What happened on June 19 ?

1312 - Piers Gaveston, French favorite of Edward II of England

1542 - Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)

1545 - Abraomas Kulvietis Lithuanian autor, reformer, professor (b. 1509)

1584 - François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)

1608 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)

1650 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)

1747 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)

1762 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)

1768 - Benjamin Tasker, provincial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)

1805 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)

1820 - Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)

1844 - ÿtienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)

1902 - Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)

1921 - Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (b. 1888)

1937 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (b. 1860)

1939 - Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)

1953 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (executed) (b. 1918)

1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (executed) (b. 1915)

1956 - Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (b. 1874)

1966 - Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)

1968 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)

1975 - Sam Giancana, gangster (b.1908)

1977 - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)

1977 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English Chief Girl Guide (b. 1889)

1979 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)

1986 - Coluche, French comedian (b. 1944)

1986 - Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)

1988 - Fernand Séguin, French Canadian biologist and radio/tv host (b. 1922)

1993 - William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

1996 - G. David Schine, American businessman (b. 1927)

1997 - Bobby Helms, American singer (b. 1933)

2003 - Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)