June 7

June 7 is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 207 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

Events

• 421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding was celebrated at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
• 1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
• 1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.
• 1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
• 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
• 1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
• 1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
• 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
• 1788 – French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
• 1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
• 1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
• 1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
• 1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
• 1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
• 1866 – One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they looted and plundered around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
• 1880 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
• 1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
• 1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
• 1893 – Mohandas Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience.
• 1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
• 1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
• 1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
• 1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
• 1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
• 1919 – Sette Giugno: Four people are killed in a riot in Malta.
• 1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
• 1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray was elected its first president.
• 1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
• 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
• 1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leaves Tromsø and goes into exile in London. They return exactly five years later
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
• 1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
• 1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
• 1948 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
• 1955 – Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
• 1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
• 1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
• 1971 – The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
• 1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.
• 1977 – Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
• 1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
• 1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
• 1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
• 1990 – Universal Studios Florida opens in Orlando, Florida.
• 1991 – Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
• 1995 – The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
• 2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
• 2013 – A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people and injuring more than 34 others.
• 2013 – A gunman opens fire at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, after setting a house on fire nearby, killing six people, including the suspect.
• 2014 – At least 37 people are killed in an attack in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's South Kivu province.

Births

• 156 BC – Emperor Wu of Han (d. 87 BC)
• 939 – Emperor Taizong of Song (d. 997)
• 1003 – Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia (d. 1048)
• 1422 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian son of Guidantonio da Montefeltro (d. 1482)
• 1502 – John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
• 1529 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (d. 1615)
• 1687 – Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian actor and singer (d. 1734)
• 1702 – Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1761)
• 1757 – Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
• 1761 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
• 1770 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
• 1778 – Beau Brummell, English cricketer and fashion designer (d. 1840)
• 1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician (d. 1870)
• 1831 – Amelia Edwards, English journalist and author (d. 1892)
• 1837 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (d. 1903)
• 1840 – Carlota of Mexico (d. 1927)
• 1845 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1930)
• 1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (d. 1903)
• 1851 – Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)
• 1862 – Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
• 1863 – Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager (d. 1952)
• 1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect (d. 1928)
• 1877 – Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer (d. 1960)
• 1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer (d. 1933)
• 1879 – Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1963)
• 1880 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian-Danish actor (d. 1956)
• 1884 – Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect.
• 1883 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1948)
• 1886 – Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (d. 1972)
• 1888 – Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator (d. 1958)
• 1892 – Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
• 1893 – Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (d. 1938)
• 1894 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1990)
• 1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1958)
• 1897 – George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1970)
• 1899 – Elizabeth Bowen, Irish-English author and critic (d. 1973)
• 1900 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra) (d. 1963)
• 1902 – Georges Van Parys, French composer (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic (d. 2000)
• 1905 – James J. Braddock, American lieutenant and boxer (d. 1974)
• 1907 – Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (d. 2002)
• 1909 – Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (d. 1974)
• 1909 – Peter W. Rodino, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 2005)
• 1909 – Jessica Tandy, English-American actress and singer (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (d. 2014)
• 1910 – Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach (d. 1989)
• 1910 – Bradford Washburn, American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (d. 2007)
• 1910 – Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991)
• 1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Georges Marchais, French mechanic and politician (d. 1997)
• 1921 – Tal Farlow, American guitarist (d. 1998)
• 1922 – Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2000)
• 1925 – John Biddle, American sailor and cinematographer (d. 2008)
• 1926 – Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1927 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian race car driver (d. 1953)
• 1927 – Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 1995)
• 1928 – James Ivory, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1928 – Reg Park, English-South African bodybuilder and actor (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Randolph Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)
• 1929 – John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada
• 1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress and author
• 1932 – Tina Brooks, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1974)
• 1932 – Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor and director
• 1938 – Ian St John, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1939 – Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian cellist, conductor and educator (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor
• 1940 – Evi Nemeth, American author and engineer (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Ronald Pickup, English actor
• 1942 – Charles R. Boutin, American lawyer and politician
• 1943 – Nikki Giovanni, American author, poet, and educator
• 1943 – Ken Osmond, Actor, police officer
• 1944 – Annette Lu, Taiwanese lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of the Republic of China
• 1944 – Erling Wicklund, Swedish-Norwegian trombonist, composer, and journalist
• 1945 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian lawyer and politician, 26th Chancellor of Austria
• 1946 – Jenny Jones, Palestinian-Canadian singer, drummer, and talk show host
• 1947 – Don Money, American baseball player and coach
• 1947 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
• 1947 – Edward C. Prado, American federal judge
• 1952 – Mia Benson, Swedish screenwriter
• 1948 – Jim Walton, American businessman
• 1949 – Christopher W. Morris, Canadian philosopher and academic
• 1950 – Gary Graham, American actor and producer
• 1950 – Howard Finkel, American ring announcer
• 1951 – Terry O'Reilly, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1952 – Royce Campbell, American guitarist, composer, and producer
• 1952 – Liam Neeson, Irish American actor
• 1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1953 – Colleen Camp, American actress
• 1953 – Johnny Clegg, English-South African singer-songwriter and guitarist (Juluka and Savuka)
• 1954 – Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet
• 1955 – William Forsythe, American actor and producer
• 1955 – Jon Balke, Norwegian pianist and orchestra leader (Magnetic North Orchestra)
• 1955 – Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
• 1956 – L.A. Reid, American songwriter and producer, co-founded LaFace Records
• 1957 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer-songwriter and producer
• 1957 – Paddy McAloon, English singer-songwriter (Prefab Sprout)
• 1958 – Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (d. 2016)
• 1958 – Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai politician and diplomat
• 1960 – Bill Prady, American screenwriter and producer
• 1961 – Dave Catching, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Earthlings? and Mondo Generator)
• 1962 – Michael Cartellone, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Damn Yankees)
• 1962 – Simon Day, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1962 – Thierry Hazard, French singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese race car driver
• 1963 – Roberto Alagna, French-Italian tenor and actor
• 1963 – Ailsa McKay, Scottish economist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1964 – Gia Carides, Australian actress
• 1964 – Graeme Labrooy, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1964 – Geir Lippestad, Norwegian lawyer and activist
• 1965 – Mick Foley, American wrestler, actor, and author
• 1965 – Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
• 1965 – Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector
• 1965 – Billy Reeves, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Theaudience)
• 1966 – Eric Kretz, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Stone Temple Pilots and Talk Show)
• 1966 – Stéphane Richer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Dave Navarro, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Deconstruction, and The Panic Channel)
• 1968 – Macha Grenon, Canadian actress
• 1969 – Alina Astafei, Romanian-German high jumper
• 1969 – Adam Buxton, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
• 1970 – Helen Baxendale, English actress
• 1970 – Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Mike Modano, American ice hockey player
• 1970 – Cha Seung-won, South Korean model and actor
• 1971 – Terrell Buckley, American football player and coach
• 1971 – Alex Mooney, American lawyer and politician
• 1974 – Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
• 1974 – Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host
• 1975 – Shane Bond, New Zealand cricketer and coach
• 1975 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player
• 1975 – Inés Rivero, Argentinian model
• 1976 – Necro, American rapper, producer, and director (Secret Society, and The Godfathers)
• 1976 – Mirsad Türkcan, Turkish basketball player
• 1977 – Marcin Baszczyński, Polish footballer
• 1977 – Preston Campbell, Australian rugby league player
• 1978 – Tony An, South Korean singer (H.O.T and jtL)
• 1978 – Mini Andén, Swedish-American model, actress, and producer
• 1978 – Adrienne Frantz, American actress and singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Donaldo Méndez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1979 – Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer
• 1979 – Anna Torv, Australian actress
• 1980 – Ed Moses, American swimmer
• 1981 – Stephen Bywater, English footballer
• 1981 – Tyler Johnson, American baseball player
• 1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
• 1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
• 1981 – Larisa Oleynik, American actress
• 1982 – Kurt Gidley, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 – Germán Lux, Argentinian footballer
• 1982 – Virgil Vasquez, American baseball player
• 1983 – Ryan Bader, American mixed martial artist
• 1983 – Milan Jurčina, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1983 – Mark Lowe, American baseball player
• 1983 – Piotr Małachowski, Polish discus thrower
• 1983 – Pierre Pierce, American basketball player
• 1984 – Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer-songwriter (Amoral)
• 1985 – Arkadiusz Piech, Polish footballer
• 1985 – Shannon Shorr, American professional poker player
• 1985 – Charlie Simpson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Busted and Fightstar)
• 1985 – Richard Thompson, Trinidadian sprinter
• 1985 – Simon Whaley, English footballer
• 1986 – Keegan Bradley, American golfer
• 1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor
• 1988 – Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Ashley Melnick, American model, Miss Texas 2010
• 1989 – Mitch Robinson, Australian footballer
• 1989 – Matt Smith, English footballer
• 1990 – Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper
• 1990 – Allison Schmitt, American swimmer
• 1990 – Fetty Wap, American rapper
• 1991 – Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress
• 1991 – Gary Rohan, Australian footballer
• 1992 – Sara Niemietz, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1992 – Mathias Gehrt, Danish professional footballer
• 1992 – Alípio, Brazilian footballer
• 1993 – Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (T-ara)
• 1993 – George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
• 1995 – Macky Bagnack, Cameroonian footballer
• 1998 – Graham Newberry, American-English figure skater

Deaths

• 555 – Pope Vigilius
• 929 – Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (b. 877)
• 1329 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (b. 1274)
• 1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
• 1394 – Anne of Bohemia (b. 1367)
• 1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
• 1711 – Henry Dodwell, Irish scholar and theologian (b. 1641)
• 1779 – William Warburton, English bishop and critic (b. 1698)
• 1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher (b. 1765)
• 1821 – Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebel leader (b. 1780)
• 1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1787)
• 1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
• 1840 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet (b. 1770)
• 1853 – Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (b. 1787)
• 1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
• 1859 – David Cox, English painter (b. 1783)
• 1861 – Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (b. 1777)
• 1863 – Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (b. 1790)
• 1866 – Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (b. 1780)
• 1879 – William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (b. 1836)
• 1896 – Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
• 1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
• 1915 – Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (b. 1822)
• 1916 – Émile Faguet, French author and critic (b. 1847)
• 1927 – Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (b. 1905)
• 1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
• 1931 – Viktor Schwanneke, German actor and director (b. 1880)
• 1933 – Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian lawyer, judge, and poet (b. 1875)
• 1936 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
• 1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
• 1942 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer (b. 1903)
• 1945 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher and academic (b. 1870)
• 1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist (b. 1912)
• 1963 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress and singer (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 1966 – Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
• 1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)
• 1967 – Dorothy Parker, American author, poet, and critic (b. 1893)
• 1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
• 1970 – E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1879)
• 1978 – Charles Moran, American race car driver (b. 1906)
• 1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1979 – Asa Earl Carter, American Ku Klux Klan leader (b. 1925)
• 1980 – Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (b. 1883)
• 1980 – Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (b. 1913)
• 1980 – Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (b. 1891)
• 1985 – Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1940)
• 1988 – Martin Sommer, German SS officer (b. 1915)
• 1989 – Chico Landi, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1907)
• 1989 – William McLean Hamilton, Canadian politician, Postmaster General of Canada (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer 2002 (b. 1964)
• 1995 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (b. 1918)
• 1995 – Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat, High Commission of Canada to the United Kingdom (b. 1906)
• 1996 – Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
• 2001 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Carole Fredericks, American singer and actress (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
• 2001 – Betty Neels, English nurse and author (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Wayne Cody, American sportscaster (b. 1936)
• 2002 – Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress and composer (b. 1915)
• 2002 – B. D. Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Lilian, Princess of Réthy (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
• 2003 – Selahattin Ülkümen, Turkish diplomat (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist (b. 1966)
• 2006 – John Tenta, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1963)
• 2008 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor and producer (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Jim McKay, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Dino Risi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Hugh Hopper, English bass player and songwriter (The Wilde Flowers and Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
• 2009 – Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Stuart Cable, Welsh drummer (Stereophonics) (b. 1970)
• 2010 – Omar Rayo, Colombian painter and sculptor (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Adriana Xenides, Argentinian-Australian television host (b. 1956)
• 2011 – Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
• 2011 – Nataraja Ramakrishna, Indonesian-Indian dancer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – John T. Cunningham, American journalist and historian (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Cotton Owens, American race car driver (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Lil Phat, American rapper (b. 1992)
• 2012 – J. Michael Riva, American production designer and art director (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Phillip V. Tobias, South African palaeontologist and academic (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Bob Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fleetwood Mac and Paris) (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Lesley Cantwell, New Zealand race walker (b. 1987)
• 2013 – Charlie Coles, American basketball player and coach (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (b. 1960)
• 2013 – Mark Starr, English-American wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2014 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1978)
• 2014 – Dora Akunyili, Nigerian academic and politician (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Rafael A. Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast and academic (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Epainette Mbeki, South African activist (b. 1916)
• 2014 – James McNair, American comedian (b. 1952)
• 2015 – Harold LeDoux, American cartoonist (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Sean Pappas, South African golfer and coach (b. 1966)
• 2015 – Sheikh Razzak Ali, Bangladeshi journalist and politician (b. 1928)
• 2016 – Amber Gurung, Nepalese composer, singer, and lyricist (b. 1938)

Holidays and observances

• Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
• Birthday of Prince Joachim (Denmark)
• Christian feast day:
  • Colmán of Dromore
  • Paul I of Constantinople
  • Robert of Newminster
  • Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)
  • June 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church)
  • Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA))
• Battle of Arica Day (Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile)
• Flag Day (Peru)
• Journalist Day (Argentina)
• Ludi Piscatorii (Roman Empire)
• Sette Giugno (Malta)
• The first day of the Vestalia (Roman Empire)
• Union Dissolution Day (Norway)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada