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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 23rd of June 0079 | EVENT | Titus succeeds his father Vespasian as the tenth Roman Emperor. |
| 23rd of June 1180 | EVENT | First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan. |
| 23rd of June 1305 | EVENT | A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge. |
| 23rd of June 1314 | EVENT | First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins. |
| 23rd of June 1532 | EVENT | Henry VIII and Francois I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V. |
| 23rd of June 1565 | EVENT | Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Siege of Malta. |
| 23rd of June 1611 | EVENT | The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again. |
| 23rd of June 1661 | EVENT | Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza. |
| 23rd of June 1683 | EVENT | William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania. |
| 23rd of June 1713 | EVENT | The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada. |
| 23rd of June 1757 | EVENT | Battle of Plassey : 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey. |
| 23rd of June 1758 | EVENT | Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld : British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany. |
| 23rd of June 1760 | EVENT | Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut : Austria defeats Prussia. |
| 23rd of June 1780 | EVENT | American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township). |
| 23rd of June 1794 | EVENT | Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev. |
| 23rd of June 1810 | EVENT | John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company. |
| 23rd of June 1812 | EVENT | War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war. |
| 23rd of June 1812 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon I of France invades Russia. |
| 23rd of June 1860 | EVENT | The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office. |
| 23rd of June 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army. |
| 23rd of June 1868 | EVENT | Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for the Typewriter. |
| 23rd of June 1887 | EVENT | The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park. |
| 23rd of June 1894 | EVENT | The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. |
| 23rd of June 1913 | EVENT | Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran. |
| 23rd of June 1914 | EVENT | Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta. |
| 23rd of June 1917 | EVENT | In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire. |
| 23rd of June 1919 | EVENT | Estonian War of Independence: the decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia. |
| 23rd of June 1926 | EVENT | The College Board administers the first SAT exam. |
| 23rd of June 1931 | EVENT | Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane. |
| 23rd of June 1938 | EVENT | The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States. |
| 23rd of June 1940 | EVENT | World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France. |
| 23rd of June 1941 | EVENT | The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later. |
| 23rd of June 1942 | EVENT | World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris. |
| 23rd of June 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales. |
| 23rd of June 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland. |
| 23rd of June 1946 | EVENT | The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. |
| 23rd of June 1947 | EVENT | The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. |
| 23rd of June 1958 | EVENT | The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers. |
| 23rd of June 1959 | EVENT | Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career. |
| 23rd of June 1959 | EVENT | A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people. |
| 23rd of June 1961 | EVENT | Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959. |
| 23rd of June 1967 | EVENT | Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference. |
| 23rd of June 1968 | EVENT | 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium. |
| 23rd of June 1969 | EVENT | Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren. |
| 23rd of June 1972 | EVENT | Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins. |
| 23rd of June 1972 | EVENT | 45 countries leave the Sterling Area allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound. |
| 23rd of June 1973 | EVENT | A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale. |
| 23rd of June 1982 | EVENT | Chinese American Vincent Chin is beaten to death in Highland Park, Michigan, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies. |
| 23rd of June 1985 | EVENT | A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard. |
| 23rd of June 1989 | EVENT | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a law passed by the U.S. Congress banning all sexually oriented phone message services is unconstitutional. |
| 23rd of June 1991 | EVENT | Moldova declares its independence. |
| 23rd of June 1998 | EVENT | Paul Reitsma resigns his seat in the British Columbia legislature; the first elected politician in the British Commonwealth to be removed from office by legally-binding petition. |
| 23rd of June 1373 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Joan II of Naples (d. 1435) |
| 23rd of June 1433 | BIRTHDAY | Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488) |
| 23rd of June 1456 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret of Denmark, wife of James III of Scotland (d. 1486) |
| 23rd of June 1534 | BIRTHDAY | Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582) |
| 23rd of June 1596 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Baner, Swedish soldier (d. 1641) |
| 23rd of June 1612 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (d. 1660) |
| 23rd of June 1668 | BIRTHDAY | Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744) |
| 23rd of June 1683 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745) |
| 23rd of June 1703 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Marie Leszczynska, Polish-born wife of Louis XV of France (d. 1768) |
| 23rd of June 1716 | BIRTHDAY | Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d. 1789) |
| 23rd of June 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Deodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801) |
| 23rd of June 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Josephine de Beauharnais, wife of Napoleon I Bonaparte (d. 1814) |
| 23rd of June 1799 | BIRTHDAY | John Milton Bernhisel, American physician (d. 1881) |
| 23rd of June 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846) |
| 23rd of June 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Reinecke, German musician and composer (d. 1910) |
| 23rd of June 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Sandor Brody, Hungarian writer (d. 1924) |
| 23rd of June 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1979) |
| 23rd of June 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935) |
| 23rd of June 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966) |
| 23rd of June 1894 | BIRTHDAY | King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972) |
| 23rd of June 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956) |
| 23rd of June 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Mathias Wieman, German actor (d. 1969) |
| 23rd of June 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (d. 1992) |
| 23rd of June 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (d. 1997) |
| 23rd of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Dercy Goncalves, Brazilian comedienne (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | James Meade, English economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995) |
| 23rd of June 1909 | BIRTHDAY | David Lewis, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1981) |
| 23rd of June 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious figure (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of June 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987) |
| 23rd of June 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d. 2000) |
| 23rd of June 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Turing, English mathematician (d. 1954) |
| 23rd of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990) |
| 23rd of June 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Muhammad Boudiaf, Algerian political leader (d. 1992) |
| 23rd of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998) |
| 23rd of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Miriam Karlin, English actress |
| 23rd of June 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Fosse, American choreographer (d. 1987) |
| 23rd of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Cione, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003) |
| 23rd of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Donn F. Eisele, American astronaut (d. 1987) |
| 23rd of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Ferre, American politician |
| 23rd of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Costas Simitis, Greek politician |
| 23rd of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish statesman, Nobel laureate |
| 23rd of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (d. 2004) |
| 23rd of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Irvine of Lairg, Scottish Lord Chancellor of Great Britain |
| 23rd of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003) |
| 23rd of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994) |
| 23rd of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Sutcliffe, English painter and bassist (The Beatles) (d. 1962) |
| 23rd of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hunter, American lyricist and poet (The Grateful Dead) |
| 23rd of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Richard M. Roberts, American attorney |
| 23rd of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Roger McDonald, Australian writer |
| 23rd of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | James Levine, American conductor |
| 23rd of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Vint Cerf, American computer scientist |
| 23rd of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and writer |
| 23rd of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Garang, Sudanese politician (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Shackelford, American actor |
| 23rd of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Brown, Australian actor |
| 23rd of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Myles Goodwyn, Canadian guitarist and vocalist (April Wine) |
| 23rd of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Luther Kent, American blues singer |
| 23rd of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| 23rd of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author |
| 23rd of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Bray, Australian sports broadcaster |
| 23rd of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Mouton, French racecar driver |
| 23rd of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Angelo Falcon, American political scientist, Latino community advocate |
| 23rd of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Metzler, American actor |
| 23rd of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Danzig, American musician |
| 23rd of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Corbeil, Canadian politician |
| 23rd of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan, British actress and model |
| 23rd of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Maggie Greenwald, American film director and writer |
| 23rd of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Tigana, French footballer |
| 23rd of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Hill, American football player |
| 23rd of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Jackson, American music producer |
| 23rd of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Frances McDormand, American actress |
| 23rd of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Harrison, American jazz saxophonist |
| 23rd of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese arcade game programmer |
| 23rd of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist |
| 23rd of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | LaSalle Thompson, American basketball player |
| 23rd of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Shelley, American drummer (The Crucifucks, Sonic Youth) |
| 23rd of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Billy, American singer (Testament) |
| 23rd of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kari Takko, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 23rd of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Yagher, American special effects technician |
| 23rd of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer |
| 23rd of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Yun Lou, Chinese gymnast |
| 23rd of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Joss Whedon, American producer, director, and screenwriter |
| 23rd of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis) |
| 23rd of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Longley American actor |
| 23rd of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Germanou Greek lyricist, television hostess, radio producer, DJ and journalist |
| 23rd of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Chico DeBarge, American R&B singer (DeBarge) |
| 23rd of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Richie Ren, Taiwanese singer and actor |
| 23rd of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Geake, British archaeologist |
| 23rd of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Vaios Karagiannis, Greek footballer |
| 23rd of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Klebba, American actor |
| 23rd of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Brooks, American football player |
| 23rd of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Deschamps, Canadian singer (Offenbach) |
| 23rd of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Yann Tiersen, French composer |
| 23rd of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Ewanuick, Canadian actor |
| 23rd of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Selma Blair, American actress |
| 23rd of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Corning, American television anchor |
| 23rd of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Zinedine Zidane, French footballer |
| 23rd of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Marija Naumova, Latvian singer |
| 23rd of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Edgerton, Australian actor |
| 23rd of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Hendrickson, American baseball player |
| 23rd of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Dyson, American football player |
| 23rd of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mik Kersten, Canadian computer scientist |
| 23rd of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | KT Tunstall, Scottish singer and songwriter |
| 23rd of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mike James, American basketball player |
| 23rd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Wade Barrett, American soccer player |
| 23rd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Becker, American guitarist |
| 23rd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Stokley, American football player |
| 23rd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Savvas Poursaitidis, Greek-Cypriot footballer |
| 23rd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Monahan, British comedian |
| 23rd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress |
| 23rd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Vieira, French footballer |
| 23rd of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Angel Angulo, Spanish footballer |
| 23rd of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Hayden Foxe, Australian footballer |
| 23rd of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun O'Hara, American football player |
| 23rd of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Mraz, American singer and songwriter |
| 23rd of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Memphis Bleek, American rapper |
| 23rd of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Light, American football player |
| 23rd of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Leclercq, French bassist (DragonForce) |
| 23rd of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player |
| 23rd of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Becky Cloonan, American comic book artist |
| 23rd of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player |
| 23rd of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer |
| 23rd of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Rolf Wacha, German rugby player |
| 23rd of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Antony Costa, British singer and songwriter (Blue) |
| 23rd of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Berrent, American actor and performer |
| 23rd of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Brooks Laich, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Duffy, Welsh singer and songwriter |
| 23rd of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Takeshi Matsuda, Japanese swimmer |
| 23rd of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Walsh, American professional gamer |
| 23rd of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | James Thomas, Jr., American reality show contestant |
| 23rd of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Alessia Filippi, Italian swimmer |
| 23rd of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Isabella Leong, Macau-born Hong Kong singer, actress and model |
| 23rd of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast |
| 23rd of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Marielle Jaffe, American model and actress |
| 23rd of June 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Jones, British actor |
| 23rd of June 0079 | DEATH | Emperor Vespasian of Rome (Born 9) |
| 23rd of June 1018 | DEATH | Henry I, Margrave of Austria (birth year unknown) |
| 23rd of June 1222 | DEATH | Constance of Aragon, consort of Ladislaus III of Hungary and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (Born c. 1179) |
| 23rd of June 1555 | DEATH | Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (Born 1470) |
| 23rd of June 1582 | DEATH | Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (Born 1537) |
| 23rd of June 1615 | DEATH | Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (Born 1545) |
| 23rd of June 1677 | DEATH | Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Wurttemberg (Born 1647) |
| 23rd of June 1686 | DEATH | William Coventry, English statesman (Born c. 1628) |
| 23rd of June 1707 | DEATH | John Mill, English theologian (Born c. 1645) |
| 23rd of June 1733 | DEATH | Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (Born 1672) |
| 23rd of June 1770 | DEATH | Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (Born 1721) |
| 23rd of June 1775 | DEATH | Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pollnitz, German adventurer and writer (Born 1692) |
| 23rd of June 1779 | DEATH | Mikael Sehul, Ethiopian warlord (Born c. 1691) |
| 23rd of June 1806 | DEATH | Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (Born 1723) |
| 23rd of June 1811 | DEATH | Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, Portuguese poet and satirist (Born 1740) |
| 23rd of June 1832 | DEATH | James Hall, Scottish geologist (Born 1761) |
| 23rd of June 1836 | DEATH | James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian, (Born 1773) |
| 23rd of June 1856 | DEATH | Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (Born 1806) |
| 23rd of June 1891 | DEATH | Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (Born 1804) |
| 23rd of June 1893 | DEATH | Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (Born 1817) |
| 23rd of June 1926 | DEATH | Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (Born 1848) |
| 23rd of June 1949 | DEATH | Aristidis Stergiadis, Greek governor-general of Smyrna, (Born 1861) |
| 23rd of June 1956 | DEATH | Reinhold Gliere, Russian composer (Born 1875) |
| 23rd of June 1959 | DEATH | Boris Vian, French writer and musician (Born 1920) |
| 23rd of June 1969 | DEATH | Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (Born 1907) |
| 23rd of June 1970 | DEATH | Roscoe Turner, American aviator (Born 1895) |
| 23rd of June 1980 | DEATH | Clyfford Still, American painter (Born 1904) |
| 23rd of June 1980 | DEATH | Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician; son of Indira Gandhi (Born 1946) |
| 23rd of June 1980 | DEATH | Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Indian politician (Born 1894) |
| 23rd of June 1981 | DEATH | Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (Born 1907) |
| 23rd of June 1982 | DEATH | Vincent Chin, Chinese-born American murder victim (Born 1955) |
| 23rd of June 1989 | DEATH | Werner Best, German jurist and Nazi party leader (Born 1903) |
| 23rd of June 1992 | DEATH | Eric Andolsek, American football player (Born 1966) |
| 23rd of June 1995 | DEATH | Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (Born 1914) |
| 23rd of June 1995 | DEATH | Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (Born 1918) |
| 23rd of June 1996 | DEATH | Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (Born 1919) |
| 23rd of June 1997 | DEATH | Betty Shabazz, American educator and widow of Malcolm X (Born 1936) |
| 23rd of June 1998 | DEATH | Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (Born 1911) |
| 23rd of June 1999 | DEATH | Buster Merryfield, British actor (Born 1920) |
| 23rd of June 2000 | DEATH | Peter Dubovsky, Slovak footballer (Born 1972) |
| 23rd of June 2000 | DEATH | Peter L. Pond, American activist and philanthropist (Born 1933) |
| 23rd of June 2001 | DEATH | Yvonne Dionne, Canadian quintuplet (Born 1934) |
| 23rd of June 2002 | DEATH | Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (Born 1975) |
| 23rd of June 2005 | DEATH | Shana Alexander, American journalist (Born 1926) |
| 23rd of June 2005 | DEATH | Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (Born 1925) |
| 23rd of June 2006 | DEATH | Aaron Spelling, American television producer (Born 1923) |
| 23rd of June 2006 | DEATH | Luke Graham, American wrestler (Born 1940) |
| 23rd of June 2007 | DEATH | Rod Beck, American baseball player (Born 1968) |
| 23rd of June 2008 | DEATH | Marian Glinka, Polish actor (Born 1943) |
| 23rd of June 2008 | DEATH | Arthur Chung, Guyanan politician (Born 1918) |
| 23rd of June 2008 | DEATH | Judith Holzmeister, Austrian actress (Born 1920) |
| 23rd of June 2008 | DEATH | Claudio Capone, Italian-born Scottish voice actor (Born 1952) |
| 23rd of June 2009 | DEATH | John Callaway, American journalist (Born 1936) |
| 23rd of June 2009 | DEATH | Hanne Hiob, German actress (Born 1923) |
| 23rd of June 2009 | DEATH | Ed McMahon, American television personality (Born 1923) |
| 23rd of June 2009 | DEATH | Jerri Nielsen, American physician (Born 1952) |
| 23rd of June 2009 | DEATH | Manuel Saval, Mexican actor (Born 1956) |