June 26

June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
• 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
• 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
• 687 – Pope Benedict II chosen.
• 699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
• 1243 – Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.
• 1295 – Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.
• 1407 – Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
• 1409 – Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
• 1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
• 1483 – Richard III becomes King of England.
• 1522 – Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.
• 1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
• 1579 – Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
• 1718 – Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
• 1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
• 1740 – A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
• 1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
• 1830 – William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
• 1843 – Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".
• 1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
• 1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
• 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
• 1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
• 1889 – Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
• 1906 – The first Grand Prix motor racing event held.
• 1907 – The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery takes place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
• 1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• 1917 – The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
• 1918 – World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
• 1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
• 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
• 1934 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
• 1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
• 1940 – World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
• 1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
• 1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
• 1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
• 1948 – The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
• 1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
• 1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
• 1952 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
• 1953 – Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
• 1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
• 1959 – Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
• 1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
• 1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
• 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
• 1963 – Levi Eshkol becomes the Israeli Prime Minister.
• 1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
• 1973 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome nine people are killed in an explosion of a Kosmos-3M rocket.
• 1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
• 1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
• 1977 – The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.
• 1977 – Elvis Presley performs the final concert of his life in Indianapolis.
• 1978 – Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
• 1991 – Ten-Day War: The Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
• 1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
• 1995 – Attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa.
• 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 2000 – President Clinton announces the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome.
• 2000 – Pope John Paul II reveals the third secret of Fátima.
• 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
• 2004 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is re-elected as President of Iceland.
• 2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
• 2007 – Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive 2/3 of the votes.
• 2008 – Karmah Bombing: A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
• 2012 – The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
• 2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 2013 – Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injuring 21 others.
• 2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges declares that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Births

• 1501 – Cho Shik, Korean poet and scholar (d. 1572)
• 1575 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (d. 1612)
• 1681 – Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (d. 1708)
• 1689 – Edward Holyoke, American pastor and academic (d. 1769)
• 1694 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
• 1699 – Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French businesswoman (d. 1777)
• 1702 – Philip Doddridge, English hymn-writer and educator (d. 1751)
• 1703 – Thomas Clap, American minister and academic (d. 1767)
• 1726 – Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (d. 1796)
• 1730 – Charles Messier, French astronomer and academic (d. 1817)
• 1764 – Jan Paweł Łuszczewski, Polish politician (d. 1812)
• 1786 – Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet and author (d. 1855)
• 1796 – Jan Paweł Lelewel, Polish painter and engineer (d. 1847)
• 1798 – Wolfgang Menzel, German poet and critic (d. 1873)
• 1817 – Branwell Brontë, English painter and poet (d. 1848)
• 1819 – Abner Doubleday, American general (d. 1893)
• 1821 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian soldier, journalist, and politician, 6th President of Argentina (d. 1906)
• 1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
• 1835 – Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (d. 1896)
• 1839 – Sam Watkins, American soldier and author (d. 1901)
• 1852 – Daoud Corm, Lebanese painter (d. 1930)
• 1854 – Robert Laird Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937)
• 1865 – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-American historian and author (d. 1959)
• 1866 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and banker (d. 1923)
• 1869 – Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish journalist and author (d. 1954)
• 1880 – Mitchell Lewis, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1881 – Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli linguist, poet, and playwright (d. 1960)
• 1885 – Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (d. 1950)
• 1892 – Pearl S. Buck, American author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• 1893 – Dorothy Fuldheim, American journalist and author (d. 1989)
• 1895 – George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (d. 1950)
• 1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German engineer and businessman (d. 1978)
• 1898 – Chesty Puller, American general (d. 1971)
• 1899 – Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1901 – Stuart Symington, American lieutenant and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Air Force (d. 1988)
• 1902 – Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor and educator (d. 2010)
• 1903 – Big Bill Broonzy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1958)
• 1904 – Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (d. 1951)
• 1904 – Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor and singer (d. 1964)
• 1905 – Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (d. 1985)
• 1906 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (Lecuona Cuban Boys) (d. 1974)
• 1906 – Viktor Schreckengost, American sculptor and educator (d. 2008)
• 1907 – Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1908 – Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (d. 1973)
• 1909 – Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-American talent manager (d. 1997)
• 1909 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (d. 1985)
• 1911 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American golfer and basketball player (d. 1956)
• 1911 – Bronisław Żurakowski, Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2009)
• 1913 – Aimé Césaire, French poet, author, and politician (d. 2008)
• 1913 – Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist and physicist (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Kathryn Johnston, American shooting victim (d. 2006)
• 1914 – Laurie Lee, English author and poet (d. 1997)
• 1915 – Paul Castellano, American mob boss (d. 1985)
• 1915 – Charlotte Zolotow, American author and poet (d. 2013)
• 1916 – Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (d. 1988)
• 1916 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian actor and singer (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Richard Neustadt, American political scientist and academic (d. 2003)
• 1920 – Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Violette Szabo, French secret agent (d. 1945)
• 1922 – Walter Farley, American author (d. 1989)
• 1922 – Eleanor Parker, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Dick Smith, American make-up artist (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Franz-Paul Decker, German conductor (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955)
• 1924 – Kostas Axelos, Greek-French philosopher and author (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Pavel Belyayev, Russian soldier, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1970)
• 1925 – Wolfgang Unzicker, German chess player (d. 2006)
• 1927 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author and poet (d. 2011)
• 1928 – Jacob Druckman, American composer and academic (d. 1996)
• 1928 – Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
• 1929 – Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer and author (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Milton Glaser, American illustrator and graphic designer
• 1930 – Jackie Fargo, American wrestler and trainer (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Colin Wilson, English philosopher and author (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor and politician (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Gene Green, American baseball player (d. 1981)
• 1934 – Dave Grusin, American pianist and composer
• 1935 – Carlo Facetti, Italian race car driver
• 1935 – Dwight York, American singer (Passion)
• 1936 – Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (d. 2014)
• 1936 – Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart, Scottish politician
• 1936 – Edith Pearlman, American author
• 1936 – Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Nancy Willard, American author and poet
• 1937 – Sombat Metanee, Thai actor and director
• 1937 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Reggie Workman, American bassist and composer (The Jazz Messengers)
• 1938 – Neil Abercrombie, American sociologist and politician, 7th Governor of Hawaii
• 1938 – Billy Davis, Jr., American singer (The 5th Dimension)
• 1938 – Margret Göbl, German figure skater (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Gerald North, American climatologist and academic
• 1939 – Chuck Robb, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th Governor of Virginia
• 1941 – Yves Beauchemin, Canadian author and academic
• 1942 – J.J. Dillon, American wrestler and manager
• 1942 – Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and politician, Brazilian Minister of Culture
• 1943 – John Beasley, American actor
• 1943 – Georgie Fame, English singer and pianist (Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings)
• 1943 – Warren Farrell, American author and educator
• 1944 – Arthur Doyle, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and flute player (d. 2014)
• 1944 – Wolfgang Weber, German footballer and manager
• 1944 – Gennady Zyuganov, Russian colonel and politician
• 1946 – Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author (d. 2015)
• 1949 – Adrian Gurvitz, English singer-songwriter and producer (The Gun, Baker Gurvitz Army, and Three Man Army)
• 1950 – Jaak Joala, Estonian singer (d. 2014)
• 1951 – Pamela Bellwood, American actress
• 1951 – Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager (d. 2014)
• 1952 – Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1952 – Greg Palast, American journalist and author
• 1953 – Robert Davi, American actor, singer, and director
• 1954 – Steve Barton, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2001)
• 1955 – Mick Jones, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, General Public, Carbon/Silicon, and London SS)
• 1955 – Dick Mol, Dutch paleontologist and author
• 1955 – Gedde Watanabe, American actor
• 1956 – Chris Isaak, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1956 – Patrick Mercer, English colonel and politician
• 1957 – Al Hunter Ashton, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1957 – Philippe Couillard, Canadian surgeon and politician, 31st Premier of Quebec
• 1957 – Patty Smyth, American singer-songwriter (Scandal)
• 1958 – Riho Sibul, Estonian singer and guitarist (Ultima Thule and Propeller)
• 1959 – Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1960 – Mark Durkan, Irish politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
• 1961 – Greg LeMond, American cyclist
• 1961 – Terri Nunn, American singer and actress (Berlin)
• 1962 – Jerome Kersey, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1963 – Richard Garfield, American game designer, created Magic: The Gathering
• 1963 – Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian-Swiss businessman and philanthropist
• 1963 – Mark McClellan, American economist and politician
• 1963 – Harriet Wheeler, English singer-songwriter (The Sundays)
• 1964 – Tommi Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver
• 1966 – Dany Boon, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Yūko Minaguchi, Japanese voice actress
• 1966 – Jürgen Reil, American drummer (Kreator)
• 1967 – Inha Babakova, Ukrainian high jumper
• 1967 – Olivier Dahan, French director and screenwriter
• 1967 – Todd Pletcher, American horse trainer
• 1968 – Isshin Chiba, Japanese voice actor
• 1968 – Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
• 1968 – Shannon Sharpe, American football player and sportscaster
• 1969 – Carlo Boszhard, Dutch singer and television host
• 1969 – Colin Greenwood, English bass player and songwriter (Radiohead)
• 1969 – Ingrid Lempereur, Belgian swimmer
• 1969 – Francis Magee, Irish-English actor
• 1969 – Geir Moen, Norwegian sprinter
• 1969 – Mike Myers, American baseball player
• 1970 – Paul Thomas Anderson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Paul Bitok, Kenyan runner
• 1970 – Irv Gotti, American record producer, co-founded Murder Inc Records
• 1970 – Sean Hayes, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1970 – Takeshi Konomi, Japanese illustrator
• 1970 – Matt Letscher, American actor and playwright
• 1970 – Adam Ndlovu, Zimbabwean footballer (d. 2012)
• 1970 – Chris O'Donnell, American actor and producer
• 1970 – Nick Offerman, American actor and producer
• 1971 – Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1971 – Emma Noble, English model and actress
• 1972 – Garou, Canadian singer and actor
• 1972 – Asako Tajimi, Japanese volleyball player
• 1972 – Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper and police officer
• 1973 – Amen, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lordi)
• 1973 – Rebecca Budig, American actress
• 1973 – Parry Shen, American actor and producer
• 1973 – Gretchen Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 – Derek Jeter, American baseball player
• 1974 – Jason Kendall, American baseball player
• 1974 – Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer and actress (The 4 Cats)
• 1974 – Kristofer Steen, Swedish guitarist (Refused and Final Exit)
• 1974 – Matt Striker, American wrestler, sportscaster, and actor
• 1975 – KJ-52, American rapper and producer (Peace of Mind)
• 1975 – Chris Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Canadian actress and singer
• 1975 – Terry Skiverton, English footballer and manager
• 1976 – Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
• 1976 – Pommie Mbangwa, Zimbabwean cricketer and sportscaster
• 1976 – Chad Pennington, American football player and sportscaster
• 1977 – Mark Jindrak, American-Mexican wrestler and actor
• 1977 – Florian Kehrmann, German handball player
• 1977 – Tite Kubo, Japanese illustrator
• 1977 – Quincy Lewis, American basketball player
• 1978 – Maxim Boilard, Canadian canoe racer
• 1979 – Brandi Burkhardt, American actress and singer
• 1979 – Ryō Fukuda, Japanese race car driver
• 1979 – Walter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
• 1979 – Ryan Tedder, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (OneRepublic)
• 1980 – Sinik, French rapper
• 1980 – Hamílton Hênio Ferreira Calheiros, Togolese footballer
• 1980 – Michael Jackson, English footballer
• 1980 – Jason Schwartzman, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (Phantom Planet)
• 1980 – Chris Shelton, American baseball player
• 1980 – Michael Vick, American football player
• 1981 – Natalya Antyukh, Russian sprinter and hurdler
• 1981 – Paolo Cannavaro, Italian footballer
• 1981 – Andrea Gibbs, Australian actress and radio host
• 1981 – Kanako Kondō, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1981 – Damien Sargue, French singer and actor
• 1981 – Takashi Toritani, Japanese baseball player
• 1982 – Zuzana Kučová, Slovak tennis player
• 1983 – Vinícius Rodrigues Almeida, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Nick Compton, South African-English cricketer
• 1983 – Toyonoshima Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1983 – Felipe Melo, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Antonio Rosati, Italian footballer
• 1984 – José Juan Barea, Puerto Rican basketball player
• 1984 – Yankuba Ceesay, Gambian footballer
• 1984 – Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
• 1984 – Raymond Felton, American basketball player
• 1984 – Priscah Jeptoo, Kenyan runner
• 1984 – Aubrey Plaza, American actress
• 1984 – Jūlija Tepliha, Latvian figure skater
• 1984 – Gabrielle Walcott, Trinidadian model, actress, and singer, Miss Trinidad & Tobago Universe 2011
• 1984 – Deron Williams, American basketball player
• 1985 – Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader, 17th Karmapa Lama
• 1985 – Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor and producer
• 1986 – Xisco, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Duvier Riascos, Colombian footballer
• 1987 – Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian race car driver
• 1987 – Samir Nasri, French footballer
• 1987 – Hamilton Pereira, Uruguayan footballer
• 1988 – Remy LaCroix, American porn actress
• 1988 – Amanda Marchant, English singer (Samanda)
• 1988 – Sam Marchant, English singer (Samanda)
• 1988 – Rina Nakanishi, Japanese model and singer (AKB48)
• 1988 – Oliver Stang, German footballer
• 1988 – Masakazu Tashiro, Japanese footballer
• 1989 – Lü Huihui, Chinese javelin thrower
• 1989 – Carlos Lopez, American actor and stuntman (d. 2014)
• 1990 – Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner
• 1990 – Igor Subbotin, Estonian footballer
• 1991 – Houssem Chemali, French footballer
• 1991 – Diego Falcinelli, Italian footballer
• 1991 – John Mark Loudermilk, American actor and producer
• 1992 – Joel Campbell, Costa Rican footballer
• 1992 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer
• 1993 – Ariana Grande, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1994 – Hollie Arnold, English javelin thrower
• 1994 – Leonard Carow, German actor
• 1995 – Reema Major, Sudanese-Canadian rapper
• 1997 – Callum Taylor, English cricketer
• 2005 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

Deaths

• 363 – Julian, Roman emperor (b. 332)
• 822 – Saichō, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 767)
• 1487 – John Argyropoulos, Byzantine philosopher and scholar (b. 1415)
• 1541 – Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer and politician, Governor of New Castile (b. 1471)
• 1688 – Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher and academic (b. 1617)
• 1752 – Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
• 1757 – Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
• 1784 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (b. 1728)
• 1793 – Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (b. 1720)
• 1795 – Johannes Jährig, German linguist and translator (b. 1747)
• 1808 – Ludwik Tyszkiewicz, Polish poet and politician (b. 1748)
• 1810 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1740)
• 1830 – George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
• 1836 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French soldier and composer (b. 1760)
• 1856 – Max Stirner, German philosopher and author (b. 1806)
• 1870 – Armand Barbès, French lawyer and politician (b. 1809)
• 1878 – Mercedes of Orléans (b. 1860)
• 1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist, and ornithologist (b. 1788)
• 1918 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and author (b. 1843)
• 1922 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
• 1932 – Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (b. 1900)
• 1938 – Daria Pratt, American golfer (b. 1859)
• 1938 – James Weldon Johnson, American poet, lawyer and politician (b. 1871)
• 1939 – Ford Madox Ford, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
• 1943 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1945 – Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
• 1946 – Max Kögel, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1946 – Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1880)
• 1947 – R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
• 1948 – Lilian Velez, Filipino actress and singer (b. 1924)
• 1949 – Kim Koo, South Korean educator and politician, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
• 1955 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer (b. 1895)
• 1956 – Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1930)
• 1956 – Richie Powell, American pianist (b. 1931)
• 1957 – Alfred Döblin, Polish-German physician and author (b. 1878)
• 1957 – Malcolm Lowry, English poet and author (b. 1909)
• 1958 – George Orton, Canadian runner and hurdler (b. 1873)
• 1958 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1964 – Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian businessman (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress and singer (b. 1942)
• 1975 – Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and saint (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Akwasi Afrifa, Ghanaian soldier and politician, 3rd Head of State of Ghana (b. 1936)
• 1980 – Miriam Daly, Irish activist and academic (b. 1928)
• 1989 – Howard Charles Green, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian Minister of Public Works (b. 1895)
• 1990 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (b. 1909)
• 1992 – Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (b. 1921)
• 1993 – William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi author and activist (b. 1929)
• 1996 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist and accountant (b. 1958)
• 1996 – Necmettin Hacıeminoğlu, Turkish linguist and academic (b. 1932)
• 1997 – Don Hutson, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
• 1997 – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, American singer-songwriter and ukulele player (Makaha Sons) (b. 1959)
• 1998 – Hacı Sabancı, Turkish businessman and philanthropist (b. 1935)
• 2000 – Logan Ramsey, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Soccer, American acting dog (b. 1988)
• 2002 – Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Arnold Brown, English-Canadian 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Turgut Özatay, Turkish actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
• 2003 – Denver Randleman, American sergeant (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Denis Thatcher, English soldier and businessman (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Strom Thurmond, American general, lawyer, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (b. 1902)
• 2004 – Ott Arder, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1950)
• 2004 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Tõnno Lepmets, Estonian basketball player (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Richard Whiteley, English journalist and game show host (b. 1943)
• 2006 – Tommy Wonder, Dutch magician (b. 1953)
• 2007 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Joey Sadler, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1912)
• 2010 – Sergio Vega, Mexican singer (b. 1969)
• 2012 – Sverker Åström, Swedish diplomat, Swedish Permanent Representative to the United Nations (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Pat Cummings, American basketball player (b. 1956)
• 2012 – Nora Ephron, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Mario O'Hara, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Doris Singleton, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Risley C. Triche, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Henrik Otto Donner, Finnish trumpet player and composer (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Edward Huggins Johnstone, Brazilian-American sergeant and judge (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Byron Looper, American politician (b. 1964)
• 2013 – Kimberly McCarthy, American murderer (b. 1961)
• 2013 – Justin Miller, American baseball player (b. 1977)
• 2013 – Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Bill Frank, American-Canadian football player (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Rollin King, American businessman, co-founded Southwest Airlines (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Bob Mischak, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Julius Rudel, Austrian-American conductor (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Mary Rodgers, American composer and author (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Richard Matt, American murderer (b. 1966)
• 2015 – Yevgeny Primakov, Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Kája Saudek, Czech author and illustrator (b. 1935)
• 2015 – Chris Thompson, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1952)

Holidays and observances

• Army and Navy Day (Azerbaijan)
• Christian feast day:
  • Anthelm of Belley
  • David the Dendrite
  • Hermogius
  • Isabel Florence Hapgood (Episcopal Church)
  • Jeremiah (Lutheran)
  • John and Paul
  • José María Robles Hurtado (one of Saints of the Cristero War)
  • Josemaría Escrivá
  • Mar Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)
  • Vigilius of Trent
  • June 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Flag Day (Romania)
• Independence Day (Madagascar), celebrates the independence of Madagascar from France in 1960
• Independence Day (Somalia), celebrates the independence of British Somaliland from the British in 1960. (Somalia)
• International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (International)
• International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (International)
• Ratcatcher's Day (Hamelin, Germany)
• Sunthorn Phu Day (Thailand)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada