June 13 is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 201 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events [edit]

• 313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.
• 1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.
• 1381 – The Peasants Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace.
• 1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
• 1625 – King Charles I marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France
• 1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
• 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
• 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
• 1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• 1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
• 1893 – Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
• 1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
• 1910 – The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.
• 1917 – World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
• 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
• 1934 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
• 1944 – World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
• 1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
• 1952 – Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
• 1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
• 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.
• 1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last US Number 1 song.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
• 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
• 1978 – Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
• 1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
• 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).
• 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
• 1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
• 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• 1997 – Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.
• 2000 – President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
• 2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
• 2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 2002 – Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the US.
• 2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
• 2007 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
• 2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
• 2013 – An astronomical collision is predicted, as Tom Jarman reunites with Alec Bailey.

Births [edit]

• 40 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (d. 93)
• 823 – Charles the Bald, Roman Emperor (d. 877)
• 839 – Charles the Fat, Roman Emperor (d. 888)
• 1595 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian doctor and scientist (d. 1667)
• 1649 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
• 1672 – Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1741)
• 1752 – Fanny Burney, English novelist (d. 1840)
• 1761 – Antonín Vranický, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820)
• 1763 – José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian statesman (d. 1838)
• 1773 – Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829)
• 1775 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (d. 1833)
• 1786 – Winfield Scott, American general (d. 1866)
• 1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter and author (d. 1894)
• 1822 – Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1894)
• 1827 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
• 1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
• 1863 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
• 1864 – Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish scientist (d. 1922)
• 1864 – Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (d. 1939)
• 1865 – William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
• 1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• 1875 – Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer (d. 1932)
• 1876 – William Sealey Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
• 1884 – Anton Drexler, German political figure (d. 1942)
• 1884 – Gerald Gardner, English occultist (d. 1964)
• 1884 – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)
• 1885 – Henry George Lamond, Australian novelist (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Bruno Frank, German author (d. 1945)
• 1888 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (d. 1935)
• 1892 – Basil Rathbone, English actor (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (d. 1957)
• 1894 – Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
• 1894 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, theorist, educator, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (d. 1978)
• 1901 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
• 1903 – Red Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Doc Cheatham, American trumpeter, singer, and bandleader (McKinney's Cotton Pickers) (d. 1997)
• 1905 – Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (d. 1945)
• 1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
• 1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician (d. 1998)
• 1910 – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
• 1910 – Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (d. 2001)
• 1910 – Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and inventor, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
• 1911 – Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist (d. 1977)
• 1912 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French-Canadian poet (d. 1943)
• 1913 – Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Teddy Turner, English actor and comedian (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Ben Johnson, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Helmut Lent, German pilot (d. 1944)
• 1920 – Rolf Huisgen, German chemist
• 1922 – Etienne Leroux, South African author (d. 1989)
• 1924 – Percy Rodriguez, Canadian actor (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Paul Lynde, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1927 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Li Ka-shing, Chinese businessman
• 1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 – Alan Civil, English horn player (d. 1989)
• 1929 – Robert W. Scott, American politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Ryszard Kukliński, Polish spy (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballet dancer (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist
• 1932 – Bob McGrath, American actor
• 1933 – Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, English politician
• 1935 – Christo, Bulgarian artist
• 1935 – Jeanne-Claude, French artist (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Michael H. Jordan, American businessman (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Erich Ribbeck, German footballer and manager
• 1939 – Tom Cheek, American sportscaster (d. 2005)
• 1939 – Siegfried Fischbacher, German-American magician
• 1940 – Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1941 – Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player
• 1941 – Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
• 1943 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor
• 1943 – Jim Guy Tucker, American politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas
• 1944 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1945 – Whitley Strieber, American author
• 1947 – A. G. Lafley, American businessman
• 1948 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001)
• 1948 – Joe Roth, American director and producer, co-founded Morgan Creek Productions
• 1949 – Dennis Locorriere, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)
• 1949 – Ulla Schmidt, German politician
• 1950 – Belinda Bauer, Australian actress
• 1950 – Michael Stark, Australian actor
• 1950 – Gerd Zewe, German footballer
• 1951 – Richard Thomas, American actor
• 1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
• 1951 – Robert P. Young, Jr., American politician
• 1952 – Tony Bruno, American sportscaster
• 1952 – Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian judoka and politician
• 1953 – Tim Allen, American comedian and actor
• 1954 – Rita Cadillac, Brazilian dancer
• 1954 – Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician
• 1954 – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist
• 1955 – Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer
• 1955 – Leah Ward Sears, American jurist
• 1959 – Boyko Borisov, Bulgarian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• 1959 – Steve Georganas, Australian politician
• 1959 – Lance Kinsey, Canadian actor
• 1961 – Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player
• 1962 – Davey Hamilton, American race car driver
• 1962 – Glenn Michibata, Canadian tennis player
• 1962 – Ally Sheedy, American actress
• 1962 – Hannah Storm, American journalist and author
• 1963 – Bettina Bunge, German tennis player
• 1963 – Paul De Lisle, American singer-songwriter and bassist (Smash Mouth)
• 1963 – Catarina Lindqvist, Swedish tennis player
• 1964 – Michael Anthony Franano, American singer-songwriter and composer (The Front, Bakers Pink, and Michael Moon)
• 1964 – Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian composer, organist, and educator
• 1964 – Kathy Burke, English actress
• 1964 – Sarunas Marciulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1965 – Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
• 1965 – Vassilis Karapialis, Greek footballer
• 1965 – Lukas Ligeti, Austrian composer and drummer
• 1965 – Lisa Vidal, American actress
• 1966 – Naoki Hattori, Japanese race car driver
• 1966 – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
• 1967 – Taşkın Aksoy, Turkish footballer
• 1968 – Fabio Baldato, Italian cyclist
• 1968 – Spike Breakwell, English comedian and actor
• 1968 – Darren Dreger, Canadian sportscaster
• 1968 – David Gray, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
• 1968 – Tim Leveque, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Denise Pearson, English singer-songwriter (Five Star)
• 1968 – Marcel Theroux, English writer and broadcaster
• 1969 – Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Spanish actress
• 1969 – Laura Kightlinger, American actress and writer
• 1969 – Lynne Koplitz, American comedian and actress
• 1969 – Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete
• 1969 – Søren Rasted, Danish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Aqua, Hej Matematik, and Lazyboy)
• 1970 – Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
• 1970 – Rivers Cuomo, American singer-songwriter and musician (Weezer, Avant Garde, and Homie)
• 1970 – Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
• 1971 – Shannon Fill, American actress
• 1971 – Nóra Köves, Hungarian tennis player
• 1971 – David Mendenhall, American actor
• 1972 – Martin Ballantyne, English actor
• 1972 – Natalie MacMaster, Canadian singer and violinist
• 1972 – Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Korean-born American actress
• 1973 – Sam Adams, American football player
• 1973 – Tanner Foust, American race car driver
• 1973 – Mattias Hellberg, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (The Hellacopters, Nationalteatern, and The Solution)
• 1973 – Kasia Kowalska, Polish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1973 – Ville Laihiala, Finnish singer-songwriter and musician (Sentenced and Poisonblack)
• 1973 – Leeann Tweeden, American model and television host
• 1974 – Coko, American singer (SWV)
• 1974 – Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
• 1974 – Valeri Bure, Russian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Steve-O, American stuntman, actor, and author
• 1974 – Brande Roderick, American actress
• 1974 – Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
• 1975 – Ante Covic, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Jeff Davis, American writer and producer
• 1975 – Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director
• 1975 – Jennifer Nicole Lee, American model, actress, and author
• 1975 – Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
• 1976 – Jason "J" Brown, English singer (Five)
• 1976 – Kym Marsh, English singer and actress (Hear'Say)
• 1976 – Tygh Runyan, American-Canadian actor and musician (The Awkward Stage)
• 1977 – Dragoș Bucur, Romanian actor
• 1977 – Emily Harrison, American actress
• 1977 – Earthwind Moreland, American football player
• 1977 – Rainer Schönfelder, Austrian skier
• 1977 – Erin Toughill, American mixed martial artist and boxer
• 1977 – Selwyn Ward, American actor
• 1978 – Jason Michael Carroll, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Brian Dowling, Irish television host
• 1978 – Ethan Embry, American actor
• 1978 – Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
• 1978 – Mathis Künzler, Swiss actor
• 1979 – Esther Anderson, Australian actress and model
• 1979 – Nila Håkedal, Norwegian volleyball player
• 1979 – Ryan Pickett, American screenwriter, director, and producer
• 1980 – Sarah Connor, German singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1980 – Florent Malouda, French footballer
• 1980 – Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (d. 2012)
• 1980 – Jamario Moon, American basketball player
• 1980 – Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
• 1980 – Maho Nonami, Japanese actress
• 1980 – Velvet Rose, American porn actress
• 1980 – Darius Vassell, English footballer
• 1980 – Markus Winkelhock, German race car driver
• 1981 – Daryl Blonder, American actor and author
• 1981 – Chris Evans, American actor
• 1981 – Blake Judd, American actor, director, and producer
• 1981 – Julie-Marie Parmentier, French actress
• 1982 – Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian runner
• 1982 – Krzysztof Bosak, Polish politician
• 1982 – Jessica Caban, American model, dancer, and actress
• 1982 – Nate Jones, American football player and agent
• 1982 – Jess Manafort, American director and writer
• 1983 – Matt Allison, English race car driver
• 1983 – Ryan Conferido, American dancer
• 1983 – Rebeca Linares, Spanish porn actress
• 1983 – Sarah Schaub, American actress
• 1983 – Jason Spezza, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 – Kaori Icho, Japanese wrestler
• 1984 – Antje Möldner-Schmidt, German athlete
• 1984 – Nautica Thorn, American porn actress
• 1984 – Phillip Van Dyke, American actor
• 1985 – Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese race car driver
• 1985 – Raz-B, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (B2K)
• 1985 – Silvio Bankert, German footballer
• 1985 – Lela Star, Cuban-American porn actress
• 1985 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Kat Dennings, American actress
• 1986 – Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer
• 1986 – Azumi Muto, Japanese model and actress (d. 2006)
• 1986 – Ashley Olsen, American actress, fashion designer, producer, and author
• 1986 – Mary-Kate Olsen, American actress, fashion designer, producer, and author
• 1988 – Gabe Carimi, American football player
• 1988 – Reece Noi, English actor
• 1988 – Austin Thornton, American drummer (Woe, Is Me and Of Machines)
• 1989 – Irene Gorovaia, Russian-American actress
• 1989 – Tommy Searle, English motocross racer
• 1989 – Lisa Tucker, American singer and actress
• 1990 – Tara Lynn Foxx, American porn actress
• 1990 – Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player
• 1990 – Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor
• 1991 – Will Claye, American jumper
• 1995 – Emily Fanning, New Zealand tennis player
• 1996 – Kodi Smit-McPhee, Australian actor

Deaths [edit]

• 1036 – Ali az-Zahir, Islamic ruler (b. 1005)
• 1231 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (b. 1195)
• 1256 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
• 1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
• 1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman and author (b. 1584)
• 1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
• 1760 – Antoine Court, French minister (b. 1696)
• 1784 – Henry Middleton, American politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
• 1846 – Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer, author and translator (b. 1767)
• 1881 – Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
• 1886 – Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
• 1904 – Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
• 1918 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878)
• 1930 – Henry Segrave, English race car driver (b. 1896)
• 1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
• 1943 – Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
• 1951 – Ben Chifley, Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• 1954 – Henry Blogg, English fisherman and lifeboatman (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Irving Baxter, American athlete (b. 1876)
• 1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1965 – David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian writer, poet, educationist, newspaper founder, editor, political leader, movie producer, director, script writer and orator (b. 1898)
• 1972 – Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932)
• 1972 – Dündar Taşer, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
• 1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
• 1977 – Matthew Garber, English actor (b. 1956)
• 1979 – Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and musician (I Ribelli and Area) (b. 1945)
• 1980 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
• 1982 – Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Peter Maivia, American-Samoan wrestler (b. 1935)
• 1982 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
• 1984 – António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Benny Goodman, American clarinetist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1909)
• 1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Fran Allison, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Deke Slayton, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Alfred Gerrard, British sculptor (b. 1899)
• 1998 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (b. 1917)
• 2002 – John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
• 2005 – David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Charles Haughey, Irish politician (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Walid Eido, Lebanese politician (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (b. 1950)
• 2009 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2009 – Fathi Yakan, Lebanese politician (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Sam T. Beddingfield, American pilot and engineer (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini, Brazilian bishop (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani singer and composer (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Jože Humer, Slovenian composer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Erica Kennedy, American author and journalist (b. 1970)

Holidays and observances [edit]

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church
  • Blessed Thomas Woodhouse
  • Cetteus
  • Pope Leo III
  • June 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links [edit]

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