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June 13 is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 201 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.
• 1325 – Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years).
• 1381 – In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, comes to a head, as rebels set fire to the Savoy Palace.
• 1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.
• 1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.

1601-1900

• 1625 – King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.
• 1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
• 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
• 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
• 1855 – Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris.
• 1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• 1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
• 1895 – Emile Levassor wins the world’s first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about 15 miles per hour.
• 1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.

1901-present

• 1917 – World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
• 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.
• 1944 – World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
• 1944 – World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
• 1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
• 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as "Mirandizing").
• 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
• 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
• 1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
• 1982 – Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
• 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
• 1990 – First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
• 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
• 1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
• 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• 1999 – BMW win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Toyota being a contention for the win until a puncture in the last hour relegated it to second, Toyota not participating in Le Mans again until 2012. The race was also remembered for the flipping incidents involving the Mercedes cars, the team withdrawing mid-race and Mercedes never entering Le Mans again.
• 2000 – President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
• 2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
• 2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 2005 – The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of his charges for allegedly sexually molesting a child in 1993.
• 2007 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
• 2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
• 2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
• 2015 – A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.
• 2018 – Volkswagen is fined 1 billion euros over the emissions scandal.

Births

Pre-1600

• AD 40 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (d. 93)
• 823 – Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 877)
• 839 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 888)
• 1367 – Taejong of Joseon (d. 1422)
• 1500 – Ernest of Bavaria, pledge lord of the County of Glatz (d. 1560)
• 1508 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1579)
• 1539 – Jost Amman, Swiss printmaker (d. 1591)
• 1555 – Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer (d. 1617)
• 1580 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1626)
• 1595 – Jan Marek Marci, Czech physician and scientist (d. 1667)

1601-1900

• 1617 – Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1656)
• 1649 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
• 1711 – Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1773)
• 1752 – Frances Burney, English novelist and playwright (d. 1840)
• 1761 – Antonín Vranický, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820)
• 1763 – José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (d. 1838)
• 1773 – Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (d. 1829)
• 1775 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian composer and politician (d. 1833)
• 1786 – Winfield Scott, American general (d. 1866)
• 1790 – José Antonio Páez, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 1873)
• 1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German psychiatrist and author (d. 1894)
• 1822 – Carl Schmidt, Latvian-German chemist and academic (d. 1894)
• 1827 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
• 1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (d. 1879)
• 1840 – Augusta Lundin, the first international Swedish fashion designer (d. 1919)
• 1854 – Charles Algernon Parsons, English engineer, founded C. A. Parsons and Company (d. 1931)
• 1863 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
• 1864 – Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and academic (d. 1922)
• 1864 – Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (d. 1939)
• 1865 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer (d. 1932)
• 1865 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
• 1868 – Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic (d. 1919)
• 1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• 1872 – Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1951)
• 1873 – Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (d. 1942)
• 1875 – Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician (d. 1932)
• 1876 – William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
• 1879 – Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (d. 1941)
• 1879 – Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (d. 1929)
• 1884 – Leon Chwistek, Polish painter, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1944)
• 1884 – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and academic (d. 1978)
• 1885 – Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (d. 1969)
• 1887 – André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (d. 1978)
• 1887 – Bruno Frank, German-American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1945)
• 1888 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (d. 1935)
• 1892 – Basil Rathbone, South African-born British-American actor (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Alan Arnold Griffith, English engineer (d. 1963)
• 1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (d. 1957)
• 1894 – Leo Kanner, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (d. 1981)
• 1894 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner and coach (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (d. 1978)

1901-present

• 1901 – Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
• 1902 – Carolyn Eisele, American mathematician and historian (d. 2000)
• 1903 – Willard Harrison Bennett, American physicist and chemist (d. 1987)
• 1905 – James T. Rutnam, Sri Lankan historian and author (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
• 1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 1998)
• 1910 – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1999)
• 1910 – Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1910 – Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (d. 2001)
• 1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
• 1911 – Maurice Copeland, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1911 – Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic (d. 1977)
• 1912 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (d. 1943)
• 1913 – Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Yitzhak Pundak, Israeli general, diplomat and politician (d. 2017)
• 1914 – Frederic Franklin, English-American ballet dancer and director (d. 2013)
• 1915 – Don Budge, American tennis player and coach (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Wu Zhengyi, Chinese botanist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Teddy Turner, English actor (d. 1992)
• 1917 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (d. 2005)
• 1918 – Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Helmut Lent, German soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
• 1918 – Percy Rodriguez, Canadian-American actor (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Rolf Huisgen, German chemist and academic (d. 2020)
• 1920 – Iosif Vorovich, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Etienne Leroux, South African author (d. 1989)
• 1923 – Lloyd Conover, American chemist and inventor (d. 2017)
• 1925 – Kristine Miller, American actress (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (d. 1994)
• 1926 – Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
• 1927 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (d. 2009)
• 1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Ralph McQuarrie, American illustrator (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Robert W. Scott, American farmer and politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Gotthard Graubner, German painter and educator (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel and spy (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Paul Veyne, French archaeologist, historian, and academic
• 1931 – Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Reed Scowen, Canadian politician (d. 2020)
• 1931 – Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist and academic
• 1932 – Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, English politician
• 1932 – Bob McGrath, American singer and actor
• 1932 – Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
• 1933 – Norman Lloyd-Edwards, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan
• 1934 – Bill Blakeley, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Lucjan Brychczy, Polish footballer and coach
• 1934 – Manuel Clouthier, Mexican businessman and politician (d. 1989)
• 1934 – James Anthony Griffin, American bishop
• 1934 – Uriel Jones, American drummer (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Leonard Kleinrock, American computer scientist and engineer
• 1935 – Christo, Bulgarian-French sculptor and painter (d. 2020)
• 1935 – Jeanne-Claude, Moroccan sculptor and painter (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009)
• 1937 – Eleanor Holmes Norton, American lawyer and politician
• 1937 – Erich Ribbeck, German footballer and manager
• 1937 – Andreas Whittam Smith, English journalist and publisher, co-founded The Independent
• 1940 – Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2017)
• 1940 – Dallas Long, American shot putter and physician
• 1941 – Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1941 – Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (d. 1998)
• 1941 – Marv Tarplin, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2011)
• 1942 – Yiannis Boutaris, Greek businessman and politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki
• 1943 – Harry Collins, English sociologist, author, and academic
• 1943 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor and producer
• 1943 – Jim Guy Tucker, American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas
• 1944 – Christine Beasley, English nursing administrator
• 1944 – David Curry, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
• 1944 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1945 – Whitley Strieber, American author
• 1946 – Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepalese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal
• 1946 – Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946 – Gabriel of Komana, Belgian-Dutch archbishop (d. 2013)
• 1948 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian-American ice hockey player and scout (d. 2001)
• 1948 – Joe Roth, American director and producer, co-founded Morgan Creek Productions
• 1949 – Ann Druyan, American popular science writer
• 1949 – Dennis Locorriere, American singer and musician
• 1949 – Ulla Schmidt, German educator and politician, German Federal Minister of Health
• 1949 – Red Symons, English-Australian musician, television, and radio personality
• 1950 – Nick Brown, English politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
• 1950 – Gerd Zewe, German footballer and manager
• 1951 – Howard Leese, American guitarist and producer
• 1951 – Richard Thomas, American actor, director, and producer
• 1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
• 1952 – Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian martial artist and politician
• 1953 – Tim Allen, American actor, comedian, and producer
• 1954 – Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (d. 2011)
• 1954 – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria
• 1955 – Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
• 1955 – Leah Ward Sears, German-American lawyer and jurist
• 1956 – Blair Chapman, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 – Sal Paolantonio, American lieutenant and journalist
• 1957 – Ron Areshenkoff, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 – Roy Cooper, American lawyer and politician, 75th Governor of North Carolina
• 1957 – Bruce Flowers, American basketball player
• 1957 – Andrzej Morozowski, Polish journalist and author
• 1957 – Dicky Thompson, American golfer
• 1959 – Boyko Borissov, Bulgarian footballer and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• 1959 – Maurice G. Dantec, French-born Canadian science fiction writer (d. 2016)
• 1959 – Steve Georganas, Australian politician
• 1959 – Klaus Iohannis, Romanian educator and politician, 5th President of Romania
• 1960 – Jacques Rougeau, Canadian wrestler
• 1961 – Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player
• 1962 – Davey Hamilton, American race car driver
• 1962 – Glenn Michibata, Canadian-American tennis player and coach
• 1962 – Ally Sheedy, American actress and author
• 1962 – Hannah Storm, American journalist and author
• 1963 – Bettina Bunge, Swiss-German tennis player
• 1963 – Sarah Connolly, English soprano and actress
• 1963 – Audrey Niffenegger, American author and academic
• 1964 – Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian organist, composer, and educator
• 1964 – Kathy Burke, English actress, director, and playwright
• 1964 – Piyush Goyal, Indian politician, Minister of Railways
• 1964 – Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1965 – Infanta Cristina Federica of Spain
• 1965 – Vassilis Karapialis, Greek footballer
• 1965 – Lukas Ligeti, Austrian-American drummer and composer
• 1965 – Maninder Singh, Indian cricketer
• 1966 – Henry Bond, English photographer and curator
• 1966 – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
• 1966 – Naoki Hattori, Japanese race car driver
• 1967 – Taşkın Aksoy, German-Turkish footballer and manager
• 1968 – Fabio Baldato, Italian cyclist
• 1968 – Peter DeBoer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – Darren Dreger, Canadian sportscaster
• 1968 – David Gray, English-Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1968 – Tim Leveque, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Denise Pearson, English singer-songwriter
• 1968 – Marcel Theroux, Ugandan-English journalist and author
• 1969 – Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Spanish actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Virginie Despentes, French author, screenwriter, and director
• 1969 – Laura Kightlinger, American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian shot putter
• 1969 – Søren Rasted, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1970 – Rivers Cuomo, American rock musician
• 1970 – Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
• 1971 – Nóra Köves, Hungarian tennis player
• 1972 – Natalie MacMaster, Canadian fiddler
• 1972 – Marek Jerzy Minakowski, Polish philosopher, historian, genealogist
• 1973 – Sam Adams, American football player
• 1973 – Tanner Foust, American race car driver and television host
• 1973 – Mattias Hellberg, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1973 – Stuart Karppinen, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1973 – Ville Laihiala, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 – Valeri Bure, Russian-American ice hockey player
• 1975 – Ante Covic, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Jeff Davis, American screenwriter and producer
• 1975 – Jennifer Nicole Lee, American model, actress, and author
• 1975 – Jaan Pehk, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 – Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
• 1976 – Kym Marsh, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1977 – Romain Mesnil, French pole vaulter
• 1977 – Earthwind Moreland, American football player
• 1978 – Ethan Embry, American actor
• 1979 – Esther Anderson, Australian actress
• 1979 – Nila Håkedal, Norwegian volleyball player
• 1979 – Miguel Pate, American long jumper
• 1979 – Ryan Pickett, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1980 – Florent Malouda, French footballer
• 1980 – Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (d. 2012)
• 1980 – Jamario Moon, American basketball player
• 1980 – Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
• 1980 – Darius Vassell, English footballer
• 1980 – Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver
• 1981 – Chris Evans, American actor and producer
• 1981 – Blake Judd, American actor, director, and producer
• 1981 – David Madden, founder and executive director of the National History Bee and the National History Bowl
• 1981 – Radim Vrbata, Czech ice hockey player
• 1982 – Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian runner
• 1982 – Krzysztof Bosak, Polish politician
• 1982 – Nate Jones, American football player
• 1983 – Steve Novak, American basketball player
• 1983 – Jason Spezza, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Rachel Taylor, Welsh rugby union player
• 1984 – Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 – Kaori Icho, Japanese wrestler
• 1984 – Antje Möldner-Schmidt, German runner
• 1985 – Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver
• 1985 – Silvio Bankert, German footballer
• 1985 – Pedro Strop, Dominican baseball player
• 1985 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Kat Dennings, American actress and comedian
• 1986 – Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer
• 1986 – Jonathan Lucroy, American baseball catcher
• 1986 – Ashley Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman
• 1986 – Mary-Kate Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman
• 1986 – DJ Snake, French DJ and record producer
• 1986 – Lea Verou, Greek computer scientist and author
• 1986 – Måns Zelmerlöw, Swedish singer
• 1987 – Marko Grgić, Croatian footballer
• 1988 – Gabe Carimi, American football player
• 1988 – Reece Noi, British actor
• 1988 – Cody Walker, American actor
• 1989 – Ben Barba, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 – James Calado, English racing driver
• 1989 – Ryan McDonagh, American ice hockey defenseman
• 1989 – Daniel Mortimer, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 – Andreas Samaris, Greek footballer
• 1989 – Tommy Searle, English motocross racer
• 1989 – Hassan Whiteside, American basketball player
• 1989 – Erica Wiebe, Canadian wrestler
• 1990 – James McCann, American baseball player
• 1990 – Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player
• 1990 – Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor
• 1991 – Will Claye, American jumper
• 1991 – Ryan Mason, English footballer
• 1992 – Semi Radradra, Fijian rugby league player
• 1993 – Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (d. 2011)
• 1993 – Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (d. 2018)
• 1994 – Deepika Kumari, Indian archer
• 1995 – Emily Fanning, New Zealand tennis player
• 1995 – Laura Ucrós, Colombian tennis player
• 2000 – Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 220 – Xiahou Dun, Chinese general
• 976 – Mansur I, Samanid emir
• 995 – Fujiwara no Michikane, Japanese nobleman (b. 961)
• 1036 – Ali az-Zahir, Fatimid caliph (b. 1005)
• 1231 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (b. 1195)
• 1256 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
• 1348 – Juan Manuel, Spanish prince (b. 1282)
• 1432 – Uko Fockena, Frisian chieftain (b. c. 1408)
• 1550 – Veronica Gambara, Italian poet (b. 1485)

1601-1900

• 1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
• 1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai (b. 1584)
• 1661 – Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, English politician (b. 1595)
• 1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
• 1784 – Henry Middleton, American farmer and politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
• 1846 – Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer and author (b. 1767)
• 1861 – Henry Gray, English anatomist and surgeon (b. 1827)
• 1881 – Joseph Škoda, Czech physician and dermatologist (b. 1805)
• 1886 – Ludwig II, king of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1894 – John Cox Bray, Australian politician, 15th Premier of South Australia (b. 1842)
• 1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)

1901-present

• 1904 – Nikiforos Lytras, Greek painter and educator (b. 1832)
• 1917 – Louis-Philippe Hébert, Canadian sculptor (b. 1850)
• 1918 – Michael Alexandrovich, Russian Grand Duke (b. 1878)
• 1930 – Henry Segrave, American-English racing driver (b. 1896)
• 1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1851)
• 1939 – Arthur Coningham, Australian cricketer (b. 1863)
• 1943 – Kočo Racin, Macedonian author and activist (b. 1908)
• 1948 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (b. 1909)
• 1951 – Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• 1957 – Irving Baxter, American high jumper and pole vaulter (b. 1876)
• 1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (b. 1878)
• 1965 – David Drummond, Australian farmer and politician (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
• 1979 – Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1945)
• 1980 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
• 1981 – Olivério Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and physician (b. 1896)
• 1984 – António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1909)
• 1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Fran Allison, American television personality and puppeteer (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Nadia Gray, Romanian-French actress (b. 1923)
• 1997 – Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer and academic (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (b. 1899)
• 1998 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (b. 1917)
• 2002 – John Hope, American navigator and meteorologist (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist and author (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese academic and politician (b. 1913)
• 2005 – David Diamond, American pianist and composer (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Charles Haughey, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Walid Eido, Lebanese judge and politician (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (b. 1950)
• 2009 – Fathi Yakan, Lebanese scholar and politician (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Jimmy Dean, American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Sam Beddingfield, American pilot and engineer (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Jože Humer, Slovenian composer and translator (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer for Lollywood (b. 1927)
• 2013 – David Deutsch, American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Albert White Hat, American educator and activist (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Buddy Boudreaux, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1917)
• 2015 – Sergio Renán, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church
  • Aquilina
  • Cetteus (Peregrinus)
  • Felicula
  • G. K. Chesterton (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Gerard of Clairvaux
  • Psalmodius
  • Ragnebert (Rambert)
  • Blessed Thomas Woodhouse
  • Triphyllius
  • June 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Inventors' Day (Hungary)
• Suleimaniah City Fallen and Martyrs Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

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External links

• "On This Day". BBC.
• The New York Times: On This Day
• "Historical Events on June 13". OnThisDay.com.
• "Today in Canadian History". Canada Channel.

• Days of the year
• June