On this day: 21 June
Events, births and deaths on 21 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Frederick W. Smith
- Deaths · John McCallum
- Events · 2025 Santa Catarina hot air balloon crash
10 years ago2016
- Events · Amoycan Industrial Centre fire
100 years ago1926
- Births ·
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1002 · Births · Leo IX
- 1040 · Deaths · Fulk III, Count of Anjou
Events · 23
- 217 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Lake Trasimene — 217 BCE battle of the Second Punic War
- 1128(Julian date)Battle of Axpoele — battle in 1128
- 1529Battle of Landriano — 1529 battle during the War of the League of Cognac
- 1575Battle of Besançon — 1575 battle of the French Wars of Religion
- 1582(Julian date)Honnō-ji Incident — forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the hands of traitor Akechi Mitsuhide
- 1788New Hampshire — state of the United States of America
- 1798Battle of Vinegar Hill — major battle during the Irish Rebellion of 2020
- 1813Battle of Vitoria — 1813 battle of the Peninsular War
- 1826Ottoman–Egyptian invasion of Mani — 1826 campaign during the Greek War of Independence
- 1864Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 1919Scuttling of the German Fleet in Scapa Flow — attempted scuttling of the captured German fleet in 1919
- 1939Swatow Operation — 1939 military operation
- 1942Bombardment of Fort Stevens — 1942 Japanese attack on mainland U.S during World War II
- 1942
- 1964Murders of White, Goodman, and Schrader — June 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, U.S.
- 1985flag of Greenland — national flag of Greenland
- 1985Braathens SAFE Flight 139 — aircraft hijacking
- 20062006 Yeti Airlines Twin Otter Crash — Aviation accident in Nepal
- 20122012 Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 crash — aviation incident in Jakarta, Indonesia
- 2014Gun shooting incident at a military base in Goseong, Gangwon-do — spree shooting in Goseong, Gangwon-do, South Korea, on 21 June 2014
- 2016Amoycan Industrial Centre fire — 2016 fire in Hong Kong
- 2020solar eclipse of June 21, 2020 — solar eclipse
- 20252025 Santa Catarina hot air balloon crash — Hot air balloon crash in Brazil
Births · 60
- 1002(Julian date)Leo IX — Head of the Catholic Church from 1049 to 1054
- 1528(Julian date)Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress — Holy Roman empress (1528-1603)
- 1732Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach — German musician and composer (1732–1795)
- 1774Daniel D. Tompkins — American politician; sixth vice president of the United States (1774–1825)
- 1781Siméon Denis Poisson — French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
- 1823Jean Chacornac — French astronomer
- 1839Machado de Assis — Brazilian writer (1839–1908)
- 1863Max Wolf — German astrophotography pioneer (1863-1932)
- 1864Heinrich Wölfflin — Swiss art critic and art historian (1864-1945)
- 1870Clara Immerwahr — German chemist (1870-1915)
- 1881(Julian date)Natalia Goncharova — Russian-French artist (1881–1962)
- 1882Lluís Companys — 123rd President of Catalonia (1934–1940)
- 1884Claude Auchinleck — British World War II Army commander (1884–1981)
- 1887Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay — British army officer and diplomat, 1st Secretary General of NATO (1887-1965)
- 1891Pier Luigi Nervi — Italian engineer (1891-1979)
- 1892Reinhold Niebuhr — American Protestant theologian (1892–1971)
- 1905Jean-Paul Sartre — French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
- 1910Aleksandr Tvardovsky — Soviet poet (1910–1971)
- 1912Mary McCarthy — American writer (1912–1989)
- 1914William Vickrey — Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate (1914-1996)
- 1921Jane Russell — American actress (1921–2011)
- 1921Judy Holliday — American actress, comedian and singer (1921-1965)
- 1925Maureen Stapleton — American actress (1925-2006)
- 1925Giovanni Spadolini — 45th Prime Minister of Italy (1925-1994)
- 1932Lalo Schifrin — Argentine-American composer (1932–2025)
Deaths · 60
- 1040(Julian date)Fulk III, Count of Anjou — Count of Anjou
- 1208(Julian date)Philip of Swabia — King of the Germans, Duke of Toscana and Swabia (February/March 1177 – 21 June 1208)
- 1305(Julian date)Wenceslaus II of Bohemia — King of Bohemia and Poland
- 1377(Julian date)Edward III of England — King of England from 1327 to 1377
- 1421Jean Le Maingre — Marshal of France (1366-1421)
- 1527(Julian date)Niccolò Machiavelli — Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)
- 1529(Julian date)John Skelton — English poet and tutor (1463-1529)
- 1547(Julian date)Sebastiano del Piombo — Italian painter (c.1485-1547)
- 1582(Julian date)Oda Nobunaga — Japanese samurai and warlord (1534–1582)
- 1582(Julian date)Mori Ranmaru — Japanese samurai
- 1582(Julian date)Oda Nobutada — eldest son of Oda Nobunaga; samurai who fought in many battles during the Sengoku period
- 1591Aloysius Gonzaga — Italian aristocrat and Jesuit seminarian and saint
- 1631(Julian date)John Smith — English soldier, explorer, writer (1580–1631)
- 1652Inigo Jones — English architect and stage designer (1573-1652)
- 1661Andrea Sacchi — painter active in Rome (1599-1661)
- 1738Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend — British Whig statesman (1674-1738)
- 1827José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi — Mexican writer and political journalist
- 1874Anders Jonas Ångström — Swedish physicist
- 1876
- 1893Leland Stanford — American politician and railroad tycoon (1824-1893)
- 1908Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Russian composer (1844–1908)
- 1914Bertha von Suttner — Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
- 1929Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse — British sociologist (1864-1929)
- 1940Édouard Vuillard — French painter (1868-1940)
- 1940Smedley Butler — United States Marine Corps general, two time Medal of Honor recipient, activist, lecturer, official, and writer (1881-1940)
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