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June 19 in history

203 sourced entries recorded on June 19, from 129 CE to 2023 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 936At Laon, Louis IV, the 14-year old son of the late King Charles the Simple, is crowned King of West Francia after being recalled from Wessex by Hugh the Great, count of Paris. Hugh, whose father, King Robert I, was killed in battle near Soissons in 923, is given the title Duke of the Franks and becomes the second most powerful man in the West Frankish Kingdom. The crowning of Louis IV follows the death of King Rudolph I at Auxerre earlier in the year.source
  • 1097The Seljuk Turks surrender Nicaea to the Crusaders after a month siege. The Byzantines occupy the city; their commander Manuel Boutoumites is named by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos as doux of Nicaea. In the consternation the Crusaders are not allowed to plunder the city and are forced (again) to pledge their allegiance to Alexios.source
  • 1205Battle of Zawichost: Polish forces under High Duke Leszek the White defeat the Kievan army at Zawichost. During the ambush, Roman Mstislavich, Grand Prince of Kiev, is killed. He is succeeded by his two infant sons, Daniel and Vasilko. Their principalities are ruled by their mother Anna of Byzantium, but the boyars of Galicia–Volhynia forces her and the young princes into exile.source
  • 1214Roche-au-Moine is besieged by the English.source
  • 1269King Louis IX of France ("the Saint") orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. He also confiscates goods from the Jewish population to fund the Eighth Crusade.source
  • 1306Battle of Methven: Scottish forces (some 5,000 men) under Robert the Bruce are defeated by the English army at Methven. During the battle, the Scots are overwhelmed by a surprise attack on their camp. They are outnumbered, but Bruce manages to form a phalanx to break free. Finally, he is forced to retreat, leaving many of his followers dead or soon to be executed.source
  • 1306Battle of Methven: The forces of the Earl of Pembroke defeat Bruce's Scottish rebels.source
  • 1314English forces march to the environs of Edinburgh; here Edward II waits for the wagon train of over 200 baggage and supply wagons – which straggle behind the long columns, to catch up. At the nearby port of Leith, English supply ships land stores for the army – who will be well rested before the 35 mi march that will bring them to Stirling Castle, before the deadline of June 24.source
  • 1320Shepherds' Crusade: Unnerved by the prospect of the arrival of the shepherds at Avignon to begin a crusade, Pope John XXII orders their dispersal.source
  • 1333Ashikaga Takauji leads his army into Kyoto as part of the Kenmu Restoration.source
  • 1369At Ghent, Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and ruler of a realm that includes much of present-day Netherlands and Belgium, marries Margaret, daughter of Louis II of Flanders.source
  • 1454In Poland, Königsberg (now Kaliningrad in Russia) pledges its allegiance to Casimir IV with the city's Chancellor, Jan Taszka Koniecpolski, delivering the oath on behalf of the estates and cities of Lower Prussia.source
  • 1475After Queen consort Dorothea of Denmark visits Rome, Pope Sixtus IV issues a papal bull permitting King Christian I to establish a university in Denmarksource
  • 1487French–Breton War: The siege of the city of Nantes in the Duchy of Brittany is started by King Charles VIII of France, but fails after less than two months and is lifted on August 6.source
  • 1505Zhu Houzhao, the 13-year-old son of the late Hongzhi Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, is enthroned as the Zhengde Emperor upon his father's death.source
  • 1509Brasenose College, Oxford, is founded by a lawyer, Sir Richard Sutton, of Prestbury, Cheshire, and the Bishop of Lincoln, William Smyth.source
  • 1522Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor visits King Henry VIII of England, and signs the Treaty of Windsor, pledging a joint invasion of France, bringing England into the Italian War of 1521–1526.source
  • 1538Dissolution of the monasteries in England: The newly founded Bisham Abbey is dissolved.source
  • 1549In the war of the Rough Wooing between Scotland and England, a Scottish and French force commanded by André de Montalembert retakes the island of Inchkeith, killing more than 300 soldiers from the English Army.source
  • 1566Mary gives birth to her son James at Edinburgh Castle.source
  • 1588Twenty days after departing from Spain, the Spanish Armada receives a foreshadowing of disaster to come during the summer as a storm scatters part of the fleet, postponing the invasion. Alonso de Guzmán y Sotomayor, Duke of Medina Sidonia and commander of the Spanish expedition, returns the fleet to the port of Coruna for repairs, and writes a letter to King Philip, urging him to abandon plans for invasion of England, and to reach an honorable settlement, but the King refuses. The Spanish expedition resumes on July 21.source
  • 1629Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640): The six ships of Puritans, led by Francis Higginson in the Lyon's Whelp, arrive in America at Salem, to settle in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.source
  • 1631War of the Mantuan Succession: The Treaty of Cherasco is signed, ending the War of the Mantuan Succession.source
  • 1639Treaty of Berwick signed between the King and the Covenanters, ending the First Bishops' War.source
  • 1647The Duke of Ormond, the royalist governor of Dublin, concludes a treaty with the English Commonwealth's Earl of Anglesey, handing over control of Dublin to the Commonwealth in return for the English promise to protect the interests of royalists, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, who had not joined in the Irish Rebellion.source
  • 165519 June to 13 July – Siege of Landreciessource
  • 1667June 19–24 – The raid on the Medway in England is carried out when a fleet from the Dutch Republic under Admiral Michiel de Ruyter takes Sheerness fort, sails up the River Medway, raids Chatham Dockyard, and tows away the royal flagship The Royal Charles.source
  • 1673Thomas Osborne becomes Lord High Treasurer.source
  • 1676Massachusetts issues a declaration of amnesty to any Indian who surrenders.source
  • 1679Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1679)source
  • 1703Bavarian troops, who during the so-called Bavarian Rummel have invaded Tyrol, besiege Kufstein. Fires break out on the outskirts that engulf the town, destroy it and reach the powder store of the supposedly impregnable fortress. The enormous gunpowder supplies explode and Kufstein has to surrender on June 20. This same day the Tyrolese surrender in Wörgl; two days later Rattenberg is captured and Innsbruck is cleared without a fight on June 25.source
  • 1707The coronation of Muhammad Mu'azzam as the new Emperor of India, Bahadur Shah I, takes place in Delhisource
  • 1718A 7.5 earthquake shakes Tongwei County in China, killing 73,000 people.source
  • 1720At Burhanpur (in the modern-day Indian state of Madhya Pradesh), the Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad survives an attempted ambush by Mughal Empire forces dispatched by the Sayyid brothers (Syed Abdullah Khan and Syed Husain Ali Khan Barha) and goes on to establish a rival state in southern India.source
  • 1730At the urging of Sir William Gooch, the Virginia House of Burgesses passes the Virginia Tobacco Inspection Act to regulate the quality of tobacco in Virginia, 46 to 5.source
  • 1736A French Academy of Sciences expedition, led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in Torne Valley, Finland.source
  • 1736French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in Torne Valley of Finland.source
  • 1736Charles Cobbe, at this time Church of Ireland Bishop of Kildare, purchases the Newbridge Estate in County Kildare.source
  • 1750At a time when mountain climbing is still relatively uncommon, Eggert Ólafsson and Bjarni Pálsson scale their first peak, the 4,892 foot high Icelandic volcano, Hekla.source
  • 1754The Albany Congress of seven northern colonies proposes an American Union.source
  • 1756Confinement of prisoners in the Black Hole of Calcutta.source
  • 1760The British create Cumberland County and Lincoln County in Maine.source
  • 1767The last of several animals (probably wolves) to be known over the past 3 years as the Beast of Gévaudan is shot.source
  • 1775The post of Commanding General is created by the Continental Congress.source
  • 1794June 17 - June 26 – Battle of Fleurus: The Austrians and their allies are defeated by France, leading to the loss of the Austrian Netherlands.source
  • 1799June 17–19 - Battle of Trebbia (1799)source
  • 1800War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Höchstädt – General Jean Victor Marie Moreau leads French forces to victory, opening the Danube passageway to Vienna.source
  • 1800War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Höchstädt – General Jean Victor Marie Moreau leads French forces to victory, opening the Danube passageway to Vienna.source
  • 1808Finnish War: A second landing of Swedish troops at Ala-Lemu fails.source
  • 1811The first Methodist Association for the ordination of new ministers is held at Llandeilo. Thomas Charles plays a leading role. The Presbyterian Church of Wales thus secedes from the Church of England.source
  • 1811The Carlton House Fête is held at the Prince Regent's London residence Carlton House to celebrate the establishment of the Regency era.source
  • 1811The Carlton House Fête is held at Carlton House in London. A costly and extravagant event it celebrated the beginning of the Regency era.source
  • 1816Battle of Seven Oaks: The Hudson's Bay Company is defeated by the North West Company, near Winnipeg, Canada.source
  • 1816After several years of harassment, sabotage, and minor skirmishes between members of the Hudson's Bay and North West Companies, a full-scale battle (today known at Battle of Seven Oaks) breaks out between parties led by Cuthbert Grant and Robert Semple. The Hudson's Bay men, instigators of the confrontation though outnumbered nearly three to one, suffer 21 deaths, while Grant's party suffers two deaths, one Métis and one Native. The battle is frequently cited as a seminal moment in the history of the Métis people.source
  • 1826Tories under Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool win a substantial increased majority over the Whigs in the general election.source
  • 1828The Llanelly Dock is established by Act of Parliament.source
  • 1829Adam Oehlenschläger is publicly crowned with laurel by the Swedish poet Esaias Tegner in front of the high altar in Lund Cathedral, as the "Scandinavian King of Song.". The event cements his position as the leading proponent of Romanticism in the region and at the same time heralds the emergence the Scandinavismmovement.source
  • 1829Robert Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police Service in London, the first modern police force. The first officers, known by the nickname "bobbies", go on patrol on September 29.source
  • 1829Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police Act establishes the Metropolitan Police Service.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
  • 1850Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.source
  • 1858A six-minute earthquake destroys much of Mexico City and devastates Texcoco.source
  • 1864American Civil War: Battle of Cherbourg – Confederate States Navy CSS Alabama is sunk in a single-ship action with USS Kearsarge, in the English Channel off the coast of the Cotentin Peninsula, France.source
  • 1865American Civil War: Union Major General Gordon Granger lands at Galveston, Texas, and informs the people of Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation (an event celebrated in modern times each year as Juneteenth).source
  • 1867A firing squad executes Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and two of his lieutenants.source
  • 1867Maximilian I of Mexico, 2nd emperor of Mexico, 1864-1867; executed (born 1832)source
  • 1871Charles Gavan Duffy assumes office as Premier of Victoria.source
  • 1876Jászkunság, the last remnant of Kunság within Austria-Hungary, is disestablished.source
  • 1888In Chicago, the Republican Convention opens at the Auditorium Building. Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton win the nominations for President and Vice President of the United States, respectively.source
  • 1898Food processing giant Nabisco is founded in Chicago by merger as the National Biscuit Company.source
  • 1899Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations are premiered in London.source
  • 1903Caernarfon earthquake.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
  • 1913The Parliament of South Africa passes the Natives Land Act, limiting land ownership for blacks to black territories.source
  • 1913The Natives Land Act is passed, limiting land ownership for blacks to black territories.source
  • 1915In Iceland, at this time a dependency of Denmark, women's suffrage is granted to those over 40.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
  • 1921C.D. El Vencedor, a Salvadoran football club, was established.source
  • 1926King Roger, an opera about Roger II of Sicily by Karol Szymanowski, is premiered at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw.source
  • 19301930 Alberta general election: Premier John Brownlee's United Farmers of Alberta win a third consecutive majoritysource
  • 1931The Geneva Convention (1929) relative to the treatment of prisoners of war enters into force.source
  • 1931In an attempt to stop the banking crisis in Central Europe from causing a worldwide financial meltdown, U.S. President Herbert Hoover issues the Hoover Moratorium.source
  • 1936The total solar eclipse of June 19, 1936 is visible in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Japan. It is part of Solar Saros 126; Gamma is a value of 0.53889.source
  • 1936Per Albin Hansson resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden, over the issue of defence policy. He is replaced by the leader of the Farmer's League (Bondeförbundet) Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, who also becomes Minister of Agriculture.source
  • 1938Italy beats Hungary 4–2, to win the 1938 FIFA World Cup.source
  • 1938Italy wins the FIFA World Cup by defeating Hungary, 4–2, in the final game at the Stade Olympique de Colombes in Paris, France.source
  • 1943Jackie Paterson wins the world flyweight boxing title by a knockout in the first minute at Hampden Park in Glasgow.source
  • 19451945 El Teniente mining accident;355 workers die from carbon monoxide emissions. It is considered the largest accident in a metallurgical mine in the world.source
  • 1948A state of emergency was declared in Malaya following Communist rebellions.source
  • 1949Glenn Dunaway wins the inaugural NASCAR Cup Series race at Charlotte Speedway, a 3/4 mile oval in Charlotte, North Carolina, but is disqualified due to illegal springs. Jim Roper is declared the official winner.source
  • 1950Empresa Nacional del Petróleo is created.source
  • 1952The Special Forces (United States Army) are created.source
  • 1955Minister for Trade and Customs, Senator O'Sullivan confirms the federal government has abandoned with control of tea with merchants now free to resume private trading of tea making their own arrangements with tea producing countries.source
  • 1963Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, returns to Earth, landing in the Soviet Union.source
  • 1965Houari Boumediene's Revolutionary Council ousts Ahmed Ben Bella, in a bloodless coup in Algeria.source
  • 1967Bjørn Dæhlie, cross-country skier and businessman.source
  • 1969The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that equal pay for women doing the same work as men must be phased in by 1972.source
  • 1970The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed into international law, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.source
  • 1972TV Pendidikan, Malaysia's first and only educational TV network was officially launched.source
  • 1972June 14–23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.source
  • 1978Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.source
  • 1978Ian Botham takes 8-34 vs. Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling.source
  • 1978England cricketer Ian Botham becomes the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match.source
  • 1979June 9–23 – The 1979 Cricket World Cup is held in England with West Indies defeating England in the final.source
  • 1983Simha Erlich (born 1915), Polish-born Israeli politician.source
  • 1983June 18–19 – The team of Vern Schuppan, Al Holbert and Hurley Haywood wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans.source
  • 198417-year-old Ricky Kasso murders Gary Lauwers in Northport, New York, contributing to the Satanic panic association of heavy metal music and satanism.source
  • 19851985 Zona Rosa attackssource
  • 1987Hipercor bombing: the Basque terrorist group ETA perpetrate a car-bomb attack at an Hipercor market in Barcelona, killing 21 and wounding 45.source
  • 1987Teddy Seymour is officially designated the first black man to sail around the world, when he completes his solo sailing circumnavigation in Frederiksted, St. Croix, of the United States Virgin Islands.source
  • 1987Edwards v. Aguillard: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that a Louisiana law requiring that creation science be taught in public schools whenever evolution is taught is unconstitutional.source
  • 1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian and 8 U.S. cities.source
  • 1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting three Canadian and eight U.S. cities.source
  • 1990The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic holds its inaugural conference in Moscow.source
  • 1993June 18–20: Tropical Storm Beatriz (1993)source
  • 1994Ernesto Samper is elected President of Colombia.source
  • 1995June 14–19 — Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisissource
  • 1999Turin, Italy, is awarded the 2006 Winter Olympics.source
  • 2001Germany enacts a program to compensate Holocaust survivors that were subject to slave labor.source
  • 2001Royal Ulster Constabulary officers intervene to protect Catholic schoolchildren and their parents from Ulster loyalist stone throwers while entering their school in Ardoyne, marking the beginning of the Holy Cross dispute.source
  • 2003The retired's welfare administration, PAMI, is placed under temporal state surveillance to investigate corruption.source
  • 2009War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan.source
  • 2010Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westlingsource
  • 2014Felipe VI becomes King of Spain upon the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos I.source
  • 2016US Gorée won the Senegal Premier League football championshipsource
  • 2018The United States announces it will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.source
  • 2018Canada becomes the first major industrialised country to legalise cannabis for recreational use. The Bill which legalises cannabis took effect on October 17.source
  • 2019Four men are charged with murdering the 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, an airliner shot down while flying over Eastern Ukraine in July 2014.source
  • 2022The second round of the 2022 legislative election is held in France, resulting in a hung parliament, with President Macron's coalition losing its majority in the National Assembly. A newly-formed coalition of left-wing parties, led by far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon, makes significant gains. Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally also makes historic gains, increasing its number of MPs tenfold and becoming the largest opposition party in Parliament. Two weeks later, Macron's government is reshuffled, continuing as a minority administration.source
  • 2022The second round of the 2022 Colombian presidential election is held, and former guerrilla fighter for the 19th of April Movement and incumbent senator, Gustavo Petro, defeats businessman and former mayor of Bucaramanga, Rodolfo Hernández Suárez.source
  • 2023Qatar and the United Arab Emirates announce that they will restore diplomatic relations after relations were suspended during the Qatar diplomatic crisis.source
  • 2023At least two people were confirmed dead, and many others injured in a stampede during a qualifier game for the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations in Cotonou, Benin.source

Births

  • 1282Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn, princess of Wales (died 1337)source
  • 1301Morikuni, Japanese prince, shogun and puppet ruler (died 1333)source
  • 1417Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini (died 1468)source
  • 1566King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (died 1625)source
  • 1566James VI and I, King of Scotland from 1567 and King of England and Ireland from 1603 (died 1625 in England)source
  • 1590Philip Bell, British colonial governor (died 1678)source
  • 1595Guru Har Gobind, the Sixth Sikh Guru (died 1644)source
  • 1598Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1663 until his death (died 1677)source
  • 1606James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish politician and noble (died 1649)source
  • 1608June 19 (bapt.) – Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (died 1661)source
  • 1623Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (died 1662)source
  • 1698Weliwita Sri Saranankara Thero, Last Sangharaja of Sri Lanka (died 1778)source
  • 1721Johann de Kalb, Bavarian-French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (died 1780)source
  • 1764José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan hero of independence (died 1850)source
  • 1783Friedrich Sertürner, German pharmacist who discovered morphine in 1804 (died 1841)source
  • 1795James Braid, Scottish surgeon, hypnotism pioneer (died 1860)source
  • 1816William Henry Webb, American industrialist, philanthropist (died 1899)source
  • 1834Charles Spurgeon, English Baptist preacher (died 1892)source
  • 1861José Rizal, Filipino national hero (died 1896)source
  • 1865Alfred Hugenberg, German businessman, politician (died 1951)source
  • 1896Wallis Simpson, American-born Duchess of Windsor (died 1986)source
  • 1903Wally Hammond, English cricketer (died 1965)source
  • 1903Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (died 1941)source
  • 1909Osamu Dazai, writer (died 1948)source
  • 1937Li Kuei-hsien, author and poetsource
  • 1945Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar politician and poet, Nobel Peace Prize recipientsource
  • 1947Salman Rushdie, Indian-born British author (The Satanic Verses)source
  • 1964Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2019–2022source

Deaths

  • 129Justus of Alexandria, Egyptian patriarchsource
  • 274Xun Yi (or Jingqian), Chinese official and politiciansource
  • 404Huan Xuan, warlord and emperor of the Jin Dynasty (born 369)source
  • 626Soga no Umako, leader of the Soga clansource
  • 930Xiao Qing, chancellor of Later Liang (born 862)source
  • 1052Fan Zhongyan, chancellor of the Song dynasty (born 989)source
  • 1085Vitalis of Bernay, Norman monk and abbotsource
  • 1205Roman Mstislavich, Kievan prince (born 1152)source
  • 1207Ubaldo Lanfranchi, Italian archbishopsource
  • 1248Otto III of Merania, French nobleman and knightsource
  • 1282Eleanor de Montfort, princess of Wales (born 1252)source
  • 1285Yekuno Amlak, Ethiopian ruler (House of Solomon)source
  • 1312One month after surrendering Scarborough Castle to the Earl of Pembroke and having his life spared, Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall is executed at Blacklow Hill after having been taken hostage by Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick and put in a dungeon at Warwick Castle.source
  • 1312Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English nobleman and knight (born 1284)source
  • 1323Mechthild of Nassau, German noblewoman and princesssource
  • 1341Juliana Falconieri, Italian saint (born 1270)source
  • 1364Elisenda of Montcada, queen consort and regent of Aragon (born 1292)source
  • 1500Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, English nobleman (born 1499)source
  • 1507Jean-François de la Trémoille, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (b.1465)source
  • 1517Luca Pacioli, Mathematician, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci and 'father of accounting' (born c. 1447)source
  • 1535Sebastian Newdigate, Carthusian monk and martyr (born 1500)source
  • 1542Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (born 1482)source
  • 1608Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (born 1551)source
  • 1678Benedict Arnold, Rhode Island colonial governor (born 1615)source
  • 1697Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, English diplomat (born 1621)source
  • 1716The new Tokugawa Shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshimune, assumes control of the monarchy's military after the illness and death of the six-year-old Ietsugu, last of the male descendants of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Yoshimune's ascendancy begins Year 1 of the Kyōhō Era, which continues until Year 21 in 1736.source
  • 1747Nader Shah, Persian leader (born 1688)source
  • 1778Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian operatic soprano (born 1696)source
  • 1786Nathanael Greene, major general in the Continental Army, 3rd Quartermaster General (born 1742)source
  • 1786Nathanael Greene, major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (born 1742)source
  • 1794Richard Henry Lee, 12th president of the Confederation Congress. signatory of the Continental Association, Declaration of Independence, and United States Constitution (born 1732)source
  • 1808Alexander Dalrymple, who had strongly opposed the establishment of New South Wales in A Serious Admonition to the Public on the Intended Thief-Colony at Botany Bay (London, 1786).source
  • 1811Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1741)source
  • 1820Sir Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist (born 1743)source
  • 182019 June (in England): Joseph Banks, naturalist on Cook's first voyage.source
  • 1856Ventura Blanco Encalada (born 1782)source
  • 1867Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (executed) (born 1832)source
  • 1884Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine politician, writer and main Constitution promoter (born 1810)source
  • 1919Petre P. Carp, twice Prime Minister of Romania (born 1837)source
  • 1926Meir Pa'il, Israeli politician and Palmach officer (died 2015).source
  • 1949Syed Zafarul Hasan, Muslim philosopher (born 1885)source
  • 1953Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communist spies (born 1918 and 1915, respectively) (executed on same day)source
  • 2013James Gandolfini, 51, American actor (The Sopranos, In the Loop, Crimson Tide), Emmy winner (2000, 2001, 2003), heart attack.source