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June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 193 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

This day usually marks the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, which is the day of the year with the most hours of daylight in the Northern Hemisphere and the fewest hours of daylight in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Events

533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.

1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.

1529 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.

1582 – Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, was forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.

1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.

1734 – In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.

1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

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 ninth state in the United States.

1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.

1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.

1813 – Peninsular War: Wellington defeats Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria.

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.

1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.

1854 – The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.

1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.

1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain.

1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.

1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.

1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.

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.

1929 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.

1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.

1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.

1942 – World War II: 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 Japan against the United States mainland.

1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.

1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.

1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.

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.

1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.

1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law.

1977 – Bülent Ecevit, of the CHP forms the new government of Turkey.

1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), 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.

2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

2005 – Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been acquitted for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).

2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.

2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.

2012 – A boat carrying more than 200 refugees capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.

Births

598 – Pope Martin I (d. 656)

906 – Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Saffarid emir (d. 963)

1002 – Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)

1226 – Bolesław V the Chaste of Poland (d. 1279)

1528 – Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1603)

1535 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)

1639 – Increase Mather, American minister and author (d. 1723)

1646 – Maria Francisca of Savoy (d. 1683)

1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher and author (d. 1729)

1706 – John Dollond, English optician and astronomer (d. 1761)

1710 – James Short, Scottish-English mathematician and optician (d. 1768)

1712 – Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)

1730 – Motoori Norinaga, Japanese poet and scholar (d. 1801)

1732 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German pianist and composer (d. 1791)

1736 – Enoch Poor, American general (d. 1780)

1741 – Prince Benedetto, Duke of Chablais (d. 1808)

1750 – Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French sculptor and illustrator (d. 1818)

1759 – Alexander J. Dallas, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1817)

1763 – Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher and academic (d. 1845)

1764 – Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician (d. 1840)

1774 – Daniel D. Tompkins, American lawyer and politician, 6th Vice President of the United States (d. 1825)

1781 – Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)

1786 – Charles Edward Horn, English singer-songwriter (d. 1849)

1792 – Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian and scholar (d. 1860)

1797 – Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Russian poet and author (d. 1846)

1805 – Charles Thomas Jackson, American physician and geologist (d. 1880)

1811 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (d. 1868)

1814 – Anton Nuhn, German anatomist and academic (d. 1889)

1823 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)

1825 – Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie, Irish economist and jurist (d. 1882)

1825 – William Stubbs, English bishop and historian (d. 1901)

1828 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and academic (d. 1904)

1834 – Frans de Cort, Flemish poet and author (d. 1878)

1839 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1908)

1845 – Arthur Cowper Ranyard, English astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1894)

1846 – Marion Adams-Acton, Scottish-English author and playwright (d. 1928)

1850 – Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, co-founded the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941)

1858 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1928)

1859 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (d. 1937)

1862 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and author (d. 1943)

1863 – Max Wolf, German astronomer and academic (d. 1932)

1864 – Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss historian and critic (d. 1945)

1867 – Oscar Florianus Bluemner, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1938)

1868 – Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist and anatomist (d. 1946)

1870 – Clara Immerwahr, Polish-German chemist and academic (d. 1915)

1870 – Anthony Michell, English-Australian engineer (d. 1959)

1876 – Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1956)

1880 – Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)

1880 – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant (d. 1941)

1882 – Lluís Companys, Spanish lawyer and politician, 123rd President of Catalonia (d. 1940)

1882 – Adrianus de Jong, Dutch fencer and soldier (d. 1966)

1882 – Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (d. 1971)

1883 – Feodor Gladkov, Russian author and educator (d. 1958)

1884 – Claude Auchinleck, English field marshal (d. 1981)

1887 – Norman L. Bowen, Canadian geologist and petrologist (d. 1956)

1889 – Ralph Craig, American sprinter and sailor (d. 1972)

1891 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect and engineer, co-designed the Pirelli Tower and Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (d. 1979)

1891 – Hermann Scherchen, German-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 1966)

1892 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (d. 1971)

1893 – Alois Hába, Czech composer and educator (d. 1973)

1894 – Milward Kennedy, English journalist and civil servant (d. 1968)

1896 – Charles Momsen, American admiral, invented the Momsen lung (d. 1967)

1898 – Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and author (d. 1964)

1899 – Pavel Haas, Czech composer (d. 1944)

1902 – Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1937)

1903 – Hermann Engelhard, German runner and coach (d. 1984)

1903 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator (d. 2003)

1905 – Jacques Goddet, French journalist (d. 2000)

1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author (d. 1980)

1908 – William Frankena, American philosopher and academic (d. 1994)

1910 – Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Russian poet and author (d. 1971)

1911 – Irving Fein, American producer and manager (d. 2012)

1912 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2000)

1912 – Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (d. 1989)

1912 – Vishnu Prabhakar, Indian author and playwright (d. 2009)

1913 – Madihe Pannaseeha Thero, Sri Lankan monk and scholar (d. 2003)

1913 – Luis Taruc, Filipino political activist (d. 2005)

1914 – William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)

1915 – Wilhelm Gliese, German soldier and astronomer (d. 1993)

1916 – Joseph Cyril Bamford, English businessman, founded J. C. Bamford (d. 2001)

1916 – Herbert Friedman, American physicist and astronomer (d. 2000)

1916 – Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977)

1918 – Robert A. Boyd, Canadian engineer (d. 2006)

1918 – Kasper Idland, Norwegian lieutenant (d. 1968)

1918 – James Joll, English historian, author, and academic (d. 1994)

1918 – Eddie Lopat, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1992)

1918 – Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1955)

1918 – Josephine Webb, American engineer

1919 – Antonia Mesina, Italian martyr and saint (d. 1935)

1919 – Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1997)

1919 – Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess player and coach (d. 1968)

1919 – Paolo Soleri, Italian-American architect, designed the Cosanti (d. 2013)

1920 – Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater

1921 – Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (d. 1965)

1921 – Jane Russell, American actress and singer (d. 2011)

1921 – William Edwin Self, American actor, producer, and production manager (d. 2010)

1923 – Jacques Hébert, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2007)

1924 – Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and historian (d. 2006)

1924 – Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst and academic (d. 2012)

1925 – Larisa Avdeyeva, Russian mezzo-soprano (d. 2013)

1925 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian journalist and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1994)

1925 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)

1926 – Fred Cone, American football player

1926 – Conrad Hall, French-American cinematographer (d. 2003)

1927 – Carl Stokes, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Seychelles (d. 1996)

1928 – Wolfgang Haken, German-American mathematician and academic

1929 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)

1929 – Alexandre Lagoya, Egyptian-Greek guitarist and composer (d. 1999)

1930 – Gerald Kaufman, English journalist and politician, Shadow Foreign Secretary

1930 – Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (d. 2013)

1931 – Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (d. 1988)

1931 – Margaret Heckler, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

1932 – Bernard Ingham, English journalist and civil servant

1932 – Lalo Schifrin, Argentinian pianist, composer, and conductor

1933 – Bernie Kopell, American actor and comedian

1935 – Françoise Sagan, French author and playwright (d. 2004)

1937 – John Edrich, English cricketer and coach

1938 – Don Black, English songwriter

1938 – John W. Dower, American historian and author

1938 – Michael M. Richter, German mathematician and computer scientist

1939 – Rubén Berríos, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician

1940 – Mariette Hartley, American actress and television personality

1940 – Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher and academic

1941 – Aloysius Paul D'Souza, Indian bishop

1941 – Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter

1941 – Lyman Ward, Canadian actor

1942 – Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe, English businessman and politician

1942 – Marjorie Margolies, American journalist and politician

1942 – Henry S. Taylor, American author and poet

1942 – Togo D. West, Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

1943 – Eumir Deodato, Brazilian pianist, composer, and producer

1943 – Diane Marleau, Canadian accountant and politician, Canadian Minister of Health (d. 2013)

1943 – Brian Sternberg, American pole vaulter (d. 2013)

1944 – Ray Davies, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1944 – Tony Scott, English-American director and producer (d. 2012)

1945 – Robert Dewar, English-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2015)

1945 – Adam Zagajewski, Polish author and poet

1946 – Per Eklund, Swedish race car driver

1946 – Kate Hoey, Northern Irish-British academic and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics

1946 – Brenda Holloway, American singer-songwriter

1946 – Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2007)

1946 – Malcolm Rifkind, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland

1946 – Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, Iraqi-British businessman, founded M&C Saatchi and Saatchi & Saatchi

1947 – Meredith Baxter, American actress

1947 – Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, judge, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate

1947 – Michael Gross, American actor

1947 – Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher and author

1948 – Jovan Aćimović, Serbian footballer and manager

1948 – Don Airey, English keyboardist

1948 – Ian McEwan, English novelist and screenwriter

1948 – Lionel Rose, Australian boxer and singer (d. 2011)

1948 – Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish author and translator

1948 – Philippe Sarde, French composer and conductor

1949 – John Agard, Guyanese-English author, poet, and playwright

1949 – Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth, Scottish lawyer and judge

1950 – Anne Carson, Canadian poet and academic

1950 – Joey Kramer, American drummer and songwriter

1950 – Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist

1950 – Enn Reitel, Scottish actor and screenwriter

1950 – Trygve Thue, Norwegian guitarist and record producer

1950 – John Paul Young, Scottish-Australian singer

1951 – Jim Douglas, American academic and politician, 80th Governor of Vermont

1951 – Terence Etherton, English lawyer and judge

1951 – Alan Hudson, English footballer

1951 – Nils Lofgren, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1951 – Lenore Manderson, Australian anthropologist and academic

1951 – Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, Finnish sprinter (d. 2000)

1952 – Judith Bingham, English singer-songwriter

1952 – Patrick Dunleavy, English political scientist and academic

1952 – Kōichi Mashimo, Japanese director and screenwriter

1952 – Jeremy Coney, New Zealand-English cricketer and sportscaster

1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani financier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)

1954 – Mar Gudmundsson, Icelandic economist

1954 – Mark Kimmitt, American general and politician, 16th Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs

1954 – Robert Menasse, Austrian author and academic

1955 – Tim Bray, Canadian software developer and businessman

1955 – Michel Platini, French footballer and manager

1957 – Berkeley Breathed, American author and illustrator

1957 – Luis Antonio Tagle, Filipino cardinal

1958 – Víctor Montoya, Bolivian journalist and author

1958 – Gennady Padalka, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut

1959 – John Baron, English captain and politician

1959 – Tom Chambers, American basketball player and sportscaster

1959 – Marcella Detroit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1959 – Kathy Mattea, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1961 – Manu Chao, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1961 – Sascha Konietzko, German keyboard player and producer

1961 – Joko Widodo, Indonesian businessman and politician, 7th President of Indonesia

1962 – Viktor Tsoi, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)

1963 – Dario Marianelli, Italian pianist and composer

1963 – Mike Sherrard, American football player

1964 – David Morrissey, English actor and director

1964 – Dimitris Papaioannou, Greek director and choreographer

1964 – Dean Saunders, Welsh footballer and manager

1964 – Doug Savant, American actor

1965 – David Beerling, English biologist and academic

1965 – Yang Liwei, Chinese general, pilot, and astronaut

1965 – Ewen McKenzie, Australian rugby player and coach

1965 – Lana Wachowski, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1966 – Gretchen Carlson, American model and television journalist, Miss America 1989

1967 – Jim Breuer, American comedian, actor, and producer

1967 – Derrick Coleman, American basketball player and sportscaster

1967 – Pierre Omidyar, French-American businessman, founded eBay

1967 – Carrie Preston, American actress, director, and producer

1967 – Yingluck Shinawatra, Thai businesswoman and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Thailand

1968 – Sonique, English singer-songwriter and DJ

1970 – Eric Reed, American pianist and composer

1970 – Pete Rock, American rapper and producer

1971 – Tyronne Drakeford, American football player

1972 – Nobuharu Asahara, Japanese sprinter and long jumper

1972 – Neil Doak, Northern Irish cricketer and rugby player

1972 – Irene van Dyk, South African-New Zealand netball player

1973 – Juliette Lewis, American actress and singer

1973 – John Mitchell, English guitarist, vocalist and songwriter

1974 – Neely Jenkins, American singer and bass player

1974 – Craig Lowndes, Australian race car driver

1974 – Flavio Roma, Italian footballer

1975 – Brian Simmons, American football player

1976 – Mike Einziger, American guitarist and songwriter

1976 – Nigel Lappin, Australian footballer and coach

1977 – Michael Gomez, Irish boxer

1977 – Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player

1977 – Sarah Slean, Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress

1977 – Al Wilson, American football player

1978 – Matt Kuchar, American golfer

1978 – Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer

1978 – Dejan Ognjanović, Montenegrin footballer

1979 – Kostas Katsouranis, Greek footballer

1979 – Chris Pratt, American actor

1980 – Michael Crocker, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

1980 – Łukasz Cyborowski, Polish chess player

1980 – David Giuntoli, American actor

1980 – Richard Jefferson, American basketball player

1980 – Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player

1981 – Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player

1981 – Garrett Jones, American baseball player

1981 – Brandon Flowers, American singer-songwriter

1981 – Brad Walker, American pole vaulter

1982 – Lee Dae-ho, South Korean baseball player

1982 – Rob Mills, Australian singer-songwriter and actor

1982 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

1983 – Edward Snowden, American activist and academic

1984 – Franck Perera, French race car driver

1985 – Kris Allen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1985 – Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter

1985 – Sentayehu Ejigu, Ethiopian runner

1985 – Byron Schammer, Australian footballer

1985 – Joosep Toome, Estonian basketball player

1986 – Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy, Australian wheelchair basketball player

1986 – Cheick Tioté, Ivorian footballer

1986 – Hideaki Wakui, Japanese baseball player

1987 – Pablo Barrera, Mexican footballer

1987 – Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer

1987 – Kim Ryeowook, South Korean singer-songwriter

1987 – Dale Thomas, Australian footballer

1988 – Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball and volleyball player

1988 – Alejandro Ramírez, Costa Rican-American chess player

1988 – Paolo Tornaghi, Italian footballer

1989 – Abubaker Kaki, Sudanese runner

1990 – Ričardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player

1991 – Gaël Kakuta, French footballer

1994 – Başak Eraydın, Turkish tennis player

1997 – Derrius Guice, American football player

Deaths

866 – Rodulf, Frankish archbishop

870 – Al-Muhtadi, Muslim caliph

1040 – Fulk III, Count of Anjou (b. 972)

1171 – Walter de Luci, French-English monk (b. 1103)

1208 – Philip of Swabia (b. 1177)

1305 – Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (b. 1271)

1359 – Erik Magnusson, king of Sweden (b. 1339)

1377 – Edward III of England (b. 1312)

1421 – Jean Le Maingre, French general (b. 1366)

1521 – Leonardo Loredan, Italian politician, 76th Doge of Venice (b. 1436)

1527 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and author (b. 1469)

1529 – John Skelton, English poet and educator (b. 1460)

1547 – Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter and educator (b. 1485)

1558 – Piero Strozzi, Italian general (b. 1510)

1582 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)

1591 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)

1596 – Jean Liebault, French agronomist and physician (b. 1535)

1621 – Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1575)

1621 – Kryštof Harant, Czech soldier and composer (b. 1564)

1631 – John Smith, English admiral and explorer (b. 1580)

1652 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House and Wilton House (b. 1573)

1661 – Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (b. 1599)

1737 – Matthieu Marais, French author, critic, and jurist (b. 1664)

1738 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1674)

1796 – Richard Gridley, American soldier and engineer (b. 1710)

1824 – Étienne Aignan, French playwright and translator (b. 1773)

1865 – Frances Adeline Seward, American wife of William H. Seward (b. 1824)

1874 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)

1876 – Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (b. 1794)

1880 – Theophilus H. Holmes, American general (b. 1804)

1893 – Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (b. 1824)

1908 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1844)

1914 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)

1929 – Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (b. 1864)

1934 – Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)

1935 – Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (b. 1852)

1940 – Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1881)

1940 – Édouard Vuillard, French painter (b. 1868)

1951 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)

1951 – Gustave Sandras, French gymnast (b. 1872)

1952 – Wop May, Canadian captain and pilot (b. 1896)

1954 – Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer, developed the zipper (b. 1880)

1957 – Claude Farrère, French captain and author (b. 1876)

1957 – Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

1964 – James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)

1964 – Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)

1964 – Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)

1967 – Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art (b. 1892)

1969 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)

1970 – Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (b. 1901)

1970 – Piers Courage, English race car driver (b. 1942)

1976 – Margaret Herrick, American librarian (b. 1902)

1980 – Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer (b. 1923)

1981 – Don Figlozzi, American illustrator and animator (b. 1909)

1985 – Hector Boyardee, Italian-American chef and businessman, founded Chef Boyardee (b. 1897)

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

1986 – Assi Rahbani, Lebanese singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1923)

1987 – Madman Muntz, American engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company (b. 1914)

1988 – Bobby Dodd, American football coach (b. 1908)

1990 – Cedric Belfrage, English journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (b. 1904)

1990 – June Christy, American singer (b. 1925)

1992 – Ben Alexander, Australian rugby league player (b. 1971)

1992 – Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (b. 1956)

1992 – Li Xiannian, Chinese captain and politician, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1909)

1994 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906)

1997 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1931)

1997 – Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican trade union leader (b. 1900)

1998 – Harry Cranbrook Allen, English historian (b. 1917)

1998 – Anastasio Ballestrero, Italian cardinal (b. 1913)

1998 – Al Campanis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1916)

1999 – Kami, Japanese drummer (b. 1973)

2000 – Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist and composer (b. 1911)

2001 – John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)

2001 – Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress and singer (b. 1942)

2001 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor and producer (b. 1924)

2002 – Timothy Findley, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1930)

2003 – Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1934)

2003 – Leon Uris, American soldier and author (b. 1924)

2004 – Leonel Brizola, Brazilian engineer and politician, Governor of Rio de Janeiro (b. 1922)

2004 – Ruth Leach Amonette, American businesswoman (b. 1916)

2005 – Jaime Sin, Filipino cardinal (b. 1928)

2006 – Jared C. Monti, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1975)

2007 – Bob Evans, American businessman, founded Bob Evans Restaurants (b. 1918)

2008 – Scott Kalitta, American race car driver (b. 1962)

2010 – Russell Ash, English author (b. 1946)

2010 – Irwin Barker, Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1956)

2010 – İlhan Selçuk, Turkish lawyer, journalist, and author (b. 1925)

2011 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author and poet (b. 1927)

2012 – Richard Adler, American composer and producer (b. 1921)

2012 – Abid Hussain, Indian economist and diplomat, Indian Ambassador to the United States (b. 1926)

2012 – Sunil Janah, Indian photographer and journalist (b. 1918)

2012 – Anna Schwartz, American economist and author (b. 1915)

2012 – Ramaz Shengelia, Georgian footballer (b. 1957)

2013 – Diane Clare, English actress (b. 1938)

2013 – James P. Gordon, American physicist and academic (b. 1928)

2013 – Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)

2014 – Gerry Conlon, Northern Irish author and activist (b. 1954)

2014 – Yozo Ishikawa, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Defense (b. 1925)

2014 – Walter Kieber, Austrian-Liechtenstein politician, 7th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (b. 1931)

2014 – Wong Ho Leng, Malaysian lawyer and politician (b. 1959)

2014 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927)

2015 – Darryl Hamilton, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1964)

2015 – Veijo Meri, Finnish author and poet (b. 1928)

2015 – Remo Remotti, Italian actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1924)

2015 – Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German soldier and politician (b. 1932)

2015 – Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (b. 1925)

2016 – Pierre Lalonde, Canadian television host and singer (b. 1941)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Alban of Mainz

Aloysius Gonzaga

Engelmund of Velsen

Martin of Tongres

Onesimos Nesib (Lutheran)

June 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

See Summer solstice for celebrations pertaining to it.

Day of the Martyrs (Togo)

Father's Day (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Uganda, United Arab Emirates)

Go Skateboarding Day

International Yoga Day (international)

National Aboriginal Day (Canada)

National Day (Greenland)

National Selfie Day (U.S.)

World Humanist Day (Humanism)

World Hydrography Day (international)

References

June 21 Wikipedia

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