June 2

June 2 is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 212 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
• 1010 – The Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr took place in the context of the Fitna of al-Andalus resulting in a defeat for the Caliphate of Cordoba.
• 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
• 1615 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
• 1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
• 1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
• 1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
• 1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
• 1793 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
• 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
• 1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
• 1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
• 1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
• 1866 – Fenian raids: the Fenians are victorious over Canadian forces in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.
• 1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
• 1886 – The U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
• 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
• 1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• 1910 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
• 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
• 1924 – The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• 1941 – World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
• 1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
• 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
• 1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
• 1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
• 1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
• 1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
• 1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
• 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
• 1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
• 1994 – An RAF Chinook helicopter crashes in Scotland killing all 29 on board. The original cause of the crash is ruled as pilot error, this verdict is overturned in 2011.
• 1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
• 1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was executed four years later.
• 1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
• 2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
• 2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
• 2010 – The Cumbria Shootings - In West Cumbria, a 52-year old man went on a four hour killing spree, shooting dead 13 (inc. himself) and injuring 11 others. The massacre was branded "one of the worst criminal acts involving firearms in British history" by Prime Minister David Cameron who paid tribute to the victims along with The Queen, Home Secretary Theresa May and the Prince of Wales.
• 2012 – The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Births

• 1423 – Ferdinand I of Naples (d. 1494)
• 1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
• 1731 – Martha Washington, American wife of George Washington, 1st First Lady of the United States (d. 1802)
• 1740 – Marquis de Sade, French author and politician (d. 1814)
• 1743 – Alessandro Cagliostro, Sicilian occultist (d. 1795)
• 1773 – John Randolph of Roanoke, American planter and politician, 8th United States Ambassador to Russia (d. 1833)
• 1774 – William Lawson, English-Australian explorer (d. 1850)
• 1815 – Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
• 1823 – Gédéon Ouimet, Canadian politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1905)
• 1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
• 1838 – Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (d. 1900)
• 1840 – Thomas Hardy, English author and poet (d. 1928)
• 1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
• 1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
• 1860 – Roger de Barbarin, French target shooter (d. 1925)
• 1861 – Concordia Selander, Swedish actress and manager (d. 1935)
• 1863 – Felix Weingartner, Croatian-Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1942)
• 1865 – George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
• 1869 – Jack O'Connor, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
• 1875 – Charles Stewart Mott, businessman and politician, 50th Mayor of the City of Flint, Michigan (d. 1973)
• 1878 – Wallace Hartley, English violinist and bandleader (d. 1912)
• 1881 – Walter Egan, American golfer (d. 1971)
• 1887 – Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
• 1891 – Thurman Arnold, American lawyer and judge (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (d. 1945)
• 1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German animator and director (d. 1981)
• 1899 – Edwin Way Teale, American naturalist and photographer (d. 1980)
• 1904 – Frank Runacres, English painter (d. 1974)
• 1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, Romanian-American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Dorothy West, American author (d. 1998)
• 1907 – John Lehmann, English poet and publisher (d. 1987)
• 1913 – Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer-songwriter and author (d. 1992)
• 1913 – Barbara Pym, English author (d. 1980)
• 1915 – Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
• 1915 – Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian activist and agent (d. 1992)
• 1917 – Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and director (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Max Showalter, American actor, singer, and pianist (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Ruth Atkinson, Canadian-American illustrator (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American journalist and author (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Frank G. Clement, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
• 1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German critic (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Tex Schramm, American football manager (d. 2003)
• 1920 – Johnny Speight, English screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Betty Freeman, American photographer and philanthropist (d. 2009)
• 1921 – András József Szennay, Hungarian clergyman (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Charlie Sifford, American golfer
• 1922 – Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress (d. 2002)
• 1924 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author, and activist (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Al Ruscio, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (d. 1977)
• 1926 – Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (d. 2013)
• 1927 – W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Norton Juster, American author and architect
• 1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Pete Conrad, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1999)
• 1930 – Bob Lillis, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1931 – William H. Donaldson, American businessman
• 1931 – Larry Jackson, American baseball player and politician (d. 1990)
• 1931 – Gerry Peacocke, Australian politician (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Sammy Turner, American singer
• 1934 – Johnny Carter, American singer (The Flamingos and The Dells) (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Carol Shields, American-Canadian author (d. 2003)
• 1935 – Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
• 1935 – Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek poet and educator
• 1936 – Rex Gildo, German singer and actor (d. 1999)
• 1936 – Jean Nelissen, Dutch journalist (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress and singer
• 1937 – Jimmy Jones, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Robert Paul, Canadian figure skater
• 1938 – Kevin Brownlow, English historian and author
• 1938 – Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld
• 1940 – Constantine II of Greece
• 1941 – William Guest, American singer-songwriter and producer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
• 1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor and producer
• 1941 – Lou Nanne, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
• 1941 – Charlie Watts, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Rolling Stones and Blues Incorporated)
• 1941 – Jeff Winkless, American voice actor, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2006)
• 1942 – Maree Cheatham, American actress
• 1943 – Ilaiyaraaja, Indian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1943 – Charles Haid, American actor and director
• 1943 – Crescenzio Sepe, Italian cardinal
• 1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Bonnie Newman, American politician
• 1945 – Jon Peters, American film producer
• 1946 – Song Dae-kwan, South Korean singer
• 1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer
• 1947 – Mark Elder, English conductor
• 1948 – Jerry Mathers, American actor and director
• 1949 – Heather Couper, English astronomer
• 1949 – Jack Pierce, American baseball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1949 – Frank Rich, American journalist and critic
• 1950 – Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and singer
• 1951 – Arnold Mühren, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1951 – Larry Robinson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1952 – Gary Bettman, American businessman
• 1953 – Keith Allen, Welsh actor, singer, and screenwriter
• 1953 – Craig Stadler, American golfer
• 1953 – Cornel West, American actor, philosopher, academic, and author
• 1954 – Dennis Haysbert, American actor and producer
• 1955 – Dana Carvey, American comedian, actor, and singer
• 1955 – Nandan Nilekani, Indian businessman, co-founded Infosys
• 1955 – Michael Steele, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Bangles and The Runaways)
• 1956 – Jan Lammers, Dutch race car driver
• 1956 – Mani Ratnam, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and manager
• 1957 – Jonathan Stack, American director and producer
• 1958 – Lex Luger, American wrestler and football player
• 1959 – Rineke Dijkstra, Dutch photographer
• 1959 – Charlie Huddy, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 – Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, 8-Eyed Spy, Harry Crews, and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult)
• 1959 – Erwin Olaf, Dutch photographer
• 1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer-songwriter and actor (Spandau Ballet)
• 1960 – Kyle Petty, American race car driver
• 1961 – Dez Cadena, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Misfits, Black Flag, Osaka Popstar, DC3, The Gentlemen, and Loaded)
• 1961 – Kare Kauks, Estonian singer
• 1963 – Anand Abhyankar, Indian actor (d. 2012)
• 1964 – Caroline Link, German director and screenwriter
• 1965 – Russ Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 – Jim Knipfel, American journalist and author
• 1965 – Sean Stewart, American-Canadian author
• 1965 – Mark Waugh Australian cricketer and journalist
• 1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
• 1966 – Pedro Guerra, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1966 – Petra van Staveren, Dutch swimmer
• 1967 – Remigija Nazarovienė, Lithuanian heptathlete and coach
• 1967 – Mike Stanton, American baseball player
• 1968 – Beetlejuice, American comedian and actor
• 1968 – Andy Cohen, American television host and author
• 1968 – Jon Culshaw, English comedian and actor
• 1968 – Jason Falkner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Jellyfish, The Grays, and The Three O'Clock)
• 1969 – Kurt Abbott, American retired baseball player
• 1969 – Cy Chadwick, English actor
• 1970 – B-Real, American rapper, producer, and actor (Cypress Hill and Kush)
• 1970 – Andy McCollum, American football player
• 1971 – Kateřina Jacques, Czech politician
• 1971 – Jo Koy, American comedian
• 1971 – Anthony Montgomery, American actor
• 1972 – Wayne Brady, American actor and singer
• 1972 – Raúl Ibañez, American baseball player
• 1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor
• 1973 – Marko Kristal, Estonian footballer
• 1973 – Neifi Pérez, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1974 – Gata Kamsky, Russian-American chess player
• 1974 – Raiko Pachel, Estonian swimmer
• 1974 – Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist
• 1975 – Salvatore Scibona, American author
• 1976 – Earl Boykins, American basketball player
• 1976 – Martin Čech, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1976 – Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1976 – Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
• 1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Keane and Mt. Desolation)
• 1977 – Teet Allas, Estonian footballer
• 1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor and producer
• 1978 – Dominic Cooper, English actor and singer
• 1978 – Nikki Cox, American actress
• 1978 – Justin Long, American actor
• 1978 – A.J. Styles, American wrestler
• 1979 – Morena Baccarin, Brazilian-American actress
• 1979 – Butterfly Boucher, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1980 – Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-American musician (The Strokes and Little Joy)
• 1980 – Bobby Simmons, American basketball player
• 1980 – Richard Skuse, English rugby player
• 1980 – Abby Wambach, American soccer player and coach
• 1980 – Tomasz Wróblewski, Polish bass player and songwriter (Behemoth, Vesania, and Black River)
• 1981 – Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
• 1981 – Catherine Manoukian, Canadian violinist
• 1981 – Velvet Sky, American wrestler
• 1981 – Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
• 1982 – Jānis Karlivāns, Latvian decathlete
• 1982 – Andres Raja, Estonian decathlete
• 1982 – Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
• 1983 – Chris Higgins, American ice hockey player
• 1983 – Leela James, American singer-songwriter
• 1983 – Brooke White, American singer-songwriter and actress (Jack and White)
• 1984 – Max Boyer, Canadian wrestler
• 1985 – Ana Cristina, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1985 – Jacqueline Fernandez, Sri Lankan model and actress, Miss Sri Lanka Universe 2006
• 1986 – Curtis Lofton, American football player
• 1987 – Maryka Holtzhausen, South African netball player
• 1987 – Caitlin Mallory, American-Estonian ice dancer
• 1987 – Angelo Mathews, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1987 – Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
• 1987 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Yoann Huget, French rugby union footballer
• 1988 – Sergio Agüero, Argentinian footballer
• 1988 – Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 – Joe Lefeged, American football player
• 1989 – Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-American soccer player
• 1989 – Michael Dunigan, American basketball player
• 1989 – Steven Smith, Australian cricketer
• 1990 – Brittany Curran, American actress
• 1992 – Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer
• 1993 – Lukas Spendlhofer, Austrian footballer
• 1994 – Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress
• 1994 – Antonio Spavone, Italian race car driver
• 1995 – Sterling Beaumon, American actor

Deaths

• 891 – Al-Muwaffaq, Abbasid regent (b. 842)
• 910 – Richilde of Provence (b. 845)
• 1418 – Catherine of Lancaster (b. 1373)
• 1567 – Shane O'Neill, Irish king (b. 1530)
• 1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, Scottish politician (b. 1525)
• 1693 – John Wildman, English soldier and politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1621)
• 1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (b. 1607)
• 1716 – Ogata Kōrin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
• 1720 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (b. 1648)
• 1754 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1680)
• 1761 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish businessman (b. 1685)
• 1785 – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
• 1806 – William Tate, English painter (b. 1747)
• 1833 – Simon Byrne, Irish boxer (b. 1806)
• 1853 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English colonel (b. 1777)
• 1865 – Ner Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
• 1875 – Józef Kremer, Polish psychologist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1806)
• 1881 – Émile Littré, French lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1801)
• 1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (b. 1807)
• 1901 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
• 1929 – Enrique Gorostieta, Mexican general (b. 1889)
• 1933 – Frank Jarvis, American runner (b. 1878)
• 1937 – Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
• 1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1942 – Bunny Berigan, American trumpet player (The Dorsey Brothers) (b. 1908)
• 1947 – John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, English sailor and politician (b. 1867)
• 1948 – Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
• 1948 – Karl Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1904)
• 1948 – Karl Gebhardt, German physician (b. 1897)
• 1948 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
• 1948 – Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (b. 1905)
• 1951 – Ernst Pittschau, German actor (b. 1883)
• 1952 – Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Central Sofia Market Hall (b. 1880)
• 1956 – Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor, singer, and director (b. 1886)
• 1961 – George S. Kaufman, American playwright, director, and producer (b. 1889)
• 1962 – Vita Sackville-West, English author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, German student and activist (b. 1940)
• 1968 – André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1929)
• 1969 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1970 – Albert Lamorisse, French director, screenwriter, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1970 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (b. 1937)
• 1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian soldier, academic, and poet (b. 1888)
• 1974 – Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese race car driver (b. 1949)
• 1976 – Kenneth Mason, English geographer (b. 1887)
• 1976 – Juan José Torres, Bolivian army officer and politician, 61st President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
• 1977 – Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (b. 1952)
• 1977 – Stephen Boyd, Irish-American actor (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1982 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician, 5th President of Pakistan (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Rafi Khawar, Pakistani actor
• 1983 – Stan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
• 1986 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
• 1987 – Anthony de Mello, Indian-American priest and psychotherapist (b. 1931)
• 1987 – Sammy Kaye, American bandleader and songwriter (b. 1910)
• 1987 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
• 1988 – Raj Kapoor, Pakistani-Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Rex Harrison, English-American actor and singer (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Philip Dunne, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1994 – David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
• 1996 – John Alton, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1901)
• 1996 – Ray Combs, American actor and game show host (b. 1956)
• 1996 – Leon Garfield, English author (b. 1921)
• 1996 – Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
• 1996 – Rene Bond, American pornographic actress (b. 1950)
• 1997 – Doc Cheatham, American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (McKinney's Cotton Pickers) (b. 1905)
• 1998 – Junkyard Dog, American football player and wrestler (b. 1952)
• 1999 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican singer (Bob Marley and the Wailers) (b. 1949)
• 2000 – Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist, politician, and educator (b. 1927)
• 2000 – Gerald James Whitrow, English mathematician, cosmologist, and historian (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
• 2001 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Hugo van Lawick, Dutch director and photographer (b. 1937)
• 2000 – Lepo Sumera, Estonian composer (b. 1950)
• 2003 – Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Loyd Sigmon, American radio host (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Lucien Cliche, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and educator (b. 1950)
• 2005 – Melita Norwood, English civil servant and spy (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Keith Smith, English rugby player and coach (b. 1952)
• 2006 – Vince Welnick, American keyboard player (The Grateful Dead, The Tubes, and Missing Man Formation) (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Kentarō Haneda, Japanese pianist and composer (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Huang Ju, Chinese politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1917)
• 2009 – David Eddings, American author (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Ray Bryant, American pianist and composer (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Willem Duys, Dutch television host and producer (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Oliver, Congolese chimpanzee (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Avraham Botzer, Polish-Israeli commander (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Adolfo Calero, Nicaraguan businessman (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (b. 1932)
• 2012 – LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player (b. 1940)
• 2012 – David C. Garrett, Jr., American businessman (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Jan Gmelich Meijling, Dutch commander and politician (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Frazier Mohawk, American record producer and photographer, and publicist (b. 1941)
• 2013 – MickDeth, American bass player (Eighteen Visions and Clear) (b. 1978)
• 2013 – Mario Bernardi, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Bruce Cathie, New Zealand pilot and author (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (b. 1930)
• 2013 – John Gilbert, Baron Gilbert, English politician (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Nick Keir, Scottish singer-songwriter (The McCalmans) (b. 1953)
• 2013 – Rob Morsberger, American-English singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
• 2013 – Jalal Al-Din Taheri, Iranian scholar, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Mandawuy Yunupingu, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Yothu Yindi) (b. 1956)

Holidays and observances

• Children's Day (North Korea)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Alexander (martyr)
  • Blandina
  • Elmo
  • Felix of Nicosia
  • Marcellinus and Peter
  • Pope Eugene I
  • Pothinus
  • Martyrs of Lyon (Episcopal Church)
  • June 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Coronation Day of Fourth Druk Gyalpo (Bhutan)
• Day of Hristo Botev (Bulgaria)
• Festa della Repubblica (Italy)
• Isabel Province Day (Isabel Province, Solomon Islands)

External links

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