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June 14 in history

221 sourced entries recorded on June 14, from 827 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 827Euphemius, exiled Byzantine admiral, asks for the help of North African Arabs, to retake Sicily and Malta from the Byzantines. Emir Ziyadat Allah I of Ifriqiya promises to return the islands to Euphemius, in exchange for a yearly tribute, and sends an Arab Muslim expeditionary force of 10,000 men under the 70-year-old Asad ibn al-Furat, which lands at Mazara del Vallo in Sicily.source
  • 1170King Henry II has his 15-year-old son, Henry the Young King, crowned by Roger, Archbishop of York, as junior king and heir to the English throne. The coronation drives Pope Alexander III to allow the exiled Thomas Becket (whose privilege as Archbishop of Canterbury to crown English monarchs has been infringed) to lay an interdict on England as punishment, and this threat forces Henry to negotiate with Becket. Sir William Marshal is appointed tutor-in-arms to Henry the Young King.source
  • 1275Battle of Hova: King Valdemar Birgersson of Sweden is defeated by his brother Magnus in the forest of Tiveden.source
  • 1302Matteo I Visconti, Lord of Milan (Signore di Milano), the semi-independent Italian region within the Holy Roman Empire, is deposed by Guido della Torre, but will return in 1311.source
  • 1325(2 Rajab 725 AH) Ibn Battuta, Moroccan scholar and explorer, sets off from his hometown of Tangier on a hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca. En route, he travels to Tlemcen, Béjaïa and Tunis, where he stays for two months. For safety, Ibn Battuta joins a caravan to reduce the risk of being robbed. Underway, he takes a bride in Sfax, but soon leaves her due to a dispute with her father. Traveling more than any other explorer before the modern era, he will travel an estimated 73,000 mi over the next 30 years, more than twice as much as Zheng He in the 15th century and three times as far as Marco Polo in the 14th century.source
  • 1396The University of Zadar is founded with the establishment of a theological seminary in the Croatian city.source
  • 1397Shams-ud-Din Shah becomes the new Shah of the Bahmani Kingdom (now in India's state of Karnataka) upon the death of his brother, Ghiyath-ad-din Shah.source
  • 1402Zhu Di, King of the Yan State at Beijing, becomes the new Ming Dynasty Emperor of China at Nanjing, uniting north and south China.source
  • 1403The Emperor Manuel II restores Matthew I as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christians. Matthew had been deposed the previous autumn during the Emperor's absence from Byzantium.source
  • 1404Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr enters an alliance with the French against the English. He has begun to hold parliamentary assemblies (first on May 10 at Dolgellau).source
  • 1412Antipope John XXIII signs an agreement with King Ladislaus of Naples, paying him 75,000 florins (262.5 kg or 9,375 oz. of gold), investing Ladislaus with the Neapolitan crown, and naming him as Gonfalonier of the Church within the Papal States. In return, King Ladislaus agrees to expel Pope Benedict XII from Naples and to recognize John as the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1430William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.source
  • 1443Pope Eugene IV and King Alfonso V of Naples reach a forma agreement at Terracina, with the Pope recognizing Alfonso as the rightful King and Prince Ferrante as heir to the throne, while Alfonso agrees to stop support of the antipope Amadeus VII and the Council of Basel.source
  • 1453Ludovico Gonzaga of Mantua defends the city against Venetian forces led by his brother Carlo.source
  • 1484Walter Fitzsimon is appointed Archbishop of Dublin, an office which he will hold until his death in 1511.source
  • 1484Joanes III is proclaimed by his fiancée, Queen Katalina, to be her co-ruler of the Kingdom of Navarre at Pamplona, now part of the Basque region of Spain.source
  • 1556Lorenzo Priuli becomes the new Doge of the Venetian Republic.source
  • 1562At dinner at Dunfermline Castle, Mary, Queen of Scots, displays a gold ring set with a heart shaped diamond from her collection and declares that she will send it to Queen Elizabeth of England as a gift and a possible summit conference in the future.source
  • 1572June 14 (4th day of 5th month, Genki 3) – At the Battle of Kizaki, Shimazu Yoshihiro leads an army of just 300 men to defeat the 3,000 strong Ito clan of Itō Yoshisuke.source
  • 1581The representatives of the States General of the Netherlands vote to declare that the throne of the Union of Utrecht is vacant because of the erratic behavior of King Philip II.source
  • 1593English explorer John Davis in the Desire makes landfall at Berehaven at the conclusion of the second Cavendish expedition.source
  • 1602Charles de Gontaut-Biron is arrested for Treasonsource
  • 1618Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date).source
  • 1623The first breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev. Gerville Pooley, in Virginia, files against Cicely Jordan, but loses.source
  • 1630Passengers of the Arbella, including Anne Bradstreet, America's first poet of significance, finally set foot in the New World at Salem, Massachusetts.source
  • 1631The king at Saint-Germain-en-Laye establishes an extraordinary Chambre de justice to try crimes of counterfeit money.source
  • 1634The Treaty of Polyanovka is signed between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia, concluding the Smolensk War.source
  • 1643Licensing Order of 1643 passed by Parliament to censor newspapers.source
  • 1645English Civil War – Battle of Naseby: 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.source
  • 1645English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.source
  • 1658Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) and Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659): In the Battle of the Dunes, a Spanish force attempting to lift a siege of Dunkirk is defeated by the French and English. England is then given Dunkirk, for its assistance in the victory.source
  • 1658Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660): Battle of the Dunes – a French and English army defeats the Spanish in the Spanish Netherlands.source
  • 1661General Zheng Chenggong of China takes control of most of the island of Taiwan from the Dutch East India Company and proclaims the Kingdom of Tungning, with himself as the ruler.source
  • 1666June 14 (June 4 Julian calendar) – The Four Days' Battle between the Dutch Republic fleet (84 ships under the command of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter) and the English Royal Navy (79 ships led by the Duke of Albemarle) in the North Sea, one of the longest naval engagements in history, ends with a retreat by the English after having started on June 11. A part of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the battle ends with a Dutch victory, but heavy losses are sustained on both sides: the English lose 1,000 men and 10 ships are sunk, while the Dutch lose four ships and 1,550 men. Damaged, but not destroyed, the English fleet sets about repairs and refitting, and meets the Dutch fleet again on July 25 in the St. James's Day Battle.source
  • 1673Second Battle of Schooneveld: The Dutch fleet again defeats the joint Anglo-French fleet.source
  • 1673The Dutch fleet again defeats the combined Anglo-French fleet in the Second Battle of Schooneveld.source
  • 1675Colonial authorities of Rhode Island, Plymouth, and Massachusetts attempt a negotiation with Metacomet (King Philip), leader of the Wampanoags, and seek guarantees of fidelity from the Nipmuck and Narragansett tribes. The negotiations end after 11 days, closing on June 25.source
  • 1687In one of the few actions on land in the Anglo-Siamese War, English sailors on the coast of Mergui in Burma (now Myeik, Myanmar) are massacred by Siamese troops.source
  • 1689The Duke of Gordon, a Scottish peer and Jacobite supporter, surrenders Edinburgh Castle to Protestant attackers after holding out for 20 days following the Glorious Revolution.source
  • 1690King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in Ireland to confront James II.source
  • 1690King William III of England (William of Orange) lands at Carrickfergus in Ulster and marches south to take Dublin.source
  • 1692June 13–14 (June 3–4 O.S.) – Nine Years' War: Battle of La Hogue – The action begun at Barfleur ends with further destruction of the French fleet.source
  • 1699Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam pump to the Royal Society of London.source
  • 1728The Congress of Soissons opens at the French town of Soissons to negotiate a treaty between Great Britain and Spain. The treaty, which is concluded on November 9, 1729, recognizes the Spanish royal family's rule of parts of Italy, and Britain's possession of Gibraltar and Menorca.source
  • 1728Congress of Soissons begins in an effort to end the Anglo-Spanish War.source
  • 1751The colony of South Carolina reverses a 10-year-old law that had imposed a tax of 100 pounds sterling on the purchase of imported African slaves, and reduces the tax to £10. The move effectively restores the slave trade to the colony.source
  • 1752Robert Clive forces the surrender of French troops in the aftermath of the Siege of Trichinopoly in India.source
  • 1768The largest mass meeting ever held in New England, up to this time, takes place at the Old South Church to support a petition demanding that the British remove a ship which has been hindering navigation in Boston Harbor.source
  • 177014 June–3 October – Charles Messier observes Lexell's Comet as it passes closer to Earth than any other in recorded historysource
  • 1775American Revolution: The Continental Congress names George Washington as commander of the Continental Army.source
  • 1777The Stars and Stripes is adopted by the Continental Congress as the flag of the United States.source
  • 1789Mutiny on the Bounty survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000-mile journey in an open boat.source
  • 1792Battle of Boruszkowcesource
  • 1798Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.source
  • 1800War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Marengo: Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrian army (some 30,000 men) under General Michael von Melas near Marengo. The arrival of French reinforcements under General Louis Desaix reverses the battle. A late counterstroke turns a near-defeat into a political and strategic triumph. Desaix dies during the battle. Napoleon strengthens his position as First Consul and becomes the 'savior of France'. The Austrians lose 6,000 men killed or wounded and some 8,000 prisoners of war. The French lose over 5,000 men (25% total casualties).source
  • 1800Friedrich Schiller's historical drama Mary Stuart has its première in Weimar.source
  • 1803Napoleon Bonaparte orders the establishment of five military camps to defend the coast of France, located at Bayonne, Ghent, Saint-Omer, Compiègne, Saint-Malo, and one in the occupied Netherlands, at Utrecht. Each one has 20,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry to defend it.source
  • 1807Battle of Friedland: Napoleon decisively defeats Bennigsen's Russian army.source
  • 1809A French victory, in the battle of Raab, prevents archduke John of Austria from bringing any significant force to the Battle of Wagram.source
  • 1816Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway is founded.source
  • 1821Egyptian conquest of Sudan (1820–1824): King Badi VII of Sennar surrenders his throne and realm without a fight to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of the Funj Sultanate in Sudan.source
  • 1825Van Diemen's Land is separated administratively from New South Wales.source
  • 1826June 14–15 – The Auspicious Incident: Mahmud II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, crushes the last mutiny of janissaries in Istanbul.source
  • 1840June 12–23 – The World Anti-Slavery Convention is organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, at Exeter Hall in London, England. Arguments over the exclusion of women from the convention have important ramifications for the movement for women's suffrage in the United States.source
  • 1846Founding congress of the Liberal Party.source
  • 1846Bear Flag Revolt: American settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.source
  • 1858June 13–17 – The Treaty of Tientsin is signed, ending the first part of the Second Opium War.source
  • 1861The 1861 Danish Folketing election is held. Carl Christian Hall remains Prime Minister following the elections.source
  • 1863Second Battle of Winchester – A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.source
  • 1866The Austro-Prussian War ("Seven Weeks War") begins when the Austrians and most of the medium-size German states declare war on Prussia.source
  • 1872Trade unions are legalised in Canada.source
  • 1874Michel Domingue becomes head of state of Haiti.source
  • 1879Sidney Faithorn Green, a priest in the Church of England, is tried and convicted for using Ritualist practices.source
  • 1879Sidney Faithorn Green, an Anglican priest in the Church of England, is tried and convicted for using Ritualist practices.source
  • 1883A rail service between Sydney and Melbourne commences when the NSW and Victorian rail systems are joined at Albury.source
  • 1888The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.source
  • 1889Treaty of Berlin over Samoasource
  • 1892Belgian general election, 1892source
  • 1893Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia by Paddy Hannan and two others.source
  • 1894hooker Victory capsizes off Westport, County Mayo with the loss of at least 30 aboard.source
  • 1900The Reichstag approves the second of the German Naval Laws allowing expansion of the Imperial German Navy.source
  • 1903The town of Heppner, Oregon is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that results in a flash flood that kills about 238 people.source
  • 1903Heppner Flood of 1903: The town of Heppner, Oregon, is nearly destroyed by a cloudburst that results in a flash flood.source
  • 1910June 14–23 – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by John Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.source
  • 1911RMS Olympic departs Southampton, England, for her maiden voyage. On June 15, she arrives in Queenstown, Ireland, to discharge and take up passengers.source
  • 1914June 12–18 – Greek genocide: Ottoman Greeks in Phocaea are massacred by Turkish irregular troops.source
  • 1919June 14–15 – A Vickers Vimy piloted by British aviator John Alcock, with navigator Arthur Whitten Brown, makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland.source
  • 1922President of the United States Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.source
  • 1924June 7–16 – Rudolf Steiner delivers his Agriculture Course at Koberwitz beginning of the organic agriculture movement.source
  • 1925The administration of Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia is reformed into new counties. Some, like Alba remain into the next century; others, like Trei Scaune, only last until the reform of 1938.source
  • 1925The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece is founded.source
  • 1925The Turkish football club Göztepe is founded.source
  • 1928Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in Argentina.source
  • 1930The Federal Bureau of Narcotics is established under the United States Department of the Treasury, replacing the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.source
  • 1931Saint-Philibert disaster: The overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from the Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the River Loire in France; over 450 drown.source
  • 1931Overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the river Loire and over 450 drown.source
  • 1932The Papen government lifts the ban against the SS and SA in Germany.source
  • 1934Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for the first time, at the Venice Biennale.source
  • 1937President Getúlio Vargas signed the decree establishing the Itatiaia National Park, the first national park in Brazil.source
  • 1940A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.source
  • 1941All German and Italian assets in the United States are frozen.source
  • 1941All German and Italian assets in the United States are frozen.source
  • 1941June deportation: Soviet officials deport about 65,000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Siberia.source
  • 1942June 12–15 – WWII: Operation Harpoon – An Allied convoy under Admiral Alban Curteis leaves from Gibraltar with 6 merchant ships escorted by the British battleship HMS Malaya, aircraft carriers HMS Argus and HMS Eagle, 4 cruisers and 17 destroyers to Malta. Two of the six merchant ships completes the journey, at the cost of several Allied warships.source
  • 1947June 11–15 – The first Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is held in Wales.source
  • 1949Albert II, a rhesus monkey aboard U.S. Hermes project V-2 rocket Blossom IVB, becomes the first primate to enter space. He is killed on impact at return.source
  • 1951UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.source
  • 1952Myxomatosis is introduced to Europe, on the French estate of Paul-Félix Armand-Delille.source
  • 1954The words "under God" are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.source
  • 1956The Flag of the United States Army is formally dedicated.source
  • 1958The colony celebrated the centennial of Praia being given city status; celebrations include the dedication of a statue of Diogo Gomes, proclaiming him the discoverer of the islands.source
  • 1959A 3-front invasion of the Dominican Republic by exile forces backed by Fidel Castro and Venezuela attempts to overthrow Rafael Trujillo.source
  • 1959Fenerbahçe won the championship of the Turkish football leaguesource
  • 1960A robbery on the payer train of the Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil takes place in Japeri, Rio de Janeiro.source
  • 196014 June - 14 July - 33 years after his birth in Cambridge, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej made the first of two return visits to the United States. And the rest of the Royal Family heads for a state visit.source
  • 1963Olav Hindahl, trade unionist and politician (b.1892)source
  • 1964Freedom Summer, a volunteer Civil Rights project in the United States intended to promote voter registration for as many African Americans as possible in Mississippi, begins with orientation sessions for the 300 volunteers at Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio.source
  • 1966The Vatican abolishes the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.source
  • 1967Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.source
  • 1967June 14–15 – Glenn Gould records Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in New York City (his only recording of a Prokofiev composition).source
  • 1971Norway begins oil production in the North Sea.source
  • 1972Japan Airlines Flight 471 crashes outside New Delhi airport, killing 82 of 87 occupants.source
  • 1972June 14–23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.source
  • 1972June 5–16 – The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is held in Stockholm, Swedensource
  • 1975FC Zurich secures, for the seventh time in its history, the title of Swiss football championssource
  • 1979June 9–23 – The 1979 Cricket World Cup is held in England with West Indies defeating England in the final.source
  • 1981Haim Shirman (born 1904), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli scholar of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry.source
  • 1982Argentine surrender in the Falklands War: Argentine forces in the island capital, Stanley, surrender to British forces.source
  • 1982The Government devalues the peso, ending the stable exchange rate of the dollar at 39 pesos, passing the dollar to the price of 76 pesos, inflation goes to 0.4%.source
  • 1984June 14–16 – voting days for the European Parliament electionsource
  • 1985The Schengen Agreement is signed between certain member states of the European Economic Community, creating the Schengen Area, a bloc of (at the time) 5 states with no internal border controls.source
  • 1985TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group. One passenger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed. Greek police arrest a 65-year-old Lebanese suspect on September 21, 2019.source
  • 1986Fantasyland's Mindbender derails and kills three people.source
  • 1988June 10–14 – Spontaneous 100,000 strong mass night-singing demonstrations in Estonian SSR eventually give name to the Singing Revolution.source
  • 19901990 Panay earthquake: An earthquake measuring Ms struck Panay in the Philippines, killing 8 and injuring 41.source
  • 1992June 3–14 – The Earth Summit is held in Rio de Janeiro.source
  • 1992France's Jean-Philippe Dojwa wins the 1992 Tour de Luxembourg.source
  • 1995June 14–19 — Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisissource
  • 199760 soldiers kidnapped by the Southern Bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People's Army (FARC-EP) in the 1996 attack on Las Delicias military nine months earlier are released through the Colombian Red Cross and the Catholic Church Cartagena del Chairá, Caquetá.source
  • 2001The establishment of Council for Hakka Affairs of the Executive Yuan.source
  • 2002Russia withdraws from the START II nuclear reduction agreement with the United States.source
  • 2003The Czech Republic approves joining the European Union in a referendum.source
  • 2006The 2006 Kismet Train Collision occurs in California. At 5:51 AM, two BNSF Railway freight trains collided head-on at the Kismet Siding in Kismet, California near Madera, California. The southbound mixed manifest train disregarded a red signal at East Kismet instead of stopping and crashed into the northbound grain train.source
  • 2007June 10–15 – Fatah-Hamas conflict: The Battle of Gaza is fought between Fatah and Hamas, and ends with Hamas gaining control of the Gaza Strip.source
  • 2008Expo 2008 opens in Zaragoza, Spain, lasting to September 14, with the topic "Water and sustainable development".source
  • 2008A 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, kills 12 and injures more than 400.source
  • 2009The final of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009, attended by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, took place at the International Children's Centre 'Artek' in Kyiv, and was hosted by commentator for Eurovision and Junior Eurovision Timur Miroshnychenko and three-time participant at the Ukrainian Junior national final Marietta.source
  • 2010June 10–14 – Ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks result in the deaths of hundreds.source
  • 2014The Catholic Church removes restrictions on clerical marriage in the Eastern Catholic Churches' diaspora.source
  • 2017The Grenfell Tower Fire in West London claims the lives of 72 residents, making it the worst UK residential fire since World War II.source
  • 2018The Legislative Council passes the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link (Co-location) Bill by 40 to 20. This will allow for a juxtaposed border checkpoint at the West Kowloon station, operated jointly by Hong Kong and mainland border security departments and with mainland border security officers stationed.source
  • 2018July 15 – The 2018 FIFA World Cup is held in Russia and is won by France.source
  • 2023Scientists report the creation of the first synthetic human embryo from stem cells, without the need for sperm or egg cells.source
  • 2023At least 82 people die and 500 are reported missing after a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of the Peloponnese.source
  • 20242024 South African general election: The ANC and other opposition parties agree to form a national unity government, with Cyril Ramaphosa being re-elected President of South Africa.source
  • 2024July 14 – UEFA Euro 2024 is held in Germany, and is won by Spain.source
  • 2025The No Kings protests occur across many cities in the U.S., as well as Canada, Europe, Japan and Mexico, against Donald Trump.source
  • 2025July 13 – The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is held in the United States, and is won by Chelsea.source

Births

  • 1224Matilda of Brabant, countess of Artois (died 1288)source
  • 1400Joan Ramon II, Count of Cardona (died 1471)source
  • 1444Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer-mathematician (died 1544)source
  • 1463Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German noble (died 1514)source
  • 1479Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian scholar and poet (died 1552)source
  • 1529Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (died 1595)source
  • 1546Wolfgang, Count of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim, German count (died 1610)source
  • 1619June 14 (bapt.) – Sir Jeffrey Hudson, English court dwarf (died 1682)source
  • 1655Cornelius Cruys, Vice Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy (d.1727).source
  • 1726June 14 O.S. – Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist (died 1798)source
  • 1726Thomas Pennant, naturalist (died 1798)source
  • 1736Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (died 1806)source
  • 1748Henry Allen, evangelist, hymnist, theologian (d.1784)source
  • 1801Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (died 1868)source
  • 1811Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author, abolitionist (died 1896)source
  • 1812Fernando Wood, American politician (died 1881)source
  • 1816Priscilla Cooper Tyler, de facto First Lady of the United States (died 1889)source
  • 1838Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese field marshal, Prime Minister (died 1922)source
  • 1855Robert M. La Follette, American politician (died 1925)source
  • 1882Ion Antonescu, military officer and marshal, Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II (died 1946).source
  • 1899Vasile Aftenie, auxiliary bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church, beatified on 2 June 2019 (died 1950).source
  • 1928Che Guevara, Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary (or May 14; d. 1967)source
  • 1931Vasko Lipovac, painter (died 2006)source
  • 1946Donald Trump, 45th & 47th President of the United Statessource
  • 1958Olaf Scholz, 9th Chancellor of Germanysource

Deaths

  • 847Methodius I, patriarch of Constantinoplesource
  • 957Guadamir, bishop of Vic (Spain)source
  • 976Aron, Bulgarian noblemansource
  • 976Moses, Bulgarian noblemansource
  • 976David, Bulgarian noblemansource
  • 1161Qinzong, Chinese emperor (born 1100)source
  • 1205Walter III, Count of Brienne (or Gautier), French noblemansource
  • 1349Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (born 1304)source
  • 1351Jean de Vienne, Bishop of Avranches, French prelate and diplomat (born 1316)source
  • 1381Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (murdered)source
  • 1441Corrado IV Trinci, former lord of Folignosource
  • 1468Margaret Beauchamp, countess of Shrewsburysource
  • 1493Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (born 1454)source
  • 1497Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía (assassinated) (b.1474)source
  • 1516King John III of Navarre (born 1469)source
  • 1516In Spain, King John III of Navarre dies after a reign of 32 years and is succeeded by his widow, Queen Catherine.source
  • 1534Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali mystic (born 1486)source
  • 1544Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (born 1489)source
  • 1548Carpentras, French composer (born c. 1470)source
  • 1583Shibata Katsuie, Japanese military commander (born 1522)source
  • 1594Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (born 1532)source
  • 1662Henry Vane the Younger, British Governor of Massachusetts (born 1613)source
  • 1662Henry Vane the Younger, Governor of Massachusetts (born 1613)source
  • 1727Cornelius Cruys, Vice Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy (born 1655).source
  • 1746Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (born 1698)source
  • 1788Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (born 1714)source
  • 1800French general Jean-Baptiste Kléber is assassinated in Cairo by Syrian Kurdish Muslim student Suleiman al-Halabi.source
  • 1801Benedict Arnold, American Revolution hero, then traitor (born 1741)source
  • 1801Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary hero and traitor (born 1741)source
  • 1825Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect (born 1754)source
  • 1837Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (born 1798)source
  • 1909Afonso Pena, 6th President of Brazil (born 1847)source
  • 1920Max Weber, German political economist (born 1864); Spanish flusource
  • 1926Mary Cassatt, American painter and printmaker (born 1844)source
  • 1928Emmeline Pankhurst, British women's suffrage campaigner (born 1858)source
  • 1936G. K. Chesterton, English author (born 1874)source
  • 1986Jorge Luis Borges, 86, Argentine writer, liver cancer.source
  • 1995Rory Gallagher, 47, Irish blues and rock guitarist, liver failure.source