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June 2 is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 212
days remain until the end of the year.

Contents

 1Events
  2Births
 3Deaths
 4Holidays and observances
 5References
 6External links

Events[edit]
 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and
plunder the city for two weeks.[1]
 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of
Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the
second siege began five days later.[2]
 1615 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive
at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.[3]
 1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the
supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the
war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.[4]
 1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to be tried
for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts; she was
found guilty and later hanged.
 1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is
now Mackinaw City,
Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort
Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention
with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the
fort.
 1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is
enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to
house British soldiers in uninhabited houses,
outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable
quarters are not provided.
 1793 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader
of the Parisian National Guard, arrests
22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting
the stage for the Reign of Terror.
 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-
Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an
uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading
to Fort-de-France, from the British.
 1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first
tour of the United States.
 1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
 1866 – The Fenians defeat Canadian forces
at Ridgeway and Fort Erie, but the raids end soon
after.
 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for
his wireless telegraph.
 1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of
Australia for the third time.
 1910 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce
Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop
double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in
eight separate U.S. cities.
 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs
the Indian Citizenship Act into law,
granting citizenship to all Native Americans born
within the territorial limits of the United States.
 1941 – World War II: German paratroopers murder
Greek civilians in the villages
of Kondomari and Alikianos.
 1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In
a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from
a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum,
King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is
crowned Queen of the United
Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her
Other Realms and Territories & Head of the
Commonwealth, the first major international event to
be televised.
 1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade
declaration and thus normalize relations between
the two countries, discontinued since 1948.[5]
 1962 – During the FIFA World Cup, police had to
intervene multiple times in fights
between Chilean and Italian players in one of the
most violent games in football history.
 1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
is formed.[6]
 1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands
in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the
first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
 1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas
chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the
United States.
  1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of
the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno
Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death
results in the founding of
the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit
to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit
a Communist country.
 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an
in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air
Canada Flight 797 are killed when
a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open.
Because of this incident, numerous new safety
regulations are put in place.
 1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado
outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes
in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12.
 1997 – In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on
15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in
the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died.
He was executed four years later.
 2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another
planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars
Express probe launches from the Baikonur space
center in Kazakhstan.
 2012 – Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is
sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the
killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian
revolution.
 2014 – Telangana officially becomes the 29th state
of India, formed from ten districts of
northwestern Andhra Pradesh.

Births[edit]
 1305 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, ruler of Ilkhanate
(d. 1335)
 1423 – Ferdinand I of Naples (d. 1494)[7]
 1489 – Charles, Duke of Vendôme (d. 1537)[8]
 1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)[9]
 1602 – Rudolf Christian, Count of East Frisia, Ruler
of East Frisia (d. 1628)
 1621 – Rutger von Ascheberg, Courland-born
soldier in Swedish service (d. 1693)[10]
 1621 – (baptized) Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter
(d. 1649)[11]
 1638 – Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (d. 1709)
 1644 – William Salmon, English medical writer (d.
1713)
 1739 – Jabez Bowen, American colonel and
politician, 45th Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (d.
1815)
 1740 – Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and
politician (d. 1814)
 1743 – Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian occultist and
explorer (d. 1795)
 1773 – John Randolph of Roanoke, American
planter and politician, 8th United States Ambassador
to Russia (d. 1833)
 1774 – William Lawson, English-Australian explorer
and politician (d. 1850)
 1813 – Daniel Pollen, Irish-New Zealand politician,
9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1896)
 1823 – Gédéon Ouimet, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1905)
 1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
 1838 – Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of
Oldenburg (d. 1900)
 1840 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (d.
1928)
 1840 – Émile Munier, French artist (d. 1895)
 1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer and
educator (d. 1934)
 1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and
poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
 1861 – Concordia Selander, Swedish actress and
manager (d. 1935)
 1863 – Felix Weingartner, Croatian-Austrian pianist,
composer, and conductor (d. 1942)
 1865 – George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
 1865 – Adelaide Casely-Hayford, Sierra Leone
Creole advocate and activist for
cultural nationalism (d. 1960)[12]
 1866 – Jack O'Connor, American baseball player
and manager (d. 1937)[13]
 1875 – Charles Stewart Mott, American
businessman and politician, 50th Mayor of Flint,
Michigan (d. 1973)
 1878 – Wallace Hartley, English violinist and
bandleader (d. 1912)
 1881 – Walter Egan, American golfer (d. 1971)
 1891 – Thurman Arnold, American lawyer and judge
(d. 1969)
 1891 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral and pilot
(d. 1945)
 1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German animator and
director (d. 1981)
 1899 – Edwin Way Teale, American
environmentalist and photographer (d. 1980)
 1904 – Frank Runacres, English painter and
educator (d. 1974)
 1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, Hungarian-American
swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
 1907 – Dorothy West, American journalist and
author (d. 1998)
 1907 – John Lehmann, English poet and publisher
(d. 1987)
 1910 – Hector Dyer, American sprinter (d. 1990)
 1911 – Joe McCluskey, American runner (d. 2002)[14]
 1913 – Barbara Pym, English author (d. 1980)[15]
 1913 – Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong educator and
politician (d. 2015)
 1915 – Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian spy (d. 1992)
 1917 – Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and
director (d. 2006)
 1918 – Ruth Atkinson, Canadian-American illustrator
(d. 1997)
 1918 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American
journalist and author (d. 2011)
 1920 – Frank G. Clement, American lawyer and
politician, 41st Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
 1920 – Yolande Donlan, American-English actress
(d. 2014)
 1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German author
and critic (d. 2013)
 1920 – Tex Schramm, American businessman (d.
2003)
 1920 – Johnny Speight, English screenwriter and
producer (d. 1998)
 1921 – Betty Freeman, American photographer and
philanthropist (d. 2009)
 1921 – Ernie Royal, American trumpet player (d.
1983)
 1921 – Sigmund Sternberg, Hungarian-English
businessman and philanthropist (d. 2016)
 1921 – András Szennay, Hungarian priest (d. 2012)
 1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and
screenwriter (d. 2002)
 1922 – Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress
(d. 2002)
 1923 – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and
economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
 1924 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author,
and activist (d. 2007)
 1926 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo
wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (d. 1977)
 1926 – Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (d. 2013)
 1927 – W. Watts Biggers, American author,
screenwriter, and animator (d. 2013)
 1927 – Colin Brittan, English footballer (d. 2013)[16]
 1928 – Erzsi Kovács, Hungarian singer (d. 2014)
 1928 – Rafael A. Lecuona, Cuban-American
gymnast and academic (d. 2014)
 1928 – Ron Reynolds, English footballer (d. 1999)[17]
 1929 – Norton Juster, American architect, author,
and academic (d. 2021)
 1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d.
2007)
 1930 – Pete Conrad, American captain, pilot, and
astronaut (d. 1999)
 1933 – Jerry Lumpe, American baseball player and
coach (d. 2014)
 1933 – Lew "Sneaky Pete" Robinson, drag racer (d.
1971)[18]
 1934 – Johnny Carter, American singer (d. 2009)
 1935 – Carol Shields, American-Canadian novelist
and short story writer (d. 2003)
 1935 – Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek poet and educator
 1936 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian race
walker
 1937 – Rosalyn Higgins, English lawyer and judge
 1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
 1937 – Jimmy Jones, American singer-songwriter (d.
2012)
 1937 – Robert Paul, Canadian figure skater and
choreographer
 1937 – Deric Washburn, American screenwriter and
playwright
 1938 – Kevin Brownlow, English historian and
author
 1938 – George William Penrose, Lord Penrose,
Scottish lawyer and judge
 1939 – Charles Miller, American musician (d. 1980)
 1939 – John Schlee, American golfer (d. 2000)
 1940 – Constantine II of Greece[19]
 1941 – Ünal Aysal, Turkish businessman
 1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
 1941 – Lou Nanne, Canadian-American ice hockey
player and manager
 1941 – Charlie Watts, English drummer, songwriter,
and producer
 1942 – Mike Ahern, Australian politician,
32nd Premier of Queensland
 1943 – Charles Haid, American actor and director
 1943 – Crescenzio Sepe, Italian cardinal
 1944 – Robert Elliott, American actor (d. 2004)
 1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and
conductor (d. 2012)
 1945 – Richard Long, English painter, sculptor, and
photographer
 1945 – Bonnie Newman, American businesswoman
and politician
 1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish director, producer,
and screenwriter
 1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer (d. 2020)[20]
 1948 – Jerry Mathers, American actor
 1949 – Heather Couper, English astronomer and
physicist (d. 2020)
 1949 – Frank Rich, American journalist and critic
 1950 – Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and
singer
 1950 – Momčilo Vukotić, Serbian footballer and
manager
 1951 – Gilbert Baker, American artist, gay rights
activist, and designer of the rainbow flag (d. 2017) [21]
 1951 – Arnold Mühren, Dutch footballer and
manager
 1951 – Larry Robinson, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach
 1951 – Alexander Wylie, Lord Kinclaven, Scottish
lawyer, judge, and educator
 1952 – Gary Bettman, American commissioner of
the National Hockey League
 1953 – Vidar Johansen, Norwegian saxophonist
 1953 – Craig Stadler, American golfer
 1953 – Cornel West, American philosopher, author,
and academic
 1954 – Dennis Haysbert, American actor and
producer
 1955 – Dana Carvey, American comedian and actor
 1955 – Nandan Nilekani, Indian businessman, co-
founded Infosys
 1955 – Mani Ratnam, Indian director, producer, and
screenwriter
 1955 – Michael Steele, American singer-songwriter
and bass player
 1956 – Jan Lammers, Dutch race car driver
 1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and
manager
 1958 – Lex Luger, American wrestler and football
player
 1959 – Rineke Dijkstra, Dutch photographer
 1959 – Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actress
 1959 – Erwin Olaf, Dutch photographer
 1960 – Olga Bondarenko, Russian runner
 1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer-songwriter and
actor
 1960 – Kyle Petty, American race car driver and
sportscaster
 1961 – Dez Cadena, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist
 1962 – Mark Plaatjes, South African-American
runner and coach
 1963 – Anand Abhyankar, Indian actor (d. 2012)
 1964 – Caroline Link, German director and
screenwriter
 1965 – Russ Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player
 1965 – Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer and
journalist
 1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
 1966 – Dayana Cadeau, Haitian born Canadian-
American professional bodybuilder[22][23]
 1966 – Candace Gingrich, American activist[24]
 1966 – Pedro Guerra, Spanish singer-songwriter
 1966 – Petra van Staveren, Dutch swimmer
 1967 – Remigija Nazarovienė, Lithuanian
heptathlete and coach
 1967 – Mike Stanton, American baseball player
 1968 – Merril Bainbridge, Australian singer-
songwriter
 1968 – Andy Cohen, American television host
 1968 – Beetlejuice Green, American comedian, and
actor[25][26][27]
 1969 – Kurt Abbott, American baseball player
 1969 – Paulo Sérgio, Brazilian footballer
 1969 – David Wheaton, American tennis player,
radio host, and author
 1970 – B Real, American rapper and actor
 1971 – Kateřina Jacques, Czech translator and
politician
 1972 – Wayne Brady, American actor, comedian,
game show host, and singer
 1972 – Raúl Ibañez, American baseball player
 1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor and
screenwriter
 1973 – Marko Kristal, Estonian footballer and
manager
 1973 – Neifi Pérez, Dominican-American baseball
player
 1974 – Gata Kamsky, Russian-American chess
player
 1974 – Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist
 1975 – Salvatore Scibona, American author
 1976 – Earl Boykins, American basketball player
 1976 – Martin Čech, Czech ice hockey player (d.
2007)
 1976 – Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed
martial artist and boxer
 1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley, English singer-songwriter
and keyboard player
 1977 – Teet Allas, Estonian footballer
 1977 – A.J. Styles, American wrestler
 1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor and
producer
 1978 – Dominic Cooper, English actor
 1978 – Nikki Cox, American actress
 1978 – Yi So-yeon, biotechnologist and astronaut,
the first Korean in space[28]
 1978 – Justin Long, American actor[29]
 1979 – Morena Baccarin, Brazilian-American actress
 1979 – Butterfly Boucher, Australian singer-
songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 1980 – Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-American
drummer
 1980 – Bobby Simmons, American basketball
player[30]
 1980 – Richard Skuse, English rugby player
 1980 – Abby Wambach, American soccer player and
coach
 1980 – Tomasz Wróblewski, Polish bass player and
songwriter
 1981 – Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
 1981 – Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
 1982 – Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
 1983 – Chris Higgins, American ice hockey player
 1983 – Leela James, American singer-songwriter
 1983 – Toni Livers, Swiss skier
 1983 – Brooke White, American singer-songwriter
and actress
 1984 – Jack Afamasaga, New Zealand rugby league
player
 1984 – Max Boyer, Canadian wrestler
 1984 – Feleti Mateo, Australian-Tongan rugby
league player
 1985 – Miyuki Sawashiro, Japanese voice actress
and singer
  1986 – Todd Carney, Australian rugby league player
 1987 – Maryka Holtzhausen, South African netball
player
 1987 – Yoann Huget, French rugby player[31]
 1987 – Matthew Koma, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist
 1987 – Angelo Mathews, Sri Lankan cricketer[32]
 1987 – Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
 1988 – Staniliya Stamenova, Bulgarian canoeist[33]
 1989 – Steve Smith, Australian cricketer
 1992 – Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer[34]
 1993 – Adam Taggart, Australian footballer[35]
 1999 – Campbell Graham, Australian rugby league
player[36]
 2002 – Madison Hu, American actress[37][38]

Deaths[edit]
 657 – Pope Eugene I[39]
 891 – Al-Muwaffaq, Abbasid general (b. 842)
 910 – Richilde of Provence (b. 845)
 1200 – Bishop John of Oxford[40]
 1258 – Peter I, Count of Urgell
 1292 – Rhys ap Maredudd, Welsh nobleman and
rebel leader
 1418 – Katherine of Lancaster, queen of Henry III of
Castile
 1453 – Álvaro de Luna, Duke of Trujillo, Constable
of Castile
 1567 – Shane O'Neill, head of the O'Neill dynasty in
Ireland (b. 1530)
 1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (b.
1536)
 1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, Scottish
soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of
Scotland (b. 1525)
 1603 – Bernard of Wąbrzeźno, Roman Catholic
priest (b. 1575)
 1693 – John Wildman, English soldier and
politician, Postmaster General of the United
Kingdom (b. 1621)
 1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (b.
1607)
 1716 – Ogata Kōrin, Japanese painter and educator
(b. 1658)
 1754 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister and
theologian (b. 1680)
 1761 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish businessman (b.
1685)
 1785 – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French
mathematician and academic (b. 1713)
 1806 – William Tate, English painter (b. 1747)
 1853 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English
general (b. 1777)
 1865 – Ner Middleswarth, American judge and
politician (b. 1783)
 1875 – Józef Kremer, Polish psychologist, historian,
and philosopher (b. 1806)
 1881 – Émile Littré, French lexicographer and
philosopher (b. 1801)
 1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and
politician (b. 1807)
 1901 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary
and author (b. 1844)
 1927 – Hüseyin Avni Lifij, Turkish painter (b. 1886)
 1929 – Enrique Gorostieta, Mexican general (b.
1889)
 1933 – Frank Jarvis, American runner and triple
jumper (b. 1878)
 1937 – Louis Vierne, French organist and composer
(b. 1870)
 1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b.
1903)
 1942 – Bunny Berigan, American singer and trumpet
player (b. 1908)
 1947 – John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, English
sailor and politician (b. 1867)
 1948 – Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
 1948 – Karl Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1904)
 1948 – Karl Gebhardt, German physician (b. 1897)
 1948 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b.
1903)
 1948 – Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (b.
1905)
 1952 – Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect, designed
the Central Sofia Market Hall (b. 1880)
 1956 – Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and
director (b. 1886)
 1959 – Lyda Borelli, Italian actress (b. 1884)
 1961 – George S. Kaufman, American director,
producer, and playwright (b. 1889)
 1962 – Vita Sackville-West, English author and poet
(b. 1892)[41]
 1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, German student and
activist (b. 1940)
 1968 – André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and
composer (b. 1929)
 1969 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
 1970 – Orhan Kemal, Turkish author (b. 1914)
 1970 – Albert Lamorisse, French director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1922)
 1970 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver
and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (b.
1937)
 1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian soldier, journalist,
and academic (b. 1888)
 1974 – Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese race car driver (b.
1949)
 1976 – Kenneth Mason, English soldier and
geographer (b. 1887)
 1976 – Juan José Torres, Bolivian general and
politician, 61st President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
 1977 – Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (b.
1952)
 1977 – Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish-born American
actor (b. 1931)
 1978 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer
and coach (b. 1895)
 1979 – Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
 1982 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer and
politician, 5th President of Pakistan (b. 1904)
 1983 – Stan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter (b.
1949)
 1983 – Ray Stehr, Australian rugby league player
and coach (b. 1913)
 1986 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (b.
1901)
 1987 – Anthony de Mello, Indian-American priest
and psychotherapist (b. 1931)
 1987 – Sammy Kaye, American bandleader and
songwriter (b. 1910)
 1987 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
 1988 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and
producer (b. 1924)
 1989 – Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer and
footballer (b. 1907)
 1990 – Jack Gilford, American actor and comedian
(b. 1908)
 1990 – Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
 1991 – Ahmed Arif, Turkish poet and author (b.
1927)
 1992 – Philip Dunne, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1908)
 1993 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player,
coach, and sportscaster (b. 1913)
 1993 – Tahar Djaout, Algerian journalist, writer and
poet (b. 1954)
 1994 – David Stove, Australian philosopher, author,
and academic (b. 1927)
 1996 – John Alton, Hungarian-American
cinematographer and director (b. 1901)
 1996 – Leon Garfield, English author (b. 1921)
 1996 – Ray Combs, American game show host (b.
1956)
 1997 – Doc Cheatham, American trumpet player,
singer, and bandleader (b. 1905)
 1997 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis champion (b.
1908)[42]
 1999 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican singer (b.
1949)
 2000 – Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian
ophthalmologist, academic, and politician (b. 1927)
 2000 – John Schlee, American golfer (b. 1939)
 2000 – Gerald James Whitrow, English
mathematician, cosmologist, and historian (b. 1912)
 2001 – Imogene Coca, American actress and
comedian (b. 1908)
 2001 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
 2002 – Hugo van Lawick, Dutch director and
photographer (b. 1937)
 2003 – Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and
manager (b. 1918)
 2003 – Alma Ricard, Canadian broadcaster and
philanthropist (b. 1906)
 2005 – Lucien Cliche, Canadian lawyer and
politician (b. 1916)
 2005 – Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier (b.
1930)
 2005 – Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and
educator (b. 1950)
 2005 – Melita Norwood, English civil servant and
spy (b. 1912)
 2006 – Keith Smith, English rugby player and coach
(b. 1952)
 2007 – Kentarō Haneda, Japanese pianist and
composer (b. 1949)
 2007 – Huang Ju, Chinese engineer and politician,
1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of
China (b. 1938)
 2008 – Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1928)
 2008 – Mel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1917)
 2008 – Cevher Özden, Turkish banker and
businessman (b. 1933)
 2009 – David Eddings, American author (b. 1931)
 2012 – Avraham Botzer, Polish-Israeli commander
(b. 1929)
 2012 – Adolfo Calero, Nicaraguan businessman and
political activist (b. 1931)
 2012 – Richard Dawson, English-American soldier,
actor, television personality, and game show host (b.
1932)
 2012 – LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player (b.
1940)
 2012 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
 2012 – Jan Gmelich Meijling, Dutch commander and
politician (b. 1943)
 2013 – Mario Bernardi, Canadian pianist and
conductor (b. 1930)
 2013 – Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of
Beijing (b. 1930)
 2013 – Mandawuy Yunupingu, Australian singer-
songwriter and guitarist (b. 1956)
  2014 – Ivica Brzić, Serbian footballer and manager
(b. 1941)
 2014 – Anjan Das, Indian director and producer (b.
1951)
 2014 – Gennadi Gusarov, Russian footballer and
manager (b. 1937)
 2014 – Nikolay Khrenkov, Russian bobsledder (b.
1984)
 2014 – Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian
cardinal (b. 1924)
 2014 – Kuaima Riruako, Namibian politician (b.
1935)
 2014 – Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist
and chemist (b. 1925)
 2015 – Fernando de Araújo, East Timorese
politician, President of East Timor (b. 1963)
 2015 – Irwin Rose, American biologist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
 2017 – Peter Sallis, English actor (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances[edit]

 Children's Day (North Korea)
 Christian feast day:
o Ahudemmeh (Syriac Orthodox Church).[43]
o Alexander (martyr)
o Elmo
o Felix of Nicosia
o Marcellinus and Peter
o Martyrs of Lyon, including Blandina
o Pope Eugene I
o Pothinus
o June 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 Civil Aviation Day (Azerbaijan)
 Coronation of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, also
Social Forestry Day (Bhutan)
 Day of Hristo Botev (Bulgaria)
 Decoration Day (Canada)
 Festa della Repubblica (Italy)
 International Sex Workers Day
 Telangana Day (Telangana, India)
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