June 13

Events

313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.

1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.

1381 – The Peasants' Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace.

1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.

1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.

1625 – King Charles I of England marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France

1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.

1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

1777 – American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.

1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.

1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.

1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.

1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.

1910 – The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.

1917 – World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.

1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.

1944 – World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage - German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger 1 tank.

1944 – World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.

1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.

1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.

1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" becomes The Beatles' last U.S. number one song.

1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.

1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.

1990 – First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.

1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.

1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.

1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

1997 – Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.

2000 – President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

2007 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.

2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.

2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.

2013 – Czech investigative authorities start a raid against organized crime, affecting the top levels of Czech politics.

2015 – A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in the Texas city of Dallas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.

Births

AD 40 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (d. 93)

823 – Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 877)

839 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 888)

1430 – Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, Portuguese infante (d. 1506)

1500 – Ernest of Bavaria, pledge lord of the County of Glatz (d. 1560)

1508 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1579)

1595 – Jan Marek Marci, Czech physician and scientist (d. 1667)

1561 – Anna Maria of Anhalt (d. 1605)

1649 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)

1672 – Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1741)

1711 – Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1773)

1752 – Frances Burney, English novelist and playwright (d. 1840)

1761 – Antonín Vranický, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820)

1763 – José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (d. 1838)

1773 – Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (d. 1829)

1775 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian composer and politician (d. 1833)

1786 – Winfield Scott, American general (d. 1866)

1790 – José Antonio Páez, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 1873)

1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German psychiatrist and author (d. 1894)

1822 – Carl Schmidt, Latvian-German chemist and academic (d. 1894)

1827 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)

1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (d. 1879)

1854 – Charles Algernon Parsons, English engineer, founded C. A. Parsons and Company (d. 1931)

1863 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)

1864 – Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and academic (d. 1922)

1864 – Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (d. 1939)

1865 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer (d. 1932)

1865 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)

1868 – Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic (d. 1919)

1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)

1872 – Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1951)

1873 – Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (d. 1942)

1875 – Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician (d. 1932)

1876 – William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)

1877 – Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1946)

1879 – Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (d. 1941)

1879 – Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (d. 1929)

1884 – Leon Chwistek, Polish painter, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1944)

1884 – Anton Drexler, German politician (d. 1942)

1884 – Gerald Gardner, English religious leader, founded Gardnerian Wicca (d. 1964)

1884 – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and academic (d. 1978)

1885 – Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (d. 1969)

1887 – André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (d. 1978)

1887 – Bruno Frank, German-American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1945)

1888 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (d. 1935)

1892 – Basil Rathbone, South African-born British-American actor (d. 1967)

1893 – Alan Arnold Griffith, English engineer (d. 1963)

1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (d. 1957)

1894 – Leo Kanner, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (d. 1981)

1894 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (d. 1986)

1897 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner and coach (d. 1973)

1899 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (d. 1978)

1901 – Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)

1903 – Willard Harrison Bennett, American physicist and chemist (d. 1987)

1903 – Red Grange, American football player and actor (d. 1991)

1905 – Doc Cheatham, American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (McKinney's Cotton Pickers) (d. 1997)

1905 – James T. Rutnam, Sri Lankan historian and author (d. 1988)

1905 – Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (d. 1945)

1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)

1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 1998)

1910 – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1999)

1910 – Mary Wickes, American actress and singer (d. 1995)

1910 – Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (d. 2001)

1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)

1911 – Maurice Copeland, American actor (d. 1985)

1911 – Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic (d. 1977)

1912 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (d. 1943)

1913 – Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host (d. 2005)

1913 – Yitzhak Pundak, Israeli general, diplomat and politician

1914 – Frederic Franklin, English-American ballet dancer and director (d. 2013)

1915 – Don Budge, American tennis player and coach (d. 2000)

1916 – Wu Zhengyi, Chinese botanist and academic (d. 2013)

1917 – Teddy Turner, English actor (d. 1992)

1918 – Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (d. 1996)

1918 – Helmut Lent, German soldier and pilot (d. 1944)

1918 – Percy Rodriguez, Canadian-American actor (d. 2007)

1920 – Rolf Huisgen, German chemist and academic

1920 – Iosif Vorovich, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 2001)

1921 – Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (d. 2004)

1922 – Etienne Leroux, South African author (d. 1989)

1925 – Kristine Miller, Argentinian-American actress (d. 2015)

1926 – Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (d. 1994)

1926 – Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)

1928 – Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)

1928 – Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (d. 2009)

1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)

1929 – Alan Civil, English horn player (d. 1989)

1929 – Ralph McQuarrie, American illustrator (d. 2012)

1929 – Robert W. Scott, American farmer and politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)

1930 – Gotthard Graubner, German painter and educator (d. 2013)

1930 – Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel and spy (d. 2004)

1930 – Paul Veyne, French archaeologist, historian, and academic

1931 – Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (d. 2009)

1931 – Reed Scowen, Canadian politician

1931 – Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist and academic

1932 – Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, English politician

1932 – Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)

1933 – Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Defence

1933 – Norman Lloyd-Edwards, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan

1934 – Bill Blakeley, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)

1934 – Lucjan Brychczy, Polish footballer and coach

1934 – Manuel Clouthier, Mexican businessman and politician (d. 1989)

1934 – James Anthony Griffin, American bishop

1934 – Uriel Jones, American drummer (The Funk Brothers) (d. 2009)

1934 – Janet Pilgrim, American model

1934 – Leonard Kleinrock, American computer scientist and engineer

1935 – Christo, Bulgarian-French sculptor and painter

1935 – Jeanne-Claude, Moroccan sculptor and painter (d. 2009)

1935 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009)

1936 – Michel Jazy, French runner

1936 – Michael H. Jordan, American businessman (d. 2010)

1937 – Eleanor Holmes Norton, American lawyer and politician

1937 – Erich Ribbeck, German footballer and manager

1937 – Andreas Whittam Smith, English journalist and publisher, co-founded The Independent

1939 – Tom Cheek, American sportscaster (d. 2005)

1939 – Siegfried Fischbacher, German-American magician

1940 – Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

1940 – Dallas Long, American shot putter and physician

1941 – Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach, and manager

1941 – Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (d. 1998)

1941 – Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer-songwriter

1941 – Marv Tarplin, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2011)

1942 – Yiannis Boutaris, Greek businessman and politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki

1942 – James Carr, American singer (d. 2001)

1942 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (d. 1980)

1942 – Viktor Suslin, Russian-German composer (d. 2012)

1943 – Harry Collins, English sociologist, author, and academic

1943 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor and producer

1943 – Jim Guy Tucker, American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas

1944 – Christine Beasley, English nursing administrator

1944 – David Curry, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

1944 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

1945 – Whitley Strieber, American author

1946 – Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepalese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal

1946 – Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1946 – Gabriel of Komana, Belgian-Dutch archbishop (d. 2013)

1948 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian-American ice hockey player and scout (d. 2001)

1948 – Joe Roth, American director and producer, co-founded Morgan Creek Productions

1949 – Ann Druyan, American popular science writer

1949 – Ulla Schmidt, German educator and politician, German Federal Minister of Health

1949 – Red Symons, English-Australian guitarist, actor, and radio host

1950 – Belinda Bauer, Australian-American actress and psychologist

1950 – Nick Brown, English politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

1950 – Gerd Zewe, German footballer and manager

1951 – Howard Leese, American guitarist and producer

1951 – Richard Thomas, American actor, director, and producer

1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor

1951 – Robert P. Young, Jr., American lawyer and jurist

1952 – Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian martial artist and politician

1953 – Tim Allen, American actor, comedian, and producer

1954 – Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (d. 2011)

1954 – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria

1955 – Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer and sportscaster

1955 – Leah Ward Sears, German-American lawyer and jurist

1956 – Blair Chapman, Canadian ice hockey player

1956 – Pedro Larraquy, Argentinian footballer and manager

1956 – Sal Paolantonio, American lieutenant and journalist

1957 – Ron Areshenkoff, Canadian ice hockey player

1957 – Roy Cooper, American lawyer and politician, 48th North Carolina Attorney General

1957 – Bruce Flowers, American basketball player

1957 – Andrzej Morozowski, Polish journalist and author

1957 – Dicky Thompson, American golfer

1958 – Gary Martin, British voice actor and actor

1959 – Boyko Borissov, Bulgarian footballer and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Bulgaria

1959 – Steve Georganas, Australian politician

1959 – Klaus Iohannis, Romanian educator and politician, 5th President of Romania

1959 – Lance Kinsey, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter

1960 – Jacques Rougeau, Canadian wrestler

1961 – Bob Crow, English union leader (d. 2014)

1961 – Kaire Indrikson, Estonian swimmer and coach

1961 – Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player

1962 – Davey Hamilton, American race car driver

1962 – Glenn Michibata, Canadian-American tennis player and coach

1962 – Rudolf Povarnitsyn, Ukrainian high jumper

1962 – Ally Sheedy, American actress and author

1962 – Hannah Storm, American journalist and author

1963 – Bettina Bunge, Swiss-German tennis player

1963 – Sarah Connolly, English soprano and actress

1963 – Paul De Lisle, American bass player and songwriter

1963 – Catarina Lindqvist, Swedish-American tennis player

1963 – Audrey Niffenegger, American author and academic

1964 – Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian organist, composer, and educator

1964 – Kathy Burke, English actress, director, and playwright

1964 – Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Lithuanian basketball player

1965 – Infanta Cristina Federica of Spain

1965 – Vassilis Karapialis, Greek footballer

1965 – Lukas Ligeti, Austrian-American drummer and composer

1965 – Maninder Singh, Indian cricketer

1966 – Henry Bond, English photographer and curator

1966 – Naoki Hattori, Japanese race car driver

1966 – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician and academic

1967 – Taşkın Aksoy, German-Turkish footballer and manager

1967 – Elmo Tiisvald, Estonian conductor

1968 – Fabio Baldato, Italian cyclist

1968 – Peter DeBoer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1968 – Darren Dreger, Canadian sportscaster

1968 – David Gray, English-Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1968 – Tim Leveque, Canadian ice hockey player

1968 – Denise Pearson, English singer-songwriter

1968 – Marcel Theroux, Ugandan-English journalist and author

1969 – Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Spanish actress, director, and screenwriter

1969 – Virginie Despentes, French author, screenwriter, and director

1969 – Joseph Keter, Kenyan runner

1969 – Laura Kightlinger, American actress, producer, and screenwriter

1969 – Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian shot putter

1969 – Søren Rasted, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1969 – Jamie Walters, American actor and singer

1970 – Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster

1970 – Rivers Cuomo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1971 – Nóra Köves, Hungarian tennis player

1972 – Meelis Aasmäe, Estonian skier

1972 – Kristjan Järvi, Estonian-American conductor

1972 – Natalie MacMaster, Canadian fiddler

1973 – Sam Adams, American football player

1973 – Tanner Foust, American race car driver and television host

1973 – Mattias Hellberg, Swedish singer-songwriter

1973 – Stuart Karppinen, Australian cricketer and coach

1973 – Ville Laihiala, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist

1974 – Valeri Bure, Russian-American ice hockey player

1974 – Mathew Goggin, Australian golfer

1974 – Steve-O, American actor, comedian and stunt performer

1975 – Ante Covic, Australian footballer

1975 – Jeff Davis, American screenwriter and producer

1975 – Jennifer Nicole Lee, American model, actress, and author

1975 – Jaan Pehk, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1975 – Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer

1976 – Kym Marsh, English singer-songwriter and actress

1977 – Dragoș Bucur, Romanian actor and producer

1977 – Tarmo Kikerpill, Estonian basketball player

1977 – Romain Mesnil, French pole vaulter

1977 – Earthwind Moreland, American football player

1978 – Ethan Embry, American actor

1979 – Esther Anderson, Australian actress

1979 – Nila Håkedal, Norwegian volleyball player

1979 – Miguel Pate, American long jumper

1979 – Ryan Pickett, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1980 – Sarah Connor, German singer-songwriter and dancer

1980 – Florent Malouda, French footballer

1980 – Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (d. 2012)

1980 – Jamario Moon, American basketball player

1980 – Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player

1980 – Darius Vassell, English footballer

1980 – Markus Winkelhock, German race car driver

1981 – Daryl Blonder, American actor and author (d. 2012)

1981 – Chris Evans, American actor and producer

1981 – Blake Judd, American actor, director, and producer

1981 – Radim Vrbata, Czech-American ice hockey player

1982 – Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian runner

1982 – Krzysztof Bosak, Polish politician

1982 – Jessica Caban, American model and actress

1982 – Nate Jones, American football player

1982 – Jess Manafort, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1983 – Steve Novak, American basketball player

1983 – Jason Spezza, Canadian ice hockey player

1984 – Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer

1984 – Kaori Icho, Japanese wrestler

1984 – Antje Möldner-Schmidt, German runner

1985 – Raz-B, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

1985 – Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese race car driver

1985 – Silvio Bankert, German footballer

1985 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player

1986 – Kat Dennings, American actress and comedian

1986 – Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer

1986 – Ashley Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman

1986 – Mary-Kate Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman

1986 – Lea Verou, Greek computer scientist and author

1987 – Marko Grgić, Croatian footballer

1988 – Gabe Carimi, American football player

1988 – Cody Walker, American actor

1989 – Ben Barba, Australian rugby league player

1989 – James Calado, English racing driver

1989 – Daniel Mortimer, Australian rugby league player

1989 – Andreas Samaris, Greek footballer

1989 – Tommy Searle, English motocross racer

1989 – Hassan Whiteside, American basketball player

1990 – Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player

1990 – Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor

1991 – Will Claye, American jumper

1991 – Ryan Mason, English footballer

1992 – Semi Radradra, Fijian rugby league player

1992 – Violet Chachki - American Drag Queen and winner of the 7th season of RuPaul's Drag Race

1993 – Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (d. 2011)

1993 – Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater

1995 – Emily Fanning, New Zealand tennis player

1995 – Laura Ucrós, Colombian tennis player

2000 – Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer

Deaths

220 – Xiahou Dun, Chinese general

1036 – Ali az-Zahir, Egyptian caliph (b. 1005)

1231 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (b. 1195)

1256 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)

1483 – William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (b. 1431)

1550 – Veronica Gambara, Italian poet (b. 1485)

1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)

1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai (b. 1584)

1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)

1699 – Molly Malone, famed Dublin fishmonger (date disputed)

1784 – Henry Middleton, American farmer and politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)

1846 – Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer and author (b. 1767)

1881 – Joseph Škoda, Czech physician and dermatologist (b. 1805)

1886 – Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)

1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)

1904 – Nikiforos Lytras, Greek painter and educator (b. 1832)

1917 – Louis-Philippe Hébert, Canadian sculptor (b. 1850)

1918 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878)

1930 – Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (b. 1896)

1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1851)

1943 – Kočo Racin, Macedonian author and activist (b. 1908)

1948 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (b. 1909)

1951 – Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)

1957 – Irving Baxter, American high jumper and pole vaulter (b. 1876)

1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (b. 1887)

1965 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (b. 1878)

1965 – David Drummond, Australian farmer and politician (b. 1890)

1969 – Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)

1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)

1979 – Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1945)

1980 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)

1981 – Olivério Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and physician (b. 1896)

1982 – Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)

1982 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)

1984 – António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1944)

1986 – Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1909)

1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)

1989 – Fran Allison, American television personality and puppeteer (b. 1907)

1991 – Ljubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1929)

1992 – Erik Paaske, Danish actor and singer (b. 1933)

1993 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)

1993 – Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1924)

1994 – Nadia Gray, Romanian-French actress (b. 1923)

1997 – Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer and academic (b. 1909)

1998 – Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (b. 1899)

1998 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1911)

1998 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (b. 1917)

2002 – John Hope, American navigator and meteorologist (b. 1919)

2002 – Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author (b. 1927)

2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)

2004 – Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)

2004 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist and author (b. 1952)

2005 – Jonathan Adams, English actor and singer (b. 1931)

2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese academic and politician (b. 1913)

2005 – David Diamond, American pianist and composer (b. 1915)

2006 – Charles Haughey, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1925)

2007 – Walid Eido, Lebanese judge and politician (b. 1942)

2008 – Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (b. 1950)

2009 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1962)

2009 – Fathi Yakan, Lebanese scholar and politician (b. 1933)

2010 – Jimmy Dean, American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (b. 1928)

2012 – Sam Beddingfield, American pilot and engineer (b. 1933)

2012 – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)

2012 – Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (b. 1913)

2012 – Jože Humer, Slovenian composer and translator (b. 1934)

2012 – Erica Kennedy, American journalist and author (b. 1970)

2013 – Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi, Saudi Arabian footballer (b. 1971)

2013 – David Deutsch, American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (b. 1929)

2013 – Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930)

2013 – Edmund Pellegrino, American ethicist and academic (b. 1920)

2013 – Albert White Hat, American educator and activist (b. 1938)

2014 – Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (b. 1933)

2014 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926)

2014 – Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)

2014 – Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (b. 1932)

2014 – Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1924)

2015 – Buddy Boudreaux, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1917)

2015 – Sergio Renán, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1933)

2015 – Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church

G. K. Chesterton (Episcopal Church (USA))

Blessed Thomas Woodhouse

Cetteus

June 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Inventors' Day (Hungary)

Suleimaniah City Fallen and Martyrs Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)