June 21st
Holidays and Festivals
Summer Solstice (Northern hemisphere) /
Winter Solstice (Southern hemisphere) * CLICK HERE
National Day (Greenland)
Flag Day (Greenland) * CLICK HERE
Martyrs' Day (Togo)
National Aboriginal Day (Canada)
Father's Day (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Uganda) * CLICK HERE
World Humanist Day (Humanism)
National Daylight Appreciation Day (Northern Hemisphere), on the Summer Solstice
World Music Day
Statehood Day (New Hampshire)
Go Skateboarding Day a.k.a. Go Skate Day
Family Awareness Day
Ann & Samantha Day
Baby Boomer's Recognition Day
Christian Feast Day of Aloysius Gonzaga
Christian Feast Day of Engelmund of Velsen
Christian Feast Day of Martin of Tongres
* Midsummer Celebrations/Jaanipäev Tallinn, Estonia - June 21–24 - (1-4)
* Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 10 – 23 (12of14) (2010)
Fête de la Oignon Translation: Onion Day (French Republican) The Third day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here's to the Ladies,
We admire them for their beauty,
respect them for their intelligence,
adore them for their virtue,
and love them, because we can't help it."
-Anonymous
Drink of The Day
1 Part Brandy
1 Part Creme De Casis
Fill with Club Soda
Wine of The Day
Alta Vista (2008) Classic
Style - Malbec
Mendoza
$13
Beer of The Day
Chaser Pale
Brewer - Blackstone Brewing Co. Nashville, TN
Style - Kölsch
Joke of The Day
One for the Gals...
WOMEN:
Women are compassionate, and loving, and caring.
Women cry when they are happy.
Women are always doing little things to show they care.
They will stop at nothing to get what they think is best for their children (best school, best food, best clothes)
Women have the ability to keep smiling when they are so tired they can hardly stand up.
They know how to turn a simple meal into an occasion.
Women know how to get the most for their money
They know how to comfort a sick friend.
Women bring joy and laughter to the world.
They know how to entertain children for hours on end!
They are honest and loyal.
Women have a will of iron under that soft exterior.
They will go the extra mile to help a friend in need.
Women are easily brought to tears by injustice.
They know how to make a man feel like a king.
Women make the world a much happier place to live.
MEN:
Men are good at moving heavy things and killing spiders.
One For the Guys...
MALE PROCEDURE FOR DRIVE-THROUGH ATM
1. Drive up to the cash machine.
2. Put down your car window.
3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN.
4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.
5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt.
6. Put window up.
7. Drive off.
FEMALE PROCEDURE FOR DRIVE-THROUGH ATM
1. Drive up to cash machine.
2. Reverse and back up the required amount to align car window with the machine.
3. Set parking brake, put the window down.
4. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card.
5. Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up.
6. Attempt to insert card into machine.
7. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car.
8. Insert card.
9. Re-insert card the right way.
10. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.
11. Enter PIN.
12. Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN.
13. Enter amount of cash required.
14. Check makeup in rear view mirror.
15. Retrieve cash and receipt.
16. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside.
17. Write deposit amount in check register and place receipt in back of checkbook.
18. Re-check makeup.
19. Drive forward 2 feet.
20. Reverse back to cash machine.
21. Retrieve card.
22. Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided.
23. Give appropriate one-fingered hand signal to irate male driver waiting behind you.
24. Restart stalled engine and pull off.
25. Redial person on cell phone.
26. Drive for 2 to 3 miles.
27. Release Parking Brake.
Quote of The Day
"Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once!"
- Unknown
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
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
Dragaica fair (Buzau, Romania) June 10th through 24th
Old Time Fiddlers Week (Weiser, Idaho), Third Full Week in June
Historical on June 21st
524 Battle at Vezerone: Burgundy beats France
524 Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
996 Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elzas
1128 Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik
1307 Külüg Khan enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
1498 Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian
1529 Battle at Landriano: Leyva beats France
1547 Great fire in Moscow
1572 Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda
1582 The Incident at Honno-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan.
1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
1621 Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views
1661 Treaty of Kardis: Russia & Sweden sign peace treaty
1667 Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
1672 Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded
1672 French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht
1684 King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
1734 In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1749 Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Neth
1768 1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer)
1768 James Otis, Jr. offends the King and parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
1788 New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States, US Constitution goes into effect.
1788 Vizille France population demands local parliament
1791 Fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne
1792 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, BC
1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
1805 Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
1813 Battle of Vitoriav in the Peninsular War.
1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
1824 Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1826 Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
1849 Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels
1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
1858 Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
1863 Battle at Upperville Virginia, 389 casualities
1864 New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1868 Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg," premieres in Munich
1877 The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1879 F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
1895 British Roseberry government falls
1895 The Kiel Canal is officially opened.
1898 Guam becomes a territory of US
1898 The United States captures Guam from Spain
1900 Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
1903 Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)
1904 Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)
1907 13th US Golf Open, Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA
1907 E W Scripps founded United Press
1913 Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
1915 Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law
1915 The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1916 Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0
1916 Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing
1917 Hawaiian Red Cross forms
1919 Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
1919 Bauer forms German government
1919 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
1921 HSC '21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen
1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
1924 NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
1930 Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
1932 Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title (NYC)
1933 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
1937 French People's front government-Blum falls
1938 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
1938 Bradman scores 101 in 77 minutes, Australia v Lancashire
1939 NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
1940 German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
1940 The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
1941 After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
1942 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
1942 Jacqueline Kennedy's mother marries Hugh Auchincloss
1942 President Roosevelt and premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
1942 Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
1942 A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland, World War II.
1942 Tobruk in North Africa falls to Italian and German forces (Rommel), World War II.
1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
1944 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
1945 The Battle of Okinawa ends, US defeat Japanese forces during WW II
1946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas
1946 Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million
1946 Fed judge rules Seattle club doesn't have to play returning serviceman
1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
1948 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)
1948 Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as gov-gen of India
1948 Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
1948 WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit
1951 "17" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances
1951 Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones
1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1952 Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1954 John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0)
1956 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1956 German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners
1956 Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters
1957 Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
1958 French franc devalues
1960 Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0)
1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m
1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
1964 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail
1964 Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
1964 Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get 3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH
1964 Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1965 65th US Golf Open, Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St Louis
1966 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
1967 Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th & Yanks beat them 6-3
1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
1969 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)
1969 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1969 John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m)
1969 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"
1970 70th US Golf Open, Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine Natl Minn
1970 Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup (in Mexico City)
1970 Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1971 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana
1971 71st US Golf Open, Lee Trevino shoots a 280 at Merion GC in Ardmore PA
1971 Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf
1971 Intl Court of Justice asks South-Africa to pull out of Namibia
1973 In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law.
1975 "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens
1975 Elton John, Eagles & Beach Boys play Wembley
1975 Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow
1975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
1975 West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1976 Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy
1977 Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
1977 Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM
1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Rice's musical "Evita," premiers in London
1979 Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy
1981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
1981 81st US Golf Open, David Graham shoots 273 at Merion GC in Ardmore Pa
1981 Don Fagan & Walter Becker quit Steely Dan
1981 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf
1981 Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200
1981 Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election
1982 John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the 1981 attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1982 Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away"
1983 Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1983 Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery
1985 American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
1986 "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61
1986 "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18
1986 Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with KC Royals
1986 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
1986 Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
1987 87th US Golf Open, Scott Simpson shoots a 277 at Olympic Club in SF
1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1987 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB
1987 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant
1988 42nd NBA Championship, LA Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3
1988 Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon
1988 Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years
1989 Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium
1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
1989 Yankees trade Rickey Henderson to A's for Plunk, Cadaret & Polonia
1990 7.7 Earthquake with 100s of after shocks hits Iran; about 50,000 die
1990 At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap & proclaims "I am a Yankee!"
1990 Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
1990 Parliament of W & E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
1990 US House of Reps vote 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass
1991 Eleanor Mondale marries Greg "Thunder" Malban (Minn DJ)
1991 Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia
1991 NY Islanders Denis Potvin & Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame
1992 92nd US Golf Open, Tom Kite shoots a 285 at Pebble Beach GL Calif
1992 Actor Michael Chiklis (Commish) marries Michelle Epstein
1992 Actress Marina Sirtis (Star Trek NG) marries rocker Michael Lamper
1992 Danielle Ammaccapan wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1992 Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham & Allan Lamb
1993 "Camelot" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 56 performances
1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1994 Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal)
1997 "Defending the Caveman," closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 perfs
1997 35th NHL draft Boston picks center Joe Thornton 1st
1997 Women's National Basketball Association begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks
1998 98th US Golf Open, at Olympic Club SF
2000 Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2001 Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Indian Ocean (4m56s)
2002 Lennox Lewis retains boxing's WBC world Heavyweight crown with an eight round knockout over Mike Tyson
2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
2012 A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
2012 Miami Heat win the 66th NBA Championship after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 games to 1
2012 Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
2013 15 people are killed and 20 are injured after a suicide bomber attacks a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan
2015 94 people die & 45 are hospitalized after drinking moonshine in Mumbai, India
2015 Hackers ground 1400 passengers by attacking IT system at Warsaw Chopin airport in Poland
2015 Jordan Spieth shoots a 275 (68-67-71-69-275) at Chambers Bay, Washington to win the 115th US Golf Open. At 21, he is the youngest winner since 1923.
Born on June 21st
1002 Leo IX (Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg), Pope (1049-54) (d. 1054)
1226 King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
1528 Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1603)
1535 Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)
1577 Giovanni Del Turco, composer
1588 George Wither, English writer (d. 1667)
1596 Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45), 1st Romanov
1639 Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)
1640 Abraham Mignon, still life painter
1646 Maria Francisca of Nemours, queen of Portugal (d. 1683)
1668 Cajetan Kolberer, composer
1676 Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
1706 John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
1710 James Short, British mathematician (d. 1768)
1712 Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
1730 Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist (d. 1801)
1732 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791)
1736 Enoch Poor, American general in the Continental Army (d. 1780)
1740 Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist (Algemeen Rijksarchief)
1750 Thomas Spence, English classical writer (d. 1814)
1750 Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French artist (d. 1818)
1759 Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
1763 Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher, attorney (d. 1845)
1764 Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840)
1774 Daniel D. Tompkins, Congressman, Governor of New York, and sixth Vice President of the United States (1817-25) (d. 1825)
1781 Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
1782 Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (d. 1852)
1786 Charles Edward Horn, British musician (d. 1849)
1788 Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)
1790 Wilhelm Speyer, composer
1791 Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
1798 Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)
1805 Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (d. 1880)
1805 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer
1811 Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
1812 Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (d. 1875)
1817 James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1887)
1818 Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93), composer
1818 Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1874)
1823 Edward Elmer Potter, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers) (d. 1889)
1823 Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
1825 William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford (d. 1901)
1828 Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (d. 1904)
1834 Elizabeth Jane Caulfeild (d. 1882)
1834 Frans de Cort, Flemish writer (d. 1878)
1839 Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner)
1839 Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician
1839 John Decatur Barry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
1839 Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (d. 1908)
1844 Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo)
1850 Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941)
1850 Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1928)
1858 Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (d. 1928)
1859 Henry O(ssawa) Tanner, American painter (d. 1937)
1862 Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943)
1862 Henry Holden Huss, composer
1862 Johannes Schlaf, writer
1863 Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
1864 Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian (d. 1945)
1865 Albert Herbert Brewer, composer
1868 Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
1870 Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)
1873 Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle)
1876 Willem H(endrik) Keesom, Dutch physicist (helium vast) (d. 1956)
1879 Gemma Doyle, British developer of Planar Theories and Realms Theology (d.1959)
1879 Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide)
1880 Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)
1880 Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (d. 1941)
1882 Lluís Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (d. 1940)
1882 Rockwell Kent, American artist, illustrator (Canterbury Tales) (d. 1971)
1883 Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement) (d. 1958)
1884 Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal (North-Africa) (d. 1981)
1887 Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
1889 Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
1890 Frank Sherman Land, The order of DeMolay founder (d. 1959)
1891 Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (Nature of Music) (d. 1966)
1891 Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (Nuove Struttura) (d. 1979)
1892 Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man) (d. 1971)
1893 Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
1894 Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
1896 Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
1898 Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
1899 George Miles Watson, British racehorse breeder (d. 1968)
1899 Pavel Haas, composer
1900 Gunnar Ek, composer
1902 Howie Morenz, professional ice hockey player (d. 1937)
1902 Wilhelm Maler, composer
1903 Al(bert) Hirschfield, American cartoonist (NINA, NY Times) (d. 2003)
1903 Dorothy Stickney, Dickinson ND, actress (And So They Were Married)
1903 Helene Costello, dancer/actress (Love Toy)
1903 Louis Krasner, violinist
1905 Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France)
1905 Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel Prize laureate 1964 - declined) (Le Mur) (d. 1980)
1906 Grete Sultan, German musician (d. 2005)
1906 Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
1906 Helene Costello, American actress (d. 1957)
1906 Luis Maria Millet, composer
1908 William Frankena, American philosopher (d. 1994)
1909 Kurt Schwaen, composer
1910 Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
1910 Bela Tardos, composer
1910 Charles Jones, composer
1912 Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot and officer of the Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence (d. 2000)
1912 Mary McCarthy, American writer (Group) (d. 1989)
1913 Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter
1914 Jan Decadt, composer
1914 William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1916 Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977)
1916 Joe Bamford, British manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1916 Joseph Cyril Bamford, English inventor and industrialist (d. 2001)
1918 Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)
1918 James Bysse Joll, historian
1918 James Clyde Mitchell, English sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1995)
1919 Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
1919 Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect
1919 Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess master and teacher (d. 1968)
1920 Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC)
1921 Frank Scott, Fargo ND, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1921 Jane Russell, American actress (Outlaw)
1921 Jean Kent, London England, actress (Adv of Sir Francis Drake)
1921 Jean de Broglie, French politician (d. 1976)
1921 Joan Tetzel, NYC, actress (Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning)
1921 Judy Holliday, American actress (d. 1965)
1922 Jim McConnon, cricketer (England off-spinner against Pakistan 1954)
1922 Judy Holliday, NYC, comedienne/actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib)
1923 Jacques Hébert, French Canadian author, journalist and politician (d. 2007)
1923 John Compton, Lynchburg Tn, actor (Shannon-D.A.'s Man)
1924 Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalytic thinker
1924 Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)
1924 Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director (d. 2006)
1924 Wally Fawkes, cartoonist/jazz clarinettist
1925 Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994)
1925 Maureen Stapleton, American actress (Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite) (d. 2006)
1926 Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003)
1927 Carl Burton Stokes, Mayor (Cleveland), TV newscaster (d. 1996)
1927 Jackie Collum, baseball player
1928 Judith Raskin, NYC, soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro)
1928 V G Yershov, cosmonaut
1929 Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
1929 Agha Saadat Ali, Pakistani cricketer
1929 Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999)
1929 John Morgan, British ambassador (to Mexico)
1930 Gerald Kaufman, British MP (shadow Foreign Secretary)
1930 Mike McCormack, American professional football player, NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland, Phila)
1930 Patricia Lindop, radio biologist
1930 Peter Marshall, police commissioner (London)
1930 Sir Gerald Kaufman, British politician
1931 Jan Trabka, Polish scientist, philosopher
1931 Lawrence K Grossman, News president (NBC-TV)
1931 Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1983-85)
1932 Bernard Ingham, press secretary (Margaret Thatcher)
1932 Lalo (Boris) Schifrin, Argentine pianist and composer
1932 Ocie Lee "OC" Smith, American jazz singer (Little Green Apples) (d. 2001)
1933 Bernie Kopell, NYC, actor (Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl)
1934 Wulf Kirsten, writer
1935 Francoise Sagan (Quoirez), French writer (Bonjour Trieste) (d. 2004)
1935 Monte Markham, Manatee Fla, actor (Second Hundred Years, Dallas)
1936 Joseph Gosnell, Nisga'a statesman
1937 Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology (Oxford U)
1937 John Edrich, cricketer (England left-handed batsman, 310* v NZ 1965)
1938 Dan Burton, (Rep-R-IN, 1983)
1938 James Botten, cricketer (all-rounder in 1965 S Afr series v England)
1938 John W. Dower, American author and historian
1938 Ron Ely, American actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage)
1939 Charles Boone, composer
1939 Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician
1940 Mariette Hartley, American actress (Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned)
1940 Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher
1941 Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor
1941 Lyman Ward, Canadian actor
1941 Pia J Barendrecht, Indonesian/Dutch actress (Pinokkio)
1942 Dan Henning, American football player
1942 Henry S. Taylor, American writer
1942 Marg Margolies-Mezvinsky, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1942 Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney and public official
1942 William Bradford Reynolds, Conn, US asst attorney general
1943 Salomé, Spanish singer
1944 Corinna Tsopei, Greek beauty pageant winner (Miss Universe 1964), actress (Man Called Horse)
1944 Frans Luitjes, Dutch athlete
1944 Jon Hiseman, rocker
1944 Miguel Danus, Vicens rocker
1944 Ray Davies, English musician, singer and guitarist (The Kinks)
1945 Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher, poet
1945 Chris Britton, England, rock guitarist (The Troggs)
1945 Philippe Sarde, French composer
1946 Brenda Holloway, American singer and songwriter (When I'm
1946 Kate Hoey, British MP (Lab)
1946 Malcolm Rifkind, British QC MP (Sect of State for Defense)
1946 Maurice Saatchi, English advertising CEO (Saatchi & Saatchi)
1946 Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author
1947 Dana Rohrabacher, (Rep-R-California)
1947 Joey Molland, English musician (Badfinger)
1947 Lex van Delden, Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange)
1947 Meredith Baxter, American actress (Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie)
1947 Michael Gross, American actor (Family Ties, FBI murders)
1947 Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1948 Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
1948 Ian McEwan, English writer
1948 Joey Malland, Liverpool, rock guitarist (Badfinger-Come & Get It)
1948 Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
1949 Jim Bacchus, (Rep-D-Florida)
1950 Anne Carson, Canadian poet
1950 Enn Reitel, English actor
1950 Gérard Lanvin, French actor
1950 Joey Kramer, American drummer and percussionist (Aerosmith)
1950 Terry Miskolczi, Dunnville ON, Canadian Tour golfer (1976 Alberta-3rd)
1950 Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and musician
1951 Jim Douglas, American politician, governor of Vermont
1951 Nils Lofgren, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter (East Street Band)
1952 Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director
1953 Augustus Pablo, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
1953 Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation (d. 2007)
1953 Charlie Moore Jr, baseball player
1953 Michael Bowen, American actor
1953 Robyn Douglass, Sendai Japan, actress (Lonely Guy, Romantic Comedy)
1954 Anne Kirkbride, English actress (Deidre-Coronation Street)
1954 Jeremy Coney, cricketer (NZ captain turned them into world-beaters)
1954 Kathy Sullivan, American attorney and politician
1954 Mark Kimmitt, US Army general
1954 Müjde Ar, Turkish actress
1954 Robert Menasse, Austrian writer
1954 Robert Pastorelli, American actor (Eldin-Murphy Brown) (d. 2004)
1955 Aloysius Amwano, Nauruan politician
1955 David Marshall Grant, Westport CT, actor (Legs, French Postcards)
1955 Jean-Pierre Mader, French singer-songwriter
1955 Leigh J McCloskey, American actor (Dallas, Executive Suite, Gen Hosp)
1955 Michel Platini, French footballer
1955 Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer
1956 Mikhail Burtsev, USSR, sabres (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 Rick Sutcliffe, pitcher (LA Dodgers, Chicago Cubs)
1957 Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist and author (Vegetarian, Bloom County, Outland)
1957 Lucien DeBlois, professional ice hockey player
1957 Mark Brzezicki, rock drummer (Big Country-Wonderland)
1958 Gennadi Ivanovich Padalka, Russian major, cosmonaut (SK: Soyuz TM-28)
1959 Kathy Mattea, American country singer (Love at the Five & Dime)
1959 Marcella Detroit, singer and songwriter (Shakespear's Sister)
1959 Tom Chambers, American basketball player, NBA forward, center (Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns)
1960 Kevin Harlan, American sportscaster
1961 Karen Barber, ice skater
1961 Kip Winger, American musician (Winger)
1961 Manu Chao, French musician
1961 Sascha Konietzko, German musician
1962 Marc Copage, LA California, actor (Corey Baker-Julia)
1962 Takeshi Asami, Japanese racing driver
1962 Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (d. 1990)
1963 Jeff Musselman, baseball player
1963 Lucas de Groot, Dutch type designer
1963 Mike Sherrard, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1964 David Morrissey, British actor
1964 Doug Savant, American actor (Matt Fielding-Melrose Place)
1964 Kari Kennell, Colorado, playmate (Feb, 1988)/actress (Eric's Revenge)
1964 Sammi Davis, British actress (Hope & Glory)
1965 Larry Wachowski, American film director
1965 Michael Dolan, Oklahoma City OK, actor (Hamburger Hill, Liberace)
1965 Yang Liwei, Chinese astronaut
1966 David Williams, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers, NY Jets)
1966 Mancow Muller, American radio personality
1966 Nan Woods, American actress (One More Saturday Night)
1966 Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
1967 Carrie Preston, American actress
1967 Derrick Coleman, American basketball player, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1967 Jim Breuer, American comedian
1967 Michele Smith, Califon NJ, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1967 Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American businessman
1967 Robert Drummond, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1967 Tim Simenson, rocker (Bomb the Bass)
1968 Alastair Campbell Mackintosh, Hamilton NZ, coxless rower (Olympics-96)
1968 Alisyn Camerota, American journalist
1968 Brandon Douglas, Oklahoma City, actor (Dr Quinn, Father's Homecoming)
1968 Darryl Shannon, Barrie, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1968 Gretchen Carlson, American journalist
1968 Henry Newby, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 Sonique, British DJ
1969 Chris Perez, CFL tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1969 Donovan Osborne, Roseville CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1969 Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier
1970 Brandon Moore, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)
1970 John Roethlisberger, American gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1970 Pete Rock, American rapper/producer
1970 Sindee Coxx, American pornographic actress
1971 Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish)
1971 Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince/son of King of Nepal
1971 Nicole Stevenson, Melbourne Australia, backstroker (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1971 Tyrone Drakeford, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers)
1972 Alon Hilu, Israeli writer
1972 Andrew Jordan, NFL tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 Billy Milner, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1972 Heath Rylance, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 Jamal Ellis, NFL/WLAF cornerback (Denver Broncos, Rhein Fire)
1972 Marv Marshall, NFL/WLAF receiver (Buccaneers, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Neil Doak, former Irish cricketer
1972 Tony Berti, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1973 Alyson Annan, Sydney NSW Aust, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1973 Juliette Lewis, American actress (Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear)
1973 Merlakia Jones, WNBA guard/forward (Cleveland Rockers)
1973 Sammie Burroughs, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 Craig Lowndes, Australian racing driver
1974 Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
1974 Neely Jenkins, American musician
1974 Rob Kelly, American football player, safety (New Orleans Saints)
1976 Antonio Cochran, American football player
1976 Mike Einziger, American musician
1976 Natalia Cronenbold Aguilera, Miss Universe-Bolivia (1996)
1976 Nigel Lappin, Australian footballer
1977 Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player, forward (Team Germany 1998)
1977 Michael Gomez, Irish boxer
1978 Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer
1978 Dejan Ognjanovic, Montenegrin football player
1978 Erica Durance, Canadian actress
1978 Jack Guzman, American actor
1978 Jean-Pascal Lacoste, French singer, actor and TV host
1978 Rim'K, French rapper
1979 Chris Pratt, American actor
1979 Kostas Katsouranis, Greek footballer
1980 Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
1980 Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player
1981 Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)
1981 Garrett Jones, American baseball player
1981 Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 William of Wales, British Prince and heir, son of Prince Charles & Lady Diana
1984 Alicia Alighatti, American pornographic actress
1984 Franck Perera, French racing driver
1985 Anthony Morelli, American football player
1985 Byron Schammer, AFL footballer
1985 Kris Allen, American singer
1987 Dale Thomas, AFL footballer
1987 Kim Ryeowook, Korean pop singer
1987 Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer
1988 Alejandro Ramírez, chess Grandmaster
1989 Jascha Washington, American actor
2001 Alexandra Obolentseva, Russian chess player
Died on June 21st
223 Liu Bei, Emperor of Shu Han (b. 161)
524 Chlodomir, king of the France to Orleans (511-24)
1040 Fulk III, Count of Anjou (b. 972)
1171 Walter de Lucy, Abbot of Battle Abbey (b. 1103)
1205 Enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. 1107)
1208 Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and duke of Swabia (b. 1177)
1208 Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman-German King
1305 King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
1377 Edward III, King of England (1327-77) (b. 1312)
1421 Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366)
1521 Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice (b. 1436)
1527 Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
1529 John Skelton, English poet
1547 Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
1558 Piero Strozzi, Italian military leader (b. 1558)
1573 Antonie van Burgundy, mayor of sealand, dies in battle
1582 Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
1591 Aloysius (Luigi) van Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit saint (b. 1568)
1596 Jean Liebault, French agronomist (b. 1535)
1621 Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
1621 Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1575)
1631 John Smith, English explorer
1652 Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
1661 Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (b. 1599)
1737 Matthieu Marais, French jurist (b. 1664)
1738 Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
1796 Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
1824 Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
1865 Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
1874 Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
1876 Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), President of Mexico (b. 1794)
1884 Alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso
1887 Adolf Schimon, composer
1893 Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University (b. 1824)
1900 Polibo Fumagalli, composer
1908 Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade) (b. 1844)
1913 Stefan O Iosif, Romanian poet (Beautiful Irine)
1914 Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1914 Glauco Velasquez, composer
1917 Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1856)
1925 Jan H Leopold, poet/classical (translated Omar Khayyam)
1929 Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, British politician (b. 1864)
1934 (James) Thorne Smith, American sci-fi author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout) (b. 1892)
1940 Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist
1940 Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet, writer, critic, drowns
1940 Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881)
1940 W Hasenclever, writer
1944 Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft
1945 Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Sinking Shadows)
1946 Heinrich Kaminski, composer
1951 Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
1952 Wilfrid 'Wop' May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
1954 Gideon Sundback, American inventor, perfected the zipper (b. 1880)
1957 Claude Farrère, Franch writer (b. 1876)
1957 Don McBride, actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Flicka)
1957 Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer
1957 Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1964 Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist, murdered (b. 1943)
1964 James Chaney, American civil rights activist, murdered (b. 1943)
1964 Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist, murder (b. 1939)
1965 Bernard M Baruch, pres advisor (termed "Cold War")
1968 Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses)
1969 Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, American tennis player, 1st woman grand slam (1953) (b. 1934)
1970 Achmed Sukarno, First President of Indonesia (1945-67) (b. 1901)
1972 Seth Bingham, composer
1973 Frank Leahy, football coach (Notre Dame)
1975 Heinz Lau, composer
1976 Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
1979 Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)
1979 Julian Orchard, actor (Perfect Friday, Bless this House)
1980 Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
1981 Gunnar Ek, composer, dies on 81st birthday
1983 Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (Tijl)
1985 Ettore Boiardi, Italian chef (Chef Boyardee) (b. 1897)
1985 Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
1986 Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author (b. 1923)
1987 Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer, TV commercial actor (b. 1914)
1988 Robert Lee "Bobby" Dodd, US football coach
1989 Lee Quencey Calhoun, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1989 Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host
1992 Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China (1983-88) (b. 1909)
1992 Thomas Whitfield, gospel vocalist
1993 Frank Moro, entertainer
1993 Jerry Strivelli, actor (Out for Justice, Lock Up)
1993 Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
1994 Mark Robert Isfeld, combat Engineer
1994 William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer (b. 1906)
1995 Kenneth Henry Lowry Lamb, broadcaster
1995 Tristan Jones, sailor
1997 Art Prysock, jazz musician
1997 Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
1997 Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
1998 Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
1998 Anastasio Ballestrero, Italian Cardinal
1999 Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
2000 Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
2001 Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
2001 John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
2001 Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
2002 Timothy Findley, Canadian novelist and playwright (b. 1930)
2003 Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967)
2003 Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
2003 Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
2004 Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
2005 Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila, prominent leader during the People Power Revolution (b. 1928)
2007 Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
2008 Kermit Love, American puppeteer (b. 1916)
2008 Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)
2011 Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author (b. 1927)
2013 Elliott Reid, American actor
2015 Gunther Schuller, American hornist and jazz composer (1994 Pulitzer Prize)
2015 Veijo Meri, Finnish writer