June 10

Events

• 671 - Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock 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 will not 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 and Sorceries".
• 1719 - Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.
• 1782 - King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke of Siam 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: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Spanish-held Cuba.
• 1916 - The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
• 1918 - The Austro-Hungarian battleship 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: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of Obergruppenführer 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 1957 Canadian federal election, 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 - Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.
• 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, 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.
• 2009 - James Wenneker von Brunn, who was 88-years-old, opened fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.
• 2019 - An Agusta A109E Power crashed onto the AXA Equitable Center on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, which sparked a fire on the top of the building. The pilot of the helicopter was killed.

  Births

• 867 - Emperor Uda of Japan
• 940 - Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer
• 1213 - Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi, Persian poet and philosopher
• 1465 - Mercurino Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist
• 1513 - Louis, Duke of Montpensier
• 1557 - Leandro Bassano, Italian painter
• 1632 - Esprit Fléchier, French bishop and author
• 1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart, claimant to the English and Scottish throne
• 1713 - Princess Caroline of Great Britain
• 1716 - Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, Swedish physician and explorer
• 1753 - William Eustis, American physician and politician, 12th Governor of Massachusetts
• 1804 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist
• 1819 - Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor
• 1825 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian-American skier
• 1832 - Edwin Arnold, English poet and journalist
• 1832 - Nicolaus Otto, German engineer
• 1832 - Stephen Mosher Wood, American lieutenant and politician
• 1835 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, American educator and politician
• 1839 - Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish lawyer and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Denmark
• 1840 - Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter
• 1843 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor
• 1854 - Sarah Grand, Irish feminist writer
• 1859 - Emanuel Nobel, Swedish-Russian businessman
• 1862 - Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress
• 1863 - Louis Couperus, Dutch author and poet
• 1864 - Ninian Comper, Scottish architect
• 1865 - Frederick Cook, American physician and explorer
• 1880 - André Derain, French painter and sculptor
• 1882 - Nils Økland, Norwegian Esperantist and teacher
• 1884 - Leone Sextus Tollemache, English captain
• 1886 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor and producer
• 1891 - Al Dubin, Swiss-American songwriter
• 1895 - Hattie McDaniel, American actress
• 1897 - Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
• 1898 - Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt
• 1899 - Stanisław Czaykowski, Polish race car driver
• 1901 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer
• 1904 - Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and poet
• 1907 - Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic
• 1907 - Dicky Wells, American jazz trombonist
• 1909 - Lang Hancock, Australian soldier and businessman
• 1910 - Frank Demaree, American baseball player and manager
• 1910 - Howlin' Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1911 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichord player and musicologist
• 1911 - Terence Rattigan, English playwright and screenwriter
• 1912 - Jean Lesage, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Premier of Quebec
• 1913 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer
• 1913 - Benjamin Shapira, German-Israeli biochemist and academic
• 1914 - Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright
• 1915 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1916 - Peride Celal, Turkish author
• 1916 - William Rosenberg, American entrepreneur, founded Dunkin' Donuts
• 1918 - Patachou, French singer and actress
• 1918 - Barry Morse, English-Canadian actor and director
• 1919 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician
• 1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish footballer, rugby player, and physician
• 1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
• 1921 - Jean Robic, French cyclist
• 1922 - Judy Garland, American singer, actress, and vaudevillian
• 1922 - Bill Kerr, South African-Australian actor
• 1923 - Paul Brunelle, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1923 - Robert Maxwell, Czech-English captain, publisher, and politician
• 1924 - Friedrich L. Bauer, German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic
• 1925 - Leo Gravelle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1925 - Nat Hentoff, American historian, author, and journalist
• 1925 - James Salter, American novelist and short-story writer
• 1926 - Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor
• 1926 - Lionel Jeffries, English actor, screenwriter and film director
• 1927 - Claudio Gilberto Froehlich, Brazilian zoologist
• 1927 - László Kubala, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1927 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician, 29th Vice Premier of the Republic of China
• 1927 - Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach
• 1927 - Eugene Parker, American astrophysicist and academic
• 1928 - Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator
• 1929 - James McDivitt, American general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1929 - Ian Sinclair, Australian farmer and politician, 42nd Australian Minister for Defence
• 1929 - Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn, British Labour Party politician
• 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
• 1930 - Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing
• 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
• 1933 - Chuck Fairbanks, American football player and coach
• 1934 - Peter Gibson, English lawyer and judge
• 1934 - Tom Pendry, Baron Pendry, English politician
• 1935 - Vic Elford, English race car driver
• 1935 - Lu Jiaxi, Chinese self-taught mathematician
• 1935 - Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1938 - Rahul Bajaj, Indian businessman and politician
• 1938 - Violetta Villas, Belgian-Polish singer-songwriter and actress
• 1938 - Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, Indian mathematician and academic
• 1940 - Augie Auer, American-New Zealand meteorologist
• 1940 - John Stevens, English drummer
• 1941 - Mickey Jones, American drummer
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 1962 - Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 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
• 1966 - David Platt, English footballer and manager
• 1967 - Emma Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 - Darren Robinson, American rapper
• 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
• 1970 - Sarah Wixey, Welsh sport shooter
• 1971 - JoJo Hailey, American singer
• 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 - Jessica DiCicco, American actress and voice actress
• 1980 - Matuzalém, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 - Ovie Mughelli, American football player
• 1980 - Dmitri Uchaykin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1980 - Daniele Seccarecci, Italian bodybuilder
• 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 - Jade Bailey, Barbadian athlete
• 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 - 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 - Kate Upton, American model and actress

  Deaths

• 323 BC - Alexander the Great, Macedonian king
• AD 38 - Julia Drusilla, Roman sister of Caligula
• 223 - Liu Bei, Chinese emperor
• 779 - Emperor Daizong of Tang
• 754 - Abul Abbas al-Saffah, Muslim caliph
• 871 - Odo I, Frankish nobleman
• 903 - Cheng Rui, Chinese warlord
• 932 - Dong Zhang, Chinese general
• 942 - Liu Yan, emperor of Southern Han
• 1075 - Ernest, Margrave of Austria
• 1141 - Richenza of Northeim
• 1190 - Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1261 - Matilda of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• 1338 - Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor
• 1364 - Agnes of Austria
• 1424 - Ernest, Duke of Austria
• 1437 - Joan of Navarre, Queen of England
• 1468 - Idris Imad al-Din, supreme leader of Tayyibi Isma'ilism, scholar and historian
• 1552 - Alexander Barclay, English poet and author
• 1556 - Martin Agricola, German composer and theorist
• 1580 - Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet
• 1604 - Isabella Andreini, Italian actress
• 1607 - John Popham, English politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
• 1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor
• 1680 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish lawyer and politician
• 1692 - Bridget Bishop, Colonial Massachusetts woman hanged as a witch during the Salem witch trials
• 1735 - Thomas Hearne, English historian and author
• 1753 - Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt, German architect
• 1776 - Hsinbyushin, Burmese king
• 1776 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian instrument maker
• 1791 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral
• 1799 - Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor
• 1811 - Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden
• 1831 - Hans Karl von Diebitsch, German-Russian field marshal
• 1836 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician
• 1849 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician
• 1849 - Robert Brown, Scottish botanist
• 1868 - Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia
• 1899 - Ernest Chausson, French composer
• 1901 - Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet, author, and playwright
• 1902 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan priest and poet
• 1906 - Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1909 - Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author
• 1914 - Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect
• 1918 - Arrigo Boito, Italian author, poet, and composer
• 1923 - Pierre Loti, French soldier and author
• 1924 - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician
• 1926 - Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell
• 1930 - Adolf von Harnack, German historian and theologian
• 1934 - Frederick Delius, English composer and educator
• 1936 - John Bowser, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of Victoria
• 1937 - Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada
• 1939 - Albert Ogilvie, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Tasmania
• 1940 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded the Black Star Line
• 1944 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician and academic
• 1946 - Jack Johnson, American boxer
• 1947 - Alexander Bethune, Canadian businessman and politician, 12th Mayor of Vancouver
• 1949 - Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1955 - Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer
• 1958 - Angelina Weld Grimké, American journalist, poet, and playwright
• 1959 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian politician
• 1963 - Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist
• 1965 - Vahap Özaltay, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1967 - Spencer Tracy, American actor
• 1971 - Michael Rennie, English actor
• 1973 - William Inge, American playwright and novelist
• 1974 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
• 1976 - Adolph Zukor, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures
• 1982 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1984 - Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Turkish author and poet
• 1986 - Merle Miller, American author and playwright
• 1987 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress
• 1988 - Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short story writer
• 1991 - Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit
• 1992 - Hachidai Nakamura, Chinese-Japanese pianist and composer
• 1993 - Les Dawson, English comedian, actor, writer and presenter
• 1996 - George Hees, Canadian soldier, football player, and politician
• 1996 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress
• 1998 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player
• 1998 - Hammond Innes, English soldier and author
• 2000 - Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 18th President of Syria
• 2000 - Brian Statham, English cricketer
• 2001 - Leila Pahlavi, Princess of Iran
• 2002 - John Gotti, American mobster
• 2003 - Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff
• 2003 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher and academic
• 2003 - Phil Williams, Welsh academic and politician
• 2004 - Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
• 2004 - Odette Laure, French actress and singer
• 2004 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, 177th Prime Minister of Greece
• 2005 - Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer, designed the Pitts Special
• 2007 - Augie Auer, American-New Zealand meteorologist
• 2008 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani author and diplomat
• 2009 - Stelios Skevofilakas, Greek footballer
• 2010 - Basil Schott, American archbishop
• 2010 - Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer
• 2011 - Brian Lenihan Jnr, Irish lawyer and politician, 25th Irish Minister for Finance
• 2012 - Piero Bellugi, Italian conductor
• 2012 - Warner Fusselle, American sportscaster
• 2012 - Will Hoebee, Dutch songwriter and producer
• 2012 - Georges Mathieu, French painter and academic
• 2012 - Joshua Orwa Ojode, Kenyan politician
• 2012 - George Saitoti, Kenyan economist and politician, 6th Vice-President of Kenya
• 2012 - Sudono Salim, Chinese-Indonesian businessman, founded Bank Central Asia
• 2012 - Gordon West, English footballer
• 2013 - Doug Bailey, American political consultant
• 2013 - Enrique Orizaola, Spanish footballer and coach
• 2013 - Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician
• 2014 - Marcello Alencar, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Rio de Janeiro
• 2014 - Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager
• 2014 - Robert M. Grant, American theologian and academic
• 2014 - Jack Lee, American radio host and politician
• 2015 - Robert Chartoff, American film producer and philanthropist
• 2015 - Wolfgang Jeschke, German author and publisher
• 2016 - Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter
• 2016 - Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player
• 2017 - Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress
• 2018 - Neal E. Boyd, American singer, winner of the 2008 season of America's Got Talent
• 2020 - Claudell Washington, American baseball player

  Holidays and observances

• Abolition Day
• Army Day
• World Art Nouveau Day
• Christian feast day:
• *Bardo
• *Getulius, Amancius and Cerealus
• *Guardian Angel of Portugal
• *John of Tobolsk
• *Landry of Paris
• *Maurinus of Cologne
• *Maximus of Aveia
• *Maximus of Naples
• *Olivia
• *June 10
• Navy Day
• Portugal Day, also Day of Camões
• Reconciliation Day