Events That Happened on June 13

Israeli strikes on Iran: Israel initiates air strikes against Iran.

At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.

Three people are killed and another three injured in an early morning stabbing and van ramming attack in Nottingham, England.

A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.

Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.

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.

A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.

A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback.

The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.

The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of his charges for allegedly sexually molesting a child in 1993.

The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

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.

Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans

A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

The Uphaar Cinema Fire took place at Green Park, Delhi, resulting in the deaths of 59 people and seriously injured 103 others.

The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.

Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170.

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.

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.

Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.

At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

In a game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium, Los Angeles Dodgers teammates Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell play together as an infield for the first time, going on to set the Major League Baseball record of staying together for 8+1⁄2 years.

Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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").

Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

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.

World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.

World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City.

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.

Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.

Émile 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 fifteen miles per hour (24 km/h).

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.

A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.

Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris.

The American League of Colored Laborers, the first African American labor union in the United States, is established in New York City.

Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

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.

Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.

King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.

Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.

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.

In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, comes to a head, as rebels set fire to the Savoy Palace.

Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years).

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.

Bowen Byram, Canadian ice hockey player

Sung Han-bin, South Korean singer

Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer

Emily Fanning, New Zealand tennis player

Laura Ucrós, Colombian tennis player

Deepika Kumari, Indian archer

Atsuhiro Inukai, Japanese actor

Cansin Köktürk, German politician

Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (died 2011)

Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (died 2018)

Semi Radradra, Fijian rugby league player

Will Claye, American jumper

Ryan Mason, English footballer

Kang Si-ra, South Korean singer

James McCann, American baseball player

Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor

Ben Barba, Australian rugby league player

James Calado, English racing driver

Ryan McDonagh, American ice hockey defenseman

Daniel Mortimer, Australian rugby league player

Andreas Samaris, Greek footballer

Tommy Searle, English motocross racer

Hassan Whiteside, American basketball player

Erica Wiebe, Canadian wrestler

Gabe Carimi, American football player

Kerttu Niskanen, Finnish cross-country skier

Reece Noi, British actor

Cody Walker, American actor

Marko Grgić, Croatian footballer

Kat Dennings, American actress and comedian

Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer

Jonathan Lucroy, American baseball catcher

Ashley Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman

Mary-Kate Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman

DJ Snake, French DJ and record producer

Lea Verou, Greek computer scientist and author

Måns Zelmerlöw, Swedish singer

Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver

Silvio Bankert, German footballer

Pedro Strop, Dominican baseball player

Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player

Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer

Kaori Icho, Japanese wrestler

Antje Möldner-Schmidt, German runner

Steve Novak, American basketball player

Jason Spezza, Canadian ice hockey player

Rachel Taylor, Welsh rugby union player

Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian runner

Krzysztof Bosak, Polish politician

Nate Jones, American football player

Chris Evans, American actor and producer

David Madden, founder and executive director of the National History Bee and the National History Bowl

Radim Vrbata, Czech ice hockey player

Florent Malouda, French footballer

Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (died 2012)

Jamario Moon, American basketball player

Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player

Darius Vassell, English footballer

Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver

Esther Anderson, Australian actress

Nila Håkedal, Norwegian volleyball player

Miguel Pate, American long jumper

Ryan Pickett, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Ethan Embry, American actor

Vishwananda, Hindu guru

Romain Mesnil, French pole vaulter

Earthwind Moreland, American football player

Riikka Purra, Finnish politician

Kym Marsh, English singer-songwriter and actress

Ante Covic, Australian footballer

Jeff Davis, American screenwriter and producer

Jennifer Nicole Lee, American model, actress, and author

Jaan Pehk, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer

Valeri Bure, Russian-American ice hockey player

Steve-O, American stunt performer

Sam Adams, American football player

Tanner Foust, American race car driver and television host

Mattias Hellberg, Swedish singer-songwriter

Stuart Karppinen, Australian cricketer and coach

Ville Laihiala, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Natalie MacMaster, Canadian fiddler

Maria Minakowska, Polish philosopher, historian, genealogist

Nóra Köves, Hungarian tennis player

Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer

Rivers Cuomo, American rock musician

Shaun Young, Australian cricketer

Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Spanish actress, director, and screenwriter

Virginie Despentes, French author, screenwriter, and director

Laura Kightlinger, American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter

Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian shot putter

Søren Rasted, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Fabio Baldato, Italian cyclist

Peter DeBoer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Darren Dreger, Canadian sportscaster

David Gray, English-Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Denise Pearson, English singer-songwriter

Marcel Theroux, Ugandan-English journalist and author

Taşkın Aksoy, German-Turkish footballer and manager

Henry Bond, English photographer and curator

Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician

Naoki Hattori, Japanese race car driver

Sunny Balwani, Pakistani-American businessman and criminal

Infanta Cristina Federica of Spain

Vassilis Karapialis, Greek footballer

Lukas Ligeti, Austrian-American drummer and composer

Maninder Singh, Indian cricketer

Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian organist, composer, and educator

Kathy Burke, English actress, director, and playwright

Piyush Goyal, Indian politician, Minister of Railways

Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Lithuanian basketball player

Bettina Bunge, Swiss-German tennis player

Sarah Connolly, English soprano and actress

Audrey Niffenegger, American author and academic

Davey Hamilton, American race car driver

Glenn Michibata, Canadian-American tennis player and coach

Ally Sheedy, American actress and author

Hannah Storm, American journalist and author

Jacques Rougeau, Canadian wrestler

Boyko Borissov, Bulgarian footballer and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Bulgaria

Maurice G. Dantec, French-born Canadian science fiction writer (died 2016)

Steve Georganas, Australian politician

Klaus Iohannis, Romanian educator and politician, 5th President of Romania

Ron Areshenkoff, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2019)

Roy Cooper, American lawyer and politician, 75th Governor of North Carolina

Bruce Flowers, American basketball player

Andrzej Morozowski, Polish journalist and author

Dicky Thompson, American golfer

Blair Chapman, Canadian ice hockey player

Sal Paolantonio, American lieutenant and journalist

Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer and sportscaster

Leah Ward Sears, German-American lawyer and jurist

Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (died 2011)

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria

Tim Allen, American actor, comedian, and producer

Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian martial artist and politician

Howard Leese, American guitarist and producer

Richard Thomas, American actor, director, and producer

Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor

Nick Brown, English politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Gerd Zewe, German footballer and manager

Ann Druyan, American popular science writer

Dennis Locorriere, American singer and musician

Ulla Schmidt, German educator and politician, German Federal Minister of Health

Red Symons, English-Australian musician, television, and radio personality

Garnet Bailey, Canadian-American ice hockey player and scout (died 2001)

Joe Roth, American director and producer, co-founded Morgan Creek Productions

Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepalese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal

Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Gabriel of Komana, Belgian-Dutch archbishop (died 2013)

Whitley Strieber, American author

Christine Beasley, English nursing administrator

David Curry, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

Harry Collins, English sociologist, author, and academic

Malcolm McDowell, English actor and producer

Jim Guy Tucker, American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas (died 2025)

Yiannis Boutaris, Greek businessman and politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki

Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach, and manager

Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (died 1998)

Marv Tarplin, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2011)

Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (died 2017)

Dallas Long, American shot putter and physician (died 2024)

Eleanor Holmes Norton, American lawyer and politician

Erich Ribbeck, German footballer and manager

Andreas Whittam Smith, English journalist and publisher, co-founded The Independent

Christo, Bulgarian-French sculptor and painter (died 2020)

Jeanne-Claude, Moroccan sculptor and painter (died 2009)

Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (died 2009)

Bill Blakeley, American basketball player and coach (died 2010)

Lucjan Brychczy, Polish footballer and coach (died 2024)

Manuel Clouthier, Mexican businessman and politician (died 1989)

James Anthony Griffin, American bishop

Uriel Jones, American drummer (died 2009)

Leonard Kleinrock, American computer scientist and engineer

Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Defence

Norman Lloyd-Edwards, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan

Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, English politician

Bob McGrath, American singer and actor (died 2022)

Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach (died 2013)

Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (died 2009)

Reed Scowen, Canadian politician (died 2020)

Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist and academic

Gotthard Graubner, German painter and educator (died 2013)

Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel and spy (died 2004)

Paul Veyne, French archaeologist, historian, and academic (died 2022)

Ralph McQuarrie, American illustrator (died 2012)

Robert W. Scott, American farmer and politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (died 2009)

Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (died 2015)

Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (died 2009)

John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)

Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)

Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (died 1994)

Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (died 1982)

Kristine Miller, American actress (died 2015)

Lloyd Conover, American chemist and inventor (died 2017)

Etienne Leroux, South African author (died 1989)

Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (died 2004)

Rolf Huisgen, German chemist and academic (died 2020)

Iosif Vorovich, Russian mathematician and engineer (died 2001)

Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (died 1996)

Helmut Lent, German soldier and pilot (died 1944)

Percy Rodriguez, Canadian-American actor (died 2007)

Teddy Turner, English actor (died 1992)

Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (died 2005)

Wu Zhengyi, Chinese botanist and academic (died 2013)

Don Budge, American tennis player and coach (died 2000)

Frederic Franklin, English-American ballet dancer and director (died 2013)

Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host (died 2005)

Yitzhak Pundak, Israeli general, diplomat and politician (died 2017)

Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (died 1943)

Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)

Maurice Copeland, American actor (died 1985)

Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic (died 1977)

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (died 1999)

Mary Wickes, American actress (died 1995)

Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (died 2001)

E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (died 1998)

Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (died 1985)

James T. Rutnam, Sri Lankan historian and author (died 1988)

Willard Harrison Bennett, American physicist and chemist (died 1987)

Carolyn Eisele, American mathematician and historian (died 2000)

Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1985)

Ian Hunter, British Cape Colony actor of stage and film (died 1975)

Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (died 1978)

Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner and coach (died 1973)

Leo Kanner, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (died 1981)

Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (died 1986)

Alan Arnold Griffith, English engineer (died 1963)

Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (died 1957)

Basil Rathbone, South African-born British-American actor (died 1967)

Gao Qifeng, Chinese painter (died 1933)

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (died 1935)

André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (died 1978)

Bruno Frank, German-American author, poet, and playwright (died 1945)

Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (died 1969)

Leon Chwistek, Polish painter, philosopher, and mathematician (died 1944)

Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and academic (died 1978)

Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (died 1941)

Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (died 1929)

William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (died 1937)

Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician (died 1932)

Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (died 1942)

Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1951)

Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)

Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic (died 1919)

Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer (died 1932)

W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1939)

Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and academic (died 1922)

Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (died 1939)

Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (died 1935)

Charles Algernon Parsons, English engineer, founded C. A. Parsons and Company (died 1931)

Augusta Lundin, the first international Swedish fashion designer (died 1919)

James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (died 1879)

Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (died 1882)

Carl Schmidt, Latvian-German chemist and academic (died 1894)

Heinrich Hoffmann, German psychiatrist and author (died 1894)

José Antonio Páez, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (died 1873)

Winfield Scott, American general (died 1866)

Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian composer and politician (died 1833)

Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (died 1829)

José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (died 1838)

Antonín Vranický, Czech violinist and composer (died 1820)

Frances Burney, English novelist and playwright (died 1840)

Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (died 1773)

Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (died 1706)

Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet, English politician (died 1656)

Jan Marek Marci, Czech physician and scientist (died 1667)

Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (died 1626)

Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer (died 1617)

Jost Amman, Swiss printmaker (died 1591)

Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (died 1579)

Ernest of Bavaria, pledge lord of the County of Glatz (died 1560)

Taejong of Joseon, third monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea (died 1422)

Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (died 888)

Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (died 877)

Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (died 93)

Angela Bofill, American R&B singer (born 1954)

Benji Gregory, American child actor (born 1978)

Cormac McCarthy, American author (born 1933)

Ned Beatty, American actor (born 1937)

Buddy Boudreaux, American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1917)

Sergio Renán, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1933)

Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (born 1940)

Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (born 1933)

Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1926)

Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)

Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (born 1932)

Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (born 1924)

David Deutsch, American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (born 1929)

Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (born 1930)

Albert White Hat, American educator and activist (born 1938)

Sam Beddingfield, American pilot and engineer (born 1933)

Graeme Bell, Australian pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1914)

Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (born 1913)

Jože Humer, Slovenian composer and translator (born 1934)

Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer for Lollywood (born 1927)

Jimmy Dean, American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (born 1928)

Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (born 1962)

Fathi Yakan, Lebanese scholar and politician (born 1933)

Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (born 1950)

Walid Eido, Lebanese judge and politician (born 1942)

Charles Haughey, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (born 1925)

Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese academic and politician (born 1913)

David Diamond, American pianist and composer (born 1915)

Ralph Wiley, American journalist and author (born 1952)

Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1916)

John Hope, American navigator and meteorologist (born 1919)

Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author (born 1927)

Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (born 1899)

Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (born 1911)

Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (born 1917)

Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer and academic (born 1909)

Nadia Gray, Romanian-French actress (born 1923)

Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (born 1913)

Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (born 1924)

Fran Allison, American television personality and puppeteer (born 1907)

Geraldine Page, American actress (born 1924)

Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (born 1909)

António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (born 1944)

Olivério Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and physician (born 1896)

Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (born 1942)

Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1945)

Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (born 1891)

Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian journalist, director, and producer (born 1898)

Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (born 1878)

David Drummond, Australian farmer and politician (born 1890)

Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (born 1887)

Irving Baxter, American high jumper and pole vaulter (born 1876)

Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1885)

Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (born 1909)

Kočo Racin, Macedonian author and activist (born 1908)

Sava Kovačević, Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander and People's Hero of Yugoslavia (born 1905)

Arthur Coningham, Australian cricketer (born 1863)

Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (born 1851)

Henry Segrave, American-English racing driver (born 1896)

Michael Alexandrovich, Russian Grand Duke (born 1878)

Louis-Philippe Hébert, Canadian sculptor (born 1850)

Nikiforos Lytras, Greek painter and educator (born 1832)

Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (born 1840)

John Cox Bray, Australian politician, 15th Premier of South Australia (born 1842)

Ludwig II, king of Bavaria (born 1845)

Joseph Škoda, Czech physician and dermatologist (born 1805)

Henry Gray, English anatomist and surgeon (born 1827)

Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer and author (born 1767)

Henry Middleton, American farmer and politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (born 1717)

Dorothea Erxleben, first German female doctor (born 1715)

Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (born 1604)

Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, English politician (born 1595)

Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai (born 1584)

George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (born 1562)

Veronica Gambara, Italian poet (born 1485)

Uko Fockena, Frisian chieftain (born c. 1408)

Juan Manuel, Spanish prince (born 1282)

Tankei, Japanese sculptor (born 1173)

Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (born 1195)

Ali az-Zahir, Fatimid caliph (born 1005)

Fujiwara no Michikane, Japanese nobleman (born 961)

Mansur I, Samanid emir

Xiahou Dun, Chinese general

Christian feast day: Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church

Christian feast day: Aquilina

Christian feast day: Cetteus (Peregrinus)

Christian feast day: Felicula

Christian feast day: G. K. Chesterton (Episcopal Church (USA))

Christian feast day: Gerard of Clairvaux

Christian feast day: Psalmodius

Christian feast day: Ragnebert (Rambert)

Christian feast day: Blessed Thomas Woodhouse

Christian feast day: Triphyllius

Christian feast day: June 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Inventors' Day (Hungary)

Suleimaniah City Fallen and Martyrs Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

International Albinism Awareness Day (international)