History of Today 22 June: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 22 June in History

22 Jun 2025: The United States conducts airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Read more
22 Jun 2022: An earthquake occurs in eastern Afghanistan resulting in over 1,000 deaths. Read more
22 Jun 2015: The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All six of the gunmen are killed and 18 people are injured. Read more
22 Jun 2012: Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco. Read more
22 Jun 2012: A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria. Read more
22 Jun 2009: A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured. Read more
22 Jun 2007: The small town of Elie, Manitoba is hit by Canada's most intense tornado on record. Read more
22 Jun 2002: An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response. Read more
22 Jun 2000: Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people. Read more
22 Jun 1990: Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin. Read more
22 Jun 1986: The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century. Argentina wins 2–1 and later goes on to win the World Cup. Read more
22 Jun 1984: Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark. Read more
22 Jun 1979: Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him. Read more
22 Jun 1978: Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy. Read more
22 Jun 1969: The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Read more
22 Jun 1966: Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyen Cao Ky crushed the Buddhist Uprising. Read more
22 Jun 1965: The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed. Read more
22 Jun 1962: Air France Flight 117 crashes on approach to Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, killing 112 people. Read more
22 Jun 1948: The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom. Read more
22 Jun 1948: King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India. Read more
22 Jun 1945: World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end with an American flag-raising ceremony. Read more
22 Jun 1944: World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre. Read more
22 Jun 1944: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill. Read more
22 Jun 1942: World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk. Read more
22 Jun 1942: The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by U.S. Congress. Read more
22 Jun 1941: World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Read more
22 Jun 1940: World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918. Read more
22 Jun 1922: British Army Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson is killed by the Irish Republican Army helping to spark the Irish Civil War. Read more
22 Jun 1918: The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana. Read more
22 Jun 1911: George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Read more
22 Jun 1911: Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana. Read more
22 Jun 1907: The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens. Read more
22 Jun 1898: Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26 km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings. Read more
22 Jun 1897: British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged. Read more
22 Jun 1893: The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. Read more
22 Jun 1870: The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress. Read more
22 Jun 1839: Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears. Read more
22 Jun 1813: War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a thirty kilometres (19 mi) journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon. Read more
22 Jun 1812: France declares war on Russia, starting Napoleon's invasion. Read more
22 Jun 1807: In the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake. Read more

Famous Births on 22 June

22 Jun 2006: Zépiqueno Redmond, Dutch footballer Zépiqueno Ponimin Charmant Redmond is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Aston Villa. Read more
22 Jun 2001: Luciano Gondou, Argentine footballer Luciano Emilio Gondou Zanelli is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacker for the Russian club CSKA Moscow. Read more
22 Jun 1999: Sam Retford, Australian-English actor Sam Retford is an Australian actor, known for portraying the role of Cory Wilson on the Channel 4 drama Ackley Bridge (2017–2019). As well as starring in various stage productions, he has also made appearances in television series such as Casualty (2019) and Death in Paradise (2021). In 2021, he joined the cast of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as Curtis Delamere. Read more
22 Jun 1996: Mikel Merino, Spanish footballer Mikel Merino Zazón is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or striker for Premier League club Arsenal and the Spain national team. Read more
22 Jun 1996: Rodri, Spanish footballer Rodrigo Hernández Cascante, known as Rodri or Rodrigo, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and captains the Spain national team. Known for his passing, composure, playmaking and physical attributes, he is widely regarded as one of the best defensive midfielders in the world. Read more
22 Jun 1994: Sébastien Haller, French-Ivorian footballer Sébastien Romain Teddy Haller is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie club Utrecht. Born in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team. Read more
22 Jun 1994: Marnus Labuschagne, South African-Australian cricketer Marnus Labuschagne is an Australian international cricketer who captains Queensland and plays for Glamorgan in county cricket and for Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League and is the captain of Pakistan Super League team Hyderabad Kingsmen. Labuschagne was once ranked as high as no.1 in the Test batting rankings. He was a member of the Australian team that won the 2023 WTC and the 2023 ODI World Cup. Read more
22 Jun 1994: Carlos Vinícius Santos de Jesus, Brazilian footballer Carlos Vinícius Santos de Jesus is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking or central midfielder for Dibba, on loan from Portimonense. Read more
22 Jun 1993: Loris Karius, German footballer Loris Sven Karius is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Schalke 04. He represented Germany at youth level. Read more
22 Jun 1993: Danny Ward, Welsh footballer Daniel Ward is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL Championship club Wrexham and the Wales national team. Read more
22 Jun 1992: Ura Kazuki, Japanese sumo wrestler Ura Kazuki is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Neyagawa, Osaka. After winning a gold medal in sumo at the 2013 World Combat Games, he made his professional debut in 2015, wrestling with the Kise stable and he won the jonokuchi division championship in his first tournament. He reached the top makuuchi division in March 2017, but a pair of serious injuries led to two extended layoffs, and his rank dropped to the lowest since his debut tournament, and it was three and a half years before he returned to top-level competition. He has two kinboshi, or gold stars, for defeating a yokozuna. Read more
22 Jun 1992: Harry Reid, British actor Harry Reid is an English actor. He is known for his role as Ben Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, from 2014 until 2018. Read more
22 Jun 1991: Hugo Mallo, Spanish footballer Hugo Mallo Novegil is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back. Read more
22 Jun 1990: Sebastian Jung, German footballer Sebastian Alexander Jung is a German professional footballer who plays as a right back for Karlsruher SC in the 2. Bundesliga. Read more
22 Jun 1989: Cédric Mongongu, Congolese footballer Cédric Mongongu is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a centre back for the DR Congo national team. Read more
22 Jun 1989: Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor Jung Yong-hwa, also known mononymously as Yonghwa, is a South Korean singer, musician and actor. He is the leader, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band CNBLUE. Jung made his television debut in You're Beautiful (2009), and has since starred in television dramas Heartstrings (2011), Marry Him If You Dare (2013), The Three Musketeers (2014), The Package (2017) and Sell Your Haunted House (2021). On the music front, Jung also made his solo debut with the album One Fine Day in 2015. Read more
22 Jun 1988: Omri Casspi, Israeli basketball player Omri Moshe Casspi is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He mainly played at the small forward position, but also played at the power forward position. Read more
22 Jun 1987: Danny Green, American basketball player Daniel Richard Green Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. In his NBA career, Green played for six teams. As of 2025, Green is one of just four players in history to have won NBA championships with three different teams; he won titles with the San Antonio Spurs in 2014, the Toronto Raptors in 2019, and the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. Read more
22 Jun 1987: Lee Min-ho, South Korean actor, singer, model, creative director and businessman Lee Min-ho is a South Korean actor and singer. He gained widespread fame with his role as Gu Jun-pyo in the television series Boys Over Flowers (2009), which also earned him the Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actor. His other notable works are television series City Hunter (2011), The Heirs (2013), The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016), and The King: Eternal Monarch (2020), as well as the action thriller film Gangnam Blues (2015). In 2022, he starred in the Apple TV+ period drama Pachinko based on the novel of the same name. Read more
22 Jun 1987: Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer Nikita Vadymovych Rukavytsya is a retired professional soccer player. Born in Ukraine, he played for the Australia national team. Read more
22 Jun 1985: Thomas Leuluai, New Zealand rugby league player Thomas James Leuluai is a New Zealand professional rugby league coach who is an assistant coach at the Wigan Warriors in the Super League and a former professional rugby league footballer who played for New Zealand at international level. Read more
22 Jun 1984: Dustin Johnson, American golfer Dustin Hunter Johnson is an American professional golfer. He has won two major championships, the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club with a 4-under-par score of 276 and the 2020 Masters Tournament with a record score of 268, 20-under-par. He had previously finished in a tie for second at both the 2011 Open Championship and the 2015 U.S. Open. He has six World Golf Championships victories, second only to Tiger Woods's 18 wins, and was the first and only player to win each of the four World Golf Championship events. He has played in The LIV Golf League since 2022. Read more
22 Jun 1984: Rubén Iván Martínez, Spanish footballer Rubén Iván Martínez Andrade, known simply as Rubén, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Read more
22 Jun 1984: Jerome Taylor, Jamaican cricketer Jerome Everton Taylor is a Jamaican former cricketer who played as a fast bowler for the West Indies. Taylor took over 100 wickets for the Windies in both Tests and One Day Internationals (ODI). During 2017 he reversed an initial decision to retire from international cricket. Taylor has also featured for Jamaica, English sides Somerset, Leicestershire and Sussex, CPL teams St Lucia Zouks and Jamaica Tallawahs and IPL side Pune Warriors in his cricketing career. Taylor was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2016 T20 World Cup. He is the only bowler to have ever taken a hat-trick in a Champions Trophy match, which he did in the 2006 tournament against Australia, and that was the first hat-trick taken by a West Indian bowler in the ODI format. Read more
22 Jun 1984: Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player Janko Tipsarević is a Serbian tennis coach and former professional player. In tennis, his career-high singles ranking is world No. 8, achieved on 2 April 2012. In his career, he won 4 ATP World Tour titles, one ATP doubles title, three Futures, and 15 Challenger titles. Tipsarević also won the 2001 Australian Open junior title. He holds notable victories over former world No. 1 players Carlos Moyá, Marat Safin, Lleyton Hewitt, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Andy Roddick, his compatriot Novak Djokovic, and Andy Murray. His best results at a Grand Slam tournament were reaching the quarterfinals at the US Open in 2011 and 2012. Read more
22 Jun 1983: Allar Raja, Estonian rower Allar Raja is an Estonian rower. He is a member of rowing club SK Kalev located in Pärnu. Read more
22 Jun 1982: Andoni Iraola, Spanish footballer and manager Andoni Iraola Sagarna is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Premier League club Liverpool. Read more
22 Jun 1982: Ian Kinsler, American baseball player Ian Michael Kinsler is an American-Israeli former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 14 seasons for the Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, Boston Red Sox, and San Diego Padres. Kinsler was a four-time All Star, two-time Gold Glove winner, and a member of the 2018 World Series champion Boston Red Sox. Read more
22 Jun 1982: Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model Soraia Chaves is a Portuguese actress and model. She became famous with the role of Amélia in the film O Crime do Padre Amaro and the role of Maria in her next film, Call Girl. She also played the role of Raquel in Dancing Days, a 2012-13 soap opera broadcast on the Portuguese television network SIC. She also starred in the film Real Playing Game. Read more
22 Jun 1981: Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player (died 2017) Sione Tuitupu Lauaki was a Tongan-born New Zealand rugby union footballer who played for Bayonne. He previously played for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. His brother, Epalahame Lauaki, is a 2nd row rugby league footballer previously playing for Auckland Warriors in the NRL competition. He died on 12 February 2017. Read more
22 Jun 1981: Aquivaldo Mosquera, Colombian footballer Aquivaldo Mosquera Romaña is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He also holds Mexican citizenship. Read more
22 Jun 1980: Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player Ilya Nikolayevich Bryzgalov is a Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Anaheim Ducks, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Edmonton Oilers and Minnesota Wild. He was drafted by Anaheim in the second round of the 2000 NHL entry draft, 44th overall. Read more
22 Jun 1980: Stephanie Jacobsen, Hong Kong-Australian actress Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen, is a Hong Kong-born Australian actress. Read more
22 Jun 1979: Joey Cheek, American speed skater William Joseph Cheek is an American former speed skater and inline speed skater. He specialized in the short and middle distances and won Olympic gold in 2006. As of 2024, he is the Executive Vice President of Entrepreneurship for the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. Read more
22 Jun 1979: Thomas Voeckler, French cyclist Thomas Voeckler is a French former road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2017, for the Direct Énergie team and its previous iterations. Read more
22 Jun 1978: Champ Bailey, American football player Roland "Champ" Bailey Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs, where he earned consensus All-American honors, and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 1999 NFL draft. Read more
22 Jun 1978: Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (died 2011) Daniel Clive Wheldon was a British motor racing driver who won the 2005 IndyCar Series for Andretti Green Racing (AGR). He won the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2011, and was co-winner of the 2006 24 Hours of Daytona with Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR). Read more
22 Jun 1975: Urmas Reinsalu, Estonian academic and politician, 28th Estonian Minister of Defence Urmas Reinsalu is an Estonian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2023 and previously from 2019 to 2021. Before that, Urmas has served as the Minister of Defence between 2012 and 2014, and Minister of Justice from 2015 to 2019. Reinsalu is a member and current leader of the Isamaa ("Fatherland") political party, and was the party leader from 2012 to 2015. Read more
22 Jun 1974: Jo Cox, British politician (died 2016) Helen Joanne Cox was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Party. Read more
22 Jun 1974: Donald Faison, American actor Donald Adeosun Faison is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his leading role as Dr. Chris Turk in the ABC/NBC comedy-drama Scrubs, and a supporting role as Murray in both the film Clueless (1995) and the subsequent television series of the same name. He also starred as Phil Chase in the TV Land sitcom The Exes (2011–2015). Faison has also co-starred in the films Waiting to Exhale (1995), Remember the Titans (2000), Uptown Girls (2003), Something New (2006), Next Day Air (2009), Skyline (2010), and Kick-Ass 2 (2013). Read more
22 Jun 1974: Vijay, Indian actor Chandrasekaran Joseph Vijay is an Indian politician and former actor who is currently serving as the ninth chief minister of Tamil Nadu since May 2026. He is the founder and president of the political party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK). Prior to entering politics, he was a leading actor in Tamil cinema and among the highest-paid actors in India, having won numerous accolades including multiple Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and South Indian International Movie Awards. Read more
22 Jun 1973: Eydís Ásbjörnsdóttir, Icelandic politician Eydís Ásbjörnsdóttir is an Icelandic politician and member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, she has represented the Northeast constituency since November 2024. Read more
22 Jun 1973: Carson Daly, American radio and television host Carson Jones Daly is an American television host, radio personality, producer, and television personality. From 1998 to 2003, Daly was a VJ on MTV's Total Request Live (TRL), and a DJ for the Southern California-based radio station 106.7 KROQ-FM. In 2002, Daly joined NBC, where he hosted and produced the late-night talk show Last Call with Carson Daly, and occasionally hosting special event programming for NBC, such as the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks show, and executive producing New Year's Eve with Carson Daly from Times Square beginning in 2003. Read more
22 Jun 1972: Damien Oliver, Australian jockey Damien Oliver is an Australian retired thoroughbred racing jockey. Oliver comes from a racing family; his father Ray Oliver had a successful career until his death in a race fall during the 1975 Kalgoorlie Cup in Western Australia. In 2008, Oliver was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. In August 2023 he announced that he would retire at the end of that year's spring carnival. Read more
22 Jun 1971: Gary Connolly, English rugby player Gary John Connolly is an English former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer. Read more
22 Jun 1971: Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress and comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub is an American actress and comedian who is best known for portraying Chloe O'Brian in the action thriller series 24 and Gail the Snail in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She was a regular cast member on HBO's Mr. Show with Bob and David, appeared in The Larry Sanders Show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Veronica's Closet, and acted in films including Dude, Where's My Car?, Firewall, Sweet Home Alabama, Punch-Drunk Love, Mysterious Skin, Little Miss Sunshine, Sunshine Cleaning, Safety Not Guaranteed, and The Kings of Summer, among others. Read more
22 Jun 1971: Laila Rouass, British actress Laila Rouass is an English actress. On television, she is known for her roles as in the ITV series Footballers' Wives (2004–2006) and Primeval (2009), the BBC One soap opera Holby City and series Spooks (2009), and the Netflix series Safe (2018). She was also a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing (2009), in which she finished fourth. Read more
22 Jun 1971: Kurt Warner, American football player and sportscaster Kurtis Eugene Warner is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons, primarily with the St. Louis Rams and Arizona Cardinals. His career, which saw him ascend from an undrafted free agent to a two-time Most Valuable Player and Super Bowl MVP, is widely regarded as one of the greatest Cinderella stories in NFL history. Read more
22 Jun 1968: Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player and coach Darrell Eugene Armstrong is an American professional basketball coach and former player who last was an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 14 seasons in the NBA for the Orlando Magic, New Orleans Hornets, Dallas Mavericks, Indiana Pacers and New Jersey Nets. Armstrong was selected as the Most Improved Player and Sixth Man of the Year while playing for the Magic in 1999. He retired from playing in 2008 and joined the Mavericks as an assistant coach in 2009. He won his first NBA championship with the Mavericks in 2011. Read more
22 Jun 1968: Miri Yu, Zainichi, Korean novelist Miri Yu is a Zainichi Korean playwright, novelist, and essayist. Yu writes in Japanese, her native language, but is a citizen of South Korea. Read more
22 Jun 1966: Joanna Kołaczkowska, Polish cabaret performer (died 2025) Joanna Dorota Kołaczkowska was a Polish cabaret performer, theatre actress, songwriter and radio presenter. She was widely recognized as one of the most prominent figures in Polish cabaret in the early 21st century, particularly through her long-standing involvement with the Hrabi Cabaret troupe, with which she performed from 2002 until 2025. Read more
22 Jun 1966: Michael Park, English racing driver (died 2005) Michael Steven Park was a rally co-driver from Newent in Gloucestershire. He worked with former world champions Richard Burns and Colin McRae as a gravel note expert while co-driving for both David Higgins and Mark Higgins in the British national series. His big break, however, came when he teamed up with the emerging Estonian talent Markko Märtin as a privateer pairing in a Toyota Corolla WRC for the 2000 World Rally Championship season. Read more
22 Jun 1966: Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress Emmanuelle Seigner is a French actress and singer. She is known for her roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Ninth Gate (1999) and Frantic (1988). She has been nominated for a César Award for Best Actress for Venus in Fur (2013), and for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Place Vendôme (1998) and La Vie en Rose (2007). She has been married to Polish film director Roman Polanski since 1989. Read more
22 Jun 1966: Dean Woods, Australian cyclist Dean Anthony Woods OAM was an Australian racing cyclist from Wangaratta in Victoria known for his track cycling at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games. On Australia Day 1985 he was awarded the Order of Australia medal for service to cycling. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. Read more
22 Jun 1965: Uwe Boll, German director, producer, and screenwriter Uwe Boll is a German filmmaker. He came to prominence during the 2000s for his adaptations of video game franchises. Released theatrically, the films were critical and commercial failures; his movies House of the Dead (2003), Alone in the Dark and BloodRayne are considered three of the worst films ever made. Boll's subsequent projects, released during the 2010s, were mostly released direct-to-video. After retiring in 2016 to become a restaurateur, Boll returned to filmmaking in 2022. His films are financed through his production companies Boll KG and Event Film Productions. Read more
22 Jun 1965: Ľubomír Moravčík, Czech footballer and manager Ľubomír Moravčík is a Slovak football manager and former player. A creative midfielder renowned for his technical ability, he was capable of unleashing powerful, accurate shots, and pinpoint crosses with both feet. He played for teams in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia, France, Germany, Japan, and Scotland. During his time at Scottish club Celtic, Moravčík made 129 appearances, scoring 35 goals and winning two Scottish Premier League titles. Read more
22 Jun 1964: Cadillac Anderson, American basketball player Gregory Wayne "Cadillac" Anderson is an American former professional basketball player. Read more
22 Jun 1964: Amy Brenneman, American actress Amy Frederica Brenneman is an American actress and producer. She first gained prominence as Detective Janice Licalsi in the ABC police drama series NYPD Blue (1993–1994). Brenneman later co-created and starred as Judge Amy Gray in the CBS drama series Judging Amy (1999–2005), earning multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations for these roles. Read more
22 Jun 1964: Dan Brown, American author and academic Daniel Gerhard Brown is an American writer best known for his thriller novels, particularly the Robert Langdon series Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), Origin (2017) and The Secret of Secrets (2025). His novels are treasure hunts that usually take place over a 24-hour period and center on recurring themes of cryptography, art, and conspiracy theories. Read more
22 Jun 1964: Miroslav Kadlec, Czech footballer Miroslav Kadlec is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a defender. Either side of an eight-year spell playing in Germany for Kaiserslautern, Kadlec played for four Czech clubs. In an international career spanning from 1987 to 1997, Kadlec made 64 international appearances split between Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. Read more
22 Jun 1963: Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 61st Yokozuna Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Hokkaidō. He was the sport's 61st yokozuna and won eight top division championships. He wrestled for Kokonoe stable. In 1989 he and Chiyonofuji were the first yokozuna stablemates to take part in a play-off for the championship. After a number of injury problems he retired in 1992, and is now the head coach of Hakkaku stable. In November 2015 he was appointed chairman of the Japan Sumo Association, following the death of Kitanoumi, initially to serve until the end of March 2016. He was then elected as head for a full term by his fellow board members in a vote held in March 2016. He was reappointed to a full term as chairman five times, most recently in 2026. Read more
22 Jun 1963: John Tenta, Canadian-American wrestler (died 2006) John Anthony Tenta Jr. was a Canadian professional wrestler and sumo wrestler (rikishi) best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Earthquake. Read more
22 Jun 1962: Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Stephen Chow Sing-chi is a Hong Kong filmmaker and former actor, known for his mo lei tau comedy, which has a significant influence on Chinese popular culture. His career began in television, where he gained recognition through variety shows and TV dramas. Chow's breakthrough came in 1989 with the comedy dramas The Final Combat and The Justice of Life, the latter marking the beginning of his on-screen collaboration with Ng Man-tat. He consecutively broke Hong Kong’s box office records in the next two years with films All for the Winner (1990) and Fight Back to School (1991), cementing his status as one of the region's most popular comedic actors. Read more
22 Jun 1962: Bobby Gillespie, Scottish musician and singer-songwriter Robert Gillespie is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the lead singer, founding member, primary lyricist, and sole continuous member of the alternative rock band Primal Scream. He was the drummer for The Jesus and Mary Chain in the mid-1980s, leaving after the release of the band's debut album Psychocandy, and was once the bassist for The Wake. Read more
22 Jun 1962: Clyde Drexler, American basketball player and coach Clyde Austin Drexler Sr. is an American former professional basketball player who currently works as the commissioner of the Big3 3-on-3 basketball league. Nicknamed "Clyde the Glide", he played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), spending a majority of his career with the Portland Trail Blazers before finishing with the Houston Rockets. He was a ten-time NBA All-Star, five time All-NBA Selection, and was named to the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams. Drexler led Portland to the NBA Finals in 1990 and 1992, won an NBA championship with Houston in 1995, and earned a gold medal on the 1992 United States Olympic team known as "The Dream Team". He was inducted twice into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2004 for his individual career and in 2010 as a member of the "Dream Team". Drexler is often considered among the top basketball players and top shooting guards of all time. Read more
22 Jun 1962: Gerald Hillringhaus, German footballer Gerald "Gerry" Hillringhaus is a former German footballer. Read more
22 Jun 1961: Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter James William Somerville is a Scottish singer. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as a member the synth-pop groups Bronski Beat and the Communards; with the former, Somerville achieved commercial success worldwide with the 1984 single "Smalltown Boy", which peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart. Read more
22 Jun 1960: Erin Brockovich, American lawyer and environmentalist Erin Brockovich is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California, for attorney Ed Masry in 1993. Their successful lawsuit was the subject of the Oscar-winning film Erin Brockovich (2000), starring Julia Roberts as Brockovich and Albert Finney as Masry. Read more
22 Jun 1960: Margrit Klinger, German runner Margrit Klinger is a retired West German middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. Read more
22 Jun 1960: Tracy Pollan, American actress Tracy Jo Pollan Fox is an American actress. She is best known for playing Ellen Reed on the NBC sitcom Family Ties (1985–1987) and Harper Anderson on the crime drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Read more
22 Jun 1959: Michael Kinane, Irish jockey Michael J. Kinane is an Irish former flat racing jockey. He had a 34-year career, retiring on 8 December 2009. Read more
22 Jun 1959: Nicola Sirkis, French singer-songwriter and guitarist Nicolas Henri Didier Sirchis, better known by his stage name Nicola Sirkis, is a French musician, primarily known for his work as the frontman and singer of the French rock band Indochine. He is the only remaining member of the original line-up of the band which he formed in 1981 with a friend, Dominique Nicolas, soon to be joined by his twin brother Stéphane and Dimitri Bodianski. Read more
22 Jun 1959: Daniel Xuereb, French footballer Daniel Xuereb is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward. He earned eight international caps for France during the 1980s, scoring one goal. As a player of RC Lens (1981–1986), he appeared for France in the 1986 FIFA World Cup, after France won the gold medal match at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, scoring in the match himself, while also ending the competition's joint top-scorer. Read more
22 Jun 1958: Rocío Banquells, Mexican pop singer and actress Rocío Banquells is a Mexican pop singer, politician, and actress, best known for her work on television, the stage and cinema of Mexico and Latin America. Her mezzo voice is one of the most versatile voices from Mexico. She sings operetta, ranchera, rock, and ballads. Read more
22 Jun 1958: Jennifer Finney Boylan, American author Jennifer Finney Boylan is an American author, transgender activist, professor at Barnard College, and a former contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. In December 2023, she became the president of PEN America, having previously been the vice president. Read more
22 Jun 1958: Bruce Campbell, American actor, director, producer and writer Bruce Lorne Campbell is an American actor and filmmaker. He starred as Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead horror series. He has also featured in many low-budget cult movies, such as Crimewave (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002). Read more
22 Jun 1957: Danny Baker, English journalist and screenwriter Danny Baker is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. Throughout his career he has largely presented for London's regional radio and television. Read more
22 Jun 1957: Garry Gary Beers, Australian bass player, songwriter, and producer Garry William Beers, known as Garry Gary Beers, is an Australian musician and was the bass guitarist for the rock group INXS. Read more
22 Jun 1957: Kevin Bond, English footballer and manager Kevin John Bond is an English professional football manager and former footballer who played as a centre back. Read more
22 Jun 1957: Michael Stratton, English geneticist and academic Sir Michael Rudolf Stratton is a British clinical scientist and the third director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. He currently heads the Cancer Genome Project and is a leader of the International Cancer Genome Consortium. Read more
22 Jun 1956: Darryl Brohman, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster Darryl Gregory Brohman, also known by the nickname of "The Big Marn", is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1980s, now best known as a commentator and media personality. Brohman played professional league for the Penrith Panthers, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and the Queensland rugby league team. At present, he is working for 2GB on its Continuous Call Team broadcasts, on The Footy Show and makes guest appearances on the Australian version of the ESPN show Pardon the Interruption. In the summer, he plays a small role in the nationally syndicated radio program entitled Summer Weekend Detention which broadcasts from the Sydney studios of 2GB on weekends during the summer months. Read more
22 Jun 1956: Alfons De Wolf, Belgian cyclist Alfons "Fons" De Wolf is a retired Belgian road race cyclist, a professional from 1979 to 1990. He represented his country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Read more
22 Jun 1956: Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani agriculturist and politician, 25th Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi is a Pakistani politician who has twice held the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan), first from 2008 to 2011 and later from 2018 to 2022. Since 2011, he has also served as the Vice Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
He has an extensive parliamentary career, having served five non-consecutive terms in the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1993 and 2022. Prior to that, he was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab for three consecutive terms from 1985 to 1993. Read more
22 Jun 1956: Tim Russ, American actor, director, and screenwriter Timothy Darrell Russ is an American actor, musician, screenwriter, director and amateur astronomer. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager; Robert Johnson in Crossroads (1986); Casey in East of Hope Street (1998); Frank on Samantha Who?; Principal Franklin on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly; D. C. Montana on The Highwaymen (1987–1988), and for his brief role in Spaceballs (1987). He appeared in The Rookie: Feds (2022) and reprised his role as Captain Tuvok on Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard. Read more
22 Jun 1956: Markus Schatte, German footballer, manager, and coach Markus Schatte is a German football coach. Read more
22 Jun 1956: Derek Forbes, Scottish bass player and guitarist Derek Forbes is a Scottish musician. He is mostly associated with the Scottish band Simple Minds, having joined in time to record their early demos in 1978 and stayed with the band during their rise to mainstream success and their first six albums, until leaving shortly after their 1985 hit "Don't You ". He has also played with Big Country, Propaganda, Oblivion Dust, Spear of Destiny, Kirk Brandon's 10:51 and The Alarm, as well as leading his own projects. Read more
22 Jun 1955: Green Gartside, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist Green Gartside is a Welsh singer, songwriter and musician. He is the frontman of the band Scritti Politti. Read more
22 Jun 1955: Christine Orengo, British academic and educator Christine Anne Orengo is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College London (UCL) known for her work on protein structure, particularly the CATH database. From 2021 to 2024, Orengo served as president of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), the first woman to do so in the history of the society. Read more
22 Jun 1954: Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor (died 1977) Freddie Prinze was an American stand-up comedian and actor, and the star of the NBC-TV sitcom Chico and the Man from 1974 until his death in 1977. He was described in a Vulture magazine article as "having blown up like no other comedian in history." Prinze is the father of actor Freddie Prinze Jr. Read more
22 Jun 1953: Wim Eijk, Dutch cardinal Willem Jacobus "Wim" Eijk is a Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal since 2012. He has been the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht since 2007. He was Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden from 1999 to 2007. Before his clerical career, he worked as a medical doctor; as a priest, he made medical ethics the focus of his academic studies. He has done his doctoral studies in medicine and philosophy, and also holds a licentiate in theology. Read more
22 Jun 1953: Mauro Francaviglia, Italian mathematician and academic (died 2013) Mauro Francaviglia was an Italian mathematician. Read more
22 Jun 1953: Cyndi Lauper, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Lauper is known for her distinctive image, which features eccentric clothing and a variety of hair colors. She is also known for her powerful four-octave vocal range. Lauper has been dubbed the "Queen of Quirky Pop." She has sold over 50 million records worldwide. She has also been celebrated for her humanitarian work, particularly as an advocate for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Read more
22 Jun 1953: Bruce McAvaney, Australian journalist and sportscaster Bruce William McAvaney is an Australian sports broadcaster with the Seven Network. McAvaney has presented high-profile events including the AFL Grand Final, Melbourne Cup, Australian Open, Test cricket and both Winter and Summer Olympics, as well as annual special events such as the Brownlow Medal. McAvaney is well known for his commentary of AFL matches as well as covering every Summer Olympic Games from the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympic Games to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Read more
22 Jun 1952: Graham Greene, Canadian actor Graham Greene was a Canadian First Nations (Oneida) actor and recording artist, active in film, television and theatre in a career spanning over 50 years. He achieved international fame for his role as Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves (1990), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His other notable films include Thunderheart (1992), Maverick (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Skins (2002), Transamerica (2005), Casino Jack (2010), Winter's Tale (2014), The Shack (2017), and Wind River (2017). Read more
22 Jun 1952: Santokh Singh, Malaysian football player Datuk Santokh Singh s/o Gurdial Singh is a retired Malaysian football player.
His wife is Taljit Kaur and has 3 children, Kiranjeet Kaur, Sukhveer Singh and Rajveer Singh. Read more
22 Jun 1951: Brian Cookson, British cyclist and sports administrator Michael Brian Cookson OBE is the former president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), having been elected to the post in September 2013 at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships. Read more
22 Jun 1951: Craig Gruber, American bass player (died 2015) Craig M. Gruber was an American rock bassist, best known as the original bassist in Rainbow. He also played in Elf, consisting of vocalist Ronnie James Dio, keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, drummer Gary Driscoll, and guitarist Steve Edwards. Read more
22 Jun 1951: Humphrey Ocean, English painter and academic Humphrey Ocean is a contemporary British painter. Read more
22 Jun 1950: Sharon Maughan, English actress Sharon Patricia Maughan is a British actress. She became internationally recognised in the 1980s from the Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé instant coffee, alongside actor Anthony Head. Her credits include She's Out of My League, MacGyver, Inspector Morse, Hannay, and Murder, She Wrote. She made it to the semi-final of Celebrity MasterChef in 2011. Read more
22 Jun 1950: Adrian Năstase, Romanian lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Romania Adrian Năstase is a Romanian jurist, academic/professor, blogger, and former politician who served as the prime minister of Romania from December 2000 to December 2004. Read more
22 Jun 1950: Greg Oliphant, Australian rugby league player Greg Oliphant is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, a state and national representative halfback who made one Kangaroo tour. Oliphant played in the New South Wales Rugby League for the two seasons of 1978–1979 with the Balmain Tigers. Prior to and after those years he played in the Brisbane Rugby League with Wests, Valleys and Redcliffe. Read more
22 Jun 1950: John Perdue, former West Virginia State Treasurer John D. Perdue is an American politician who served as the 24th West Virginia State Treasurer from 1997 to 2021. He is the latest Democratic candidate to receive more than 50% of the vote in the state. Read more
22 Jun 1950: Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (died 2009) Zenonas Petrauskas was a Lithuanian lawyer and deputy foreign minister of Lithuania (2004–2006). He was as an associate professor of international law. He was born in Čekiškė. Read more
22 Jun 1950: Tom Alter, Indian actor (died 2017) Thomas Beach Alter was an Indian actor of American descent who worked in Indian cinema. He was best known for his works in Hindi cinema, and Indian theatre. In 2008, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. Read more
22 Jun 1949: Larry Junstrom, American bass player (died 2019) Lawrence Edward Junstrom was an American bassist who was a member of the rock band .38 Special from 1977 until 2014. He was also one of the founding members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Read more
22 Jun 1949: Brian Leveson, English lawyer and judge Sir Brian Henry Leveson is an English retired senior judge who is the current Investigatory Powers Commissioner, having previously served as the President of the Queen's Bench Division and Head of Criminal Justice. Read more
22 Jun 1949: Alan Osmond, American singer and producer Alan Ralph Osmond was an American singer and musician. He was a member of the family musical group The Osmonds. Prior to that, Alan and his brothers performed as the Osmond Brothers Boys' Quartet. He served as leader of the group. Read more
22 Jun 1949: Meryl Streep, American actress Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress. Recognized as one of the most versatile performers of her era, Streep is noted for her technical precision, command of dialects, and professional longevity. She is an alumna of Vassar College and the Yale School of Drama, holding a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts. Her artistic process often includes refining her characters' dialogue so that their motivations possess a psychological depth and agency that transcend traditional archetypes. Beyond her creative work, she is a prominent advocate for gender parity, labor protections, and a challenge to the influence of the male gaze in film criticism and production. Read more
22 Jun 1949: Luís Filipe Vieira, Portuguese businessman Luís Filipe Ferreira Vieira is a Portuguese real estate businessman who was the 33rd president of sports club Benfica, from 31 October 2003 to 15 July 2021. Read more
22 Jun 1949: Lindsay Wagner, American actress Lindsay Jean Wagner is an American actress. Wagner is popular for her leading role in the American science fiction television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), in which she portrayed character Jaime Sommers. She first played the role on the series The Six Million Dollar Man. The character became a pop culture icon of the 1970s. For this role, Wagner won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Role in 1977 – the first for an actor or actress in a science fiction series. Wagner began acting professionally in 1971 and has maintained a lengthy acting career in a variety of film and television productions to the present day. Read more
22 Jun 1949: Elizabeth Warren, American academic and politician Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American politician and former law professor serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts, a seat she has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party and regarded as a progressive, Warren has focused on consumer protection, equitable economic opportunity, and the social safety net while in the Senate. Warren was also a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, ultimately finishing third after Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Read more
22 Jun 1948: James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss, Scottish businessman James Donald Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss and 9th Earl of March,, also known as Jamie Neidpath, is a British peer and landowner. Read more
22 Jun 1948: Todd Rundgren, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Todd Harry Rundgren is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the bands Nazz and Utopia. He is known for his sophisticated and often unorthodox music, his occasionally lavish stage shows, and his later experiments with interactive art. He also produced music videos and was an early adopter and promoter of various computer technologies, such as using the Internet as a means of music distribution in the late 1990s. Read more
22 Jun 1947: Octavia E. Butler, American author (died 2006) Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Read more
22 Jun 1947: Howard Kaylan, American pop-rock singer-songwriter and musician Howard Kaylan is an American retired musician and songwriter, who was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s rock band The Turtles, and, with bandmate and friend Mark Volman, a member of the 1970s rock duo Flo & Eddie, where he used the pseudonym Eddie. He also was a member of Frank Zappa's band, The Mothers of Invention. Read more
22 Jun 1947: Bruno Latour, French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist (died 2022) Bruno Latour was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). After teaching at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation of the École des Mines de Paris from 1982 to 2006, he became a professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He retired from several university activities in 2017. He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Read more
22 Jun 1947: Pete Maravich, American basketball player (died 1988) Peter Press Maravich, also known by his nickname Pistol Pete, was an American professional basketball player. Read more
22 Jun 1947: Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian lieutenant and politician, President of Ghana (died 2020) Jerry John Rawlings was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator, politician, and revolutionary who led the country briefly in 1979 and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military regime until 1993 and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana. He was the longest-serving leader in Ghana's history, presiding over the country for 19 years. Read more
22 Jun 1946: Linda Bond, Canadian 19th General of The Salvation Army Linda Bond served as the 19th General of the Salvation Army. She was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. Read more
22 Jun 1946: Sheila Hollins, Baroness Hollins, English psychiatrist and academic Sheila Clare Hollins, Baroness Hollins, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry of Learning Disability at St George's, University of London, and was created a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords on 15 November 2010 taking the title Baroness Hollins, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton and of Grenoside in the County of South Yorkshire. Read more
22 Jun 1946: Eliades Ochoa, Cuban singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Eliades Ochoa Bustamante is a Cuban guitarist and singer from Loma de la Avispa, Songo La Maya in the east of the country near Santiago de Cuba. Read more
22 Jun 1946: Józef Oleksy, Polish economist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (died 2015) Józef Oleksy was a Polish left-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 7 March 1995 to 7 February 1996, when he resigned due to espionage allegations. He was chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance. Read more
22 Jun 1946: Stephen Waley-Cohen, English journalist and businessman Sir Stephen Harry Waley-Cohen, 2nd Baronet is an English theatre owner-manager and producer, following a career as a businessman and financial journalist. He manages the St. Martin's Theatre in London's West End and is the current producer of the world's longest running play The Mousetrap. He was chairman of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) Council. Read more
22 Jun 1945: Rainer Brüderle, German economist and politician, German Minister of Economics and Technology Rainer Brüderle
is a German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He served as Minister of Economics and Transport of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1987–1998. On 28 October 2009, he was appointed Federal Minister for Economics and Technology in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Following his election in May 2011 as chairman of his party's parliamentary group, Brüderle resigned as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Technology. Read more
22 Jun 1944: Peter Asher, English singer, guitarist, and producer Peter Asher is an English guitarist, singer, manager and record producer. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the pop music vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a manager and record producer, helping to foster the recording careers of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt among others. Read more
22 Jun 1944: Helmut Dietl, German director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015) Helmut Dietl was a German film director and author from Bad Wiessee. Read more
22 Jun 1943: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor and director Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. Read more
22 Jun 1943: Brit Hume, American journalist and author Alexander Britton Hume, known professionally as Brit Hume, is an American journalist and political commentator. He had a 23-year career with ABC News, where he contributed to World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, and This Week. Hume served as the ABC News chief White House correspondent from 1989 to 1996. Read more
22 Jun 1943: J. Michael Kosterlitz, British-American physicist John Michael Kosterlitz is a British-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics. Read more
22 Jun 1941: Ed Bradley, American journalist (died 2006) Edward Rudolph Bradley Jr. was an American broadcast journalist and news anchor who is best known for reporting with 60 Minutes and CBS News. Read more
22 Jun 1941: Terttu Savola, Finnish journalist and politician Terttu Savola is a Finnish politician. She is the chairperson of the For the Poor party, a member of the council of the city of Espoo, the ambassador for human rights and children's rights in the Finnish United Nations alliance, and a lecturer in the Finnish Refugee Help Association. Read more
22 Jun 1940: Joan Busfield, English sociologist, psychologist, and academic Joan Busfield, is a British sociologist and psychologist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and former President of the British Sociological Association (2003–2005). Her research focuses on psychiatry and mental disorder. Read more
22 Jun 1940: Hubert Chesshyre, English historian and author (died 2020) David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre was a British officer of arms. Read more
22 Jun 1940: Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016) Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works, Certified Copy (2010) and Like Someone in Love (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films Where Is the Friend's House? (1987), Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of Iran, and of all time. Read more
22 Jun 1940: Esther Rantzen, English journalist Esther Louise Rantzen is an English journalist and television presenter who presented the BBC television series That's Life! for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994. She works with various charitable causes and founded the charities Childline, a helpline for children, which she set up in 1986, and The Silver Line, designed to combat loneliness in older people's lives, which she set up in November 2012. Read more
22 Jun 1939: Don Matthews, American-Canadian football player and coach (died 2017) Donald J. Matthews, a.k.a. "the Don", was a head coach of several professional football teams, mostly in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He won 231 games in the CFL, the second highest win total by a head coach in the league's history while the first and so far only coach to lead four teams to Grey Cup victories. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in September 2011. Read more
22 Jun 1939: Ed Paschke, Polish-American painter and academic (died 2004) Edward Francis Paschke was an American painter. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons, as well as his father's creativity in wood carving and construction, led him toward a career in art. As a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago he was influenced by many artists featured in the museum's special exhibitions, in particular the work of Gauguin, Picasso and Seurat. Read more
22 Jun 1937: Chris Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell OJ is a Jamaican-British former record producer and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels". According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is "the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music." Variety describes him as "indisputably one of the greatest record executives in history." Read more
22 Jun 1937: Bernie McGann, Australian saxophonist and composer (died 2013) Bernard Francis McGann was an Australian jazz alto saxophone player. He began his career in the late 1950s and remained active as a performer, composer and recording artist until near the end of his life. McGann won four ARIA Music Awards between 1993 and 2001. Read more
22 Jun 1936: Kris Kristofferson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2024) Kristoffer Kristofferson was an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He was a pioneering figure in the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, moving away from the polished Nashville sound and toward a more raw, introspective style. Some of his most famous songs include "Me and Bobby McGee" (1970), "For the Good Times" (1968), "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (1969), and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (1970), which were also recorded by and became hits for other artists. Read more
22 Jun 1936: Ferran Olivella, Spanish footballer (died 2023) Ferran Olivella Pons was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender. Read more
22 Jun 1936: Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian accordion player and composer Hermeto Pascoal was a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. Pascoal was best known in Brazilian music for his orchestration and improvisation, as well as for being a record producer and contributor to many Brazilian and international albums. Read more
22 Jun 1934: James Bjorken, American physicist, author, and academic (died 2024) James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken was an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954, received a BS in physics from MIT in 1956, and obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1959. Bjorken was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1962. He was also emeritus professor in the SLAC Theory Group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and was a member of the Theory Department of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1979–1989). Read more
22 Jun 1933: Dianne Feinstein, American politician (died 2023) Dianne Emiel Feinstein was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 38th mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988. Read more
22 Jun 1932: Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Princess of Iran (died 2001) Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen of Iran from 1951 to 1958. Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that she was infertile. In March 1958, their divorce was announced. After a brief career as an actress, and a liaison with Italian film director Franco Indovina, Soraya lived with her brother in Paris until her death. Read more
22 Jun 1932: Yevgeny Kychanov, Russian orientalist, historian, and academic (died 2013) Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov was a Soviet-Russian orientalist, an expert on the Tangut people and their mediaeval Xi Xia Empire. From 1997 to 2003 he served as the director of the Saint Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Read more
22 Jun 1932: Amrish Puri, Indian actor (died 2005) Amrish Puri was an Indian actor, who was one of the most notable and important figures in Indian cinema and theatre. He acted in more than 450 films, and established himself as one of the greatest and iconic actors in Indian cinema. Puri was known for his acting versatility but his villainous roles earned him more recognition. His dominating screen presence and distinctive deep voice made him stand out amongst other actors of his generation. Puri also worked in art cinema. He won three Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Actor in eight nominations. He also holds most Filmfare Award for Best Villain nominations. Read more
22 Jun 1932: June Salter, Australian actress (died 2001) June Marie Salter was an Australian actress and author prominent in theatre and television. She is best known for her character roles, in particular as schoolteacher Elizabeth McKenzie in the soap opera The Restless Years and for her regular guest appearances in A Country Practice as Matron Hilda Arrowsmith. Read more
22 Jun 1932: Prunella Scales, English actress (died 2025) Prunella Margaret Rumney West, known professionally as Prunella Scales, was an English actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Sybil Fawlty in the BBC television sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975–1979) and her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution (1991), which earned her a BAFTA nomination. She later appeared in the TV documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2019), travelling waterways in the UK and abroad with her husband, the actor Timothy West. Read more
22 Jun 1932: John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, English businessman and politician, Leader of the House of Lords John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, is a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was chancellor of Brunel University between 1998 and 2012, and since then has been its chancellor emeritus. Read more
22 Jun 1931: Ruby Garrard Woodson, American educator and cultural historian (died 2008) Ruby Garrard Woodson was an educator and chemistry teacher who founded Cromwell Academy in Washington, D. C. and Florida Academy of African American Culture in Sarasota, Florida. Read more
22 Jun 1930: Yuri Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (died 1998) Yuri Petrovich Artyukhin was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer who made a single flight into space. Read more
22 Jun 1930: Walter Bonatti, Italian journalist and mountaineer (died 2011) Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer, alpinist, explorer and journalist. He was noted for many climbing achievements, including a solo climb of a new alpine climbing route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955, the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV in 1958, and, in 1965, the first solo climb in winter of the North face of the Matterhorn on the mountain's centenary year of its first ascent. Immediately after his solo climb on the Matterhorn, Bonatti announced his retirement from professional climbing at the age of 35, and after 17 years of climbing activity. He authored many mountaineering books and spent the remainder of his career travelling off the beaten track as a reporter for the Italian magazine Epoca.
He died on 13 September 2011 of pancreatic cancer in Rome aged 81, and was survived by his life partner, the actress Rossana Podestà. Read more
22 Jun 1929: Bruce Kent, English activist and laicised Roman Catholic priest (died 2022) David Bruce Kent was an English former Roman Catholic priest who became a political activist in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), holding various leadership positions in the organisation. Read more
22 Jun 1928: Ralph Waite, American actor and director (died 2014) Ralph Waite was an American actor, best known for his lead role as John Walton Sr. on The Waltons (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He later had recurring roles as two other heroic fathers; in NCIS as Jackson Gibbs, the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, and in Bones, as Seeley Booth's grandfather. Read more
22 Jun 1927: Anthony Low, Indian-English historian and academic (died 2015) Donald Anthony Low, known as Anthony Low or D. A. Low, was a historian of modern South Asia, Africa, the British Commonwealth, and, especially, decolonization. He was the emeritus Smuts Professor of History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Cambridge, former Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, Canberra, and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Read more
22 Jun 1926: George Englund, American film editor, director, producer and actor (died 2017) George Englund was an American film editor, director, producer, and actor. Read more
22 Jun 1926: Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (died 2014) Rachid Solh was a Lebanese politician and Prime Minister, kin of one of the most eminent Sunni Muslim families in the country several of whose members became prime ministers, and that was originally from Sidon but later moved its civil-records to Beirut. Read more
22 Jun 1924: Christopher Booth, English clinician and historian (died 2012) Sir Christopher Charles Booth was an English clinician and medical historian, characterised as "one of the great characters of British medicine". Read more
22 Jun 1924: Larkin Kerwin, Canadian physicist and academic (died 2004) John Larkin Kerwin was a Canadian physicist. Read more
22 Jun 1923: José Giovanni, French-Swiss director and screenwriter (died 2004) Joseph Damiani, known by the pen name José Giovanni, was a French-Swiss writer, filmmaker, and a convicted criminal. He was known for his realistic, gritty crime novels which drew upon his own personal experiences and knowledge of the French underworld. Read more
22 Jun 1922: Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Group (died 2002) William Ralph Blass was an American fashion designer. He was the recipient of many fashion awards, including seven Coty Awards and the Fashion Institute of Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award (1999). Read more
22 Jun 1922: Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (died 1995) Clair Cameron Patterson was an American geochemist. Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College. He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and spent his entire professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Read more
22 Jun 1921: Joseph Papp, American director and producer (died 1991) Joseph Papp was an American theatrical producer and director. Papp is a pioneering figure in American theater, known for creating Shakespeare in the Park, which aimed to make classical theater accessible to all people by producing free-of-charge performances. He was a known advocate for non-traditional and diverse casting practices. He established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in Lower Manhattan. There Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new plays and musicals. Eventually, one of the six performance spaces inside the Public Theater was renamed Joe's Pub in honor of Joseph Papp. It continues to host live performances across a wide range of art forms. Among numerous examples of these were the works of David Rabe, Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody, and Papp's production of Michael Bennett's Pulitzer Prize–winning musical A Chorus Line. Papp also helped to develop other off-Broadway theatres and worked to preserve the historic Broadway Theatre District. Read more
22 Jun 1921: Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (died 2013) Barbara Farrell Vucanovich was an American Republican politician from Nevada. She was the first woman from Nevada elected to the United States House of Representatives, in which she served seven terms representing Nevada from 1983 to 1997. Read more
22 Jun 1921: Radovan Ivšić, Croatian writer (died 2009) Radovan Ivšić was a Croatian writer, best known for his drama Kralj Gordogan and book of poems Crno. Ivšić spent his life uncompromisingly in the spirit of liberty. Such values brought him close to the surrealist movement. He was a friend of André Breton and Toyen and was one of the signers of the last Manifeste du surréalisme, 1955. His best-known statements are “Never give up your dreams” and paraphrase “We are our dreams”. Read more
22 Jun 1921: Barbara Perry, American actress (died 2019) Barbara Perry was an American actress, singer and dancer who worked for 84 years in Hollywood and on Broadway. Read more
22 Jun 1920: James H. Pomerene, American computer scientist and engineer (died 2008) James Herbert Pomerene was an electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Read more
22 Jun 1920: Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (died 2016) Jovito Reyes Salonga, KGCR also called "Ka Jovy," was a Filipino lawyer and politician, as well as a leading opposition leader during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos from the declaration of martial law in 1972 until the People Power Revolution in 1986, which removed Marcos from power. Salonga was then elected as the 14th president of the Senate of the Philippines and the first one after the new Constitution was just ratified, serving from 1987 up to his retirement from politics in 1992. Read more
22 Jun 1919: Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (died 1980) Gower Carlyle Champion was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. Read more
22 Jun 1919: Henri Tajfel, Polish social psychologist (died 1982) Henri Tajfel was a Polish social psychologist, best known for his pioneering work on the cognitive aspects of prejudice and social identity theory, as well as being one of the founders of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology. Read more
22 Jun 1919: Clifton McNeely, American basketball player and coach (died 2003) Clyde Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach. A 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) forward, he played college basketball for the Texas Wesleyan Rams for three seasons and led the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in scoring during his senior season in 1946–47. McNeely was the first player ever drafted in the National Basketball Association (NBA) when he was selected by the Pittsburgh Ironmen as the first pick of the league's inaugural 1947 draft. He never played professional basketball and instead pursued a coaching career at Pampa High School in Texas. Read more
22 Jun 1918: Cicely Saunders, English nurse, social worker, physician and writer (died 2005) Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia. Read more
22 Jun 1918: Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (died 1993) Yeoh Ghim Seng was a Singaporean politician who served as Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore between 1970 and 1988. Read more
22 Jun 1916: Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (died 1982) John Byron Jacobs was an American television announcer, often for Chuck Barris productions—namely, The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game. Read more
22 Jun 1916: Richard Eastham, American actor (died 2005) Richard Eastham was an American actor of stage, film, and television, a concert singer known for his deep baritone voice, and an inventor. Read more
22 Jun 1916: Emil Fackenheim, German Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi (died 2003) Emil Ludwig Fackenheim was a Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi. Read more
22 Jun 1915: Dolf van der Linden, Dutch conductor and composer (died 1999) David Gijsbert van der Linden, known as Dolf van der Linden, was a Dutch conductor of popular music. HIs reputation extended beyond the Netherlands. He was a three-time Eurovision Song Contest winning conductor. Read more
22 Jun 1915: Cornelius Warmerdam, American pole vaulter and coach (died 2001) Cornelius "Dutch" Warmerdam was an American pole vaulter who held the world record between 1940 and 1957. He missed the Olympics due to World War II, and retired from senior competitions in 1944, though he continued to vault into his sixties. He was inducted into the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame in 1974. Read more
22 Jun 1915: Randolph Hokanson, American pianist (died 2018) Randolph Henning Hokanson was an American pianist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was noted for his recordings of Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn, and gave over 100 performances, including the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas. Read more
22 Jun 1915: Thomas Quinn Curtiss, American writer, and film and theatre critic (died 2000) Thomas Quinn Curtiss was an American writer, and film and theater critic. He is also known for his relationship with author Klaus Mann. Read more
22 Jun 1914: Mei Zhi, Chinese author and essayist (died 2004) Mei Zhi was a Chinese children's author and essayist. Read more
22 Jun 1913: Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet and author (died 1989) Sándor Weöres was a Hungarian poet and author. Read more
22 Jun 1912: Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1983) Charles Edward was at various points in his life a British prince and royal duke, a German duke, and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918. He later held multiple positions in the Nazi regime, including leader of the German Red Cross, and acted as an unofficial diplomat for the German government. Read more
22 Jun 1912: Raymonde Allain, French model and actress (died 2008) Raymonde Allain was a French model and actress. She was Miss France in 1928. Her participation in the Miss Universe contest drew international media attention, and her controversial loss to American Ella Van Hueson prompted critical dispute over what counted as "real beauty". Allain later wrote an autobiography titled Histoire vraie d'un prix de beauté. Read more
22 Jun 1911: Vernon Kirby, South African tennis player (died 1994) Vernon Gordon 'Bob' Kirby was a South African tennis player. Read more
22 Jun 1910: John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Indian-English lieutenant and mountaineer (died 1998) Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt was a British Army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest. Read more
22 Jun 1910: Anne Ziegler, English singer (died 2003) Anne Ziegler was an English singer, known for her light operatic duets with her husband Webster Booth. The pair were known as the "Sweethearts in Song" and were among the most famous and popular British musical acts of the 1940s. Read more
22 Jun 1910: Konrad Zuse, German computer scientist and engineer, invented the Z3 computer (died 1995) Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer. Read more
22 Jun 1909: Katherine Dunham, American dancer and choreographer (died 2006) Katherine Mary Dunham was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. One of the most renowned modern dance artists of the 20th century, she has been called the "matriarch and queen mother of black dance." Read more
22 Jun 1909: Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Spanish princess and aristocrat (died 2002) Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Princess of Civitella-Cesi was a daughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and the wife of Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi. She was a paternal aunt of King Juan Carlos I. Read more
22 Jun 1909: Mike Todd, American producer and manager (died 1958) Michael Todd was an American theater and film producer, celebrated for his 1956 Around the World in 80 Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Actress Elizabeth Taylor was his third wife. Todd was the third of Taylor's seven husbands, and the only one Taylor did not divorce. He died in a private plane accident a year after they married. He was the driving force behind the development of the eponymous Todd-AO widescreen film format. Read more
22 Jun 1907: Eriks Ādamsons, Latvian writer, poet, and novelist (died 1946) Eriks Ādamsons was a Latvian writer, poet and novelist. Read more
22 Jun 1906: William Kneale, English logician and philosopher (died 1990) William Calvert Kneale was an English logician best known for his 1962 book The Development of Logic, a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha. Kneale was also known as a philosopher of science and the author of a book on probability and induction. Read more
22 Jun 1906: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American pilot and author (died 2001) Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights. Read more
22 Jun 1906: Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002) Billy Wilder was an Austrian and American film director and screenwriter. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most versatile filmmakers of classical Hollywood cinema. He received seven Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, and two Golden Globe Awards. Read more
22 Jun 1903: John Dillinger, American criminal (died 1934) John Herbert Dillinger was an American gangster during the Great Depression. He commanded the Dillinger Gang, which was accused of robbing twenty-four banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times and escaped twice. He was charged with but not convicted of the murder of East Chicago, Indiana, police officer William O'Malley, who shot Dillinger in his bulletproof vest during a shootout; it was the only time Dillinger was charged with homicide. Read more
22 Jun 1903: Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (died 1988) Carl Owen Hubbell, nicknamed "the Meal Ticket" and "King Carl", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player. He was a pitcher for the New York Giants of the National League (NL) from 1928 to 1943, and remained on the team's payroll for the rest of his life, long after their move to San Francisco. Read more
22 Jun 1902: Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (died 1950) Marguerite De La Motte was an American film actress, most notably of the silent film era. Read more
22 Jun 1901: Elias Katz, Finnish runner and coach (died 1947) Elias Katz was a Finnish track and field athlete, who competed mainly in the 3000 metres steeplechase in the 1920s. In 1933, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he lived for the rest of his life. Read more
22 Jun 1900: Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract artist, filmmaker, and painter (died 1967) Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos. He created special effects for Fritz Lang's 1929 Woman in the Moon, one of the first sci-fi rocket films, and influenced Disney's Fantasia. He made over 50 short films and painted around 800 canvases, many of which are in museums, galleries, and collections worldwide. Among his film works is Motion Painting No. 1 (1947), which is now listed on the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress. Read more
22 Jun 1899: Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer, invented Masking tape (died 1980) Richard Gurley Drew was an American inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape and cellophane tape. Read more
22 Jun 1899: Michał Kalecki, Polish economist and academic (died 1970) Michał Kalecki was a Polish Marxian economist. Over the course of his life, Kalecki worked at the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Warsaw School of Economics, and was an economic advisor to the governments of Poland, France, Cuba, Israel, Mexico, and India. He also served as the deputy director of the United Nations Economic Department in New York City. Read more
22 Jun 1898: Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss soldier and author (died 1970) Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist. His landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I, was an international bestseller which created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. The book was adapted to film several times. Remarque's anti-war themes led to his condemnation by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as "unpatriotic". He was able to use his literary success and fame to relocate to Switzerland as a refugee, and to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. Read more
22 Jun 1897: Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (died 1973) Edmund Albert Chester Sr. was an American television executive and journalist. He served as a vice president and executive at the CBS radio and television networks during the 1940s. As Director of Latin American Relations he collaborated with the Department of State to develop CBS's La Cadena de las Americas radio network in support of Pan-Americanism during World War II. He also served as a highly respected journalist and Bureau Chief for Latin America at Associated Press and Vice President at La Prensa Asociada in the 1930s. He was awarded the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes National Order of Merit by the government of Cuba in recognition of his efforts to foster greater understanding between the peoples of Cuba and the United States of America. Read more
22 Jun 1897: Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist and philosopher (died 1990) Norbert Elias was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes. Read more
22 Jun 1896: Leonard W. Murray, Canadian admiral (died 1971) Rear Admiral Leonard Warren Murray, CB, CBE was an officer in the Royal Canadian Navy who played a central role in the Battle of the Atlantic, and was the only Canadian to command an Allied theatre of operations during World War II. Read more
22 Jun 1894: Bernard Ashmole, English archaeologist and art historian (died 1988) Bernard Ashmole was a British archaeologist and art historian, who specialized in ancient Greek sculpture. He held a number of professorships during his lifetime; Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of London from 1929 to 1948, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at University of Oxford from 1956 to 1961, and Greek Art and Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen from 1961 to 1963. He was also Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum from 1939 to 1956. Read more
22 Jun 1892: Robert Ritter von Greim, German general and pilot (died 1945) Robert Ritter von Greim was a German Generalfeldmarschall and First World War flying ace. In April 1945, in the last days of World War II in Europe, Adolf Hitler appointed Greim commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe after Hermann Göring had been dismissed for treason. He was the last person to have been promoted to field marshal in the German armed forces. After the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945, Greim was captured by the Allies. He committed suicide in an American-controlled prison on 24 May 1945. Read more
22 Jun 1891: Franz Alexander, Hungarian psychoanalyst and physician (died 1964) Franz Gabriel Alexander was a Hungarian-American psychoanalyst and physician, who is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology. Read more
22 Jun 1890: Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1970) Aleksander Warma VR I/3 was an Estonian navy officer, diplomat, and painter. Read more
22 Jun 1889: Joseph Cohen, British solicitor, property developer, cinema magnate and Jewish community leader (died 1980) Joseph Cohen (1889–1980) was a solicitor and property developer in Birmingham, England, and was chairman and managing director of the Jacey Cinemas chain. He was also a prominent figure in Birmingham's Jewish community. Read more
22 Jun 1888: Harold Hitz Burton, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of Cleveland (died 1964) Harold Hitz Burton was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Read more
22 Jun 1887: Julian Huxley, English biologist and academic (died 1975) Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959–1962), and the first president of the British Humanist Association. Read more
22 Jun 1885: Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (died 1962) Milan Vidmar was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE. Vidmar was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current. Read more
22 Jun 1884: James Rector, American sprinter and lawyer (died 1949) John "James" Alcorn Rector was an American athlete. He was the first Arkansas-born athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. While competing he was a University of Virginia student and went there to train with Pop Lannigan. Read more
22 Jun 1880: Johannes Drost, Dutch swimmer (died 1954) Johannes Drost was a Dutch backstroke swimmer and diver who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. Read more
22 Jun 1879: Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1962) Thibaudeau Rinfret was a Canadian jurist who served as the ninth Chief Justice of Canada from 1944 to 1954 and briefly as Administrator of Canada from January to February 1952. He also served as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1924 to 1944. Read more
22 Jun 1876: Pascual Díaz y Barreto, Mexican archbishop (died 1936) The Most Reverend Pascual Díaz y Barreto, SJ was a Mexican prelate of the Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of Mexico City from June 22, 1929 until his death in 1936. Throughout his tenure, he frequently came into conflict with the anti-Catholic Mexican government. Read more
22 Jun 1874: Walter Friedrich Otto, German philologist and scholar (died 1958) Walter Friedrich Gustav Hermann Otto was a German classical philologist particularly known for his work on the meaning and legacy of Greek religion and mythology, especially as represented in his seminal 1929 work The Homeric Gods. Read more
22 Jun 1873: Filippo Silvestri, Italian entomologist and academic (died 1949) Filippo Silvestri was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda, Italian Diptera and South American ground pearls, scale insects from the family Margarodidae. He is also noted for describing and naming the previously unknown order Zoraptera. In 1938 he was nominated to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the scientific academy of the Vatican. Read more
22 Jun 1871: William McDougall, English psychologist and polymath (died 1938) William McDougall was an early 20th century psychologist who was a professor at University College London, University of Oxford, Harvard University and Duke University. He wrote a number of influential textbooks, and was important in the development of the theory of instinct and of social psychology in the English-speaking world. Read more
22 Jun 1869: Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch Politician and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1944) Hendrikus "Hendrik" Colijn was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 August 1925 until 8 March 1926, and from 26 May 1933 until 10 August 1939. Read more
22 Jun 1864: Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician and academic (died 1909) Hermann Minkowski was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, ETH Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, or Russian. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and elements of convex geometry, and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity. Read more
22 Jun 1861: Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (died 1914) Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee was a German naval officer in the Imperial German Navy, who commanded the East Asia Squadron during World War I. Spee entered the navy in 1878 and served in a variety of roles and locations, including on a colonial gunboat in German West Africa in the 1880s, the East Africa Squadron in the late 1890s, and as commander of several warships in the main German fleet in the early 1900s. During his time in Germany in the late 1880s and early 1890s, he married his wife, Margareta, and had three children, his sons Heinrich and Otto and his daughter Huberta. By 1912, he had returned to the East Asia Squadron as its commander, and was promoted to the rank of Vizeadmiral the following year. Read more
22 Jun 1856: Henry Rider Haggard, English novelist (died 1925). Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature and including the eighteen Allan Quatermain stories beginning with King Solomon's Mines, continue to be popular and influential. Read more
22 Jun 1855: Samuel Morris, Australian cricketer (died 1931) Samuel Morris was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1885. He was the first black man to play Test cricket, as well as the first person of West Indian heritage and the first Tasmanian-born player to play Tests. He and Andrew Symonds are the only people of West Indian heritage to play for Australia. Read more
22 Jun 1850: Ignác Goldziher, Hungarian scholar of Islam (died 1921) Ignác Goldziher, often credited as Ignaz Goldziher, was a Hungarian scholar of Islam. Alongside Joseph Schacht and G.H.A. Juynboll, he is considered one of the pioneers of modern academic hadith studies. Read more
22 Jun 1845: Tom Dula, American soldier (died 1868) Thomas C. Dula was a former Confederate soldier who was convicted of murdering Laura Foster. National publicity from newspapers such as The New York Times turned Dula's story into a folk legend. Although Laura was murdered in Wilkes County, North Carolina, Dula was tried, convicted, and hanged in Statesville. Considerable controversy surrounded the case. In subsequent years, a folk song was written, and many oral traditions were passed down about the circumstances surrounding Foster's murder and Dula's subsequent execution. The Kingston Trio recorded a hit version of the murder ballad in 1958. Read more
22 Jun 1845: Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1906) Richard John Seddon was a New Zealand politician who served as the 15th premier of New Zealand from 1893 until his death in 1906. In office for thirteen years, he is to date New Zealand's longest-serving head of government. Read more
22 Jun 1844: Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (died 1906) Oscar Leopold von Gebhardt was a German Lutheran theologian, born in the Baltic German settlement of Wesenberg in the Russian Empire. Read more
22 Jun 1837: Paul Morphy, American chess player (died 1884) Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. Later commentators have concluded that he was far ahead of his time. Read more
22 Jun 1837: Ernst Ziller, German-Greek architect, designed the Presidential Mansion (died 1923) Ernst Moritz Theodor Ziller was a German-born university teacher and architect who later became a Greek national. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was a major designer of royal and municipal buildings in Athens, Patras, and other Greek cities. Read more
22 Jun 1834: William Chester Minor, American surgeon and linguist (died 1920) William Chester Minor was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher. Read more
22 Jun 1820: James Hutchison Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (died 1909). James Hutchison Stirling was a Scottish idealist philosopher and physician. His work The Secret of Hegel gave great impetus to the study of Hegelian philosophy both in Britain and in the United States, and it was also accepted as an authoritative work on Hegel's philosophy in Germany and Italy. The book helped to create the philosophical movement known as British idealism. Read more
22 Jun 1805: Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian journalist and politician (died 1872). Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, lawyer, journalist, philosopher, and political activist who worked for the unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and was a major leader of the Italian revolutionary movement. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. An Italian nationalist in the historical radical tradition and a proponent of a republicanism of social-democratic inspiration, Mazzini "helped define the European movement for popular democracy in a republican state." He is widely known as the “Prophet of Italian Nationalism”. Read more

Notable Deaths on 22 June

22 Jun 2025: Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor (born 1926) Arnaldo Pomodoro was an Italian sculptor based in Milan. His signature works are Sphere Within Sphere, bronze spheres with smooth exterior and broken interiors. They are displayed in public spaces such as the United Nations Headquarters, the University of California, Berkeley, Trinity College Dublin, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Tel Aviv University in Israel and at the Vatican Museums. Read more
22 Jun 2023: Harry Markowitz, American Nobel economist (born 1927) Harry Max Markowitz was an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Read more
22 Jun 2022: Bruton Smith, American racetrack promoter (born 1927) Ollen Bruton Smith was an American motorsports executive and businessman. He was best known as the owner of two public companies, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) and Sonic Automotive. Smith held the positions of vice president and general manager of the Charlotte Motor Speedway and later was the chief executive officer (CEO) of both Speedway Motorsports and Sonic Automotive. He was an entrepreneur, race promoter, and businessman during the rise of stock car racing that began in the 1950s. Read more
22 Jun 2022: Yves Coppens, French anthropologist (born 1934) Yves Coppens was a French anthropologist and co-discoverer of "Lucy". A graduate from the University of Rennes and the Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and also produced a film. In October 2014, Coppens was named an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis. Read more
22 Jun 2018: Vinnie Paul, American musician (born 1964) Vincent Paul Abbott was an American musician best known for being the drummer and co-founder of the heavy metal band Pantera. He also co-founded Damageplan in 2003 with his younger brother, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, and was a member of Hellyeah for 12 years from 2006 until his death in 2018. Several outlets have ranked Abbott as among the greatest metal drummers of all time. Read more
22 Jun 2017: Mao Kobayashi, Japanese newscaster and actress (born 1982) Mao Kobayashi was a Japanese freelance newscaster and actress. She was also one of Fuji TV's weathercasters. Read more
22 Jun 2017: Quett Masire, Botswanan politician (born 1926) Ketumile Quett Joni Masire GCMG was a Motswana politician and statesman who was the second and longest-serving president of Botswana, in office from 1980 to 1998. He was given an honorary knighthood of the Grand Cross of Saint Michael and Saint George by Queen Elizabeth II (GCMG) in 1991. Read more
22 Jun 2015: James Horner, American composer and conductor (born 1953) James Roy Horner was an American film composer and conductor. He is known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music. Read more
22 Jun 2014: Fouad Ajami, Lebanese-American author and academic (born 1945) Fouad A. Ajami was a Lebanese-born American professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He was a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Read more
22 Jun 2014: Rama Narayanan, Indian director and producer (born 1949) Rama Narayanan was an Indian film director, producer and politician. In the 1980s, he was known as a director who specialized in shooting commercial films in which animals played vital roles, while in the 1990s, several of his films were based on Hindu devotional subjects. Having directed over 100 films, he was renowned for his quick completion of films well within budget constraints. Read more
22 Jun 2013: Henning Larsen, Danish architect, designed the Copenhagen Opera House (born 1925) Henning Larsen was a Danish architect. He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh and the Copenhagen Opera House. Read more
22 Jun 2013: Allan Simonsen, Danish race car driver (born 1978) Allan Weel Simonsen was a Danish racing driver, born in Odense. He died after a crash during the third lap of the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans. Read more
22 Jun 2012: Juan Luis Galiardo, Spanish actor and producer (born 1922) Juan Luis Galiardo Comes was a Spanish television, theater and film actor. Read more
22 Jun 2011: Coşkun Özarı, Turkish footballer and coach (born 1931) Coşkun Özarı was a Turkish football player and coach. Read more
22 Jun 2008: Natalia Bekhtereva, Russian neuroscientist and psychologist (born 1924) Natalia Petrovna Bekhtereva was a Soviet and Russian neuroscientist and psychologist who developed neurophysiological approaches to psychology, such as measuring the impulse activity of human neurons. She was a participant in the documentaries The Call of the Abyss and Storm of Consciousness, which aroused wide public interest. Read more
22 Jun 2008: George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author (born 1937) George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author. He was known for his dark comedy and reflections on politics, English, psychology, religion, and taboo subjects. Read more
22 Jun 2008: Dody Goodman, American actress and dancer (born 1914) Dody Goodman was an American character actress. She played the mother of the title character in the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, her distinctive high-pitched voice announcing the show's title at the beginning of each episode. She was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show in the 1950s. Read more
22 Jun 2007: Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (born 1964) Erik Robert Parlevliet was a Dutch field hockey player, who earned a total number of 155 caps, scoring 47 goals. Read more
22 Jun 2004: Bob Bemer, American computer scientist and engineer (born 1920) Robert William Bemer was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Read more
22 Jun 2004: Mattie Stepanek, American poet and author (born 1990) Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek, known as Mattie J.T. Stepanek, was an American author and motivational speaker. He published seven books of poetry and essays on peace, several of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list before his death at the age of 13. He wanted to be remembered as "a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played." Read more
22 Jun 2003: Vasil Bykaŭ, Belarusian war novelist (born 1924) Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ was a Belarusian dissident and opposition politician, junior lieutenant, and author of novels and novellas about World War II. A significant figure in Soviet and Belarusian literature and civic thought, his work earned him endorsements for the Nobel Prize nomination from, among others, Nobel Prize laureates Joseph Brodsky and Czesław Miłosz. Read more
22 Jun 1997: Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (born 1956) Ted Arnbjörn Gärdestad, known internationally as Ted, was a Swedish singer, songwriter, and actor. Gärdestad began his acting career in 1966 and began playing music in 1971, signing with Polar Music. Assigned with in-house producers Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, Gärdestad released his first single, "Hela världen runt," in late 1971 and worked closely with the four members of ABBA to create his debut album Undringar (1972). As Polar Music's best-selling solo artist, he continued to work with the group members throughout the 1970s, releasing three more albums Ted (1973), Upptåg (1974) and Franska Kort (1976), which were moderately successful. In 1978, Gärdestad released his first English-language album, Blue Virgin Isles, which did not have success internationally, as his predecessor albums had in his home country. Read more
22 Jun 1997: Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist and politician (born 1919) Gérard Pelletier was a Canadian politician, diplomat and journalist from Quebec best known for his association with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau that started decades before their entries to the political arena. A long time personal confidant of Trudeau, Pelletier served in Trudeau's cabinet and then in two key diplomatic postings. Read more
22 Jun 1995: Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter (born 1931) Leonid Petrovich Derbenyov was a Russian poet and lyricist widely regarded as one of the stalwarts of the 20th century Soviet and Russian pop music. Read more
22 Jun 1995: Al Hansen, American sculptor and author (born 1927) Alfred Earl "Al" Hansen was an American artist. He was a member of Fluxus, a movement that originated on an artists' collective around George Maciunas. Read more
22 Jun 1993: Pat Nixon, American educator, 37th First Lady of the United States (born 1912) Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th U.S. president. From 1953 to 1961, she had been the second lady of the United States when her husband was Dwight D. Eisenhower's vice president. Read more
22 Jun 1990: Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908) Ilya Mikhailovich Frank was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation. He received the Stalin prize in 1946 and 1953 and the USSR state prize in 1971. Read more
22 Jun 1988: Dennis Day, American singer and actor (born 1916) Dennis Day was an American actor, comedian, and singer. He was of Irish descent. Read more
22 Jun 1987: Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer (born 1899) Fred Astaire was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years. He is widely regarded as the "greatest popular-music dancer of all time". He received an Honorary Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award. Read more
22 Jun 1984: Joseph Losey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909) Joseph Walton Losey III was an American film and theatre director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States. Blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s, he moved to Europe where he made the remainder of his films, mostly in the United Kingdom. Read more
22 Jun 1980: Joseph Cohen, British solicitor, property developer, cinema magnate and Jewish community leader (born 1889) Joseph Cohen (1889–1980) was a solicitor and property developer in Birmingham, England, and was chairman and managing director of the Jacey Cinemas chain. He was also a prominent figure in Birmingham's Jewish community. Read more
22 Jun 1979: Louis Chiron, Monégasque race car driver (born 1899) Louis Alexandre Chiron was a Monégasque racing driver who competed in rallies, sports car races, and Grands Prix. Read more
22 Jun 1977: Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (born 1908) Jacqueline Audry was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations that centered women. She was the first commercially successful female director of post-war France. Read more
22 Jun 1977: Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1952) Peter Laughner was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer. Read more
22 Jun 1974: Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator (born 1892) Darius Milhaud was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and Brazilian music and make extensive use of polytonality. Milhaud is considered one of the key modernist composers. He taught many future jazz and classical composers, including Burt Bacharach, Dave Brubeck, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, György Kurtág, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis among others. Read more
22 Jun 1970: Đặng Thùy Trâm, Vietnamese surgeon and author (born 1942) Đặng Thùy Trâm was a Vietnamese doctor. She worked as a battlefield surgeon for the People's Army of Vietnam and Vietcong during the Vietnam War. Her wartime diaries, which chronicle the last two years of her life, attracted international attention following their publication in 2005. Read more
22 Jun 1969: Judy Garland, American actress and singer (born 1922) Judy Garland was an American actress, singer, and vaudevillian whose career spanned four decades. She is known for her artistic range and strong contralto voice, working in a variety of genres including musicals, comedies, and dramas. Her career and personal life, marked by both public fascination and private struggle, made her a cultural icon. Read more
22 Jun 1966: Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (born 1883) Thaddeus Rutter Shideler was an American hurdler who competed in the early twentieth century. He competed in athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the 110 meters hurdles. Fred Schule won the gold medal. Read more
22 Jun 1965: David O. Selznick, American screenwriter and producer (born 1902) David O. Selznick was an American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive who produced Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both of which earned him an Academy Award for Best Picture. He also won the Irving Thalberg Award at the 12th Academy Awards, Hollywood's top honor for a producer, in recognition of his shepherding Gone with the Wind through a long and troubled production and into a record-breaking blockbuster. Read more
22 Jun 1964: Havank, Dutch journalist and author (born 1904) Havank, pseudonym of Hendrikus Frederikus (Hans) van der Kallen, was a Dutch writer, journalist and translator. He published over 30 crime novels and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Dutch detective genre. Read more
22 Jun 1959: Hermann Brill, German educator and politician, 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (born 1895) Dr. Hermann Louis Brill was a German resistance fighter, doctor of law and politician (SPD). Read more
22 Jun 1956: Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer and novelist (born 1873) Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his psychological horror short fiction, including "Seaton's Aunt", "The Green Room" and "All Hallows". In 1921, his novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Read more
22 Jun 1945: Isamu Chō, Japanese general (born 1895) Isamu Chō was a Japanese officer in the Imperial Japanese Army known for his support of ultranationalist politics and involvement in a number of attempted coup d'états in pre-World War II Japan. Read more
22 Jun 1945: Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (born 1887) Mitsuru Ushijima was a Japanese general who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. He was the commanding general of the 32nd Army, which fought in the Battle of Okinawa during the final stages of the war. Ushijima's troops were defeated, and at the end of the battle he committed suicide. Read more
22 Jun 1942: August Froehlich, German priest and activist (born 1891) August Froehlich was an Upper Silesian Roman Catholic priest. In his pastoral activity he opposed National Socialism. He campaigned in the name of German Catholics and of Polish forced labourers. He died in Dachau concentration camp. Read more
22 Jun 1940: Monty Noble, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (born 1873) Montague Alfred Noble was an Australian cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. A right-hand batsman, right-handed bowler who could deliver both medium pace and off-break bowling, capable fieldsman and tactically sound captain, Noble is considered one of the great Australian all-rounders. He scored 13,975 first class runs between 1893 and 1920 and took 624 wickets. He made 37 centuries – including a best of 284 in 1902 – and set several partnership and individual high-score records for his State team. Read more
22 Jun 1938: C. J. Dennis, Australian poet and author (born 1876) Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915). Alongside his contemporaries and occasional collaborators Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, Dennis helped popularise Australian slang in literature, earning him the title "the laureate of the larrikin". He was Australia's most popular and prolific poet, selling more than 700,000 books and publishing more than 4,000 poems. Read more
22 Jun 1936: Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (born 1882) Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johann Nelböck, in 1936. Read more
22 Jun 1935: Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (born 1866) Szymon Askenazy was a Jewish-Polish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school. Read more
22 Jun 1933: Tim Birkin, English racing driver and lieutenant (born 1896) Sir Henry Ralph Stanley Birkin, 3rd Baronet, known as
Tim Birkin, was a British racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s. Read more
22 Jun 1931: Armand Fallières, French politician, 9th President of France (born 1841) Clément Armand Fallières was a French statesman who was President of France from 1906 to 1913. Read more
22 Jun 1928: A. B. Frost, American illustrator and painter (born 1851) Arthur Burdett Frost, usually cited as A. B. Frost, was an American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer. He is best known for his illustrations of Br'er Rabbit and other characters in the Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus books. Read more
22 Jun 1925: Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic (born 1849) Felix Christian Klein was a German mathematician, mathematics educator and historian of mathematics, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and the associations between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen program classified geometries by their basic symmetry groups and was an influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the time. Read more
22 Jun 1913: Ștefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet and translator (born 1875) Ștefan Octavian Iosif was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian poet and translator. Read more
22 Jun 1905: Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th governor of Texas (born 1815) Francis Richard Lubbock was a businessman, slaveholder, and politician from the American South who played a significant role in Texas history. A South Carolina native, he was a key player in Texas politics, serving as the 6th lieutenant governor of Texas and later the 9th governor of Texas during the Civil War. As Governor, Lubbock was a fervent supporter of the Confederacy and instrumental in Texas' secession from the Union. After the war, he continued in public service as the Texas State Treasurer. He was the brother of Thomas Saltus Lubbock, for whom both Lubbock County and the city of Lubbock are named. Read more
22 Jun 1894: Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop and missionary (born 1823) Alexandre-Antonin Taché was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order, author, and the first Archbishop of Saint Boniface in Manitoba, Canada. Read more
22 Jun 1892: Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic (born 1819) Pierre Ossian Bonnet was a French mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, including the Gauss–Bonnet theorem. Read more
22 Jun 1874: Howard Staunton, English chess player (born 1810) Howard Staunton was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant. He promoted a chess set of clearly distinguishable pieces of standardised shape – the Staunton pattern promulgated by Nathaniel Cooke – that is still the style required for competitions. He was the principal organiser of the first international chess tournament in 1851, which made England the world's leading chess centre and caused Adolf Anderssen to be recognised as the world's strongest player. Read more
22 Jun 1872: Rudecindo Alvarado, Argentinian general (born 1792) Rudecindo Alvarado was an Argentine general. He fought in the military campaigns of Manuel Belgrano, and in the Army of the Andes. He was governor of Mendoza. He left the country during the rule of Juan Manuel de Rosas, and returned in 1852 after Rosas' defeat at the battle of Caseros. Read more
22 Jun 1868: Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (born 1801) Heber Chase Kimball was an American religious leader who was a pioneer in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Church of the Latter Day Saints, and as first counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than two decades, from 1847 until his death. Read more
22 Jun 1828: Lars Ingier, Norwegian road manager, land owner, and mill owner (born 1760) Lars Ingier was a Norwegian military officer, road manager, land owner and mill owner. Read more

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