June 26

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.

• 4 – Roman Emperor Augustus adopts Tiberius.
• 221 – Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir.
• 363 – Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. Troops on the battlefield proclaim Jovian Emperor.
• 687 – Benedict II becomes Pope.
• 1409 – Western Schism: The Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
• 1483 – Richard III becomes king of England.
• 1492 – Mont Aiguille, in the Western Alps in France is climbed for the first time by Antoine de Ville.
• 1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima.
• 1718 – Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (son of Peter I of Russia) dies mysteriously after his father sentenced him to death for plotting against him. (occurred on July 7 in the Gregorian calendar)
• 1723 – After a siege, and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
• 1740 – A combined force of Spanish, free Blacks, and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine, Florida in the War of Jenkins' Ear.
• 1819 – The bicycle is patented.
• 1830 – King George IV of the United Kingdom dies. His brother succeeds him as William IV of the United Kingdom.
• 1843 – The Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, effectively giving Hong Kong to the United Kingdom.
• 1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
• 1857 – First Investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
• 1860 – In Durban, South Africa, Africa's first railway is opened.
• 1870 – Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the US.
• 1879 – Egypt sells its parts of the Suez Canal to the United Kingdom.
• 1886 – Henri Moissan isolates elemental fluorine for the first time.
• 1889 – Bangui, now-capital city of the Central African Republic, is founded.
• 1905 – A telegram is sent to Iceland for the first time, from Cornwall.
• 1906 – The 1906 French Grand Prix is held, as the first Grand Prix motor racing event ever held.
• 1917 – World War I: US troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany.
• 1920 – Antonio Maria da Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
• 1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
• 1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
• 1934 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
• 1940 – World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
• 1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed.
• 1945 – In Germany, the CDU political party is founded.
• 1948 – The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.

• 1954 – The FIFA World Cup's most goal-filled match occurs in Lausanne, Switzerland, as the Austria national football team wins 7-5 against the Switzerland national football team.
• 1959 – Ingemar Johansson of Sweden becomes Boxing Heavyweight World Champion when he defeats Floyd Patterson.
• 1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
• 1960 – Former British Protectorate of Somaliland (British Somaliland) gains its independence.
• 1960 – Madagascar becomes independent from France.
• 1963 – John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" at a speech in Berlin.
• 1964 – The Beatles release the album A Hard Day's Night.
• 1966 – The Basel Canton in Switzerland allows women to vote.
• 1973 – On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons were killed at an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
• 1974 – The first retail product (a pack of chewing gum) was sold using a barcode reader.
• 1975 – Indira Gandhi establishes authoritarian rule in India.
• 1976 – The CN Tower in Toronto is officially opened.
• 1977 – The last concert of Elvis Presley takes place.
• 1978 – Air Canada Flight 221 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine.
• 1979 – Muhammad Ali retires.
• 1987 – Convention against Torture entered into force.
• 1991 – The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia and Croatia.
• 1995 – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak survives an assassination attempt in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• 1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani becomes Emir of Qatar after deposing his father, Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani in a bloodless coup.
• 1996 – Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot dead in Dublin, Ireland.
• 1997 – Bertie Ahern becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
• 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment.
• 1997 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S.), the first book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.
• 2000 – Human Genome Project: The completion of the first rough map of the human genetic code is announced.

• 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
• 2006 – East Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigns after weeks of political unrest.
• 2007 – In Zheijiang, China, the Huangzhou Bay Bridge is opened.
• 2007 – Lina Hahne, a 23-year-old medical student, is crowned Miss Sweden after the original winner was dethroned.
• 2013 – Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard loses a vote within the Australian Labor Party against previous Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who succeeds her the next day.
• 2014 – 2014 FIFA World Cup: FIFA hands out its heaviest FIFA World Cup ban to Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini two days earlier. The Uruguayan Football Association appeals the decision.
• 2015 – Islamist Terror attacks occur in France, Kuwait and Tunisia. A local businessman is decapitated in Southeast France; At least 27 people killed in a bombing at a mosque in Kuwait; A gun attack on foreign tourists in Sousse, Tunisia, kills at least 38 people.
• 2015 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that all states of the United States are to recognize same-sex marriage.
• 2016 – Chile defeats Argentina in the final of the Copa América Centenario. Argentina's Lionel Messi announces his retirement from the national team after the match.
• 2017 – Theresa May's Conservative Party agrees a deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party in order to stay in power in the United Kingdom.
• 2018 – The United States Supreme Court, in a majority decision, rules in favour of Donald Trump's travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority countries.
• 2018 – Activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeats incumbent United States Representative Joe Crowley in an upset victory in the Democratic Party primary for New York's 14th congressional district.

• 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)

• 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 – 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

• 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

• 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 – 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)

• 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)

• 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