June 15
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June 15 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining after June 15 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1330 – Edward, the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England (d. 1376)
- 1594 – Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
- 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 (d. 1987)
- 1882 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian military leader (d. 1946)
- 1894 – Trygve Gulbranssen, Norwegian writer (d. 1962)
- 1902 – Erik Erikson, German-born psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
- 1908 – Sam Giancana, American mafioso (d. 1975)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 1959 – Alan Brazil, Scottish footballer
- 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
- 1982 – Katie Chapman, English footballer
- 1983 – Laura Imbruglia, Australian musician
- 1985 – Nadine Coyle, Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud)
[change] Deaths
- 923 – King Robert I of France (b. 866)
- 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)
- 1389 – Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
- 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)
- 1962 – Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist (b. 1877)
- 1971 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist (b. 1904)
- 1991 – Arthur Lewis, British economist (b. 1915)
- 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)
- 2010 – Heidi Kabel, German actress (b. 1914)
[change] Events
- 1184 – King Magnus V of Norway is killed in batttle.
- 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.
- 1776 – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British crown, and separates from Pennsylvania.
- 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.
- 1888 – Wilhelm II becomes Kaiser of Germany.
- 1896 – A tsunami in Japan kills more than 22,000 people.
- 1920 – A border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
- 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.
- 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who choses to be known as Queen Noor of Jordan.
- 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.
