June 22

1680 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
1684 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
1704 – John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
1713 – Lord John Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)
1738 – Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
1757 – George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)
1767 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
1805 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (d. 1872)
1837 – Paul Morphy, American chess master (d. 1884)
1845 – Tom Dula, American folk character (Tom Dooley) (d. 1868)
1856 – H. Rider Haggard, English writer (d. 1925)
1861 – Maximilian von Spee, Denmark-born German admiral (d. 1914)
1864 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909)
1871 – William McDougall, British psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
1879 – Thibaudeau Rinfret, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1962)
1884 – James Rector, American sprinter (d. 1949)
1885 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
1887 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
1888 – Harold Burton, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1964)
1892 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1897 – Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973)
1897 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990)
1898 – Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
1899 – Michał Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970)
1902 – Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)
1903 – John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
1903 – Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1906 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer and pilot, wife of Charles Lindbergh (d. 2001)
1906 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American film director (d. 2002)
1907 – Mike Todd, American film producer (d. 1958)
1909 – Maurice Adler, American film producer (d. 1960)
1910 – John Hunt, India-born British leader of the 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest (d. 1998)
1910 – Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
1910 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computer pioneer, built the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3 (d. 1995)
1912 – Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
1916 – Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)
1919 – Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
1920 – Paul Frees, American voice actor (d. 1986)
1920 – Jovito Salonga, Filipino politician and activist
1921 – Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)
1922 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer (d. 2002)
1922 – Mona Lisa, Filipino actress
1922 – Géza Vermes, Hungarian author and scholar of religious history and expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls
1927 – Ann Petersen, Belgian actress (d. 2003)
1930 – Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
1930 – Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer
1932 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
1932 – Prunella Scales, English actress
1933 – Dianne Feinstein, American politician
1933 – Jacques Martin, French TV host (d. 2007)
1933 – Libor Pešek, Czech conductor
1936 – Kris Kristofferson, American singer, songwriter and actor
1936 – Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian musician
1939 – Don Matthews, American football coach
1940 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian filmmaker and poet
1940 – Esther Rantzen, British TV presenter
1941 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
1941 – Michael Lerner, American actor
1943 – Judith Barker, English actress
1943 – Eumir Deodato, Brazilian jazz keyboardist, record producer and arranger
1943 – Brit Hume, American news anchor and commentator
1944 – Peter Asher, British singer, guitarist and producer (Peter & Gordon)
1944 – Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
1946 – Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
1947 – Octavia Butler, American author (d. 2006)
1947 – Howard Kaylan, American singer (The Turtles, Flo & Eddie)
1947 – David Lander, American actor and baseball scout
1947 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
1947 – Jerry Rawlings, President of Ghana
1948 – Todd Rundgren, American songwriter and record producer
1949 – Alan Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
1949 – Meryl Streep, American actress
1949 – Lindsay Wagner, American actress
1950 – Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
1952 – Graham Greene, Canadian actor
1953 – Wim Eijk, Dutch Roman Catholic Archbishop
1953 – Cyndi Lauper, American singer
1953 – Bruce McAvaney, Australian sports broadcaster
1954 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
1955 – Green Gartside, Welsh singer and songwriter (Scritti Politti)
1956 – Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani Politician and Foreign Minister
1956 – Tim Russ, American actor
1956 – Alfons De Wolf, Belgian cyclist
1957 – Danny Baker, English comedy writer and radio presenter
1957 – Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist (INXS)
1958 – Bruce Campbell, American actor
1959 – Wayne Federman, American comedian
1959 – Nicola Sirkis, French singer and lyricist (Indochine)
1959 – Ed Viesturs, American mountaineer
1959 – Mike O'Meara, radio host of Don and Mike Show and Mike O'Meara Show
1960 – Erin Brockovich-Ellis, American environmental activist
1960 – Tracy Pollan, American actress
1961 – Stephen Batchelor, British field-hockey player
1961 – Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards)
1962 – Clyde Drexler, American basketball player
1962 – Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor and director
1962 – Bobby Gillespie, Scottish vocalist and drummer (Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain)
1963 – Randy Couture, American mixed martial artist
1963 – Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 61st Yokozuna
1963 – John Tenta ("Earthquake"), Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1964 – Amy Brenneman, American actress
1964 – Dan Brown, American writer
1965 – Ľubomír Moravčík, Slovak footballer
1965 – Uwe Boll, German film director
1966 – Schooly D, American rapper
1966 – Michael Park, English WRC co-pilot (d. 2005)
1966 – Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
1967 – Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 – Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player
1970 – Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician, painter, poet, novelist, songwriter, record producer and businessman
1970 – Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)
1971 – Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress
1971 – Kurt Warner, American football player
1972 – David Rees, American cartoonist
1973 – Carson Daly, American television personality
1974 – Donald Faison, American actor
1974 – Vijay, Indian actor
1975 – Kenshin Kawakami, Japanese baseball player
1975 – Andreas Klöden, German cyclist
1975 – Laila Rouass, Moroccan-Indian actress
1976 – Gordon Moakes, English multi-instrumentalist (Bloc Party)
1978 – Champ Bailey, American football player
1978 – Tim Driesen, Belgian actor, singer and songwriter
1978 – Jai Rodriguez, American TV personality
1978 – Dan Wheldon, British race car driver
1979 – Joey Cheek, American speed skater
1979 – Brad Hawpe, American baseball player
1979 – Leire Martínez, Spanish-Basque singer and songwriter (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
1979 – Thomas Voeckler, French cyclist
1981 – Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist (Editors)
1982 – Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
1982 – Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
1984 – Dustin Johnson, American golfer
1984 – Jerome Taylor, Jamaican West Indies international cricketer
1984 – Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player
1985 – Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress
1985 – Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Greek-Cameroonian basketball player
1985 – Scott MacIntyre, American singer
1986 – Ramin Ott, American Samoan footballer
1987 – Joe Dempsie, English actor
1987 – Danny Green, American basketball player
1987 – Lee Min Ho, Korean actor
1987 – Nikita Rukavytsya, Australian footballer
1988 – Omri Casspi, Israeli basketball player, the first Israeli in the NBA
1988 – Kieran Lee, English footballer
1989 – Cédric Mongongu, French-Congolese footballer
1989 – Jung Yong Hwa, Korean actor and singer
1990 – Kei Inoo, Japanese actor and singer
1990 – Sebastian Jung, German footballer
1993 – Ingmar Lazar, French classical pianist

Deaths

1276 – Pope Innocent V (b. c. 1225)
1429 – Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1535 – John Fisher, English Bishop of Rochester (executed) (b. 1469)
1632 – James Whitelocke, English judge (b. 1570)
1634 – Johann von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (b. 1588)
1699 – Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
1714 – Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (b. 1662)
1868 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)
1874 – Howard Staunton, English chess master (b. 1810)
1892 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
1894 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b. 1823)
1905 – Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1913 – Ştefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)
1925 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1928 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
1931 – Armand Fallières, French politician, President of France (b. 1841)
1933 – Henry Birkin, British racing driver (b. 1896)
1935 – Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
1936 – Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher (b. 1882)
1938 – C.J. Dennis, Australian writer and poet (b. 1876)
1945 – Isamu Chō, Japanese general at Okinawa, by seppuku (b. 1895)
1945 – Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (died at Okinawa by seppuku) (b. 1887)
1959 – Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
1961 – Maria of Yugoslavia, Romanian-born Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
1963 – Maria Tănase, Romanian singer of traditional and popular music (b. 1913)
1964 – Havank, Dutch writer (b. 1904)
1965 – David O. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1902)
1969 – Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
1974 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
1977 – Jacqueline Audry, French film director (b. 1908)
1977 – Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (b. 1952)
1979 – Louis Chiron, Monaco race car driver (b. 1899)
1980 – Dimitrios Partsalidis, Greek politician (b. 1905)
1984 – Joseph Losey, American theater and film director (b. 1909)
1987 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
1988 – Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
1989 – Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician (b. 1916)
1990 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
1992 – Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
1993 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
1995 – Al Hansen, American artist (b. 1927)
1995 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (b. 1931)
1997 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (b. 1956)
1997 – Don Henderson, English actor (b. 1932)
1997 – Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1919)
2002 – Darryl Kile, American baseball player (b. 1968)
2002 – Ann Landers, American columnist (b. 1918)
2004 – Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
2004 – Bob Bemer, American computer scientist (b. 1920)
2004 – Kim Sun-il, South Korean translator (b. 1970)
2006 – Moose (dog actor), dog actor popular for role on Frasier (b. 1990)
2007 – Nancy Benoit ("Woman", "Fallen Angel"), American professional wrestling valet (b. 1964)
2007 – Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1964)
2008 – George Carlin, American comedian, actor (b. 1937)
2008 – Dody Goodman, American comedienne (b. 1914)
2008 – Jane McGrath, British-born Australian cancer support campaigner (b. 1966)

Holidays and observances

Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia)
Christian Feast Day

Teacher's Day (El Salvador)

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