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3 Deaths

• 1377 - King Edward III of England
• 1527 - Niccolo Machiavelli, historian and political author, age 53
• 1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord ( daimyo) (b. 1534)
• 1652 - Inigo Jones, architect (b. 1573)
• 1824 - Étienne Aignan, translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Académie française (b. 1773)
• 1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer (b. 1844)
• 1914 - Bertha von Suttner, winner of 1905 Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
• 1934 - Thorne Smith, author (" Topper books " and others)
• 1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, astronomer (b. 1867)
• 1952 - Wilfrid 'Wop' May , aviation pioneer
• 1964 - Andrew Goodman, civil rights activist
• 1964 - James Cheney , civil rights activist
• 1964 - Mickey Schwerner, civil rights activist
• 1969 - Maureen Connolly, tennis star
• 1970 - Sukarno, Indonesian President
• 1976 - Margaret Herrick, Librarian and director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences credited with naming the Oscar (b. 1902)
• 1980 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter
• 1985 - Tage Erlander, Swedish Prime Minister
• 1990 - Ross Munro , journalist, Canadian Press war correspondent, editor, publisher
• 2001 - Carroll O'Connor, actor, age 76
• 2001 - John Lee Hooker, blues musician, age 83

4 Holidays and Observances

• Summer solstice ( Northern hemisphere) and Winter solstice ( Southern hemisphere)
• National Aboriginal Day in Canada (starting in 1996)
• Midsummer - Neopagan festival
• National holiday of Greenland
• Fête de la Musique in France, Belgium and Switzerland.

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