June 1

2024 Calendar

June 1 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

195 BC – Gaozu of Han of China (born 256 BC or 247 BC)
193 – Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
657 - Pope Eugene I
1432 - Dan II of Wallachia
1434 – Wladislaus II of Poland (b. 1362)
1571 - John Story, English martyr (b. 1504)
1616 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
1660 – Mary Dyer, English-born Quaker (b. 1611)
1740 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
1769 - Edward Holyoke, American clergyman (b. 1689)
1795 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
1823 - Louis-Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770)
1826 - Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
1830 - Swaminarayan, Indian Hindu figure (b. 1751)
1841 – Nicolas Appert, French inventor (b. 1749)
1846 – Pope Gregory XVI (born 1765)
1864 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1820)
1868 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (born 1791)
1872 - James Gordon Bennett, American newspaper publisher (b. 1795)
1873 - Joseph Howe, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1804)
1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (born 1848)
1879 – Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial of France (b. 1856)
1899 - Klaus Groth, German poet and writer (b. 1819)

1901 – 2000

1904 - George Frederic Watts, English painter (b. 1817)
1927 - Lizzie Borden, American suspected murderess (b. 1860)
1927 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861)
1938 – Odon V. Horvath, Austro-Hungarian writer (b. 1901)
1941 - Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English writer (b. 1884)
1943 – Leslie Howard, English actor (born 1893)
1946 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (born 1882)
1948 – Sonny Boy Williamson, American blues musician (born 1914)
1952 – John Dewey, American philosopher (born 1859)
1955 - Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle (b. 1872)
1959 – Sax Rohmer, English writer (born 1883)
1960 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1883)
1965 - Curly Lambeau, American football player and coach (b. 1898)
1966 – Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (born 1873)
1968 – Helen Keller, American humanitarian (born 1880)
1969 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (born 1904)
1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (born 1892)
1979 – Werner Forssmann, German physician (born 1904)
1980 – Rube Marquard, American Baseball Hall of Famer (born 1886)
1981 – Carl Vinson, United States Congressman (born 1883)
1983 – Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Belgian royal (b. 1903)
1983 - Anna Seghers, German writer (b. 1900)
1985 - Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
1987 - Rashid Karami, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1921)
1991 – David Ruffin, American singer (b. 1941)
1994 – Frances Heflin, American soap opera actress (born 1923)
1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India (born 1913)
1998 - Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (born 1919)
1999 – Christopher Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (born 1910)
2000 - Tito Puente, American musician and composer (born 1923)

From 2001

2001 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace (b. 1920)
2001 – King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945) (shot)
2001 – Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949) (shot)
2002 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
2004 – William Manchester, American biographer and novelist (b. 1922)
2004 – Satomi Mitarai, Japanese student, murdered by a classmate
2005 – George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
2008 – Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
2009 - Silvio Barbato, Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer (b. 1959) (Air France Flight 447)
2010 – Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet (b. 1933)
2010 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (b. 1906)
2011 – Haleh Sahabi, Iranian human rights activist (b. 1957)
2014 - Ann B. Davis, American actress (b. 1926)
2014 - Karlheinz Hackl, Austrian actor (b. 1949)
2014 - Jay Lake, American author (b. 1964)
2015 - Joan Kirner, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (b. 1938)
2015 - Shone An, Taiwanese singer and actor (b. 1983)
2015 - Nobutaka Machimura, Japanese politician (b. 1944)
2015 - Charles Kennedy, Scottish politician, former leader of the Liberal Democrats (b. 1959)
2015 - Jacques Parizeau, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of Quebec (b. 1930)
2015 - Nicholas Liverpool, 6th President of Dominica (b. 1934)
2015 - Jean Ritchie, American folk singer (b. 1922)
2015 - Kirill Pokrovsky, Russian composer (b. 1962)
2016 - Razak Khan, Indian actor (b. 1954)
2016 - Roger Enrico, American businessman (b. 1944)
2016 - Boyce F. Martin, Jr., American judge (b. 1935)
2017 - Roy Barraclough, English actor (b. 1935)
2017 - Tankred Dorst, German playwright (b. 1925)
2017 - Alois Mock, Austrian politician (b. 1934)
2017 - Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentine golfer (b. 1923)
2017 - Jack McCloskey, American basketball player (b. 1925)
2017 - J. B. Dauda, Sierra Leonean politician (b. 1942)
2017 - Sonja Sutter, German actress (b. 1931)
2017 - José Greci, Italian actress (b. 1941)
2017 - Rosa Taikon, Swedish activist, silversmith and actress (b. 1926)
2018 - Poldy Bird, Argentine writer (b. 1941)
2018 - Jean-Claude Boulard, French politician (b. 1943)
2018 - Eddy Clearwater, American blues singer (b. 1935)
2018 - Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author (b. 1934)
2018 - Hilmar Hoffmann, German film and culture academic (b. 1925)
2018 - John Julius Norwich, English historian (b. 1929)
2018 - William Edward Phipps, American actor (b. 1922)
2018 - Bob Clotworthy, American diver (b. 1931)
2018 - Rockin' Rebel, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2018 - Dhiraj Choudhury, Indian painter (b. 1936)
2018 - Razan al-Najjar, Pakistani nurse (b. 1996)
2019 - Leah Chase, American chef (b. 1923)
2019 - John Meyers, English radio executive (b. 1959)
2019 - José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
2019 - Michel Serres, French philosopher, theorist and writer (b. 1930)
2019 - Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesian First Lady (b. 1952)
2023 - Anna Shay, American socialite, businesswoman and television personality (Bling Empire) (b. 1961)

Births

Up to 1800

719 – Yang Yuhuan, Chinese princess and consort (d. 756)
1076 – Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
1134 - Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (d. 1158)
1300 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Salisbury, son of King Edward I of England (d. 1338)
1455 - Anne of Savoy (d. 1480)
1480 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (d. 1550)
1503 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567)
1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician (d. 1612)
1633 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
1637 - Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
1754 - Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este (d. 1806)
1771 – Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839)
1790 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French military engineer and physicist (d. 1832)

1801 – 1900

1801 – Brigham Young, American Mormon leader (d. 1877)
1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
1814 - Charles Anderson, 27th Governor of Ohio (d. 1895)
1815 – King Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
1819 - Francis V, Duke of Modena (d. 1875)
1825 - John Hunt Morgan, American general (d. 1864)
1831 - John Bell Hood, American general (d. 1879)
1833 – John Marshall Harlan, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1911)
1843 – Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
1844 - Vasily Polenov, Russian painter (d. 1921)
1850 - Sami Frashëri, Albanian writer (d. 1904)
1875 - Carl Severing, German politician (d. 1952)
1878 – John Masefield, English novelist and poet (d. 1967)
1879 - Max Emmerich, American athlete and gymnast (d. 1956)
1882 - Nicolae Bivol, Moldovan politician (d. 1940)
1889 - James Daugherty, American painter, illustrator and writer (d. 1974)
1889 – Charles Kay Ogden, book writer who created the idea of Basic English (d. 1957)
1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
1898 – Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992)

1901 – 1950

1901 – Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
1905 - Robert Newton, English stage and movie actor (d. 1956)
1907 – Frank Whittle, English aircraft engineer (d. 1996)
1912 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1987)
1917 – William Standish Knowles, American chemist (d. 2012)
1921 - Nelson Riddle, American arranger, composer and bandleader (d. 1985)
1922 – Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
1922 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991)
1922 - Joan Copeland, American actress
1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor (d. 2012)
1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
1926 - Richard Schweiker, American politician (d. 2015)
1928 – Bob Monkhouse, British comedian (d. 2003)
1928 - Steve Dodd, Australian actor (d. 2014)
1928 - Larry Zeidel, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1928 – Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
1929 - Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981)
1930 - Kei Kumai, Japanese director (d. 2007)
1930 - Richard Levins, American scientist (d. 2016)
1930 – Edward Woodward, British actor (d. 2009)
1931 - Hal Smith, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1933 - Sandy D'Alemberte, American lawyer, professor and politician (d. 2019)
1933 – Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985)
1933 – Charles Wilson, American politician (d. 2010)
1934 – Pat Boone, American singer
1935 – Norman Foster, British architect
1935 – Hazel Dickens, American singer, songwriter and musician
1937 - Colleen McCullough, Australian author (d. 2015)
1937 – Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor
1938 – Carlo Caffarra, Italian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bologna and cardinal (d. 2017)
1940 - Kip Thorne, American theoretical physicist
1941 - Toyo Ito, Japanese architect
1941 - Alexander V. Zakharov, Russian physicist and astronomer
1942 - Fernando Atzori, Italian boxer
1942 - Eric Nagler, Canadian children’s musician
1944 - Robert Powell, British actor
1945 - Frederica von Stade, American operatic mezzo-soprano
1946 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor
1947 - Jan Harvey, British actress
1947 – Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
1947 – Ronnie Wood, British musician (Rolling Stones)
1947 - Ron Dennis, British businessman
1948 - Powers Boothe, American actor (d. 2017)
1948 - Aruna Shanbaug, Indian nurse (d. 2015)
1950 - Tim Bishop, American politician
1950 - Gemma Craven, Irish actress and singer

1951 – 1975

1952 - Senol Gunes, Turkish football manager
1953 - Ronnie Dunn, American country musician
1953 - Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, English actor and peer
1953 – David Berkowitz, American serial killer (Son of Sam)
1955 - Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2016)
1955 - Tony Snow, American journalist (d. 2008)
1956
- François Chérèque, French labor unionist (d. 2017)
- Lisa Hartman-Black, American Actress & singer
- Peter Tomka, Slovakian jurist & diplomat
1958 - Nambaryn Enkhbayar, 3rd President of Mongolia
1959 - Alan Wilder, English singer, musician, producer and composer
1959 – Martin Brundle, British racecar driver
1960 – Simon Gallup, British musician (The Cure)
1960 - Vladimir Krutov, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
1960 - Sergey Kuznetsov, Soviet-Russian footballer
1960 - Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician
1960 - Einar Vilhjálmsson, Icelandic javelin thrower
1961 – Paul Coffey, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Peter Machajdik, Slovakian-German composer
1963 – Mike Joyce, British musician (The Smiths)
1965 – Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
1965 – Nigel Short, British chess player
1965 - Olga Nazarova, Russian athlete
1966 - Abel Balbo, Argentine footballer
1967 - Roger Sanchez, American producer and DJ
1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
1968 - Karen Mulder, Dutch model and singer
1968 - Jeff Hackett, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Mathias Rust, German pilot
1970 – Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
1970 - Andrea Fay Friedman, American actress
1971 - Mario Cimarro, Cuban-American actor
1971 - Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist
1972 – Daniel Casey, English actor
1973 – Adam Garcia, Australian actor
1973 – Heidi Klum, German model
1973 - René Zagger, English actor
1974 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
1974 – Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
1974 - Sarah Teather, British politician
1975 - Kate Magowan, American actress
1975 - Frauke Petry, German chemist and politician

From 1976

1976 - Marlon Devonish, British athlete
1977 - Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
1977 - Danielle Harris, American actress
1977 - Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
1980 - Oliver James, British musician and actor
1981 - Amy Schumer, American comedienne, writer and actress
1981 - Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan-American baseball player
1982 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
1983 - Hannah Bardell, Scottish politician
1984 – Naidangiin Tuvshinbayar, Mongolian athlete
1984 - Jean Beausejour, Chilean footballer
1984 - Stéphane Sessègnon, Beninese footballer
1985 – Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
1985 - José Fernando Cuadrado, Colombian footballer
1985 - Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian runner
1986 - Dayana Mendoza, Venezuelan model
1986 - Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer
1987 - Juan Hernández, Mexican footballer
1987 – Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
1988 – Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
1988 – Javier Hernández Balcázar, Mexican footballer
1989 - Samuel Inkoom, Ghanaian footballer
1990 - Bianca Perie, Romanian hammer thrower
1992 - Jenna McDougall, Australian singer-songwriter
1992 - Kira Plastinina, Russian fashion designer
1996 - Tom Holland, English actor
2000 - Willow Shields, American actress
2003 - Emjay Anthony, American actor and model
2004 - Krisia Todorova, Bulgarian singer

Deaths

Observances

International Children's Day
National Day Against Homophobia (Canada)
Azores Day
Independence Day (Samoa)
President's Day (Palau)
Victory Day (Tunisia)
National Tree Planting Day (Cambodia)
Marine's Day (Mexico)
Madaraka Day (Kenya)
Hari Gawai (Malaysia)