June 15
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June 15 is the 166th day of the year (167th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 199 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1330 – Edward, the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England (d. 1376)
- 1519 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, son of Henry VIII of England (d. 1536)
- 1594 – Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
- 1623 – Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
- 1640 – Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715)
- 1767 – Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson before he became US President (d. 1828)
- 1792 – Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
- 1843 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
- 1875 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born cross country skier and supercentenarian (d. 1987)
- 1882 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian military leader (d. 1946)
- 1884 – Harry Langdon, American actor (d. 1944)
- 1894 – Trygve Gulbranssen, Norwegian writer (d. 1962)
- 1900 – Otto Luening, German-born American composer (d. 1996)
- 1902 – Erik Erikson, German-born psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
- 1908 – Sam Giancana, American mafioso (d. 1975)
- 1911 – V.W. Audry, British children's writer (d. 1997)
- 1914 – Yuri Andropov, Soviet political leader (d. 1984)
- 1915 – Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist (d. 2008)
- 1916 – Herbert Simon, American economist (d. 2001)
- 1917 – John Bennett Fenn, American chemist (d. 2010)
- 1920 – Alberto Sordi, Italian actor and director (d. 2003)
- 1923 – Erland Josephson, Swedish actor (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (d. 2005)
- 1932 – Mario Cuomo, American politician, former Governor of New York
- 1934 – Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (d. 2008)
- 1936 – Claude Brasseur, French actor
- 1937 – Waylon Jennings, American musician (d. 2002)
- 1937 – Anna Hazare, Indian activist
- 1938 – Billy Williams, American baseball player
- 1939 – Brian Jacques, British writer (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Harry Nilsson, American singer and composer (d. 1994)
- 1943 – Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark
- 1946 – Noddy Holder, British singer (Slade)
- 1949 – Simon Callow, British actor
- 1950 – Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist
- 1954 – James Belushi, American actor
- 1958 – Wade Boggs, American baseball player
- 1958 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (d. 1982)
- 1959 – Alan Brazil, Scottish footballer
- 1963 – Mario Gosselin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 – Helen Hunt, American actress
- 1964 – Courteney Cox, American actress
- 1964 – Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer
- 1969 – Oliver Kahn, German goalkeeper
- 1969 – Ice Cube, American rapper
- 1970 – Leah Remini, American actress
- 1972 – Marcus Hahnemann, American goalkeeper
- 1976 – Gary Lightbody, Northern Irish singer (Snow Patrol)
- 1978 – Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
- 1979 – Danielle Lineker, British model
- 1980 – Iker Romero, Spanish handball player
- 1981 – John Paintsil, Ghanaian footballer
- 1981 – Billy Martin, American musician (Good Charlotte)
- 1982 – Mike Delany, New Zealand rugby player
- 1982 – Katie Chapman, English footballer
- 1983 – Laura Imbruglia, Australian musician
- 1985 – Nadine Coyle, Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud)
- 1993 – Kanna Arihara, Japanese singer (Cute)
Deaths [change]
- 707 – Emperor Mommu of Japan
- 923 – King Robert I of France (b. 866)
- 1073 – Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (b. 1073)
- 1184 – King Magnus V of Norway (b. 1156)
- 1189 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese warrior (b. 1159)
- 1246 – Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)
- 1381 – Wat Tyler, English peasant leader (b. 1341)
- 1383 – John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1292)
- 1389 – Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
- 1467 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
- 1586 – Primoz Trubar, Slovenian religious reformer (b. 1508)
- 1785 – Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier, French physicist and balloonist (b. 1757)
- 1849 – James K. Polk, President of the United States (b. 1795)
- 1888 – Kaiser Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
- 1889 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
- 1917 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
- 1938 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter and printmaker (b. 1880)
- 1962 – Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist (b. 1877)
- 1971 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist (b. 1904)
- 1989 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
- 1991 – Arthur Lewis, British economist (b. 1915)
- 1993 – James Hunt, English racing driver (b. 1947)
- 1994 – Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
- 1995 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
- 2002 – Choi Hong Hi, founder of Taekwondo (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Hume Cronin, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
- 2007 – Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
- 2010 – Heidi Kabel, German actress (b. 1914)
Events [change]
- 1184 – King Magnus V of Norway is killed in battle.
- 1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
- 1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at Battle of Lyndanisse (present-day Tallinn) leads to the Danish Duchy of Estonia being established. In Legend, it was also first time that the Dannebrog was used.
- 1502 – Christopher Columbus reaches the island of Martinique.
- 1580 – Philip II of Spain declares William the Silent an outlaw.
- 1741 – Vitus Bering sets sail on his voyage from Petropavlovsk, Russia that will lead him to Alaska.
- 1752 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- 1776 – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British crown, and separates from Pennsylvania.
- 1804 – New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution, after approving the 12th Amendment.
- 1836 – Arkansas becomes the 25th State of the United States.
- 1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
- 1846 – The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th Parallel as being the longest part of the Canada-United States border.
- 1862 – Australian bushranger Frank Gardiner and his gang, hold up a coach carrying gold at Eugowra, New South Wales. This is the biggest robbery in Australian history.
- 1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established in the United States.
- 1878 – Eadward Muybridge takes a series of photographs that prove that all four of a horse's legs leave the ground when it is running. This is also a key milestone in the development of moving pictures.
- 1888 – Wilhelm II becomes Kaiser of Germany.
- 1896 – A tsunami in Japan kills more than 22,000 people.
- 1916 – Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.
- 1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown complete the first trans-Atlantic flight when they land in Ireland.
- 1920 – A border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
- 1934 – Great Smoky Mountains National Park is established in the Appalachian Mountains.
- 1937 – A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses 16 members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas.
- 1944 – World War II: The US invades the Japanese-occupied island of Saipan.
- 1954 – UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is founded.
- 1969 – Georges Pompidou is elected President of France.
- 1977 – In the first Spanish election since the Francisco Franco dictatorship, Adolfo Suarez is elected Prime Minister of Spain.
- 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who choses to be known as Queen Noor of Jordan.
- 1991 – After showing activity since April 2, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines enters its most destructive phase.
- 1994 – Formal relations between Israel and Vatican City are officially established.
- 1996 – The Provisional IRA explode a large bomb in the centre of Manchester.
- 2002 – A near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 121,000 kilometres.
- 2008 – Kosovo's Constitution takes effect, following the declaration of independence in February, which Serbia disagrees with.
- 2011 – 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot: Rioting occurs in Vancouver, Canada, following the Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team's defeat in the final of the Stanley Cup.
