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June 25 in history

232 sourced entries recorded on June 25, from 253 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 253Pope Lucius I succeeds Pope Cornelius as the 22nd pope.source
  • 524Battle of Vézeronce: The Franks under Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I are defeated by the Burgundians and allied Ostrogoths near Isère (France), averting the Frankish advance into Burgundy. During the fighting Chlodomer is killed. Later Childebert annexes the cities of Chartres and Orléans.source
  • 841Battle of Fontenay: Frankish forces of Emperor Lothair I, and his nephew Pepin II of Aquitaine, are defeated by allied forces of King Louis the German, and his half-brother Charles the Bald, at Fontenoy (Eastern France), in a civil war among the three surviving sons of the former emperor Louis the Pious. A total of 40,000 men are killed, including the Frankish nobles Gerard of Auvergne and Ricwin of Nantes, fighting on the side of Charles.source
  • 1080Wibert of Ravenna is elected as Antipope Clement III during the pro-imperial Synod of Brixen. Pope Gregory VII is deposed, signed in a decree by Henry IV.source
  • 1183The Peace of Constance is signed, between Frederick Barbarossa and the Lombard League, forming the legal basis for the autonomy of the Italian city republics.source
  • 1243Pope Innocent IV succeeds Celestine IV as the 180th pope of the Catholic Church, after a sede vacante of 7 months.source
  • 1258Battle of Acre: The Genoese send an armada (some 50 galleys) to relieve the blockade at Acre and ask for the assistance of Philip of Montfort, lord of Tyre, and the Knights Hospitaller for a combined attack from the land side. The Genoese fleet's arrival takes the Venetians by surprise but the superior experience and seamanship result in a crushing Venetian victory, with half the Genoese ships lost. Later, the Genoese garrison is forced to abandon Acre.source
  • 1308Piers Gaveston is exiled for the second time by the Parliament, due to possible corruption and exploited personal gains. As compensation for the loss of the Earldom of Cornwall, which is another condition of his exile, Gaveston is granted land worth 3,000 marks annually in Gascony. Further to this, he is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland – so that a certain amount of honour can be maintained despite the humiliation of the exile. Gaveston is also threatened with ex-communication by Pope Clement V. Edward II accompanies him to Bristol, from where he sets sail for Ireland.source
  • 1314Edward II arrives at Dunbar Castle, and takes safely a ship to Bamburgh in Northumberland. His mounted escort takes the coastal route from Dunbar to Berwick.source
  • 1319Battle of the Vega of Granada: Castilian forces of 12,000 troops, led by the regents Don Pedro of Castile and Don Juan of Castile are defeated by a Moorish relief army at Granada during their attempt. Both regents are killed in the fighting. Pedro and Juan had summoned their Castilian vassals to assemble an expeditionary army in Córdoba, as part of an attempt to restore the deposed Sultan Nasr to the Granadan throne.source
  • 1350Great council at Kilkenny.source
  • 1392At a hearing at Nottingham Council concerning the Fleet Street riot, King Richard II of England orders that London's Mayor Hende is to be arrested, removed from office and imprisoned.source
  • 1398Zhu Yunwen succeeds his grandfather, Zhu Yuanzhang, as Emperor Ming dynasty China, bringing an end to the Hongwu Era and beginning the Jianwen era.source
  • 1401The Schaffhausen massacre of 30 Jewish residents, by burning, of the town of Schaffhausen takes place in Switzerland after the April 3 murder of 4-year-old Konrad Lori.source
  • 1421Prince Charles of Valois, the oldest son of King Charles VI and former Dauphin before being disinherited by his father, captures the English fortress at Gallardon and has the entire garrison executed for treason, and then retakes Chartres.source
  • 1431The Polish army invades the Principality of Volhynia, part of modern-day Ukraine, and captures much of the territory.source
  • 1436Scottish princess Margaret Stewart marries the future French king Louis XI in Tours.source
  • 1436The Incorporated Guild of Smiths in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) is founded.source
  • 1436Scottish princess Margaret Stewart marries the future Louis XI in Tourssource
  • 1439The Council of Basel formally declares that Pope Eugene IV is deposed.source
  • 1447Kazimieras Jogailaitis, Grand Duke of Lithuania since 1440, is crowned King of Poland as Casimir IV Jagiellon, bringing an end to an interregnum that had existed since 1444 when Casimir's brother King Wladyslaw III had left Poland to fight in a Crusade against the Ottoman Turks.source
  • 1455Prince João, the new son of King Afonso V of Portugal, is approved as the heir to the throne by the representatives of the three estates of the realm (nobility, clergy and bourgeoisie) in the Portuguese Cortes at Lisbon.source
  • 1483On the day of his scheduled coronation, 12-year-old King Edward V is deposed by his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who is acclaimed by the English Parliament as King Richard III.source
  • 1493Friar Bernardo Buil, a Catalan monk in Spain, is appointed by Pope Alexander VI as the first Christian "Vicar Apostolic of the New World". Friar Buil will depart from Cadiz on September 25 on the second voyage of Christopher Columbus, and will begin his mission at La Isabela, a Spanish settlement on the island of Hispanola in what becomes the Dominican Republic.source
  • 1503After his ships are damaged in a storm, Christopher Columbus and his 230 men are forced to beach at the island of Jamaica (at modern-day Saint Ann Parish) and remain stranded there for the next six months.source
  • 1521Suleiman the Magnificent begins the siege of Belgrade.source
  • 1530The Augsburg Confession is presented to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.source
  • 1532Suleiman the Magnificent leads another invasion of Hungary.source
  • 1571Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, is founded in Lincolnshire, England.source
  • 1572The Sea Beggars capture the city of Gorkum; several Roman Catholic priests are imprisoned.source
  • 1580The Book of Concord, a collection of Lutheran confessional documents, is published.source
  • 1600In England, a fire destroys much of the town of North Walsham, Norfolk, burning down 118 homes, 70 shops, and most of the stalls in the market square. The fire is traced to the home of one person who tries to flee town after the blaze begins. Many of the persons left homeless are given shelter at the St Nicholas Church.source
  • 1632Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia in succession to his father Susenyos, declares the state religion of the country again to be Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and confiscates the lands of the Jesuit missionaries, relegating them to Fremona.source
  • 163225 June ¬– Circular from the Infanta Isabella brands Bergh a traitor.source
  • 1633Beginning of Vincent de Paul’s regular Tuesday ecclesiastical conferences.source
  • 1647The "Remonstrance of The Army" is presented to the English parliament by former Royal Army supporters of King Charles I, pledging their loyalty to the new English Commonwealth.source
  • 1650Two Englishmen arrested as thieves escape from Het Steen in Antwerpsource
  • 1658June 25–27 – In the Battle of Rio Nuevo, part of the Anglo-Spanish War, a Spanish invasion force fails to recapture Jamaica from the English.source
  • 1669François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort, disappears in battle, during the siege of Candia in Crete.source
  • 1677June 25–26 – Scanian War: Siege of Malmö – Danish attackers fail to take the town from the Swedish.source
  • 1678Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to be awarded a university degree, a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Padua.source
  • 1681A royal decree provides for the first street lighting in Copenhagen. 500 street lights using whale oil are installed but are not to be lit on light summer nights or when the moon is out.source
  • 1682June 25 (June 15 O.S.) – Ivan V and Peter I are crowned as joint Tsars of Russia at the Cathedral of the Dormition in Moscow, with actual power exercised by their older sister, Sophia Alekseyevna for the next seven years.source
  • 1702The premiere of the opera L'Offendere per amore overo la Telesilla by Johann Joseph Fux takes place in Vienna.source
  • 1716With the Holy Roman Empire having been ceded the "Southern Netherlands" (modern Belgium) from Spain, Prince Eugene of Savoy arrives in Brussels as the first Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands. Eugene soon returns home and leaves administration of the area to a dictatorial Hercule-Louis Turinetti.source
  • 1720The "South Sea Bubble", the phenomenal growth of the South Sea Company, reaches its peak as South Sea stock is priced at £1,060 a share. By the end of September, as panic sales are made, the price falls to £150.source
  • 1720"South Sea Bubble" reaches its peak as South Sea Company stock is priced at £1,060 a share.source
  • 1726A fire breaks out in Viborg destroying more than 150 buildings.source
  • 1728The Treaty of Kyakhta is signed at the border city of Kyakhta, between Russia and China, by representatives of the Tsar Peter II, and the Emperor Yongzheng.source
  • 1731the Royal Dublin Society is founded by members of the Dublin Philosophical Society, chiefly Thomas Prior and Samuel Madden, as the "Dublin Society for Improving Husbandry, Manufactures and other Useful Arts and Sciences".source
  • 1733Ben and Samuel Burton's Dublin bank failure.source
  • 1735Engraving Copyright Act ('Hogarth's Act') takes effect on being given royal assent, the first of a series of copyright protection laws, to protect original engravings against unauthorized copies.source
  • 1735In Great Britain, the Engraving Copyright Act 1734, the first of a series of copyright protection laws, takes effect after being given royal assent by King George II.source
  • 1741Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen Regnant of Hungary in Bratislava.source
  • 1756The Marine Society is founded in London, the world's oldest seafarers' charity.source
  • 1756foundation of The Marine Society in London, the world's oldest seafarers' charity.source
  • 1757The Duke of Devonshire resigns as Prime Minister of Great Britain after being unable to conduct governmental affairs without William Pitt.source
  • 1757The 1755 rebellion against the Chinese Empire by Mongolian Oirat Prince Amursana is met by a Chinese army of 10,000 attackers against Amursana's 2,500 man force at their capital at Bor Tal. The rebels hold out until July 17.source
  • 1772June 23–28 – Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): First of two Russian occupations of Beirut, following a naval bombardment which began on June 18.source
  • 1783the Bank of Ireland opens for business in a former private residence at Mary's Abbey off Capel Street in Dublin and begins to issue notes.source
  • 1786Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.source
  • 1788The Virginia Ratifying Convention ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the tenth U.S. state under the new government.source
  • 1788Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 10th U.S. state under the new government (see History of Virginia).source
  • 1788Margaret Sullivan, a counterfeiter, becomes the penultimate woman in Britain to suffer a sentence of death by burning, in London (although she is in practice strangled before being burnt).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
  • 1794Burns sets out on his second Galloway tour.source
  • 1813Battle of Tolosa (1813)source
  • 1817A large riot breaks out in Copenhagen Prison, and the army is sent to quell it.source
  • 1836Køge Savings Bank is established.source
  • 1852The Murrumbidgee River flooded Gundagai, New South Wales killing 89 of the population of 250. The town was moved to higher ground. The flooding continued but no deaths occurred.source
  • 1855Marcus Thrane and 132 other members of the Labour Union was sentenced for crimes against the state security.source
  • 1865James Hudson Taylor founds the China Inland Mission at Brighton, England.source
  • 1876June 25/26 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 2,000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho, led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.source
  • 1876Indian Wars: Battle of the Little Bighorn – an army under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer is defeated by 1,500-2,500 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, suffering over 300 casualties.source
  • 1878The Kanak people of New Caledonia revolt against the French colonial government.source
  • 1886Arturo Toscanini makes his conducting debut, with an Italian opera company visiting Rio de Janeiro.source
  • 1888The Umeå city fire destroyed most of the city of Umeåsource
  • 1891Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine (London) for the first time, in the issue dated July.source
  • 1894Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic, meets British High Commissioner Sir Henry Loch in Pretoria to discuss the grievances of the Uitlanders.source
  • 1896Chilean presidential election, 1896source
  • 1900Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, where they have been sealed since the early 11th century.source
  • 1901Chilean presidential election, 1901source
  • 1905The Danish Navy training ship Georg Stage is accidentally sunk in port in Copenhagen after English steamship Ancona collides with it, killing 22 teenage recruits.source
  • 1910The ballet The Firebird, the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, is premièred in Paris, bringing the composer international fame.source
  • 1915Chilean presidential election, 1915source
  • 1915June 23 – July 7 – The First Battle of the Isonzo between the Armies of Italy and Austria-Hungary on the Italian Front in World War I. The aim of the Italian Army, under the command of Luigi Cadorna, was to drive the Austrians away from its defensive positions along the Soča (Isonzo) and on the nearby mountains.source
  • 1917the Juntas de Defensa made their manifesto public.source
  • 1921Fourth Palestine Arab Congress held in Jerusalem.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
  • 1921Rainfall ends a drought which has lasted for one hundred days.source
  • 1931June 23–July 1 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane, flying eastabout from Roosevelt Field, New York, in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.source
  • 1932India plays its first Test cricket match with England at Lord's.source
  • 1933Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegates convene in Berlin to protest against the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany.source
  • 1938Dr. Douglas Hyde takes office as the first President of Ireland.source
  • 1938Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act is signed into law by president Franklin D. Roosevelt.source
  • 1939Hermann Lang wins the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchampssource
  • 1940HMCS Fraser sinks in a collision in the Gironde estuary in France. 45 sailors die.source
  • 1941WWII: Finland (as a co-belligerent with Germany) attacks the Soviet Union, starting the Continuation War.source
  • 1941163rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) starts to travel through Sweden.source
  • 1945Muslim League and congress were invited to the Simla Conferencesource
  • 1946The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) (World Bank) begins operations.source
  • 1947The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is published for the first time as Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 14 juni 1942 – 1 augustus 1944 ("The Annex: Diary Notes from 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944") in Amsterdam, two years after the writer's death in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.source
  • 1950The Korean War begins: Troops and T-34 tanks of the North Korean People's Army cross the 38th parallel into South Korea.source
  • 1950The Korean War begins. Luxembourg pledges its support to the United Nations. Soldiers from Luxembourg will form a platoon of A Company, Belgian United Nations Command.source
  • 1952Romania signs a trade agreement with the Soviet Union.source
  • 1953Malaysian Chinese Association announced that it will end all welfare and social programs due to the Government's ban on lottery organized by political organization.source
  • 19531953 North Kyushu flood hit in Chikugo River, Kitakyushu and Kumamoto area, 1013 persons were human fatalities, 2775 persons were hurt, according to Japanese government official confirmed report.source
  • 1957The United Church of Christ is formed in Cleveland, Ohio, by the merger of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.source
  • 1958Presidential rule imposed in East Pakistansource
  • 1959The Ministry of National Development forms the Primary Production Department to better serve farmers and fishermen.source
  • 1961Iraqi president Abd al-Karim Qasim announces his intention to annex newly independent Kuwait (such an annexation will occur in 1990).source
  • 1962İsmet İnönü of the CHP forms the new government of Turkey (27th government, coalition partners; YTP and CKMP).source
  • 1962Engel v. Vitale: The United States Supreme Court rules that mandatory prayers in public schools are unconstitutional.source
  • 1962MANual Enterprises v. Day: The United States Supreme Court rules that photographs of nude men are not obscene, decriminalizing nude male pornographic magazines.source
  • 1965A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-135 Stratolifter bound for Okinawa crashes just after takeoff at MCAS El Toro in Orange County, California, killing all 85 on board.source
  • 1967400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles' song "All You Need Is Love".source
  • 1968June 23–30 – 1968 French legislative election: The Gaullist Union pour la défense de la République becomes the first party in French political history to obtain an absolute majority in the National Assembly. George Pompidou leads the party through the campaign but resigns as prime minister afterwards. The public unrest of May 68 subsides.source
  • 1972June 22–30 — Typhoon Ora strucks the Philippines and Southern China.source
  • 1973Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the 4th President of Ireland.source
  • 1974Temasek Holdings is formed to manage investments in government-linked companies (GLCs).source
  • 1975Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections.source
  • 1975For the first time in its history, the Miss Venezuela pageant is held at Poliedro de Caracas. The winner is Maritza Pineda, Miss Nueva Esparta.source
  • 1976Strikes start in Poland (Ursus, Radom, Płock) after communists raise food prices; they end on June 30.source
  • 1977Hyundai Mobis was founded, as predecessor name was Hyundai Precision & Industries.source
  • 1977The 1977 Rugby League World Cup culminates in Australia's 13–12 victory over Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground before about 24,450 spectators.source
  • 1978Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3–1 after extra time to win the 1978 FIFA World Cup.source
  • 1978The rainbow flag of the LGBT movement flies for the first time (in its original form) at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.source
  • 1979NATO Supreme Allied Commander Alexander Haig escapes an assassination attempt in Belgium by the Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization.source
  • 1980A Muslim Brotherhood assassination attempt against Syrian president Hafez al-Assad fails. Assad retaliates by sending the army against them.source
  • 1980A Muslim Brotherhood assassination attempt against President Hafez al-Assad fails. Assad retaliates by sending the army against them.source
  • 1983India wins the Cricket World Cup, defeating the West Indies by 43 runs.source
  • 1984Hayim Association is founded by Rina Zaizov Marx and parents of children with cancer as paediatric oncology department in Israel.source
  • 1988Dutch national soccer team wins UEFA Euro 1988 in West Germany.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
  • 1992The Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) is founded.source
  • 1993Kim Campbell becomes the 19th, and first female, Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1993The litas is introduced as the new currency of Lithuania.source
  • 1993Jacques Attali resigns as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.source
  • 1997An uncrewed spacecraft Progress M-34 collides with the Russian space station Mir.source
  • 1997A massive eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat leads to evacuation and eventual abandonment of the capital, Plymouth.source
  • 1999Bosnia and Herzegovina gets a new national anthem.source
  • 2002The WorldCom scandal breaks and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission begins its investigation into WorldCom.source
  • 2008Algeria is experiencing a shortage of 25 important medicines including those which treat blood pressure, gynecology, and heart disease.source
  • 2010The FAO and EU begin providing high quality seeds to Burkinabé farmers to combat food insecurity to at-risk regions.source
  • 2010June 22–25 – A tennis match between Nicolas Mahut and John Isner at the Wimbledon Championships, becomes the longest tennis match in history.source
  • 2013Emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani abdicates and his son Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani assumes power.source
  • 2017Bahrain officially issues Qatar a list of demands, including the cessation of relations with Iran, closure of a Turkish military base being constructed, suspend relations with groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and shut down Al Jazeera.source
  • 2017The World Health Organization estimates that the 2016–17 Yemen cholera outbreak has over 200,000 cases.source
  • 2017The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has more than 200,000 cases of Cholera.source
  • 2018June 22–July 1 – The 2018 Mediterranean Games are held in Tarragona, Spain.source
  • 2021Derek Chauvin is convicted and sentenced to 22 years and 6 months in prison, for the murder of George Floyd. Despite this, the civil unrest still goes on.source
  • 2023The June 2023 Greek legislative election is held; Kyriakos Mitsotakis becomes prime minister after his centre-right party, New Democracy, wins a majority of seats in the Greek parliament.source
  • 20232023 Guatemala City mayoral electionsource
  • 2024At least 24 people are reported killed following days of heavy rains and floods in Abidjan.source
  • 2025June 24–25 – A NATO summit is held at the World Forum in The Hague, Netherlands.source
  • 2025The Axiom Mission 4 is launched. The mission involves four astronauts, including the first astronauts from Poland (Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski) and India (Shubhanshu Shukla) since the end of the Cold War.source

Births

  • 1209Fujiwara no Shunshi, Japanese empress (died 1233)source
  • 1242Beatrice of England, English princess (died 1275)source
  • 1244Ibn al-Fuwati, Arab historian and writer (died 1323)source
  • 1328William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (died 1397)source
  • 1373Queen Joanna II of Naples (died 1435)source
  • 1441Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (1478–1484) (died 1484)source
  • 1456Henry V of Rosenberg, Bohemian nobleman (died 1489)source
  • 1484Bartholomeus V. Welser, German banker (died 1561)source
  • 1542Magnus, Duke of Östergötland, (died 1595)source
  • 1568Gunilla Bielke, Queen of Sweden (died 1597)source
  • 1736John Horne Tooke, English politician, philologist (died 1812)source
  • 1738Thomas Peters, black soldier and leader (died 1792)source
  • 1755Natalia Alexeievna (Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt), Tsarevna of Russia (died 1776)source
  • 1759William Plumer, American lawyer, Baptist lay preacher, and politician (died 1850)source
  • 1796Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, Emperor of Russia (died 1855)source
  • 1799David Douglas, Scottish-born botanist (died 1834)source
  • 1852Antoni Gaudí, Spanish modernist architect (died 1926)source
  • 1886Henry H. Arnold, American general, aviation pioneer (died 1950)source
  • 1900Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English naval officer and last Viceroy of India (assassinated) (died 1979)source
  • 1903George Orwell, English author (died 1950)source
  • 1943Carly Simon, American singer-songwritersource
  • 1954Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Statessource
  • 1961Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, writer, director, and singer in Seona Dancingsource
  • 1963George Michael, British singer-songwriter (died 2016)source
  • 1966Dikembe Mutombo, basketball playersource
  • 1978Virginia Karentzou, artistic gymnastsource
  • 2005Kylie Cantrall, American actress and singersource

Deaths

  • 524Chlodomer, king of the Frankssource
  • 635Gao zu, emperor of the Tang dynasty (born 566)source
  • 841Gerard of Auvergne, Frankish noblemansource
  • 841Ricwin of Nantes, Frankish noblemansource
  • 891Sunderolt, archbishop of Mainzsource
  • 931An Chonghui, general of Later Tangsource
  • 965Guy, margrave of Ivrea (born 940)source
  • 1014Æthelstan Ætheling, son of Æthelred the Unreadysource
  • 1031Sheng Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (born 972)source
  • 1134Niels (or Nicholas), king of Denmarksource
  • 1142William of Montevergine, Italian abbot (born 1085)source
  • 1218Simon de Montfort, French noblemansource
  • 1218Siege of Toulouse: During a counter-assault, Simon de Montfort is killed by a stone from one of the defender's siege engines. The leadership of the Albigensian Crusade falls to Simon's son Amaury de Montfort, who lifts the siege a month later. Raymond VI is restored as count of Toulouse after a popular rebellion.source
  • 1291Eleanor of Provence, queen consort of England (born 1223)source
  • 1317Henry of Harclay, English philosopher and chancellor (born 1270)source
  • 1319John of Castile, Spanish nobleman and prince (born 1262) — Battle of the Vega of Granadasource
  • 1319Peter of Castile, Spanish nobleman and prince (born 1290) — Battle of the Vega of Granadasource
  • 1337Frederick III of Sicily (born 1272)source
  • 1394Dorothea of Montau, German hermitess (born 1347)source
  • 1483Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (executed; b. 1442)source
  • 1514Suster Bertken Dutch anchorite (born 1426)source
  • 1522Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (born 1451)source
  • 1533Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII of France (born 1496)source
  • 1630Jacob Ulfeldt, politician (born 1567)source
  • 1634John Marston, English dramatist (born 1576)source
  • 1663John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, Anglican controversialist (born 1594)source
  • 1663John Bramhall, Archbishop (born 1594)source
  • 1671Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (born 1598)source
  • 1673Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, French soldier (born 1611)source
  • 1674Mauritia Eleonora of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and countess consort of Nassau-Siegen (born 1609)source
  • 1767Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (born 1681)source
  • 1822E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic author (born 1776)source
  • 1828Richard W. Meade, American merchant and art collector (born 1762)source
  • 1835Ebenezer Pemberton, American educator (born 1746)source
  • 1861Abdülmecid I, Ottoman sultan (born 1823)source
  • 1861Abdülmecid I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1839–1861) dies and is succeeded by Abdülaziz (1861–1876).source
  • 1874June 25–27 – Third Carlist War: Battle of Monte Muro – Carlist forces entrenched around Abárzuza, on the approach to Estella in Navarre, repel an attack by Isabelino/Liberal (supporters of Queen Isabella II) troops led by General Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha, Marqués del Duero, who is killed on the third day of fighting.source
  • 1876George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army general (killed in action) (born 1839)source
  • 1889Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (born 1831)source
  • 1912Louis-Joseph Antoine, Belgian miner and sect leadersource
  • 1956Ernest King, American Navy Fleet Admiral and Commander in Chief (born 1878)source
  • 1981Saleh Yousefi Kurdish politician.(b.1918)source
  • 1984Michel Foucault, 57, French philosopher, AIDSsource
  • 1986Jenifer Strait, 13, daughter of country music singer George Strait.source
  • 1990Ronald Gene Simmons, 49, American convicted spree killer, execution by lethal injection.source
  • 1999Fred Trump, 93, American real estate developer and father of Donald Trump, pneumonia.source
  • 2009The death of American pop star Michael Jackson triggers an outpouring of worldwide grief. Online, reactions to the event cripple several major websites and services, as the abundance of people accessing the web addresses pushes internet traffic to unprecedented and historic levels.source
  • 2009Michael Jackson, 50, American Hall of Fame singer ("Thriller", "Billie Jean", "Smooth Criminal") and dancer, nine-time Grammy winner, acute propofol intoxication.source