June 6
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June 6 is the 157th day of the year (158th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 208 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births[change]
- 1436 – Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), German astronomer (d. 1472)
- 1502 – King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
- 1553 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
- 1599 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
- 1606 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
- 1622 – Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857)
- 1714 – King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
- 1755 – Nathan Hale, American writer, patriot (d. 1776)
- 1756 – John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843)
- 1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1837)
- 1810 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856)
- 1829 – Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
- 1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
- 1857 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
- 1862 – Henry John Newbolt, English writer (d. 1938)
- 1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912)
- 1872 – Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1875 – Thomas Mann, German novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1955)
- 1880 – W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician (d. 1965)
- 1890 – Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)
- 1892 – Donald Duncan, Sr., American marketer, modifier of yo-yo (d. 1971)
- 1896 – Henry Allingham, British World War I veteran, oldest man in the world at the time of his death (d. 2009)
- 1898 – Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer (d. 2001)
- 1901 – Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
- 1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978)
- 1906 – Max August Zorn, mathematician (d. 1993)
- 1907 – Bill Dickey, American baseball player, coach, manager, and scout (d. 1993)
- 1909 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born British political philosopher (d. 1997)
- 1916 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
- 1916 – Hamani Diori, first President of Niger (d. 1989)
- 1917 – Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman
- 1918 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
- 1929 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician
- 1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (Nobel Prize 1986 for scanning tunneling microscope) (d. 2013)
- 1934 – King Albert II of Belgium
- 1934 – Gilbert Cates, producer, director
- 1935 – Bobby Mitchel, American football player
- 1936 – Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops)
- 1939 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
- 1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, musician
- 1940 – Larry Lujack, American disc jockey
- 1945 – David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1947 – David Blunkett, British politician
- 1949 – Robert Englund, American actor (aka. Freddy Krueger)
- 1953 – Jack Novak, American football player
- 1954 – Harvey Fierstein, American actor
- 1954 – Cynthia Rylant, writer
- 1955 – Sandra Bernhard, American actress, comedian
- 1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
- 1956 – Bubbi Morthens, Icelandic singer, songwriter and musician
- 1960 – Gary Graham, American actor
- 1960 – Steve Vai, American musician
- 1961 – Tom Araya, Chilean musician (Slayer)
- 1963 – Wolfgang Drechsler, German social scientist
- 1967 – Max Casella, American actor
- 1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor
- 1970 – James "Munky" Shaffer, American musician (Korn guitarist)
- 1975 – Staci Keanan, American actress
- 1976 - Jonathan Nolan, British-American author, producer and director
- 1978 – Carl Barat, singer and guitarist (The Libertines)
- 1978 – Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988)
- 1983 – Gemma Bissix, English actress
- 1984 – Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer
- 1985 - Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer
- 1987 – Niklas Hjalmarsson, Swedish ice hockey player player for the Chicago Blackhawks
Deaths[change]
- 1799 – Patrick Henry, American politician (b. 1736)
- 1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
- 1861 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
- 1881 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)
- 1891 – John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
- 1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
- 1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1861)
- 1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist (b. 1862)
- 1948 – Louis Lumiere, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
- 1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
- 1968 – Robert Kennedy, American politician (b. 1925)
- 1968 – Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
- 1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892)
- 1979 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
- 1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist (b. 1903)
- 2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
- 2009 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist (b. 1916)
- 2012 - Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Japanese royal (b. 1946)
- 2013 - Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
Events[change]
- 1523 – Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, ending the Kalmar Union.
- 1644 - The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces under Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
- 1752 - one third of Moscow is destroyed by fire.
- 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte is proclaimed King of Spain.
- 1833 - Andrew Jackson becomes the first President of the United States to ride on a train.
- 1859 – Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Union forces take Memphis, Tennessee from the Confederates.
- 1882 – A tropical storm kills over 100,000 people in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
- 1889 – The entire downtown area of Seattle is destroyed by fire.
- 1912 – The Novarupta Volcano in Alaska erupts in one of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century. Because it happened in an uninhabited area, people believed that the nearby Katmai volcano had erupted.
- 1933 - The first drive-in theatre is opened in Camden, New Jersey.
- 1934 - Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Securities Act of 1933 into law.
- 1942 – World War II: In the Battle of Midway US navy dive bombers sink Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
- 1944 – World War II: The D-Day landings take place in Normandy.
- 1946 - The National Basketball Association is created.
- 1966 – Civil Rights activist James Meredith is shot in the back and legs in Mississippi. He survives the attack.
- 1968 – American politician Robert F. Kennedy dies after being shot on the previous day.
- 1971 – Soviet space programme: Soyuz 11 launches.
- 1981 – Bihar Train Disaster: A train crash kills an estimated 1,000 people.
- 1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" in Brazil is exhumed. The remains are found to be those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, who died in 1979.
- 1993 – Mongolians vote in direct Presidential elections for the first time.
- 1994 - A Tupolev Tu-154 of China Northwest Airlines, crashes shortly after take-off from Xi'an, China, killing 160 people.
- 1994 - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Colombia kills 795 people.
- 2001 – Argentina's former President Carlos Menem is arrested on charges of selling weapons to Ecuador and Croatia.
- 2002 – A near-Earth asteroid explodes over the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Libya.
- 2004 - Tamil is establishes as a classical language of India.
- 2007 – Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is stripped of an honorary degree that was awarded to him by the University of Edinburgh.
- 2012 - The 21st century's last Transit of Venus occurs.
Observances[change]
- National holiday (Sweden)
- Birthday of King Albert II of Belgium
- Queensland Day
- Teachers' Day (Bolivia)
- Engineers' Day (Argentina)
- UN Russian language Day
