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Deaths

1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)

1377 - King Edward III of England (b. 1312)

1527 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)

1529 - John Skelton, English poet

1547 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)

1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)

1591 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)

1621 - Kry?tof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)

1652 - Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)

1738 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)

1796 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)

1824 - ÿtienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)

1874 - Anders Jonas ÿngström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)

 
 

1893 - Leland Stanford, American Business Tycoon and founder of Stanford University

1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)

1914 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)

1934 - Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)

1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)

1952 - Wilfrid 'Wop' May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)

1957 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

1964 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)

1964 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)

1964 - Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)

1969 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)

1970 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901)

1976 - Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)

 
 

1979 - Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)

1980 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)

1985 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)

1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labor leader (b. 1900)

1997 - Shintaro Katsu Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)

2000 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)

2001 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)

2001 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)

2003 - Roger Neilson, Canadian hockey coach (b. 1934)

2003 - Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)

2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)

2005 - Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)

Summer solstice (Northern Hemisphere) and Winter solstice (Southern Hemisphere)

Astrology: First day of sun sign Cancer

National Aboriginal Day in Canada (starting in 1996)

Midsummer ? Neopagan festival ? Litha

National Day of Greenland

Fête de la Musique in France, Belgium and Switzerland.

Go Skateboarding Day

International Surfing Day[1]

BBC: On This Day

The New York Times: On This Day

 

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