June 12

June 12 is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 202 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

Events

12 giugno: graffiti in Turin (Italy)

• 1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis.
• 1381 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
• 1418 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Parisians slaughter Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac and his suspected sympathizers, along with all prisoners, foreign bankers, and students and faculty of the College of Navarre.
• 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
• 1550 – The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
• 1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
• 1653 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
• 1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
• 1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
• 1772 – French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men killed by Maoris in New Zealand
• 1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
• 1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
• 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
• 1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
• 1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
• 1889 – Eighty people are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
• 1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
• 1899 – New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
• 1905 – The Servants of India Society was established in Pune, India by Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
• 1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded: The Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
• 1935 – A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War
• 1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
• 1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1940 – World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
• 1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
• 1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
• 1944 – American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
• 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
• 1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
• 1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
• 1978 – David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
• 1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
• 1987 – The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
• 1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
• 1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
• 1991 – Russians first democratically elected Boris Yeltsin as the President of Russia.
• 1991 – 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa.
• 1993 – An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
• 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.
• 1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
• 1996 – 2 Australian Army S-70A-9 Colided During A training mission. Killing 18 and injuring 12.
• 1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.
• 2016 – 49 civilians are killed and 53 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The gunman, Omar Mateen, was killed in a gunfight with police.

Births

• 1107 – Emperor Gaozong of Song (d. 1187)
• 1161 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1201)
• 1519 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
• 1561 – Anna of Württemberg (d. 1616)
• 1573 – Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, soldier (d. 1629)
• 1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
• 1711 – Louis Legrand, French priest and theologian (d. 1780)
• 1760 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French author, playwright, journalist, and politician (d. 1797)
• 1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant (Lewis and Clark Expedition) and author (d. 1870)
• 1775 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
• 1777 – Robert Clark, American physician and politician (d. 1837)
• 1795 – John Marston, American sailor (d. 1885)
• 1798 – Samuel Cooper, American general (d. 1876)
• 1800 – Samuel Wright Mardis, American politician (d. 1836)
• 1802 – Harriet Martineau, English sociologist and author (d. 1876)
• 1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (d. 1869)
• 1807 – Ante Kuzmanić, Croatian physician and journalist (d. 1879)
• 1812 – Edmond Hébert, French geologist and academic (d. 1890)
• 1819 – Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian, and author (d. 1875)
• 1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)
• 1841 – Watson Fothergill, English architect, designed the Woodborough Road Baptist Church (d. 1928)
• 1843 – David Gill, Scottish-English astronomer and author (d. 1914)
• 1851 – Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic (d. 1940)
• 1857 – Maurice Perrault, Canadian architect, engineer, and politician, 15th Mayor of Longueuil (d. 1909)
• 1858 – Harry Johnston, English botanist and explorer (d. 1927)
• 1858 – Henry Scott Tuke, English painter and photographer (d. 1929)
• 1861 – William Attewell, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1927)
• 1864 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist, photographer, and author (d. 1945)
• 1875 – Sam De Grasse, Canadian-American actor (d. 1953)
• 1877 – Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (d. 1971)
• 1883 – Fernand Gonder, French pole vaulter (d. 1969)
• 1883 – Robert Lowie, Austrian-American anthropologist and academic (d. 1957)
• 1888 – Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1920)
• 1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian soldier and painter (d. 1918)
• 1892 – Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright (d. 1982)
• 1897 – Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1899 – Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1968)
• 1902 – Hendrik Elias, Belgian lawyer and politician, Mayor of Ghent (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Emmett Hardy, American cornet player (d. 1925)
• 1905 – Ray Barbuti, American sprinter and football player (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
• 1908 – Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian broadcaster (d. 1988)
• 1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2010)
• 1908 – Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (d. 1975)
• 1910 – Bill Naughton, Irish-English playwright and author (d. 1992)
• 1912 – Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Carl Hovland, American psychologist and academic (d. 1961)
• 1913 – Jean Victor Allard, Canadian general (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Desmond Piers, Canadian admiral (d. 2005)
• 1914 – William Lundigan, American actor (d. 1975)
• 1914 – Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (d. 2014)
• 1915 – Priscilla Lane, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Christopher Mayhew, English soldier and politician (d. 1997)
• 1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker and businessman
• 1916 – Irwin Allen, American director and producer (d. 1991)
• 1916 – Raúl Héctor Castro, Mexican-American politician and diplomat, 14th Governor of Arizona (d. 2015)
• 1918 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
• 1918 – Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and academic (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress and educator (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Dave Berg, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Peter Jones, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Christopher Derrick, English author, critic, and academic (d. 2007)
• 1921 – James Archibald Houston, Canadian author and illustrator (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Monty Westmore, American make-up artist (d. 2007)
• 1924 – George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States
• 1924 – Grete Dollitz, German-American guitarist and radio host (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese psychiatrist, author, and poet (d. 1975)
• 1928 – Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1928 – Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician and diplomat, Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1928 – Richard M. Sherman, American composer and director
• 1929 – Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (d. 1995)
• 1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (d. 1945)
• 1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani linguist and academic
• 1929 – John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland
• 1930 – Jim Burke, Australian cricketer (d. 1979)
• 1930 – Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
• 1930 – Innes Ireland, Scottish race car driver and engineer (d. 1993)
• 1930 – Jim Nabors, American actor and singer
• 1931 – Trevanian, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Rona Jaffe, American novelist (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Mimi Coertse, South African soprano and producer
• 1932 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (d. 2002)
• 1933 – Eddie Adams, American photographer and journalist (d. 2004)
• 1934 – John A. Alonzo, American actor and cinematographer (d. 2001)
• 1934 – Nicole Berger, French actress (d. 1967)
• 1934 – Kevin Billington, English director and producer
• 1935 – Ian Craig, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Paul Kennedy, English lawyer and judge
• 1937 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian-French mathematician and academic (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Klaus Basikow, German footballer and manager
• 1937 – Antal Festetics, Hungarian-Austrian biologist and zoologist
• 1938 – Anne Cowdrey, 14th Lady Herries of Terregles, English horse trainer (d. 2014)
• 1938 – Jean-Marie Doré, Guinean lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Guinea (d. 2016)
• 1938 – Tom Oliver, English-Australian actor
• 1938 – Ian Partridge, English tenor and educator
• 1939 – Frank McCloskey, American sergeant and politician (d. 2003)
• 1940 – Jacques Brassard, Canadian educator and politician
• 1941 – Marv Albert, American sportscaster
• 1941 – Chick Corea, American pianist and composer
• 1941 – Roy Harper, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1941 – Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Lucille Roybal-Allard, American politician
• 1942 – Len Barry, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1942 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 – Pat Jennings, Irish footballer and coach
• 1946 – Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1946 – Bobby Gould, English footballer and manager
• 1946 – Catherine Bréchignac, French physicist and academic
• 1948 – Hans Binder, Austrian race car driver
• 1948 – Lyn Collins, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1948 – Herbert Meyer, German footballer
• 1949 – Jens Böhrnsen, German judge and politician, President of Germany
• 1949 – Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1949 – John Wetton, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1950 – Oğuz Abadan, Turkish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1950 – Michael Fabricant, English politician
• 1951 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian engineer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
• 1952 – Spencer Abraham, American academic and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Energy
• 1952 – Pete Farndon, English bass player (d. 1983)
• 1952 – Oliver Knussen, Scottish composer and conductor
• 1953 – Rocky Burnette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 – Tess Gerritsen, American physician and author
• 1954 – Tim Razzall, Baron Razzall, English lawyer and politician
• 1956 – Terry Alderman, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1957 – Timothy Busfield, American actor, director, and producer
• 1957 – Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1958 – Meredith Brooks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Rory Sparrow, American basketball player and manager
• 1959 – John Linnell, American singer-songwriter and accordion player
• 1959 – Scott Thompson, Canadian actor and comedian
• 1959 – Jalal-ud-Din, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1960 – Mark Calcavecchia, American golfer
• 1960 – Joe Kopicki, American basketball player and coach
• 1961 – Jim Goad, American singer, author, and publisher
• 1961 – Julius Kariuki, Kenyan runner
• 1961 – Kira Roessler, American singer and bass player
• 1962 – Paul Clark, English keyboard player
• 1963 – Philippe Bugalski, French race car driver (d. 2012)
• 1963 – Warwick Capper, Australian footballer, coach, and actor
• 1963 – Jerry Lynn, American wrestler
• 1964 – Derek Higgins, Irish race car driver
• 1964 – Kent Jones, American journalist
• 1964 – Paula Marshall, American actress
• 1964 – Peter Such, Scottish-born, English cricketer
• 1965 – Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2013)
• 1965 – Gwen Torrence, American sprinter
• 1965 – Cathy Tyson, English actress
• 1966 – Tom Misteli, Swiss cell biologist
• 1967 – Aivar Kuusmaa, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1967 – Frances O'Connor, English-Australian actress
• 1968 – Scott Aldred, American baseball player and coach
• 1968 – Htay Kywe, Burmese activist
• 1968 – Bobby Sheehan, American bass player and songwriter (d. 1999)
• 1969 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (d. 2007)
• 1969 – Héctor Garza, Mexican wrestler (d. 2013)
• 1969 – Mathieu Schneider, American ice hockey player
• 1969 – Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
• 1970 – Gordon Michael Woolvett, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Mark Henry, American weightlifter and wrestler
• 1971 – Ryan Klesko, American baseball player
• 1971 – Jérôme Romain, Caribbean-Dominican triple jumper and coach
• 1972 – Bounty Killer, Jamaican rapper and DJ
• 1972 – Sophie Lawrence, English actress and singer
• 1972 – Finesse Mitchell, American actor and screenwriter
• 1973 – Jason Caffey, American basketball player and coach
• 1973 – Jennifer Jo Cobb, American race car driver
• 1973 – Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
• 1973 – Darryl White, Australian footballer
• 1974 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 – Jason Mewes, American actor and producer
• 1974 – Kerry Kittles, American basketball player
• 1975 – Bryan Alvarez, American wrestler and journalist
• 1975 – Stephanie Szostak, French-American actress
• 1976 – Antawn Jamison, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1976 – Ray Price, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1976 – Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer
• 1977 – Richard Ayoade, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1977 – Wade Redden, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1978 – Lewis Moody, English rugby player
• 1978 – Shiloh Strong, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1979 – Dallas Clark, American football player
• 1979 – Martine Dugrenier, Canadian wrestler
• 1979 – Diego Milito, Argentinian footballer
• 1979 – Robyn, Swedish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1979 – Earl Watson, American basketball player and coach
• 1980 – Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player
• 1980 – Jason Dent, American mixed martial artist
• 1980 – Larry Foote, American football player
• 1980 – Ifet Taljević, German footballer
• 1981 – Raitis Grafs, Latvian basketball player
• 1981 – Paul Hasleby, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Jeremy Howard, American actor
• 1981 – Adriana Lima, Brazilian model and actress
• 1982 – Ben Blackwell, American drummer
• 1982 – Diem Brown, German-American journalist and activist (d. 2014)
• 1982 – Jason David, American football player
• 1982 – Loïc Duval, French race car driver
• 1982 – Marko Popović, Croatian basketball player
• 1982 – James Tomlinson, English cricketer
• 1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
• 1983 – Andy Ologun, Nigerian boxer and actor
• 1983 – Alexander Pipa, German rugby player
• 1983 – Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
• 1984 – James Kwalia, Kenyan-Qatari runner
• 1984 – Andrea Servi, Italian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1985 – Colin Doyle, Irish footballer
• 1985 – Blake Ross, American computer programmer, co-created Mozilla Firefox
• 1985 – Sam Thaiday, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 – Kendra Wilkinson, American model, actress, and author
• 1985 – Chris Young, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1986 – Erik Ainge, American football player
• 1986 – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer
• 1986 – Sergio Rodríguez, Spanish basketball player
• 1986 – Harry Taylor, Australian footballer
• 1987 – Seyi Ajirotutu, American football player
• 1987 – Antonio Barragán, Spanish footballer
• 1987 – Abbey Lee Kershaw, Australian model and actress
• 1988 – Artūrs Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player
• 1988 – Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
• 1988 – Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer
• 1988 – Dave Melillo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1988 – Dakota Morton, Canadian actor and radio host
• 1989 – Emma Eliasson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1989 – Ibrahim Jeilan, Ethiopian runner
• 1990 – Kevin López, Spanish runner
• 1990 – David Worrall, English footballer
• 1991 – Avisail García, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1992 – Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 – Laura Jones, English gymnast
• 1995 – Furkan Soyalp, Turkish footballer

Deaths

• 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
• 918 – Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great (b. 870)
• 1020 – Lyfing, English archbishop (b. 999)
• 1036 – Tedald, Italian bishop (b. 990)
• 1144 – Al-Zamakhshari, Persian theologian (b. 1075)
• 1418 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (b. 1360)
• 1428 – Zawisza Czarny, Polish knight (b. 1379)
• 1435 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English commander (b. 1408)
• 1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
• 1560 – Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
• 1565 – Adrianus Turnebus, French philologist and scholar (b. 1512)
• 1567 – Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, English politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
• 1647 – Thomas Farnaby, English scholar and educator (b. 1575)
• 1668 – Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician (b. 1599)
• 1675 – Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
• 1734 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French-English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (b. 1670)
• 1758 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722)
• 1772 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
• 1778 – Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (b. 1716)
• 1816 – Pierre Augereau, French general (b. 1757)
• 1818 – Egwale Seyon, Ethiopian emperor
• 1841 – Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist, and philologist (b. 1786)
• 1900 – Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)
• 1904 – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (b. 1836)
• 1912 – Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1822)
• 1917 – Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
• 1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian general (b. 1893)
• 1944 – Erich Marcks, German general (b. 1891)
• 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904)
• 1962 – John Ireland, English composer and educator (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (b. 1925)
• 1966 – Hermann Scherchen, German viola player and conductor (b. 1891)
• 1968 – Herbert Read, English poet and critic (b. 1893)
• 1969 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (b. 1895)
• 1975 – Latife Uşşaki, Turkish jurist, 1st First Lady of Turkey (b. 1898)
• 1976 – Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1978 – Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (b. 1892)
• 1978 – Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
• 1980 – Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1980 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953)
• 1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Bruce Hamilton, Australian public servant (b. 1911)
• 1990 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, English captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi and author (b. 1902)
• 1995 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
• 1995 – Pierre Russell, American basketball player (b. 1949)
• 1997 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Leo Buscaglia, American author and educator (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Theresa Merritt, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 1999 – J. F. Powers American novelist and short story writer (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
• 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian criminal (b. 1978)
• 2002 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Limited (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor and political activist (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Scott Young, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Nicky Barr, Australian rugby player and fighter pilot (b. 1915)
• 2006 – György Ligeti, Romanian-Hungarian composer and educator (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Don Herbert, American television host and producer (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Miroslav Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Al Williamson, American illustrator (b. 1931)
• 2011 – René Audet, Canadian bishop (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Pahiño, Spanish footballer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Hector Bianciotti, Argentinian-French journalist and author (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, Danish-German psychoanalyst and author (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Elinor Ostrom, American political scientist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Frank Walker, Australian judge and politician, 41st Attorney General of New South Wales (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Teresita Barajuen, Spanish nun (b. 1908)
• 2013 – Jason Leffler, American race car driver (b. 1975)
• 2013 – Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Scott Winkler, Norwegian ice hockey player (b. 1990)
• 2014 – Nabil Hemani, Algerian footballer (b. 1979)
• 2014 – Dan Jacobson, South African-English author and critic (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Carla Laemmle, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2014 – Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (b. 1959)
• 2015 – Fernando Brant, Brazilian journalist, poet, and composer (b. 1946)
• 2015 – Frederick Pei Li, Chinese-American physician and academic (b. 1940)
• 2015 – Nek Chand Saini, Indian sculptor (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Patrick Lennox Tierney, American historian and academic (b. 1914)
• 2016 – George Voinovich, American politician (b. 1936)
• 2016 – Janet Waldo, American actress and voice artist (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances

• Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay)
• Christian feast day:
  • Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius
  • Blessed Hildegard Burjan
  • Enmegahbowh (Episcopal Church)
  • Eskil
  • First Ecumenical Council (Lutheran)
  • Gaspar Bertoni
  • John of Sahagún
  • Onuphrius
  • Pope Leo III
  • Ternan
  • June 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Dia dos Namorados (Brazil)
• Helsinki Day (Finland)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Philippines from Spain in 1898.
• June 12 Commemoration (Lagos State)
• Loving Day (United States)
• Russia Day (Russia)
• World Day Against Child Labour, and its related observances:
  • Children's Day (Haiti)

External links

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