy Fender, cricketer (13 Tests for England, 380 runs 29 wkts)
1985 Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (b. 1961)
1986 K K Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), killed by motor-scooter
1987 J A K Cochrane, cricketer (Test for S Afr 1931)
1987 Walter W Heller, US economist (Old Myths & New Realities)
1989 Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
1989 Ray McAnally, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State)
1989 Victor French, American actor (#44-Get Smart, Highway to Heaven) (b. 1934)
1991 Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
1991 Happy Chandler, American politician and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
1992 Eddie Lopat, pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 73
1992 Leo Halle, soccer goalie (Go Ahead, Orange), dies
1993 James Hunt, English racing driver and 1976 F1 world champion (b. 1947)
1993 John Connally, American politician (Gov-D/R-Texas) (b. 1917)
1993 Mahfoud Boucebi, Algerian psychiatrist, murdered
1993 Vera, scarf and linen designer
1994 David Lawson, executed in NC (wanted execution shown on Donahue)
1994 Kristen Pfaff, US bass guitarist (Hole-Live through this)
1994 Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (Never on Sunday) (b. 1925)
1994 Nadia Gray, actress (La Dolce Vita, Naked Summer)
1995 Charles Bennett, screenwriter
1995 John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (b. 1903)
1996 Dick Murdoch, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
1996 Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
1996 Fitzroy Maclean, the original James Bond
1996 Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician
1996 Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast
2000 Jules Roy, French writer (b. 1907)
2001 Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
2002 Choi Hong Hi, founder of Taekwon-Do (b. 1918)
2003 Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
2005 Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
2006 Herb Pearson, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1910)
2006 Raymond Devos, French humourist (b. 1922)
2007 Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (b. 1950)
2007 Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler and valet (b. 1958)
2008 Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist, and film director (b. 1946)
2011 Bill Haast, American Herpetologist (b. 1910)
2013 Heinz Flohe, German footballer (b. 1948)
2013 Kenneth G. Wilson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1936)
2013 Stan Lopata, American baseball player
2013 José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver
2014 Casey Kasem, creator of American Top 40 and the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo
2014 Daniel Keyes, American author (Flowers for Algernon)
2015 Kirk Kerkorian, American CEO and "father of the mega-resort" (MGM, UA)
2016 Lois Duncan, American young adult novelist (I Know What You Did Last Summer)
