June 8

==Events== ===Pre-1600=== * 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.<ref>{{cite book|author=David Braund|title=The Roman Army in the East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWJoAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Journal of Roman Archaeology|isbn=978-1-887829-18-2|pages=140–141}}</ref> * 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.<ref>{{cite book|first=Edwarde Arthur|last=Thompson|title=The Huns. People of Europe Series|date=4 May 1999 |publisher=Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-0-631-21443-4}}</ref> * 536 – Election of pope Silverius following the death of pope Agapetus I earlier that year.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire |date=2006 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Basingstoke [England] ; New York |isbn=978-1-4039-1774-4 |page=104}}</ref> * 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Deirdre O'Sullivan|author2=Robert Young|title=Book of Lindisfarne: Holy Island|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ONMWAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=B.T. Batsford|isbn=978-0-7134-7307-0|page=38}}</ref> *1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England – the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.<ref name="Cheney1945">{{cite book|author=Christopher Robert Cheney|title=Handbook of Dates for Students of English History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MCRnAAAAMAAJ|year=1945|publisher=Offices of the Royal Historical Society|page=18}}</ref> *1057 – The Byzantine general Isaac Komnenos is proclaimed Byzantine Emperor in opposition to reigning emperor Michael VI Bringas.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire |date=2006 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Basingstoke [England] ; New York |isbn=978-1-4039-1774-4 |page=383}}</ref> *1191 – English forces under King Richard I arrive in Acre, joining the already arrived French and German forces of the Third Crusade.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McLynn |first=Frank |author-link=Frank McLynn |title=Richard and John: Kings at War |publisher=Da Capo Press |year=2007 |isbn=9780306815799 |edition=1st Da Capo Press |location=Cambridge |pages=182}}</ref>

===1601–1900=== *1663 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial ensures Portugal's independence from Spain.<ref>Rui Natário, As Grandes Batalhas da História de Portugal, Marcador Editora, Barcarena, 2013 (in Portuguese)</ref> *1772 – Alexander Fordyce flees to France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the credit crisis of 1772 in the British Empire and the Dutch Republic.<ref>{{Cite web|title=5 of the World's Most Devastating Financial Crises {{!}} Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/list/5-of-the-worlds-most-devastating-financial-crises|access-date=2022-01-13|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}</ref> *1776 – American Revolutionary War: Continental Army attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières. *1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine. *1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress. *1794 – Maximilien Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France. *1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of {{HMS|Bounty}}, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island. *1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union. *1862 – American Civil War: A Confederate victory by forces under General Stonewall Jackson at the Battle of Cross Keys, along with the Battle of Port Republic the next day, prevents Union forces from reinforcing General George B. McClellan in his Peninsula campaign. *1867 – Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (''Ausgleich''). *1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.

===1901–present=== *1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value. *1924 – British Mount Everest expedition:<ref>{{cite news |title=Irvine and Mallory: In hobnail boots they took on Everest |author= Gentleman, Amelia |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/may/04/ameliagentleman |newspaper=The Guardian |date=3 May 1999 |access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref> British mountaineers Andrew Irvine and George Mallory go missing. *1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Beijing, whose name is changed to Beiping ("Northern Peace").<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Beijing |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Beijing.aspx |encyclopedia=The Columbia Encyclopedia |edition=6th |year=2008 |access-date=2012-01-19 |archive-date=2010-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212121906/http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Beijing.aspx |url-status=live}}</ref> *1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book | author-link=David Marquand | last= Marquand | first= David | title=Ramsay MacDonald | publisher=Jonathan Cape | location=London | year=1977 | isbn= 0-224-01295-9 | page=492}}</ref> *1940 – World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian campaign. *1941 – World War II: The Allies commence the Syria–Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant. *1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle. *1943 – World War II: The two-day Battle of Porta between the Royal Italian Army and the Greek People's Liberation Army begins.<ref>{{cite book | last = Grigoriadis | first = Solon | author-link = Solon Grigoriadis | title = Συνοπτική Ιστορία της Εθνικής Αντίστασης, 1941-1944 | trans-title = Concise History of the National Resistance, 1941-1944 | publisher = Kapopoulos | location = Athens | year = 1982 | language = el | oclc = 165816421 | pages = 244–245}}</ref> *1949 – George Orwell's dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' is published in the United States<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-06-08 |title=Five Fascinating Facts about George Orwell’s 1984 |url=https://interestingliterature.com/2014/06/five-fascinating-facts-about-george-orwells-1984/ |access-date=8 June 2025 |website=Interesting Literature |language=en-US}}</ref> *1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, United States, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes. * 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules in ''District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.'' that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons. *1959 – {{USS|Barbero|SS-317|6}} and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail. *1961 – Marriage of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent to Katharine Worsley at York Minster.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wedding at York of Prince Edward (1961)|url=https://www.britishpathe.com/video/wedding-at-york |website=British Pathé |accessdate=21 September 2023}}</ref> *1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed. * 1966 – Topeka, Kansas, United States is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale, exceeding US$200 million in damages. Seventeen people are killed, over five hundred more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=US Department of Commerce |first=NOAA |title=June 8th 1966 Topeka Tornado |url=https://www.weather.gov/top/1966TopekaTornado |access-date=2023-10-24 |website=www.weather.gov |language=EN-US}}</ref> *1967 – Six-Day War: The USS ''Liberty'' incident: A United States Navy spy ship is attacked by the Israeli Air Force and Navy, resulting in 34 deaths and 171 wounded.<ref>{{cite report |first1=William D. |last1=Gerhard |first2=Henry W. |last2=Millington |title=Attack on a SIGINT Collector, the USS ''Liberty'' |year=1981 |work=NSA History Report, U.S. Cryptologic History series |publisher=National Security Agency |url=http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/uss_liberty/attack_sigint.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030155345/http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/uss_liberty/attack_sigint.pdf |pages=1–2, 5, 25–26, 28}}</ref> *1968 – James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested at London Heathrow Airport.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2016-06-08|title=When Martin Luther King Jr's assassin fled to London|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36434706|access-date=2021-06-08}}</ref> *1972 – Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running naked down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo. *1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, {{ship|RFA|Sir Galahad|1966|6}} and {{ship|RFA|Sir Tristram|L3505|6}}. * 1982 – VASP Flight 168 crashes in Pacatuba, Ceará, Brazil, killing 128 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 727-212 PP-SRK Sierra de Pacatuba, CE|url=https://www.aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19820608-0|access-date=2021-06-08|website=www.aviation-safety.net|publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref> * 1983 – Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 loses one of its propellers in flight resulting in damage to the flight controls. The Lockheed L-188 Electra makes an emergency landing at Anchorage International Airport and there are no injuries.<ref name="NTSBFac">{{cite web |title=Aviation Accident Final Report |url=https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20001214X43286&AKey=1&RType=Final&IType=AA |access-date=September 17, 2017 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |format=PDF |id=DCA83AA029}}</ref> *1984 – Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New South Wales. *1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987. *1992 – The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. *1992 – GP Express Airlines Flight 861 crashes on approach to Anniston Regional Airport in Anniston, Alabama, killing three.<ref name="ntsb">{{cite web |date=1993-03-02 |title=Controlled Collision with Terrain; GP Express Airlines Flight 861; Beechcraft C99 N118GP; Anniston, Alabama; June 8, 1992 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR9303.pdf |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB/AAR-93/03}} - [https://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR93-03.pdf Copy at] Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.</ref> *1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. *2001 – Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.<ref>{{cite news|last=Struck|first=Doug|title=School Stabbings Diminish Japan's Feelings of Safety|url=http://www.msnbc.com/news/584902.asp|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=June 9, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010610151408/http://www.msnbc.com/news/584902.asp?cp1=1|archive-date=June 10, 2001}}</ref> *2004 – The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882. *2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the {{MV|Pasha Bulker}}.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Ships ignored warning to leave |author=Ben Cubby and Edmund Tadros |work=Sydney Morning Herald |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/ships-ignored-warning-to-leave/2007/06/08/1181089338446.html |date=9 June 2007 |access-date=9 April 2008 |archive-date=17 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417164805/http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/ships-ignored-warning-to-leave/2007/06/08/1181089338446.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *2007 – Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' is launched on STS-117 carrying two truss segments and solar arrays to the International Space Station.<ref>{{cite web |author=Than |first=Ker |date=June 8, 2007 |title=Liftoff! Shuttle Atlantis Rockets Towards Space Station |url=http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070608_sts117_launchday.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523200746/http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070608_sts117_launchday.html |archive-date=May 23, 2009 |access-date=July 29, 2010 |website=SPACE.com}}</ref> *2023 – Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-09 |title=Trump indictment highlights: Former president faces seven charges in classified docs probe |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/live-updates-trump-classified-documents-florida-grand-jury-rcna88233 |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>

==Births== ===Pre-1600=== * 862 – Emperor Xizong of Tang (died 888)<ref>Academia Sinica [http://sinocal.sinica.edu.tw/ Chinese-Western Calendar Converter].</ref><ref>''Old Book of Tang'', vol. 19, part 2.</ref> *1508 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (died 1586) *1593 – George I Rákóczi, prince of Transylvania (died 1648)

===1601–1900=== *1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (died 1712) *1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (died 1751) *1717 – John Collins, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (died 1795)<ref>{{CongBio|C000639}}</ref> *1724 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (died 1794) *1745 – Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (died 1818) *1757 – Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (died 1824) *1776 – Thomas Rickman, English architect and architectural antiquary (died 1841)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Rickman, Thomas|volume=21|page=315}}</ref> *1788 – Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (died 1869) *1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (died 1856)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Musical World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E5cPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA499|year=1864|publisher=J. Alfredo Novello|pages=499}}</ref> *1829 – John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator (died 1896)<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Muther|title=The History of Modern Painting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jt5cAAAAcAAJ|year=1907|publisher=J.M. Dent|page=429}}</ref> *1831 – Thomas J. Higgins, Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1917) *1842 – John Q. A. Brackett, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1918) *1851 – Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physician and physicist (died 1940) *1852 – Guido Banti, Italian physician and pathologist (died 1925) *1854 – Douglas Cameron, Canadian politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (died 1921) *1855 – George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (died 1924) *1858 – Charlotte Scott, English mathematician (died 1931)<ref>{{cite book | first=Patricia | last=Clark Kenschaft | chapter=Charlotte Angas Scott | editor1-last=Grinstein | editor1-first=Louise S. | editor2-last=Campbell | editor2-first=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=193}}</ref> *1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (died 1940)<ref>{{cite book | first=H.S.M. | last=Coxeter Kenschaft | chapter=Alicia Boole Stott | editor1-last=Grinstein | editor1-first=Louise S. | editor2-last=Campbell | editor2-first=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=220}}</ref> *1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (died 1959) *1868 – Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (died 1942)<ref>{{cite web|last=Williams|first=Clarence G.|date=13 January 1998|title=From 'Tech' to Tuskegee: The Life of Robert Robinson Taylor, 1868-1942|url=http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/mithistory/blacks-at-mit/taylor.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/7963/20190702041158/https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/mithistory/blacks-at-mit/taylor.html|archive-date=July 2, 2019|access-date=July 12, 2020|website=|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}</ref> *1872 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (died 1949) *1876 – Alexandre Tuffère, Greek-French triple jumper (died 1958) *1878 – Evan Roberts, Welsh Revivalist minister (died 1951)<ref>{{Cite DWB |last=Roberts |first=Gomer Morgan |title=ROBERTS, EVAN JOHN (1878 - 1951), 'Y Diwygiwr' (the Revivalist) revivalist preacher |id=s2-ROBE-JOH-1878 |date=2021}}</ref> *1885 – Karl Genzken, German physician (died 1957) *1891 – William Funnell, Australian public servant (died 1962) *1893 – Ernst Marcus, German zoologist (died 1968) * 1893 – Gaby Morlay, French actress (died 1964) *1894 – Erwin Schulhoff, Czech composer and pianist (died 1942) *1895 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and manager (died 1978) *1897 – John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (died 1974) *1899 – Eugène Lapierre, Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator (died 1970) * 1899 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (died 1945)<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nazi doctor who experimented on gay people – and Britain helped to escape justice|website=TheGuardian.com |date=5 May 2015|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/05/nazi-doctor-gay-people-carl-vaernet-escaped-justice-danish}}</ref> *1900 – Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (died 1945)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://bishop.house.gov/media-center/congressional-record-statements/in-honor-of-lena-baker-posthumously|title=In Honor of Lena Baker (Posthumously)|date=2011-01-03|work=Congressman Sanford Bishop|access-date=2017-10-20|language=en|archive-date=2019-08-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831234209/https://bishop.house.gov/media-center/congressional-record-statements/in-honor-of-lena-baker-posthumously|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===1901–present=== *1903 – Ralph Yarborough, American lawyer and politician (died 1996) * 1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet (died 1987)<ref>{{cite book | last1=Savigneau |first1=Josyane |last2=Howard | first2=Joan E. |title=Marguerite Yourcenar : Inventing a Life | location=Chicago London | publisher=The University of Chicago Press | year=1993 | isbn=978-0-22673-544-3 | page=17}}</ref> *1910 – John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (died 1971)<ref name=Ash>{{cite book| first=Brian| last=Ash|title=Who's Who in Science Fiction|publisher=Elm Tree Books| location=London| year=1976| pages = 63|isbn=0-241-89383-6}}</ref> * 1910 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French-American photographer, sculptor, and painter (died 2003) *1911 – Edmundo Rivero, Argentinian singer-songwriter (died 1986) *1912 – Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, British abstract painter (died 2004) * 1912 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1989) * 1912 – Harry Holtzman, American painter (died 1987)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Glueck |first1=Grace |title=Harry Holtzman, Artist, Dies; An Expert on Piet Mondrian |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/29/obituaries/harry-holtzman-artist-dies-an-expert-on-piet-mondrian.html |website=The New York Times |accessdate=21 May 2020 |date=29 September 1987}}</ref> *1915 – Seán McCaughey, Irish Republican Army leader, died on hunger strike (died 1946)<ref>{{cite book|author=J. Bowyer Bell|title=The Secret Army: The Ira|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UvTD1B-WzmsC&pg=PA243|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-3888-7|pages=243}}</ref> *1915 – Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet (died 2015) *1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bretscher|first1=Mark S.|author-link1=Mark Bretscher|last2=Mitchison|first2=Graeme|title=Francis Harry Compton Crick OM. 8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume=63|pages=159–196|year=2017|issn=0080-4606|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2017.0010|doi-access=free}}</ref> * 1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2007) * 1916 – Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator (died 1992) *1917 – Byron White, American football player, lawyer and judge (died 2002)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/15/obituaries/byron-r-white-supreme-court-justice-for-31-years-dies-at-84.html|title=Byron R. White, Supreme Court Justice for 31 Years, Dies at 84|last=Greenhouse|first=Linda|date=April 15, 2002|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 5, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=October 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006062708/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/15/obituaries/byron-r-white-supreme-court-justice-for-31-years-dies-at-84.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *1918 – George Edward Hughes, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (died 1994) * 1918 – Robert Preston, American actor and singer (died 1987) * 1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist and academic (died 2016) *1919 – John R. Deane, Jr., American general (died 2013) *1920 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (died 1995) *1921 – Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (died 1986) * 1921 – Olga Nardone, American actress (died 2010) * 1921 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter (died 2012) * 1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (died 1993) * 1921 – Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (died 2008) *1924 – Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 2013) * 1924 – Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist and academic (died 2013)<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/us/kenneth-n-waltz-who-helped-shape-international-relations-as-a-discipline-dies-at-88.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 | newspaper=The New York Times | title=Kenneth Waltz, Foreign-Relations Expert, Dies at 88 | first=Douglas | last=Martin | date=May 19, 2013 | page=A22}}</ref> *1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States (died 2018) *1927 – Jerry Stiller, American actor, comedian and producer (died 2020) * 1928 – Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian philosopher, theologian and priest (died 2024)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Friskics-Warren |first=Bill |date=October 23, 2024 |title=Gustavo Gutiérrez, Father of Liberation Theology, Dies at 96 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/world/americas/gustavo-gutierrez-dead.html |access-date=October 23, 2024 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> * 1928 – Mimi Mariani, Indonesian actress, model, and singer (died 1971)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-08 |title=5 Fakta Sri Asih, Superhero Indonesia Dibintangi Pevita Pearce |url=https://film.zigi.id/5-fakta-sri-asih-superhero-indonesia-dibintangi-pevita-pearce-10843 |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=www.zigi.id |language=id}}</ref> * 1928 – J. R. P. Suriyapperuma, Sri Lankan politician (died 2025)<ref>[https://www.newswire.lk/2025/01/02/j-r-p-suriyapperuma-passed-away/ J. R. P. Suriyapperuma passed away]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Former MP J.R.P. Suriyapperuma passes away |url=https://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=104681 |access-date=2 January 2025 |website=www.adaderana.lk |language=en}}</ref> *1929 – Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist and author (died 2013) *1930 – Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate * 1930 – Marcel Léger, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1993) *1931 – Dana Wynter, British actress (died 2011) *1932 – Ray Illingworth, English cricketer and sportscaster (died 2021)<ref>{{cite news |title=Raymond Illingworth obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec/26/raymond-illingworth-obituary |access-date=26 December 2021 |newspaper=The Guardian |first=Peter |last=Mason |date=26 December 2021}}</ref> * 1932 – Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, Scottish lawyer and judge (died 2017) *1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (died 2014) *1934 – Millicent Martin, English actress and singer *1935 – Molade Okoya-Thomas, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (died 2015) *1936 – James Darren, American actor (died 2024)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saperstein |first=Pat |date=2024-09-02 |title=James Darren, Teen Idol Actor in 'Gidget,' Singer and Director, Dies at 88 |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/james-darren-gidget-moondoggie-star-trek-1236127756/ |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> * 1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/science/kenneth-wilson-nobel-physicist-dies-at-77.html|title=Kenneth Wilson, Nobel Physicist, Dies at 77|first=Dennis|last=Overbye|date=20 June 2013|access-date=10 April 2018|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> *1937 – Gillian Clarke, Welsh poet and playwright *1938 – Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal *1939 – Herb Adderley, American football player (died 2020)<ref>{{cite web |title=Herb Adderley |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/players/herb-adderley/ |publisher=Pro Football Hall of Fame |access-date=4 June 2023}}</ref> *1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress *1941 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician and activist (died 1981) * 1941 – George Pell, Australian cardinal (died 2023) *1942 – Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player (died 2021)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Doug Mountjoy obituary |author=Rawling, John |work=The Guardian |date=17 February 2021 |access-date=19 February 2021 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/feb/17/doug-mountjoy-obituary}}</ref> *1943 – Colin Baker, English actor * 1943 – William Calley, American military officer<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations|title=Briefing on Vietnam: Hearings ... 91-1, Nov. 18-19, 1969|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfxbeolhU00C&pg=PA139|year=1969|pages=139}}</ref> * 1943 – Willie Davenport, American hurdler (died 2002)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/willie-davenport|title=Willie Davenport|website=IOC|access-date=February 27, 2021}}</ref> *1944 – Marc Ouellet, Canadian archbishop and cardinal<ref>{{cite press release | access-date = 13 March 2025 | date = 15 November 2002 | language = it | url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2002/11/15/0565/01787.html | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 15.11.2002 | publisher = Holy See Press Office }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| language = fr | access-date = 13 March 2025 | url = http://www.diocesequebec.qc.ca/histoire/eveques/mgr_marc_ouellet.htm |title=Mgr Marc Ouellet |website=Archdiocese of Quebec |url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080208110716/http://www.diocesequebec.qc.ca/histoire/eveques/mgr_marc_ouellet.htm | archive-date= 8 February 2008}}</ref> *1944 – Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Annual Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6|page=241}}</ref> *1945 – Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (died 2014)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Guinness Who's Who of Country Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1993|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-726-6|pages=151/2}}</ref> * 1945 – Derek Underwood, English cricketer (died 2024)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Peter Arnold|author2=Peter Wynne-Thomas|title=The Illustrated History of the Test Match|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=olIMAAAAYAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson|isbn=978-0-283-99618-4|page=66}}</ref> *1946 – Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach *1947 – Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter * 1947 – Sara Paretsky, American author<ref>{{cite book|author=Bella Vivante|title=Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers: An A-to-Z Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2FGahwDJFu4C&pg=PA294|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31627-2|pages=294}}</ref> * 1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, geneticist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate<ref>{{cite book|author=George Thomas Kurian|title=The Nobel Scientists: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbTaAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Prometheus Books|isbn=978-1-57392-927-1|page=386}}</ref> *1949 – Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator * 1949 – Hildegard Falck, German runner<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/hildegard-falck|title=Hildegard Falck|website=IOC|access-date=February 27, 2021}}</ref> *1950 – Kathy Baker, American actress * 1950 – Sônia Braga, Brazilian actress and producer *1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter * 1951 – Tony Rice, American bluegrass musician (died 2020)<ref>{{cite web | last=Friskics-Warren | first=Bill | title=Tony Rice, Bluegrass Innovator With a Guitar Pick, Dies at 69 | website=The New York Times | date=December 28, 2020 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/arts/music/tony-rice-dead.html | access-date=2026-03-12}}</ref> *1953 – Ivo Sanader, Croatian historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia *1954 – Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (died 2013) * 1954 – Sergei Storchak, Ukrainian-Russian politician *1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web<ref>{{cite web |title=Tim Berners-Lee {{!}} Biography, Education, Internet, Contributions, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Berners-Lee |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=29 March 2023 |language=en |archive-date=15 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315031626/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Berners-Lee |url-status=live}}</ref> * 1955 – José Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer and manager *1957 – Scott Adams, American author and illustrator (died 2026)<ref>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Harrison|date=January 13, 2026|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/01/13/scott-adams-dead-dilbert/|title=Scott Adams, ''Dilbert'' creator who poked fun at bad bosses, dies at 68|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=January 13, 2026}}</ref> *1958 – Louise Richardson, Irish political scientist and academic<ref>{{Who's Who |title=Richardson, Prof. Louise Mary |id=U249874 |volume=2016 |edition=online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}}</ref> *1959 – Mohsen Kadivar, Iranian philosopher<ref>{{cite book|author=Lloyd Ridgeon|title=Iranian Intellectuals: 1997–2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DcWMAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA57|date=18 October 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-96935-8|pages=57}}</ref> *1960 – Neil Baker, Australian rugby league player<ref name="rlp">{{cite web|title=Neil Baker|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/neil-baker/summary.html|website=Rugby League Project|publisher=Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson and Bill Bates|access-date=1 August 2017}}</ref> * 1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lifetimetv.co.uk/biography/biography-mick-hucknall|title=Biography: Mick Hucknall|publisher=Lifetime|access-date=14 November 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141118001917/http://www.lifetimetv.co.uk/biography/biography-mick-hucknall|archive-date=18 November 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> * 1960 – Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach *1961 – Mary Bonauto, American lawyer and gay rights activist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/bonauto_mary_S.pdf|title=Bonauto, Mary|date=2015}}</ref> *1964 – Butch Reynolds, American runner and coach<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/harry-butch-reynolds|title=Harry Butch. Reynolds|website=IOC|access-date=February 27, 2021}}</ref> *1965 – Kevin Farley, American screenwriter<ref>{{cite book|last=Farley|first=Tom|author2=Tanner Colby |title=The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts|publisher=Viking Adult|year=2008|pages=11–13|isbn=978-0670019236}}</ref> *1966 – Julianna Margulies, American actress<ref>{{cite web |last1=Reif |first1=Carol |title=Happy Birthday To Spring Valley's Julianna Margulies |url=https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/ramapo/lifestyle/happy-birthday-to-spring-valleys-julianna-margulies/649503/ |publisher=The Daily Voice |access-date=4 June 2023 |date=8 June 2016}}</ref> *1967 – Russell E. Morris, Welsh chemist and academic<ref>{{Who's Who | title=MORRIS, Prof. Russell Edward | id = U287302 | volume = 2017 | edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}}</ref> *1971 – Bernard Grech, Maltese lawyer and politician<ref>{{Cite web |last=Diacono |first=Tim |date=2024-06-08 |title=Bernard Grech Celebrates 53rd Birthday. Will He Get The Ultimate Present? |url=https://lovinmalta.com/news/bernard-grech-celebrates-53rd-birthday-will-he-get-the-ultimate-present/ |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=Lovin Malta |language=en-GB}}</ref> *1970 – Kelli Williams, American actress and director<ref>{{Cite news|title=KELLI WILLIAMS: [CHICAGOLAND FINAL Edition]|author=Lavin, Cheryl|date=October 11, 1998|work=Chicago Tribune|page=8|quote=Birthday: June 8, 1970. Birthplace: Los Angeles. Occupation: Actress|id={{ProQuest|418548149}}}}</ref> *1974 – Lauren Burns, Australian taekwondo practitioner<ref name="SportsReference2009">[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025807/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/lauren-burns-1.html Sports Reference: Lauren Burns] (c. 2009). Retrieved on 26 March 2010.</ref> *1975 – Mark Ricciuto, Australian footballer and sportcaster<ref name="hw">{{cite web|title=Mark Ricciuto|url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/mark%2Bricciuto/13119|publisher=Australian Football|access-date=14 May 2016}}</ref> *1976 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/40106/- |title=Lindsay Davenport |website=wtatennis.com |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}</ref> *1977 – Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer<ref>{{cite book|author=Mickey Hess|title=Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTkHAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-33904-2|page=557}}</ref> *1978 – Maria Menounos, American television personality, professional wrestler, author, and actress<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/maria-menounos/bio/198320 |title=Maria Menounos: Biography |publisher=TVGuide.com |access-date=April 10, 2013}}</ref> *1981 – Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author (died 2019)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/us/rachel-held-evans.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/us/rachel-held-evans.html |archive-date=2022-01-03 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Rachel Held Evans, Voice of the Wandering Evangelical, Dies at 37 - The New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=4 May 2019 |access-date=2019-06-08|last1=Dias |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Roberts |first2=Sam }}{{cbignore}}</ref> *1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/160379/- |title=Nadia Petrova |website=wtatennis.com |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}</ref> *1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player; winner of six Grand Slam tournament titles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.espn.co.uk/festivefundown/sport/player/1317.html |title=Kim Clijsters |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd |location=London |access-date=18 July 2020}}</ref> *1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer and manager<ref>{{FIFA player|182372}}</ref> *1986 – Keith Gill, American financial analyst and investor<ref name="stonehill">{{cite web| title= Stonehill Men's Cross Country|url=http://stonehillskyhawks.com/sports/mxc/2006/2007_Veteran_Bios/Keith_Gill?view=bio|website= Stonehill|access-date= February 21, 2021|language =en|archive-date=February 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204224832/https://www.stonehillskyhawks.com/sports/mxc/2006/2007_Veteran_Bios/Keith_Gill?view=bio|url-status=live}}</ref> *1989 – Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/311579/timea-bacsinszky|title=Timea Bacsinszky|website=WTA|access-date=21 March 2020}}</ref> *1994 – Liv Morgan, American professional wrestler<ref>{{cite web |title=Liv Morgan |url=https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/21658533/wwe-profile-page-liv-morgan |publisher=ESPN |access-date=4 June 2023 |date=24 April 2023}}</ref> *1995 – Ferland Mendy, French footballer<ref>{{cite web|title=Ferland Mendy|url=https://www.realmadrid.com/en-US/football/first-team/players/ferland-mendy|website=Real Madrid CF|access-date=8 June 2025}}</ref> *1997 – Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/319939/jelena-ostapenko|title=Jelena Ostapenko|website=WTA|access-date=21 March 2020}}</ref> *2004 – Francesca Capaldi, American actress<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/prime-video/actor/Francesca-Capaldi/amzn1.dv.gti.1d42eb27-42ac-43f3-9fde-ee9100280b89/|title=Francesca Capaldi: Movies, TV, and bio|website=Amazon.com|access-date=23 October 2024}}</ref>

==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * 632 – Muhammad, the central figure of Islam. (born 570/571)<ref>[https://www.usnews.com/articles/news/religion/2008/04/07/the-last-prophet.html?PageNr=3 ''The Last Prophet''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123041056/http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/religion/2008/04/07/the-last-prophet.html?PageNr=3 |date=23 January 2009 }}, p. 3. Lewis Lord of U.S. News & World Report. 7 April 2008.</ref> * 696 – Chlodulf, bishop of Metz (or 697) * 951 – Zhao Ying, Chinese chancellor (born 885) *1042 – Harthacnut, English-Danish king (born 1018)<ref name="Cheney1945"/> *1154 – William of York, English archbishop and saint *1290 – Beatrice Portinari, object of Dante Alighieri's adoration (born 1266)<ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Bemrose|title=A New Life of Dante|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vybuAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=University of Exeter Press|isbn=978-0-85989-584-2|page=17}}</ref> *1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (born 1330)<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Hatcher|author2=Professor of Economic and Social History John Hatcher, Dr|author3=Hatcher, Erik|title=Rural Economy and Society in the Duchy of Cornwall 1300-1500|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PE8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA11-IA12|date=31 October 1970|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=11}}</ref> *1383 – Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros, English politician (born 1338) *1384 – Kan'ami, Japanese actor and playwright (born 1333) *1405 – Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York (born {{circa|1350}})<ref name="Grainge1855">{{cite book|author=William Grainge|title=The castles and abbeys of Yorkshire: a historical and descriptive account of the most celebrated ruins in the county|url=https://archive.org/details/castlesabbeysofy00grai|year=1855|publisher=J. Sampson|pages=[https://archive.org/details/castlesabbeysofy00grai/page/39 39]}}</ref> * 1405 – Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk (born 1385)<ref name="Grainge1855"/> *1476 – George Neville, English archbishop and academic (born 1432) *1492 – Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of England (born 1437)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last=Hicks |first=Michael |title=Elizabeth (c.1437–1492) |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/8634 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8634 |access-date=25 September 2010 }} {{subscription required}}</ref> *1501 – George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, Earl of Huntly and Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1440) *1505 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (born 1470) *1600 – Edward Fortunatus, German nobleman (born 1565)

===1601–1900=== *1611 – Jean Bertaut, French bishop and poet (born 1552)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Campbell |first1=Gordon |title=Bertaut, Jean |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198601753.001.0001/acref-9780198601753-e-424 |website=The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=8 June 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780198601753.001.0001 |date=1 January 2005|isbn=978-0-19-860175-3 }}</ref> *1612 – Hans Leo Hassler, German organist and composer (born 1562) *1621 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (born 1567) *1628 – Rudolph Goclenius, German lexicographer and philosopher (born 1547) *1651 – Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shōgun (born 1604) *1714 – Sophia of Hanover, German nobility, ancestress of all British Monarchs since 1714 (born 1630) *1716 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German son of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (born 1658) *1727 – August Hermann Francke, German-Lutheran pietist, philanthropist, and scholar (born 1663) *1768 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and scholar (born 1717) *1771 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1716) *1795 – Louis XVII of France (born 1785) *1809 – Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (born 1737) *1831 – Sarah Siddons, Welsh actress (born 1755)<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-SIDD-SAR-1755|title=Siddons, Sarah (1755-1831), actress|author=Cecil John Layton Price|access-date=2 May 2019}}</ref> *1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian economist and jurist (born 1761) *1845 – Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (born 1767) *1846 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist (born 1799) *1857 – Douglas William Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (born 1803) *1874 – Cochise, American tribal chief (born 1805) *1876 – George Sand, French author and playwright (born 1804) *1885 – Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (born 1799) *1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (born 1844) *1899 – Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (born 1863)

===1901–present=== *1913 – Emily Davison, English suffragette (born 1872)<ref name=Atkinson>{{cite web |title='That malignant Suffragette': remembering Emily Davison |author= Atkinson, Diane |url=https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/malignant-suffragette-remembering-emily-wilding-davison |website=Museum of London |date=7 May 2018 |access-date=28 August 2023}}</ref> *1919 – Cora Agnes Benneson, American attorney (born 1851)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nazzal |first=James A. |date=2000 |title='Verite Sans Peur': Cora Agnes Benneson, a First-Wave Feminist of Illinois |url=https://jstor.org/stable/40193344 |journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |volume=93 |issue=3 |page=273 |jstor=40193344 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> *1951 – Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1874) *1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter and sculptor (born 1883) *1966 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (born 1890) *1968 – Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (born 1909) * 1968 – Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian racing driver (born 1933) *1969 – Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (born 1885) * 1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor (born 1911)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1CBlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F4gNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2349,1859090|title=Lung cancer claims life of actor Robert Taylor|newspaper=Edmonton Journal|date=June 9, 1969|page=9|access-date=January 28, 2015}}</ref> *1970 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (born 1908) *1971 – J. I. Rodale, American author and playwright (born 1898) *1976 – Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and psychologist (born 1894) *1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (born 1906)<ref>{{cite web |title=Satchel Paige {{!}} Biography, Height, Teams, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Satchel-Paige |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=21 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *1984 – Gordon Jacob, English composer and academic (born 1895)<ref>{{cite ODNB | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-31281 | isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/31281 | title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | year=2004 }}</ref> *1987 – Alexander Iolas, Egyptian-American art collector (born 1907) *1995 – Juan Carlos Onganía, Argentine general and politician, 35th President of Argentina (born 1914)<ref>{{Cite web|title=A 30 años de la muerte de Onganía, el dictador de grandes bigotes y escaso intelecto que pretendió eternizarse en el poder|url=https://www.infobae.com/historias/2025/06/08/a-30-anos-de-la-muerte-de-ongania-el-dictador-de-grandes-bigotes-y-escaso-intelecto-que-pretendio-eternizarse-en-el-poder/|website=Infobae|access-date=8 June 2025|language=es}}</ref> *1997 – George Turner, Australian author and critic (born 1916) * 1997 – Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and academic (born 1948) *1998 – Sani Abacha, Nigerian general and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (born 1943) * 1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (born 1903) *2000 – Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (born 1921)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jun/09/guardianobituaries.crimebooks |title=Obituary: Frédéric Dard |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=9 June 2000 |access-date=18 July 2020}}</ref> *2001 – Alex de Renzy, American director and producer (born 1935) *2004 – Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist and academic (born 1930) * 2004 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (born 1938) *2006 – Jaxon, American illustrator and publisher, co-founded Rip Off Press (born 1941) * 2006 – Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk, theologian, and author (born 1919) *2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese captain and politician, President of Gabon (born 1935)<ref>{{cite news|title=Gabon's leader is confirmed dead|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8090056.stm|work=BBC News|date=2009-06-08|access-date=2009-06-08}}</ref> *2010 – Denise Narcisse-Mair, Canadian musician (born 1940)<ref name="Cohen-1981">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Narcisse-Mair, Denise Lorraine |encyclopedia=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers |publisher=R. R. Bowker |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/roni00aaro/page/330 |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |date=1981 |page=330 |isbn=978-0-8352-1288-5 |url-access=limited}}</ref><ref name="QAR-2010">{{Cite magazine |date=2010 |title=Bishop, Denise (née Narcisse-Mair) |url=https://www.queensu.ca/alumnireview/sites/alumnireview/files/2022-01/2010-3-QAR.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240822184541/https://www.queensu.ca/alumnireview/sites/alumnireview/files/2022-01/2010-3-QAR.pdf |archive-date=2024-08-22 |access-date=2025-07-06 |department=In Memoriam |magazine=Queen's Alumni Review |publisher=Queen's University at Kingston |page=15 |volume=84 |issue=3}}</ref> *2012 – Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1940) * 2012 – Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (born 1926)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/42763-dean-of-journalists-and-veteran-politician-ghassan-tueni-dies|title=Dean of Journalists and Veteran Politician Ghassan Tueni Dies|date=8 June 2012|publisher=Naharnet|accessdate=8 June 2012}}</ref> *2013 – Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (born 1948) * 2013 – Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (born 1930) * 2013 – Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Spouse of Indonesia (born 1942) *2014 – Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (born 1903) * 2014 – Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (born 1948) *2015 – Chea Sim, Cambodian commander and politician (born 1932)<ref>{{cite web|title=Cambodia: Chea Sim Death Shows Failings of Khmer Rouge Court|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/06/08/cambodia-chea-sim-death-shows-failings-khmer-rouge-court|website=Human Rights Watch|date=8 June 2015 |accessdate=9 June 2015}}</ref> *2018 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef and travel documentarian (born 1956)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Patten|first=Dominic|date=2018-06-11|title=Anthony Bourdain's Suicide Mourned By Rose McGowan In New Letter; Didn't Take "Doctor's Advice" In Depression Battle|url=https://deadline.com/2018/06/rose-mcgowan-anthony-bourdain-suicide-statement-depression-1202407718/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183703/https://deadline.com/2018/06/rose-mcgowan-anthony-bourdain-suicide-statement-depression-1202407718/|archive-date=2021-07-09|access-date=2021-07-07|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref> *2019 – Andre Matos, Brazilian heavy metal musician (born 1971)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://entretenimento.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2019/06/08/morre-andre-matos-ex-vocalista-e-fundador-do-angra.htm|title=Morre Andre Matos, ex-vocalista e fundador do Angra, aos 47 anos|website=Entretenimento.uol.com.br|date=8 June 2019 |access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> *2022 – Paula Rego, Portuguese-British visual artist (born 1935)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-08 |title=Dame Paula Rego obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/08/dame-paula-rego-obituary |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref> *2023 – Pat Robertson, American televangelist (born 1930)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-04 |title=Honoring Pat Robertson, 1930-2023: Witness to a God-Sized, World-Changing Dream |url=https://www2.cbn.com/news/us/honoring-pat-robertson-1930-2023-witness-god-sized-world-changing-dream |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=CBN |language=en}}</ref> *2024 – Ramoji Rao, Indian businessman, media proprietor and film producer (born 1936)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Frost |first=Caroline |date=2024-06-09 |title=Ramoji Rao Dies: Indian Film Mogul Was 87 |url=https://deadline.com/2024/06/ramoji-rao-dead-indian-film-mogul-87-1235963350/ |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref> *2024 – Chet Walker, American basketball player (born 1940)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Araton |first=Harvey |date=2024-06-09 |title=Chet Walker, N.B.A. Champion and Movie Producer, Dies at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/sports/basketball/chet-walker-dead.html |access-date=2024-06-11 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

== Holidays and observances == * Christian feast day: ** Chlodulf of Metz<ref name="Martyrologium Romanum">{{cite book |title=Martyrologium Romanum (2004) |date=2004 |publisher=Administrationem Patrimonii Sedis Apostolicae in Civitate Vaticana |location=Vatican City|pages=328-329 |url=https://archive.org/details/MartRom2004/page/328/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=26 May 2026}}</ref> ** Jacques Berthieu, S.J.<ref name="Martyrologium Romanum" /> ** Jadwiga (Hedwig) of Poland ** Mariam Thresia Chiramel<ref name="Martyrologium Romanum" /> ** Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart (Droste zu Vischering)<ref name="Martyrologium Romanum" /> ** Medard<ref name="Martyrologium Romanum" /> ** Melania the Elder ** Roland Allen (Episcopal Church (USA)) ** Thomas Ken (Church of England) ** William of York<ref name="Martyrologium Romanum" /> ** June 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) * First Indochina War day (France)<ref>Instituée par le décret du 26 mai 2005 [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jopdf/common/jo_pdf.jsp?numJO=0&dateJO=20050527&numTexte=00074&pageDebut=00074&pageFin= Site Légifrance].</ref><ref>{{cite web |access-date=9 June 2023 |date=8 June 2022 |title=8 juin : Journée nationale d'hommage aux "morts pour la France" en Indochine |url=https://www.defense.gouv.fr/sga/actualites/8-juin-journee-nationale-dhommage-aux-morts-france-indochine |website=defense.gouv.fr}}</ref> * Bounty Day (Norfolk Island) * Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day * Engineer's Day (Peru) * Primož Trubar Day (Slovenia) * World Brain Tumor Day * World Oceans Day<ref>{{cite web |title=International Days |url=https://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/ |website=www.un.org |access-date=2 January 2021 |language=en |date=6 January 2015}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{commons}} * {{cite web |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/8/ |title=On This Day |publisher=BBC}} * {{NYT On this day|month=06|day=08}} * {{cite web |url=https://www.onthisday.com/events/june/8 |title=Historical Events on June 8 |publisher=OnThisDay.com}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:June 08}} Category:Days of June