June 26

2023 Calendar

June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1950

363 – Julian, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 331)
1291 – Eleanor of Provence, queen of Henry III of England
1541 – Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru (murdered)
1718 – Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (b. 1690), died on July 7 in the Gregorian calendar
1784 – Caesar Rodney, 4th Governor of Delaware (b. 1728)
1808 – Ludwik Tyszkiewicz, Polish poet and politician (b. 1748)
1810 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)
1830 – King George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
1836 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (b. 1706)
1856 – Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806)
1870 – Armand Barbès, French revolutionary (b. 1809)
1878 – Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain (b. 1860)
1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist and ornithologist (b. 1788)
1918 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (b. 1843)
1922 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1841)
1938 – Daria Pratt, American golfer (b. 1859)
1939 – Ford Maddox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
1943 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868)
1945 – Emil Hacha, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
1946 – Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1880)
1947 – Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
1949 – Kim Gu, Korean politician (b. 1876)

1951 – 2000

1951 – Frank Ferera, Hawaiian musician (b. 1885)
1955 – Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895)
1956 – Clifford Brown, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1930)
1957 – Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
1957 – Malcolm Lowry, English poet and author (b. 1909)
1958 – Andrija Štampar, physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
1958 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1964 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888)
1975 – St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (b. 1902)
1979 – Akwasi Afrifa, Ghanaian politician (b. 1936)
1990 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish writer (b. 1909)
1993 – William H. Riker, political scientist (b. 1920)
1996 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
1997 – Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (born 1959)

From 2001

2002 – Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
2002 – Arnold Brown, 11th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1913)
2003 – Sir Denis Thatcher Bt., husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
2003 – Strom Thurmond, United States Senator (b. 1902)
2003 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1975)
2004 – Yash Johar, Indian movie producer (b. 1929)
2005 – Richard Whiteley, British game show host (b. 1943)
2007 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born fashion designer (b. 1929)
2007 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer and manager (b. 1927)
2010 – Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian President (b. 1932)
2011 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer (b. 1948)
2012 – Nora Ephron, American writer, screenwriter and movie director (b. 1941)
2013 – Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman (b. 1934)
2013 – Bert Stern, American photographer (b. 1929)
2013 – Kimberly McCarthy, American murderer (b. 1961)
2014 – Ivan Plyushch, Ukrainian politician (b. 1941)
2014 – Howard Baker, American politician and diplomat, United States Senator for Tennessee (b. 1925)
2014 – Wolf Koenig, German-born Canadian filmmaker (b. 1927)
2014 – Ron Hall, Australian rules footballer (b. 1945)
2015 – Yevgeny Primakov, former Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1929)
2015 – Richard Matt, American murderer and prison escapee (b. 1966)
2016 – Austin Clarke, Canadian novelist (b. 1934)
2016 – Barbara Goldsmith, American author (b. 1931)
2016 – Ryan Jimmo, Canadian mixed martial artist (b. 1981)
2016 – Kim Sung-min, South Korean actor (b. 1973)
2016 – Kavalam Narayana Panicker, Indian dramatist, theatre director and poet (b. 1928)
2016 – Rostislav Yankovsky, Belarussian actor (b. 1930)
2017 – Desh Bandhu Gupta, Indian businessman (b. 1938)
2017 – Doug Peterson, American yacht designer (b. 1945)
2017 – Habib Thiam, Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1933)
2017 – Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister, Swedish countess (b. 1926)
2017 – Claude Fagedet, French photographer (b. 1928)
2018 – Andrey Dementyev, Russian poet (b. 1928)
2018 – Henri Namphy, President of Haiti (b. 1932)
2018 – Daniel Pilon, Canadian actor (b. 1940)
2018 – Big Bill Bissonnette, American jazz trombonist (b. 1937)
2018 – Ignatios Lappas, Greek Orthodox bishop (b. 1946)
2018 – Phil Rodgers, American golfer (b. 1938)
2019 – Georges Brossard, Canadian entomologist (b. 1940)
2019 – Douglas Fielding, British actor and narrator (b. 1946)
2019 – Manuel Real, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
2019 – Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov, Russian historian (b. 1930)
2019 – Max Wright, American actor (b. 1943)

Births

Up to 1900

1501 – Cho Shik, Korean scholar, politician, educator and poet (d. 1572)
1557 – Leandro Bassano, Italian painter (d. 1622)
1575 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)
1582 – Johannes Schultz, German composer (d. 1653)
1653 – Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV (d. 1743)
1681 – Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (d. 1708)
1689 – Edward Holyoke, American clergyman and academic (d. 1769)
1726 – Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (d. 1796)
1730 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
1741 – John Langdon, American politician (d. 1819)
1753 – Antoine de Rivarol, French writer (d. 1801)
1760 – Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1836)
1786 – Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (d. 1855)
1817 – Branwell Bronte, English painter and poet (d. 1848)
1819 – Abner Doubleday, American major general (d. 1893)
1821 – Bartolomé Mitre, 6th President of Argentina (d. 1906)
1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist (d. 1907)
1826 – Adolf Bastian, German polymath (d. 1905)
1839 – Sam Watkins, American Confederate soldier and writer (d. 1901)
1854 – Robert Laird Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937)
1865 – Bernard Berenson, art connoisseur (d. 1959)
1866 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
1871 – Johan Anker, Norwegian sailor (d. 1940)
1880 – Mitchell Lewis, American movie actor (d. 1956)
1892 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1973)
1893 – Big Bill Broonzy, American blues musician and composer (d. 1958)
1895 – George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1956)
1897 – Viola Dana, American actress (d. 1987)
1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
1899 – Maria Nikolaevna Romanova, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna (d. 1918)
1899 – Elvy Kalep, Estonian pilot and artist (d. 1989)

1901 – 1950

1902 – Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor (d. 2010)
1904 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (d. 1964)
1904 – Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
1906 – Edward Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana (d. 1979)
1908 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
1909 – Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
1909 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director and producer (d. 1985)
1911 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer (d. 1956)
1912 – Jay Silverheels, actor (d. 1980)
1913 – Aimé Césaire, French-Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
1913 – Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (d. 2010)
1914 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician (d. 1991)
1914 – Laurie Lee, English poet, novelist and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1914 – Wolfgang Windgassen, German tenor (d. 1974)
1916 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (d. 2010)
1919 – Richard Neustadt, political historian (d. 2003)
1920 – Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian baseball player (d. 2014)
1922 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013)
1922 – Dick Smith, American special effects make-up artist (d. 2014)
1924 – Richard Bull, American actor (d. 2014)
1925 – Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1970)
1925 – Wolfgang Unzicker, German chess player (d. 2006)
1927 – Dimitar Iliev Popov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 2015)
1928 – Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
1929 – Milton Glaser, American graphic designer, typographer and teacher
1930 – Jackie Fargo, American professional wrestler (d. 2013)
1933 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (d. 2014)
1933 – David Winnick, English politician
1934 – Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist
1934 – Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
1936 – Robert Maclennan, British politician
1936 – Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)
1936 – Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (d. 2014)
1936 – Hal Greer, American basketball player
1937 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist (d. 2013)
1938 – Neil Abercrombie, American politician, 7th Governor of Hawaii
1939 – Chuck Robb, American politician, 64th Governor of Virginia
1942 – Gilberto Gil, first Minister of Culture of Brazil, singer, songwriter and musician
1944 – Wolfgang Weber, German footballer
1945 – Dwight York, musician, fashion consultant, cult leader and child molester
1947 – Peter Sloterdijk, German philosopher
1948 – Sergei Bodrov, Russian movie director, screenwriter and producer
1949 – Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist (d. 2015)
1950 – Michael Paul Chan, American actor

1951 – 1975

1951 – Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
1951 – Jürgen Rüttgers, German politician
1952 – Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer
1952 – Simon Mann, English mercenary
1954 – Luis Arconada, Basque-Spanish footballer
1954 – Steve Barton, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 2001)
1955 – Mick Jones, British musician, guitarist with The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite
1956 – Chris Isaak, American pop singer and actor
1956 – Patrick Mercer, British politician
1957 – Pietro Paolo Virdis, Italian footballer
1957 – Philippe Mabboux, French organist and composer
1957 – Patty Smyth, American singer-songwriter
1958 – Pedro Cateriano, former Prime Minister of Peru
1958 – Riho Sibul, Estonian singer and guitarist
1959 – Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and screenwriter
1960 – Mark Durkan, Northern Irish politician
1961 – Greg Lemond, cyclist
1961 – Toni Barry, British voice actress
1961 – Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin)
1962 – Jerome Kersey, American basketball player (d. 2015)
1963 – Richard Garfield, American game designer
1963 – Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian CEO of YUKOS Oil Company
1966 – Dany Boon, French actor, director and screenwriter
1967 – Olivier Dahan, French director and screenwriter
1967 – Tarun Sagar, Indian Jain monk (d. 2018)
1968 – Gudni Th. Johannesson, Icelandic historian and academic, 6th President of Iceland
1968 – Jovenel Moïse, President of Haiti (d. 2021)
1968 – Shannon Sharpe, American football player and commentator
1968 – Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
1968 – Armand de Las Cuevas, French cyclist (d. 2018)
1969 – Colin Greenwood, musician, Radiohead
1969 – Francis Magee, Irish actor
1969 – Geir Moen, Norwegian sprinter
1970 – Paul Thomas Anderson, American director, producer and screenwriter
1970 – Irv Gotti, American record producer
1970 – Sean Hayes, American actor, singer and producer
1970 – Chris O'Donnell, American actor
1972 – Caroline Nokes, English politician
1972 – Jussi Sydanmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1973 – Gretchen Wilson, American country music singer
1974 – Derek Jeter, American baseball player
1975 – Jean-Paul Abalo, Togolese footballer

From 1976

1976 – Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Chad Pennington, American football player
1976 – Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist leader (d. 2018)
1977 – Kubo Tite, cartoonist
1979 – Ryan Tedder, American singer, musician and producer (OneRepublic)
1980 – Jason Schwartzman, American actor
1980 – Michael Vick, American football player
1981 – Paolo Cannavaro, Italian footballer
1983 – Felipe Melo, Brazilian footballer
1984 – Raymond Felton, American basketball player
1984 – Deron Williams, American basketball player
1984 – Priscah Jeptoo, Kenyan runner
1984 – Aubrey Plaza, American actress
1985 – Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor
1985 – Daniela Sabatino, Italian footballer
1985 – Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader
1986 – Xisco, Spanish footballer
1987 – Samir Nasri, French footballer
1988 – Amanda Marchant, English singer
1988 – Sam Marchant, English singer
1988 – Dakota L. Meyer, American soldier
1990 – Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner
1992 – Joel Campbell, Costa Rican footballer
1992 – Melanie Amaro, British-American singer
1992 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer
1993 – Ariana Grande, American actress and singer
2005 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

Deaths

Observances

Independence Day in Madagascar
Flag Day (Romania)
Army and Navy Day (Azerbaijan)
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture