June 22 Explained

Events

Pre-1600

• 217 BC  - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.^[1]
• 168 BC  - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.^[2]
• 813  - Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.^[3]
• 910  - The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).
• 1527  - Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of Jakarta.
• 1593  - Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.

1601–1900

• 1633  - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
• 1774  - The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
• 1783  - A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
• 1793  - Haitian Revolution: The Battle of Cap-Français ends with French Republican troops and black slave insurgents capturing the city.^[4]
• 1807  - In the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, the British warship attacks and boards the American frigate .
• 1812  - France declares war on Russia,^[5] starting Napoleon's invasion.
• 1813  - War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30km (20miles) journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
• 1839  - Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
• 1870  - The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
• 1893  - The Royal Navy battleship accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
• 1897  - British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
• 1898  - Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.^[6]

1901–present

• 1907  - The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
• 1911  - George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.^[7]
• 1911  - Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.^{[8] [9]}
• 1918  - The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
• 1922  - British Army Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson is killed by the Irish Republican Army helping to spark the Irish Civil War.^[10]
• 1940  - World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918.
• 1941  - World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
• 1942  - World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.
• 1942  - The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by U.S. Congress.
• 1944  - World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
• 1944  - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
• 1945  - World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end with an American flag-raising ceremony.^[11]
• 1948  - The ship brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.^[12]
• 1948  - King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India.^[13]
• 1962  - Air France Flight 117 crashes on approach to Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, killing 112 people.^[14]
• 1965  - The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed.^[15]
• 1966  - Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyen Cao Ky crushed the Buddhist Uprising.^{[16] [17]}
• 1969  - The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.^[18]
• 1978  - Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
• 1979  - Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.^[19]
• 1984  - Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.^[20]
• 1986  - The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century. Argentina wins 2–1 and later goes on to win the World Cup.
• 1990  - Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
• 2000  - Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.^[21]
• 2002  - An earthquake measuring 6.5 M_w strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
• 2009  - A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured.^[22]
• 2012  - Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
• 2012  - A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
• 2015  - The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All six of the gunmen are killed and 18 people are injured.
• 2022  - An earthquake occurs in eastern Afghanistan resulting in over 1,000 deaths.^[23]

Births

Pre-1600

• 662  - Rui Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 716)
• 916  - Sayf al-Dawla, founder of the Emirate of Aleppo (d. 967)
• 1000  - Robert I, duke of Normandy (d. 1035)
• 1373  - Elizabeth Bonifacia, heiress of Poland (d. 1399)
• 1427  - Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Italian writer and wife of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (d. 1482)
• 1450  - Eleanor of Naples, duchess of Ferrara (d. 1493)
• 1477  - Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, English nobleman (d. 1530)
• 1593  - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English landowner and Parliamentarian commander (d. 1671)

1601–1900

• 1680  - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister and theologian (d. 1754).^[24]
• 1684  - Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
• 1704  - John Taylor, English author and scholar (d. 1766)
• 1713  - John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (d. 1765)
• 1738  - Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813).^[25]
• 1757  - George Vancouver, English lieutenant and explorer (d. 1798).^[26]
• 1763  - Étienne Méhul, French pianist and composer (d. 1817).^[27]
• 1767  - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher, academic, and politician, Interior Minister of Prussia (d. 1835).^[28]
• 1792  - James Beaumont Neilson, Scottish engineer and businessman (d. 1865)
• 1805  - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian journalist and politician (d. 1872).^[29]
• 1820  - James Hutchison Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (d. 1909).^[30]
• 1834  - William Chester Minor, American surgeon and linguist (d. 1920)
• 1837  - Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
• 1837  - Ernst Ziller, German-Greek architect, designed the Presidential Mansion (d. 1923)
• 1844  - Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (d. 1906)
• 1845  - Tom Dula, American soldier (d. 1868)
• 1845  - Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906)^[31]
• 1850  - Ignác Goldziher, Hungarian scholar of Islam (d. 1921)^[32]
• 1855  - Samuel Morris, Australian cricketer (d. 1931)
• 1856  - Henry Rider Haggard, English novelist (d. 1925).^[33]
• 1861  - Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (d. 1914)
• 1864  - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician and academic (d. 1909)
• 1869  - Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch Politician and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1944)https://www.uni-muenster.de/NiederlandeNet/nl-wissen/personen/colijn.html
• 1871  - William McDougall, English psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
• 1873  - Filippo Silvestri, Italian entomologist and academic (d. 1949)
• 1874  - Walter Friedrich Otto, German philologist and scholar (d. 1958)
• 1876  - Pascual Díaz y Barreto, Mexican archbishop (d. 1936)
• 1879  - Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1962)
• 1880  - Johannes Drost, Dutch swimmer (d. 1954)
• 1884  - James Rector, American sprinter and lawyer (d. 1949)
• 1885  - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
• 1887  - Julian Huxley, English biologist and academic (d. 1975)
• 1888  - Harold Hitz Burton, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of Cleveland (d. 1964)
• 1889  - Joseph Cohen, British solicitor, property developer, cinema magnate and Jewish community leader (d. 1980)^{[34] [35]}
• 1890  - Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 1970)
• 1891  - Franz Alexander, Hungarian psychoanalyst and physician (d. 1964)
• 1892  - Robert Ritter von Greim, German general and pilot (d. 1945)
• 1894  - Bernard Ashmole, English archaeologist and art historian (d. 1988)
• 1896  - Leonard W. Murray, Canadian admiral (d. 1971)
• 1897  - Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (d. 1973)
• 1897  - Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist and philosopher (d. 1990)
• 1898  - Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss soldier and author (d. 1970)
• 1899  - Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer, invented Masking tape (d. 1980)
• 1899  - Michał Kalecki, Polish economist and academic (d. 1970)
• 1900  - Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract artist, filmmaker, and painter (d. 1967)

1901–present

• 1901  - Elias Katz, Finnish runner and coach (d. 1947)
• 1902  - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)
• 1903  - John Dillinger, American criminal (d. 1934)^[36]
• 1903  - Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
• 1906  - William Kneale, English logician and philosopher (d. 1990)
• 1906  - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American pilot and author (d. 2001)
• 1906  - Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1907  - Eriks Ādamsons, Latvian writer, poet, and novelist (d. 1946)
• 1909  - Katherine Dunham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2006)
• 1909  - Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Spanish princess and aristocrat (d. 2002)
• 1909  - Mike Todd, American producer and manager (d. 1958)
• 1910  - John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Indian-English lieutenant and mountaineer (d. 1998)
• 1910  - Anne Ziegler, English singer (d. 2003)
• 1910  - Konrad Zuse, German computer scientist and engineer, invented the Z3 computer (d. 1995)
• 1911  - Vernon Kirby, South African tennis player (d. 1994)
• 1912  - Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
• 1912  - Raymonde Allain, French model and actress (d. 2008)
• 1913  - Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet and author (d. 1989)
• 1914  - Mei Zhi, Chinese author and essayist (d. 2004)
• 1915  - Dolf van der Linden, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1999)
• 1915  - Cornelius Warmerdam, American pole vaulter and coach (d. 2001)
• 1915  - Randolph Hokanson, American pianist (d. 2018)
• 1915  - Thomas Quinn Curtiss, American writer, and film and theatre critic (d. 2000)
• 1916  - Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)
• 1916  - Richard Eastham, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1916  - Emil Fackenheim, German Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi (d. 2003)
• 1918  - Cicely Saunders, English nurse, social worker, physician and writer (d. 2005)
• 1918  - Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (d. 1993)^[37]
• 1919  - Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
• 1919  - Henri Tajfel, Polish social psychologist (d. 1982)
• 1919  - Clifton McNeely, American basketball player and coach (d. 2003)
• 1920  - James H. Pomerene, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 2008)
• 1920  - Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (d. 2016)^[38]
• 1921  - Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)
• 1921  - Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1921  - Radovan Ivšić, Croatian writer (d. 2009)
• 1921  - Barbara Perry, American actress (d. 2019)
• 1922  - Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Group (d. 2002)
• 1922  - Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (d. 1995)
• 1923  - José Giovanni, French-Swiss director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1924  - Christopher Booth, English clinician and historian (d. 2012)
• 1924  - Larkin Kerwin, Canadian physicist and academic (d. 2004)
• 1926  - George Englund, American film editor, director, producer and actor (d. 2017)
• 1926  - Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2014)
• 1927  - Anthony Low, Indian-English historian and academic (d. 2015)
• 1928  - Ralph Waite, American actor and director (d. 2014)
• 1929  - Bruce Kent, English activist and laicised Roman Catholic priest (d. 2022)
• 1930  - Yuri Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1998)
• 1930  - Walter Bonatti, Italian journalist and mountaineer (d. 2011)
• 1931  - Ruby Garrard Woodson, American educator and cultural historian (d. 2008)^[39]
• 1932  - Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Princess of Iran (d. 2001)^[40]
• 1932  - Yevgeny Kychanov, Russian orientalist, historian, and academic (d. 2013)
• 1932  - Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
• 1932  - June Salter, Australian actress (d. 2001)
• 1932  - Prunella Scales, English actress
• 1932  - John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, English businessman and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
• 1933  - Dianne Feinstein, American politician (d. 2023)^[41]
• 1934  - James Bjorken, American physicist, author, and academic
• 1936  - Kris Kristofferson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1936  - Ferran Olivella, Spanish footballer (d. 2023)
• 1936  - Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian accordion player and composer
• 1937  - Chris Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records
• 1937  - Bernie McGann, Australian saxophonist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1939  - Don Matthews, American-Canadian football player and coach (d. 2017)
• 1939  - Ed Paschke, Polish-American painter and academic (d. 2004)
• 1940  - Joan Busfield, English sociologist, psychologist, and academic
• 1940  - Hubert Chesshyre, English historian and author (d. 2020)
• 1940  - Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016)
• 1940  - Esther Rantzen, English journalist
• 1941  - Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
• 1941  - Terttu Savola, Finnish journalist and politician
• 1943  - Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor and director
• 1943  - Brit Hume, American journalist and author
• 1943  - J. Michael Kosterlitz, British-American physicist^[42]
• 1944  - Peter Asher, English singer, guitarist, and producer
• 1944  - Helmut Dietl, German director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1945  - Rainer Brüderle, German economist and politician, German Minister of Economics and Technology
• 1946  - Linda Bond, Canadian 19th General of The Salvation Army
• 1946  - Sheila Hollins, Baroness Hollins, English psychiatrist and academic
• 1946  - Eliades Ochoa, Cuban singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1946  - Józef Oleksy, Polish economist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2015)
• 1946  - Stephen Waley-Cohen, English journalist and businessman
• 1947  - Octavia E. Butler, American author (d. 2006)
• 1947  - Howard Kaylan, American pop-rock singer-songwriter and musician
• 1947  - Bruno Latour, French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist (d. 2022)^[43]
• 1947  - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
• 1947  - Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian lieutenant and politician, President of Ghana (d. 2020)
• 1948  - James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss, Scottish businessman
• 1948  - Todd Rundgren, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1949  - Larry Junstrom, American bass player (d. 2019)
• 1949  - Brian Leveson, English lawyer and judge
• 1949  - Alan Osmond, American singer and producer
• 1949  - Meryl Streep, American actress^[44]
• 1949  - Luís Filipe Vieira, Portuguese businessman
• 1949  - Lindsay Wagner, American actress
• 1949  - Elizabeth Warren, American academic and politician
• 1950  - Sharon Maughan, English actress
  • 1950  - Adrian Năstase, Romanian lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Romania 1950  - Greg Oliphant, Australian rugby league player
• 1950  - John Perdue, former West Virginia State Treasurer
• 1950  - Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
• 1950  - Tom Alter, Indian actor (d. 2017)
• 1951  - Brian Cookson, British cyclist and sports administrator
• 1951  - Craig Gruber, American bass player (d. 2015)
• 1951  - Humphrey Ocean, English painter and academic
• 1952  - Graham Greene, Canadian actor
• 1952  - Santokh Singh, Malaysian football player
• 1953  - Wim Eijk, Dutch cardinal
• 1953  - Mauro Francaviglia, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
• 1953  - Cyndi Lauper, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1953  - Bruce McAvaney, Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1954  - Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
• 1955  - Green Gartside, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955  - Christine Orengo, British academic and educator
• 1956  - Darryl Brohman, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1956  - Alfons De Wolf, Belgian cyclist
• 1956  - Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani agriculturist and politician, 25th Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1956  - Tim Russ, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1956  - Markus Schatte, German footballer, manager, and coach
• 1956  - Derek Forbes, Scottish bass player and guitarist
• 1957  - Danny Baker, English journalist and screenwriter
• 1957  - Garry Gary Beers, Australian bass player, songwriter, and producer
• 1957  - Kevin Bond, English footballer and manager
• 1957  - Michael Stratton, English geneticist and academic
• 1958  - Rocío Banquells, Mexican pop singer and actress^[45]
• 1958  - Bruce Campbell, American actor, director, producer and writer
• 1959  - Michael Kinane, Irish jockey
• 1959  - Nicola Sirkis, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959  - Daniel Xuereb, French footballer
• 1960  - Erin Brockovich, American lawyer and environmentalist
• 1960  - Margrit Klinger, German runner
• 1960  - Tracy Pollan, American actress
• 1961  - Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter
• 1962  - Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962  - Bobby Gillespie, Scottish musician and singer-songwriter
• 1962  - Clyde Drexler, American basketball player and coach
• 1962  - Gerald Hillringhaus, German footballer
• 1963  - Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 61st Yokozuna
• 1963  - John Tenta, Canadian-American wrestler (d. 2006)
• 1964  - Cadillac Anderson, American basketball player
• 1964  - Amy Brenneman, American actress
• 1964  - Dan Brown, American author and academic
• 1964  - Miroslav Kadlec, Czech footballer
• 1965  - Uwe Boll, German director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1965  - Ľubomír Moravčík, Czech footballer and manager
• 1966  - Michael Park, English racing driver (d. 2005)
• 1966  - Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
• 1966  - Dean Woods, Australian cyclist
• 1968  - Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player and coach
• 1968  - Miri Yu, Zainichi, Korean novelist
• 1971  - Gary Connolly, English rugby player
• 1971  - Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress and comedian
• 1971  - Kurt Warner, American football player and sportscaster
• 1972  - Damien Oliver, Australian jockey
• 1973  - Carson Daly, American radio and television host^[46]
• 1974  - Jo Cox, British politician (d. 2016)^[47]
• 1974  - Donald Faison, American actor^[48]
• 1974  - Vijay, Indian actor^[49]
• 1975  - Urmas Reinsalu, Estonian academic and politician, 28th Estonian Minister of Defence
• 1978  - Champ Bailey, American football player
• 1978  - Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (d. 2011)
• 1979  - Joey Cheek, American speed skater
• 1979  - Thomas Voeckler, French cyclist
• 1980  - Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1980  - Stephanie Jacobsen, Hong Kong-Australian actress
• 1981  - Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2017)
• 1981  - Aquivaldo Mosquera, Colombian footballer
• 1982  - Andoni Iraola, Spanish footballer
• 1982  - Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
• 1982  - Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
• 1983  - Allar Raja, Estonian rower
• 1984  - Dustin Johnson, American golfer
• 1984  - Rubén Iván Martínez, Spanish footballer
• 1984  - Jerome Taylor, Jamaican cricketer
• 1984  - Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player
• 1985  - Thomas Leuluai, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1987  - Danny Green, American basketball player
• 1987  - Lee Min-ho, South Korean actor, singer, model, creative director and businessman^[50]
• 1987  - Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer
• 1988  - Omri Casspi, Israeli basketball player
• 1989  - Cédric Mongongu, Congolese footballer
• 1989  - Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor^[51]
• 1990  - Sebastian Jung, German footballer
• 1991  - Hugo Mallo, Spanish footballer
• 1992  - Ura Kazuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992  - Harry Reid, British actor
• 1993  - Loris Karius, German footballer
• 1994  - Sebastien Haller, French footballer
• 1994  - Carlos Vinícius Santos de Jesus, Brazilian footballer
• 1996  - Mikel Merino, Spanish footballer
• 1999  - Sam Retford, Australian-English actor

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 207 BC  - Hasdrubal Barca, Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War (b. 245 BC)^[52]
• 431  - Paulinus of Nola, Christian bishop and poet (b. 354)
• 910  - Gebhard, Frankish nobleman
• 910  - Gerhard I, Frankish nobleman
• 947  - Qian Hongzuo, king of Wuyue (b. 928)
• 1017  - Leo Passianos, Byzantine general
• 1101  - Roger I of Sicily, Norman nobleman (b. 1031)
• 1276  - Innocent V, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1225)
• 1343  - Aimone, Count of Savoy (b. 1291)
• 1429  - Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
• 1521  - Leonardo Loredan, Italian politician, 76th Doge of Venice (b. 1436)^[53]
• 1535  - John Fisher, English bishop and saint (b. 1469)

1601–1900

• 1632  - James Whitelocke, English judge and politician, Chief Justice of Chester (b. 1570)
• 1634  - Johann von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (b. 1588)
• 1664  - Katherine Philips, Anglo-Welsh poet (b. 1631)
• 1699  - Josiah Child, English merchant, economist, and politician (b. 1630)
• 1714  - Matthew Henry, Welsh minister and author (b. 1662)
• 1766  - Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (b. 1696)^[54]
• 1828  - Lars Ingier, Norwegian road manager, land owner, and mill owner (b. 1760)^[55]
• 1868  - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)
• 1872  - Rudecindo Alvarado, Argentinian general (b. 1792)
• 1874  - Howard Staunton, English chess player (b. 1810)
• 1892  - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic (b. 1819)
• 1894  - Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop and missionary (b. 1823)

1901–present

• 1905  - Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
• 1913  - Ștefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet and translator (b. 1875)
• 1925  - Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 1928  - A. B. Frost, American illustrator and painter (b. 1851)
• 1931  - Armand Fallières, French politician, 9th President of France (b. 1841)
• 1933  - Tim Birkin, English racing driver and lieutenant (b. 1896)
• 1935  - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (b. 1866)
• 1936  - Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1882)
• 1938  - C. J. Dennis, Australian poet and author (b. 1876)
• 1940  - Monty Noble, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1873)
• 1942  - August Froehlich, German priest and activist (b. 1891)
• 1945  - Isamu Chō, Japanese general (b. 1895)
• 1945  - Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (b. 1887)
• 1956  - Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1959  - Hermann Brill, German educator and politician, 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (b. 1895)
• 1964  - Havank, Dutch journalist and author (b. 1904)
• 1965  - David O. Selznick, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1902)
• 1966  - Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (b. 1883)
• 1969  - Judy Garland, American actress and singer (b. 1922)^[56]
• 1970  - Đặng Thùy Trâm, Vietnamese surgeon and author (b. 1942)
• 1974  - Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator (b. 1892)
• 1977  - Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1977  - Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)
• 1979  - Louis Chiron, Monégasque race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1980  - Joseph Cohen, British solicitor, property developer, cinema magnate and Jewish community leader (b. 1889)^{[34] [57]}
• 1984  - Joseph Losey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1987  - Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer (b. 1899)
• 1988  - Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
• 1990  - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1993  - Pat Nixon, American educator, 37th First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
• 1995  - Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter (b. 1931)
• 1995  - Al Hansen, American sculptor and author (b. 1927)
• 1997  - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1997  - Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1919)
• 2003  - Vasil Bykaŭ, Belarusian war novelist (b. 1924)
• 2004  - Bob Bemer, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1920)
• 2004  - Mattie Stepanek, American poet and author (b. 1990)
• 2007  - Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1964)
• 2008  - Natalia Bekhtereva, Russian neuroscientist and psychologist (b. 1924)
• 2008  - George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author (b. 1937)
• 2008  - Dody Goodman, American actress and dancer (b. 1914)
• 2011  - Coşkun Özarı, Turkish footballer and coach (b. 1931)
• 2012  - Juan Luis Galiardo, Spanish actor and producer (b. 1922)
• 2013  - Henning Larsen, Danish architect, designed the Copenhagen Opera House (b. 1925)
• 2013  - Allan Simonsen, Danish race car driver (b. 1978)
• 2014  - Fouad Ajami, Lebanese-American author and academic (b. 1945)
• 2014  - Rama Narayanan, Indian director and producer (b. 1949)
• 2015  - James Horner, American composer and conductor (b. 1953)
• 2017  - Mao Kobayashi, Japanese newscaster and actress (b. 1982)
• 2017  - Quett Masire, Botswanan politician (b. 1926)
• 2018  - Vinnie Paul, American musician (b. 1964)^[58]
• 2022  - Bruton Smith, American racetrack promoter (b. 1927)^[59]
• 2022  - Yves Coppens, French anthropologist (b. 1934)^[60]
• 2023  - Harry Markowitz, American Nobel economist (b. 1927)^[61]

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Aaron of Aleth
  • Alban, first recorded Martyr in Britain (commemoration, Anglicanism)^[62]
  • Blessed Pope Innocent V
  • Eusebius of Samosata (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • John Fisher (Catholic Church)
  • Nicetas of Remesiana
  • Paulinus of Nola
  • Thomas More (Catholic Church)
  • June 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia)
• Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War (Belarus)^[63]
• Father's Day (Guernsey, Isle of Man, and Jersey)
• Teachers' Day (El Salvador)
• Windrush Day (UK)^[64]

External links

• Web site: On This Day . BBC.
  • Web site: Historical Events on June 22 . OnThisDay.com.

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