17th of June
The June 17 is the 168th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 169th in leap years ), thus remain 197 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 362 : The Roman emperor Julian issues the edict of rhetoric , according to which the appointment of a teacher is to be judged by the Curia and the emperor. In fact, Christian teachers are prohibited from teaching in public schools.
- 1397 : With the coronation of Erik VII as the common king of Denmark , Norway and Sweden in Kalmar , the Kalmar Union is formed.
- 1405 : In the Battle of the Stoss during the Appenzell Wars, the Appenzell defeat the Habsburgs . At the same time, the allied St. Gallen defeated Habsburg troops in the battle near Rotmonten .
- 1429 : After the two-day battle for Beaugency against an English occupation, a force led by Joan of Arc and Duke John II of Alençon gains control of another passage over the Loire in the Hundred Years War .
- 1497 : Henry VII's royal forces defeat an army of Cornish insurgents at the Battle of Deptford Bridge .
- 1579 : In the course of his circumnavigation of the world for England, Sir Francis Drake lays claim to a country which he calls Nova Albion (today's California ).
- 1715 : The foundation stone for Karlsruhe Palace and thus the city of Karlsruhe is laid in the Hardtwald .
- 1775 : The siege of Boston leads to the battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War .
- 1789 : In the of King Louis XVI. convened meeting of estates declares the third estate to the national assembly , an act of the pre-revolution in France .
- 1813 : The Lützow Freikorps of the Prussian major Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm Freiherr von Lützow is almost completely destroyed by Napoleon I's troops near Leipzig .
- 1842 : The British diplomats Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly are beheaded as alleged spies in Buxoro .
- 1876 : A surprise attack by 1,500 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors in the Battle of Rosebud Creek on around 1,000 US Army soldiers under the command of General George Crook brings success to the Indians, led by Chief Crazy Horse .
- 1877 : In the Battle of White Bird Canyon , Nez Percé Indians win against a unit of the US Army.
- 1898 : The Prussian House of Representatives passes a law ( Lex Arons ) that denies social democrats the teaching post at universities . Thus, after a few months, it was possible to remove the private lecturer Leo Arons from the Berlin Royal University.
- 1900 : Troops of the United Eight States capture the strategically important Taku forts at the mouth of the Hai He River during the Boxer Rebellion .
- 1901 : The 2nd Orthographic Conference begins in Berlin , at which discussions on the uniformity of German spelling take place with the participation of Konrad Duden . At the end of the conference, the participants agree on an official set of rules for use by the authorities.
- 1925 : The Geneva Protocol on the Prohibition of Chemical and Biological Weapons is signed.
- 1934 : In its evening edition, the Frankfurter Zeitung prints the dissident Marburg speech given by the German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen on the same day. This edition was confiscated and any further publication of the text was prohibited by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels .
- 1940 : Soviet troops occupy Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania .
- 1940 : German bombers sink the passenger steamer RMS Lancastria, which was used to evacuate British troops from France, off the French coast near Saint-Nazaire, with around 6,000 people on board. The information on the number of victims varies between 2,000 and 4,000 dead. It is the loss-making shipwreck in British history, but it is initially kept secret by order of Winston Churchill .
- 1944 : In Þingvellir , Iceland, the Republic of Iceland is proclaimed after a referendum, ending the union with Denmark .
- 1945 : The Rhenish CDU is founded in Cologne .
- 1953 : Dissatisfaction with the ruling regime leads to the popular uprising in the GDR , which the German People's Police and Soviet troops put down; at least 55 people died and around 1,600 were sentenced to prison terms.
- 1954 : Following the events of the previous year, the Day of German Unity is celebrated in West Germany for the first time . June 17th remains a national holiday until 1990.
- 1959 : Éamon de Valera wins the presidential election in Ireland as Fianna Fáil candidate and becomes the country's third head of state.
- 1972 : Five men are arrested while breaking into Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington, DC . That is when the Watergate affair begins .
- 1991 : Helmut Kohl (German Federal Chancellor), Hans-Dietrich Genscher (German Federal Foreign Minister), Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (Prime Minister of Poland) and Krzysztof Skubiszewski (Polish Foreign Minister) sign the German-Polish Neighborhood Treaty and the Agreement on the establishment of the German-Polish one in Bonn Youth work .
- 1993 : Mujahideen leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyār becomes Prime Minister of Afghanistan.
economy
- 1902 : The first Chinese- language newspaper Ta Kung Pao ( Great General Newspaper ) is founded in Tianjin .
- 1908 : The American inventor Frank W. Wood applies for patent protection for an electric segment display .
- 1914 : The Hohenzollern Canal is opened to the public by Kaiser Wilhelm II . The shipping route connects the Havel and Oder .
- 1943 : The Hungarian emigrant László József Bíró , who lives in Argentina , receives a US patent for the ballpoint pen he developed .
science and technology
- 1911 : The University of Iceland is founded in Reykjavík.
- 1961 : The Kahl nuclear power plant is the first nuclear power plant in Germany to be connected to the public grid.
- 1963 : The ASCII code is published.
- 1970 : With the Range Rover, Land Rover presents an off-road vehicle with permanent all-wheel drive to the public for the first time.
- 1985 : The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off into near-earth orbit on the STS-51-G mission . As a payload specialist, Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is the first Arab spaceman on board. The Saudi Arabian prince has been NASA's youngest astronaut since then .
- 2006 : The Hsuehshan Tunnel , one of the longest car tunnels in the world with a length of almost 13 kilometers, is opened in Taiwan .
Culture
- 1791 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his Ave verum .
- 1814 : The Darmstadt Botanical Garden is created after Grand Duke Ludwig I approves the drainage of the Darmbach and the changes in the use of the site.
- 1843 : The Bunker Hill Monument is ceremoniously inaugurated. It commemorates the battle in 1775 in the American War of Independence . The building material for the obelisk was brought in with the specially built Granite Railway .
- 1862 : King Wilhelm I of Württemberg approves the establishment of a state collection for patriotic art and antiquity monuments in Stuttgart - today's Württemberg State Museum .
- 1885 : The Statue of Liberty , a gift from France to the United States, arrives in New York Harbor .
- 1923 : In Bad Schmiedeberg is from the German Cycling Federation , the Federal Monuments of the Federation of German Cyclists inaugurated.
- 1924 : World premiere of the opera Adventure des Casanova by Volkmar Andreae in Dresden .
- 1956 : First performance of Frank Martin's opera Der Sturm at the Vienna State Opera .
- 1970 : In the Beethovensaal of the Stuttgart Liederhalle concert hall , the new version of the secular oratorio The Great Calendar by Hermann Reutter is premiered with a large number of choirs. The composer was honored by Süddeutscher Rundfunk on his 70th birthday.
- 1983 : Premiere of Leonard Bernstein's opera A Quiet Place in Houston .
society
- 1608 : The Vogelstaken is first mentioned in a document in Lohne . Thus June 17, 1608 is considered to be the founding day of the Lohne rifle club .
- 1631 : Mumtaz Mahal dies giving birth to her 14th child. Her husband, the Indian mogul Shah Jahan , has a tomb erected for her. The construction of the Taj Mahal lasted until 1648.
- 1837 : The first German animal welfare association is founded by Albert Knapp .
- 1939 : Eugen Weidmann , convicted of six murders, is guillotined publicly in Versailles as the last criminal in France . Prime Minister Édouard Daladier ordered on June 24th, because of the hype, that executions should be carried out behind prison walls in the future.
- 1960 : The Nez Percé Indian people are awarded compensation of over 4.15 million US dollars by the USA following a lawsuit in the court ruling . The reason for this is the forced cession of land to the US government in 1863 at a price that was too low.
- 1994 : American football star O. J. Simpson is arrested on suspicion of murder.
- 2008 : The campaign “Your Day for Africa” by Aktion Tagwerk takes place for the second time . Nationwide, 200,932 schoolchildren are committed to helping their peers in Africa.
religion
- 656 : ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib , the son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed , is elected fourth caliph . Sections of the Muslims , headed by the Syrian governor Muʿāwiya I , reject him, however, because Ali's involvement in the murder of his predecessor VorUthmān is suspected. The differences of opinion ultimately lead to the secession of the Shiites .
- 1722 : The Protestant faith movement Moravian Brethren is founded.
- 1773 : In an edict of tolerance, the Russian Tsarina Catherine II promises to tolerate all religious confessions, but excludes Jews who came into her sphere of influence after the first partition of Poland .
- 1894 : In Berlin is foundation stone for the construction of the Berlin Cathedral of Julius Raschdorff set.
- 1986 : The Heavenly Kickers are founded and play their first charity game in Boren for the benefit of Bread for the World .
- 1987 : The 22nd German Evangelical Church Congress begins in Frankfurt am Main . By June 21, over 125,000 participants will gather under the motto "See what a person." ( Joh 19,5 LUT )
Disasters
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1956 : Hans Günter Winkler wins the show jumping competition at the Olympic Games in Stockholm despite a torn muscle while handling the horse Halla for the first time .
- 1962 : The Brazil national football team defeated in the final of the football World Cup 1962 , the Czechoslovakia with 3: 1. It is Brazil's second world title.
- 1965 : The Turkish football club Sakaryaspor is founded.
- 1969 : On his 40th birthday, the incumbent since 1963 loses champion in chess , Tigran Petrosian , the title of Boris Spassky .
- 1970 : During the World Cup in Mexico occurs in the Aztec Stadium to the " Game of the Century " between Italy and Germany . Italy won the semi-final game 4-3 after extra time.
- 1976 : Eckhard Dagge becomes the first German after the Second World War to become professional world champion in boxing (WBC, welterweight).
- 1994 : Start of the soccer world championship in the USA.
- 2008 : The Boston Celtics win their 17th NBA title in the NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 801 : Drogo of Metz , Bishop of Metz
- 1239 : Edward I , King of England
- 1523 : Kunigunde of Brandenburg-Kulmbach , Margravine of Baden
- 1530 : François de Montmorency , Governor of Paris and Marshal of France
- 1552 : Johann Georg , Duke of Ohlau and Wohlau
- 1579 : Ludwig I , Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
- 1580 : Jakob Amport , Swiss Protestant theologian and rector of a university
- 1586 : Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna , Swedish statesman
- 1604 : Johann Moritz , called "the Brazilian", Prince of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch field marshal and statesman
- 1609 : Johann von Hessen-Braubach , landgrave and general, member of the Fruit Bringing Society
- 1625 : Peder Hansen Resen , Danish lawyer and historian
- 1666 : Antonio Maria Valsalva , Italian anatomist and surgeon
- 1672 : Charlotte of Hessen-Homburg , Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
- 1681 : Elias Hügel , German-Austrian architect and sculptor
- 1686 : Johann Ulrich Giezendanner , Swiss goldsmith and pietist
- 1691 : Giovanni Paolo Pannini , Italian painter and architect
- 1699 : François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois , French writer and compiler
18th century
- 1712 : Wilhelm Carl von Appell , Prussian civil servant
- 1713 : Antonio Eugenio Visconti , Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1714 : César François Cassini de Thury , French geodesist and astronomer
- 1723 : Friedrich Boerner , German medic
- 1723 : Johann Baptist Wendling , German composer and flautist
- 1732 : Luigi Lanzi , Italian historian
- 1741 : Samuel Maclay , American politician
- 1747 : Pierre-Antoine Antonelle , French politician, journalist and revolutionary
- 1749 : Arnold Nicolai Aasheim , Norwegian doctor and physicist
- 1753 : George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham , English nobleman and politician
- 1754 : Sophie Schwarz , German-Baltic writer
- 1765 : Peter Karl Attenhofer , Swiss politician
- 1772 : Martin Schrettinger , German priest and librarian
- 1772 : Christian Philipp Wolff , German sculptor, plasterer and master builder
- 1778 : Philipp Wilhelm van Heusde , Dutch philosopher, historian, philologist, librarian and rhetorician
- 1781 : Frederick Adam , British general and governor of Madras
- 1785 : Charles Ashe à Court-Repington , British general
- 1797 : Alexandre Vinet , Swiss theologian and literary historian
- 1800 : Ivar Fredrik Bredal , Danish composer and conductor
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt , German-French astronomer and painter
- 1805 : Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann , German musical instrument maker, pioneer of harmonica making
- 1808 : Henrik Wergeland , Norwegian poet
- 1810 : Ferdinand Freiligrath , German lyric poet, poet and translator
- 1811 : Adolphe d'Ennery , French writer
- 1811 : Jón Sigurðsson , President of Iceland
- 1818 : Charles Gounod , French composer
- 1819 : Albert Dulk , German socialist, revolutionary and writer
- 1819 : Rudolf Voltolini , German physician and ENT doctor
- 1828 : Johan Karel Jakob de Jonge , Dutch historian
- 1829 : August von Miller zu Aichholz , Austrian industrialist, patron and private scholar
- 1832 : William Crookes , British physicist, chemist and science journalist
- 1834 : Georg von Schleinitz , German naval officer
- 1835 : Eugène Borel , Swiss politician and Federal Councilor
- 1848 : Philipp von Arenberg , German prince, Catholic priest and cathedral chapter of the Eichstätt diocese
- 1849 : Andrea Aiuti , Italian cardinal to the curia
- 1850 : Friedrich Wilhelm zu Ysenburg and Büdingen , German landlord
1851-1900
- 1854 : Ossip Schubin , Czech-German writer
- 1856 : Franz Roubaud , Russian painter
- 1859 : Georg Wissowa , classical philologist
- 1861 : Sidney Jones , British composer and conductor
- 1861 : Wilhelm Robert Nessig , German teacher and geologist
- 1861 : Georg von Prittwitz and Gaffron , German officer and Africa explorer
- 1863 : Ernest R. Ackerman , American politician, House member for New Jersey
- 1863 : Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown , Swiss machine designer
- 1867 : Wilhelm Auspitzer , Austrian editor and screenwriter
- 1867 : Henry Lawson , Australian author and poet
- 1869 : Dorothea Arnd al Raschid , German portrait painter
- 1869 : Fabian Ware , British major general, founder of the Royal War Graves Commission
- 1872 : Mieczysław Michałowicz , Polish violinist and music teacher
- 1877 : Charles Coburn , American actor
- 1879 : Gustav Dreher , German football official
- 1880 : Carl Van Vechten , American photographer, writer
- 1881 : Leonhard Adelt , German bookseller, writer and journalist
- 1882 : Adolf Friedrich VI. , Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 1882 : Sterling Bunnel , American surgeon
- 1882 : Wilhelm Hausenstein , German writer, art critic, cultural historian, publicist and diplomat
- 1882 : Igor Stravinsky , Russian-French-American composer, exponent of new music
- 1883 : Johann Wartner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1884 : William of Sweden , Duke of Södermanland
- 1885 : Richard Ermisch , German architect and senior building officer in Berlin
- 1885 : Oscar Funcke , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1887 : Johann Andres , Austrian football player
- 1887 : Hugo Gieseking , German mathematician
- 1888 : Friedrich Grimm , German international lawyer and criminal defense attorney
- 1888 : Heinz Guderian , German army officer, general, chief of the general staff, co-developer of modern warfare with tanks
- 1889 : Jan Skala , Sorbian writer and publicist
- 1890 : Adachi Hatazō , Japanese general
- 1890 : Ludlow Griscom , American ornithologist and botanist
- 1891 : Georges Beauchemin , Canadian singer
- 1891 : Pierre Luboshutz , Russian pianist and music teacher
- 1892 : Georges Jouatte , French tenor and music teacher
- 1893 : Hermann Matern , German politician, MdL, SED functionary in the GDR
- 1894 : Sebastian Fichtner , German officer, lieutenant general in the Wehrmacht
- 1895 : Slavko Osterc , Slovenian composer
- 1895 : Sam Wooding , American jazz pianist, arranger, and bandleader
- 1896 : Joseph Yerly , Swiss writer of the Franco-Provencal language
- 1897 : Friedrich Herzfeld , German Kapellmeister, music writer and music critic
- 1898 : Carl Hermann , German professor for crystallography
- 1898 : MC Escher , Dutch artist and graphic designer
- 1900 : Marcel Ballot , French racing car driver
- 1900 : Martin Bormann , German head of the NSDAP party chancellery, war criminal
- 1900 : Hubert Jedin , German church historian
- 1900 : Hermann Reutter , German composer and pianist
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902 : Sammy Fain , American musical and film composer
- 1902 : Woldemar Winkler , German painter and sculptor
- 1903 : Natalie Beer , Austrian poet and writer
- 1903 : William Vallance Douglas Hodge , British mathematician
- 1903 : Ilse Schüle , German type cutter and typographer
- 1904 : Ralph Bellamy , American actor
- 1906 : Oswald Baer , Austrian painter of the New Objectivity
- 1906 : Thomas George Cowling , British astronomer and mathematician
- 1906 : Percy Legard , British pentathlete, Nordic combined athlete and officer
- 1907 : Maurice Cloche , French director, screenwriter and film producer
- 1909 : Fred Liewehr , Austrian theater and film actor, chamber actor and festival director
- 1909 : Régine Pernoud , French medievalist
- 1910 : Red Foley , American country musician
- 1910 : H. Owen Reed , American composer
- 1911 : Viktor Platonowitsch Nekrasow , Soviet writer
- 1912 : Myron Fohr , American racing car driver
- 1912 : Don Gillis , American composer, conductor and teacher
- 1913 : Felix Hartlaub , German writer
- 1914 : Gertrud Heinzelmann , Swiss lawyer and Catholic theologian
- 1914 : John Hersey , American writer and journalist
- 1914 : Lucie Beyer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1914 : Karl Seeburger , Austrian politician, LAbg.
- 1917 : Wolfgang Liebe , German pharmacist
- 1918 : Harry F. Bisel , American oncologist
- 1920 : François Jacob , French microbiologist
- 1920 : Robert Müller , Swiss sculptor
- 1921 : Louis Lachenal , French mountaineer
- 1921 : William Anderson , American naval officer, explorer, and politician
- 1922 : Hans Eisen , German general
- 1922 : Paul Schallück , German writer
- 1922 : Dieter Wedekind , German cameraman
- 1923 : Enrique Angelelli , Argentine bishop of La Rioja
- 1923 : Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua , Archbishop of Philadelphia and Cardinal
- 1924 : Ferry Ahrlé , German painter, author and entertainer
- 1924 : Ernst Wimmer , Austrian theorist and propagandist of Marxism
- 1925 : Alexander Shulgin , American pharmacologist and chemist
1926-1950
- 1927 : Martin Böttcher , German film composer
- 1927 : Irene Ludwig , German art patron
- 1927 : Ernst Schubert , German art historian and historian
- 1928 : Mignon Dunn , American opera singer and vocal teacher
- 1928 : Peter Schult , German writer and journalist
- 1928 : Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi , Archbishop Emeritus of Tokyo and Cardinal
- 1929 : Tigran Petrosyan , Armenian chess grandmaster
- 1930 : Lalla Aicha of Morocco , Moroccan princess and ambassador
- 1930 : Adile Naşit , Turkish-Armenian comedian of Turkish film
- 1931 : Edward Frederick Anderson , American botanist
- 1932 : Rudolf Apostel , German politician, MdL
- 1932 : Sabin Bălașa , Romanian painter, filmmaker and author
- 1933 : H. Guy Hunt , American politician, governor of Alabama
- 1933 : Roderick Paige , American education politician, Secretary of Education
- 1934 : Peter Janssens , German musician, composer and music publisher
- 1935 : Fabrizio Violati , Italian entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1936 : Christine Krohn , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1936 : Ken Loach , British film director
- 1937 : Walter Berschin , German philologist
- 1939 : Gerhard Fels , German economist and economist
- 1939 : Hanna Johansen , Swiss writer
- 1939 : Krzysztof Zanussi , Polish film producer and director
- 1940 : George A. Akerlof , American economist
- 1940 : Marcel Aubour , French football player
- 1940 : Bobby Bell , American football player
- 1940 : Dieter Farwick , German brigadier general and publicist
- 1941 : Renate Jäger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1941 : William Lucking , American film and stage actor
- 1942 : Mohammed el-Baradei , Egyptian diplomat and politician, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- 1942 : Christiane Blumhoff , German actress
- 1943 : Stephen Clark , American swimmer
- 1943 : Newt Gingrich , American politician
- 1943 : Barry Manilow , American singer and songwriter
- 1943 : Burt Rutan , American aerospace engineer, entrepreneur
- 1943 : Fritz Teufel , German fun revolutionary during the student movement
- 1944 : Lucien Guitteny , French racing car driver
- 1944 : Chris Spedding , British musician, producer and songwriter
- 1945 : Eddy Merckx , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1945 : Ken Livingstone , British politician, Lord Mayor of London
- 1945 : Arthur Verocai , Brazilian musician, singer, conductor and record producer
- 1946 : Eduardo Camaño , Argentine politician, president
- 1946 : Peter Rosei , Austrian writer
- 1947 : Jógvan Arge , author and politician of the Faroe Islands
- 1947 : Bruno Banzer , Liechtenstein artistic gymnast
- 1948 : Hrafn Gunnlaugsson , Icelandic filmmaker
- 1948 : Joaquín Almunia , Spanish politician, EU commissioner
- 1949 : Tom Corbett , American politician, governor of Pennsylvania
- 1949 : Philip Charles Lithman , British rock guitarist
- 1950 : Thomas Freitag , German cabaret artist
1951-1975
- 1952 : Sergio Marchionne , Italian-Canadian manager
- 1952 : Matteo Thun , Italian designer
- 1953 : Krikor-Okosdinos Coussa , Syrian bishop in Egypt
- 1954 : Emilio Pomàrico , Argentine composer
- 1955 : Elisabeth Heister-Neumann , German politician, MdL
- 1955 : Michael Rüdiger , German actor
- 1957 : Joachim Król , German actor
- 1957 : Stephen Shellen , Canadian actor
- 1958 : Claudia Mitscha-Eibl , Austrian teacher and songwriter
- 1958 : Jello Biafra , American punk singer and musician
- 1959 : Baltazar Maria de Moráis Junior , Brazilian soccer player
- 1959 : Kazuki Yao , Japanese voice actor
- 1960 : Stephan Athanas , Swiss musician
- 1961 : Denis Lavant , French actor
- 1961 : Muslimgauze , English musician
- 1961 : Heike Trinker , German actress
- 1962 : Frank Baranowski , German politician
- 1963 : Susi Hyldgaard , Danish jazz musician
- 1964 : Rinaldo Capello , Italian racing car driver
- 1964 : Michael Groß , German swimmer
- 1964 : Ricardo Moniz , Dutch football coach
- 1964 : Dirk Raudies , German motorcycle racer
- 1964 : Mike Shiva , Swiss clairvoyant, entrepreneur and television presenter
- 1965 : Richard Auer , German crime writer and journalist
- 1965 : Dermontti Dawson , American football player
- 1965 : Ralf Lübke , German athlete and Olympic medalist
- 1966 : Jason Patric , American actor
- 1966 : Bernhard Tschofen , Austrian cultural scientist
- 1968 : Charly Lownoise , Dutch musician
- 1969 : Paul Tergat , Kenyan athlete
- 1969 : Peter Rist , German politician and singer
- 1970 : Griseldis Wenner , German presenter
- 1971 : José Emilio Amavisca , Spanish football player
- 1971 : Paulina Rubio , Mexican singer
- 1973 : Leander Paes , Indian tennis player
- 1974 : Krayzie Bone , American rapper
- 1975 : Altin Haxhi , Albanian football player
- 1975 : Willi Herren , German actor
1976-2000
- 1976 : Scott Adkins , British actor
- 1976 : Sven Nys , Belgian cyclocross rider
- 1976 : Pyotr Weniaminowitsch Swidler , Russian chess player
- 1977 : Akhmed Sachratulajewitsch Asimow , Russian orientalist
- 1977 : Robin Grubert , German singer and songwriter
- 1979 : Sina-Valeska Jung , German actress
- 1979 : Alexander Anatoljewitsch Motyljow , Russian chess player
- 1980 : Branko Tomović , German actor
- 1980 : Venus Williams , American tennis player
- 1982 : Dirk Laucke , German playwright
- 1983 : Lilian Akopova , Armenian-Ukrainian pianist
- 1983 : Kazunari Ninomiya , Japanese singer and actor
- 1983 : Manish Dayal , American actor
- 1985 : Marcos Baghdatis , Cypriot tennis player
- 1985 : Manuel Fettner , Austrian ski jumper
- 1986 : Marie Avgeropoulos , Canadian actress
- 1986 : Dominik Paul Weber , German theater and film actor
- 1987 : Malick Bolivard , French soccer player
- 1987 : Serhiy Issajenko , Ukrainian snooker player
- 1987 : Betina Riegelhuth , Norwegian handball player
- 1987 : Kendrick Lamar , American rapper and songwriter
- 1987 : Anna Wysokińska , Polish handball player
- 1988 : Stephanie Rice , Australian swimmer
- 1989 : Nanna Christiansen , Danish soccer player
- 1990 : Alan Jelisbarowitsch Dzagojew , Russian football player
- 1990 : Maja Lehrer , German actress
- 1991 : Grégoire Defrel , French football player
- 1992 : Víctor Guerin , Brazilian racing car driver
- 1992 : Maxime Lestienne , Belgian football player
- 1992 : André Negrão , Brazilian racing car driver
- 1992 : Hugo Valente , French racing car driver
- 1994 : Streli Mamba , German-Congolese soccer player
- 1994 : Amari Cooper , American football player
- 1995 : Arshak Korjan , Russian-Armenian football player
- 1995 : Clément Lenglet , French football player
- 1997 : KJ Apa , New Zealand actor
- 1997 : Julija Sršen , Slovenian ski jumper
- 1997 : Harm Vanhoucke , Belgian cyclist
- 1999 : Eldar Salihović , Montenegrin ski racer
21st century
- 2002 : Lisa and Lena , German web video producers
Died
Before the 18th century
- 656 : ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān , third Sunnis caliph
- 676 : Adeodatus II , Pope
- 900 : Fulko the Venerable , Archbishop of Reims and Frankish Arch Chancellor
- 1025 : Bolesław I , Duke and King of Poland
- 1031 : Hyeonjong , 8th King of the Koranic Kingdom of Goryeo
- 1091 : Dietrich V , Count of Holland
- 1094 : Seonjong , 13th King of the Korean Goryeo Empire
- 1102 : Hartwig von Spanheim , Archbishop of Magdeburg
- 1219 : David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon , Scottish nobleman
- 1237 : Ulrich IV. Von Kyburg , Bishop of Chur
- 1285 : Yekuno Amlak , Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1304 : Eberhard I of Limburg-Styrum , Count of Isenberg-Limburg and Lord of Styrum
- 1361 : Ingebjørg Håkonsdatter , Swedish duchess
- 1400 : Johann von Jenstein , Archbishop of Prague, Patriarch of Alexandria and Chancellor of the Bohemian King Wenceslaus IV.
- 1412 : Enrico Minutoli , Italian cardinal, bishop of Sabina
- 1485 : Arnold von Burgsdorf , Bishop of Brandenburg
- 1496 : Magdalena von Brandenburg , Countess von Hohenzollern
- 1501 : Johann I. Albrecht , King of Poland
- 1516 : Johann III. , King of Navarre
- 1565 : Ashikaga Yoshiteru , Shogun of the Ashikaga Shogunate in Japan
- 1592 : Ernst Ludwig , Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast
- 1604 : Moritz von Nassau , Dutch field marshal and governor of Dutch Brazil
- 1629 : Piet Pieterszoon Heyn , Dutch privateer
- 1630 : Johann Vinhagen , mayor of Lübeck
- 1631 : Mumtaz Mahal , wife of Mughal Mughal Shah Jahan
- 1633 : Ernesto Montecuccoli , imperial general in the Thirty Years War
- 1651 : Francesco Piccolomini , Italian Superior General of the Jesuit Order
- 1665 : Marie Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Countess of Hesse-Darmstadt
- 1696 : Johann III. Sobieski , Polish king
- 1697 : Caspar Hermann Sandhagen , German Protestant theologian
18th century
- 1719 : Joseph Addison , British writer and politician
- 1721 : Michael Erich Franck , German novelist
- 1721 : Matwei Petrovich Gagarin , Russian nobleman, first governor of Siberia
- 1724 : Benedetto Luti , Italian painter
- 1729 : Jean Meslier , French priest and early enlightener
- 1734 : Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars , Marshal of France
- 1740 : William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet , English nobleman and politician
- 1741 : Alvise Pisani , 114th Doge of Venice
- 1769 : Gustav Friedrich von Rosen , Livonian general in the Swedish service
- 1771 : Daskalogiannis , Cretan rebel against the Ottomans
- 1775 : John Pitcairn , British naval officer
- 1775 : Joseph Warren , American medic, officer in the American War of Independence
- 1777 : Ferdinand Tietz , German sculptor
- 1784 : Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gaudi , Prussian civil servant
- 1787 : José de Gálvez y Gallardo , Spanish nobleman, civil servant and colonial minister
- 1795 : Charles-Gilbert Romme , French mathematician and politician, martyr of the Prairial uprising
- 1797 : Aga Mohammed Khan , Persian Shah
- 1800 : Jakob Abraham , German medalist
19th century
- 1808 : Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval , Cardinal and Bishop of Metz
- 1815 : Hamidu Reis , Algerian corsair
- 1821 : Martín Miguel de Güemes , Argentine general
- 1825 : Joseph Barbaczy , Austrian major general
- 1825 : Helias Meder , German Reformed theologian in East Frisia
- 1842 : Arthur Conolly , British traveler, military and diplomat
- 1842 : Charles Stoddart , British diplomat
- 1844 : André da Silva Gomes , Brazilian composer
- 1846 : Jean-Gaspard Deburau , French pantomime
- 1853 : Traugott Leberecht Hasse , German mining official and writer
- 1854 : Henriette Sontag , German opera singer (coloratura soprano)
- 1858 : Lakshmibai , Indian ruler and leader in the 1857 uprising
- 1859 : Albert August Wilhelm Deetz , Prussian soldier and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- 1862 : Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning , British statesman
- 1866 : Lewis Cass , American officer and politician, governor and senator, ambassador, US secretary of war and foreign affairs
- 1877 : John Stevens Cabot Abbott , American clergyman and writer
- 1879 : Joseph Sprißler , German Roman Catholic priest, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- 1882 : Vladimir Alexandrovich Sollogub , Russian writer
- 1885 : Edwin von Manteuffel , Prussian Field Marshal General
- 1885 : Ignaz Reimann , German teacher, church musician and composer
- 1886 : George Arnott Walker Arnott , Scottish botanist
- 1894 : Hermann Lattemann , German professional airship and parachutist
- 1895 : Arnold Hug , Swiss classical philologist
- 1897 : Sebastian Kneipp , German priest and hydrotherapist
- 1900 : Theodor Schüz , German painter
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902 : Karl Piutti , German composer
- 1905 : Máximo Gómez , Cuban general of the Wars of Independence from 1868 to 1898
- 1906 : Harry Nelson Pillsbury , American chess player
- 1907 : Sergio Corazzini , Italian poet
- 1921 : Nagao Aruga , Japanese legal scholar and sociologist
- 1922 : Hermann Jordan , German Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1922 : Otto Lehmann , German physicist, father of liquid crystal research
- 1932 : Christian Werner , German automobile racing driver
- 1934 : Samuel S. Arentz , American politician
- 1935 : Elizabeth McCombs , New Zealand politician
- 1936 : Henry Le Chatelier , French chemist, metallurgist and physicist
- 1940 : Arthur Harden , British biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1941 : Johan Wagenaar , Dutch composer and organist
- 1944 : Frida Schanz , German author, editor and teacher
- 1946 : Joe Dawson , American racing car driver
- 1949 : Arvo Aaltonen , Finnish swimmer
- 1950 : Fritz Arnold , German politician
1951-2000
- 1952 : Heinrich Germer , German local politician
- 1952 : Alberto Williams , Argentine composer and conductor
- 1953 : Georg Gaidzik , German people's police officer, killed in the uprising on June 17, 1953
- 1953 : Johann Waldbach , German employee of the GDR MfS, killed in the uprising of June 17, 1953
- 1955 : Robert Reininger , Austrian philosopher
- 1956 : Bob Sweikert , American racing car driver
- 1957 : Dorothy Richardson , British writer and essayist
- 1958 : Raoul Aslan , Austrian-Greek actor
- 1958 : Wells Coates , Canadian architect, urban planner and designer
- 1961 : Jeff Chandler , American actor
- 1962 : Walter Flanigan , American football official
- 1963 : Richard Baer , German SS officer, camp commandant of the Auschwitz and Mittelbau concentration camps
- 1966 : Johnny St. Cyr , American banjo player and guitarist
- 1968 : AM Cassandre , Ukrainian-French graphic designer and typographer, painter, set designer and teacher
- 1971 : Walter Jurmann , Austrian composer
- 1972 : Jóhannes Gunnarsson , Roman Catholic Bishop and Vicar Apostolic in Iceland
- 1974 : Charles Coleman , British city commander
- 1974 : Rabbe Enckell , Finnish writer, poet and painter
- 1974 : Axel von Harnack , German librarian, historian and philologist
- 1975 : Alfred Aufdenblatten , Swiss cross-country skier
- 1976 : Richard Casey, Baron Casey , Australian politician
- 1977 : Qian Xingcun , Chinese literary scholar
- 1980 : Eduard Büchsel , German organist, cantor and church music director
- 1982 : Roberto Calvi , Italian banker
- 1982 : Zdeněk Kalista , Czech historian and poet, literary critic, editor and translator
- 1983 : Miron Białoszewski , Polish poet
- 1983 : Eelco van Kleffens , Dutch politician
- 1983 : Peter Mennin , American composer
- 1985 : Czesław Marek , Polish composer
- 1986 : Erna Nitter , German actress
- 1991 : Pierre Jamet , French harpist and music teacher
- 1992 : Dewey Balfa , American Cajun musician
- 1994 : Herbert Abel , German geographer and museum director
- 1994 : Claire Austin , American blues and jazz singer
- 1996 : Thomas S. Kuhn , American physicist, science theorist and historian
- 1996 : Reinhard Lettau , German-American writer
- 1998 : John Carberry , American clergyman, Archbishop of Saint Louis
- 1998 : Joachim Nottke , German author, actor and voice actor
- 1999 : Horst Niendorf , German actor and voice actor
- 2000 : Antonius Höckelmann , German artist
21st century
- 2002 : Fritz Walter , German soccer player and DFB official
- 2003 : Christian Morgenstern , German DJ and music producer
- 2004 : Siegfried Künkele , German lawyer and botanist
- 2004 : Jacek Kuroń , Polish civil rights activist, publicist, historian and politician
- 2007 : Claude Bridel , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 2007 : Angelo Felici , Italian Roman Catholic theologian and bishop, Cardinal of the Curia
- 2007 : Gianfranco Ferré , Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur
- 2008 : Henry Chadwick , British theologian and church historian
- 2008 : Cyd Charisse , American dancer and film actress
- 2008 : Tsutomu Miyazaki , Japanese serial killer
- 2009 : Ralf Dahrendorf , German-British sociologist, politician and publicist
- 2010 : Hans Dichand , Austrian journalist and editor
- 2012 : Rodney King , American victim of police violence
- 2012 : Susan Tyrrell , American actress
- 2013 : Mychajlo Horyn , Ukrainian human rights activist, dissident and politician
- 2013 : Eberhard Weis , German historian
- 2014 : Wolfram Dorn , German politician
- 2014 : Rudolf Kicken , German photo artist
- 2015 : Ron Clarke , Australian athlete
- 2015 : Süleyman Demirel , Prime Minister of Turkey
- 2016 : Birgit Sewekow , German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
- 2016 : Garret Wellesley, 7th Earl Cowley , British peer
- 2017 : Józef Grudzień , Polish boxer
- 2017 : Maurice Matieu , French painter and book author
- 2018 : Thilo Ramm , German legal scholar
- 2018 : David Selberg , Swedish ice hockey player
- 2019 : Knut Andersen , Norwegian film director, screenwriter, actor and film editor
- 2019 : Mohammed Mursi , Egyptian politician
- 2019 : Gloria Laura Vanderbilt , American artist
- 2020 : Willie Thorne , English snooker player
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- August Hermann Werner , German doctor (Protestant)
- St. Rainer of Pisa , Italian hermit and patron saint (Catholic)
- State holidays and memorial days
- Iceland : independence from Denmark (1944)
- Germany: "Day of German Unity", public holiday in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1954 to 1990, anniversary of the uprising of June 17, 1953 in what was then the German Democratic Republic . First committed in 1954 a few weeks after the Soviet Union declared sovereignty for the GDR.
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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