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June 16 in history

202 sourced entries recorded on June 16, from 345 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 363The Roman army starts its retreat northward to Corduene (Armenia). Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Julian's forces suffer several attacks from the Persians.source
  • 632Yazdegerd III, age 8, ascends to the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sassanid Dynasty (modern Iran).source
  • 649Battle of Chabuheluo: General Wang Xuance commands a combined Chinese, Nepalese, and Tibetan expedition into India. He ends up winning the battle and acquiring a Buddhist relic.source
  • 1056In response to the attack on Hereford Cathedral in 1055, Leofgar the bishop of Hereford takes an army into Wales to deal with the Welsh prince Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. He along with a large number of English troops is killed in battle at Glasbury-on-Wye by the Welsh. Earl Harold Godwinson raises an army to take revenge, but comes to peaceful terms with Gruffydd.source
  • 1221The Jewish population of Erfurt (Duchy of Thuringia) is massacred after a ritual murder libel. A crowd storms the synagogue where the Jews have gathered with the threat of baptism or death. The Jewish quarter, including the synagogue, is razed: many Jews are tortured and killed.source
  • 1269Battle of Colle Val d'Elsa: Guelph forces (2,200 men) led by King Charles I of Anjou defeat the Ghibellines at Tuscany. After the battle, the Guelphs drive out their adversaries at Colle di Val d'Elsa, destroying their houses, and confiscating their possessions.source
  • 1272The Lord Edward, heir to the English throne, prevents an assassination attempt on himself at Acre. A Syrian Nizari (or Assassin) supposedly sent by Baibars penetrates into the prince's chamber and stabs him with a poisoned dagger. The wound is not fatal, but Edward is seriously ill for some months. Baibars hastens to dissociate himself from the deed by sending his congratulations on the prince's escape.source
  • 1288Petrus, bishop of Västerås, buys 1/8 of the Stora Kopparberg copper mine in Falun, Sweden. During the reign of King Magnus Ladulås, nobles and foreign merchants from Lübeck take interests in the mining area.source
  • 1368The siege of Copenhagen by the Hanseatic League ends as the remaining defenders of Absalon Castle surrender and the building is destroyed.source
  • 1373The Anglo-Portuguese Treaty is signed in London, and is the oldest active treaty in the world.source
  • 1383At a meeting of the Polish nobles at Sieradz, Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia announces that he will claim the crown as King of Poland. Queen Elizabeth of Hungary sends an army of 12,000 soldiers two months later to devastate the Duchy of Masovia and its capital, Warsaw, forcing Siemowit to give up his claims to the throne .source
  • 1389The day after the Battle of Kosovo, Bayezid I succeeds his father Murad I as Ottoman Sultan, and Stefan Lazarević succeeds his father Lazar as ruler of Serbia.source
  • 1392Antoniotto di Montaldo is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa upon the resignation of Antoniotto Adorno.source
  • 1407Ming–Hồ War: Ho Han Thuong, Emperor of Vietnam (Dai Ngu) is captured by the Imperial Chinese Army along with his father, the former Emperor Hồ Quý Ly, completing the conquest of Vietnam by the Chinese Empire.source
  • 1426Hussite Wars – Battle of Aussig: The Hussites decisively beat the crusading armies of Germany in the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade and then annihilate the town of Aussig (now Ústí nad Labem) the next day.source
  • 1427John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ("the Alchemist", of the Hohenzollern family), signs a peace agreement with the dukes of the various Pomeranian duchies at the Brandenburg city of Templin, ending the latest Pomeranian-Brandenburg conflict.source
  • 1431The Teutonic Knights and Švitrigaila sign the Treaty of Christmemel, creating an anti-Polish alliance.source
  • 1472Volterra, a town in the Republic of Florence in Italy, surrenders after a siege of 25 days by Florentine soldiers under the command of Federico da Montefeltro. Because the town had rebelled against the power of Lorenzo de' Medici, da Montefeltro allows his soldiers on June 18 to pillage Volterra and to commit rape and murder of its citizens.source
  • 1483Richard, Duke of York, the younger brother of King Edward V, arrives at the Tower of London.source
  • 1487At the Battle of Stoke Field: the army of the pretender Lambert Simnel, led by John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, and Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, is crushed by troops loyal to Henry VII.source
  • 1512Massimiliano Sforza is installed as the new Duke of Milan by the Holy League, to force out King Louis XII of France.source
  • 1535Swedish victory at the Battle of Little Belt.source
  • 1541Şehzade Mustafa, the son of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, is appointed as the new Ottoman Governor of the Amasya region of Turkey.source
  • 1548The first of 8,000 French troops under the command of General André de Montalembert arrive at the port of Leith at the invitation of the King of Scotland, who seeks to drive out the occupying forces of the Army of England.source
  • 1552Yuri of Uglich, the only brother of the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, is placed in charge of Russia's domestic affairs as Ivan departs Moscow to lead 150,000 troops in the Russo-Kazan War.source
  • 1557June 16 Sebastião I is crowned as the new King of Portugal, five days after the death of his father, King João III.source
  • 1609The Battle of Tashiskari is fought as General Giorgi Saakadze of the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli repels invading troops from the Ottoman Empire before they can capture Tbilisi.source
  • 1642Irish Confederate Wars: The Battle of Glenmaquin takes place in County Donegal, with the Protestant Laggan Army decisively defeating Confederate Ireland soldiers.source
  • 1647Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, is crowned as the King of Hungary and Croatia at Pressburg, now the Slovakian capital of Bratislavasource
  • 1654June 16 (June 6 Old Style) – Charles X Gustav succeeds his cousin Christina on the Swedish throne. After her abdication on the same day, Christina, now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism.source
  • 1656After a 41-day voyage, the seven-member team dispatched from the Vergulde Draeck reaches Batavia and alerts Dutch East India Company officials that the ship was wrecked on April 28. Two rescue ships, the Goede Hoop and the Witte Valck are sent to rescue the men marooned in Western Australia. By the time the Goede Hoop arrives, the crew find no sign of the wreckage of the Vergulde Draeck.source
  • 1668A group of Spanish Jesuit missionaries become the first European settlers to arrive at the island of Guam, founding a mission to convert the Chamorro people of the Mariana Islands to Christianity.source
  • 1680Sambhaji Bhosle and his troops capture Raigad, the capital of the Maratha Empire and Sambhaji becomes the new Chhatrapati or Emperor. Sambhaji deposes his younger brother Rajaram I and places Rajaram and Rajaram's mother under house arrest.source
  • 1685A lunar eclipse is observed in the evening by François-Timoléon de Choisy, amongst others, onboard his ship in the vicinity of Madagascar. The ship was at a latitude of 37 degrees 40 minutes, and the eclipse was not visible from Europe.source
  • 170216 June to 12 September – Siege of Landausource
  • 1702The English East India Company founds a settlement on Pulo Condore (modern-day Côn Sơn Island) off the coast of southern Vietnam as an entrepôt for ships travelling between India and China.source
  • 1710Köprülüzade Numan Pasha becomes the grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1718The Treaty of Baden is signed, ending the Toggenburg War.source
  • 1740Pour le Mérite first awarded in Prussia as a military honour.source
  • 1743Preliminary peace between Sweden and Russia.source
  • 174316 June (27 June New Style) – War of the Austrian Succession: the Battle of Dettingen is fought in Bavaria; King George II leads the troops of Britain and Brunswick to victory over the French – the last time a reigning British monarch participates in a battle. The Prime Minister, Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, is also present, observing from a carriage. George Frideric Handel writes the oratorio Dettingen Te Deum in celebration of the King's victory.source
  • 1745King George's War: The British capture Cape Breton Island in North America from the French.source
  • 174516 June 1745 - After a six-week siege, the French fort of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island falls to the British colonial forces from New England organized by Governor William Shirley. This intensifies hostilities in what is known as King George's War, an extension of the European War of the Austrian Succession. The English go on to make new conquests from the French in the West Indies.source
  • 1745King George's War: British capture Cape Breton Island in North America from the French.source
  • 1746Battle of Piacenza: Austrian forces defeat French and Spanish troops.source
  • 1746Battle of Piacenza: Austrian forces defeat the French and Spanish (War of the Austrian Succession)source
  • 1755After a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour in North America surrenders to the British, marking the end of "Father Le Loutre's War".source
  • 1755Fort Beausejour, garrisoned by 400 Frenchmen, is surrendered to Col. Winslow, of Massachusetts, commanding 2,300, of whom 300 are regulars.source
  • 1774June 16–17 – English explorer James Cook becomes the first European to sight (and name) Palmerston Island in the South Pacific Ocean.source
  • 1775The post of chief engineer of the Continental Army is created.source
  • 1779American Revolutionary War – In support of France, Spain declares war on Britain.source
  • 179016 June–28 July – British general election gives Pitt an increased majority.source
  • 179016 June–28 July – 1790 British general election gives Pitt an increased majority.source
  • 1795June 16–17 – War of the First Coalition: Cornwallis's Retreat – A British Royal Navy battle squadron commanded by William Cornwallis fends off a numerically superior French Navy fleet, off the coast of Brittany.source
  • 1812New York State charters the City Bank of New York (later Citibank).source
  • 1815Battle of Ligny – Napoleon defeats a Prussian army under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.source
  • 1815Battle of Quatre Bras – Marshal Ney engages Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, resulting in a tactical and strategic draw.source
  • 1815Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Ligny: Napoleon defeats a Prussian army under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.source
  • 1816The Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace is founded in London.source
  • 1817Poor Law Employment Act empowers the Lord Lieutenant to appoint commissioners of public works to supervise construction of public works to relieve unemployment financed by mortgages of rates.source
  • 1819The Rann of Kutch earthquake, estimated at at least 7.7 Mw kills at least 1,543 people in India in what is now the state of Gujarat at the Arabian Sea, causing an 80 - 150 km stretch of land to be raised as much as 6 m and creating a natural dam, the Allahbund.source
  • 1824The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is established in Great Britain.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
  • 1846Pope Pius IX succeeds Pope Gregory XVI as the 255th pope. He will reign for 31½ years (the longest definitely confirmed).source
  • 1858June 13–17 – The Treaty of Tientsin is signed, ending the first part of the Second Opium War.source
  • 1858Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican Party nomination for a seat in the United States Senate, delivering his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.source
  • 1876Cape Western – Ceres Road to Worcester, 24 mi 38 ch.source
  • 1876The railway line from Cape Town to Worcester is officially opened.source
  • 1883Victoria Hall disaster: A rush for treats results in 183 children being asphyxiated in a concert hall in Sunderland, England.source
  • 1883Victoria Hall disaster: A rush for treats results in 183 children being asphyxiated in a concert hall in Sunderland.source
  • 1884The South Australian government of John Bray lost a no confidence motion over the introduction of a new tax and Bray was replaced as premier by the opposition leader John Colton.source
  • 1890Royal Dutch Petroleum, predecessor of Royal Dutch Shell, the major worldwide energy production and sales company, is founded in the Netherlands to develop an oilfield in Pangkalan Brandan, North Sumatra.source
  • 1899Penicuik House gutted by fire.source
  • 1901The Italian Federation of Metalworkers (Italian: Federazione Impiegati Operai Metallurgici, FIOM), a trade union representing workers in the metal and engineering industries in Italy, is founded at a conference in Livorno. By 1902 it had 50,000 members. In 1901-02, the socialist trade union movement experienced rapid growth. Many new unions were formed, mostly as federations of existing local or craft unions. By 1902, nearly 250,000 industrial workers were organised in socialist national federations.source
  • 1902The Commonwealth Franchise Act in Australia grants women's suffrage in federal elections for resident British subjects (with certain ethnic minorities excepted), making Australia the first independent country to grant women the vote at a national level, and the first country to allow them to stand for Parliament.source
  • 1903German federal election, 1903: The Centre Party remains the largest party in the Reichstag. Shortly after the election, the National-Social Association is dissolved by its leader Friedrich Naumann, and its members join the Free-minded Union.source
  • 1903The Ford Motor Company is founded.source
  • 1904Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, the Russian Governor-General of Finland, in Helsinki.source
  • 1904The original "Bloomsday", the day James Joyce first walks out with his future wife Nora Barnacle (whom he first met on June 10), to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend. He sets the action of his novel Ulysses (1922) on this date.source
  • 1908The Kasato Maru arrives at the Port of Santos with the first official group of Japanese immigrants to Brazil.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
  • 1914June 12–18 – Greek genocide: Ottoman Greeks in Phocaea are massacred by Turkish irregular troops.source
  • 1915Women's Institutes are established in Britain.source
  • 1918The Declaration to the Seven, a British government response to a memorandum issued anonymously by seven Syrian notables, is published.source
  • 1920José López Portillo, president of Mexico (1970–1976)source
  • 1921June 15 – 29-year-old African American Bessie Coleman obtains her pilot's licence in France and becomes the first black woman to have a pilot's licence.source
  • 1922Chen Jiongming, warlord of Guangdong, launched a coup against Sun Yat-sen, Great President of the Government of the Republic of China in Guangzhousource
  • 1923The storming of Ayan in Siberia concludes the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War.source
  • 1923The Yakut Revolt ends with the defeat of the White Army.source
  • 1924June 7–16 – Rudolf Steiner delivers his Agriculture Course at Koberwitz beginning of the organic agriculture movement.source
  • 1932Lausanne conference opens to discuss reparations, which Germany had not paid since the Hoover Moratorium of June 1931.source
  • 1932July 9 – Lausanne Conference of 1932 is held in Switzerlandsource
  • 1933Haim Arlosoroff (born 1899), Russian (Ukraine)-born left-wing Zionist leader, leader of the Labor Zionist movement in Palestine during the mandate period and head of the political department of the Jewish Agency. Assassinated.source
  • 1940The Churchill war ministry in the United Kingdom offers a Franco-British Union (inspired by Jean Monnet) to Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France, in the hope of preventing France from agreeing to an armistice with Germany, but Reynaud resigns when his own cabinet refuses to accept it.source
  • 1940The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held for the first time, in Sturgis, South Dakota.source
  • 1941WWII: British Fleet Air Arm aircraft sink the Vichy French destroyer Chevalier Paul off Syria.source
  • 1941All German and Italian consulates in the United States are ordered closed, and their staffs to leave the country by July 10.source
  • 1944At age 14, African-American teenage boy George Stinney Jr. becomes the youngest person ever executed by electric chair in the United States. His conviction was vacated 70 years later, in 2014, due to him not receiving a fair trial.source
  • 1946Night of the Bridges: Ten Palmach members blow up bridges across Palestine which link Palestine to the neighboring countries Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, and Egypt, in order to immobilize its transportation.source
  • 1947PS Waverley makes her maiden voyage on the Firth of Clyde.source
  • 1947A law is passed granting Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois management of the national railway network for 99 years.source
  • 1950Maracanã Stadium, which becomes a well-known sports venue of Brazil, opens in Rio de Janeiro, in advance of the opening of the 1950 FIFA World Cup in the country on June 24.source
  • 1952The ban on the female Ottoman dynasty members to enter Turkey was liftedsource
  • 1955Bombing of Plaza de Mayo: failed attempt by Argentine Naval Aviation to overthrow President Peronsource
  • 1958Imre Nagy and other leaders of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 are hanged for treason, following secret trials.source
  • 1961Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West at Paris–Le Bourget Airport while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.source
  • 1963Vostok 6 carries Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman into space.source
  • 1963Valentina Tereshkova, aboard Vostok 6, is the first woman in spacesource
  • 1963The first tree in Singapore is planted in Farrer Circus by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, which is a mempat tree.source
  • 1968Taça de Portugal Finalsource
  • 1972108 die as two passenger trains hit the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons, France.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
  • 1976The Soweto uprising in South Africa begins.source
  • 1978U.N. Security Council Resolution 430 was adopted and noted that, due to the existing circumstances, the presence of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus would continue to be essential for a peaceful settlement.source
  • 1979June 9–23 – The 1979 Cricket World Cup is held in England with West Indies defeating England in the final.source
  • 1980Jacob Talmon (born 1916), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli author and professor of modern history.source
  • 1984June 14–16 – voting days for the European Parliament electionsource
  • 1984The Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil is founded.source
  • 1988the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Estonia Karl Vaino was replaced by Vaino Väljas.source
  • 1989A crowd of 250,000 gathers at Heroes Square in Budapest for the historic reburial of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister who had been executed in 1958.source
  • 1991Father's Day bank massacre: Four security guards are shot to death during a bank robbery at the United Bank Tower in Denver, Colorado, United States. The former police officer subsequently charged with the crime is acquitted, and the case remains unsolved.source
  • 1993Bosnian Muslim refugees leave Croatia for Pakistan.source
  • 1995McDonald's opens its first restaurant in Romania, inside the Unirea S.A. building in Bucharest.source
  • 1995June 14–19 — Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisissource
  • 1995The IOC selects Salt Lake City to host the 2002 Winter Olympics.source
  • 1999Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated as the second president of South Africa, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive power in the country's post-democratization history.source
  • 1999SES launches its ninth satellite, Astra 1H.source
  • 2000June 16 census: Population: 428,079source
  • 2001SES Astra launches its Astra 2C satellite.source
  • 2001a bomb attack at a meeting of Bangladesh Awami League in Narayanganj results in the death of 22 peoplesource
  • 2007Kenyan football team is defeated by Eritrea, 0–1, at the African Nations cup qualifier in Asmara, Eritrea. Following the result, Kenya can not qualify for the finals.source
  • 2017Samoa becomes a Christian state. Article 1 of the Samoan Constitution states that “Samoa is a Christian nation founded of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”.source
  • 2018Seventeen people die in Caracas, Venezuela following the El Paraíso stampede after a tear gas canister is detonated in a crowded club.source
  • 2019A large-scale power outage hits Argentina, Uruguay and parts of Paraguay, affecting nearly 50 million people.source
  • 2020North Korea demolishes the Inter-Korean Liaison Office in Kaesong, established in 2018 to improve relations.source
  • 2021new passenger terminal opens at the Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport.source
  • 2025The headquarters of the state broadcaster IRIB in Tehran is bombed by Israel during a live broadcast, killing at least one person.source
  • 2025June 16–17 – The 51st G7 summit is held in Kananaskis, Canada.source

Births

  • 1139Emperor Konoe of Japan (died 1155)source
  • 1313Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet and writer (died 1375)source
  • 1332Isabella de Coucy, English princess, daughter of King Edward III of England (died 1379 or 1382)source
  • 1454Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples (died 1517)source
  • 1489Sibylle of Bavaria, Electress Palatine consort (died 1519)source
  • 1514John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (died 1557)source
  • 1583Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (died 1654)source
  • 1583Axel Oxenstierna, statesman (died 1654 in Sweden)source
  • 1591Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (died 1655)source
  • 1625Samuel Chappuzeau, French scholar (died 1701)source
  • 1644Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (died 1670)source
  • 1653James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon, English nobleman (died 1699)source
  • 1666Johan Conrad Ernst, architect (died 1750)source
  • 1723(baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist, philosopher (died 1790)source
  • 172316 June (5 June O.S.) – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (died 1790)source
  • 1792Major Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell surveyor and explorer.source
  • 1794María Trinidad Sánchez, heroine of the Dominican War of Independence (died 1846)source
  • 1807John Westcott, American surveyor and politician (died 1888)source
  • 1829Geronimo, indigenous American (Apache) leader (died 1909)source
  • 1858William D. Boyce, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (died 1929)source
  • 1863Francisco León de la Barrasource
  • 1869Muhammad Hussain Naini, Iranian Islamic scholar.source
  • 1882Mohammad Mosaddegh, former Prime Minister of Iran.source
  • 1912Enoch Powell, British politician (died 1998)source
  • 1967Jürgen Klopp, German former footballer and former manager of Liverpool F.C.source
  • 1971Tupac Shakur, African-American rapper and actor (died 1996)source
  • 1993Alex Len, basketball playersource

Deaths

  • 345Patriarch Gregory of Cappadociasource
  • 839Rorgon I, count of Maine (or 840)source
  • 840June 16 or 839 – Rorgon I, Frankish noblemansource
  • 924Li Cunshen, general of Later Tang (born 862)source
  • 956Hugh the Great, count of Paris, dies at Dourdan. He is succeeded by his eldest son Hugh Capet, who is recognized as Duke of the Franks by his cousin Lothair III, king of the West Frankish Kingdom.source
  • 956Hugh the Great, Frankish nobleman (born 898)source
  • 1026The Manju tsunami with waves of 10 m at modern-day Masuda, Shimane: more than 1,000 people are killed and 3,000 homes destroyed.source
  • 1047Poppo, archbishop of Triersource
  • 1056Leofgar (or Leovegard), English bishop of Hereford, killed in battlesource
  • 1097Wen Yanbo, Chinese grand chancellor (born 1006)source
  • 1106Benno, bishop of Meissen (born 1010)source
  • 1185Richeza of Poland, queen consort of Castile (born 1140)source
  • 1201Ibn al-Jawzi, Arab historian and philologist (born 1116)source
  • 1202Aymer (or Adhemar), count of Angoulêmesource
  • 1223The Mongol General Subutai withdraws eastward after the victory at the Battle of the Kalka River, after General Jebe has died.source
  • 1246Lutgardis (or Lutgarde), Flemish nun (born 1182)source
  • 1286Hugh de Balsham, English sub-prior and bishopsource
  • 1332Adam de Brome, founder of Oriel College, Oxfordsource
  • 1397Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (born 1358)source
  • 1424Johannes Ambundii, Archbishop of Rigasource
  • 1487John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (born c. 1463)source
  • 1555Pedro Mascarenhas, viceroy of Portuguese India dies (born 1470)source
  • 1685Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter (born 1660)source
  • 1722John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (born 1650)source
  • 1722John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, general (born 1650)source
  • 1743Louise Françoise, Princess of Condé, eldest daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan (born 1673)source
  • 1748Jean Philippe d'Orléans, illegitimate son of future French regent Philippe d'Orleans (born 1702)source
  • 1752Joseph Butler, English priest, theologian (born 1692)source
  • 1752Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal (born 1664)source
  • 1779Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, Colonial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay (born 1712)source
  • 1869Charles Sturt, Australian explorer (born 1795)source
  • 1897Antonina Hoffmann in Krakówsource
  • 1977Wernher von Braun, German-born American rocket scientist (born 1912)source
  • 1981Thomas Playford IV, 84, Australian politician, he was a member of the politically prominent Playford family, he served as the Premier of South Australia from 1938 until 1965, he had the longest tenure in office for a state or territory leader in Australian history; remaining in power for almost 27 years,his economic policies favored industrialization and economic growth, when Playford left office in 1965, South Australia's population had doubled from 600,000 in the late 1930s to 1.1 million, the highest proportionate rate among the states; the state'seconomy had done likewise, and personal wealth had increased at the same rate, second only to Victoria, during Playford's 27 years in power, employment in manufacturing in South Australia had increased by 173%; Western Australia was in second place with 155% growth, while the national average was during the period was 129%, heart attack. Playford had received medical treatment for heart disease since his first heart attack in June 1971source
  • 2014Tony Gwynn, 54, American Hall of Fame baseball player (San Diego Padres), salivary gland cancer.source
  • 2017Helmut Kohl, 87, German politician, Chancellor (1982–1998), Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate (1969–1976).source