1061 – Floris I, count of Holland, dies
1714 – Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director, dies at 56
1748 – Pieter van Dort, Amsterdam plunderer, hanged
1776 – Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged
1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria is assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, led to declarations of war in WWI
1981 – Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed
1992 – John Piper, British writer (US Churches in WWI) and official war painter, dies at 88
1994 – Fredericka Carolyn Washington, actress (Black and Tan), dies at 90
2001 – Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
2009 – Billy Mays, American television pitchman (b. 1958)