On This Day
Sunday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
June 30 1968
Born on This Day
Alex Dupont🇫🇷
deceasedfootball player · 1954–2020
Days lived
24,139

Alois Musil
deceasedCzech theologian, orientalist and explorer (1868–1944) · 1868–1944
Days lived
27,679
Amy Alsop🇨🇦
athlete · b. 1978

Barbora Špotáková🇨🇿
Czech javelin thrower · b. 1981

Chan Ho Park🇰🇷
film director · b. 1973
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken🇳🇱
British+Dutch businesswoman, heiress (Heineken International) and billionaire · b. 1954
Days alive
5,114

Cheryl
singer · b. 1983
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Christa Tordy🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1904–1945
Days lived
14,912
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Christian Wasserfallen🇨🇭
Swiss politician · b. 1981
Czesław Miłosz🇺🇸
deceasedPolish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004) · 1911–2004
Days lived
34,014

Dag Fornæss🇳🇴
football player · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305

Daniel Kablan Duncan
Ivorian politician · b. 1943
Days alive
9,132
David Meara
Archdeacon of London · b. 1947
Days alive
7,671
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Dieter Kottysch🇩🇪
deceasedGerman boxer (1943-2017) · 1943–2017
Days lived
26,947
Eddie Hopson🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican boxer · 1971–2022
Days lived
18,618
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Frank Rost🇩🇪
German association football player · b. 1973

František Tomášek
deceasedCzech cardinal, professor and theologist (1899-1992) · 1899–1992
Days lived
34,003

Franz Halder🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1884–1972
Days lived
32,052

Georges Duhamel🇫🇷
deceasedwriter · 1884–1966
Days lived
29,871
Hans Dama🇦🇹
Romanian-born germanist, romanist, pedagogue, German language prosaist, poet, essayist, and editor · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766

Henk Bouwman🇳🇱
deceasedfield hockey player (1926-1995) · 1926–1995
Days lived
25,382
Hermann Hunger🇦🇹
Austrian Assyriologist · b. 1942
Days alive
9,497
Ilram Choi
Actor · b. 1974

James Kwesi Appiah🇬🇭
football player · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Juli Zeh🇩🇪
YouTube personality · b. 1974
Karoliina Lundahl🇫🇮
Finnish weightlifter · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Martha Lucía Ramírez Cardona🇨🇴
Colombian skater · b. 1990

Martin Busse🇩🇪
German footballer · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Michael von Biel🇩🇪
German composer, cellist, and graphic artist, born 1937 · b. 1937
Days alive
11,323

Mike Tyson
Notable Trials · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Mirko Novosel🇭🇷
deceasedbasketball player and coach (1938–2023) · 1938–2023
Days lived
31,066
Nathaniel Peffer🇺🇸
deceasedjournalist · 1890–1964
Days lived
26,949
Oswald Pohl🇩🇪
deceasedGerman SS functionary, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, convicted war criminal (1892-1951) · 1892–1951
Days lived
21,525
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Paul Friedrich Wolfskehl🇩🇪
deceasedGerman physician and mathematician · 1856–1906
Days lived
18,336

Peter Alexander🇦🇹
deceasedsinger · 1926–2011
Days lived
30,908
Peter Magyar🇺🇸
Architect · b. 1937
Days alive
11,323
Ramon Menezes🇧🇷
Brazilian association football player · b. 1972

Rudolf Rittner
deceasedactor · 1869–1943
Days lived
26,881
Sergei Izotov
deceasedSoviet scientist and jet engines designer (1917—1983) · 1917–1983
Days lived
24,051
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Shirley Fry🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican tennis and badminton player (1927–2021) · 1927–2021
Days lived
34,347
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Suneil Anand🇮🇳
deceasedActor · 1956–2026
Days lived
25,595

Sven Lidman🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish writer (1882–1960) · 1882–1960
Days lived
28,352

Tony Fernández🇩🇴
deceasedfilm director · 1962–2020
Days lived
21,049

Walter Ulbricht🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1893–1973
Days lived
29,251

Yngwie Malmsteen🇸🇪
Swedish guitarist · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
Died on This Day

Arno Stern🇫🇷
deceasedartist · 1924–2024
Days lived
36,532

Chet Atkins🇺🇸
deceasedrapper · 1924–2001
Days lived
28,134

Edmund Heines🇩🇪
deceasedSA-Obergruppenführer (1897-1934) · 1897–1934
Days lived
13,492

Elmer Layden🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player, coach, executive (1903-1973) · 1903–1973
Days lived
25,625

Frank Cashen🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball executive · 1925–2014
Days lived
32,432
Fritz Gerlich🇩🇪
deceasedjournalist · 1883–1934
Days lived
18,762
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Gustav Ritter von Kahr🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1862-1934) · 1862–1934
Days lived
26,145

Herbert Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman tattoo artist and photographer (1919–2010) · 1919–2010
Days lived
33,066
Jakob Tiedtke🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1875–1960
Days lived
31,053
Keith Seaman🇦🇺
deceasedGovernor of South Australia (1977-82) · 1920–2013
Days lived
33,987

Kurt von Schleicher🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1882–1934
Days lived
19,076

Leonard B. Jordan🇺🇸
deceasedpolitician · 1899–1983
Days lived
30,726

Marta Husemann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress and screenwriter (1913–1960) · 1913–1960
Days lived
17,116

Robert Gernhardt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman artist (1937-2006) · 1937–2006
Days lived
25,036

Shukri al-Quwatli🇸🇾
deceasedpolitician · 1891–1967
Days lived
27,645

Sybille Binder🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1895–1962
Days lived
24,647

Victor Willis🇺🇸
deceasedSinger · 1951–2026
Days lived
27,393

Vsevolod Pudovkin
deceasedSoviet film director, screenwriter and actor (1893–1953) · 1893–1953
Days lived
22,036
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,183

Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688

Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997

Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427

Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012

Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718

Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791

Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190

E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003

Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163

Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404

Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677

Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215

Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067

Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413

Rudolf Pannwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and philosopher (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,076
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,854
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
48,027
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,724
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,297
HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,739
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,705
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,339
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,783
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,435
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,234
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,748
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,766
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,435
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,787
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,330
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,240
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,217
Already Released
Films already out by this date.