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June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 195 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
• 1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
• 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
• 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
• 1800 – War of the Second Coalition Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria.
• 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• 1821 – Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
• 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23–1. Cartwright umpired.
• 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
• 1857 – The 19 June 1857 law (Loi relative à l'assainissement et de mise en culture des Landes de Gascogne): A turning point in the history of the Landes forest.
• 1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
• 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
• 1867 – Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• 1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1911 – The Norwegian football club Molde FK was founded.
• 1913 – Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
• 1917 – The solar eclipse of June 19, 1917.
• 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• 1936 – The solar eclipse of June 19, 1936.
• 1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
• 1949 – The first ever NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
• 1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
• 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
• 1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
• 1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
• 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
• 1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
• 1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
• 1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
• 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
• 1988 – Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
• 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
• 1990 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
• 1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
• 2007 – The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
• 2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
• 2009 – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
• 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.

Births

• 1301 – Prince Morikuni of Japan (d. 1333)
• 1566 – James VI and I of the United Kingdom (d. 1625)
• 1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (d. 1649)
• 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1662)
• 1633 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch author and theologian (d. 1712)
• 1701 – François Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1775)
• 1731 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
• 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general and politician (d. 1850)
• 1771 – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1859)
• 1776 – Francis Johnson, American lawyer and politician (d. 1842)
• 1783 – Friedrich Sertürner, German chemist and pharmacist (d. 1841)
• 1792 – Gustav Schwab, German pastor and author (d. 1850)
• 1793 – Joseph Earl Sheffield, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1882)
• 1795 – James Braid, Scottish-English surgeon (d. 1860)
• 1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (d. 1872)
• 1816 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist, founded the Webb Institute (d. 1899)
• 1834 – Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (d. 1892)
• 1840 – Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz, German entomologist and academic (d. 1917)
• 1843 – Mary Sibbet Copley, American philanthropist (d. 1929)
• 1845 – Cléophas Beausoleil, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1904)
• 1846 – Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1928)
• 1850 – David Jayne Hill, American historian and politician, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1932)
• 1851 – Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
• 1851 – Silvanus P. Thompson, English physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1916)
• 1854 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (d. 1893)
• 1854 – Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and theorist (d. 1933)
• 1854 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter (d. 1923)
• 1855 – George F. Roesch, American lawyer and politician (d. 1917)
• 1858 – Sam Walter Foss, American poet and librarian (d. 1911)
• 1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (d. 1928)
• 1861 – Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist (d. 1927)
• 1861 – José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (d. 1896)
• 1865 – May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
• 1869 – Mamah Borthwick, American librarian and translator (d. 1914)
• 1871 – Alajos Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper, and physician (d. 1932)
• 1872 – Theodore Payne, English-American gardener and botanist (d. 1963)
• 1874 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (d. 1941)
• 1875 – William Courtenay, American actor (d. 1933)
• 1876 – Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (d. 1941)
• 1877 – Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1879 – Martha Mattox, American actress (d. 1933)
• 1881 – Maginel Wright Enright, American illustrator (d. 1966)
• 1883 – Gladys Mills Phipps, American horse breeder (d.1970)
• 1884 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French painter and historian (d. 1974)
• 1886 – Finley Hamilton, American lawyer and politician (d. 1940)
• 1888 – Arthur Massey Berry, Canadian soldier and pilot (d. 1970)
• 1891 – John Heartfield, German photographer and activist (d. 1968)
• 1893 – Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 1940)
• 1896 – Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward VIII (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
• 1898 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (d. 1968)
• 1900 – Laura Z. Hobson, American author (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Mary Callery, American-French sculptor and academic (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
• 1903 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer and coach (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Hans Litten, German lawyer (d. 1938)
• 1905 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
• 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Walter Rauff, German SS officer (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
• 1909 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
• 1909 – Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (d. 1948)
• 1909 – Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
• 1910 – Sydney Allard, English race car driver, founded the Allard Company (d. 1966)
• 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Don Gutteridge, American baseball player and manager (d. 2008)
• 1912 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (d. 2005)
• 1912 – George Spitz, American high jumper (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Helene Madison, American swimmer (d. 1970)
• 1914 – Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1979)
• 1914 – Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (d. 2013)
• 1914 – Anthony of Sourozh, Swiss-English bishop and theologian (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Pat Buttram, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1915 – Julius Schwartz, American publisher and agent (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean guerrilla leader and politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Pauline Kael, American film critic (d. 2001)
• 1918 – Dave Lambert, American singer-songwriter (d. 1966)
• 1920 – Yves Robert, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Marilyn P. Johnson, American educator and diplomat, 8th United States Ambassador to Togo
• 1923 – Bob Hank, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Cornelius, Estonian metropolitan
• 1924 – Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician and inventor
• 1928 – Elizabeth Connelly, American politician (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1928 – K. H. Scheer, German author (d. 1991)
• 1928 – Barry Took, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Thelma Barlow, English actress
• 1930 – Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor and academic
• 1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
• 1932 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
• 1932 – José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Marisa Pavan, Italian actress
• 1933 – Michael M. Ames, Canadian anthropologist and academic (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)
• 1934 – Terence Clark, English soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Iraq
• 1934 – Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti
• 1936 – Marisa Galvany, American soprano and actress
• 1936 – Shirley Goodman, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1937 – André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Jean-Claude Labrecque, Canadian director and cinematographer
• 1938 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1938 – Beth Phinney, Canadian educator and politician
• 1938 – John Sheil, English lawyer and judge
• 1938 – Cheng-Wen Wu, Taiwanese biochemist and academic
• 1938 – Ian Smith, Australian actor and screenwriter
• 1939 – Bernd Hoss, German footballer and manager
• 1939 – John F. MacArthur, American minister and theologian
• 1939 – Michael Standing, English actor
• 1940 – Shirley Muldowney, American race car driver
• 1941 – Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino lawyer and jurist
• 1941 – Václav Klaus, Czech economist and politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic
• 1942 – Jos Brink, Dutch actor and producer (d. 2007)
• 1942 – Merata Mita, New Zealand director and producer (d. 2010)
• 1944 – Peter Bardens, English keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1944 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 – John Hind, English bishop and theologian
• 1945 – Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician and convicted war criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska
• 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 – Tobias Wolff, American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist
• 1946 – Jimmy Greenhoff, English footballer and manager
• 1946 – Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, English politician and diplomat, British Ambassador to France
• 1947 – Linda Myers, American archer
• 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian-English novelist and essayist
• 1947 – John Ralston Saul, Canadian philosopher and author
• 1948 – Nick Drake, Burmese-English singer-songwriter (d. 1974)
• 1948 – Barry Hearn, English accountant and businessman
• 1948 – Phylicia Rashad, American actress
• 1950 – Constance Forslund, American actress
• 1950 – Neil Asher Silberman, American archaeologist and historian
• 1950 – Ann Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist
• 1951 – Patty Larkin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1951 – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
• 1951 – Karen Young, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1952 – Bob Ainsworth, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence
• 1953 – Larry Dunn, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
• 1953 – Hilary Jones, English physician, television host and media personality
• 1953 – Simon Wright, English drummer
• 1954 – Mike O'Brien, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales
• 1954 – Lou Pearlman, American music producer and fraudster (d. 2016)
• 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress
• 1955 – Mary O'Connor, New Zealand runner
• 1955 – Mary Schapiro, American lawyer and politician
• 1956 – Danny Chauncey, American guitarist
• 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, 39th Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2003)
• 1957 – Jean Rabe, American journalist and author
• 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Russian-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 – Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player
• 1959 – Christian Wulff, German lawyer and politician, 10th President of Germany
• 1960 – Andrew Dilnot, English economist and academic
• 1960 – Johnny Gray, American runner and coach
• 1960 – Luke Morley, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1960 – Patti Rizzo, American golfer
• 1962 – Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and presenter
• 1962 – Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
• 1962 – Peter Bradshaw, English author and critic
• 1963 – Katia Cardenal, Nicaraguan singer-songwriter
• 1963 – Margarita Ponomaryova, Russian hurdler
• 1963 – Rory Underwood, English rugby player, lieutenant, and pilot
• 1964 – Bill Barretta, American actor and puppeteer
• 1964 – Brent Goulet, American soccer player and manager
• 1964 – Laura Ingraham, American radio host and author
• 1964 – Boris Johnson, British journalist and politician, Mayor of London
• 1964 – Brian Vander Ark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 – Sabine Braun, German heptathlete
• 1965 – Sadie Frost, English actress and producer
• 1966 – Michalis Romanidis, Greek basketball player
• 1966 – Samuel West, English actor and director
• 1967 – Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier and businessman
• 1968 – Alastair Lynch, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1968 – Timothy Morton, American philosopher and academic
• 1968 – Memory Mucherahowa, Zimbabwean footballer
• 1969 – Thomas Breitling, American journalist and businessman
• 1969 – Lara Spencer, American journalist
• 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian lawyer and politician
• 1970 – Quincy Watts, American sprinter and football player
• 1970 – Brian Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 – Chris Armstrong, English footballer
• 1972 – Jean Dujardin, French actor
• 1972 – Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1972 – Ilya Markov, Russian race walker
• 1972 – Brian McBride, American soccer player and coach
• 1972 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian-American actress
• 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actress
• 1973 – Jahine Arnold, American football player
• 1973 – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer
• 1973 – Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 – Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1975 – Oksana Chusovitina, Uzbekistani gymnast
• 1975 – Hugh Dancy, English actor and model
• 1975 – Anthony Parker, American basketball player
• 1975 – Geoff Ramsey, American voice actor and producer, co-founded Rooster Teeth
• 1976 – Scott Avett, American singer-songwriter, banjo player, guitarist, and pianist
• 1976 – Dennis Crowley, American businessman, co-founded Foursquare
• 1976 – Bryan Hughes, English footballer and manager
• 1976 – Abdoul Thiam, German footballer
• 1976 – Anita Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1977 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian runner (d. 2007)
• 1977 – Rebecca Loos, Spanish-Dutch model and television host
• 1977 – Peter Warrick, American football player
• 1978 – Tyson Dux, Canadian wrestler
• 1978 – Mía Maestro, Argentinian actress and singer
• 1978 – Assefa Mezgebu, Ethiopian runner
• 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
• 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
• 1978 – Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 – Graeme Ballard, English sprinter
• 1979 – Quentin Jammer, American football player
• 1979 – José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Adel Abdulaziz, Emirati footballer
• 1980 – Dan Ellis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Milka Loff Fernandes, German actress
• 1980 – Arkadiusz Malarz, Polish footballer
• 1980 – Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1980 – Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
• 1981 – Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi, Saudi Arabian long jumper
• 1981 – Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer
• 1981 – Melissa McMorrow, American boxer
• 1981 – Quintin Geldenhuys, South African-Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1982 – David Pollack, American football player
• 1982 – Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1983 – Gregor Arbet, Estonian basketball player
• 1983 – Nicolette Fernandes, Guyanese squash player
• 1983 – Macklemore, American rapper
• 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor
• 1984 – Wieke Dijkstra, Dutch field hockey player
• 1985 – Jason Capizzi, American football player
• 1985 – Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer
• 1985 – José Ernesto Sosa, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 – Dire Tune, Ethiopian runner
• 1986 – Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter
• 1986 – Nazareno Casero, Argentinian actor
• 1986 – Andrea De Falco, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Sjoerd Huisman, Dutch speed skater (d. 2013)
• 1986 – Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast
• 1986 – Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
• 1986 – Marvin Williams, American basketball player
• 1987 – Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
• 1987 – Mutsumi Tamura, Japanese voice actress
• 1988 – Jacob deGrom, American baseball player
• 1990 – Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter
• 1990 – Ksenia Lykina, Russian tennis player
• 1991 – Ludwig Rieder, Italian luger
• 1992 – Oscar Taveras, Dominican-Canadian baseball player (d. 2014)
• 1996 – Larisa Iordache, Romanian gymnast

Deaths

• 626 – Soga no Umako, Japanese son of Soga no Iname (b. 551)
• 1027 – Romuald, Italian mystic and saint (b. 951)
• 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, English daughter of Eleanor of Leicester (b. 1252)
• 1312 – Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English politician (b. 1284)
• 1341 – Juliana Falconieri, Italian nun and saint (b. 1270)
• 1542 – Leo Jud, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1482)
• 1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian-Russian lawyer and jurist (b. 1509)
• 1567 – Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg (b. 1507)
• 1584 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
• 1608 – Alberico Gentili, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1551)
• 1650 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and publisher (b. 1593)
• 1747 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer and educator (b. 1669)
• 1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (b. 1702)
• 1768 – Benjamin Tasker Sr., American soldier and politician, 10th Colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
• 1786 – Nathanael Greene, American general (b. 1742)
• 1787 – Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France (b. 1786)
• 1805 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter and educator (b. 1724)
• 1820 – Joseph Banks, English botanist and author (b. 1743)
• 1844 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French zoologist and biologist (b. 1772)
• 1864 – Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, American soldier (b. 1843)
• 1865 – Evangelos Zappas, Greek-Romanian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1800)
• 1884 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian-French politician and diplomat (b. 1810)
• 1867 – Maximilian I of Mexico (b. 1832)
• 1874 – Ferdinand Stoliczka, Moravian palaeontologist and ornithologist (b. 1838)
• 1896 – Margaret Carver Leighton, American author (b. 1896)
• 1902 – Albert of Saxony (b. 1828)
• 1903 – Herbert Vaughan, English cardinal (b. 1832)
• 1918 – Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (b. 1888)
• 1921 – Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet and author (b. 1888)
• 1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (b. 1874)
• 1932 – Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (b. 1876)
• 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (b. 1860)
• 1939 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
• 1940 – Maurice Jaubert, French composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1941 – C. V. Hartman, Swiss botanist and anthropologist (b. 1862)
• 1941 – Otto Hirsch, German jurist and politician (b. 1885)
• 1949 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian philosopher and academic (b. 1885)
• 1951 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1915)
• 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1918)
• 1956 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (b. 1874)
• 1966 – Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1968 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
• 1973 – Gustaf Molander, Swedish actor and director (b. 1888)
• 1975 – Sam Giancana, American mob boss (b. 1908)
• 1977 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and philosopher (b. 1933)
• 1978 – Mabel Wayne, American songwriter (b. 1890)
• 1979 – Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (b. 1888)
• 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter and educator (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Coluche, French comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
• 1988 – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (b. 1922)
• 1988 – Teru Shimada, Japanese-American actor (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Gladys Spellman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 1989 – Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)
• 1990 – George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (b. 1911)
• 1991 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1993 – William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)
• 1996 – Cordelia E. Cook, American soldier and nurse (b. 1919)
• 1996 – Kay Rhodes, American bridge player (b. 1910)
• 1996 – G. David Schine, American soldier and businessman (b. 1927)
• 1997 – Olga Georges-Picot, Chinese-French actress (b. 1944)
• 1997 – Bobby Helms, American singer and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 2001 – Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1912)
• 2001 – John Heyer, Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Alberto Mijangos, Mexican-American painter and educator (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Terry Hoeppner, American football player and coach (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist and author (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist, founded Bartaman (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Bennie Swain, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese engineer and surveyor (b. 1895)
• 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (b. 1962)
• 2010 – R. Kanagasuntheram, Sri Lankan physician, zoologist, and academic (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Paul Thiebaud, American art dealer (b. 1960)
• 2010 – Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Richard Lynch, American actor and producer (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Michael Palliser, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Emili Teixidor, Catalan journalist and author (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Norbert Tiemann, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Vince Flynn, American author (b. 1966)
• 2013 – James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (b. 1961)
• 2013 – Michael Hodgman, Australian lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Paul Mees, Australian lawyer and academic (b. 1961)
• 2013 – Kim Thompson, Danish-American publisher (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1965)
• 2013 – Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt, German general (b. 1915)
• 2014 – Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Shrenik Kasturbhai Lalbhai, Indian businessman (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Alan Moller, American meteorologist and photographer (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Bill Renna, American baseball player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
• 2015 – Harold Battiste, American saxophonist, pianist, and composer (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Earl Norem, American painter and illustrator (b. 1924)
• 2015 – James Salter, American novelist and short-story writer (b. 1925)
• 2016 – Anton Yelchin, American actor (b. 1989)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Gervasius and Protasius (Catholic Church)
  • Juliana Falconieri
  • Romuald
  • Zosimus
  • Sadhu Sundar Singh (Anglican)
  • June 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of the Independent Hungary (Hungary)
• Feast of Forest (Palawan)
• Juneteenth (United States, especially African Americans)
• Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Laguna Day (Laguna)
• Never Again Day (Uruguay)
• Surigao del Norte Day (Surigao del Norte)
• Surigao del Sur Day (Surigao del Sur)
• World Sickle Cell Day (International)
• World Sauntering Day

External links

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