June 12
June 12 is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 202 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1950
- 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
- 1020 – Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1560 – Imawaga Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
- 1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
- 1574 - Princess Renee of France (b. 1510)
- 1675 - Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
- 1758 – Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
- 1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion de Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
- 1778 - Philip Livingston, American merchant and statesman (b. 1716)
- 1816 - Pierre Augereau, French marshal (b. 1757)
- 1818 - Egwale Seyon of Ethiopia
- 1841 - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist and philologist (b. 1786)
- 1878 – George V of Hanover (b. 1819)
- 1900 - Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)
- 1904 - Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian nobleman, entrepreneur and author (b. 1836)
- 1912 – Frédéric Passy, French Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1822)
- 1917 - Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan singer, pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1853)
- 1929 - Marie Henri Andoyer, French astronomer and mathematician (b. 1862)
- 1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
- 1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
1951 – 2000
- 1952 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (b. 1869)
- 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)
- 1962 - John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
- 1963 – Medgar Evans, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1925)
- 1964 – Walter Seifert, German retired World War II veteran, ran amok in a Cologne school (b. 1922)
- 1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German composer and conductor (b. 1891)
- 1969 - Percival Proctor, Governor of Maine (b. 1876)
- 1976 - Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
- 1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author and poet (b. 1892)
- 1978 - Georg Simenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
- 1980 – Billy Butlin, British holiday entrepreneur (b. 1899)
- 1980 – Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
- 1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist (b. 1886)
- 1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
- 1987 – Paul Janes, German footballer (b. 1912)
- 1990 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill, Northern Irish politician (b. 1914)
- 1994 – Ronald Goldman, American waiter and murder victim (b. 1968)
- 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (b. 1959)
- 1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter, musician and author (b. 1924)
- 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian hostage taker (b. 1978)
- 2000 - Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, producer and author (b. 1919)
From 2001
- 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2006 – Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Nijiro Tukuda, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
- 2007 - Guy de Rothschild, French banker (b. 1909)
- 2009 – Félix Malloum, President of Chad (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist (b. 1933)
- 2012 - Henry Hill, American convict (b. 1943)
- 2013 - Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest-recorded man ever (b. 1897)
- 2014 - Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (b. 1959)
- 2014 - Carla Laemmle, American actress (b. 1909)
- 2014 - Jimmy Scott, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
- 2014 - Khagen Mahanta, Indian folk singer (b. 1942)
- 2014 - Joe Pittman, American baseball player (b. 1954)
- 2015 - Monica Lewis, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2015 - Fernando Brant, Brazilian poet and composer (b. 1946)
- 2016 - Omar Mateen, American gunman, perpetrator of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (b. 1986)
- 2016 - Donald Carr, English cricketer (b. 1926)
- 2016 - Vladimir Dolgopolov, Russian footballer (b. 1961)
- 2016 - Alfonso Portugal, Mexican footballer (b. 1934)
- 2016 - George Voinovich, American politician, former Governor of Ohio (b. 1936)
- 2016 - Janet Waldo, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2017 - C. Narayana Reddy, Indian screenwriter, composer and poet (b. 1931)
- 2017 - Charles P. Thacker, American computer designer (b. 1943)
Births
Up to 1900
- 950 – Emperor Reizei of Japan (d. 1011)
- 1107 – Emperor Gaozong of Song, of China (d. 1187)
- 1519 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
- 1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss mathematician and astronomer (d. 1643)
- 1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant in the Lewis and Clark expedition (d. 1870)
- 1777 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
- 1795 - John Marston, American sailor (d. 1885)
- 1802 – Harriet Martineau, American journalist, political economist, abolitionist and feminist (d. 1876)
- 1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American architect (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
- 1812 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
- 1819 - Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian and novelist (d. 1875)
- 1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (d. 1901)
- 1831 - Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (d. 1905)
- 1843 - David Gill, Scottish astronomer (d. 1914)
- 1851 - Oliver Lodge, English physicist (d. 1940)
- 1858 - Harry Hamilton Johnston, English polymath (d. 1927)
- 1858 - Henry Scott Tuke, English painter and photographer (d. 1929)
- 1872 - Emil Hacha, Czech politician (d. 1945)
- 1885 – Frank Ferera, Hawaiian musician (d. 1951)
- 1888 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
- 1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (d. 1918)
- 1890 - Théophile Alajouanine, French psychiatrist (d. 1980)
- 1892 – Basil Rathbone, British actor (d. 1967)
- 1892 – Djuna Barnes, American writer (d. 1982)
- 1892 - Apostolos Grozos, Greek Communist politician (d. 1981)
- 1897 - Walter Peterhans, German photographer (d. 1960)
- 1897 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
- 1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist (d. 1986)
- 1899 - Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer (d. 1968)
1901 – 1950
- 1901 - Clyde Geronimi, Italian-American animation director (d. 1989)
- 1902 - Hendrik Elias, Flemish politician (d. 1973)
- 1903 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
- 1905 – Ray Barbuti, American sportsperson (d. 1988)
- 1906 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
- 1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (d. 2010)
- 1908 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian engineer and designer (d. 1988)
- 1908 - Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (d. 1975)
- 1912 - Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1993)
- 1914 - Go Seigen, Japanese Go player (d. 2014)
- 1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker (d. 2017)
- 1915 - Priscilla Lane, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1916 – Raul Hector Castro, American politician, 14th Governor of Arizona (d. 2015)
- 1916 - Irwin Allen, American director and producer (d. 1991)
- 1917 - Gottfried Honegger, Swiss artist and graphic designer (d. 2016)
- 1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
- 1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (d. 2004)
- 1919 - Ahmed Abdallah, President of the Comoros (d. 1989)
- 1921 – Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Günter Behnisch, German architect (d. 2010)
- 1922 - Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (d. 2013)
- 1924 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
- 1926 - Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine footballer
- 1928 – Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician
- 1928 - Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1928 - Richard M. Sherman, American composer, songwriter and publisher
- 1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945)
- 1929 - Alberto De Martino, Italian movie director (d. 2015)
- 1929 – Brigid Brophy, British writer (d. 1995)
- 1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani writer and Urdu language scholar
- 1930 - Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
- 1930 - Innes Ireland, British racing driver (d. 1993)
- 1932 - Mano Wolde, Ethiopian long-distance runner (d. 2002)
- 1933 – Eddie Adams, American photographer (d. 2004)
- 1937 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (d. 2010)
- 1938 - Jean-Marie Doré, Prime Minister of Guinea (d. 2016)
- 1938 - Ian Partridge, English tenor
- 1941 – Chick Corea, American musician
- 1941 - Roy Harper, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet and actor
- 1941 - Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist
- 1945 – Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer
- 1946 - Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1946 - Salman Taseer, Pakistani politician (d. 2011)
- 1949 – Jens Boehrnsen, German politician, Mayor of Bremen and former acting President of Germany
- 1949 - John Wetton, English singer, bassist and guitarist (d. 2017)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (d. 2007)
- 1951 – Brad Delp, American musician (d. 2007)
- 1952 – Pete Farndon, English musician (d. 1983)
- 1952 – Spencer Abraham, American politician
- 1953 - Rocky Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1953 - Tess Gerritsen, Chinese-American novelist
- 1953 - David Thornton, American actor
- 1958 - Rebecca Holden, American actress and singer
- 1961 – Hannelore Kraft, German politician, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1965 - Cathy Tyson, English actress
- 1965 - Gwen Torrence, American athlete
- 1967 - Aivar Kuusmaa, Estonian basketball player and coach
- 1968 - Manuel Blanc, French actor
- 1968 - Htay Kywe, Burmese activist
- 1969 - Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
- 1971 – Mark Henry, American professional wrestler
- 1972 - Sophie Lawrence, English actress, singer and director
- 1973 - Jason Caffey, American basketball player and coach
- 1973 – Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
- 1973 - Darryl White, Australian footballer
- 1974 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
- 1974 - Jason Mewes, American actor
From 1976
- 1976 – Thomas Sorensen, Danish footballer
- 1976 - Antawn Jamison, American basketball player
- 1977 - Richard Ayoade, English actor, director and screenwriter
- 1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1978 - Lewis Moody, English rugby player
- 1978 - Yumiko Shaku, Japanese actress and model
- 1978 - Shiloh Strong, American actor, screenwriter, photographer and director
- 1979 – Diego Milito, Argentine footballer
- 1979 – Robyn, Swedish singer
- 1980 – Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player
- 1980 - Diem Brown, American television personality (d. 2014)
- 1980 - Walter Erviti, Argentine footballer
- 1981 - Adriana Lima, Brazilian model
- 1981 – Nora Tschirner, German television presenter
- 1982 – Jason David, American football player
- 1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
- 1983 - Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
- 1985 - Blake Ross, American software developer
- 1985 - Colin Doyle, Irish footballer
- 1985 - Dave Franco, American actor
- 1985 - Kendra Wilkinson, American model, actress and author
- 1986 – Sergio Rodriguez, Spanish basketball player
- 1986 – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer
- 1986 - Mario Casas, Spanish actor
- 1987 – Abbey Lee Kershaw, Australian model
- 1987 – Antonio Barragan, Spanish footballer
- 1988 – Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
- 1988 - Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer
- 1989 - Laura Kirkpatrick, American model
- 1990 - Jrue Holiday, American basketball player
- 1992 – Allie DiMeco, American actress and musician
- 1992 - Laura Jones, English gymnast
- 1992 - Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1996 - Anna Margaret, American singer, songwriter and actress
Deaths
Observances
- Independence Day (the Philippines)
- Loving Day (United States)
- Russia Day
- World Day Against Child Labour
- Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay)
- Dia dos Namorados (Brazil)
- Helsinki Day