June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 193.
Railways
- 21 June 1958 Samsun TCDD Recreation Facility was opened.
Events
- 1788 - New Hampshire joins the union as the 9th State, ratifying the US Constitution.
- 1908 – 200 women marched for the right to vote and be elected in London.
- 1920 – Belgian and French companies were operating the coal mines opened in 1848 in the Zonguldak basin. After the First World War, in 1919, French soldiers occupied Zonguldak and then Karadeniz Ereğli under the pretext of protecting the rights of their companies. However, they were endangered by the opposition of the forces affiliated to the Defense of Rights Associations in and around Zonguldak, and they left the region on 21 June 1920.
- 1921 – The liberation of Sakarya from enemy occupation.
- 1921 – Liberation of Zonguldak from enemy occupation.
- 1927 – The Law on Protection of Minors from Malicious Publications was passed in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
- 1934 – Surname Law was passed.
- 1934 – The Thrace Events against the Jews started in Turkey.
- 1940 – The State Opera and Ballet gave its first performance: “Bastien and Bastienne” by Mozart.
- 1941 – II. World War II: Germany invades the Soviet Union at night.
- 1942 – II. World War II: Tobruk falls into the hands of Italian and German forces.
- 1942 – II. World War II: Surfaced near the Columbia River in Oregon, the Japanese national submarine “Fort Stevens” fires 17 shells towards the military base. This was one of several direct attacks by the Japanese on the American mainland during the entire war.
- 1945 – II. World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends.
- 1946 – The Turkish Garanti Bank Establishment Law was accepted.
- 1946 – The foundation of Rize Tea Factory was laid.
- 1948 – A program codenamed "Manchester Baby" (SSEM) was stored in a computer's own electronic memory and became the first computer program to run from there.
- 1948 – Columbia Records promoted the first Long Play (LP) music album at the “Waldorf-Astoria” Hotel in New York.
- 1976 – Rauf Denktaş was re-elected as President of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus.
- 1982 - John Hinckley, who attempted to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan, was found not guilty by the court because he was mentally unstable.
- 1990 – In the earthquake of 7,3 magnitude in Iran, 50 thousand people died.
- 2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are named Nix and Hydra.
- 2008 – 6th grade SBS prepared by MEB was held for the first time.
- 2020 – Solar eclipse took place.
Births
- 1002 – IX. Leo, born Bruno of Eguisheim-Dagsburg, was Pope from 12 February 1049 until his death (d. 1054)
- 1528 – Maria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1603)
- 1774 – Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician (d. 1825)
- 1781 – Simeon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
- 1792 – Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian and covenant critic (d. 1860)
- 1811 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian neurophysiologist and politician (d. 1868)
- 1814 – Théodore Frère, French painter (d. 1888)
- 1823 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
- 1839 – Machado, Brazilian writer (d. 1908)
- 1859 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American artist (d. 1937)
- 1882 – Lluís Companys, Catalan politician (d. 1940)
- 1884 – Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (d. 1981)
- 1891 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian civil engineer (d. 1979)
- 1902 – Skip James, American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist, and songwriter (d. 1969)
- 1905 – Jacques Goddet, French sports journalist (d. 2000)
- 1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher (d. 1980)
- 1908 – William Frankena, American moral philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1914 – William Vickrey, American-Canadian Nobel Prize-winning economist (d. 1996)
- 1919 - Anna Arena, Italian actress
- 1921 – Judy Holliday, American actress, comedian, and singer (d. 1965)
- 1921 – Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1924 – Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actress (d. 2018)
- 1925 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994)
- 1925 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1928 – Margit Bara, Hungarian actress (d. 2016)
- 1929 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
- 1929 – Ana Novac, Romanian writer (d. 2010)
- 1932 – Lalo Schifrin, Pianist and Composer
- 1935 – Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)
- 1940 - Mariette Hartley, an American actress
- 1944 – Tony Scott, English film director (d. 2012)
- 1947 – Çetin Alp, Turkish pop music artist (d. 2004)
- 1947 – Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, writer, human rights defender
- 1947 – Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher and writer
- 1948 – Ian McEwan, Man Booker Prize-winning English novelist
- 1948 – Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish fantasy novelist
- 1950 – Joey Kramer, American musician
- 1952 – Kōichi Mashimo, Japanese film director
- 1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani political leader (d. 2007)
- 1954 – Alev Oraloğlu, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress
- 1954 – Mustapha Ourrad, Algerian-French publisher and editor (d. 2015)
- 1954 – Müjde Ar, Turkish cinema and TV series actress
- 1954 – Nur Sürer, Turkish cinema, TV series and theater actress
- 1955 – Michel Platini, French football player, coach and UEFA President
- 1959 - Tom Chambers, is an american basketball player
- 1959 – Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, Shiite cleric, sheikh and ayatollah (d. 2016)
- 1960 – Karl Erjavec, Slovenian politician
- 1961 – Manu Chao, Spanish-born French singer
- 1961 – Sascha Konietzko, German musician and producer
- 1961 – Joko Widodo, Indonesian politician who became the 7th president of Indonesia
- 1962 – Pipilotti Rist, film and video artist
- 1962 – Viktor Tsoy, Soviet Union rock musician (d. 1990)
- 1963 – Gōshō Aoyama, Japanese manga writer
- 1963 – Dario Marianelli, Golden Globe and Academy Award winning Italian composer
- 1964 – David Morrissey, English actor and film director
- 1964 – Doug Savant, American actor
- 1965 – Yang Liwei, Chinese military pilot and astronaut
- 1965 Lana Wachowski, American director
- 1967 – Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-born French-American billionaire, entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist
- 1967 – Carrie Preston, American actor, producer, and director
- 1967 – Yingluck Shinawatra, Thai businessman and politician
- 1968 – Sonia Clarke, English female musician and singer
- 1968 – Chris Gueffroy, last person killed while trying to cross the Berlin Wall (d. 1989)
- 1969 – Lloyd Avery II, American black actor (d. 2005)
- 1970 – Pete Rock, American record producer, DJ, and rapper
- 1971 – Faryd Mondragon, Colombian football player (goalkeeper)
- 1971 – Anette Olzon, Swedish soprano musician
- 1973 – Zuzana Čaputová, Slovak politician, lawyer and activist
- 1973 – Juliette Lewis, American actress and musician
- 1976 – Miroslav Karhan, Slovak former football player
- 1978 – Erica Durance, Canadian actress
- 1979 – Kostas Kaçuranis, Greek former football player
- 1979 – Chris Pratt, American television and film actor
- 1980 – Ayşegül Abadan, Turkish pianist
- 1980 – Barış Özcan, Turkish basketball player
- 1981 – Brandon Flowers, American musician
- 1982 - Jussie Smollett, American actor and singer
- 1982 – Prince William, member of the British Royal Family, son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana Frances Spencer
- 1983 – Edward Snowden, American-Russ computer scientist
- 1985 – Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Öznur Asrav, Turkish model
- 1986 – Cheick Tioté, Ivory Coast football player (d. 2017)
- 1986 – Fevzi Özkan, Turkish football player
- 1987 – Pablo Barrera, he is a mexican football player
- 1987 – Sebastian Prodl, Austrian football player
- 1988 – Thaddeus Young, American professional basketball player
- 1989 – Abubaker Kaki Khamis, Sudanese athlete
- 1990
- Yusra Geyik, Turkish actress
- François Moubandje is a Swiss international football player.
- 1991 – Gaël Kakuta, French football player
- 1992 – Ekin Koç, Turkish actress
- 1992 – Max Schneider, Singer, actor and songwriter
- 1993 – Sinem Ünsal, Turkish TV actress
- 1994
- Başak Eraydın, Turkish national tennis player
- Evans Kangwa, Zambian national football player
- 1996 - Accursio Bentivegna, Italian football player
- 1997 - Rebecca Black, American pop singer
Deaths
- 524 – Chlodomer, second of four sons of Clovis I, King of the Franks (b. 495)
- 870 – Converted, Fourteenth Abbasid caliph who reigned for only one year during 869-870
- 1377 – III. Edward, King of England (b. 1312)
- 1527 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political writer (b. 1469)
- 1591 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian aristocrat and member of the Society of Jesus (b. 1568)
- 1622 – Salomon Schweigger, German Protestant pastor and traveler (b. 1551)
- 1828 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish playwright and poet (b. 1760)
- 1858 – Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Finnish journalist, writer, historian and politician (b. 1791)
- 1874 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
- 1908 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
- 1915 – Adday Şer, of Assyrian origin, archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church of Siirt (b. 1867)
- 1914 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer, radical pacifist, and first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
- 1940 – Janusz Kusociński, Polish athlete, middle and long distance runner (b. 1907)
- 1954 – Gideon Sundback, Swedish inventor (b. 1880)
- 1957 – Claude Farrère, French writer (b. 1876)
- 1957 – Johannes Stark, German physicist (b. 1874)
- 1965 – Henry Weed Fowler, American zoologist (b. 1878)
- 1969 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
- 1970 – Sukarno, Indonesia's first President (b. 1901)
- 1971 – Hasan Vecih Bereketoğlu Turkish impressionist painter (b. 1895)
- 1980 – Ahmet Muhip Dıranas, Turkish poet and writer (b. 1909)
- 1980 – Feridun Cemal Erkin, Turkish diplomat and politician (b. 1899)
- 1985 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician (b. 1901)
- 1986 – Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and musician (b. 1923)
- 1993 – Münci Kapani, Turkish academic and writer (b. 1921)
- 2001 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2001 – John Lee Hooker, American blues singer, guitarist, and composer (b. 1917)
- 2005 – Guillermo Suárez Mason, Argentine general (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Abdullah Gegic, Yugoslav origin Turkish football player and coach (b. 1924)
- 2010 – İlhan Selçuk, Turkish writer (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Ramaz Şengelya, former Soviet national football player of Georgian origin (b. 1957)
- 2015 – Dave Godfrey, Canadian author and publisher (b. 1938)
- 2016 – Jim Boyd, American singer, songwriter, and actor (b. 1956)
- 2017 – Pompeyo Márquez, Venezuelan politician and journalist (b. 1922)
- 2018 – Grigori Barenblatt, Russian mathematician, academic, and author (b. 1927)
- 2018 – Charles Krauthammer, American Pulitzer Prize-winning trade unionist, columnist, author, political commentator, and former physician (b. 1950)
- 2019 – Peter Ball, English bishop and sexual abuse convict (b. 1932)
- 2019 – Susan Bernard, American actress, model, author, and businessperson (b. 1948)
- 2019 – Demetris Christofias, sixth president of the Republic of Cyprus (b. 1946)
- 2020 – Marconi Alencar, Brazilian politician (b. 1939)
- 2020 – György Bálint, Hungarian botanist and politician (b. 1919)
- 2020 – Pascal Clément, French politician (b. 1945)
- 2020 – Jürgen Holtz, German actor (b. 1932)
- 2020 – Talib Jauhari, Pakistani Islamic scholar, poet, historian, and Shiite Islamic Sect philosopher (b. 1929)
- 2020 – Mile Nedelkoski, Macedonian poet, novelist, short story and playwright (b. 1935)
- 2020 – Bernardino Piñera, Bishop of the Catholic Church of Chile (b. 1915)
- 2020 – Ahmed Radi, Iraqi national football player (b. 1964)
- 2020 – Ken Snow, American international football player (b. 1969)
- 2020 – Bobana Veličković, Serbian female shooter (b. 1990)
- 2021 – Jean Guéguinou, French diplomat (b. 1941)
- 2021 – Nobuo Hara, Japanese jazz saxophonist and conductor (b. 1926)
- 2021 – Reshma, Indian actress (b. 1979)
- 2022 – Patrizia Cavalli, Italian poet (b. 1947)
- 2022 – Polycarpose Zacharias, Metropolitan of Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church of Indian origin (b. 1970)
Holidays and special occasions
- Summer Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
- Winter solstice (Southern hemisphere)
- World Music Day