June 22

The June 22 is the 173rd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 174th in leap years ), thus remain still 192 days until the end of the year.

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Events

Politics and world events

168 BC BC: Battle of Pydna

• 168 BC BC : After three years of warfare, the Roman army under Aemilius Paullus succeeds in defeating the Macedonian armed forces in the Battle of Pydna in Greece and thus destroying the Diadochian Empire of the Antigonids .
• 0363 : After the unsuccessful siege of Ctesiphon during the campaign of the Roman emperor Julian against the Sassanian it comes to the Battle of Samarra , which is a draw. In another skirmish four days later, the emperor suffers serious injuries to which he succumbs. His successor Jovian has to agree to a peace that is unfavorable for Rome .
• 0813 : In the Battle of Adrianople , almost two years after the Battle of the Warbiza Pass , the Bulgarians inflict another heavy defeat on the Byzantine Empire under Michael I and appear five days later at the gates of Constantinople.
• 1372 : During the Hundred Years War , the two-day naval battle of La Rochelle between a French-Castilian and an English fleet begins .
• 1450 : The First Margrave War ends with a peace treaty in Bamberg . The Free Imperial City of Nuremberg receives back all of the territories conquered by Margrave Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

1476: Battle of Murten

• 1476 : The Swiss Confederates defeat Charles the Bold in the Battle of Murten as part of the Burgundian Wars .
• 1527 : Prince Fatahillah from the Demak Kingdom and his troops destroy the port city of Sunda Kelapa, which is allied with the Portuguese, in what is now Indonesia and subsequently establish the city of Jakarta on the same site .
• 1593 : In the Battle of Sissek , Croatian-Habsburg-Hungarian troops defeat an Ottoman army that had invaded across the border river Kupa and which was vastly outnumbered. The death of 20,000 of his soldiers and their commander prompted Sultan Murad III. for the formal declaration of war against Emperor Rudolf II , with which the so-called Long Turkish War breaks out.

1633: Galileo Galilei

• 1633 : Because of the defense of the heliocentric worldview of Copernicus , there is a trial against Galileo Galilei in Rome .
• 1772 : The British land judge William Murray, Earl of Mansfield, declares slavery in Great Britain illegal in a landmark judgment following a lawsuit by the slave James Somerset .
• 1784 : By edict, Elector Karl Theodor of Bavaria forbids all secret societies founded without sovereign approval, including the Order of Illuminati .
• 1815 : Napoléon Bonaparte abdicates for the second and last time as Emperor of the French .
• 1825 : During the reconquest of the city of Tripoli in the Peloponnese, with a population of around 10,000, by Egyptian troops of the Ottoman Empire under Ibrahim Pascha , the Christian population is massacred and the place burned down. This avenges a Greek massacre of the Turkish fortress garrison and civilians in 1821 on the occasion of the Greek Revolution .
• 1911 : The British royal couple George V and Maria von Teck are crowned in Westminster Abbey .
• 1919 : The law student Jens Oliver Lisberg hoists the first flag of the Faroe Islands in his hometown of Fámjin .
• 1933 : The SPD is banned from any activity by the National Socialist Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick .
• 1940 : France signs the Compiègne armistice with the German Empire.
• 1941 : The German-Soviet war , which lasted until May 1945, begins with the German attack on the Soviet Union under the code name Enterprise Barbarossa .
• 1941 : The first Yugoslav partisan unit to fight the German armed forces in Yugoslavia , which was occupied and split up after the Balkan campaign , is founded in Sisak , Croatia .
• 1944 : Operation Bagration begins , in the course of which the Red Army largely destroys the German Army Group Center .
• 1945 : The Jakarta Charter is presented by a special commission of the Committee of Inquiry to prepare for Indonesia's independence.
• 1953 : In memory of the GDR popular uprising, the West Berlin Senate decides to rename Charlottenburger Chaussee to Strasse des 17. Juni .
• 1964 : The Haitian dictator François Duvalier ("Papa Doc") is officially declared president for life after a constitutional amendment approved by the population.
• 1983 : Emanuela Orlandi , the 15-year-old daughter of a papal valet, is kidnapped in broad daylight on the street.

1990: Checkpoint Charlie (picture from 1989)

• 1990 : While the second round of negotiations on the two-plus-four contract begins in Berlin , Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled.
• 1996 : The Arab League summit conference in Cairo reaffirms its will for peace and gives Egypt the mandate to press Israel to continue the peace process.
• 2004 : Chechen terrorists kill a total of 90 people in their rebel attack on Ingushetia with rockets and grenade launchers on state facilities. Among them are the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Health of the Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia .
• 2005 : Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU) becomes the new Prime Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia after almost 39 years of SPD rule in the most populous federal state in Germany.
• 2005 : The German Federal Cabinet approves a proposal by Interior Minister Otto Schily to introduce a passport with machine-readable biometric data (ePassport).
• 2012 : After Yousaf Raza Gilani was ousted by the Constitutional Court, Raja Pervez Ashraf is elected as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 2012 : The previous Vice President Federico Franco is appointed as the new President of Paraguay after his predecessor Fernando Lugo was removed from office by the Parliament.

economy

• 1865 : The first horse-drawn tram in Germany starts operating in Berlin between the Brandenburg Gate and Charlottenburg above the knee .
• 1998 : The " Convertibilna Marka " replaces all three existing currencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

science and technology

1675: Royal Greenwich Observatory

• 1675 : King Charles II of England founds the observatory in Greenwich , which has marked the prime meridian since 1884 .
• 1936 : The former student Hans Nelböck murders his professor Moritz Schlick at the University of Vienna . The Vienna Circle , in which logical empiricism is discussed as a philosophical approach, ends with Schlick's death.

Drawing of the Bockstensmann on a memorial stone in Varberg

• 1936 : With the Bockstensmann , a bog body from the 14th century with almost completely preserved clothing is found in southwest Sweden.
• 1959 : The agreement for the establishment of the Franco-German Research Institute Saint-Louis (ISL) for research in the field of weapons comes into force.
• 1978 : Astronomer James W. Christy discovers Charon , Pluto's largest moon .
• 2005 : A voltage drop paralyzes the entire SBB network and thus rail traffic in Switzerland for several hours .

Culture

• 1864 : The two-act operetta Pique Dame by Franz von Suppè has its world premiere at the Thalia Theater in Graz. It is based on Suppé's one-act operetta Die Kartenschlägerin , which was premiered only two years earlier, on April 26, 1862, in the Theater am Franz-Josefs-Kai . Neither version is a success.

society

• 1634 : The Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn marries Saskia van Uylenburgh .
• 2010 : The “Your Day for Africa” campaign by Aktion Tagwerk takes place nationwide for the fourth time. 200,000 schoolchildren are committed to helping their peers in Africa.

religion

• 0431 : The third ecumenical council , the council of Ephesus , begins.
• 0816 : . Stephan IV is hereby of Leo III. elected Pope .

Disasters

• 1893 : During a maneuver in the Mediterranean Sea, the two British warships HMS Camperdown and HMS Victoria collide off Tripoli . 358 soldiers, including Fleet Commander Sir George Tryon , are killed in the sinking of the HMS Victoria .
• 1962 : A Boeing 707 of Air France crash on bad weather Guadeloupe from. 113 people die.
• 2000 : A ferry capsizes on the Yangtze River near Luzhou in the Chinese province of Sichuan . There are 131 dead.
• 2002 : An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 in Iran calls for 261 deaths.
• 2008 : The Philippine ferry Princess of the Stars runs aground and sinks during Typhoon Fengshen . Around 800 people die, only 56 passengers survive the disaster.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

• 1938 : In New York's Yankee Stadium , Max Schmeling loses in the fight for the world heavyweight boxing championship against Joe Louis by a technical knockout in the first round.
• 1941 : With SK Rapid Wien , an Austrian team wins the German football championship , a unique one in history . The Viennese defeat in the final at the Berlin Olympic Stadium to FC Schalke 04 after a 0: 3 behind to 4: 3.
• 1974 : In Hamburg 's Volksparkstadion , the GDR team wins the preliminary round of the World Cup against the German selection 1-0 with a goal from Jürgen Sparwasser .
• 1979 : In New York's Madison Square Garden , Larry Holmes defeats Mike Weaver by technical knockout and becomes the new heavyweight boxing champion according to the WBC version .
• 1980 : In the final of the European Football Championship , Germany defeated Belgium 2-1 with two goals from Horst Hrubesch .
• 1986 : In the quarter-finals of the soccer World Cup between Argentina and England, Diego Maradona scores both the famous goal with the " hand of God " and the World Cup goal of the century .
• 1991 : Werder Bremen wins the DFB Cup for the second time in the club's history with 4: 3 on penalties against 1. FC Köln .
• 2006 : With two goals in the World Cup preliminary round against Japan, Ronaldo Gerd Müllers has set the record of 14 goals at soccer World Cups, which has been in place for 32 years.
• 2006: During the soccer World Cup match between Croatia and Australia (2-2) , Croatian international Josip Šimunić received three yellow cards because English referee Graham Poll forgot to leave him after the second yellow card (90th minute) to refer. After the third yellow card in the 93rd minute, Šimunić was sent off.
• 2012 : The Miami Heat around the American basketball player LeBron James win the NBA title with a 4-1 in the finals over Oklahoma City Thunder .
• 2018 : Start of the 18th edition of the Mediterranean Games , which will take place in the Spanish city of Tarragona until July 1st .

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

• 0916 : Saif ad-Daula , Emir of Aleppo
• 1332 : Bonaventura Badoardo de Peraga , Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1370 : Johann von Görlitz , only Duke of Görlitz
• 1378 : Walter Hungerford , English nobleman
• 1425 : Lucrezia Tornabuoni , poet, patron and wife of the Florentine politician Piero di Cosimo de 'Medici (1416–1469)
• 1435 : Otto II von der Pfalz-Mosbach (Otto Mathematicus), Count Palatine and Duke in Bavaria, astronomer
• 1512 : Daniel von Büren the Younger , Mayor of Bremen
• 1593 : John Gell , English politician and general
• 1596 : Jacob Lossius , German Lutheran theologian
• 1607 : Johann Benedikt Carpzov I , German Protestant theologian
• 1613 : Lambert Pietkin , composer and organist at the Liège Monastery
• 1637 : Christian II , Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
• 1637 : Joseph Werner , Swiss painter
• 1653 : André-Hercule de Fleury , French cardinal and statesman
• 1658 : Ludwig VII , Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
• 1664 : Johann Ernst III. , Duke of Saxe-Weimar
• 1670 : Eva von Buttlar , mystical-libertine sectarian and namesake of the group known as Buttlarsche Rotte
• 1684 : Francesco Manfredini , Italian violinist and composer
• 1687 : Jacopo Appiani , Italian plasterer

18th century

Wilhelm von Humboldt (* 1767)

• 1721 : Georg Wilhelm von der Goltz , Polish general and diplomat
• 1722 : Maria Anna von Pfalz-Sulzbach , Princess of Bavaria
• 1737 : Johann Josef Anton Huber , Augsburg fresco painter and Catholic director of the Imperial City Art Academy
• 1740 : Georg Ludwig von Edelsheim , Minister of Baden
• 1744 : Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben , German natural scientist
• 1748 : Thomas Day , English writer
• 1757 : Andreas Schumann , German educator and author
• 1757 : George Vancouver , British Royal Navy officer, explorer of the North American Pacific coast
• 1758 : Joseph McMinn , American politician
• 1760 : Joseph Ludwig Colmar , first bishop of Mainz after the end of the Archdiocese of Mainz
• 1763 : Étienne-Nicolas Méhul , French composer
• 1766 : John Drayton , American politician, governor of South Carolina
• 1767 : Wilhelm von Humboldt , German scholar and statesman
• 1770 : Wilhelm Traugott Krug , German philosopher
• 1771 : Johann Ernst Plamann , German reform pedagogue
• 1772 : Karl Heinrich Gottfried Lommatzsch , German Protestant clergyman
• 1777 : Andreas Alois Ankwicz von Skarbek-Poslawice , Archbishop of Lemberg and Prague
• 1784 : Louis Marie Baptiste Atthalin , French officer, politician and painter
• 1793 : Tokugawa Ieyoshi , 12th Shogun of the Edo period in Japan

19th century

Erich Maria Remarque (* 1898)

• 1805 : Ida Hahn-Hahn , German writer
• 1805 : Giuseppe Mazzini , Italian founder of “Young Italy” in the 19th century
• 1806 : Émile de Girardin , French publisher and journalist
• 1821 : Theodor Möbius , German Nordist
• 1829 : Louis Vautrey , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and historian
• 1832 : Heinrich de Ahna , Austrian violinist
• 1835 : Adolf Michaelis , German archaeologist
• 1837 : Paul Bachmann , German mathematician
• 1837 : Paul Morphy , American chess player
• 1837 : Ernst Ziller , German-Greek classical architect, building researcher and archaeologist
• 1844 : Theodor Weber , German consul
• 1845 : Richard Seddon , Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1854 : Heinrich Eugen Abt , Swiss politician
• 1859 : Frank Damrosch , German-American conductor and music educator
• 1860 : Wilhelm Schneidewind , German agricultural chemist
• 1861 : John Lemmoné , Australian flautist, composer and music manager
• 1861 : Maximilian von Spee , German naval officer
• 1864 : Hermann Minkowski , German mathematician and physicist
• 1874 : Viggo Jensen , Danish weightlifter, marksman and athlete
• 1874 : Walter F. Otto , German classical philologist and religious scholar
• 1875 : Johannes Baader , German architect and writer
• 1876 : José Rolón , Mexican composer
• 1876 : Madeleine Vionnet , French fashion designer
• 1879 : John Joseph Dempsey , American politician
• 1880 : William Cohn , German-British art historian and sinologist
• 1885 : Joseph Arend , German politician
• 1885 : Milan Vidmar , Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player
• 1887 : Julian Huxley , English biologist, philosopher and writer
• 1888 : Lyman Hine , American bobsledder
• 1888 : Alan Seeger , American poet
• 1888 : Jeanette Wolff , German politician and women's rights activist
• 1892 : Valerio Arri , Italian athlete
• 1892 : Ludwig Bäte , German writer
• 1892 : Robert von Greim , German field marshal
• 1892 : Emil Telmányi , Hungarian violinist and conductor
• 1894 : Bernard Ashmole , British Classical Archaeologist
• 1897 : Norbert Elias , sociologist, philosopher and poet of German-Jewish descent
• 1897 : Otto Bramm , German art historian and folklorist
• 1898 : Werner Adams , German railway engineer
• 1898 : Erich Maria Remarque , German writer ( Nothing new in the West )
• 1899 : Hedwig Jochmus , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1900 : Oskar Fischinger , German filmmaker, pioneer of abstract film

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Luise Albertz , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1901 : Luís Armando Rivera , Dominican composer, pianist and violinist

John Dillinger (* 1903)

• 1903 : John Dillinger , American bank robber, first person the FBI considered public enemy # 1
• 1903 : Yamamoto Shūgorō , Japanese writer
• 1905 : Romano Amerio , Italian theologian
• 1905 : Walter Leigh , British composer
• 1905 : Hans Körnig , German graphic artist and painter
• 1906 : Anne Morrow Lindbergh , American wife, co-pilot and navigator of Charles A. Lindbergh
• 1906 : Billy Wilder , Austrian-American film director and producer
• 1907 : Eriks Ādamsons , Latvian writer
• 1908 : Beaumont Newhall , American author, photo historian, and curator
• 1909 : Robert Wehgartner , German politician of the Bavarian Party
• 1910 : Axel von Ambesser , German actor, director and author

Konrad Zuse (* 1910)

• 1910 : Konrad Zuse , German civil engineer and inventor of the first functional computer
• 1911 : Nicolas Naaman , Syrian Archbishop
• 1911 : Harvey Shapiro , American cellist and music teacher
• 1913 : Heinrich Hogrebe , German forester and officer in World War II
• 1916 : Emil Fackenheim , German philosopher and rabbi
• 1917 : George Fonder , American racing car driver
• 1917 : Jean Hubeau , French composer, pianist and music teacher
• 1918 : Cicely Saunders , English nurse, social worker and doctor
• 1918 : Hans Schaffert , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1919 : Henri Tajfel , British social psychologist
• 1920 : Paul Frees , American actor, voice actor, comedian, and screenwriter
• 1920 : Luciano Negrini , Italian helmsman
• 1922 : Mousie Alexander , American jazz drummer
• 1922 : Osvaldo Fattori , Italian football player and coach
• 1923 : José Giovanni , Franco-Swiss writer and filmmaker

1926-1950

• 1926 : Ruth Zechlin , German composer
• 1926 : Horst Fuhrmann , German historian
• 1927 : Herbert Hisel , German humorist
• 1927 : Horst Keitel , German actor and voice actor
• 1927 : Alice Vollenweider , Swiss novelist, cookbook author and literary translator
• 1928 : Ralph Waite , American actor ( The Waltons )
• 1929 : Adam Zielinski , Polish writer and entrepreneur
• 1930 : Yuri Petrovich Artjuchin , Soviet air force officer and cosmonaut
• 1930 : Roy Drusky , American country singer and songwriter
• 1930 : Leonard Lamensdorf , American writer
• 1931 : Umberto Arlati , Swiss jazz trumpeter and music teacher
• 1931 : Vera Marzot , Italian costume designer
• 1932 : Amrish Puri , Indian actor
• 1932 : Prunella Scales , English actress
• 1932 : Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiary , second wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• 1933 : Dianne Feinstein , American politician
• 1934 : Paul Ambros , German ice hockey player
• 1934 : Gerhard Neumann , German Germanist
• 1934 : Herbert Schimansky , judge at the German Federal Court of Justice
• 1936 : Hermeto Pascoal , multi-instrumentalist and avant-garde musician from Brazil

Kris Kristofferson (* 1936)

• 1936 : Kris Kristofferson , American country singer and actor
• 1938 : Virginio De Paoli , Italian football player and coach
• 1938 : Jim Shea senior , American cross-country skier and Nordic combined athlete
• 1939 : Robert Kramer , American filmmaker
• 1939 : Heikki Sarmanto , Finnish jazz pianist and composer
• 1939 : Ada Yonath , Israeli structural biologist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize winner
• 1941 : Raschid al-Ghannuschi , Tunisian politician
• 1941 : Ed Bradley , American journalist
• 1941 : Sissy Löwinger , Austrian actress
• 1942 : Eddie Prévost , British improvisation drummer
• 1943 : Klaus Maria Brandauer , Austrian actor and director
• 1943 : Simo Lampinen , Finnish rally driver
• 1944 : Peter Asher , English guitarist, singer, music manager and producer

Klaus Maria Brandauer (* 1943)

• 1944 : Helmut Dietl , German film director and screenwriter
• 1944 : Volker Koepp , German documentary filmmaker
• 1944 : Michael Schneider , German historian and political scientist
• 1945 : Rainer Brüderle , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and Minister of Economics
• 1945 : Reiner Ganschow , German handball trainer and player
• 1946 : Eliades Ochoa , Cuban guitarist and singer
• 1946 : Józef Oleksy , Polish politician
• 1947 : Octavia E. Butler , American science fiction writer
• 1947 : Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot , Canadian writer
• 1947 : Alain Couderc , French racing car driver
• 1947 : Howard Kaylan , American singer
• 1948 : Todd Rundgren , American musician, singer, and songwriter
• 1949 : Pierre Amoyal , French violinist and conductor

Meryl Streep (born 1949)

• 1949 : Meryl Streep , American actress
• 1949 : Peter Gauweiler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1950 : Zenonas Petrauskas , Lithuanian international lawyer and politician

1951-1975

• 1951 : Elvira Bach , German artist and representative of the Junge Wilde
• 1952 : Graham Greene , Canadian actor and Oneida Indian
• 1953 : Cyndi Lauper , American singer and songwriter
• 1954 : Wolfgang Becker , German director
• 1955 : Mark Galvin , Irish racing car driver
• 1956 : Derek Forbes , British bass player
• 1956 : Tim Russ , American actor
• 1957 : Arkadi Ghukassjan , President of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh
• 1957 : Ron Haslam , British motorcycle racer
• 1958 : Bruce Campbell , American actor
• 1959 : Nicola Sirkis , French musician
• 1959 : Stéphane Sirkis , French musician
• 1960 : Erin Brockovich , American paralegal
• 1960 : Margrit Klinger , German athlete
• 1961 : Patrice Lafargue , French racing driver and entrepreneur
• 1961 : Jimmy Somerville , British musician
• 1962 : Jean Arcelin , French-Swiss painter

Campino (* 1962)

• 1962 : Campino , German singer
• 1962 : Clyde Drexler , American basketball player
• 1962 : Dudley Stokes , Jamaican bobsledder
• 1963 : Antje Kempe , German athlete
• 1964 : Dan Brown , American writer
• 1964 : Miroslav Kadlec , Czech football player
• 1964 : Ulrike Sarvari , German athlete
• 1966 : Emmanuelle Seigner , French actress
• 1967 : Sabrina Lange , German reality TV participant
• 1967 : Paul Stanton , American ice hockey player
• 1968 : Darrell Armstrong , American basketball player
• 1968 : Melinda Nadj Abonji , Hungarian-Swiss writer, musician and performer
• 1970 : Winfried Gogg , German handball player and coach

Martin Rütter (* 1970)

• 1970 : Martin Rütter , German animal psychologist
• 1970 : Michael Trucco , American actor
• 1971 : Kurt Warner , American football player
• 1972 : Zakaria Asidah , Danish Taekwondoin
• 1972 : Michael Wendler , German pop singer and composer
• 1973 : Craig Alexander , Australian triathlete
• 1973 : Sonya Kraus , German television presenter
• 1974 : Ruslan Alexejewitsch Ajindschal , Russian-Abkhaz football player
• 1974 : Dennis Andersen , Danish racing car driver
• 1974 : Jo Cox , British politician
• 1974 : Donald Faison , American actor, composer and lifeguard
• 1974 : Alicia Goranson , American actress
• 1975 : Keiichirō Hirano , Japanese writer
• 1975 : Andreas Klöden , German racing cyclist

1976-2000

• 1976 : Joana Prado , Brazilian model

Bernadette Heerwagen (* 1977)

• 1977 : Bernadette Heerwagen , German actress
• 1977 : Yevgeny Jurjewitsch Najer , Russian chess player
• 1978 : Pedro Taborda , Portuguese football player
• 1978 : Dan Wheldon , British racing car driver
• 1979 : Thomas Voeckler , French professional cyclist
• 1980 : Davy Arnaud , American football player
• 1980 : Stephanie Jacobsen , Australian actress
• 1981 : Mathias Abel , German soccer player
• 1981 : Val Hillebrand , Belgian racing driver
• 1982 : Soraia Chaves , Portuguese model and actress

Isabel Edvardsson (* 1982)

• 1982 : Isabel Edvardsson , Swedish dancer and multiple German master in standard dances
• 1984 : Luciano van den Berg , Dutch football player
• 1984 : Janko Tipsarević , Serbian tennis player
• 1986 : Dwayne Anderson , American basketball player
• 1986 : Ramin Ott , American Samoan soccer player
• 1987 : Adli Lachheb , Tunisian soccer player
• 1987 : Nikita Rukavytsya , Ukrainian-Australian soccer player
• 1987 : Visa Vie , German presenter and rapper
• 1988 : Torsten Ankert , German ice hockey player
• 1988 : Omri Casspi , Israeli basketball player
• 1988 : Portia Doubleday , American actress
• 1988 : Julia E. Lenska , German actress and presenter
• 1988 : Valentine , German singer
• 1989 : Karla Crome , British actress
• 1989 : Andreas Mikkelsen , Norwegian rally driver
• 1990 : Jonathan Schmid , French soccer player
• 1990 : Faruk Vražalić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian handball player
• 1991 : Filmore Beck , German basketball player
• 1991 : Carlos Huertas , Colombian racing driver
• 1991 : Emil Larsen , Danish football player
• 1991 : Andrea Micheletti , Italian rower
• 1992 : Mira Elisa Goeres , German actress
• 1992 : Kodjovi Koussou , German football player
• 1992 : Alban Sabah , German soccer player
• 1993 : Resiuan Muchamedowitsch Mirsow , Russian football player
• 1994 : Sébastien Haller , French football player
• 1995 : Kasim Adams Nuhu , Ghanaian soccer player
• 1995 : Alessio Rovera , Italian racing car driver
• 1996 : Rodrigo , Spanish soccer player
• 1997 : Lorenzo Dalla Porta , Italian motorcycle racer
• 2000 : Åsne Skrede , Norwegian biathlete

Died

Before the 18th century

• 0431 : Paulinus of Nola , bishop and saint
• 0866 : Emenon , Count of Poitou and Angoulême
• 1051 : Theodoric , Bishop of Constance
• 1101 : Roger I , Count of Sicily and youngest son of Tankred von Hauteville
• 1102 : Albert III. , Count of Namur, Vogt of Saint Aubian, Stablo and Malmedy
• 1125 : Lambert de Saint-Bertin , French Benedictine and scholar
• 1164 : Eberhard von Biburg , Benedictine abbot and archbishop
• 1246 : Theodora Angela , Princess of Byzantium, Duchess of Austria and Styria, Cistercian in Lilienfeld Abbey

Innocent V († 1276)

• 1276 : Innocent V , Pope
• 1333 : Friedrich II. , Margrave of Baden
• 1389 : Giovanni de Dondi , Italian scholar and university professor
• 1429 : Jamschid Masʿud al-Kashi , Persian doctor, mathematician and astronomer
• 1500 : Juan de Borja Llançol de Romaní , Bishop of Melfi and Archbishop of Capua, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Valencia
• 1501 : Ulrich Kreidweiß , priest and vicar general in Cologne
• 1504 : Johann II , Duke of Sagan and mercenary leader of the Teutonic Order
• 1535 : John Fisher , English clergyman
• 1538 : Botho zu Stolberg , Lord of Wernigerode and regent of the County of Stolberg, the County of Wernigerode and the County of Hohnstein
• 1553 : Girolamo Marini , Italian architect and military engineer
• 1569 : Melchior Acontius , German humanist and poet
• 1600 : Samuel Fischer , German theologian
• 1627 : François de Montmorency-Bouteville , French nobleman
• 1687 : Heinrich Herbst the Elder , German organ builder
• 1699 : Josiah Child , English merchant, economist and mercantilist
• 1700 : Placidus von Droste , prince abbot of Fulda

18th century

• 1706 : Johann Jacob Baur , Mayor of Tübingen
• 1714 : Matthew Henry , British pastor and Bible commentator
• 1719 : Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford , British nobleman and politician
• 1722 : Maria Landini , Italian opera singer
• 1724 : Johann Theile , German composer, music teacher and conductor

George I († 1727)

• 1727 : George I , Elector of Hanover and King of Great Britain
• 1727 : Andreas Reinecke , German organ builder
• 1735 : Pirro Albergati , Italian composer
• 1737 : Johann Georg Achbauer the Younger , Bohemian builder of the baroque
• 1754 : Nicolas Siret , French composer, organist and harpsichordist
• 1756 : Hans Jacob Rietmann , Mayor of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
• 1759 : Louis de Cahusac , French playwright and librettist, collaborator at the Encyclopédie
• 1762 : Dorothea Christina von Aichelberg , German nobleman
• 1777 : Johann Joseph Christian , German sculptor and wood carver
• 1788 : Jan Tesánek , Czech scholar and author of scientific literature
• 1791 : Catherine Macaulay , English historian, suffragette and Republican writer
• 1797 : Justus Christian Ludwig von Schellwitz , German legal scholar
• 1800 : Johann Balthasar Hundeshagen , German lawyer and historian

19th century

• 1802 : Susette Gontard , great love of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin
• 1803 : Wilhelm Heinse , German poet

Anton Graff († 1813)

• 1813 : Anton Graff , German portrait painter
• 1827 : Fidel André , German politician
• 1859 : Cornelis Adriaan Bergsma , Dutch chemist, botanist and agronomist
• 1874 : Howard Staunton , British chess player, chess journalist and Shakespeare researcher
• 1878 : Emmanuel Ludwig von Fellenberg , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1885 : Muhammad Ahmad , Islamic political leader, leader of the Mahdi uprising in Sudan
• 1888 : Franz Napoleon Heigel , French-German painter
• 1888 : Edmund Neupert , Norwegian pianist, composer and music teacher
• 1887 : E. Marlitt , German writer
• 1896 : Benjamin Bristow , American politician
• 1897 : Friedrich Herman Semmig , German writer and philosopher

20th century

1901-1950

• 1905 : Francis Lubbock , American politician, governor of Texas

Ion Luca Caragiale († 1912)

• 1912 : Ion Luca Caragiale , Romanian writer
• 1918 : Franz Eher , German journalist and anti-Semitic publisher
• 1923 : Morris Rosenfeld , American poet
• 1924 : Paul Mankiewitz , German banker
• 1925 : Paul Cazeneuve , Canadian actor and theater director
• 1925 : Felix Klein , German mathematician
• 1930 : Karl von Amira , German legal historian
• 1933 : Melville Best Anderson , American Romanist, Italianist, and Englishist
• 1933 : Tim Birkin , British racing car driver
• 1935 : Szymon Askenazy , Polish historian, diplomat and politician
• 1936 : Moritz Schlick , German philosopher
• 1938 : Vladimir R. Đorđević , Serbian musicologist and ethnologist
• 1940 : Walter Hasenclever , German writer
• 1940 : Wladimir Köppen , German meteorologist, climatologist and botanist
• 1941 : Ludwig Vörg , German alpinist
• 1942 : August Froehlich , German priest, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime and martyr
• 1950 : Kurt Fischer , German politician
• 1950 : Julio Fonseca , Costa Rican composer

1951-2000

• 1952 : Eugen Abresch , German entrepreneur, inventor, art collector and politician
• 1956 : José Perotti , Chilean painter and sculptor

Hermann Brill († 1959)

• 1959 : Hermann Brill , German politician, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
• 1965 : Joseph Auslander , American poet
• 1965 : David O. Selznick , American film producer
• 1969 : Judy Garland , American film actress
• 1969 : Mirko Jelusich , Austrian writer
• 1970 : William Melville Martin , Canadian politician and judge
• 1970 : Grete Wiesenthal , Austrian dancer
• 1971 : Heinrich Fassbender , German politician
• 1972 : Elton Britt , American country musician
• 1973 : Friedl Czepa , Austrian actress
• 1974 : Darius Milhaud , French composer
• 1977 : Elisabeth Müller , Swiss writer for young people
• 1977 : Paul Oppenheim , German chemist, philosopher, private scholar and industrialist
• 1978 : Jens Otto Krag , Danish politician
• 1978 : Heinz-Günter Stamm , German actor, radio play and theater director
• 1979 : Louis Chiron , Monaco racing driver
• 1981 : Ernst Duschön , German politician
• 1981 : Walter Glaß , German Nordic combined athlete
• 1981 : Robert George Howe , British diplomat
• 1983 : David Macdonald , British film director
• 1983 : Otto Reckstat , German industrial worker and union official
• 1984 : Gerhard Frommel , German composer and music teacher
• 1984 : Joseph Losey , American director
• 1987 : Fred Astaire , American dancer, singer, and actor
• 1988 : Burrill Phillips , American composer and music teacher
• 1990 : Ilja Michailowitsch Frank , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1992 : Peter Müller , German boxer
• 1993 : Walter Ableiter , German politician
• 1994 : Ludwig Mecklinger , Minister for Health in the GDR
• 1995 : Yves Cardinal Congar , French religious, theologian and cardinal
• 1996 : Terrel Bell , American politician
• 1996 : Edmund Heinen , German university professor
• 1997 : Hans Hausmann , Swiss actor, director, translator and radio play author
• 1998 : Klaus Piontek , German actor
• 1999 : Guy Tunmer , South African racing car driver

21st century

• 2001 : Luis Carniglia , Argentine soccer player and coach
• 2002 : Conrad Hansen , German pianist
• 2003 : Wassil Bykau , Belarusian writer
• 2004 : Bob Bemer , American computer pioneer
• 2004 : Mattie Stepanek , American poet
• 2004 : Thomas Gold , American astrophysicist
• 2005 : Manolis Anagnostakis , Greek poet
• 2005 : Carson Parks , American musician
• 2006 : Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher , German-American psychologist
• 2006 : Alexander Jahr , German publisher and lawyer
• 2007 : Manuel Correia de Andrade , Brazilian author, historian, geographer, lawyer and professor
• 2007 : Bernd Becher , German photographer
• 2008 : Klaus Michael Grüber , German theater and opera director

George Carlin († 2008)

• 2008 : George Carlin , American comedian, actor, and writer
• 2008 : Albert Cossery , French-speaking Egyptian writer
• 2008 : Gerhard Meier , Swiss writer
• 2009 : Irina Atykowna Asisjan , Russian art historian, architect and painter
• 2013 : Allan Simonsen , Danish racing car driver
• 2015 : Laura Antonelli , Italian actress
• 2015 : James Horner , American composer
• 2015 : Gabriele Wohmann , German writer
• 2016 : John William Ashe , Antiguan Ambassador, President of the United Nations General Assembly
• 2017 : Gunter Gabriel , German singer
• 2017 : Ketumile Masire , President of Botswana
• 2018 : Felicia Langer , Israeli-German lawyer and human rights activist
• 2018 : Vinnie Paul , American drummer ( Pantera )
• 2019 : Walter Neupert , German biochemist and physician
• 2019 : Zdeněk Remsa , Czechoslovakian ski jumper and ski jumping trainer
• 2020 : Tom Kollins , American snooker and pool player as well as billiards official and trainer
• 2020 : Joel Schumacher , American film director

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Paulinus von Nola , Bishop of Nola (Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox)
  • Saint Alban of England , Roman martyr and patron saint (Anglican, Catholic)
  • Saint Aaron of Caerleon , Roman Martyr (Catholic)
  • St John Fisher , English Vice Chancellor and Theologian, Cardinal and Patron Saint (Catholic)
  • St. Thomas More , English author, statesman and politician, martyr and patron saint (Catholic)
  • Ten thousand martyrs , Roman legend

• Name days
  • Achatius , Eberhard , Thomas

• State holidays and memorial days
  • Croatia : Day of the Anti-Fascist Struggle
  • Russia : Day of Remembrance and Mourning

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scores still missing in Yangtze shipwreck. Retrieved June 23, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Double disaster hits China. Retrieved June 22, 2013 . 

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