June 8

June 8 is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
• 218 – Battle of Antioch: with the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
• 632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
• 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
• 1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
• 1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
• 1405 – Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
• 1690 – Yadi Sakat, a Siddi general, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
• 1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
• 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
• 1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
• 1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
• 1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' – his punched card calculator.
• 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
• 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
• 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
• 1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
• 1940 – World War II: the completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
• 1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
• 1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
• 1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
• 1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
• 1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
• 1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
• 1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
• 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
• 1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
• 1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
• 1966 – Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
• 1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
• 1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
• 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
• 1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
• 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
• 1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
• 1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 1995 – The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
• 2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
• 2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
• 2009 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
• 2013 – The Wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O'Neill takes place in Stockholm, Sweden.

Births

• 862 – Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888)
• 1552 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1638)
• 1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712)
• 1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
• 1717 – John Collins, American politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1795)
• 1724 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (d. 1794)
• 1745 – Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (d. 1818)
• 1757 – Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (d. 1824)
• 1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (d. 1856)
• 1829 – John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator (d. 1896)
• 1831 – Thomas J. Higgins, Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1917)
• 1842 – John Q. A. Brackett, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
• 1847 – Ida Saxton McKinley, American wife of William McKinley, 25th First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
• 1851 – Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physician and physicist (d. 1940)
• 1852 – Guido Banti, Italian physician (d. 1925)
• 1854 – Douglas Cameron, Canadian politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (d. 1921)
• 1855 – George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (d. 1924)
• 1859 – Smith Wigglesworth, English evangelist (d. 1947)
• 1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician (d. 1940)
• 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959)
• 1872 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
• 1875 – Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (d. 1934)
• 1876 – Alexandre Tuffère, Greek-French triple jumper (d. 1958)
• 1885 – Karl Genzken, German physician (d. 1957)
• 1891 – William Funnell, Australian public servant (d. 1962)
• 1895 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1978)
• 1897 – John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974)
• 1901 – Lena Baker, American maid and murderer (d. 1945)
• 1901 – Salustiano Sanchez, Spanish-American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
• 1903 – Ralph Yarborough, American colonel and politician (d. 1996)
• 1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author (d. 1987)
• 1904 – Dorothy Coburn, American actress (d. 1978)
• 1910 – C. C. Beck, American illustrator (d. 1989)
• 1910 – John W. Campbell, American author (d. 1971)
• 1910 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French-American photographer (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Edmundo Rivero, Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
• 1912 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (d. 1989)
• 1912 – Harry Holtzman, American painter (d. 1987)
• 1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1916 – Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter (d. 1992)
• 1917 – Byron White, American football player and judge (d. 2002)
• 1918 – George Edward Hughes, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (d. 1994)
• 1918 – Robert Preston, American actor and singer (d. 1987)
• 1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist and academic
• 1918 – John H. Ross, American captain and pilot (d. 2013)
• 1919 – John R. Deane, Jr., American general (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
• 1921 – Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (d. 1986)
• 1921 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1993)
• 1921 – Olga Nardone, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Malcolm Boyd, American priest and author
• 1923 – Alice Coleman, English geographer and academic
• 1924 – Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Iain Glidewell, English lawyer and judge
• 1924 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
• 1925 – Del Ennis, American baseball player (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player (d. 1961)
• 1925 – Charles Tyner, American actor
• 1927 – Jerry Stiller, American actor and producer
• 1927 – Anne Warburton, British diplomat
• 1929 – Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist and author (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Gastone Moschin, Italian actor
• 1929 – Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, English politician (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1930 – Michael Codron, English film and theater producer
• 1930 – Marcel Léger, Canadian politician (d. 1993)
• 1930 – Ferenc Polikárp Zakar, Hungarian monk (d. 2012)
• 1931 – James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1931 – Dana Wynter, British actress (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Ray Illingworth, English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1932 – Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, Scottish judge
• 1933 – Rommie Loudd, American football player and coach (d. 1998)
• 1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Robert Stevens, English lawyer and academic
• 1934 – Millicent Martin, English actress and singer
• 1935 – Molade Okoya-Thomas, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
• 1936 – James Darren, American actor, singer, and director
• 1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Gillian Clarke, Welsh poet and playwright
• 1938 – Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal
• 1939 – Bernie Casey, American football player and actor
• 1939 – Francis Jacobs, English lawyer and judge
• 1940 – Arthur Elgort, American photographer
• 1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress
• 1940 – Jim Wickwire, American lawyer and mountaineer
• 1941 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician (d. 1981)
• 1941 – Fuzzy Haskins, American singer, guitarist, and producer (The Parliaments and Parliament-Funkadelic)
• 1941 – George Pell, Australian cardinal
• 1942 – Nikos Konstantopoulos, Greek politician
• 1942 – Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
• 1942 – Chuck Negron, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Three Dog Night)
• 1942 – Andrew Weil, American author and educator
• 1943 – Colin Baker, English actor
• 1943 – William Calley, American lieutenant
• 1943 – Willie Davenport, American hurdler (d. 2002)
• 1943 – Peter Eggert, German footballer and manager
• 1944 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
• 1944 – Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter (Renaissance and Nevada)
• 1944 – Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
• 1944 – Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Steve Miller Band)
• 1945 – Anthony Bagnall, English air marshal
• 1945 – Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Derek Underwood, English cricketer
• 1946 – Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1946 – Alan Scarfe, English-Canadian actor
• 1947 – Julie Driscoll, English singer and actress
• 1947 – Sara Paretsky, American author
• 1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, geneticist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate
• 1948 – Lorna Heilbron, Scottish actress
• 1949 – Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator
• 1949 – Hildegard Falck, German runner
• 1949 – Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1950 – Kathy Baker, American actress
• 1950 – Sônia Braga, Brazilian actress
• 1951 – Tony Rice, American guitarist and songwriter (David Grisman Quintet and Bluegrass Album Band)
• 1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter
• 1952 – Dave Jennings, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 1953 – Billy Hayes, English trade union leader
• 1953 – Sandy Nairne, English curator
• 1953 – Ivo Sanader, Croatian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia
• 1953 – Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Ad Tak, Dutch cyclist
• 1954 – Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Black Flag, Gone, Mojack, and Confront James)
• 1954 – Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Sergei Storchak, Ukrainian-Russian politician
• 1954 – Marios Tokas, Cypriot composer (d. 2008)
• 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English-American computer scientist and engineer, invented the World Wide Web
• 1955 – Griffin Dunne, American actor, director, and producer
• 1956 – Udo Bullmann, German politician
• 1957 – Scott Adams, American author and illustrator
• 1957 – Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress
• 1957 – Don Robinson, American baseball player
• 1958 – Cyril O'Reilly, American actor and producer
• 1958 – Louise Richardson, Irish political scientist and academic
• 1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter (Simply Red and Faces)
• 1960 – Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 1961 – Tatanka, American wrestler
• 1961 – Mary King, English horse rider
• 1961 – Uno Laur, Estonian singer
• 1962 – John Gibbons, American baseball player and manager
• 1962 – Andreas Keim, German footballer
• 1962 – Nick Rhodes, English keyboard player and producer (Duran Duran, Arcadia, and The Devils)
• 1962 – Kristine W, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1963 – Katy Garbi, Greek singer, actress, and producer
• 1963 – Frank Grillo, American actor
• 1963 – Karen Kingsbury, American author
• 1963 – Antoaneta Todorova, Bulgarian javelin thrower
• 1964 – Butch Reynolds, American runner
• 1965 – Kevin Farley, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Rob Pilatus, American-German singer and dancer (Milli Vanilli and Rob & Fab) (d. 1998)
• 1966 – Julianna Margulies, American actress and producer
• 1966 – Doris Pearson, English singer-songwriter and choreographer (Five Star)
• 1968 – Rob Ray, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1969 – J. P. Manoux, American-Canadian actor and director
• 1969 – Marcos Siega, American director and producer
• 1969 – David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor
• 1970 – Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
• 1970 – Seu Jorge, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1970 – Kwame Kilpatrick, American politician, 68th Mayor of Detroit
• 1970 – Teresa Strasser, American television host
• 1970 – Troy Vincent, American football player
• 1970 – Kelli Williams, American actress
• 1971 – Troy Duffy, American director and screenwriter
• 1971 – Mark Feuerstein, American actor, director, and producer
• 1972 – Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer
• 1973 – Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
• 1973 – Shappi Khorsandi, Iranian-English comedian
• 1973 – Bryant Reeves, American basketball player
• 1973 – Lucija Šerbedžija, Croatian actress
• 1974 – Pål Arne Fagernes, Norwegian javelin thrower (d. 2003)
• 1974 – Maxim Gaudette, Canadian actor
• 1974 – Alma Lepina, Latvian figure skater
• 1975 – Bryan McCabe, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1975 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
• 1976 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
• 1976 – Trish Goff, American model and actress
• 1976 – Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player
• 1976 – Catherine McKinnell, English lawyer and politician
• 1977 – Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer (Child Rebel Soldier)
• 1978 – Eun Ji-won, South Korean rapper, dancer, and producer (Sechs Kies)
• 1978 – Maria Menounos, American journalist and actress
• 1979 – Alexei Kozlov, Estonian figure skater
• 1979 – Pete Orr, Canadian-American baseball player
• 1979 – Derek Trucks, American guitarist and songwriter (The Allman Brothers Band, The Derek Trucks Band, and Tedeschi Trucks Band)
• 1979 – Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player
• 1979 – Rob Holliday, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Marilyn Manson, The Mission and The Prodigy)
• 1980 – Gustavo Manduca, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Jamie Spencer, Irish jockey
• 1981 – Alex Band, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Calling)
• 1981 – Matteo Meneghello, Italian race car driver
• 1981 – Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actor
• 1981 – Sara Watkins, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (Nickel Creek, The Decemberists, and Works Progress Administration)
• 1981 – Jess Weixler, American actress
• 1982 – Matteo Barbini, Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Michael Cammalleri, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
• 1982 – Irina Lăzăreanu, Romanian-Canadian model and singer
• 1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
• 1983 – Gaines Adams, American football player (d. 2010)
• 1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
• 1983 – Lee Harding, Australian singer
• 1983 – Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer
• 1983 – Coby Karl, American basketball player
• 1983 – Mamoru Miyano, Japanese actor and singer
• 1984 – Andrea Casiraghi, Monacan son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover
• 1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 – Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver
• 1986 – Patrick Kaleta, American ice hockey player
• 1987 – Coralie Balmy, French swimmer
• 1987 – Issiar Dia, Senegalese footballer
• 1987 – Samantha Saint, American porn actress and model
• 1989 – Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
• 1989 – Richard Fleeshman, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1989 – Mitchell Schwartz, American football player
• 1990 – Mickey Bushell, English wheelchair racer
• 1990 – Alexander Yakin, Russian actor
• 1992 – Sebá, Brazilian footballer
• 1997 – Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
• 2002 – Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau van Amsberg

Deaths

• 632 – Muhammad, Muslim prophet (b. 570)
• 1042 – Harthacnut, English-Danish king (b. 1018)
• 1154 – William of York, English archbishop
• 1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
• 1383 – Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros, English crusader (b. 1338)
• 1384 – Kan'ami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
• 1476 – George Neville, English archbishop (b. 1432)
• 1505 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
• 1611 – Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
• 1612 – Hans Leo Hassler, German organist and composer (b. 1562)
• 1621 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (b. 1567)
• 1628 – Rudolph Goclenius, German lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1547)
• 1714 – Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
• 1716 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German son of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1658)
• 1727 – August Hermann Francke, German-Lutheran clergyman, philanthropist, and scholar (b. 1663)
• 1768 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and scholar (b. 1717)
• 1771 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1716)
• 1772 – Ulrik Fredrik de Cicignon
• 1795 – Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
• 1809 – Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (b. 1737)
• 1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian economist and jurist (b. 1761)
• 1845 – Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
• 1857 – Douglas William Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (b. 1803)
• 1874 – Cochise, American tribal chief (b. 1805)
• 1876 – George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
• 1885 – Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (b. 1799)
• 1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English priest and poet (b. 1844)
• 1924 – Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer (b. 1902)
• 1924 – George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886)
• 1929 – Bliss Carman, Canadian-American poet (b. 1861)
• 1945 – Karl Hanke, Polish-German politician (b. 1903)
• 1951 – Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1874)
• 1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
• 1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
• 1959 – Leslie Johnson, English racing driver (b. 1912)
• 1965 – Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
• 1966 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1968 – Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1933)
• 1969 – Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan colonial and politician (b. 1885)
• 1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
• 1970 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1972 – Jimmy Rushing, American singer (Oklahoma City Blue Devils) (b. 1901)
• 1976 – Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and comparative psychologist (b. 1894)
• 1980 – Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (b. 1900)
• 1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
• 1987 – Alexander Iolas, Egyptian-American art collector (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Atef Bseiso, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1948)
• 1993 – Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1997 – George Turner, Australian author and critic (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and educator (b. 1948)
• 1998 – Sani Abacha, Nigerian general and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
• 1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
• 2000 – Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (b. 1948)
• 2001 – Alex de Renzy, American director and producer (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
• 2004 – Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist (b. 1930)
• 2004 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Jaxon, American illustrator and publisher, co-founded Rip Off Press (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk, theologian, and author (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Kenny Olsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1977)
• 2007 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher and academic (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Šaban Bajramović, Serbian singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese politician, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Johnny Palermo, American actor (b. 1982)
• 2010 – Crispian St. Peters, English singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Andreas Voutsinas, Greek actor and director (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Comoran terrorist (b. 1974)
• 2011 – Alan Rubin, American trumpet player (The Blues Brothers) (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Pete Brennan, American basketball player (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Frank Cady, American actor and singer (b. 1915)
• 2012 – K. S. R. Das, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand-Australian mathematician and educator (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Gentleman of Indonesia (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Angus MacKay, English actor (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Kyle Miller, Canadian lacrosse player (b. 1981)
• 2013 – Richard J. Seitz, American general (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Arturo Vega, Mexican-born, American punk rock graphic designer and artistic director (b. 1947)
• 2014 – Jean Geissinger, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (b. 1903)
• 2014 – Veronica Lazăr, Romanian-Italian actress (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Harold Russell Maddock, Australian jockey (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Billy McCool, American baseball player (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (b. 1948)

Holidays and observances

• Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart (Droste zu Vischering)
  • Chlodulf of Metz
  • Jacques Berthieu
  • Jadwiga of Poland
  • Medard
  • Melania the Elder
  • Roland Allen (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Thomas Ken (Church of England)
  • William of York
  • June 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which Queen's Birthday can fall, while June 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in June. (Australia, except Western Australia)
• Primož Trubar Day (Slovenia)
• World Brain Tumor Day
• World Oceans Day (International)

External links

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• BBC: On This Day
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