June 16

June 16 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 363 – Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Roman forces suffering several attacks from the Persians.
• 632 – Yazdegerd III ascends to the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sassanid Dynasty (modern Iran).
• 1407 – Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and his son King Hồ Hán Thương of Hồ Dynasty are captured by Ming Dynasty.
• 1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
• 1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
• 1745 – British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
• 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperell capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia (Old Style).
• 1746 – War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
• 1755 – French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
• 1774 – Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
• 1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• 1795 – First Battle of Groix otherwise known as "Cornwallis' Retreat".
• 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
• 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
• 1836 – The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
• 1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
• 1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
• 1858 – The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
• 1871 – The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
• 1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
• 1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister.
• 1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
• 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• 1903 – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
• 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
• 1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
• 1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
• 1915 – Foundation of the British Women's Institute.
• 1922 – General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn Féin win a large majority.
• 1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
• 1925 – The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
• 1930 – Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
• 1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
• 1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
• 1940 – A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
• 1948 – Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
• 1955 – In a futile effort to topple President Juan Perón, rouge aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the same time on the ground, some forces soldiers attempt to stage a coup but are suppressed by loyal forces.
• 1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
• 1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
• 1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
• 1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins
• 1972 – The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
• 1976 – Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
• 1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
• 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
• 1989 – Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
• 1997 – The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people die.
• 2000 – Israel complies with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 22 years after its issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel does so, except the disputed Shebaa Farms.
• 2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
• 2012 – China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts – including the first female Chinese astronaut, Liu Yang – to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
• 2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

Births

• 1139 – Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
• 1332 – Isabella de Coucy, English daughter of Edward III of England (d. 1382)
• 1514 – John Cheke, English scholar (d. 1557)
• 1583 – Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish politician, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (d. 1654)
• 1591 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Greek-Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (d. 1655)
• 1606 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
• 1612 – Murad IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1640)
• 1613 – John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
• 1633 – Jean de Thévenot, French linguist and botanist (d. 1667)
• 1644 – Princess Henrietta of England (d. 1670)
• 1713 – Meshech Weare, American farmer, lawyer, and politician, 1st Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
• 1738 – Mary Katherine Goddard, American publisher (d. 1816)
• 1754 – Salawat Yulayev, Russian poet (d. 1800)
• 1792 – John Linnell, English painter (d. 1882)
• 1801 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
• 1806 – Edward Davy, English physician and chemist (d. 1885)
• 1813 – Otto Jahn, German archaeologist and philologist (d. 1869)
• 1820 – Athanase Josué Coquerel, Dutch-French theologian (d. 1875)
• 1821 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
• 1826 – Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
• 1829 – Geronimo, American tribal leader (d. 1909)
• 1836 – Wesley Merritt, American general (d. 1910)
• 1837 – Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
• 1838 – Frederic Archer, English organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1901)
• 1838 – Cushman Kellogg Davis, American lieutenant and politician, 7th Governor of Minnesota (d. 1900)
• 1840 – Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
• 1857 – Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Austrian-Hungarian general (d. 1935)
• 1858 – Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)
• 1862 – Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (d. 1947)
• 1866 – Germanos Karavangelis, Greek bishop (d. 1935)
• 1874 – Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
• 1880 – Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and author (d. 1963)
• 1881 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and illustrator (d. 1962)
• 1882 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
• 1885 – Erich Jacoby, Baltic German architect (d. 1941)
• 1888 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
• 1890 – Stan Laurel, English-American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (d. 1965)
• 1894 – Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1896 – Murray Leinster, American author (d. 1976)
• 1897 – Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
• 1897 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
• 1902 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
• 1902 – George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
• 1903 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
• 1907 – Jack Albertson, American actor and singer (d. 1981)
• 1909 – Archie Carr, American biologist (d. 1987)
• 1910 – Juan Velasco Alvarado, Peruvian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (d. 1977)
• 1912 – Albert Chartier, Canadian illustrator (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Enoch Powell, English soldier and politician (d. 1998)
• 1915 – John Tukey, American Mathematician (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Hank Luisetti, American basketball player (d. 2002)
• 1916 – John Young, Scottish actor (d. 1996)
• 1917 – Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (d. 1999)
• 1917 – Katharine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Aurelio Lampredi, Italian engineer (d. 1989)
• 1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009)
• 1920 – John Howard Griffin, American journalist (d. 1980)
• 1920 – Isabelle Holland, Swiss-American author (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1989)
• 1920 – José López Portillo, Mexican politician, 31st President of Mexico (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Ilmar Kullam, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Ron Flockhart, Scottish race car driver (d. 1962)
• 1924 – Faith Domergue, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Lucky Thompson, American saxophonist (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Jean d'Ormesson, French author
• 1925 – Otto Muehl, Austrian painter (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemalan general and politician, 26th President of Guatemala
• 1927 – Tom Graveney, English cricketer
• 1927 – Herbert Lichtenfeld, German author and screenwriter (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Brian Wilde, English actor (d. 2008)
• 1928 – Annie Cordy, Belgian singer and actress
• 1928 – Speedy Long, American lawyer and politician (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1929 – Pauline Yates, English actress
• 1930 – Allan D'Arcangelo, American painter (d. 1998)
• 1930 – Mike Sparken, French race car driver (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer
• 1934 – Bill Cobbs, American actor
• 1934 – Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2003)
• 1934 – Elvira Vinogradova, Russian television producer
• 1935 – Jim Dine, American painter
• 1937 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Bulgarian politician, 48th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• 1937 – Erich Segal, American author and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1938 – James Bolam, English actor
• 1938 – Torgny Lindgren, Swedish author and poet
• 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, American author
• 1938 – Charles B. Pierce, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Billy "Crash" Craddock, American singer
• 1940 – Neil Goldschmidt, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Governor of Oregon
• 1941 – Lamont Dozier, American songwriter and producer
• 1941 – Tõnu Õim, Estonian correspondence chess player
• 1941 – Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist (d. 2011)
• 1942 – Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1942 – Eddie Levert, American singer-songwriter and producer (The O'Jays)
• 1943 – Joan Van Ark, American actress
• 1944 – Henri Richelet, French painter
• 1945 – Claire Alexander, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1945 – Buddy Roberts, American wrestler (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Lucienne Robillard, Canadian politician
• 1946 – Rick Adelman, American basketball player and coach
• 1946 – Tom Harrell, American trumpeter and composer
• 1946 – Jodi Rell, American politician, 87th Governor of Connecticut
• 1946 – Mark Ritts, American actor, puppeteer, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1946 – Derek Sanderson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1947 – -minu, Swiss journalist
• 1947 – Günther Kaufmann, German actor (d. 2012)
• 1947 – Tom Wyner, English-American voice actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1948 – Ron LeFlore, American baseball player and manager
• 1948 – V. Hanumantha Rao, Indian politician
• 1949 – Paulo Cézar Caju, Brazilian footballer
• 1950 – Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor
• 1950 – Michel Clair, Canadian politician
• 1951 – Charlie Dominici, American singer and guitarist (Dream Theater and Dominici)
• 1951 – Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
• 1952 – George Papandreou, Greek politician, 182nd Prime Minister of Greece
• 1952 – Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Valerie Mahaffey, American actress and producer
• 1953 – Ian Mosley, English drummer (Marillion)
• 1955 – Grete Faremo, Norwegian politician
• 1955 – Laurie Metcalf, American actress
• 1957 – Ian Buchanan, Scottish-American actor
• 1958 – Darrell Griffith, American basketball player
• 1958 – Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist and pilot (Þeyr)
• 1958 – Ulrike Tauber, German swimmer
• 1959 – Warrior, American wrestler
• 1959 – John Franklin, American actor
• 1959 – Desirée Rogers, American businesswoman
• 1960 – Peter Sterling, Australian rugby player and sportscaster
• 1961 – Dzintar Klavan, Estonian footballer
• 1961 – Steve Larmer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Margus Metstak, Estonian basketball player
• 1962 – Wally Joyner, American baseball player and coach
• 1962 – Femi Kuti, English-Nigerian singer-songwriter and saxophonist
• 1962 – Arnold Vosloo, South African-American actor
• 1962 – Anthony Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and producer (Tat Ming Pair)
• 1963 – Scott Alexander, American screenwriter and producer
• 1963 – Deb Caletti, American author
• 1963 – The Sandman, American wrestler
• 1965 – Richard Madaleno, American politician
• 1966 – Phil Vischer, American voice actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Jan Železný, Czech javelin thrower
• 1967 – Charalambos Andreou, Cypriot footballer
• 1967 – Jürgen Klopp, German footballer and manager
• 1968 – James Patrick Stuart American actor
• 1969 – Shami Chakrabarti, English academic
• 1969 – Mark Crossley, English-Welsh footballer and manager
• 1969 – Tommy Tiernan, Irish comedian and actor
• 1970 – Younus AlGohar, Pakistani humanitarian
• 1970 – Clifton Collins, Jr., American actor
• 1970 – Cobi Jones, American soccer player and manager
• 1970 – Phil Mickelson, American golfer
• 1971 – Chris Gomez, American baseball player
• 1971 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper, producer, and actor (Digital Underground, Outlawz, and Thug Life) (d. 1996)
• 1972 – John Cho, South Korean-American actor
• 1972 – Simon Khan, English golfer
• 1972 – Ann Shoket, American journalist
• 1973 – Amanda Byram, Irish television host
• 1973 – Eddie Cibrian, American actor
• 1973 – Nikos Machlas, Greek footballer
• 1974 – Paul Lee, English-American sculptor
• 1975 – Anthony Carter, American basketball player
• 1975 – Heather Peace, English actress and singer
• 1976 – Cian Ciaran, Welsh keyboard player (Super Furry Animals)
• 1976 – Edwin Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1977 – Craig Fitzgibbon, Australian rugby player
• 1977 – Kevin Foster, American murderer
• 1977 – Petros Papadakis, American sportscaster
• 1977 – Kerry Wood, American baseball player
• 1978 – Daniel Brühl, Spanish-German actor
• 1978 – Fish Leong, Malaysian singer
• 1978 – Lyndsey Marshal, English actress
• 1978 – Jay Moriarity, American surfer
• 1978 – Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Brandon Armstrong, American basketball player
• 1980 – Phil Christophers, German-English rugby player
• 1980 – Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
• 1980 – Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
• 1980 – Daré Nibombé, Togolese footballer
• 1980 – Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
• 1980 – Justin Tranter, American singer-songwriter and jewelry designer (Semi Precious Weapons)
• 1980 – Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1981 – Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
• 1981 – Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Ben Kweller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Radish and The Bens)
• 1981 – Miguel Villalta, Peruvian footballer
• 1982 – May Andersen, Danish model
• 1982 – Fraser Cartmell, Scottish triathlete
• 1982 – Matt Costa, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1982 – Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
• 1982 – Jodi Santamaria, Filipino actress
• 1982 – Chris Wingert, American soccer player
• 1983 – Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer
• 1984 – Jonathan Broxton, American baseball player
• 1984 – Gábor Császár, Hungarian handball player
• 1984 – Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Steven Whittaker, Scottish footballer
• 1986 – Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer
• 1986 – Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 – Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1986 – Robert Rothbart, Israeli-Serbian basketball player
• 1987 – Kelly Blatz, American actor and singer
• 1987 – Diana DeGarmo, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1987 – Abby Elliott, American actress
• 1987 – Christian Tshimanga Kabeya, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
• 1988 – Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1988 – Leeland Dayton Mooring, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Leeland)
• 1988 – Nathan Parsons, Australian-American actor
• 1989 – Jelena Glebova, Estonian figure skater
• 1991 – Joe McElderry, English singer-songwriter
• 1992 – Vladimir Morozov, Russian swimmer
• 1994 – Aarya Ambekar, Indian singer

Deaths

• 1397 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu (b. 1358)
• 1468 – Jean Le Fevre de Saint-Remy, Burgundian chronicler (b. 1395)
• 1622 – Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
• 1623 – Christian the Younger of Brunswick (b. 1599)
• 1666 – Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet, English poet and diplomat (b. 1608)
• 1671 – Stenka Razin, Russian rebel leader (b. 1630)
• 1707 – Marie de Nemours, French wife of Henri II, Duke of Nemours (b. 1625)
• 1722 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general and politician (b. 1650)
• 1749 – Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian salt trader (b. 1672)
• 1752 – Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1692)
• 1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and playwright (b. 1709)
• 1778 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
• 1779 – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1712)
• 1792 – Benjamin Tupper, American general (b. 1738)
• 1804 – Johann Adam Hiller, German composer and conductor (b. 1728)
• 1824 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French politician (b. 1739)
• 1849 – Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian and scholar (b. 1780)
• 1850 – William Lawson, English-Australian explorer (b. 1774)
• 1858 – John Snow, English physician (b. 1813)
• 1862 – Hidenoyama Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 9th Yokozuna (b. 1808)
• 1869 – Charles Sturt, Indian-English explorer (b. 1795)
• 1872 – Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman and author (b. 1812)
• 1878 – Crawford Long, American surgeon and pharmacist (b. 1815)
• 1881 – Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
• 1881 – Josiah Mason, English businessman (b. 1795)
• 1885 – Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
• 1902 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
• 1925 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian politician (b. 1870)
• 1925 – Emmett Hardy, American cornet player (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1903)
• 1928 – Mark Keppel, American educator (b. 1867)
• 1929 – Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
• 1929 – Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and football coach (b. 1871)
• 1930 – Ezra Fitch, American lawyer and businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1866)
• 1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (b. 1860)
• 1939 – Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1905)
• 1940 – DuBose Heyward, American author (b. 1885)
• 1944 – Marc Bloch, French historian (b. 1886)
• 1945 – Aris Velouchiotis, Greek military leader (b. 1905)
• 1946 – Gordon Brewster, Irish cartoonist (b 1889)
• 1952 – Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist and educator (b. 1861)
• 1953 – Margaret Bondfield, English politician (b. 1873)
• 1955 – Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter (b. 1864)
• 1958 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
• 1959 – George Reeves, American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 1961 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
• 1967 – Reginald Denny, English actor and singer (b. 1891)
• 1969 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada(b. 1891)
• 1970 – Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
• 1970 – Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
• 1971 – John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (b. 1889)
• 1973 – Louise Latimer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1977 – Wernher von Braun, German-American engineer (b. 1912)
• 1979 – Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ghanaian general, 6th Head of state of Ghana (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Nicholas Ray, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1981 – Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
• 1982 – James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (b. 1956)
• 1984 – Lew Andreas, American football player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1984 – Erni Krusten, Estonian writer (b. 1900)
• 1986 – Maurice Duruflé, French organist and composer (b. 1902)
• 1987 – Marguerite de Angeli, American author and illustrator (b. 1889)
• 1988 – Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican-American actor and playwright, co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Café (b. 1946)
• 1990 – Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer of Sylvia Likens (b. 1929)
• 1990 – Megan Leigh, American porn actress (b. 1964)
• 1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Kristen Pfaff, American bass player and songwriter (Hole and Janitor Joe) (b. 1967)
• 1996 – Mel Allen, American sportscaster (b. 1913)
• 1997 – Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Screaming Lord Sutch, English singer (b. 1940)
• 2000 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
• 2003 – Pierre Bourgault, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2003 – Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Philip Stone, English actor (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai field marshal and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Jacques Miquelon, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican author and critic (b. 1906)
• 2006 – Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Mohammad Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (b. 1975)
• 2008 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian author (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Maureen Forrester, Canadian opera singer (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Ronald Neame, English cinematographer, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2011 – Östen Mäkitalo, Swedish engineer (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Howie Chizek, American radio host (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Dan Dorfman, American journalist (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Nils Karlsson, Swedish skier (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Jorge Lankenau, Mexican banker and businessman (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Sławomir Petelicki, Polish general (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Thierry Roland, French sportscaster (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Susan Tyrrell, American actress (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Sam Farber, American businessman, co-founded OXO (b. 1924)
• 2013 – T. Ed Garrison, Jr., American politician (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Hans Hass, Austrian diver (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, Bangladesh poet and academic (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Josip Kuže, Croatian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Richard Marlow, English organist and conductor (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Norman Ian MacKenzie, English journalist (b. 1921)
• 2013 – D. M. Schurman, Canadian historian (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

• Bloomsday (Dublin, James Joyce fans)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Benno
  • Lutgardis
  • Quiricus and Julietta
  • Richard of Chichester (Church of England)
  • George Berkeley and Joseph Butler (commemoration, The Episcopal Church)
  • June 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• International Day of the African Child
• Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikhism)
• Sussex Day (Sussex)
• Youth Day (South Africa)

External links

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