Famous birthdays, deaths and events of June 21
Birthdays
- 1002 - Pope Leo IX, (d. 1054)
- 1226 - King Boleslaus V of Poland, (d. 1279)
- 1528 - Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603)
- 1535 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)
- 1639 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)
- 1646 - Maria Francisca of Nemours, queen of Portugal (d. 1683)
- 1676 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
- 1712 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen
- 1730 - Motoori Norinaga, Japanese scholar (d. 1801)
- 1732 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791)
- 1736 - Enoch Poor, American general in the Continental Army (d. 1780)
- 1750 - Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French artist (d. 1818)
- 1759 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
- 1763 - Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher (d. 1845)
- 1764 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840)
- 1774 - Daniel D. Tompkins, Congressman
- 1781 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
- 1782 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (d. 1852)
- 1786 - Charles Edward Horn, British musician
- 1788 - Princess Augusta of Bavaria, (d. 1850)
- 1791 - Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
- 1798 - Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)
- 1805 - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist
- 1811 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
- 1812 - Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (d. 1875)
- 1823 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
- 1825 - William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford (d. 1901)
- 1828 - Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (d. 1904)
- 1839 - Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (d. 1908)
- 1850 - Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941)
- 1858 - Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (d. 1928)
- 1859 - Henry Ossawa Tanner, American painter (d. 1937)
- 1862 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943)
- 1863 - Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
- 1864 - Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian (d. 1945)
- 1868 - Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
- 1870 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)
- 1876 - Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist (d. 1956)
- 1879 - Gemma Doyle, Victorian Debutante
- 1880 - Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)
- 1880 - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp
- 1882 - Rockwell Kent, American artist (d. 1971)
- 1882 - Lluís Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (d. 1940)
- 1883 - Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer (d. 1958)
- 1884 - Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (d. 1981)
- 1887 - Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
- 1889 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
- 1890 - Frank Sherman Land, The order of DeMolay founder (d. 1959)
- 1891 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (d. 1979)
- 1891 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
- 1892 - Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian (d. 1971)
- 1893 - Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
- 1894 - Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
- 1896 - Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
- 1898 - Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
- 1902 - Howie Morenz, professional ice hockey player (d. 1937)
- 1903 - Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
- 1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer
- 1906 - Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
- 1908 - William Frankena, American philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1910 - Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
- 1912 - Mary McCarthy, American writer (d. 1989)
- 1912 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer
- 1914 - William Vickrey, Canadian economist
- 1916 - Joseph Cyril Bamford, English inventor and industrialist (d. 2001)
- 1916 - Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977)
- 1918 - Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)
- 1918 - James Clyde Mitchell, English sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1995)
- 1919 - Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist
- 1919 - Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess master and teacher (d. 1968)
- 1919 - Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect
- 1921 - Judy Holliday, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1921 - Jane Russell, American actress
- 1921 - Jean de Broglie, French politician
- 1923 - Jacques Hébert, French Canadian author
- 1924 - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director (d. 2006)
- 1924 - Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalytic thinker
- 1924 - Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)
- 1925 - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994)
- 1925 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1926 - Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Carl Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland
- 1929 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
- 1929 - Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Sir Gerald Kaufman, British politician
- 1930 - Mike McCormack, American professional football player
- 1931 - Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
- 1932 - O.C. Smith, American singer (d. 2001)
- 1932 - Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist and composer
- 1935 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)
- 1938 - Ron Ely, American actor
- 1939 - Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician
- 1940 - Mariette Hartley, American actress
- 1940 - Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher
- 1941 - Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor
- 1941 - Lyman Ward, Canadian actor
- 1942 - Togo D. West, Jr.
- 1942 - Dan Henning, American football player
- 1942 - Henry S. Taylor, American writer
- 1943 - Salomé, Spanish singer
- 1944 - Ray Davies, English musician (The Kinks)
- 1944 - Corinna Tsopei, Greek beauty pageant winner
- 1945 - Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher
- 1946 - Brenda Holloway, American musician
- 1946 - Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author
- 1947 - Meredith Baxter, American actress
- 1947 - Michael Gross, American actor
- 1947 - Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer
- 1947 - Joey Molland, English musician (Badfinger)
- 1948 - Ian McEwan, English writer
- 1948 - Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
- 1948 - Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
- 1950 - Anne Carson, Canadian poet
- 1950 - Joey Kramer, American drummer and percussionist (Aerosmith)
- 1950 - Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and musician
- 1950 - Gérard Lanvin, French actor
- 1951 - Nils Lofgren, American musician
- 1951 - Jim Douglas, American politician
- 1952 - Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director
- 1953 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)
- 1953 - Michael Bowen, American actor
- 1954 - Müjde Ar, Turkish actress
- 1954 - Mark Kimmitt, US Army general
- 1954 - Anne Kirkbride, English actress
- 1954 - Robert Menasse, Austrian writer
- 1954 - Robert Pastorelli, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1955 - Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer
- 1955 - Leigh McCloskey, American actor
- 1955 - Michel Platini, French footballer
- 1957 - Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist and author
- 1957 - Lucien DeBlois, professional ice hockey player
- 1958 - Gennady Padalka, cosmonaut
- 1959 - Tom Chambers, American basketball player
- 1959 - Marcella Detroit, singer and songwriter (Shakespear's Sister)
- 1959 - Kathy Mattea, American country singer
- 1961 - Kip Winger, American musician
- 1961 - Manu Chao, Spanish musician
- 1961 - Sascha Konietzko, German musician
- 1961 - Karen Barber, ice skater
- 1962 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician
- 1962 - Takeshi Asami, Japanese racing driver
- 1964 - Sammi Davis, British actress
- 1964 - David Morrissey, British actor
- 1964 - Doug Savant, American actor
- 1965 - Larry Wachowski, film director
- 1965 - Yang Liwei, Chinese astronaut
- 1966 - Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
- 1966 - Mancow Muller, American radio personality
- 1966 - Nan Woods, American actress
- 1967 - Jim Breuer, American comedian
- 1967 - Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American billionaire
- 1967 - Derrick Coleman, American basketball player
- 1968 - Sonique, British DJ
- 1969 - Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier
- 1970 - Sindee Coxx, American pornographic actress
- 1970 - Pete Rock, American rapper/producer
- 1971 - Anette Olzon, Swedish singer
- 1972 - Alon Hilu, Israeli writer
- 1972 - Neil Doak, former Irish cricketer
- 1973 - Juliette Lewis, American actress
- 1974 - Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
- 1974 - Craig Lowndes, Australian racing driver
- 1974 - Rob Kelly, American football player
- 1974 - Neely Jenkins, American musician
- 1976 - Antonio Cochran, American football player
- 1976 - Mike Einziger, American musician
- 1976 - Nigel Lappin, Australian footballer
- 1977 - Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player
- 1978 - Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer
- 1978 - Jack Guzman, American actor
- 1978 - Erica Durance, Canadian actress
- 1978 - Dejan Ognjanović, Montenegrin football player
- 1979 - Chris Pratt, American actor
- 1980 - Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player
- 1980 - Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
- 1981 - Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)
- 1981 - Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 - Prince William of Wales, British prince
- 1984 - Alicia Alighatti, American pornographic actress
- 1984 - Franck Perera, French racing driver
- 1985 - Anthony Morelli, American football player
- 1985 - Byron Schammer, AFL footballer
- 1987 - Dale Thomas, AFL footballer
- 1987 - Kim Ryeowook, Korean pop singer
- 1987 - Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer
- 1988 - Alejandro Ramírez, chess Grandmaster
Deaths
- 223 - Liu Bei, Emperor of Shu Han (b. 161)
- 1205 - Enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. 1107)
- 1208 - Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and duke of Swabia (b. 1177)
- 1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland, (b. 1271)
- 1377 - King Edward III of England, (b. 1312)
- 1421 - Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366)
- 1527 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
- 1529 - John Skelton, English poet
- 1547 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
- 1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
- 1591 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)
- 1621 - Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier
- 1631 - John Smith, English explorer
- 1652 - Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
- 1738 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
- 1796 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
- 1824 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
- 1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
- 1874 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
- 1893 - Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University
- 1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
- 1914 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist
- 1934 - Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
- 1940 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881)
- 1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
- 1952 - Wilfrid 'Wop' May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
- 1954 - Gideon Sundback, American inventor
- 1957 - Johannes Stark, German physicist
- 1964 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
- 1964 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
- 1964 - Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)
- 1969 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
- 1970 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
- 1976 - Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
- 1979 - Angus Maclise, American mystic
- 1980 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
- 1985 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
- 1986 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author (b. 1923)
- 1987 - Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur
- 1993 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
- 1997 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
- 1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
- 1998 - Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
- 1999 - Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
- 2000 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
- 2001 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
- 2001 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2001 - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
- 2003 - Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
- 2003 - Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
- 2003 - Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967)
- 2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
- 2005 - Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
- 2007 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
- 2008 - Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)
Events
- 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
- 1582 - The Incident at Honnō-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan.
- 1621 - Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
- 1734 - In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
- 1749 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
- 1788 - New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
- 1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
- 1813 - Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
- 1813 - Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of an impending U.S. attack on Queenston, Ontario during the War of 1812.
- 1824 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
- 1826 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
- 1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
- 1864 - New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
- 1877 - The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
- 1898 - Guam becomes a U.S. territory.
- 1915 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
- 1919 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
- 1919 - Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of World War I.
- 1940 - The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1942 - World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
- 1942 - World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
- 1945 - World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends.
- 1948 - The "Manchester Baby" (SSEM) runs the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory.
- 1948 - Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
- 1952 - Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
- 1957 - Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
- 1964 - Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
- 1973 - In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law.
- 1982 - John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 2000 - Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
- 2001 - A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
- 2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
- 2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
- 2009 - As a step toward total independence from The Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland assumes control over its law enforcement, judicial affairs, and natural resources. Greenlandic becomes the official language.
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