June 10

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June 10 is the 161st day of the year (162nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 204 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
• 1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
• 1329 – The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire.
• 1523 – Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.
• 1539 – Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
• 1596 – Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.
• 1619 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
• 1624 – Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
• 1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
• 1719 – Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.
• 1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) is crowned.
• 1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
• 1793 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
• 1793 – French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
• 1805 – First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
• 1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.
• 1838 – Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
• 1854 – The United States Naval Academy graduates its first class of students.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
• 1868 – Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated.
• 1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
• 1878 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
• 1886 – Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17 km long fissure across the mountain peak.
• 1898 – Spanish–American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
• 1916 – The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
• 1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
• 1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
• 1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
• 1935 – Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
• 1940 – World War II: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
• 1940 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
• 1940 – World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends.
• 1942 – World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
• 1944 – World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.
• 1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
• 1944 – In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
• 1945 – Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
• 1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
• 1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
• 1963 – The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, was signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.
• 1964 – United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.
• 1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
• 1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.
• 1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
• 1982 – The Syrian Arab Army led by generals Ali and Habib Mahmood defeat the Israeli Defense Forces near Sultan Yacoub, Lebanon, during the 1982 Lebanon War resulting in 30 dead and 3 missing for the IDF, 10 tanks lost and 3 APCs destroyed
• 1990 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities
• 1991 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.
• 1994 – China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.
• 1996 – Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
• 1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
• 2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
• 2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
• 2003 – The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
• 2016 – Former The Voice contestant Christina Grimmie is fatally shot in Orlando, Florida following a concert; she died from her injuries at the age of 22.
• 2017 – The 2017 World Expo is opened in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Births

• 867 – Emperor Uda of Japan (d. 931)
• 940 – Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer (d. 998)
• 1213 – Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi, Persian poet and philosopher (d. 1289)
• 1465 – Mercurino Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist (d. 1530)
• 1513 – Louis, Duke of Montpensier (1561–1582) (d. 1582)
• 1557 – Leandro Bassano, Italian painter (d. 1622)
• 1632 – Esprit Fléchier, French bishop and author (d. 1710)
• 1688 – James Francis Edward Stuart, claimant to the English and Scottish throne (d. 1766)
• 1713 – Princess Caroline of Great Britain (d. 1757)
• 1716 – Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, Swedish physician and explorer (d. 1784)
• 1753 – William Eustis, American physician and politician, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
• 1804 – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (d. 1884)
• 1819 – Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1877)
• 1825 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian-American skier (d. 1897)
• 1832 – Edwin Arnold, English poet and journalist (d. 1904)
• 1832 – Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
• 1832 – Stephen Mosher Wood, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1920)
• 1835 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, American educator and politician (d. 1930)
• 1839 – Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish lawyer and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1912)
• 1840 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
• 1843 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1900)
• 1854 – Sarah Grand, Irish feminist writer (d. 1943)
• 1859 – Emanuel Nobel, Swedish-Russian businessman (d. 1932)
• 1862 – Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
• 1863 – Louis Couperus, Dutch author and poet (d. 1923)
• 1864 – Ninian Comper, Scottish architect (d. 1960)
• 1865 – Frederick Cook, American physician and explorer (d. 1940)
• 1880 – André Derain, French painter and sculptor (d. 1954)
• 1882 – Nils Økland, Norwegian Esperantist and teacher (d. 1969)
• 1884 – Leone Sextus Tollemache, English captain (d. 1917)
• 1889 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor and producer (d. 1973)
• 1891 – Al Dubin, Swiss-American songwriter (d. 1945)
• 1895 – Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
• 1897 – Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1898 – Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt (d. 1983)
• 1899 – Stanisław Czaykowski, Polish race car driver (d. 1933)
• 1901 – Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (d. 1988)
• 1904 – Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and poet (d. 1955)
• 1907 – Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (d. 1975)
• 1907 – Dicky Wells, American jazz trombonist (d. 1985)
• 1909 – Lang Hancock, Australian soldier and businessman (d. 1992)
• 1910 – Frank Demaree, American baseball player and manager (d. 1958)
• 1910 – Robert Still, English composer and educator (d. 1971)
• 1910 – Howlin' Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichord player and musicologist (d. 1984)
• 1911 – Terence Rattigan, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1977)
• 1912 – Jean Lesage, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
• 1913 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Benjamin Shapira, German-Israeli biochemist and academic (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright (d. 1988)
• 1915 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• 1916 – Peride Celal, Turkish author (d. 2013)
• 1916 – William Rosenberg, American entrepreneur, founded Dunkin' Donuts (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Patachou, French singer and actress (d. 2015)
• 1918 – Barry Morse, English-Canadian actor and director (d. 2008)
• 1919 – Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish footballer, rugby player, and physician (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
• 1921 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
• 1922 – Judy Garland, American singer, actress, and vaudevillian (d. 1969)
• 1922 – Bill Kerr, South African-Australian actor (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Paul Brunelle, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1994)
• 1923 – Robert Maxwell, Czech-English captain, publisher, and politician (d. 1991)
• 1924 – Friedrich L. Bauer, German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Leo Gravelle, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Nat Hentoff, American historian, author, and journalist (d. 2017)
• 1925 – James Salter, American novelist and short-story writer (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Lionel Jeffries, English actor, screenwriter and film director (d. 2010)
• 1927 – Claudio Gilberto Froehlich, Brazilian zoologist
• 1927 – László Kubala, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2002)
• 1927 – Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician, 29th Vice Premier of the Republic of China (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Eugene Parker, American astrophysicist and academic
• 1928 – Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
• 1929 – James McDivitt, American general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1929 – Ian Sinclair, Australian farmer and politician, 42nd Australian Minister for Defence
• 1929 – E. O. Wilson, American biologist, author, and academic
• 1930 – Aranka Siegal, Czech-American author and Holocaust survivor
• 1930 – Carmen Cozza, American baseball and football player (d. 2018)
• 1930 – Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Bryan Cartledge, English academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to Russia
• 1931 – João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1932 – Pierre Cartier, French mathematician and academic
• 1934 – Peter Gibson, English lawyer and judge
• 1934 – Tom Pendry, Baron Pendry, English politician
• 1935 – Vic Elford, English race car driver
• 1935 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Rahul Bajaj, Indian businessman and politician
• 1938 – Violetta Villas, Belgian-Polish singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, Indian mathematician and academic (d. 2009)
• 1940 – Augie Auer, American-New Zealand meteorologist (d. 2007)
• 1940 – John Stevens, English drummer (d. 1994)
• 1941 – Mickey Jones, American drummer (d. 2018)
• 1941 – Shirley Owens, American singer
• 1941 – Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
• 1941 – David Walker, Australian race car driver
• 1942 – Gordon Burns, Northern Irish journalist
• 1942 – Chantal Goya, French singer and actress
• 1942 – Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, Scottish lawyer and judge
• 1942 – Preston Manning, Canadian politician
• 1943 – Simon Jenkins, English journalist and author
• 1944 – Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-Israeli weightlifter (d. 1972)
• 1944 – Rick Price, English rock bass player
• 1947 – Michel Bastarache, Canadian businessman, lawyer, and jurist
• 1947 – Ken Singleton, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1947 – Robert Wright, English air marshal
• 1950 – Elías Sosa, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1951 – Dan Fouts, American football player and sportscaster
• 1951 – Tony Mundine, Australian boxer
• 1951 – Burglinde Pollak, German pentathlete
• 1952 – Kage Baker, American author (d. 2010)
• 1953 – Eileen Cooper, English painter and academic
• 1953 – John Edwards, American lawyer and politician
• 1953 – Garry Hynes, Irish director and producer
• 1953 – Christine St-Pierre, Canadian journalist and politician
• 1954 – Moya Greene, Canadian businesswoman
• 1954 – Rich Hall, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Annette Schavan, German theologian and politician
• 1955 – Andrew Stevens, American actor and producer
• 1958 – Yu Suzuki, Japanese game designer and producer
• 1959 – Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and manager
• 1959 – Ernie C, American heavy metal guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Body Count)
• 1959 – Eliot Spitzer, American lawyer and politician, 54th Governor of New York
• 1960 – Nandamuri Balakrishna, Indian film actor and politician
• 1961 – Kim Deal, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1961 – Maxi Priest, English singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Gina Gershon, American actress, singer and author
• 1962 – Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian poet and author (d. 1982)
• 1962 – Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
• 1962 – Tzi Ma, Hong Kong American character actor
• 1962 – Brent Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1963 – Brad Henry, American lawyer and politician, 26th Governor of Oklahoma
• 1963 – Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
• 1965 – Susanne Albers, German computer scientist and academic
• 1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, English model, actress, and producer
• 1965 – Joey Santiago, American alternative rock musician (The Pixies)
• 1966 – David Platt, English footballer and manager
• 1967 – Emma Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 – Darren Robinson, American rapper (d. 1995)
• 1968 – Bill Burr, American comedian and actor
• 1968 – Derek Dooley, American football player and coach
• 1969 – Craig Hancock, Australian rugby league player
• 1969 – Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
• 1969 – Kate Snow, American journalist
• 1970 – Mike Doughty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – Katsuhiro Harada, Japanese game designer, director, and producer
• 1970 – Alex Santos, Filipino journalist
• 1970 – Shane Whereat, Australian rugby league player
• 1971 – Bobby Jindal, American journalist and politician, 55th Governor of Louisiana
• 1971 – Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer
• 1971 – Erik Rutan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1972 – Steven Fischer, American director and producer
• 1972 – Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia
• 1972 – Eric Upashantha, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1973 – Faith Evans, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1973 – Flesh-n-Bone, American rapper and actor
• 1973 – Pokey Reese, American baseball player
• 1975 – Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer
• 1976 – Alari Lell, Estonian footballer
• 1976 – Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician
• 1976 – Stefan Postma, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1976 – Hadi Saei, Iranian martial artist
• 1977 – Adam Darski, Polish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 – Mike Rosenthal, American football player and coach
• 1978 – Raheem Brock, American football player
• 1979 – Evgeni Borounov, Russian ice dancer and coach
• 1979 – Kostas Louboutis, Greek footballer
• 1980 – Matuzalém, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Ovie Mughelli, American football player
• 1980 – Dmitri Uchaykin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
• 1980 – Daniele Seccarecci, Italian bodybuilder (d. 2013)
• 1980 – James Walsh, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist
• 1981 – Mat Jackson, English race car driver
• 1981 – Albie Morkel, South African cricketer
• 1981 – Andrey Yepishin, Russian sprinter
• 1982 – Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
• 1982 – Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland
• 1982 – Ana Lúcia Souza, Brazilian ballerina and journalist
• 1983 – Marion Barber III, American football player
• 1983 – Aaron Davey, Australian footballer
• 1983 – Leelee Sobieski, American actress and producer
• 1983 – Steve von Bergen, Swiss footballer
• 1984 – Johanna Kedzierski, German sprinter
• 1984 – Dirk Van Tichelt, Belgian martial artist
• 1985 – Richard Chambers, Irish rower
• 1985 – Gert Dorbek, Estonian basketball player
• 1985 – Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player
• 1985 – Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1985 – Dane Nielsen, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 – Andy Schleck, Luxembourger cyclist
• 1985 – Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
• 1985 – Kreesha Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1986 – Al Alburquerque, Dominican baseball player
• 1986 – Marco Andreolli, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Martin Harnik, German-Austrian footballer
• 1987 – Amobi Okoye, Nigerian-American football player
• 1988 – Jeff Teague, American basketball player
• 1989 – DeAndre Kane, American basketball player
• 1989 – David Miller, South African cricketer
• 1989 – Mustapha Carayol, Gambian footballer
• 1989 – Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer-songwriter, dancer, and model
• 1991 – Alexa Scimeca Knierim, American figure skater
• 1992 – Saulius Ambrulevičius, Lithuanian figure skater
• 1992 – Kate Upton, American model and actress

Deaths

• 323 BC – Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (b. 356 BC)
• AD 38 – Julia Drusilla, Roman sister of Caligula (b. 16 AD)
• 223 – Liu Bei, Chinese emperor (b. 161)
• 779 – Emperor Daizong of Tang (b. 727)
• 754 – Abul Abbas al-Saffah, Muslim caliph (b. 721)
• 871 – Odo I, Frankish nobleman
• 903 – Cheng Rui, Chinese warlord
• 932 – Dong Zhang, Chinese general
• 942 – Liu Yan, emperor of Southern Han (b. 889)
• 1075 – Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
• 1141 – Richenza of Northeim (b. 1087)
• 1190 – Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
• 1261 – Matilda of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1210)
• 1338 – Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (b. 1318)
• 1364 – Agnes of Austria (b. 1281)
• 1424 – Ernest, Duke of Austria (b. 1377)
• 1437 – Joan of Navarre, Queen of England (b. 1370)
• 1552 – Alexander Barclay, English poet and author (b. 1476)
• 1556 – Martin Agricola, German composer and theorist (b. 1486)
• 1580 – Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (b. 1524-25)
• 1604 – Isabella Andreini, Italian actress (b. 1562)
• 1607 – John Popham, English politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1531)
• 1654 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
• 1680 – Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish lawyer and politician (b. 1635)
• 1692 – Bridget Bishop, Colonial Massachusetts woman hanged as a witch during the Salem witch trials (b. 1632)
• 1735 – Thomas Hearne, English historian and author (b. 1678)
• 1753 – Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt, German architect (b. 1678)
• 1776 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (b. 1736)
• 1776 – Leopold Widhalm, Austrian instrument maker (b. 1722)
• 1791 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
• 1799 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1745)
• 1811 – Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (b. 1728)
• 1831 – Hans Karl von Diebitsch, German-Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
• 1836 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
• 1849 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician (b. 1784)
• 1849 – Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (b. 1773)
• 1868 – Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)
• 1899 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
• 1901 – Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet, author, and playwright (b. 1841)
• 1902 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan priest and poet (b. 1845)
• 1906 – Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1845)
• 1909 – Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (b. 1822)
• 1914 – Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect (b. 1845)
• 1918 – Arrigo Boito, Italian author, poet, and composer (b. 1842)
• 1923 – Pierre Loti, French soldier and author (b. 1850)
• 1924 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician (b. 1885)
• 1926 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (b. 1852)
• 1930 – Adolf von Harnack, German historian and theologian (b. 1851)
• 1934 – Frederick Delius, English composer and educator (b. 1862)
• 1936 – John Bowser, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of Victoria (b. 1856)
• 1937 – Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
• 1939 – Albert Ogilvie, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1890)
• 1940 – Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded the Black Star Line (b. 1887)
• 1944 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
• 1946 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
• 1947 – Alexander Bethune, Canadian businessman and politician, 12th Mayor of Vancouver (b. 1852)
• 1949 – Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1955 – Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer (b. 1876)
• 1958 – Angelina Weld Grimké, American journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1959 – Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian politician (b. 1883)
• 1963 – Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (b. 1936)
• 1965 – Vahap Özaltay, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1908)
• 1967 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
• 1971 – Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
• 1973 – William Inge, American playwright and novelist (b. 1913)
• 1974 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
• 1976 – Adolph Zukor, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1873)
• 1982 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1945)
• 1984 – Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Turkish author and poet (b. 1901)
• 1986 – Merle Miller, American author and playwright (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
• 1988 – Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit (b. 1902)
• 1992 – Hachidai Nakamura, Chinese-Japanese pianist and composer (b. 1931)
• 1993 – Les Dawson, English comedian, actor, writer and presenter (b. 1931)
• 1996 – George Hees, Canadian soldier, football player, and politician (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
• 1998 – Hammond Innes, English soldier and author (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 18th President of Syria (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
• 2001 – Leila Pahlavi, Princess of Iran (b. 1970)
• 2002 – John Gotti, American mobster (b. 1940)
• 2003 – Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher and academic (b. 1929)
• 2003 – Phil Williams, Welsh academic and politician (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1930)
• 2004 – Odette Laure, French actress and singer (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, 177th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
• 2005 – Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer, designed the Pitts Special (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Augie Auer, American-New Zealand meteorologist (b. 1940)
• 2008 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani author and diplomat (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Stelios Skevofilakas, Greek footballer (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Basil Schott, American archbishop (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (b. 1941)
• 2011 – Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish lawyer and politician, 25th Irish Minister for Finance (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Piero Bellugi, Italian conductor (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Warner Fusselle, American sportscaster (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Will Hoebee, Dutch songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Georges Mathieu, French painter and academic (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Joshua Orwa Ojode, Kenyan politician (b. 1958)
• 2012 – George Saitoti, Kenyan economist and politician, 6th Vice-President of Kenya (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Sudono Salim, Chinese-Indonesian businessman, founded Bank Central Asia (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Gordon West, English footballer (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Doug Bailey, American political consultant (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Enrique Orizaola, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Marcello Alencar, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Rio de Janeiro (b. 1925)
• 2014 – George A. Burton, American soldier, accountant, and politician (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Robert M. Grant, American theologian and academic (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Jack Lee, American radio host and politician (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Robert Chartoff, American film producer and philanthropist (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Wolfgang Jeschke, German author and publisher (b. 1936)
• 2016 – Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1994)
• 2016 – Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
• 2017 – Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (b. 1980)

Holidays and observances

• Abolition Day (French Guiana)
• Army Day (Jordan)
• Christian feast day:
  • Bardo
  • Getulius, Amancius and Cerealus
  • Guardian Angel of Portugal
  • John of Tobolsk (Russian Orthodox Church)
  • Landry of Paris
  • Maximus of Aveia (or of Aquila)
  • Maximus of Naples
  • Olivia
  • June 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Navy Day (Italy)
• Portugal Day, also Day of Camões (Portugal and the Portuguese communities)
• Reconciliation Day (Republic of the Congo)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• Today in Canadian History