History of Today 30 June: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 30 June in History

30 Jun 2023: A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country. Read more
30 Jun 2021: The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) of land before being fully contained on July 30. Read more
30 Jun 2020: The Hong Kong National Security Law is passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and immediately comes into effect after gazettal. Read more
30 Jun 2019: Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). Read more
30 Jun 2015: A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths. Read more
30 Jun 2013: Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona. Read more
30 Jun 2013: Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. Read more
30 Jun 2009: Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash. Read more
30 Jun 2007: A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before. Read more
30 Jun 1994: An Airbus A330-300 crashes during a test flight at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, killing all seven people on board. Read more
30 Jun 1993: Malta is officially subdivided into 68 local councils by the Local Councils Act. Read more
30 Jun 1990: East and West Germany merge their economies. Read more
30 Jun 1989: A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani. Read more
30 Jun 1986: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults. Read more
30 Jun 1985: Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days. Read more
30 Jun 1977: The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands. Read more
30 Jun 1974: The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins. Read more
30 Jun 1973: Concorde 001 intercepts the path of a total solar eclipse and follows the moon's shadow, experiencing the longest total eclipse observation. Read more
30 Jun 1972: The first leap second is added to the UTC time system. Read more
30 Jun 1971: The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. Read more
30 Jun 1968: Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God. Read more
30 Jun 1966: The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded. Read more
30 Jun 1963: Ciaculli bombing: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo. Read more
30 Jun 1960: Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). Read more
30 Jun 1959: A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood. Read more
30 Jun 1956: A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners. Read more
30 Jun 1953: The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. Read more
30 Jun 1944: World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces. Read more
30 Jun 1937: The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London. Read more
30 Jun 1936: Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country. Read more
30 Jun 1934: The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. Read more
30 Jun 1922: In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic. Read more
30 Jun 1921: U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States. Read more
30 Jun 1916: World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France. Read more
30 Jun 1912: The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan. Read more
30 Jun 1908: The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia. Read more
30 Jun 1906: The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act. Read more
30 Jun 1905: Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik. Read more
30 Jun 1900: A savage fire wrecked three steamships docked at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. Over 200 crew members and passengers are killed, and hundreds injured. Read more
30 Jun 1892: The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Read more
30 Jun 1886: The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4. Read more
30 Jun 1882: Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. Read more
30 Jun 1876: Serbia declares war on the Ottoman Empire, leading to the Serbian Wars for Independence. Read more
30 Jun 1864: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation". Read more
30 Jun 1860: The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. Read more
30 Jun 1859: French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Read more
30 Jun 1805: Under An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate governments, adopted by the U.S. Congress on January 11, 1805, the Michigan Territory is organized. Read more

Famous Births on 30 June

30 Jun 1998: Tom Davies, English footballer Thomas Davies is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Read more
30 Jun 1997: A. J. Brown, American football player Arthur Juan Brown is an American professional football wide receiver for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ole Miss Rebels, twice receiving first-team All-SEC honors, and was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the second round of the 2019 NFL draft. During his three seasons with the Titans, Brown was named to the Pro Bowl in 2020. Brown was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in 2022, where he extended his Pro Bowl selections to three and was named to three second-team All-Pros. He was also a member of the team that won Super Bowl LIX. Brown was traded to the Patriots in 2026. Read more
30 Jun 1997: Reuben Garrick, Australian rugby league player Reuben Garrick is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League. Read more
30 Jun 1995: bbno$, Canadian singer-songwriter Alexander Leon Gumuchian, known professionally as bbno$, is a Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter. He became widely known for his 2019 single "Lalala". He continued this success through collaborations with artists including Yung Gravy and his 2021 single "Edamame". In 2025 and 2026, he won the Juno Fan Choice Award. Read more
30 Jun 1993: Trea Turner, American baseball player Trea Vance Turner is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played for the Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Dodgers. At the international level, he plays for the United States national team. Read more
30 Jun 1991: Jaimin Rajani, Indian singer-songwriter Jaimin Rajani is a singer-songwriter from Calcutta, India. He writes songs in the traditions of folk and rock music. He has also guested on Antonio Vergara's GRAMMY-nominated album, The Fury. Read more
30 Jun 1989: Asbel Kiprop, Kenyan runner Asbel Kipruto Kiprop is a Kenyan middle-distance runner, who specialises in the 1500 metres. He was awarded the 1500 m gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics after the original winner, Rashid Ramzi, tested positive for doping. Kiprop has won three World Championship titles in the event, in 2011, 2013 and 2015. Kiprop failed his own doping test in November 2017 and received a four-year doping ban. Read more
30 Jun 1989: Steffen Liebig, German rugby player Steffen Liebig is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. Read more
30 Jun 1989: David Myers, Australian footballer David Myers is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Read more
30 Jun 1988: Jacksfilms, American YouTuber John Patrick "Jack" Douglass, also known as his online pseudonym jacksfilms, is an American YouTuber, videographer, musician, Twitch streamer, and sketch comedian. He is best known for his series Yesterday I Asked You (YIAY) and the now discontinued Your Grammar Sucks (YGS), in which he comments on content sent by fans. Douglass' career on YouTube spans 20 years. Read more
30 Jun 1988: Joe Mazzulla, American basketball coach Joseph Arthur Mazzulla is an American professional basketball coach who is the head coach for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the West Virginia Mountaineers as a point guard. Read more
30 Jun 1987: Ryan Cook, American baseball player Ryan William Cook, nicknamed "Cookie", is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB) and for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He was an MLB All-Star in 2012. Read more
30 Jun 1987: Andrew Hedgman, New Zealand runner Andrew Hedgman is a New Zealand born ultramarathon runner who resides in Brisbane, Australia. He is also a licensed Skydiver and Scuba diver. Read more
30 Jun 1986: Alicia Fox, American wrestler, model, and actress Victoria Elizabeth Crawford is an American professional wrestler and actress. She is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where she performs under her real name, and also performs on the independent circuit under the ring name Vix Crow. She is best known for her seventeen-year tenure in WWE, where she performed under the ring name Alicia Fox. Read more
30 Jun 1986: Fredy Guarín, Colombian footballer Fredy Alejandro Guarín Vásquez is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Read more
30 Jun 1986: Nicola Pozzi, Italian footballer Nicola Pozzi is an Italian football coach and former striker, currently in charge as a technical collaborator at Serie B club Sampdoria. Read more
30 Jun 1986: Allegra Versace, Italian-American businesswoman Allegra Versace Beck, commonly known as Allegra Versace, is an Italian-American heiress and socialite. Since 2011, Allegra has been a director of Gianni Versace S.p.A. and has worked in New York City as a theatrical dresser. Read more
30 Jun 1985: Trevor Ariza, American basketball player Trevor Anthony Ariza is an American former professional basketball player who spent 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A small forward, Ariza played college basketball for one season with the UCLA Bruins before being selected in the second round of the 2004 NBA draft by the New York Knicks. Ariza won an NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009. He also played for the Orlando Magic, Houston Rockets, New Orleans Hornets, Washington Wizards, Phoenix Suns, Sacramento Kings, Portland Trail Blazers, and Miami Heat. Read more
30 Jun 1985: Michael Phelps, American swimmer Michael Fred Phelps II is an American former competitive swimmer. He won more Olympic medals than any other athlete, a total of 28 medals across four Olympic Games. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16). At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Phelps tied the record of eight medals of any color at a single Games, held by gymnast Alexander Dityatin, by winning six gold and two bronze medals. Four years later, when he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, he broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four gold and two silver medals, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won five gold medals and one silver. This made him the most successful athlete of the Games for the fourth Olympics in a row. Read more
30 Jun 1985: Cody Rhodes, American wrestler Cody Garrett Runnels Rhodes is an American professional wrestler. As of April 2022, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. Rhodes co-founded All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he served as an executive vice president and wrestler from 2019 to 2022. Read more
30 Jun 1985: Fabiana Vallejos, Argentinian footballer Fabiana Gisela Vallejos is an Argentine footballer who plays as a midfielder for San Luis FC. Read more
30 Jun 1984: Fantasia Barrino, American singer-songwriter and actress Fantasia Monique Taylor, also known mononymously as Fantasia, is an American singer and actress. She rose to prominence in 2004 with her performance of the Porgy and Bess standard "Summertime" during the third season of American Idol, becoming that season's winner. Following her victory, Barrino became the second artist after Lauryn Hill to have their first commercial single debut atop the Billboard Hot 100 with her 2004 song, "I Believe". It went on to become the best-selling single in the United States that year. Read more
30 Jun 1984: Dax Harwood, American wrestler David Michael Harwood is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under the ring name Dax Harwood. He is a former record-tying three-time AEW World Tag Team Champions with Cash Wheeler as FTR. He also makes appearances in their sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), as well as partner promotions Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he and Wheeler have won those promotions' respective tag team championships once each. Read more
30 Jun 1984: Tunku Ismail Idris, Crown Prince of Johor, Malaysia Tunku Ismail ibni Sultan Ibrahim is the heir apparent to the Johor throne. He is the Regent and Crown Prince of Johor, and the eldest son of Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar and Raja Zarith Sofiah. He was proclaimed Regent of Johor on 28 January 2024, days before his father acceded as the 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. Read more
30 Jun 1983: Marcus Burghardt, German cyclist Marcus Burghardt is a German former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2021 for the Team Columbia–HTC, BMC Racing Team and Bora–Hansgrohe teams. During his career, Burghardt took seven professional victories, including the 2007 Gent–Wevelgem, the German National Road Race Championships in 2017, and a stage win at the 2008 Tour de France. Read more
30 Jun 1983: Katherine Ryan, UK-based Canadian comedian and presenter Katherine Louisa Ryan is a Canadian comedian, writer, presenter, actress and singer. She has appeared on British TV and radio panel shows, including 8 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, A League of Their Own, Mock the Week, Would I Lie to You?, QI, Just a Minute, Safeword, and Have I Got News for You. In 2015 she replaced Steve Jones as the presenter of Hair on BBC Two. As an actress, Ryan has appeared on several television sitcoms in the UK, including Campus, Episodes, and her Netflix show The Duchess. Read more
30 Jun 1983: Cheryl, English singer and TV personality Cheryl Ann Tweedy is an English singer and television personality. She rose to fame as a member of Girls Aloud, a pop girl group created through ITV's reality competition show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. Named the United Kingdom's best-selling girl group of the 21st century in 2012, Girls Aloud amassed a string of 20 consecutive UK top ten singles, two UK number one albums, five consecutive platinum-selling studio albums, and five Brit Award nominations, winning Best Single for "The Promise" in 2009. The group went on hiatus in 2013, before reuniting for a tour in 2024. Read more
30 Jun 1982: Lizzy Caplan, American actress Elizabeth Anne Caplan is an American actress. Her performances as Virginia E. Johnson in the Showtime series Masters of Sex (2013–2016) and as Libby Epstein in FX on Hulu's Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022) have earned her nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Read more
30 Jun 1982: Ignacio Carrasco, Mexican footballer Oscar Ignacio Carrasco Sotelo is a Mexican footballer who last played as a midfielder for Venados F.C. in Ascenso MX. He had previously played for a number of teams in the Mexican second tier after having played for Monarcas Morelia in Liga MX. Read more
30 Jun 1981: Can Artam, Turkish race car driver Can Artam is a Turkish race car driver born into a car racing family. He raced in the 2005 GP2 Series for the iSport team and was the 2001 US Barber Formula Dodge champion. Read more
30 Jun 1981: Matt Kirk, Canadian football player Matt Kirk is a Canadian former professional football defensive tackle who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected by the Ottawa Renegades in the 2004 CFL draft. He played CIS Football at Queen's. Read more
30 Jun 1981: Desi Lydic, American comedian and actress Desi Lydic is an American comedian and actress who is a rotating host and senior correspondent on the late-night talk and news satire program The Daily Show. She has won three Emmy Awards: one as a host of The Daily Show, and two as the host and producer of the short form YouTube series The Daily Show: Desi Lydic Foxsplains. From 2011 to 2016, she starred as guidance counselor Valerie Marks on the MTV comedy-drama series Awkward. Read more
30 Jun 1981: Barbora Špotáková, Czech javelin thrower Barbora Špotáková is a former Czech track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. She is a two-time Olympic Champion and three-time World Champion, as well as the current world record holder with a throw of 72.28 m. Read more
30 Jun 1981: Ben Utecht, American football player Benjamin Jeffrey Utecht is an American singer and former professional football player. He played football as a tight end for the Indianapolis Colts and Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2004 after playing college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers. He earned a Super Bowl ring with the Colts in Super Bowl XLI over the Chicago Bears. Read more
30 Jun 1980: Rade Prica, Swedish footballer Rade Stanislav Prica is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the only player who has won league championships in the three Scandinavian countries – Sweden, Denmark and Norway. He also played in the Bundesliga, the Premier League, and the Israeli Premier League during a career that spanned between 1995 and 2016. A full international between 2001 and 2008, he won 14 caps and scored two goals for the Sweden national team. Read more
30 Jun 1980: Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian footballer Oluwaseyi George Olofinjana is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Read more
30 Jun 1980: Ryan ten Doeschate, Dutch cricketer Ryan Neil ten Doeschate is a Dutch cricket coach and former cricketer. He is currently the assistant coach of Indian men’s cricket team. Born in South Africa, he played for the Netherlands national cricket team in One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket. Ten Doeschate was named ICC Associate Player of the Year on a record three occasions, in 2008, 2010, and 2011. Read more
30 Jun 1979: Sylvain Chavanel, French cyclist Sylvain Chavanel is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2018 for the Cofidis, Omega Pharma–Quick-Step, IAM Cycling and two spells with the Brioches La Boulangère/Direct Énergie team. His brother Sébastien Chavanel also rode as a professional cyclist. Sylvain Chavanel was noted as a strong all-rounder who won both sprints and time-trials, and was a good northern classics rider, taking 45 wins during his professional career. Read more
30 Jun 1978: Ben Cousins, Australian footballer Benjamin Luke Cousins is an Australian former professional Australian rules footballer and media presenter. He played 270 games for the West Coast and Richmond in the Australian Football League (AFL) between 1996 and 2010, captained West Coast from 2001 to 2005, won the 2005 Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and was a member of West Coast's 2006 premiership side. Cousins is listed by journalist Mike Sheahan as one of the fifty greatest players of all time. Read more
30 Jun 1978: Patrick Ivuti, Kenyan runner Patrick Mukutu Ivuti is a Kenyan long distance athlete, who currently resides in Nairobi, Kenya. A two-time silver medallist at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, he made his marathon debut in 2005 and had his first major victory at the Chicago Marathon in 2007. He had back-to-back wins at the Honolulu Marathon in 2008–2009 and was the 2009 winner of the Prague Marathon. Read more
30 Jun 1978: Claudio Rivalta, Italian footballer Claudio Rivalta is a retired Italian football defender. He represented Italy at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Read more
30 Jun 1975: James Bannatyne, New Zealand footballer James Bannatyne is a New Zealand former association football goalkeeper. He last played for Team Wellington in the New Zealand Football Championship. He represented New Zealand at international level, generally as backup to Glen Moss and Mark Paston. Read more
30 Jun 1975: Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver Ralf Schumacher is a German former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1997 to 2007. Schumacher won six Formula One Grands Prix across 11 seasons. Read more
30 Jun 1974: Katrin Auer, Austrian politician Katrin Auer is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she has represented Traunviertel since October 2024. Read more
30 Jun 1974: Hezekiél Sepeng, South African runner Hezekiél Sello Sepeng, is a South African middle distance runner who won silver in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996, the 1998 Commonwealth Games and the World Championships' final in Seville 1999. He was banned from competition from May 2005 to May 2007 after a positive doping test for nandrolone. Read more
30 Jun 1973: Chan Ho Park, South Korean baseball player Chan Ho Park is a South Korean former professional baseball pitcher. Park was the first South Korean-born player in MLB history, and the first South Korean player to be named an MLB All-Star. He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, and Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB), the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and the Hanwha Eagles of the KBO League. As of 2026, he has the most career wins of any Asia-born pitcher in history (124), having passed Hideo Nomo for that distinction in 2010. During his playing days, Park stood 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm) tall, weighing 210 pounds (95 kg). Read more
30 Jun 1973: Frank Rost, German footballer and manager Frank Rost is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Read more
30 Jun 1972: Sandra Cam, Belgian swimmer Sandra Cam is a Belgian retired freestyle swimmer who represented her country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, Spain (1992) and Atlanta, United States (1996). She is best known for winning two medals at the 1993 Summer Universiade in Buffalo, United States. Read more
30 Jun 1972: Molly Parker, Canadian actress Molly Parker is a Canadian actress, writer, and director. She garnered critical attention for her portrayal of a necrophiliac medical student in the controversial drama Kissed (1996). She subsequently starred in the television thriller Intensity (1997) before landing her first major American film role in the drama Waking the Dead (2000). She gained further notice for her role as a Las Vegas escort in the drama The Center of the World (2001), for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. Read more
30 Jun 1971: Monica Potter, American actress Monica Potter is an American actress. She is known for her starring roles in the films Con Air (1997), Patch Adams (1998), and Along Came a Spider (2001). She also appeared in the horror film, Saw (2004), and The Last House on the Left, a 2009 remake film. Read more
30 Jun 1970: Brian Bloom, American actor and screenwriter Brian Keith Bloom is an American actor and screenwriter. He co-wrote the screenplay and starred in The A-Team, produced by brothers Tony and Ridley Scott. Bloom is the voice of Captain America in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and multiple subsequent Marvel titles. He is the voice of Varric Tethras in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise, B.J. Blazkowicz in MachineGames' Wolfenstein series, as well as multiple Call of Duty performances including Nick Reyes in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, which he co-wrote. He was also a co-writer of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. He starred as The Punisher in Avengers Confidential: Black Widow and Punisher. Read more
30 Jun 1970: Antonio Chimenti, Italian footballer and manager Antonio Chimenti is an Italian retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and current goalkeeping coach of Uzbekistan national team. Read more
30 Jun 1970: Mark Grudzielanek, American baseball player and manager Mark James Grudzielanek is an American former Major League Baseball second baseman and shortstop. Grudzielanek played for six different teams during his 15-season career. He batted and threw right-handed. He was most recently the 2019 manager of the Charlotte Knights, the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. Read more
30 Jun 1969: Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician Deshabandu Sanath Teran Jayasuriya, is a Sri Lankan former cricketer, captain, cricket administrator and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest all rounders ever to play in ODI cricket. A left arm orthodox spinner, left-handed batter and a dynamic fielder, Jayasuriya and his opening batting partner Romesh Kaluwitharana are credited for revolutionizing one-day international cricket with explosive batting in the mid-1990s, which initiated the hard-hitting modern-day batting strategy of all nations. He was a key member of the Sri Lankan team that won the 1996 Cricket World Cup. Under his captaincy Sri Lanka became joint champions along with India in the 2002 Champions Trophy. He is the former head coach of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. Read more
30 Jun 1969: Uta Rohländer, German sprinter Uta Rohländer, nee Fromm is a retired German sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres. Read more
30 Jun 1969: Sébastien Rose, Canadian director and screenwriter Sébastien Rose is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His debut film, How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause , won the Claude Jutra Award for the best Canadian film by a first-time director in 2003. Read more
30 Jun 1968: Phil Anselmo, American singer-songwriter and producer Philip Hansen Anselmo is an American musician best known as the lead singer for groove metal band Pantera, southern metal/sludge metal supergroup Down, and hardcore band Superjoint, amongst other musical projects. He is the owner of Housecore Records. Read more
30 Jun 1967: Patrik Bodén, Swedish javelin thrower Lars Patrik Bodén is a retired Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He holds the Swedish national record at 89.10 m, which he set on 24 March 1990. He briefly held the world record with this throw until Steve Backley set a new record later the same year. Read more
30 Jun 1967: David Busst, English footballer and manager David John Busst is an English football manager and former professional player who played as a centre-back from 1992 until 1996. Read more
30 Jun 1967: Victoria Kaspi, American-Canadian astrophysicist and academic Victoria Michelle Kaspi is a Canadian astrophysicist and a professor at McGill University. Her research primarily concerns neutron stars and pulsars. Read more
30 Jun 1966: Mike Tyson, American boxer and actor Michael Gerard Tyson is an American former professional boxer, who competed between 1985 and 2024, and a cannabis entrepreneur. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "the Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson is widely regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, and one of the most intimidating men in boxing history. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990. Read more
30 Jun 1965: Steve Duchesne, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach Steve Duchesne is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League with several teams from 1986 until 2002. A notable offensive defenceman who scored 20 or more goals in a season four times, he was a three-time NHL All-Star and a member of the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings in 2002. Read more
30 Jun 1965: Cho Jae-hyun, South Korean actor Cho Jae-hyun is a South Korean film, stage, and TV actor. He is commonly dubbed "director Kim Ki-duk's persona" since Cho has starred as leading and supporting characters in a number of films directed by Kim. Read more
30 Jun 1965: Anna Levandi, Russian figure skater and coach Anna Levandi, née Kondrashova, is an Estonian former competitive figure skater and politician. Levandi, who is of Russian origin who represented the former Soviet Union in international competition. She was the 1984 World silver medalist and four-time European bronze medalist. She competed at two Winter Olympic Games. Read more
30 Jun 1965: Gary Pallister, English footballer and sportscaster Gary Andrew Pallister is an English former professional footballer and sports television pundit. As a player he was a defender from 1984 to 2001 and is most noted for his nine-year spell at Manchester United, where he formed a formidable defensive partnership with Steve Bruce and won 15 trophies including four Premier League titles, three FA Cups and the European Cup Winners Cup. Read more
30 Jun 1965: Mitch Richmond, American basketball player Mitchell James Richmond III is an American former professional basketball player. He played collegiately at Moberly Area Community College and Kansas State University. He was a six-time NBA All-Star, a five-time All-NBA Team member, and a former NBA Rookie of the Year. In 976 NBA games, Richmond averaged 21.0 points per game and 3.5 assists per game. Richmond was voted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014. His jersey No. 2 was retired in his honor by the Sacramento Kings, for whom he played seven seasons. Read more
30 Jun 1964: Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg,, formerly Princess Alexandra of Denmark, is the former wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark, the younger brother of King Frederik X of Denmark. Read more
30 Jun 1964: Mark Waters, American director and producer Mark Stephen Waters is an American director. Read more
30 Jun 1963: Olha Bryzhina, Ukrainian sprinter Olha Bryzhina is a retired athlete who represented the Soviet Union and later Ukraine. Read more
30 Jun 1963: Rupert Graves, English actor, director, and screenwriter Rupert Graves is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in A Room with a View, Maurice, The Madness of King George, and The Forsyte Saga. From 2010 to 2017 he starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series Sherlock. Read more
30 Jun 1963: Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist and songwriter Yngwie Johan Malmsteen is a Swedish-American guitarist. He first became known in the 1980s for his neoclassical playing style in heavy metal, and has released 22 studio albums in a career spanning over 40 years. Read more
30 Jun 1962: Tony Fernández, Dominican baseball player (died 2020) Octavio Antonio Fernández Castro, better known as Tony Fernandez, was a Dominican baseball player who played as a shortstop in Major League Baseball (MLB) for seven teams from 1983 to 2001, most notably the Toronto Blue Jays. A five-time All-Star, Fernandez was known for his defensive skills, winning four consecutive Gold Glove Awards (1986–1989). He batted over .300 four times, led the major leagues with 17 triples in 1990, collected 30 doubles six times and 20 stolen bases seven times. He also led American League shortstops in assists three times, and in putouts and fielding average twice each. After moving to the National League in a blockbuster trade following the 1990 season, he returned to the Blue Jays in a mid-season trade in 1993, and played a major role in helping the club repeat as World Series champions, batting .333 with nine runs batted in during the series. Read more
30 Jun 1962: Julianne Regan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist Julianne Regan is an English/Irish
singer, songwriter, and musician. She was the lead singer and songwriter of the band All About Eve, which had four top-50 albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s. AllMusic describes Regan as "certainly one of the more talented singers of the late eighties British goth rock scene". Read more
30 Jun 1961: Lynne Jolitz, American computer scientist and programmer Lynne Greer Jolitz is a figure in free software and founder of many startups in Silicon Valley. Together with her husband William Jolitz, she created 386BSD, the first open-source Unix-based operating system for personal computers to be distributed over the Internet. Read more
30 Jun 1961: Clive Nolan, English musician, composer and producer Clive Nolan is a British musician, composer and producer who has played a prominent role in the development of progressive rock. He has been the regular keyboard player in Pendragon (1986–present), Shadowland (1992–present), Strangers on a Train (1993–1994) and Arena (1995–present), as well as writing lyrics for Arena and producing or co-producing several other bands' albums. Read more
30 Jun 1960: Jack McConnell, Scottish educator and politician, 3rd First Minister of Scotland Jack Wilson McConnell, Baron McConnell of Glenscorrodale, is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 2001 to 2007. McConnell served as the Minister for Finance from 1999 to 2000 and Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs from 2000 to 2001. He has been a Labour life peer in the House of Lords since 2010 and previously served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Motherwell and Wishaw from 1999 to 2011. McConnell held the Presidency of the Conference of European Regions with Legislative Power (REGLEG) during November 2003 to November 2004. Read more
30 Jun 1960: Murray Cook, Australian musician, actor, songwriter and producer Murray James Cook, AM is an Australian musician, actor, and DJ. Cook was one of the founding members of the children's band the Wiggles from 1991 to 2012. Cook provided guitar, vocals, and songwriting in the group, and remained involved with its creative and production aspects after his retirement. In 2013, Cook served as the Wiggles' tour manager. He also remains active in many music projects, including, writing and performing with the Sydney soul-rock band The Soul Movers. He is the father of wheelchair basketball player Georgia Munro-Cook. In 2015, he was one of the members of the Australian jury for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Read more
30 Jun 1959: Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor Vincent Philip D'Onofrio is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his supporting and leading roles in both film and television. He has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. Read more
30 Jun 1959: Daniel Goldhagen, American political scientist, author, and academic Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is an American author, and former associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. Goldhagen received attention as the author of two controversial books about the Holocaust: Hitler's Willing Executioners (1996) and A Moral Reckoning (2002). He is also the author of Worse Than War (2009), which examines the phenomenon of genocide, and The Devil That Never Dies (2013), in which he traces a worldwide rise in virulent antisemitism. Read more
30 Jun 1959: Brendan Perry, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Brendan Michael Perry is a British singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as half of the duo Dead Can Dance with Lisa Gerrard. Read more
30 Jun 1959: Sakis Tsiolis, Greek footballer and manager Sakis Tsiolis is a Greek professional football manager and former player. Read more
30 Jun 1959: Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma, Indian-English businesswoman and politician Sandip K. Verma, Baroness Verma known until 1977 as Sandip K. Rana, is a British Indian politician in the United Kingdom. An appointed member of the House of Lords, she is Ministerial Champion for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Overseas, a role who chairs the UN Women's national committee. Verma was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, from 2015 to 2016. Read more
30 Jun 1958: Pam Royle, British television presenter, journalist and voice coach Pamela June Royle is a British television journalist and presenter. Read more
30 Jun 1958: Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish conductor and composer. He is the principal conductor designate of Orchestre de Paris and creative director designate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is also conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was music director of the San Francisco Symphony from 2020 to 2025. Read more
30 Jun 1957: Bud Black, American baseball player and manager Harry Ralston "Bud" Black is an American professional baseball manager and pitcher who most recently served as manager for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB from 1981 through 1995, most notably for the Kansas City Royals and Cleveland Indians. He coached the Anaheim Angels / Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from 2000 through 2006 and managed the San Diego Padres from 2007 through 2015. He was named the National League Manager of the Year in 2010. Read more
30 Jun 1957: Sterling Marlin, American race car driver Sterling Burton Marlin is an American former professional stock car racing driver. He last competed in the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour. He formerly competed in the NASCAR Cup Series, winning the Daytona 500 in 1994 and 1995. He is the son of late NASCAR driver Coo Coo Marlin. He is married to Paula and has a daughter, Sutherlin, a son, Steadman, a former NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series driver, and a grandson Stirlin who races for Sterling in Sterling’s No. 114 Super Late Model. Marlin is a member of the NASCAR's 75 Greatest Drivers list. Read more
30 Jun 1956: Volker Beck, German hurdler and coach Volker Beck is a former East German athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Read more
30 Jun 1956: David Lidington, English historian, academic, and politician, Minister of State for Europe Sir David Roy Lidington is a British former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury from 1992 until 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2018 to 2019 and was frequently described as being Theresa May's de facto Deputy Prime Minister. Read more
30 Jun 1956: David Alan Grier, American actor, singer, and comedian David Alan Grier is an American actor and comedian. Known for his roles on stage and screen, Grier gained popularity playing multiple roles in the American sketch comedy television series In Living Color (1990–1994) and Reverend Leon Lonnie Love on the Fox comedy series Martin (1993–1997). In 2004, Grier was ranked No. 94 on Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups. Read more
30 Jun 1955: Brian Vollmer, Canadian singer Brian Joseph Vollmer is the lead singer and only remaining original member of Canadian hard rock group Helix. Since the band's inception in 1974, Vollmer had gone from lead singer to de facto leader of the band, weathering numerous lineup changes. Vollmer was born in Listowel, Ontario before relocating to Kitchener. Read more
30 Jun 1955: Egils Levits, Latvian judge, jurist, 10th President of Latvia Egils Levits is a Latvian politician, lawyer, political scientist, and jurist who served as the tenth president of Latvia from 2019 to 2023. He was a member of the European Court of Justice from 2004 to 2019. Read more
30 Jun 1954: Stephen Barlow, English organist, composer, and conductor Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley is a British actress, presenter, author, television producer, activist and former model. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012) and was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of La Bête. In 2013, she received the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards and in 2017 she was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship award. Read more
30 Jun 1954: Pierre Charles, Dominican educator and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (died 2004) Pierre Charles was a Dominican politician who served as Prime Minister of Dominica from 2000 to his death in 2004. At the time of his death, he was also serving as Member of Parliament for Grand Bay since 1985. Read more
30 Jun 1954: Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia Serzh Azati Sargsyan is an Armenian politician who served as the third President of Armenia from 2008 to 2018, and twice as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and again from 17 to 23 April 2018, when he was forced to resign in the 2018 Armenian revolution. Read more
30 Jun 1954: Wayne Swan, Australian academic and politician, 14th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia Wayne Maxwell Swan is an Australian politician serving as the 25th and current National President of the Labor Party since 2018, previously serving as the 14th deputy prime minister of Australia and the deputy leader of the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013, and the treasurer of Australia from 2007 to 2013. Read more
30 Jun 1953: Hal Lindes, American-English guitarist and film score composer Hal Lindes is an American guitarist and film score composer best known for his time as a member of Dire Straits from 1980 until late 1984. Read more
30 Jun 1952: Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician and academic Athanassios Spyridon Fokas is a United Kingdom–based Greek academic, educator and scientist, with degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Medicine. Since 2002, he is Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science in the
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge. Read more
30 Jun 1952: David Garrison, American actor and singer David Earl Garrison is an American actor and singer. He is best known for playing Steve Rhoades on the television series Married… with Children. He has also appeared in numerous theatrical roles, particularly that of The Wizard on both Broadway and in many tours of the musical Wicked. Read more
30 Jun 1951: Stanley Clarke, American bass player and composer Stanley Clarke is an American bassist, composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands. Clarke gave the bass guitar a prominence it lacked in jazz-related music. He is the first jazz-fusion bassist to headline tours, sell out shows worldwide and have recordings reach gold status. Read more
30 Jun 1949: Uwe Kliemann, German footballer, coach, and manager Uwe Kliemann is a German former professional footballer who played as a central defender. and coach. As a player, he spent 11 seasons in the Bundesliga with Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hertha BSC and Arminia Bielefeld. He represented Germany once, in a friendly against Netherlands. Read more
30 Jun 1949: Andy Scott, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Andrew David Scott is a Welsh musician and songwriter. He is best known for being the lead guitarist and a backing vocalist in the glam rock band Sweet. Following bassist Steve Priest's death in June 2020, Scott is the last surviving member of the band's classic lineup. Read more
30 Jun 1949: Bùi Thanh Liêm, Vietnamese cosmonaut (died 1981) Bùi Thanh Liêm was a Vietnamese cosmonaut. Read more
30 Jun 1944: Terry Funk, American wrestler (died 2023) Terrance Dee Funk was an American professional wrestler and actor. Funk is known for the length of his career, which spanned more than 50 years and included multiple short-lived retirements. He is also known for his influential hardcore wrestling style he pioneered in the latter part of his career. Read more
30 Jun 1944: Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist and author Raymond A. Moody Jr. is an American philosopher, psychiatrist, physician, and author, most widely known for his books about afterlife and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975 in his best-selling book Life After Life. His research explores personal accounts of subjective phenomena encountered in near-death experiences, particularly those of people who have apparently died but been resuscitated. He has widely published his views on what he terms near-death-experience psychology. Read more
30 Jun 1944: Glenn Shorrock, English-Australian singer-songwriter Glenn Barrie Shorrock is an Australian singer and songwriter. He was a founding member of rock bands the Twilights, Axiom, Little River Band and post LRB spin-off trio Birtles Shorrock Goble, as well as being a solo performer. Read more
30 Jun 1944: Ron Swoboda, American baseball player and sportscaster Ronald Alan Swoboda is an American former professional baseball player and television sports color commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder from 1965 through 1973, most notably as a member of the New York Mets team that became known as the Miracle Mets when they rose from being perennial losers to defeat the favored Baltimore Orioles in the 1969 World Series for one of the most improbable upsets in World Series history. Swoboda executed one of the most impressive defensive plays of the series in the ninth inning of Game 4 to help preserve a Mets victory. He also played for the Montreal Expos and the New York Yankees. Read more
30 Jun 1943: Florence Ballard, American pop/soul singer (died 1976) Florence Glenda Chapman was an American singer and a founding member of the Motown vocal female group the Supremes. She sang on 16 top 40 singles with the group, including nine number-one hits. After being removed from the Supremes in 1967, Ballard tried an unsuccessful solo career with ABC Records, before she was dropped from the label at the end of the decade. After struggling with alcoholism, depression and poverty for several years, she was in the midst of a musical comeback when she died of a heart attack in February 1976 at the age of 32. Ballard's death was considered by one critic as "one of rock's greatest tragedies". Ballard was the first woman posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Supremes in 1988. Read more
30 Jun 1943: Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Indian director and screenwriter Saeed Akhtar Mirza is an Indian screenwriter and director in Hindi films and television. He is the maker of notable parallel films such as Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984), Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai (1980), Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro (1989) and Naseem (1995), which won two National Film Awards in 1996. Read more
30 Jun 1942: Robert Ballard, American lieutenant and oceanographer Robert Duane Ballard is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is noted for his work in underwater archaeology and marine geology. He is best known by the general public for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew. Read more
30 Jun 1942: Ron Harris, Canadian ice hockey player and coach Ronald Thomas Harris is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 476 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the Detroit Red Wings, Oakland Seals, Atlanta Flames, and New York Rangers. Read more
30 Jun 1941: Peter Pollock, South African cricketer and author Peter Maclean Pollock is a retired South African cricketer. He has played a continuing role in the South Africa cricket team as a player and selector. He was voted a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1966. He was primarily a fast bowler, but was also a useful late-order batsman. Read more
30 Jun 1940: Mark Spoelstra, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2007) Mark Warren Spoelstra was an American singer-songwriter and folk and blues guitarist. Read more
30 Jun 1939: Tony Hatch, English pianist, composer, and producer Anthony Peter Hatch is an English composer for musical theatre and television. He is also a songwriter, pianist, arranger and producer. Read more
30 Jun 1939: Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (died 2016) Melvin Barry Hines, FRSL was an English author, playwright and screenwriter. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, particularly in his native West Riding/South Yorkshire. Read more
30 Jun 1939: José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and author (died 2014) José Emilio Pacheco Berny was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century. The Berlin International Literature Festival has praised him as "one of the most significant contemporary Latin American poets". In 2009 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize for his literary oeuvre. Read more
30 Jun 1938: Billy Mills, American distance runner William Mervin Mills, also known by his Oglala Lakota name Tamakhóčhe Theȟíla, is an American Oglala Lakota former track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the 10,000 metre run (6.2 mi) at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His 1964 victory is considered one of the greatest Olympic upsets because he was a virtual unknown going into the event. He was the first non-European to win the Olympic event and remains the only winner from the Americas. He was also a United States Marine officer. Read more
30 Jun 1938: Jeri Taylor, American screenwriter (died 2024) Jeri Cecile Suer, known professionally as Jeri Taylor, was an American television scriptwriter and producer who wrote many episodes of the Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager series. Read more
30 Jun 1937: Larry Henley, American singer-songwriter (died 2014) Larry Joel Henley was an American singer and songwriter, best known for co-writing the 1989 hit record "Wind Beneath My Wings". He is also known for his distinctive falsetto singing voice, which he used prominently when in the Newbeats, a pop trio best known for their hit song "Bread and Butter". Read more
30 Jun 1936: Assia Djebar, Algerian-French author and translator (died 2015) Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known by her pen name Assia Djebar, was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. She is "frequently associated with women's writing movements, her novels are clearly focused on the creation of a genealogy of Algerian women, and her political stance is virulently anti-patriarchal as much as it is anti-colonial." Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers. She was elected to the Académie Française on 16 June 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. For the entire body of her work she was awarded the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She was often named as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Read more
30 Jun 1936: Nancy Dussault, American actress and singer Nancy Dussault is an American actress and singer. Read more
30 Jun 1936: Tony Musante, American actor and screenwriter (died 2013) Anthony Peter Musante Jr. was an American actor, best known for the TV series Toma as Detective David Toma, Nino Schibetta in Oz (1997), and Joe D'Angelo in As the World Turns (2000–2003). In movies, he achieved fame relatively early in his career, starring or having significant roles in such films as Once a Thief (1965), The Incident (1967), The Detective (1968) and The Last Run (1971), and also in a number of Italian productions, including The Mercenary (1968), Metti, una sera a cena (1969) and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970). Read more
30 Jun 1936: Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2002) David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street". Read more
30 Jun 1935: John Harlin, American pilot and mountaineer (died 1966) John Elvis Harlin II was an American alpinist and US Air Force pilot who was killed while making an ascent of the north face of the Eiger at age 30. Read more
30 Jun 1934: Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician and author (died 1997) Harry Bouton Blackstone Jr. was an American stage magician, author, and television performer. He is estimated to have pulled 80,000 rabbits from his sleeves and hats. Read more
30 Jun 1933: Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football coach and manager (died 2011) Tomislav Ivić was a Croatian professional football player and manager. Often described as a brilliant strategist, Ivić is credited with helping develop the modern style of the game. In April 2007, Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport proclaimed him as the most successful football manager in history, due to his seven league titles won in five countries. He is also one of six managers–– along with Carlo Ancelotti, José Mourinho, Giovanni Trapattoni, Ernst Happel, and Eric Gerets–– to have won top-flight domestic league championships in at least four countries. Read more
30 Jun 1933: Joan Murrell Owens, American educator and marine biologist (died 2011) Joan Murrell Owens was an American educator and marine biologist specializing in corals. She received degrees in Geology, Fine Art, and Guidance Counseling. She described a new genus, Rhombopsammia, and three new species of button corals, R. niphada, R. squiresi, and Letepsammia franki. Read more
30 Jun 1933: M. J. K. Smith, English cricketer and rugby player Michael John Knight Smith, known as M. J. K. Smith or Mike Smith, was an English cricketer and rugby union player. He played for Leicestershire from 1951 until 1955, and for Warwickshire between 1956 and 1975. Smith played in fifty Tests for England between 1958 and 1972 and was captain of England twenty-five times. He also represented England at rugby union in one match against Wales in 1956. He remains England's most recent male double international in cricket and rugby. Read more
30 Jun 1933: Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022) Orval Roy Tessier was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and coach who played parts of three seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins between 1954 and 1960, appearing in a total of 59 regular season games. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1953 to 1965, was spent in the minor leagues, where he was a solid offensive player. He won two scoring titles with the Eastern Professional Hockey League's Kingston Frontenacs, and was voted the league's most valuable player and most sportsmanlike player in the 1961–62 season. Read more
30 Jun 1933: Cookie, Australian Major Mitchell's cockatoo, oldest recorded parrot (died 2016) Cookie was a male pink cockatoo residing at Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was believed to be the oldest member of his species alive in captivity, at the age of 82 in June 2015, having significantly exceeded the average lifespan for his kind. He was one of the longest-lived birds on record and was recognised by the Guinness World Records as the oldest living parrot in the world. Read more
30 Jun 1931: Yo-Yo Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player and manager (died 2013) Pompeyo Antonio Davalillo Romero [da-va-LEE-yo] was a Venezuelan professional baseball player and minor league manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop for the Washington Senators; he also played and managed extensively in his native Venezuela. Standing at 5'3", he is one of the shortest players to ever see regular playing time in the major leagues. Read more
30 Jun 1931: Andrew Hill, American pianist and composer (died 2007) Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer. Read more
30 Jun 1931: Ronald Rene Lagueux, American judge (died 2023) Ronald Rene Lagueux was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Read more
30 Jun 1931: Kaye Vaughan, American football player (died 2023) Charles Kaye Vaughan was an American-born Canadian professional football player, a lineman with the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) for twelve seasons. He won the CFL's Outstanding Lineman Award in 1956 and 1957 and is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. Read more
30 Jun 1930: Ben Atchley, American politician (died 2018) Curtis Bentley Atchley Jr., known as Ben Atchley, was an American politician in the state of Tennessee. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1972 to 1976 and the Tennessee State Senate from 1977 to 2005, as a Republican. He was a majority leader and caucus chairman in the senate. He was an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and veteran of the United States Naval Reserve. He was married with two children. Read more
30 Jun 1930: Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician (died 2021) Ahmed Zaki Yamani was a Saudi Arabian politician who served as Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources under four Saudi monarchs from 1962 to 1986, and a minister in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for 25 years. Read more
30 Jun 1930: Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian bishop (died 2018) Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad was patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syriac Catholic Church. He served as patriarch from 2001 to 2008, when he resigned and retired. Read more
30 Jun 1929: Yang Ti-liang, Chinese judge (died 2023) Sir Ti-liang Yang, was a Hong Kong-Chinese jurist. He was the Chief Justice of Hong Kong from 1988 to 1996, the only ethnic Chinese person to hold this office during British colonial rule. Read more
30 Jun 1928: Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli, Islamic philosopher, theologian, mathematician and mystic (died 2021) Hasan Hasanzade Amoli was an Iranian Shi'ite theologian known for his mystical tendencies and Islamic philosophy. He was among clerics who overcame the traditional opposition to teaching philosophy courses at Shi'ite seminaries. He wrote many books in philosophy, mysticism, mathematics, astronomy, Persian and Arabic literature. He interpreted the Islamic philosophical tradition in a similar way to Mulla Sadra, which is a reconciliation of religion, reason and mysticism. His books include Sharh fusus al-hikam, Tashih nahj al-balagha, Insan dar 'urf-i 'irfan, Tashih kalila wa dimna. Read more
30 Jun 1928: Nathaniel Tarn, American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator (died 2024) Nathaniel Tarn was a French-American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator. He was born Edward Michael Mendelson in Paris, France, to a French-Romanian mother and a British-Lithuanian father. Read more
30 Jun 1927: Shirley Fry Irvin, American tennis player (died 2021) Shirley June Fry Irvin was an American tennis player. During her career, which lasted from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s, she won the singles title at all four Grand Slam events, as well as 13 doubles titles, and was ranked No. 1 in the world in 1956. Read more
30 Jun 1927: James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (died 1998) James Goldman was an American playwright and screenwriter. He won an Academy Award for his screenplay The Lion in Winter (1968). His younger brother was novelist and screenwriter William Goldman. Read more
30 Jun 1927: Mario Lanfranchi, Italian director, screenwriter, producer, collector and actor (died 2022) Mario Lanfranchi was an Italian film, theatre, and television director, screenwriter, producer, collector, and actor. Read more
30 Jun 1927: Frank McCabe, American basketball player (died 2021) Frank Reilly McCabe was an American basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, McCabe played collegiately at Marquette University. He was part of the American basketball team, which won the gold medal. He played six matches. Read more
30 Jun 1926: Paul Berg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023) Paul Berg was an American biochemist and professor at Stanford University.
He received the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA". Read more
30 Jun 1925: Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (died 2010) Frederick Appleton Schaus was an American basketball player, head coach and athletic director for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, player for the National Basketball Association's Fort Wayne Pistons and New York Knicks, general manager and head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, head coach of Purdue University basketball, and a member of the NCAA Basketball Committee. He was born in Newark, Ohio. Read more
30 Jun 1925: Ebrahim Amini, Iranian politician (died 2020) Ebrahim Haj Amini Najafabadi was an Iranian principlist politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, and was previously identified as a possible candidate to become the next Iranian Supreme Leader. Ayatollah Amini was a jurist and a moderate supporter of jurisprudential Islam. He was a member of the Council for the Revision of the Second Constitution in 1989 and was a supporter of the maximum ruling term of a Supreme Leader being ten years. Read more
30 Jun 1924: Max Trepp, Swiss sprinter (died 1990) Max Trepp was a Swiss sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Read more
30 Jun 1921: Washington SyCip, American-Filipino accountant (died 2017) Washington Z. SyCip, PLH BOLk RNO1kl was a Chinese-Filipino-American accountant. He was the founder of the accounting firm EY SGV & Company and the Asian Institute of Management. Read more
30 Jun 1920: Eleanor Ross Taylor, American poet and educator (died 2011) Eleanor Ross Taylor was an American poet who published six collections of verse from 1960 to 2009. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but thereafter received several major poetry prizes. Describing her most recent poetry collection, Kevin Prufer writes, "I cannot imagine the serious reader — poet or not — who could leave Captive Voices unmoved by the work of this supremely gifted poet who skips so nimbly around our sadnesses and fears, never directly addressing them, suggesting, instead, their complex resistance to summary." Read more
30 Jun 1919: Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (died 2007) Paul Edward Yost was the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and is referred to as the "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon." He worked for a high-altitude research division of General Mills in the early 1950s until he left to establish Raven Industries in 1956, along with several colleagues from General Mills. Read more
30 Jun 1917: Susan Hayward, American actress (died 1975) Susan Hayward was an American actress best known for her film portrayals of women that were based on true stories. Read more
30 Jun 1917: Lena Horne, American actress, singer, and activist (died 2010) Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television and theater. Read more
30 Jun 1917: Willa Kim, American costume designer (died 2016) Wullah Mei Ok Kim, known as Willa Kim, was an American costume designer for stage, dance, and film. Read more
30 Jun 1914: Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (died 2001) Francisco da Costa Gomes, ComTE GOA was a Portuguese military officer and politician who was the president of Portugal from 1974 to 1976. Earlier on, he had been deployed to Angola as part of the Portuguese Colonial War. Read more
30 Jun 1914: Allan Houser, American sculptor and painter (died 1994) Allan Capron Houser or Haozous was a Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter, and book illustrator born in Oklahoma. He was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century. Read more
30 Jun 1913: Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Colombia (died 2007) Alfonso López Michelsen was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the 25th President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. He was nicknamed "El Pollo", a popular Colombian idiom for people with precocious careers. Read more
30 Jun 1913: Harry Wismer, American sportscaster (died 1967) Harry Wismer was an American sports broadcaster and the founder of the Titans of New York franchise in the American Football League (AFL). Read more
30 Jun 1912: Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer (died 2003) Ludwig Bölkow was a German aeronautical engineer. Read more
30 Jun 1912: Dan Reeves, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1971) Daniel Farrell Reeves was an American sports entrepreneur, best known as the owner of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He owned the franchise when it was operating in Cleveland, Ohio in 1941, and he would own the team until his death in 1971. Read more
30 Jun 1912: María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías, Mexican architect (died 2009) María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías was a Mexican architect who worked for close to 50 years in the Federal District of Mexico City, primarily designing single-family homes and apartment buildings. She was the first Mexican woman to graduate with a degree in architecture. Read more
30 Jun 1911: Czesław Miłosz, Polish novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004) Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts". Read more
30 Jun 1911: Nagarjun, Indian poet (died 1998) Vaidyanath Mishra, better known by his pen name Nagarjun, was a Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as Janakavi- the People's Poet.
He is regarded as the most prominent protagonist of modernity in Maithili. Read more
30 Jun 1909: Juan Bosch, 43rd President of the Dominican Republic (died 2001) Juan Emilio Bosch y Gaviño, also known as El Profesor, was a Dominican politician, historian, writer, essayist, educator, and the first democratically elected president of the Dominican Republic for seven months in 1963. Read more
30 Jun 1908: Winston Graham, English author (died 2003) Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime, was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary thrillers, period novels, short stories, non-fiction and plays. Graham was the author's pseudonym until he changed his name by deed poll from Grime to Graham on 7 May 1947. Read more
30 Jun 1908: Luigi Rovere, Italian film producer (died 1996) Luigi Rovere was an Italian film producer. Read more
30 Jun 1908: Rob Nieuwenhuys, Dutch writer (died 1999) Robert Nieuwenhuys was a Dutch writer of Indo descent. The son of a 'Totok' Dutchman and an Indo-European mother, he and his younger brother Roelof, grew up in Batavia, where his father was the managing director of the renowned Hotel des Indes. Read more
30 Jun 1907: Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician (died 1950) Roman-Taras Osypovych Shukhevych was a Ukrainian nationalist and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which during the Second World War fought against the Soviet Union and to a lesser extent against Nazi Germany for Ukrainian independence. He collaborated with the Nazis from February 1941 to December 1942 as commanding officer of the Nachtigall Battalion in early 1941, and as a Hauptmann of the German Schutzmannschaft 201 auxiliary police battalion in late 1941 and 1942. Read more
30 Jun 1906: Anthony Mann, American actor and director (died 1967) Anthony Mann was an American film director and stage actor. He came to prominence as a skilled director of film noir and Westerns, and for his historical epics. Read more
30 Jun 1905: John Van Ryn, American tennis player (died 1999) John Van Ryn was an American tennis champion of the 1930s. He was primarily known as the doubles partner of Wilmer Allison. Read more
30 Jun 1904: Marianne Angermann, German–Spanish–New Zealand biochemist (died 1977) Mathilde Marianne Bielschowsky was a German-born Spanish–New Zealand biochemist and anti-fascist. Trained at the universities of Greifswald, Freiburg, Cologne, and Bonn, she earned a doctorate in chemistry in 1928 and later studied medicine. After leaving Germany in 1935 in opposition to the Nazi regime, she worked at the Instituto de investigaciónes médicas in Madrid, where she collaborated with fellow German emigrant Franz Bielschowsky. During the Spanish Civil War, Angermann volunteered as a medical laboratory chemist for the Republican forces while Bielschowsky served as a physician. Read more
30 Jun 1899: Madge Bellamy, American actress (died 1990) Madge Bellamy was an American stage and film actress. She was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Bellamy's career declined in the sound era and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s. Read more
30 Jun 1895: Heinz Warneke, German-American sculptor and educator (died 1983) Heinrich Johann Dietrich "Heinz" Warneke was a German-born American sculptor, best remembered as an animalier, or sculptor of animals. His role in the direct carving movement "assured him a place in the annals of 20th-century American sculpture." Read more
30 Jun 1893: Nellah Massey Bailey, American politician and librarian (died 1956) Nellah Izora Massey Bailey was an American politician and librarian. She was the first lady of Mississippi from 1944 to 1946 and the Mississippi state tax collector from 1948 to 1956. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman elected to statewide office in Mississippi. Read more
30 Jun 1893: Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician, chief decision maker and head of state of the GDR (East Germany) (died 1973) Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht was a German communist politician and revolutionary. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later in the early development and establishment of the German Democratic Republic. As the First Secretary of the Communist Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971, he was the chief decision-maker in East Germany. From President Wilhelm Pieck's death in 1960, he was also the East German head of state until his own death in 1973. As the leader of a significant Communist satellite, Ulbricht had a degree of bargaining power with the Kremlin that he used effectively. For example, he demanded the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 when the Kremlin was reluctant. Read more
30 Jun 1892: Pierre Blanchar, Algerian-French actor and director (died 1963) Pierre Blanchar was a French actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1922 and 1961. Blanchar was married to actress Marthe Vinot, with whom he had a daughter, actress Dominique Blanchar. He played Napoleon in the 1938 British film A Royal Divorce alongside Ruth Chatterton as Josephine. He later appeared alongside Michèle Morgan in the 1946 film Pastoral Symphony. Read more
30 Jun 1891: Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler and sergeant (died 1953) Frank Simmons Leavitt was an American professional wrestler of the early 20th century, known by the ring name Man Mountain Dean. Read more
30 Jun 1891: Ed Lewis, American wrestler and manager (died 1966) Robert Herman Julius Friedrich, better known by the ring name Ed "Strangler" Lewis, was an American professional wrestler and trainer. During his wrestling career, which spanned four decades, Lewis was a four-time World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion and overall recognized officially as a five-time world champion. Considered to be one of the most iconic and recognizable sports stars of the 1920s, often alongside boxer Jack Dempsey and baseball player Babe Ruth, Lewis notably wrestled in over 6,000 matches and lost only 32 of them. Read more
30 Jun 1891: Stanley Spencer, English painter (died 1959) Sir Stanley Spencer was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, Berkshire, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven" and in his biblical scenes, fellow-villagers are shown as their Gospel counterparts. Spencer was skilled at organising multi-figure compositions such as in his large paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Shipbuilding on the Clyde series, the former being a First World War memorial while the latter was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War. Read more
30 Jun 1890: Paul Boffa, Maltese physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (died 1962) Sir Paul Boffa, OBE, was a Maltese politician and medical doctor who served as prime minister in the Colony of Malta after self-rule was reinstated by the British colonial authorities, following the end of the Second World War. He was created a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. Read more
30 Jun 1889: Archibald Frazer-Nash, English motor car designer, engineer and founder of Frazer Nash (died 1965) Archibald Goodman Frazer Nash, was an early English motor car designer, engineer, and inventor who specialised in manufacturer of light "cycle cars" and sports cars in England. Read more
30 Jun 1884: Georges Duhamel, French author and critic (died 1966) Georges Duhamel was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit, the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin. In 1935, he was elected as a member of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-seven times. He was also the father of the musicologist and composer Antoine Duhamel. Read more
30 Jun 1864: Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect and archaeologist (died 1945) Frederick Bligh Bond, was an English architect, illustrator, archaeologist, psychical researcher and member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. Read more
30 Jun 1843: Ernest Mason Satow, English orientalist and diplomat (died 1929) Sir Ernest Mason Satow, was a British diplomat, scholar and Japanologist. He is better known in Japan, where he was known as Satō Ainosuke , than in Britain or the other countries in which he served as a diplomat. He was a key figure in late 19th-century Anglo-Japanese relations. Read more
30 Jun 1817: Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (died 1911) Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For 20 years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science. Read more
30 Jun 1807: Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German author, poet, and playwright (died 1887) Friedrich Theodor Vischer was a German novelist, poet, playwright, and writer on the philosophy of art. Today, he is mainly remembered as the author of the novel Auch Einer, in which he developed the concept of Die Tücke des Objekts, a comic theory that inanimate objects conspire against humans. Read more
30 Jun 1803: Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet, playwright, and physician (died 1849) Thomas Lovell Beddoes was an English poet, dramatist and physician. Read more

Notable Deaths on 30 June

30 Jun 2025: Kenneth Colley, English actor (born 1937) Kenneth Colley was a British film and television actor whose career spanned over 60 years. He came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), as well as his roles in the films of Ken Russell and as Jesus in Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979). Read more
30 Jun 2025: Jim Shooter, American author and illustrator (born 1951) James Charles Shooter was an American writer, editor and publisher in the comics industry. Beginning his career writing for DC Comics at the age of 14, he had a successful but controversial run as editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics, and launched comics publishers Valiant, Defiant, and Broadway. Read more
30 Jun 2021: Raj Kaushal, Indian Film Director and Producer (born 1971) Raj Kaushal was an Indian director, producer who was active during the 1990s and mid 2000s. He was married to actress and TV presenter Mandira Bedi. He died on 30 June 2021 due to a heart attack. Read more
30 Jun 2020: Stella Madzimbamuto, Zimbabwean activist (born 1930) Stella Madzimbamuto was a South African-born Zimbabwean nurse and plaintiff in the landmark legal case of Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke. Born as Stella Nkolombe in District Six of Cape Town in 1930, she trained as a nurse at South Africa's first hospital to treat black Africans, earning a general nursing and a midwifery certification. After working for three years at Ladysmith Provincial Hospital, she married a Southern Rhodesian and relocated. From 1956 to 1959, she worked as a general nurse at the Harare Central Hospital. In 1959, her husband, Daniel Madzimbamuto, was detained as a political prisoner. He would remain in detention until 1974, while she financially supported the family. Read more
30 Jun 2018: Smoke Dawg, Canadian rapper (born 1996) Jahvante Jahqwane Sheldon Smart, known professionally as Smoke Dawg, was a Canadian rapper from Toronto, Ontario. He was a part of hip hop collective Halal Gang alongside Mustafa the Poet, Puffy L'z, Safe, and Mo-G who come together with the Prime Boys to make the supergroup Full Circle. His debut and only studio album, Struggle Before Glory, was released posthumously in 2018. Read more
30 Jun 2017: Barry Norman, English television presenter (born 1933) Barry Leslie Norman was a British film critic, television presenter and journalist. He presented the BBC's cinema review programme, Film…, from 1972 to 1998. Read more
30 Jun 2017: Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician (born 1927) Simone Veil was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for human dignity and European reconciliation. As minister of health, she championed women's rights and is best remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, known as the Veil Act. Read more
30 Jun 2015: Charles W. Bagnal, American general (born 1934) Lieutenant General Charles Wilson Bagnal was a United States Army officer. He was commander of the United States Army Western Command, from 1985 to 1989. Previously he was Deputy Commanding General for Training of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Deputy Superintendent at the United States Military Academy, Commander of the 101st Airborne Division (1981-1983), Commander of the Officer Personnel Management Directorate for the United States Army Military Personnel Center, and Special Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. He is an alumnus of the United States Military Academy, United States Army Command & General Staff College, Georgia Tech, the United States Army War College and McLenaghan High School in Florence, South Carolina. He retired August 31, 1989, and later obtained his juris doctor from the University of South Carolina and practiced law. He resided in Columbia with his wife Patsy. Bagnal died on June 30, 2015, after a battle with leukemia. He was interred at the U.S. Military Academy Cemetery on July 14, 2015. Read more
30 Jun 2015: Robert Dewar, English-American computer scientist and academic (born 1945) Robert Berriedale Keith Dewar was an American computer scientist and educator. He helped to develop programming languages and compilers and was an outspoken advocate of freely licensed open-source software. He was a cofounder, CEO, and president of the AdaCore software company. He was also an enthusiastic amateur performer and musician, especially with the Village Light Opera Group in New York City. Read more
30 Jun 2015: Arthur Porter, Canadian physician and academic (born 1956) Arthur Thomas Porter IV was a Canadian physician and hospital administrator. Read more
30 Jun 2015: Leonard Starr, American author and illustrator (born 1925) Leonard Starr was an American cartoonist, comic book artist, and advertising artist, best known for creating the newspaper comic strip On Stage and reviving Little Orphan Annie. Read more
30 Jun 2014: Frank Cashen, American businessman (born 1925) John Francis "Frank" Cashen was an American Major League Baseball general manager. He was an executive when the Baltimore Orioles won the 1966 World Series and 1970 World Series, while also winning three consecutive AL pennants from 1969 to 1971. Later he became general manager of the New York Mets from 1980 to 1991, and the club won the 1986 World Series during his tenure. Read more
30 Jun 2014: Paul Mazursky, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930) Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Known for his dramatic comedies that often dealt with modern social issues, he was nominated for five Academy Awards for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Harry and Tonto (1974), An Unmarried Woman (1978), and Enemies, A Love Story (1989). He is also known for directing the autobiographical Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Moon over Parador (1988), and Scenes from a Mall (1991). Read more
30 Jun 2014: Željko Šturanović, Montenegrin lawyer and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Montenegro (born 1960) Željko Šturanović was a Montenegrin politician who was the Prime Minister of Montenegro from 2006 until his resignation in 2008. Read more
30 Jun 2013: Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge (born 1917) Alan Robertson Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway ERD QC was a British judge, barrister and author who sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative life peer. Read more
30 Jun 2013: Akpor Pius Ewherido, Nigerian politician (born 1963) Akpor Pius Ewherido was a Nigerian politician. He was elected Senator for Delta Central Senatorial District in the April 2011 national elections, running on the Democratic People's Party (DPP) platform. Read more
30 Jun 2013: Kathryn Morrison, American educator and politician (born 1942) Kathryn Morrison was an American educator and Democratic Party politician who was the first woman to be elected to serve in the Wisconsin Senate. Morrison was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and graduated from Madison East High School. Morrison was elected November 1974, seated January 1975 and served one term representing the 17th District. Read more
30 Jun 2013: Thompson Oliha, Nigerian footballer (born 1968) Thompson Oliha was a Nigerian professional footballer who played as a midfielder for clubs in Africa and Europe during an injury-shortened career. Read more
30 Jun 2013: Keith Seaman, Australian politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (born 1920) Sir Keith Douglas Seaman was Governor of South Australia from 1 September 1977 until 28 March 1982. He was the second successive governor to have been a minister of religion, Seaman being a minister in then recently merged Uniting Church in Australia. Read more
30 Jun 2012: Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (born 1942) Michael Edward Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, was a British-Australian farmer, who is most noted because of the 2004 documentary Britain's Real Monarch, which alleged he was the rightful monarch of England instead of Queen Elizabeth II. From February 1960 until November 2002, he held the courtesy title Lord Mauchline. Read more
30 Jun 2012: Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (born 1915) Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang. Read more
30 Jun 2012: Michael J. Ybarra, American journalist and author (born 1966) Michael Jay Ybarra was an American journalist, author and adventurer whose non-fiction work appeared in various national publications. In 2004, his book about McCarthyism, Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt, won the D.B. Hardeman Prize. As the extreme sports correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Ybarra wrote articles about outdoor adventure, providing the genre with a wider audience than it typically receives. Read more
30 Jun 2009: Pina Bausch, German dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1940) Philippine "Pina" Bausch was a German dancer and choreographer who was a significant contributor to a neo-expressionist dance tradition now known as Tanztheater. Bausch's approach was noted for a stylised blend of dance movement, prominent sound design, and involved stage sets, as well as for engaging the dancers under her to help in the development of a piece, and her work had an influence on modern dance from the 1970s forward. She created the company Tanztheater Wuppertal, which performs internationally. Read more
30 Jun 2009: Harve Presnell, American actor and singer (born 1933) George Harvey Presnell was an American actor and singer. He began his career in the mid-1950s as a classical baritone, singing with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States. Read more
30 Jun 2007: Sahib Singh Verma, Indian librarian and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Delhi (born 1943) Sahib Singh Verma was an Indian politician. He served as the 4th Chief Minister of Delhi (1996–1998) and Union Labour Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He was a member of 13th Lok Sabha, Parliament of India (1999–2004). Read more
30 Jun 2004: Eddie Burns, Australian rugby league player (born 1916) Eddie Burns was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach of the mid 20th century. A New South Wales representative prop-forward, he played for the Canterbury-Bankstown club of the NSWRFL Premiership, later becoming their coach. Read more
30 Jun 2003: Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (born 1924) Buddy Hackett was an American comedian and comic actor. Known for his raunchy material, heavy appearance and thick New York City accent, his notable roles include Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man (1962), Benjy Benjamin in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Tennessee Steinmetz in The Love Bug (1968) and the voice of Scuttle in The Little Mermaid (1989). He was also a frequent guest on TV game shows and variety shows. Read more
30 Jun 2003: Robert McCloskey, American author and illustrator (born 1915) John Robert McCloskey was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He both wrote and illustrated eight picture books, and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association for the year's best-illustrated picture book. Four of the eight books were set in Maine: Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, Time of Wonder, and Burt Dow, Deep-water Man. His best-known work is Make Way For Ducklings, set in Boston. In longer works, he both wrote and illustrated Homer Price and he illustrated Keith Robertson's Henry Reed series. Read more
30 Jun 2002: Chico Xavier, Brazilian medium and author (born 1910) Francisco Cândido Xavier, born Francisco de Paula Cândido and commonly known as Chico Xavier, was a Brazilian philanthropist and spiritist medium. Over a period of 60 years, he wrote over 490 books and several thousand letters claiming to use a process known as "psychography". Books based on old letters and manuscripts were published posthumously, bringing the total number of books to 496. Read more
30 Jun 2001: Chet Atkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1924) Chester Burton Atkins, nicknamed "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was a fingerpicking guitar player, arranger and producer who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, created the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans. He was primarily a guitarist, but he also played the mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and ukulele, and occasionally sang. Read more
30 Jun 2001: Joe Henderson, American saxophonist and composer (born 1937) Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and very occasional flute player. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note, Milestone, Contemporary Records and Verve. Read more
30 Jun 1996: Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer and manager (born 1932) Lakis Petropoulos was a Greek football player who played as midfielder for Panathinaikos and a later manager. Read more
30 Jun 1995: Georgy Beregovoy, Ukrainian general and astronaut (born 1921) Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. From 1972 to 1987, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Read more
30 Jun 1995: Gale Gordon, American actor and voice artist (born 1906) Gale Gordon was an American character actor who was Lucille Ball's longtime television foil, particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television sitcom The Lucy Show. Gordon also appeared in I Love Lucy and had starring roles in Ball's successful third series Here's Lucy and her short-lived fourth and final series Life with Lucy. Read more
30 Jun 1985: Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (born 1933) Haruo Ignacio Remeliik was the first President of Palau from 2 March 1981 until his assassination on 30 June 1985. He is buried at Kloulklubed in his home state of Peleliu. Remeliik was of mixed Japanese and Palauan descent. Read more
30 Jun 1984: Lillian Hellman, American author and playwright (born 1905) Lillian Florence Hellman was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway as well as her communist views and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–1952. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the U.S. film industry caused a drop in her income. Many praised Hellman for refusing to answer HUAC's questions, but others believed, despite her denial, that she had belonged to the Communist Party. Read more
30 Jun 1976: Firpo Marberry, American baseball player and umpire (born 1898) Frederick "Firpo" Marberry was an American right-handed starting and relief pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1923 to 1936, most notably with the Washington Senators. The sport's first prominent reliever, he has been retroactively credited as having been the first pitcher to record 20 saves in a season, the first to make 50 relief appearances in a season or 300 in a career, and the only pitcher to lead the major leagues in saves six times. Since relief pitching was still seen as a lesser calling in a time when starters were only removed when clearly ineffective, Marberry also started 187 games in his career, posting a 94–52 record as a starter for a .644 winning percentage. He pitched in later years for the Detroit Tigers (1933–1935) and New York Giants (1936) before ending his career in Washington. Read more
30 Jun 1974: Alberta Williams King, Civil rights activist (born 1904) Alberta Christine Williams King was an American civil rights organizer best known as the wife of Martin Luther King Sr.; and as the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and also as the grandmother of Martin Luther King III. She was the choir director of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. She was shot and killed in the church by 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault six years after the assassination of her eldest son Martin Luther King Jr. Read more
30 Jun 1973: Nancy Mitford, English journalist and author (born 1904) Nancy Freeman-Mitford was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist who was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period. She wrote several novels about upper-class life in England and France, and is considered a sharp and often provocative wit. She also has a reputation as a writer of popular historical biographies. Read more
30 Jun 1973: Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (born 1903) Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, CSsR was a Ukrainian religious priest of the Redemptorists and a prelate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is considered a martyr in the Catholic Church, due to his death in 1973 of injuries sustained while imprisoned by the Soviet Union for his faith. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001. Read more
30 Jun 1971: Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (born 1943) Georgi Asparuhov Rangelov, nicknamed Gundi, was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker. Read more
30 Jun 1971: Herbert Biberman, American director and screenwriter (born 1900) Herbert J. Biberman was an American screenwriter and film director. He was one of the Hollywood Ten and directed Salt of the Earth (1954), a film barely released in the United States, about a zinc miners' strike in Grant County, New Mexico. His membership in the Directors Guild of America was posthumously restored in 1997; he had been expelled in 1950. Read more
30 Jun 1971: Georgy Dobrovolsky Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (born 1928) Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1, but died of asphyxiation because of an accidentally opened valve. They were the first and only humans to have died in space. Read more
30 Jun 1971: Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (born 1938) Nikola Todorov Kotkov, nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker. Read more
30 Jun 1971: Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (born 1933) Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and was part of the third space crew to die during a space flight. On board the space station Salyut 1 he operated the Orion 1 Space Observatory ; he became the first man to operate a telescope outside the Earth's atmosphere. Read more
30 Jun 1971: Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (born 1935) Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions. The second mission terminated fatally. Volkov and the two other crew members were asphyxiated on reentry, the only three people to have died in outer space. Read more
30 Jun 1968: Ernst Marcus, German zoologist (born 1893) Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus was a German zoologist, occupant of the chair of zoology at the University of São Paulo from 1936 to 1963, and co-founder of the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo. Read more
30 Jun 1966: Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (born 1906) Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. Farina won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in its inaugural 1950 season with Alfa Romeo, and won five Grands Prix across seven seasons. Read more
30 Jun 1966: Margery Allingham, English author of detective fiction (born 1904) Margery Louise Allingham was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh. Read more
30 Jun 1961: Lee de Forest, American inventor, invented the audion tube (born 1873) Lee de Forest was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and early pioneer in electronics of fundamental importance. He invented the first practical electronic amplifier,
the three-element "Audion" triode vacuum tube in 1908. This helped start the Electronic Age, and enabled the development of the electronic oscillator. These made radio broadcasting and long-distance telephone lines possible, and led to the development of talking motion pictures, among countless other applications. Read more
30 Jun 1959: José Vasconcelos, Mexican philosopher and politician (born 1882) José Vasconcelos Calderón, called the "cultural caudillo" of the Mexican Revolution, was an important Mexican writer, philosopher, lawyer, and politician. He is one of the most influential and controversial personalities in the development of modern Mexico. His philosophy of the "cosmic race" affected all aspects of Mexican sociocultural, political, and economic policies. Read more
30 Jun 1956: Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (born 1880) Thorleif Brinck Lund was a Norwegian stage and film actor of the silent film era. Read more
30 Jun 1954: Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1873) Andrass Samuelsen was a Faroese politician and member of the Union Party. He was the first Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands after the autonomy of the Faroe Islands in 1948 (Heimastýrislógin). Read more
30 Jun 1953: Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator (born 1874) Elsa Beskow was a famous Swedish author and illustrator of children's books. Among her better known books are Tale of the Little Little Old Woman and Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender. Read more
30 Jun 1953: Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer and civil servant (born 1874) Charles William Miller was a Brazilian sportsman, who is considered to be the father of football in Brazil. Miller founded São Paulo Athletic Club (SPAC), one of the oldest sports clubs in Brazil, and founded the Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball, current Campeonato Paulista, Brazil's first football league. He is also considered the father of Rugby union in Brazil. Read more
30 Jun 1951: Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach (born 1884) Yrjö Erik Mikael Saarela was a Finnish wrestler who won Olympic gold and a world championship. Read more
30 Jun 1949: Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (born 1868) Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, also known as Baron Édouard de Rothschild was an aristocrat, French financier and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. Read more
30 Jun 1948: Prince Sabahaddin, Turkish-Swiss sociologist and academic (born 1879) Sultanzade Mehmed Sabahaddin was an Ottoman prince, sociologist, and intellectual. Because of his threat to the ruling House of Osman, of which he was a member, and his political activity and push for democracy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was exiled. He was one of the founders of the short-lived Liberty Party. Read more
30 Jun 1941: Yefim Fomin, Belarusian politician (born 1909) Yefim Moiseyevich Fomin was a Soviet political commissar. He is known for his part in the 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress, during which the German Army captured and immediately executed him. Read more
30 Jun 1941: Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (born 1875) Aleksander Tõnisson VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence. Read more
30 Jun 1934: Karl Ernst, German soldier and SA commander (born 1904) Karl Gustav Ernst was an SA-Gruppenführer who, from March 1933, was the SA commander in Berlin. Prior to joining the Nazi Party, he had been a hotel bellhop and a bouncer at gay nightclubs. He was one of the chief participants in the extrajudicial execution of Albrecht Höhler. Ernst was himself extrajudicially executed in the Night of the Long Knives. Read more
30 Jun 1934: Erich Klausener, German soldier and politician (born 1885) Erich Klausener was a German Catholic politician and Catholic martyr in the "Night of the Long Knives", a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders. Read more
30 Jun 1934: Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German lawyer and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (born 1862) Gustav Ritter von Kahr was a German jurist and right-wing politician. During his career, he was district president of Upper Bavaria, Bavarian minister president and, from September 1923 to February 1924, Bavarian state commissioner general with dictatorial powers. In that role, he openly opposed the government of the Weimar Republic in several instances, including by ceasing to enforce the Law for the Protection of the Republic. He was also making plans with General Otto von Lossow and Bavarian police commander Hans von Seisser to topple the Reich government in Berlin. In November 1923, before they could act, Adolf Hitler instigated the Beer Hall Putsch. The three turned against Hitler and helped stop the attempted coup. After being forced to resign as state commissioner general in 1924, Kahr served as president of the Bavarian Administrative Court until 1930. Because of his actions during the Beer Hall Putsch, he was murdered during the Nazi purge known as the Night of the Long Knives in June 1934. Read more
30 Jun 1934: Gregor Strasser, German lieutenant, politician, and early leader of the Nazi Party (born 1892) Gregor Strasser was a German politician and early leader of the Nazi Party. Along with his younger brother Otto, he was a leading member of the party's northern group, which brought them into conflict with the dominant faction led by Adolf Hitler. Gregor's willingness to engage in political negotiations with Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher in 1932 ultimately led to his resignation and murder in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. The brothers' strand of the Nazi ideology is later known as Strasserism, a political concept largely popularized by Otto after he left the party in 1930. Read more
30 Jun 1934: Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (born 1882) Kurt Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann von Schleicher was a German military officer and the penultimate chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic. A rival for power with Adolf Hitler, Schleicher was assassinated by Hitler's Schutzstaffel (SS) during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. Read more
30 Jun 1932: Bruno Kastner, German actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1890) Richard Otto Bruno Kastner was a German stage and film actor, screenwriter, and film producer whose career was most prominent in the 1910s and 1920s during the silent film era. Kastner was one of the most popular leading men in German films during his career's peak in the 1920s. Read more
30 Jun 1919: John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1842) John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, was a British physicist and hereditary peer who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 for his discovery of argon. Read more
30 Jun 1917: Antonio de La Gándara, French painter and illustrator (born 1861) Antonio de La Gándara was a French painter, pastellist and draughtsman of the Belle Époque. Read more
30 Jun 1917: Dadabhai Naoroji, Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader (born 1825) Dadabhai Naoroji was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar, and writer who played a role in both Indian and British public life. He was among the founding members of the Indian National Congress and served as its President on three occasions, from 1886 to 1887, 1893 to 1894 and 1906 to 1907. Naoroji's early career included serving as the Diwan of Baroda in 1874. Subsequently, he moved to England, where he continued to advocate for Indian interests. In 1892, he was elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament, representing Finsbury Central until 1895. He was the second person of Asian descent to become a British MP following David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, who was an Anglo Indian MP. Read more
30 Jun 1916: Eunice Eloisae Gibbs Allyn, American correspondent, author, and poet (born 1847) Eunice Gibbs Allyn was an American correspondent, author, songwriter, illustrator, and painter. She intended to become a teacher, but her mother dissuaded her so she remained at home, entering into society, and writing in a quiet way for the local papers while using various pen names in order to avoid displeasing one of her brothers, who did not wish to have a "bluestocking" in the family. Read more
30 Jun 1913: Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (born 1873) Simon Alphonse Kirchhoffer was a French fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Read more
30 Jun 1908: Thomas Hill, American painter (born 1829) Thomas Hill was an American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the Californian landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Read more
30 Jun 1890: Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American organist and composer (born 1819) Samuel Parkman Tuckerman was an American composer. Read more
30 Jun 1882: Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (born 1841) Charles Julius Guiteau was an American office seeker who assassinated the 20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield, in 1881. A failed lawyer suffering from mental illness, Guiteau delusionally believed he had played a major role in Garfield's election victory, for which he should have been rewarded with a consulship. Guiteau felt frustrated and offended by the Garfield administration's rejections of his applications to serve in Vienna or Paris to such a degree that he shot Garfield in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1881. Garfield died on September 19 from infections related to the wounds. Caught immediately after shooting Garfield, Guiteau was tried, convicted, and publicly executed by hanging on June 30, 1882. Read more
30 Jun 1882: Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (born 1827) Alberto Henschel was a German-born Brazilian photographer born in Berlin. Considered the hardest-working photographer and businessman in 19th-century Brazil, with offices in Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo, Henschel was also responsible for the presence of other professional photographers in the country, including his compatriot Karl Ernst Papf—with whom he later worked. Read more
30 Jun 1857: Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist and paleontologist (born 1802) Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology, palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology. Read more

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