June 3

June 3 is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
• 1140 – The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
• 1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
• 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
• 1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
• 1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
• 1658 – Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
• 1665 – James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
• 1781 – Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
• 1839 – In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
• 1862 – A 3000-strong riot occurred at Wardsend Cemetery in the Sheffield, England, against rumours of bodysnatching from the grounds.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
• 1866 – The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
• 1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
• 1888 – The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
• 1889 – The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
• 1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
• 1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
• 1932 – Lou Gehrig and his teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty-one times in one-hundred and twenty years.
• 1935 – One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
• 1937 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
• 1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
• 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
• 1940 – Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
• 1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
• 1942 – World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
• 1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
• 1950 – The first successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; the summit of Annapurna is reached by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal.
• 1959 – Singapore was declared a self-governing state even though it was still a part of the British Empire.
• 1962 – At Paris Orly Airport, an Air France Boeing 707 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
• 1963 – The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
• 1965 – The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
• 1968 – Valerie Solanas, the author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
• 1969 – Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
• 1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
• 1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m³) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
• 1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, which take five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and cause $300 million in damages all told, according to statistics compiled on the deadly storm by the National Weather Service and the American Red Cross.
• 1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
• 1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
• 1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
• 1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
• 1992 – Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
• 1998 – Eschede train disaster: an ICE high-speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
• 2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
• 2012 – A Dana Air McDonnell Douglas MD-83 crashes into a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing 163 people.
• 2013 – At least 120 people are killed in a fire at a poultry plant in Northeast China.
• 2013 – The trial of United States Army private Bradley Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Births

• 1537 – João Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554)
• 1540 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria (d. 1590)
• 1635 – Philippe Quinault, French playwright (d. 1688)
• 1636 – John Hale, American minister (d. 1700)
• 1659 – David Gregory, Scottish-English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1708)
• 1723 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician (d. 1788)
• 1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician (d. 1797)
• 1736 – Ignaz Fränzl, German violinist and composer (d. 1811)
• 1770 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian economist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1820)
• 1808 – Jefferson Davis, American colonel and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
• 1818 – Louis Faidherbe, French general and politician, Governor of Senegal (d. 1889)
• 1819 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)
• 1832 – Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
• 1840 – Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1867)
• 1843 – Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
• 1844 – Garret Hobart, American lawyer and politician, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
• 1844 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet and author (d. 1909)
• 1853 – Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist (d. 1942)
• 1855 – Thecla Åhlander, Swedish actress (d. 1925)
• 1864 – Otto Erich Hartleben, German poet and playwright (d. 1905)
• 1864 – Ransom E. Olds, American businessman, founded Oldsmobile and REO Motor Car Company (d. 1950)
• 1865 – George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
• 1866 – George Howells Broadhurst, English-American director and manager (d. 1952)
• 1873 – Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• 1877 – Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
• 1878 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)
• 1879 – Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-American actress, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
• 1879 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
• 1879 – Vivian Woodward, English footballer (d. 1954)
• 1881 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
• 1888 – Tom Brown, American trombonist (d. 1958)
• 1890 – Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1954)
• 1897 – Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
• 1900 – Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
• 1901 – Maurice Evans, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
• 1901 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (d. 2001)
• 1903 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1904 – Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon (d. 1950)
• 1904 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
• 1905 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (d. 1946)
• 1906 – Josephine Baker, American-French actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Nate Barragar, American football player and actor (d. 1985)
• 1907 – Paul Rotha, English director and producer (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Paulette Goddard, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1913 – Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (d. 2000)
• 1913 – Lloyd Percival, Canadian tennis player, boxer, cricketer, and coach (d. 1974)
• 1914 – Ignacio Ponseti, Spanish physician (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
• 1918 – Patrick Cargill, English actor and producer (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Lili St. Cyr, American actress and dancer (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Forbes Carlile, Australian pentathlete and coach
• 1922 – Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer and screenwriter
• 1923 – Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician and author
• 1924 – Karunanidhi, Indian Politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
• 1924 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (d. 1991)
• 1924 – Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neurophysiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1924 – Jimmy Rogers, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Arnold Peters, English actor (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Thomas Winning, Scottish cardinal (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
• 1926 – Flora MacDonald, Canadian politician
• 1927 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (Million Dollar Band) (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 – Chuck Barris, American game show host and producer, created The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game
• 1930 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)
• 1930 – George Fernandes, Indian journalist and politician, Minister of Defence for India
• 1930 – Dakota Staton, American singer (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Ben Wada, Japanese director and producer (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Françoise Arnoul, Algerian-French actress
• 1931 – Raúl Castro, Cuban politician, 17th Prime Minister of Cuba
• 1931 – John Norman, American philosopher and author
• 1931 – Lindy Remigino, American runner
• 1933 – Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahrain king (d. 1999)
• 1934 – Rolland D. McCune, American theologian and minister
• 1935 – Irma P. Hall, American actress
• 1935 – Enzo Jannacci, Italian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Jim Gentile, American baseball player and manager
• 1936 – Larry McMurtry, American author and screenwriter
• 1937 – Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
• 1937 – Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1938 – David L. Mills, American engineer
• 1939 – Frank Blevins, English-Australian politician, 7th Deputy Premier of South Australia (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Steve Dalkowski, American baseball player
• 1939 – Ian Hunter, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mott the Hoople)
• 1939 – Jon Tolaas, Norwegian poet and author (d. 2012)
• 1939 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American author (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Loretta Long, American actress and singer
• 1940 – Connie Saylor, American race car driver (d. 1993)
• 1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Impressions) (d. 1999)
• 1943 – Billy Cunningham, American basketball player and coach
• 1944 – Edith McGuire, American sprinter
• 1944 – Eddy Ottoz, Italian hurdler
• 1945 – John Derbyshire, English-American journalist and author
• 1945 – Hale Irwin, American golfer
• 1945 – Ramon Jacinto, Filipino singer, guitarist, and businessman, founded the Rajah Broadcasting Network
• 1945 – Bill Paterson, Scottish-English actor
• 1946 – Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Firefall) (d. 1993)
• 1946 – Eddie Holman, American singer
• 1946 – Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor
• 1946 – Penelope Wilton, English actress
• 1947 – Mike Burgmann, Australian race car driver (d. 1986)
• 1947 – John Dykstra, American special effects artist and producer
• 1947 – Mickey Finn, English drummer (T.Rex, Mickey Finn's T-Rex, and Hapshash and the Coloured Coat) (d. 2003)
• 1948 – Jan Reker, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1949 – Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican singer
• 1950 – Frédéric François, Belgian-Italian singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
• 1950 – Juan José Muñoz, Argentinian businessman (d. 2013)
• 1950 – Suzi Quatro, American-English singer-songwriter, bass player, producer, and actress (The Pleasure Seekers/Cradle)
• 1950 – Christos Verelis, Greek politician
• 1950 – Deniece Williams, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1950 – Robert Z'Dar, American actor and producer
• 1951 – Jill Biden, American educator, 37th Second Lady of the United States
• 1952 – Billy Powell, American keyboard player and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
• 1952 – David Richards, English businessman
• 1953 – John Moulder-Brown, English actor
• 1954 – Dan Hill, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1954 – Wally Weir, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 – George Burley, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1956 – Brad Nessler, American sportscaster
• 1956 – Danny Wilde, American singer and guitarist (The Quick and The Rembrandts)
• 1957 – Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
• 1958 – Margot Käßmann, German bishop and theologian
• 1958 – Suzie Plakson, American actress
• 1959 – John Carlson, American radio host
• 1959 – Imbi Paju, Estonian-Finnish writer, journalist and film director
• 1961 – Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer, academic, and author, founded the Creative Commons
• 1961 – Peter Vidmar, American gymnast
• 1961 – Ed Wynne, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Ozric Tentacles and Nodens Ictus)
• 1962 – David Cole, American songwriter and producer (C+C Music Factory)
• 1962 – Susannah Constantine, English fashion designer, journalist, and author
• 1963 – Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician, 8th Minister-President of the Walloon Region
• 1963 – Anica Dobra, Serbian actress
• 1963 – Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
• 1964 – Kerry King, American guitarist and songwriter (Slayer)
• 1964 – James Purefoy, English actor
• 1965 – Jeff Blumenkrantz, American actor and composer
• 1965 – Mike Gordon, American singer, bass player, and director (Phish, Rhythm Devils, and SerialPod)
• 1965 – Hans Kroes, Dutch swimmer
• 1966 – Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
• 1966 – Jamie O'Neal, American singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Anderson Cooper, American journalist and author
• 1967 – Jason Jones, Canadian actor
• 1967 – Kurk Lee, American basketball player
• 1967 – Christopher Walker, Gibraltarian triathlete and cyclist
• 1968 – Saffron, Nigerian singer and dancer (Republica and N-Joi)
• 1969 – Takako Minekawa, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Greg Hancock, American motorcycle racer
• 1970 – Esther Hart, Dutch singer
• 1970 – Julie Masse, Canadian singer
• 1970 – Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
• 1970 – Peter Tägtgren, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Hypocrisy, Pain, Bloodbath, and Lock Up)
• 1971 – Carl Everett, American baseball player
• 1971 – John Hodgman, American author and actor
• 1971 – Gert Kullamäe, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1972 – Julie Gayet, French actress
• 1972 – Matt Pike, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sleep, High On Fire, and Asbestosdeath)
• 1973 – Lyfe Jennings, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Stereophonics)
• 1974 – Arianne Zucker, American actress
• 1975 – Jose Molina, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1975 – Jeff Soto, American painter
• 1976 – Nikos Chatzis, Greek basketball player
• 1976 – Enda Markey, Irish-Australian actor and singer
• 1976 – Gregg McClymont, Scottish politician
• 1976 – Jamie McMurray, American race car driver
• 1977 – Cris, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 – Travis Hafner, American baseball player
• 1977 – Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
• 1980 – Amauri, Italian footballer
• 1980 – Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatari king
• 1980 – Lazaros Papadopoulos, Russian-Greek basketball player
• 1980 – Tjerk Smeets, Dutch baseball player
• 1981 – Sosene Anesi, New Zealand rugby player
• 1981 – Salvatore Giardina, Italian footballer
• 1981 – Timur Tekkal, German rugby player
• 1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
• 1982 – Manfred Mölgg, Italian skier
• 1982 – Dihan Slabbert, South African singer-songwriter and producer (Hi-5)
• 1983 – Pasquale Foggia, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Janine Habeck, German model
• 1984 – Emily Scott, Australian model, DJ, and producer
• 1985 – Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer
• 1985 – Papiss Cissé, Senegalese footballer
• 1985 – Łukasz Piszczek, Polish footballer
• 1985 – Dan Ewing, Australian actor
• 1986 – Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
• 1986 – Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
• 1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
• 1986 – Adrián Vallés, Spanish race car driver
• 1986 – Tomas Verner, Czech ice skater
• 1987 – Lalaine, American actress and singer (Vanity Theft)
• 1987 – Michelle Keegan, English actress
• 1987 – Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
• 1989 – Katie Hoff, American swimmer
• 1989 – Anthony Taugourdeau, French footballer
• 1992 – Mario Götze, German footballer
• 2006 – Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg

Deaths

• 628 – Liang Shidu, Chinese rebel leader
• 800 – Staurakios, Byzantine chief minister
• 1395 – Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1350)
• 1397 – William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (b. 1328)
• 1411 – Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1371)
• 1548 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish-Mexican bishop (b. 1468)
• 1594 – John Aylmer, English bishop and scholar (b. 1521)
• 1615 – Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
• 1640 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
• 1657 – William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
• 1649 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
• 1659 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher and poet (b. 1619)
• 1780 – Thomas Hutchinson, American businessman and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1711)
• 1826 – Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian and poet (b. 1766)
• 1858 – Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1861 – Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
• 1865 – Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
• 1875 – Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
• 1877 – Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian botanist, composer, and publisher (b. 1800)
• 1882 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
• 1894 – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1812)
• 1899 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
• 1900 – Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author (b. 1862)
• 1902 – Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop (b. 1829)
• 1906 – John Maxwell, American golfer (b. 1871)
• 1921 – Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower (b. 1879)
• 1924 – Franz Kafka, Czech author (b. 1883)
• 1928 – Li Yuanhong, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (b. 1864)
• 1933 – William Muldoon, American wrestler (b. 1852)
• 1938 – John Flanagan, Irish-American hammer thrower (b. 1873)
• 1946 – Mikhail Kalinin, Russian politician (b. 1875)
• 1955 – Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
• 1963 – Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (b. 1893)
• 1963 – Nâzım Hikmet Ran, Greek-Turkish poet, author, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1963 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1969 – George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
• 1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1971 – Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
• 1973 – Dory Funk, American wrestler (b. 1919)
• 1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor, bandleader, producer, and director (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, 39th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1901)
• 1977 – Archibald Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 – Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Anna Neagle, English actress and singer (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Will Sampson, American actor and painter (b. 1933)
• 1989 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (b. 1902)
• 1989 – John McCauley, Canadian ice hockey referee (b. 1944)
• 1990 – Tom Brown, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1990 – Robert Noyce, American physicist and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation (b. 1927)
• 1991 – Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1942)
• 1991 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
• 1991 – Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Robert Morley, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Puig Aubert, French rugby player (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Dennis James, American actor and game show host (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor and producer (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian-American sculptor, designed the Marine Corps War Memorial (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Frances Shand Kydd, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Harold Cardinal, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Johnny Grande, American singer (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1932)
• 2009 – Sam Butera, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
• 2009 – David Carradine, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Koko Taylor, American singer (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Shih Kien, Chinese actor (b. 1913)
• 2010 – John Hedgecoe, English photographer and author (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
• 2011 – James Arness, American actor (d. 1923)
• 2011 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer (Wax) (b. 1951)
• 2011 – Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, author, and activist (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Jan van Roessel, Dutch footballer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Carol Ann Abrams, American film producer, author, and academic (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Andy Hamilton, Jamaican-English saxophonist and composer (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Rajsoomer Lallah, Mauritian lawyer and judge (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Roy Salvadori, English race car driver and manager (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Will D. Campbell, American minister, author, and activist (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Atul Chitnis, German-Indian technologist (b. 1962)
• 2013 – Józef Czyrek, Polish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Poland (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Arnold Eidus, American violinist (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Deacon Jones, American football player and actor (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Jiah Khan, American-Indian actress and singer (b. 1988)
• 2013 – Frank Lautenberg, American politician (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Charles Lwanga and Companions
  • Clotilde
  • Kevin of Glendalough
  • Ovidius
  • John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) (Lutheran Church)
  • Martyrs of Uganda (Episcopal Church, Lutheran Church)
  • Vladimirskaya (Russian Orthodox)
  • June 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee)
• Economist day (Buenos Aires)
• Festival to Bellona (Roman Empire)
• Mabo Day (Australia)
• Opium Suppression Movement Day (Taiwan)

External links

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