On this day: 2 June
Events, births and deaths on 2 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Xu Qiliang
- Deaths · Tan Joe Hok
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Milo O'Shea
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 995 · Deaths · Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha
Events · 15
- 260(Julian date)Coup of Cao Mao — Coup d'état in state of Cao Wei (260)
- 455(Julian date)Sack of Rome — battle
- 1676Battle of Palermo — 1676 naval battle during the Franco-Dutch War
- 1866Battle of Ridgeway — 1866 battle between the Fenian Brotherhood and the Province of Canada; Fenian victory
- 1878Nobiling assassination attempt — 1878 assassination attempt on Wilhelm I
- 1941massacre of Kondomari — massacre
- 1946Italian constitutional referendum, 1946 — referendum on abolishing the Italian monarchy
- 1953coronation of Elizabeth II — initiation rite performed to crown Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in 1953
- 1958Aeroméxico Flight 111 — collision against a hill
- 1962Battle of Santiago — 1962 FIFA World Cup match
- 1983Air Canada Flight 797 — 1983 in-flight fire aboard an Air Canada DC-9-32 near Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- 2010Cumbria shootings — 2010 shooting spree in Cumbria, England
- 2013June 2013 Nantou earthquake — earthquake which struck central Taiwan on Sunday, 2 June 2013
- 2014Telangana — state in southern India
- 20232023 Odisha train collision — train collision in Balasore, Odisha, India, on 2 June 2023
Births · 60
- 1305(Julian date)Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan — the ninth and last Ilkhan of Mongol Ilkhanate (1316–1335)
- 1423(Julian date)Ferdinand I of Naples — King of Naples 1424-1494
- 1489(Julian date)Charles, Duke of Vendôme — French noble
- 1535(Julian date)Leo XI — pope of the Catholic Church in April 1605 (1535-1605)
- 1740Marquis de Sade — French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
- 1743Alessandro Cagliostro — Italian occultist, alchemist, and impostor (1743–1795)
- 1835Pius X — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914, saint
- 1840Thomas Hardy — English novelist and poet (1840–1928)
- 1857Karl Adolph Gjellerup — Danish writer (1857–1919)
- 1857Edward Elgar — English composer (1857-1934)
- 1863Felix von Weingartner — Austrian conductor, composer and pianist (1863-1942)
- 1891Takijirō Ōnishi — Imperial Japanese Navy admiral (1891-1945)
- 1899Lotte Reiniger — German silhouette animator and film director (1899–1981)
- 1904Johnny Weissmuller — American swimmer, water polo player, and actor (1904–1984)
- 1920Marcel Reich-Ranicki — Polish-born German literary critic (1920–2013)
- 1922Clair Cameron Patterson — American chemist and geochemist (1922–1995)
- 1922Juan Antonio Bardem — Spanish film director and screenwriter (1922–2002)
- 1923Lloyd Shapley — American economist and mathematician
- 1930Pete Conrad — American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–1999)
- 1935Carol Shields — American/Canadian author
- 1936Volodymyr Holubnychyy — Ukrainian Race Walker (1936–2021)
- 1937Sally Kellerman — American actress (1937–2022)
- 1938Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld — Swedish princess; elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1938–2026)
- 1940Constantine II of Greece — King of Greece from 1964 to 1973 (1940–2023)
- 1941Charlie Watts — British drummer (1941–2021)
Deaths · 60
- 260(Julian date)Cao Mao — Cao Wei emperor from 254 to 260
- 891Al-Muwaffaq — Abbasid prince and military leader (843–891)
- 995(Julian date)Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha — 10th-century Japanese poet
- 1418(Julian date)Catherine of Lancaster — Queen consort of Castille
- 1625Mōri Terumoto — daimyo
- 1701Madeleine de Scudéry — French writer (1607–1701)
- 1716Ogata Kōrin — Japanese painter, craftsman (1658-1716)
- 1881Émile Littré — French lexicographer and philosopher (1801-1881)
- 1882Giuseppe Garibaldi — Italian general, patriot and republican (1807–1882)
- 1927Wang Guowei — scholar, writer and poet from China (1877–1927)
- 1932John Walter Gregory — British geologist and explorer (1864–1932)
- 1933Frank Jarvis — American athlete, Olympic medalist (1878–1933)
- 1937Louis Vierne — French organist and composer (1870–1937)
- 1941Lou Gehrig — American baseball player (1903–1941)
- 1948Karl Brandt — German Nazi SS officer and physician, executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity (1904–1948)
- 1948Karl Gebhardt — German physician and convicted war criminal (1897–1948)
- 1948Viktor Brack — German economist and Nazi party functionary, convicted war criminal (1904-1948)
- 1948Wolfram Sievers — German Managing Director of the NS Association German Ancestral Heritage (Ahnenerbe) (1905-1948)
- 1948Waldemar Hoven — German physician, SS officer and convicted war criminal (1903-1948)
- 1956Jean Hersholt — Danish-American actor (1886–1956)
- 1959Lyda Borelli — Italian actress (1887–1959)
- 1961George S. Kaufman — American writer (1889-1961)
- 1962Vita Sackville-West — English writer, poet, and gardener (1892–1962)
- 1967Benno Ohnesorg — West German university student killed on 2 June 1967 (1940–1967)
- 1970Giuseppe Ungaretti — Italian poet, writer and university teacher
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