23rd June
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Events
Politics and world events
- 229 : The Chinese warlord Sun Quan , Duke of Wu, names himself emperor of the Wu dynasty .
- 1101 : Lombard crusaders conquer Ankara during the 1101 crusade .
- 1180 : The Gempei War begins in Japan with the first battle of Uji , in which two samurai families fight for power in the state.
- 1197 : Vladislav Heinrich is elected Duke of Bohemia. A little later, however, he abdicated in favor of his brother Ottokar I so as not to let the family dispute between the Přemyslids escalate.
- 1305 : In the Treaty of Athis-sur-Orge , the county of Flanders becomes independent as a French fief, but has to leave the cities of Lille , Douai and Béthune to the French crown and pay an annual compensation.
- 1314 : At the Battle of Bannockburn , Robert the Bruce wins a decisive victory over an English army under Edward II and thus secures the independence of Scotland.
- 1372 : The two-day naval battle of La Rochelle in the Hundred Years War ends with a victory for the French-Castilian fleet over the English.
- 1524 : At the time of the German Peasants' War , the first peasant survey takes place in the Wutach Valley near Stühlingen .
- 1565 : During the siege of Malta , the Ottomans succeed in conquering Fort St. Elmo according to the plans of the corsair Turgut Reis , who is killed in the attack.
- 1585 : During the Eighty Years' War the battle of Amerongen in the province of Utrecht takes place . Count Adolf von Neuenahr and his troops consisting of Dutch and German mercenaries fail in the attempt to stop the marauding of Spanish units.
- 1606 : The Peace of Vienna ends a month-long uprising against the Habsburgs in Upper Hungary . Archduke Matthias of Austria recognizes the leader Stephan Bocskai as Prince of Transylvania and grants Calvinists and Lutherans in Upper Hungary freedom of religion .
- 1611 : The English navigator Henry Hudson is abandoned with his son and seven loyal crew members after a mutiny in an open boat. The further fate of the abandoned is unknown.
- 1656 : In the Treaty of Marienburg , Sweden's King Karl X. Gustav Brandenburg-Prussia secures himself as an ally in the Second Northern War .
- 1757 : At the Battle of Plassey , a mercenary force of the British East India Company, led by Robert Clive, defeats the force of Siraj-ud-Daula, the last independent nawab of Bengal . The battle is considered to be the beginning of British rule in India .
- 1758 : In the Battle of Krefeld during the Seven Years' War , the Prussians under Prince Ferdinand defeat a superior French army led by the Count of Clermont .
- 1760 : In the Seven Years' War , the Austrian defeats the Prussian army in the Battle of Landeshut . The Prussian military leader Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué is the most prominent prisoner.
- 1865 : The Civil War ends with the surrender of the last Confederate troops in Texas .
- 1914 : During the Mexican Revolution , an army of insurgents led by Pancho Villa defeats President Victoriano Huerta's government troops in the Battle of Zacatecas . After the victory, however, new quarrels break out between the various factions of the revolutionary camp, which sparked further fighting.
- 1915 : The First Isonzo Battle of the First World War begins.
- 1916 : In the Battle of Verdun, German troops storm the Thiaumont intermediate plant .
- 1919 : Latvian and Estonian troops succeed in stopping the advance of the Baltic State Armed Forces in the Estonian War of Independence near Cēsis .
- 1920 : With the abolition of aristocratic privileges in Prussia, titles of nobility in Germany are now only part of the name .
- 1928 : General Umberto Nobile has Einar Lundborg flown out of Spitsbergen. Three weeks later, the survivors of the Italia are rescued by the Soviet icebreaker Krassin .
- 1960 : Enovid is approved as a contraceptive in the United States, making it the world's first birth control pill .
- 1961 : The Antarctic Treaty , which excludes military use of the Antarctic , comes into force.
- 1962 : The communist Pathet Lao movement forms a coalition government under Souvanna Phouma together with the royalists in Laos .
- 1972 : Federal German basic military service is reduced from 18 to 15 months.
- 1974 : Rudolf Kirchschläger is elected Austrian Federal President.
- 1990 : The Republic of Moldova declares itself sovereign.
- 2016 : In a referendum on whether the United Kingdom should remain in the European Union, 51.9% of voters (72.2% turnout) vote to leave.
economy
- 1862 : On the route from Hamar to Grundset , the world's first narrow-gauge railway in Kapspur goes into operation in Norway . It was designed by the railway pioneer Carl Abraham Pihl .
- 1999 : In Belgium , France , Holland and Luxembourg which is for Coca-Cola imposed Drinks sales ban lifted.
science and technology
- 1802 : The German natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt climbs together with the French botanist Aimé Bonpland in South America the 6267 meter high Chimborazo up to a height of 5749 meters. Humboldt then describes the symptoms of altitude sickness for the first time .
- 1888 : The German association for the promotion of airship travel carries out the first of the so-called Berlin scientific aviation . On board the Herder gas balloon are among others the club member Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld and the meteorologist Victor Kremser .
- 1905 : The third engine airplane Wright Flyer III of the Wright brothers started with Orville Wright at the helm for the first flight .
- 1925 : A team of six succeeds in the first ascent of Mount Logan , the highest mountain in Canada at 5,959 m.
- 1938 : In Berlin, work begins on the Great Hall of the Reich capital Germania .
- 1960 : The Jesuits found the first private university in Central America , the Universidad Centroamericana , in Managua .
- 1998 : In Bangladesh , the newly built 4.8 km long Bangabandhu Bridge over the Jamuna is opened to traffic.
Culture
- 1840 : The first performance of the comic opera Hans Sachs by Albert Lortzing based on the play of the same name by Johann Ludwig Deinhardstein takes place in Leipzig .
- 1953 : The opera The Decembrists by Yuri Alexandrowitsch Schaporin is premiered at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater .
- 1954 : The world premiere of the opera The Widow of Ephesus by Hermann Reutter takes place in Cologne .
- 1993 : The Olympic Museum , initiated by Juan Antonio Samaranch , opens in Lausanne .
- 2006 : The Musée du quai Branly in Paris opens as the French national museum for non-European art.
society
- 1924 : The serial killer Fritz Haarmann is caught in Hanover .
- 1934 : A $ 10,000 (alive) or $ 5,000 (corpse) bounty is placed on John Dillinger under Homer S. Cummings and John Edgar Hoover in Washington, DC .
religion
- 964 : The Romans deliver Pope Benedict V to Emperor Otto I , who favors Leo VIII for the office.
- 1993 : The in Balamand Monastery convenes Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church rejects in a statement the Uniatism as a method or model for the desired unity of the two Churches from.
- 1996 : The two German priests Karl Leisner and Bernhard Lichtenberg are beatified by Pope John Paul II in the Berlin Olympic Stadium .
nature and environment
- 1749 : A landslide in the Vaudois Alps leads to the formation of the southern rock face of the mountain Les Diablerets . Around 50 million cubic meters of rock slide off. The Lac de Derborence continues to be dammed.
- 1887 : In Canada , the “Rocky Mountains Park Act” creates the legal basis for Banff National Park .
- 2006 : The Galápagos giant tortoise Harriet (* approx. 1830), one of the oldest known animals in the world, dies in the Australia Zoo in Queensland .
Disasters
- 1985 : Air India flight 182 of the Indian airline Air India crashes into the Atlantic after a bomb explosion . All 329 people die on board the Boeing 747 .
- 2001 : In an earthquake of intensity 8.4 near the coast of Peru , 138 people are killed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1894 : The International Olympic Committee is founded in Paris on the initiative of Pierre de Coubertin . Athens is chosen as the venue for the first modern Olympic Games .
- 1897 : The first international chess tournament for women begins in London .
- 1923 : Foundation of the Romanian football club Rapid Bucharest .
- 1979 : The West Indies win the second Cricket World Cup in England by beating England with 92 runs in the final .
- 1991 : In Paris, the wins German national hockey team the EuroHockey Nations Championships by taking the final in the Netherlands with 3: defeated first
- 2004 : The German national soccer team eliminated 1: 2 at the European Championship in Portugal against the Czech Republic . One day later, team boss Rudi Völler resigns from his position.
- 2007 : The Hamburg Sea Devils win the World Bowl XV. against Frankfurt Galaxy with 37:28.
- 2012 : The team of the German-speaking ethnic group from South Tyrol wins the final of the Europeada 2012 , the soccer championship of the linguistic autochthonous minorities, in Lausitz against the Roma team from Hungary with 3: 1.
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
- 1435 : Francis II , Duke of Brittany
- 1456 : Margaret of Denmark , Queen of Scotland
- 1470 : Ambrosius von Viermund , Hessian knight
- 1489 : Charles II , Duke of Savoy
- 1512 : Johann Fichard , Frankfurt lawyer
- 1519 : Johannes Goropius Becanus , Dutch physician, linguist and humanist
- 1534 : Oda Nobunaga , Japanese warlord
- 1545 : Johannes Dinckel , German Protestant theologian
- 1578 : Hans Christoph von Ebeleben , German lawyer and administrative officer
- 1578 : Johann Behm , German Lutheran theologian
- 1592 : Tobias Michael , German composer and Thomaskantor
- 1593 : Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , Duchess of Saxony-Altenburg
- 1612 : Justus Georg Schottelius , German language scholar
- 1642 : Johannes de Spina , German legal scholar
- 1668 : Giambattista Vico , Italian philosopher
- 1675 : Louis de Silvestre , French painter, court painter in Saxony
18th century
- 1701 : Antonio Cristofori , Italian painter and musician
- 1703 : Maria Leszczyńska , wife of the French King Louis XV.
- 1718 : Emmanuel von Croÿ , imperial prince and French military leader
- 1726 : Ludovico Manin , last doge of Venice
- 1745 : James Graham , English physician, quack, and religious pamphleteer
- 1747 : Johann Christian Wagner , German lawyer
- 1750 : Déodat de Dolomieu , French geologist and mineralogist
- 1758 : Anna Elisabeth Schönemann , Frankfurt banker's daughter, Goethe's fiancée Lili
- 1763 : Justus Arnemann , German medical professor and surgeon
- 1763 : Joséphine , Empress of the French
- 1771 : Hermann von Boyen , Prussian field marshal
- 1775 : Louis Malus , French engineer and physicist
- 1779 : Johann Baptist Schiedermayr , German composer and church musician
- 1788 : Friedrich Schamberger , German lawyer
- 1800 : Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer , German actress and writer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804 : August Borsig , German entrepreneur and founder of the Borsig works
- 1805 : Friedrich Drake , German sculptor and architect
- 1807 : Christian Märklin , German theologian and educator
- 1810 : Fanny Elßler , Austrian ballet dancer
- 1815 : Robert Milligan McLane , American politician
- 1817 : Louis Brisson , French Catholic priest, founder of two congregations
- 1817 : Heinrich Schacht , German writer and worker poet
- 1820 : Friedrich Herman Semmig , German writer and philosopher
- 1824 : Lucien Anderson , American politician
- 1824 : Carl Reinecke , German composer and pianist
- 1828 : Johannes Schilling , German sculptor
- 1835 : Helena Guerra , founder of the Italian order
- 1837 : Ernst Friedel , German local politician, historian and local researcher
- 1837 : Ernest Guiraud , French composer
- 1840 : Hermann Wagner , German geographer
- 1843 : John Gregory Bourke , American ethnologist
- 1843 : Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze , German botanist
1851-1900
- 1854 : Leonhard Atzberger , German clergyman and dogmatist
- 1867 : Robert Sterl , German painter
- 1872 : Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead , British politician
- 1875 : Norman Pritchard , Indian athlete and actor
- 1875 : Jakob Tiedtke , German actor
- 1877 : Anton Apold , Austrian metallurgical engineer
- 1880 : Hugo Auvera , German entrepreneur
- 1884 : Werner Krauss , German actor
- 1886 : Jean Déré , French composer and music teacher
- 1887 : Ernst Rowohlt , German publisher
- 1888 : Paul Hertz , German politician
- 1889 : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova , Russian poet
- 1892 : John F. Seitz , American cameraman
- 1893 : Ernst Theodor Eichelbaum , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1894 : Salomon Adler-Rudel , Israeli social politician
- 1894 : Edward VIII , British King
- 1894 : Alfred Charles Kinsey , American sex researcher
- 1895 : Felix Maria Ghebre Amlak , Ethiopian priest
- 1895 : Joseph Vogt , German ancient historian
- 1897 : Tewfik Abdullah , Egyptian football player
- 1897 : Wilhelm Henke , German pastor, theologian and regional bishop in Schaumburg-Lippe
- 1897 : Terig Tucci , Argentine composer and violinist, pianist and mandolinist
- 1897 : Winifred Wagner , German director of the Bayreuth Festival
- 1899 : Jean Fourquet , French Germanist
- 1889 : René Léonard , French racing car driver
- 1899 : Gerhard Graf von Schwerin , German soldier
- 1899 : Franz Ziegler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Paul Verhoeven , German actor
- 1903 : Hans Christian Branner , Danish writer
- 1904 : Placido Acevedo , Puerto Rican trumpeter, orchestra leader and composer
- 1904 : George William Ahr , American bishop
- 1905 : Paul Desmarteaux , Canadian actor
- 1906 : Wolfgang Koeppen , German writer ( Trilogy of Failure )
- 1906 : Albert Lieven , German actor
- 1906 : Rolf Singer , German mycologist
- 1907 : Ángel Arocha , Spanish football player
- 1907 : James Edward Meade , British economist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1908 : Jammal-ud-Din Affendi , Afghan hockey player
- 1909 : Liselotte Herrmann , German resistance fighter
- 1910 : Jean Anouilh , French playwright
- 1910 : Annemarie Böll , German translator
- 1910 : Milton Hinton , American jazz musician
- 1911 : Nikolai Dmitrievich Kuznetsov , Soviet engine designer
- 1911 : David Ogilvy , English copywriter
- 1912 : Alan Turing , British mathematician and cryptanalyst
- 1913 : Helen Humes , American jazz and blues singer
- 1914 : Walter Höchenberger , German football player
- 1915 : Philip William Anderson , American film editor
- 1915 : Anna Semyonovna Andreyeva , Soviet shot putter
- 1916 : Ernst Willimowski , German-Polish football player
- 1916 : Siegfried Wünsche , German motorcycle racer
- 1918 : Josef Friedrich Remberg , German general
- 1919 : Gerda Gmelin , German theater actress
- 1919 : Hermann Gmeiner , Austrian founder of the SOS Children's Villages
- 1920 : Gerry Wolff , German actor
- 1921 : Josefine Kohl , German athlete
- 1923 : George Russell , American jazz musician
- 1923 : Heinrich Severloh , German soldier
- 1924 : Arno Stern , educator and researcher born in Germany
- 1925 : Manfred Fuhrmann , German philologist
- 1925 : Sahib Shihab , American jazz musician
1926-1950
- 1926 : Arnaldo Pomodoro , Italian sculptor and architect
- 1926 : Otto-Werner Mueller , American conductor and music teacher
- 1927 : Bob Fosse , American choreographer and director
- 1927 : Herbert MacKay-Fraser , American racing driver
- 1927 : Utz Richter , German actor
- 1928 : Klaus von Dohnanyi , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister, First Mayor of Hamburg
- 1929 : Claude Goretta , Swiss film director and television producer
- 1929 : Henri Pousseur , Belgian music teacher and composer
- 1929 : June Carter Cash , American songwriter and singer
- 1929 : Bart Carlier , Dutch football player
- 1930 : Juan Alberto Peña Lebrón , Dominican poet and lawyer
- 1931 : Urs Jaeggi , Swiss sociologist, writer, painter and sculptor
- 1931 : Ola Ullsten , Swedish politician and diplomat, Prime Minister
- 1933 : Michelangelo Pistoletto , Italian artist
- 1933 : Hans-Joachim Scheel , German motorcycle racer and doctor
- 1934 : Ingrid Kötter , German author for children and young people
- 1936 : Konstantinos Simitis , Greek politician, Prime Minister
- 1936 : Richard Bach , American writer
- 1936 : Paolo Barison , Italian football player and coach
- 1937 : Martti Ahtisaari , Finnish diplomat and politician, President, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1939 : Manfred Funke , German political scientist and contemporary historian
- 1940 : Adam Faith , British singer
- 1940 : Wilma Rudolph , African American athlete and exceptional athlete
- 1940 : Stuart Sutcliffe , British painter and musician ( The Beatles )
- 1941 : Charles Whitman , American architecture student, gunman
- 1942 : Dieter Antoni , Austrian civil servant and politician, member of the National Council
- 1942 : Hannes Wader , German songwriter
- 1943 : James Levine , American conductor
- 1943 : Vinton G. Cerf , American mathematician and computer scientist
- 1944 : Peter Bieri , Swiss writer and philosopher
- 1944 : Hildebrecht Braun , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1945 : John Garang , South Sudanese rebel leader and politician
- 1946 : Franziska Wiethold , German trade unionist, board member of Ver.di
- 1947 : Bryan Brown , Australian actor
- 1949 : Monika Hutter , Swiss politician, member of the Zug government, victim of the attack
- 1949 : Midori Ishii , Japanese politician
- 1950 : Dave Butz , American football player
- 1950 : Orani João Tempesta , Brazilian Cardinal and Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro
1951-1975
- 1951 : Norbert Carius , German journalist
- 1951 : Michèle Mouton , French rally driver
- 1952 : Rita Maiburg , German pilot, first female scheduled flight captain in the world
- 1952 : Jürgen Schmieder , German politician, member of the People's Chamber, Member of the Bundestag
- 1953 : Armen Zarkissjan , Armenian physicist and computer scientist, entrepreneur and diplomat
- 1955 : Stojan Ganew , Bulgarian politician, foreign minister
- 1955 : Glenn Danzig , American rock musician
- 1956 : Esther Gemsch , Swiss actress
- 1957 : Frances McDormand , American actress
- 1957 : Yale Strom , American filmmaker, musician, composer, writer, and photographer
- 1959 : Karin Kortmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Parliamentary State Secretary
- 1959 : Michel Trollé , French racing car driver
- 1961 : Andrea Borella , Italian fencer, Olympic champion
- 1961 : David Leavitt , American writer
- 1962 : Jan Freiheit , German baroque cellist and viol player
- 1962 : Ralf Günther , German television producer
- 1963 : Iris Andraschek-Holzer , Austrian artist
- 1964 : Joss Whedon , American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1965 : Manuel Andrack , German editor, moderator and author
- 1966 : Anka Baier , German actress
- 1966 : Oliver-Sven Buder , German athlete
- 1967 : Boris Aljinovic , German-Serbian actor
- 1968 : Tiken Jah Fakoly , West African reggae musician
- 1969 : Achinoam Nini , Israeli singer
- 1969 : Fernanda Ribeiro , Portuguese athlete, Olympic champion
- 1970 : Mark 'Oh , German music producer and DJ
- 1970 : Yann Tiersen , French composer and musician
- 1972 : Selma Blair , American actress
- 1972 : Monika Meyer , German soccer player
- 1972 : Zinédine Zidane , French football player
- 1974 : Karin Ertl , German athlete
- 1975 : Bamberdele Adebola , Nigerian soccer player
- 1975 : DJ Antoine , Swiss house DJ, producer and label boss
- 1975 : Lotte Kiærskou , Danish handball player
- 1975 : KT Tunstall , British singer
- 1975 : Mona Vetsch , Swiss television and radio presenter
- 1975 : Sibusiso Zuma , South African soccer player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Paola Suárez , Argentine tennis player
- 1976 : Patrick Vieira , French football player
- 1976 : Emmanuelle Vaugier , Canadian actress
- 1977 : Miguel Ángel Angulo , Spanish football player
- 1977 : Hayden Foxe , Australian soccer player
- 1977 : Jason Mraz , American singer-songwriter
- 1979 : Luise Bähr , German actress
- 1979 : LaDainian Tomlinson , American football player
- 1980 : David Emil Andersen , Australian basketball player
- 1980 : Sibel Arslan , Swiss lawyer and politician
- 1980 : Melissa Rauch , American actress
- 1980 : Dustin Semmelrogge , German actor
- 1981 : Walter Lechner junior , Austrian racing driver
- 1981 : Jana Pareigis , German journalist and television presenter
- 1982 : Bart Aernouts , Belgian cyclocross rider
- 1982 : Anja Milenkovič , Slovenian soccer player
- 1983 : Kari Arkivuo , Finnish soccer player
- 1984 : Duffy , British singer
- 1984 : Oqgul Omonmurodova , Uzbek tennis player
- 1984 : Julien Humbert , French soccer player
- 1984 : Verena Stuffer , Italian ski racer
- 1985 : Claire Breton , French biathlete
- 1986 : Charlie Hollings , British racing car driver
- 1986 : Mariano , Brazilian soccer player
- 1987 : Alessia Filippi , Italian swimmer
- 1987 : Iván Marcano , Spanish football player
- 1988 : Sebastian Gevert , Chilean volleyball player
- 1988 : Isabell Herlovsen , Norwegian soccer player
- 1989 : Maximilian Holst , German handball player
- 1990 : René Felix , Austrian football player
- 1990 : Selina Nowak , German soccer player
- 1991 : Katie Armiger , American country singer
- 1992 : Kim Sonne , Danish handball player
- 1993 : Marvin Grumann , German soccer player
- 1993 : Yannic Lippe , German actor and rapper
- 1994 : Pouya Norouzi Nezhad , Iranian handball player
- 1996 : Tarek Chahed , German soccer player
- 1996 : Rebecca Knaak , German soccer player
21st century
- 2004 : Mana Ashida , Japanese actress and singer
- 2005 : Phillis Lara Lau , German actress
Died
Before the 17th century
- 79 : Vespasian , Roman emperor
- 679 : Æthelthryth , Anglo-Saxon saint
- 1075 : Dietwin , Bishop of Liège
- 1076 : Leutbert , Bishop of Cambrai
- 1137 : Adalbert I of Saarbrücken , Archbishop of Mainz, Imperial Chancellor
- 1139 : Andreas von Kuik , Bishop of Utrecht
- 1222 : Constanze of Aragón , Queen of Hungary, Queen of Sicily and Roman-German Empress
- 1277 : Peder Bang , Bishop of Roskilde
- 1290 : Henry the Just , Duke in Silesia-Breslau
- 1318 : Gilles Aycelin de Montaigut , Archbishop of Narbonne and Rouen
- 1324 : Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke , English magnate
- 1325 : Chungseon Wang , 26th King of the Korean Goryeo Empire
- 1349 : Pierre Bertrand , French cardinal, theologian and canon lawyer
- 1356 : Margaret of Holland , Roman-German Queen and Empress
- 1371 : Johann von Virneburg , elected but not papally recognized Archbishop of Cologne, Bishop of Münster and then Bishop of Utrecht
- 1430 : Louis von Bar , Duke of Bar, Bishop of Poitiers, Langres, Porto-Santa Rufina and Châlons, Administrator of Verdun and Peer of France
- 1444 : Markos Eugenikos , Metropolitan of Ephesus and Orthodox saint
- 1500 : Elisabeth von Pfalz-Zweibrücken , Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken
- 1500 : Ludovico Lazzarelli , Italian humanist and poet
- 1514 : Heinrich I , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- 1537 : Pedro de Mendoza , Spanish conquistador, founder of the Buenos Aires colony
- 1544 : Eleonore von Fürstenberg , Countess of Hanau-Lichtenberg
- 1555 : Pedro Mascarenhas , Portuguese navigator, explorer and diplomat
- 1565 : Turgut Reis , Ottoman corsair, admiral and Bey of Tripoli
- 1587 : Ōmura Sumitada , Japanese prince
17th and 18th centuries
- 1611 : Christian II , prince of the Wettin family (Albertine line)
- 1614 : Markus Welser , German humanist, historian and publisher, mayor of Augsburg
- 1624 : Quirinus Cubach , German historian, lawyer and poet
- 1635 : Greta Bünichmann , victim of the witch trials in Münster
- 1659 : Hyojong , 17th King of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea
- 1662 : Zheng Chenggong , army leader, pirate and founder of the Tungning Kingdom in Taiwan
- 1677 : Wilhelm Ludwig , Duke of Württemberg
- 1691 : Suleyman II , Ottoman Sultan
- 1707 : John Mill , English theologian
- 1713 : Paul Rabe , German philologist and philosopher
- 1724 : Emanuel Kegel , German composer
- 1728 : Tsuji Gettan Sukemochi , Japanese scholar, philosopher and samurai
- 1733 : Johann Jakob Scheuchzer , Swiss doctor and natural scientist
- 1747 : Hedwig Maximiliane von Dyhrn , Silesian nobleman, lady of the Star Cross and lady-in-waiting at the imperial court in Vienna
- 1749 : Johann Friedrich zu Castell-Rüdenhausen , Imperial Privy Councilor
- 1762 : Wolfgang Dietrich Majer , painter from Württemberg
- 1766 : Thomas Roseingrave , English composer, organist and harpsichordist
- 1767 : Johann Hermann von L'Estocq , surgeon and political favorite of the Russian Empress Elisabeth
- 1770 : Mark Akenside , English doctor and poet
- 1775 : James Abercrombie , British officer
- 1779 : Michael Sehul , Governor of Tigray
- 1795 : Alexei Petrovich Antropow , Russian painter
19th century
- 1804 : Heinrich Leopold von Seherr-Thoß , German landowner
- 1806 : Adolf Friedrich Harper , German painter
- 1807 : Georg Thomas von Asch , Russian city physician, division doctor, chief doctor, general staff doctor and field marshal
- 1816 : Ludwig Friedrich Heindorf , German classical philologist
- 1831 : Mateo Albéniz , Spanish composer, church musician and music theorist
- 1836 : James Mill , English historian and economist
- 1839 : Hester Stanhope , American adventurer
- 1839 : Juan Cruz Varela , Argentine writer, journalist and politician
- 1851 : Anna Kraus-Wranitzky , Austrian opera singer
- 1859 : Maria Pawlowna , Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- 1864 : Christian Ludwig Brehm , German pastor and ornithologist
- 1870 : Joseph Halstead Anderson , American politician
- 1880 : Adolph Zsigmondy , Austrian dentist
- 1881 : Matthias Jacob Schleiden , German botanist and co-founder of cell theory
- 1885 : Alexis Dumont , Mayor of Mainz
- 1889 : Victor Chauffour , French university professor and politician
- 1891 : Norman Robert Pogson , English astronomer
- 1891 : Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff , Prussian general and minister of war
- 1891 : Wilhelm Eduard Weber , German physicist
- 1893 : William Fox , Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1894 : Marietta Alboni , Italian opera singer (alto)
- 1896 : Hubert Ferdinand Kufferath , German composer
- 1897 : Edith Peers-Williams , British nobleman
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Ludwig Franzius , German hydraulic engineer
- 1908 : Kunikida Doppo , Japanese writer
- 1912 : Alphonse Lavallée-Smith , Canadian composer, organist and music teacher
- 1912 : Albert von Oppenheim , German banker and art patron
- 1916 : Heinrich Hansjakob , German pastor, politician and local writer
- 1918 : Mohammad Ali Khan Ala al-Saltaneh , Iranian Prime Minister
- 1925 : Julius Haagn , Austrian politician, businessman and gymnastics specialist
- 1926 : Jón Magnússon , Icelandic Prime Minister
- 1939 : Alexander Graumüller , German chief engineer and racing car driver
- 1942 : Valdemar Poulsen , Danish physicist and engineer
- 1944 : Eduard Dietl , German general
- 1947 : Heinrich Arzt , German entrepreneur
- 1948 : Hans Adam , German naval officer
- 1949 : Heinrich Schnee , German governor and politician, MdR, member of the Lytton Commission of the League of Nations
1951-1975
- 1951 : Armin Knab , German composer
- 1951 : Victor Johnson , British cyclist, Olympic and world champion
- 1952 : Peter Georg Cohrs , German politician, MdL
- 1953 : Albert Gleizes , French painter and writer
- 1953 : Syama Prasad Mukherjee , Indian politician
- 1956 : Reinhold Moritzewitsch Glière , Russian composer
- 1957 : Louis Fürnberg , Czechoslovak-German writer and poet, composer, journalist and ambassador
- 1958 : Armas Järnefelt , Finnish composer
- 1959 : Boris Vian , French writer, engineer and musician
- 1959 : Jean Gallon , French composer and composition teacher
- 1961 : Werner Gilles , German painter
- 1963 : Gustav Gundlach , German social ethicist, philosopher and scientist
- 1966 : Nicolas Caerels , Belgian racing car driver
- 1967 : Charles Armstrong , American medic
- 1968 : Andreas von Aulock , German officer, fortress commander of Saint-Malo
- 1969 : Volmari Iso-Hollo , Finnish athlete, Olympic champion
- 1972 : Carl Auen , German film actor
- 1973 : Hans Reese , German soccer player and neurologist
- 1975 : Per Wahlöö , Swedish writer
1976-2000
- 1980 : Adrien Drancé , French racing car driver
- 1980 : Sanjay Gandhi , Indian politician
- 1980 : Clyfford Still , American abstract expressionist painter
- 1980 : Eugène Verpault , French racing car driver
- 1981 : Willi Bleicher , German trade unionist
- 1981 : Zarah Leander , Swedish actress and singer
- 1984 : Werner Simmann , German politician, MdL
- 1985 : Ernst von Caemmerer , German legal scholar
- 1985 : Hubert Schulze Pellengahr , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1987 : Adrienne Gessner , Austrian actress
- 1987 : Tito Lara , Puerto Rican singer and actor
- 1987 : Helmut Stellrecht , German politician and writer, MdR
- 1988 : Udo Krause , German journalist, court reporter and lawyer
- 1988 : Jan Wodyński , Polish painter
- 1989 : Michel Aflaq , Arab politician, co-founder of the Ba'ath party
- 1989 : Werner Best , German lawyer, police chief and governor, war criminal
- 1989 : Friedrich Hacker , Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and aggression researcher
- 1989 : Timothy Manning , American Archbishop and Cardinal
- 1991 : Michael Pflegehar , German film director
- 1993 : Edgar Schenkman , American conductor and music teacher
- 1995 : Paul Scholz , German politician, member of the People's Chamber, Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR
- 1996 : Andreas Papandreou , Greek politician and economist, Prime Minister
- 1998 : Ida Krottendorf , Austrian actress
- 1998 : Maureen O'Sullivan , Irish-American actress
- 2000 : János Percz , Hungarian designer and graphic artist
- 2000 : George Perlman , American violinist, composer and music teacher
- 2000 : Jerome Richardson , American jazz saxophonist and flutist
21st century
- 2001 : Corinne Calvet , French actress
- 2002 : Jorge Arias Gómez , Salvadoran author
- 2003 : Fred Sandback , American sculptor
- 2004 : Herman H. Goldstine , American mathematician
- 2004 : Theo Schöller , German entrepreneur ( Schöller-Eis )
- 2005 : Jean-Baptiste Gourion , Algerian bishop
- 2006 : Martin John Lars Adler , Swedish journalist and photographer
- 2006 : Aaron Spelling , American film and television producer
- 2009 : Hanne Hiob , German actress
- 2010 : Jörg Berger , German soccer player and coach
- 2010 : Frank Giering , German actor
- 2011 : Peter Falk , American actor and film producer
- 2011 : Stéphane Franke , German athlete, Olympic participant
- 2011 : Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt , French Egyptologist
- 2013 : Richard Matheson , American author
- 2014 : Kurt Emil Hugo Arentz , German sculptor
- 2015 : Helmuth Lohner , Austrian actor
- 2015 : Eduard Lohse , German bishop and council chairman
- 2016 : Peter Morley , British documentary filmmaker and television producer
- 2016 : Moritz Neumann , German journalist and representative of Judaism
- 2017 : Tonny van der Linden , Dutch football player
- 2018 : Kim Jong-pil , South Korean military and politician
- 2019 : George Rosenkranz , Mexican chemist and entrepreneur
- 2019 : Dave Bartholomew , American jazz musician
- 2020 : Katrin Beinroth , German judoka
- 2020 : David MacLennan , Canadian biochemist
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Argula von Grumbach , German reformer (Protestant)
- Name days
- Æthelthryth († June 23, 679), the Holy Edeltraud
- State holidays and memorial days
- Luxembourg : National Day of Luxembourg (since 1961)
- Okinawa : Irei no hi (since 1961)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Commons : June 23rd - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ David Moye (Huffington Post, June 21, 2012): Swastika Rehabilitation Day Is June 23; Raelians Celebrate