June 16

June 16 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 363 – Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Roman forces suffered several attacks from the Persians.
• 632 – Yazdegerd III ascends to the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran).
• 1407 – Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and his son King Hồ Hán Thương of Hồ dynasty are captured by the Ming armies.
• 1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
• 1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
• 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia (Old Style).
• 1746 – War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
• 1755 – French and Indian War: The French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
• 1774 – Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
• 1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• 1795 – First Battle of Groix otherwise known as "Cornwallis' Retreat".
• 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
• 1816 – At the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests — Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori — and challenges each guest to write a ghost story, which culminates in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
• 1836 – The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
• 1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
• 1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
• 1858 – The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
• 1871 – The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
• 1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
• 1884 – The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
• 1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister.
• 1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
• 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• 1903 – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
• 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
• 1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
• 1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
• 1915 – Foundation of the British Women's Institute.
• 1922 – General election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn Féin win a large majority.
• 1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
• 1925 – The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
• 1930 – Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
• 1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
• 1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
• 1940 – A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
• 1944 – At age 14, George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.
• 1948 – Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
• 1955 – In a futile effort to topple Argentine President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the same time on the ground, some forces soldiers attempt to stage a coup but are suppressed by loyal forces.
• 1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
• 1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
• 1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
• 1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins
• 1972 – The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
• 1976 – Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
• 1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
• 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
• 1989 – Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
• 2000 – Israel complies with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 22 years after its issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel does so, except the disputed Shebaa farms.
• 2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
• 2012 – China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
• 2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

Births

• 1139 – Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
• 1332 – Isabella de Coucy, English daughter of Edward III of England (d. 1382)
• 1514 – John Cheke, English academic and politician, English Secretary of State (d. 1557)
• 1583 – Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish politician, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (d. 1654)
• 1591 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Greek-Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (d. 1655)
• 1606 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier and politician (d. 1675)
• 1612 – Murad IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1640)
• 1613 – John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
• 1633 – Jean de Thévenot, French linguist and botanist (d. 1667)
• 1644 – Henrietta of England, English princess (d. 1670)
• 1713 – Meshech Weare, American farmer, lawyer, and politician, 1st Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
• 1738 – Mary Katherine Goddard, American publisher (d. 1816)
• 1754 – Salawat Yulayev, Russian poet (d. 1800)
• 1792 – John Linnell, English painter and engraver (d. 1882)
• 1801 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
• 1806 – Edward Davy, English physician and chemist (d. 1885)
• 1813 – Otto Jahn, German archaeologist and philologist (d. 1869)
• 1820 – Athanase Josué Coquerel, Dutch-French theologian (d. 1875)
• 1821 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (d. 1908)
• 1826 – Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
• 1829 – Geronimo, American tribal leader (d. 1909)
• 1836 – Wesley Merritt, American general and politician, Military Governor of the Philippines (d. 1910)
• 1837 – Ernst Laas, German philosopher and academic (d. 1885)
• 1838 – Frederic Archer, English organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1901)
• 1838 – Cushman Kellogg Davis, American lieutenant and politician, 7th Governor of Minnesota (d. 1900)
• 1840 – Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
• 1850 – Max Delbrück, German agricultural chemist (d. 1919)
• 1857 – Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Austrian-Hungarian general (d. 1935)
• 1858 – Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)
• 1862 – Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (d. 1947)
• 1866 – Germanos Karavangelis, Greek-Austrian bishop (d. 1935)
• 1874 – Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
• 1880 – Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and author (d. 1963)
• 1881 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and illustrator (d. 1962)
• 1882 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
• 1885 – Erich Jacoby, Estonian-Polish architect (d. 1941)
• 1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist (d. 1925)
• 1888 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
• 1890 – Stan Laurel, English-American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (d. 1965)
• 1894 – Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1896 – Murray Leinster, American author and screenwriter (d. 1976)
• 1897 – Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
• 1897 – Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
• 1902 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
• 1902 – George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist and author (d. 1984)
• 1903 – Helen Traubel, American soprano and actress (d. 1972)
• 1907 – Jack Albertson, American actor and singer (d. 1981)
• 1909 – Archie Carr, American ecologist and zoologist (d. 1987)
• 1910 – Juan Velasco Alvarado, Peruvian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (d. 1977)
• 1912 – Albert Chartier, Canadian illustrator (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Enoch Powell, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Health (d. 1998)
• 1915 – John Tukey, American mathematician and academic (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Hank Luisetti, American basketball player (d. 2002)
• 1916 – John Young, Scottish actor (d. 1996)
• 1917 – Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (d. 1999)
• 1917 – Katharine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Aurelio Lampredi, Italian engineer (d. 1989)
• 1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009)
• 1920 – John Howard Griffin, American journalist and author (d. 1980)
• 1920 – Isabelle Holland, Swiss-American author (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1989)
• 1920 – José López Portillo, Mexican politician, 31st President of Mexico (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Ilmar Kullam, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Ron Flockhart, Scottish race car driver (d. 1962)
• 1924 – Faith Domergue, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Lucky Thompson, American saxophonist (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Jean d'Ormesson, French journalist and author
• 1925 – Otto Muehl, Austrian-Portuguese painter (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemalan general and politician, 26th President of Guatemala
• 1926 – Marc Lifschey, American oboist (d. 2000)
• 1927 – Tom Graveney, English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1927 – Herbert Lichtenfeld, German author and screenwriter (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian author and playwright (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Annie Cordy, Belgian actress and singer
• 1928 – Speedy Long, American lawyer and politician (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1930 – Allan D'Arcangelo, American painter (d. 1998)
• 1930 – Mike Sparken, French race car driver (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer
• 1932 – Norman Jones, English actor (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Ralph Robins, English businessman
• 1934 – Eileen Atkins, English actress and screenwriter
• 1934 – Jane Henson, American puppeteer (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2003)
• 1934 – Kumari Kamala, Indian dancer and actress
• 1935 – James Bolam, English actor
• 1935 – Jim Dine, American painter
• 1937 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Bulgarian politician, 48th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• 1937 – Erich Segal, American author and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Thomas Boyd-Carpenter, English general
• 1938 – Torgny Lindgren, Swedish author and poet
• 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, American author
• 1938 – Charles B. Pierce, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Billy "Crash" Craddock, American singer
• 1940 – Neil Goldschmidt, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Governor of Oregon
• 1941 – Lamont Dozier, American songwriter and producer
• 1941 – Tõnu Õim, Estonian chess player
• 1941 – Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist (d. 2011)
• 1942 – Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1942 – Eddie Levert, American singer (The O'Jays)
• 1943 – Joan Van Ark, American actress
• 1944 – Henri Richelet, French painter
• 1945 – Claire Alexander, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1945 – Lucienne Robillard, Canadian politician
• 1946 – Rick Adelman, American basketball player and coach
• 1946 – John Astor, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever, English businessman and politician
• 1946 – Karen Dunnell, English statistician
• 1946 – Tom Harrell, American trumpet player and composer
• 1946 – Neil MacGregor, Scottish historian and curator
• 1946 – Jodi Rell, American politician, 87th Governor of Connecticut
• 1946 – Mark Ritts, American actor, puppeteer, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1946 – Derek Sanderson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1947 – -minu, Swiss journalist
• 1947 – Günther Kaufmann, German actor (d. 2012)
• 1947 – Tom Malone, American trombonist, composer, and producer (The Blues Brothers and CBS Orchestra)
• 1947 – Buddy Roberts, American wrestler (d. 2012)
• 1948 – Ron LeFlore, American baseball player and manager
• 1948 – V. Hanumantha Rao, Indian politician
• 1949 – Paulo Cézar Caju, Brazilian footballer
• 1949 – Ralph Mann, American hurdler
• 1950 – Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor
• 1950 – Michel Clair, Canadian politician
• 1951 – Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
• 1952 – George Papandreou, Greek politician, 182nd Prime Minister of Greece
• 1952 – Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Valerie Mahaffey, American actress and producer
• 1954 – Matthew Saad Muhammad, American boxer (d. 2014)
• 1955 – Grete Faremo, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Defence
• 1955 – Laurie Metcalf, American actress
• 1955 – Artemy Troitsky, Russian journalist and music critic
• 1957 – Ian Buchanan, Scottish-American actor
• 1957 – Leeona Dorrian, Lady Dorrian, Scottish judge
• 1958 – Darrell Griffith, American basketball player
• 1958 – Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist and pilot (Þeyr)
• 1958 – Ulrike Tauber, German swimmer
• 1959 – Desirée Rogers, American businesswoman
• 1959 – The Ultimate Warrior, American wrestler (d. 2014)
• 1960 – Peter Sterling, Australian rugby player and sportscaster
• 1961 – Steve Larmer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Margus Metstak, Estonian basketball player
• 1961 – Can Dündar, Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian
• 1962 – Wally Joyner, American baseball player and coach
• 1962 – Femi Kuti, English-Nigerian singer-songwriter and saxophonist
• 1962 – Arnold Vosloo, South African-American actor
• 1962 – Anthony Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and producer (Tat Ming Pair)
• 1963 – Scott Alexander, American screenwriter and producer
• 1963 – Deb Caletti, American author
• 1963 – The Sandman, American wrestler
• 1964 – Danny Burstein, American actor
• 1965 – Laverne Eve, Bahamian javelin thrower
• 1965 – Andrea M. Ghez, American astronomer
• 1965 – Michael Richard Lynch, Irish businessman
• 1965 – Richard Madaleno, American politician
• 1966 – Mark Occhilupo, Australian surfer
• 1966 – Jan Železný, Czech javelin thrower
• 1967 – Charalambos Andreou, Cypriot footballer
• 1967 – Jürgen Klopp, German footballer and manager
• 1967 – Rupert Onslow, 8th Earl of Onslow, English businessman
• 1968 – James Patrick Stuart, American actor
• 1969 – Shami Chakrabarti, English lawyer and academic
• 1969 – Inkhosikati LaMbikiza, wife of King Mswati III of Swaziland and mother of Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini
• 1969 – Tommy Tiernan, Irish comedian and actor
• 1969 – MC Ren, American rapper
• 1970 – Younus AlGohar, Pakistani poet, academic, and humanitarian, co-founded Messiah Foundation International
• 1970 – Clifton Collins, Jr., American actor
• 1970 – Cobi Jones, American soccer player and manager
• 1970 – Phil Mickelson, American golfer
• 1971 – Chris Gomez, American baseball player
• 1971 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper, producer, and actor (Digital Underground, Outlawz, and Thug Life) (d. 1996)
• 1972 – John Cho, South Korean-American actor
• 1973 – Amanda Byram, Irish television host
• 1973 – Eddie Cibrian, American actor
• 1973 – Nikos Machlas, Greek footballer
• 1974 – Paul Lee, English-American sculptor
• 1975 – Anthony Carter, American basketball player
• 1975 – Heather Peace, English actress, musician, and director
• 1976 – Edwin Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1977 – Craig Fitzgibbon, Australian rugby player
• 1977 – Simone Legno, Italian graphic designer
• 1977 – Petros Papadakis, American sportscaster
• 1977 – Kerry Wood, American baseball player
• 1978 – Daniel Brühl, Spanish-German actor
• 1978 – Fish Leong, Malaysian singer
• 1978 – Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Phil Christophers, German-English rugby player
• 1980 – Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
• 1980 – Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
• 1980 – Sibel Kekilli, German actress
• 1980 – Daré Nibombé, Togolese footballer
• 1980 – Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1981 – Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Ben Kweller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 – Miguel Villalta, Peruvian footballer
• 1982 – May Andersen, Danish model
• 1982 – Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
• 1982 – Jodi Santamaria, Filipino actress
• 1983 – Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer
• 1983 – Olivia Hack, American actress and voice actress
• 1983 – Naz Elmas, Turkish actress
• 1984 – Jonathan Broxton, American baseball player
• 1984 – Gábor Császár, Hungarian handball player
• 1984 – Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Steven Whittaker, Scottish footballer
• 1986 – Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer
• 1986 – Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 – Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1986 – Robert Rothbart, Israeli-Serbian basketball player
• 1987 – Diana DeGarmo, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1987 – Abby Elliott, American actress
• 1987 – Christian Tshimanga Kabeya, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
• 1988 – Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1988 – Nathan Parsons, Australian-American actor
• 1989 – AraabMuzik, American DJ and producer
• 1989 – Jelena Glebova, Estonian figure skater
• 1990 – John Newman, English singer-songwriter
• 1991 – Joe McElderry, English singer-songwriter
• 1991 – Ryan Bang, South Korean actor and host
• 1992 – Vladimir Morozov, Russian swimmer
• 1994 – Grete-Lilijane Küppas, Estonian footballer

Deaths

• 1397 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu (b. 1358)
• 1468 – Jean Le Fevre de Saint-Remy, Burgundian historian (b. 1395)
• 1622 – Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
• 1623 – Christian the Younger of Brunswick (b. 1599)
• 1666 – Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet, English poet and diplomat, English Ambassador to Spain (b. 1608)
• 1671 – Stenka Razin, Russian rebel leader (b. 1630)
• 1707 – Marie de Nemours, French wife of Henri II, Duke of Nemours (b. 1625)
• 1722 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire (b. 1650)
• 1749 – Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian businessman (b. 1672)
• 1752 – Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1692)
• 1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and playwright (b. 1709)
• 1778 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
• 1779 – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, English lawyer and politician (b. 1712)
• 1792 – Benjamin Tupper, American general (b. 1738)
• 1804 – Johann Adam Hiller, German composer and conductor (b. 1728)
• 1824 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French politician (b. 1739)
• 1849 – Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian and scholar (b. 1780)
• 1850 – William Lawson, English-Australian explorer (b. 1774)
• 1858 – John Snow, English physician (b. 1813)
• 1862 – Hidenoyama Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 9th Yokozuna (b. 1808)
• 1869 – Charles Sturt, Indian-English explorer (b. 1795)
• 1872 – Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman and author (b. 1812)
• 1878 – Crawford Long, American surgeon and pharmacist (b. 1815)
• 1878 – Kikuchi Yōsai, Japanese painter (b. 1781)
• 1881 – Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
• 1881 – Josiah Mason, English businessman (b. 1795)
• 1885 – Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
• 1902 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
• 1925 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1925 – Emmett Hardy, American cornet player (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1903)
• 1928 – Mark Keppel, American educator (b. 1867)
• 1929 – Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
• 1929 – Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar (b. 1871)
• 1930 – Ezra Fitch, American lawyer and businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1866)
• 1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (b. 1860)
• 1939 – Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1905)
• 1940 – DuBose Heyward, American author (b. 1885)
• 1944 – Marc Bloch, French historian and academic (b. 1886)
• 1945 – Aris Velouchiotis, Greek general (b. 1905)
• 1946 – Gordon Brewster, Irish cartoonist (b 1889)
• 1952 – Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist and educator (b. 1861)
• 1953 – Margaret Bondfield, English politician, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (b. 1873)
• 1955 – Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter (b. 1864)
• 1958 – Pál Maléter, Hungarian general and politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (b. 1917)
• 1958 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
• 1959 – George Reeves, American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 1961 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
• 1967 – Reginald Denny, English actor and singer (b. 1891)
• 1969 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (b. 1891)
• 1970 – Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Heino Eller, Estonian violinist, composer, and educator (b. 1887)
• 1970 – Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
• 1971 – John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (b. 1889)
• 1973 – Louise Latimer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1977 – Wernher von Braun, German-American engineer (b. 1912)
• 1979 – Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ghanaian general and politician, 6th Head of state of Ghana (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Nicholas Ray, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1979 – Ayhan Işık, Turkish leading actor (b. 1929)
• 1981 – Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
• 1982 – James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (b. 1956)
• 1984 – Lew Andreas, American football player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1984 – Erni Krusten, Estonian author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1986 – Maurice Duruflé, French organist and composer (b. 1902)
• 1987 – Marguerite de Angeli, American author and illustrator (b. 1889)
• 1988 – Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican-American actor and playwright, co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Café (b. 1946)
• 1990 – Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer of Sylvia Likens (b. 1929)
• 1990 – Megan Leigh, American porn actress (b. 1964)
• 1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Kristen Pfaff, American bass player and songwriter (Hole and Janitor Joe) (b. 1967)
• 1996 – Mel Allen, American sportscaster (b. 1913)
• 1997 – Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Fred Wacker, American jazz musician, and a racing driver (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Screaming Lord Sutch, English singer (b. 1940)
• 2000 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
• 2003 – Pierre Bourgault, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2003 – Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish–Swedish philosopher and author (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Philip Stone, English actor (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai field marshal and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Jacques Miquelon, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican author and critic (b. 1906)
• 2006 – Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Mohammad Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (b. 1975)
• 2008 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian author (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Maureen Forrester, Canadian singer (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Ronald Neame, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2011 – Östen Mäkitalo, Swedish engineer (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Howie Chizek, American radio host (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Nils Karlsson, Swedish skier (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Jorge Lankenau, Mexican banker and businessman (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Sławomir Petelicki, Polish general (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Thierry Roland, French sportscaster (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Susan Tyrrell, American actress (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Sam Farber, American businessman, co-founded OXO (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Hans Hass, Austrian diver (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, Bangladesh poet and academic (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Josip Kuže, Croatian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Richard Marlow, English organist and conductor (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Norman Ian MacKenzie, English journalist and author (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Charles Barsotti, American cartoonist (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Pierre D'Archambeau, Swiss-American violinist (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach (b. 1960)
• 2014 – Cándido Muatetema Rivas, Equatoguinean politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (b. 1960)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Benno
  • Lutgardis
  • Quriaqos and Julietta
  • Richard of Chichester (Church of England)
  • George Berkeley and Joseph Butler (commemoration, Episcopal Church (United States))
  • June 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Bloomsday (Dublin, Ireland)
• Engineer's Day (Argentina)
• International Day of the African Child
• Anniversary of Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikhism)
• Sussex Day (Sussex)
• Youth Day (South Africa)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada