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June 6 is the 157th day of the year (158th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 208 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 1508 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops
• 1513 – Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
• 1523 – Gustav Vasa, the Swedish regent, is elected king of Sweden, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union. This is the Swedish national day.
• 1586 – Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
• 1644 – The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
• 1654 – Queen Christina abdicates the Swedish throne and is succeeded by her cousin Charles X Gustav. She abdicated because she wanted to become a Catholic (which is forbidden in the strictly Protestant Sweden) and did not want to marry to produce an heir to the throne.
• 1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha empire, is crowned.
• 1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
• 1752 – A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
• 1762 – British forces begin a siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.
• 1808 – Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, is crowned King of Spain.
• 1809 – Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of enlightened absolutism. At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.
• 1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force two times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
• 1822 – Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.
• 1832 – The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard.
• 1833 – The U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train.
• 1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
• 1857 – Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden–Norway.
• 1859 – Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
• 1882 – More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
• 1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
• 1889 – The Great Seattle fire destroys all of downtown Seattle, Washington.
• 1892 – Chicago 'L' (commuter rail system) begins operation
• 1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
• 1909 – French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
• 1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
• 1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.
• 1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
• 1921 – Southwark Bridge in London is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
• 1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1⁄4¢/L) sold.
• 1933 – The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
• 1934 – New Deal: the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
• 1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.
• 1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
• 1944 – World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
• 1946 – The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven teams.
• 1964 – Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.
• 1968 – Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.
• 1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.
• 1971 – A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
• 1974 – A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
• 1981 – Bihar train disaster: a passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual death toll is closer to 1,000.
• 1982 – The 1982 Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
• 1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is released.
• 1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the remains exumed are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
• 1993 – Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
• 2002 – Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
• 2004 – Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
• 2005 – In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.
• 2008 – The Comcast Center officially opens, making it the tallest building in Philadelphia.

Births

• 1236 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese scholar and general (d. 1283)
• 1296 – Władysław of Legnica (d. 1352)
• 1436 – Regiomontanus, German mathematician, astronomer, and bishop (d. 1476)
• 1502 – John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
• 1519 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603)
• 1542 – Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (d. 1591)
• 1576 – Giovanni Diodati, Swiss clergyman (d. 1649)
• 1580 – Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667)
• 1599 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
• 1606 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
• 1622 – Claude-Jean Allouez, French missionary and explorer (d. 1689)
• 1661 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1756)
• 1699 – Johann Georg Estor, German theorist and historian (d. 1773)
• 1714 – Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
• 1735 – Anton Schweitzer, German composer (d. 1787)
• 1755 – Nathan Hale, American writer and soldier (d. 1776)
• 1756 – John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843)
• 1772 – Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (d. 1807)
• 1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1837)
• 1807 – Thieu Tri, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1847)
• 1810 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German scholar (d. 1856)
• 1829 – Honinbo Shusaku, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
• 1841 – Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (d. 1910)
• 1844 – Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905)
• 1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
• 1857 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
• 1862 – Henry John Newbolt, English author (d. 1938)
• 1867 – David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (d. 1931)
• 1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, British navy officer and explorer (d. 1912)
• 1872 – Alexandra of Hesse (d. 1918)
• 1875 – Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1878 – Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French attorney (d. 1956)
• 1890 – Ted Lewis, American singer, musician, and bandleader (d. 1971)
• 1891 – Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Karnatakaian poet and playwright (d. 1986)
• 1892 – Donald F. Duncan, Sr., American toy maker and businessman, founder of the Duncan Toys Company (d. 1971)
• 1896 – Henry Allingham, British soldier and super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1896 – Italo Balbo, Italian political leader and marshal (d. 1940)
• 1898 – Ninette de Valois, Irish-English dancer, choreographer, and director (d. 2001)
• 1898 – Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987)
• 1900 – Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957)
• 1901 – Jan Struther, English writer (d. 1953)
• 1901 – Soekarno, Indonesian politician, 1st President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
• 1902 – Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1947)
• 1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Russian-Armenian composer (d. 1978)
• 1906 – Max August Zorn, German mathematician (d. 1993)
• 1907 – Bill Dickey, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1909 – Isaiah Berlin, British political philosopher and historian (d. 1997)
• 1913 – Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
• 1914 – H. Adams Carter, American mountaineer and educator (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Vincent Persichetti, American composer and pianist (d. 1987)
• 1916 – Hamani Diori, Nigerien politician, 1st President of Niger (d. 1989)
• 1917 – Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, founder of the Tracinda Corporation
• 1918 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, British politician, 6th Secretary General of NATO
• 1923 – V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986)
• 1923 – Jean Pouliot, Canadian broadcasting pioneer (d. 2004)
• 1924 – John Ambler, English businessman (d. 2008)
• 1925 – Maxine Kumin, American author
• 1925 – Hideji Ōtaki, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (d. 2009)
• 1926 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
• 1929 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Anne Claire Poirier, Canadian film producer, director and screenwriter
• 1932 – David Scott, American astronaut
• 1932 – Billie Whitelaw, English actress
• 1933 – Eli Broad, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Albert II of Belgium
• 1934 – Roy Innis, American civil rights activist
• 1936 – Levi Stubbs, American singer and actor (The Four Tops) (d. 2008)
• 1936 – A. Venkatesh Naik, Indian politician
• 1938 – Prince Luiz of Orléans-Braganza
• 1939 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer and pianist
• 1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, American singer-songwriter
• 1939 – Marian Wright Edelman, American activist, founder of the Children's Defense Fund
• 1939 – Eddie Giacomin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1939 – Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (d. 2006)
• 1940 – Larry Lujack, American disc jockey
• 1940 – Willie John McBride, Irish rugby player
• 1941 – Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-American journalist (d. 2012)
• 1943 – José de Jesús Gudiño Pelayo, Mexican jurist
• 1943 – Ken Hatfield, American football player and coach
• 1943 – Jean-Claude Lord, Canadian film director and screenwriter
• 1943 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• 1944 – Monty Alexander, Jamaican pianist (Clue J & His Blues Blasters)
• 1944 – Edgar Froese, German musician and songwriter (Tangerine Dream)
• 1944 – David Penhaligon, British politician (d. 1986)
• 1944 – Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 – Tommie Smith, American athlete
• 1945 – David E. Bonior, American politician
• 1945 – David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1945 – Arthur Shawcross, American serial killer (d. 2008)
• 1946 – Tony Levin, American singer-songwriter and bassist (King Crimson, Liquid Tension Experiment, and Bruford Levin Upper Extremities)
• 1947 – David Blunkett, British politician
• 1947 – Robert Englund, American actor
• 1947 – Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
• 1948 – Richard Sinclair, English singer and musician (Caravan, The Wilde Flowers, Camel, and Hatfield and the North)
• 1948 – Nada Obrić, Bosnian Serb singer
• 1949 – Ioannis Matzourakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1949 – Holly Near, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1950 – Chantal Akerman, Belgian director
• 1950 – John Wardley, British theme park innovator
• 1951 – Marietta Giannakou, Greek politician
• 1951 – Noritake Takahara, Japanese race car driver
• 1951 – Dwight Twilley, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
• 1952 – Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese singer, drummer, producer, and actor (Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sadistic Mika Band, and Sketch Show)
• 1952 – Harvey Fierstein, American actor
• 1952 – Jean Hamel, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1953 – Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greek politician
• 1953 – June Yamagishi, Japanese-American guitarist (Papa Grows Funk and The Wild Magnolias)
• 1954 – Françoise Blanchard, French actress (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Cynthia Rylant, American author
• 1954 – Władysław Żmuda, Polish footballer
• 1955 – Sandra Bernhard, American actress and singer
• 1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
• 1956 – Bubbi Morthens, Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician (Utangarðsmenn and Egó)
• 1957 – Fred Arbinger, German footballer
• 1957 – Mike Gatting, English cricketer
• 1957 – Christian Rach, German chef
• 1957 – Oliver Mack, American basketball player
• 1958 – Danny Webb, English actor
• 1959 – Jimmy Jam, American musician, songwriter, and producer (The Time)
• 1959 – Josie Lawrence, English comedian and actress
• 1959 – Amanda Pays, English actress
• 1959 – Colin Quinn, American comedian and writer
• 1959 – David Schultz, American wrestler (d. 1996)
• 1959 – Georgios Voulgarakis, Greek politician
• 1960 – Lola Forner, Spanish actress
• 1960 – Jozef Pribilinec, Slovak athlete
• 1960 – Steve Vai, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Alcatrazz)
• 1961 – Tom Araya, Chilean-American singer-songwriter and bassist (Slayer)
• 1961 – Bill Bates, American football player
• 1961 – Nir Brand, Israeli conductor and composer
• 1963 – Eric Cantor, American politician
• 1963 – Bernard Drainville, Canadian journalist, television host and politician
• 1963 – Wolfgang Drechsler, German scientist
• 1963 – Jason Isaacs, English actor
• 1964 – Jay Bentley, American singer and bassist (Bad Religion)
• 1964 – Allison Fonte, American actress and pianist
• 1965 – Cam Neely, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
• 1966 – Sean Yseult, American musician (White Zombie and The Cramps)
• 1967 – Max Casella, American actor
• 1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor
• 1968 – François Avard, Canadian writer and scenarist
• 1968 – Alan Licht, American guitarist, composer, and journalist
• 1969 – Erik Prince, American businessman, co-founded Academi
• 1970 – Eugeni Berzin, Russian cyclist
• 1970 – Sarah Dessen, American author
• 1970 – Albert Ferrer, Spanish footballer
• 1970 – Anthony Norris, American wrestler
• 1970 – James Shaffer, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Korn, Fear and the Nervous System, and L.A.P.D.)
• 1972 – Natalie Morales, American journalist
• 1972 – Cristina Scabbia, Italian singer-songwriter (Lacuna Coil)
• 1973 – Patrick Rothfuss, American fantasy author
• 1973 – Kat Swift, American politician
• 1974 – Uncle Kracker, American singer-songwriter
• 1974 – Danny Strong, American actor
• 1974 – Sonya Walger, English actress
• 1975 – Cheer Chen, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and musician
• 1975 – Nina Kaczorowski, American actress
• 1975 – Staci Keanan, American actress
• 1975 – Niklas Sundström, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1976 – Akido, Canadian musician and composer
• 1976 – Z-Ro, American rapper and producer (Screwed Up Click and ABN)
• 1976 – Emilie-Claire Barlow, Canadian singer and actress
• 1976 – Jonathan Nolan, English-American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1976 – Geoff Rowley, English skateboarder
• 1976 – Vlado Georgiev, Serbian singer-songwriter and composer
• 1977 – David Connolly, Irish footballer
• 1977 – Bryn Williams, Welsh chef
• 1978 – Carl Barât, English singer, guitarist, actor, and author (The Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things, and The Chavs)
• 1978 – Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1978 – Joy Enriquez, American singer and actress
• 1978 – Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
• 1978 – Andrew Reynolds, American skateboarder
• 1980 – Matt Belisle, American baseball player
• 1980 – Peter Mosely, American bass player (Yellowcard and Inspection 12)
• 1981 – Philip McGinley, English actor
• 1981 – Johnny Pacar, American actor
• 1983 – Gemma Bissix, English actress
• 1983 – Dale Cregan, English murderer
• 1983 – Gianna Michaels, American porn actress
• 1983 – Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer
• 1983 – Joe Rokocoko, Fijian rugby player
• 1984 – Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer
• 1984 – Shannon Stewart, American model
• 1984 – Jason Trusnik, American football player
• 1985 – Chris Henry, American football player
• 1985 – Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer
• 1985 – Drew McIntyre, Scottish wrestler
• 1986 – Justin Allgaier, American race car driver
• 1986 – Bhavana, Indian actress
• 1986 – Leslie Carter, American singer (d. 2012)
• 1986 – Kim Hyun-joong, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (SS501)
• 1987 – Kyle Falconer, Scottish singer and musician (The View)
• 1987 – Daniel Logan, New Zealand actor
• 1987 – Rubin Okotie, Austrian footballer
• 1988 – Maria Alyokhina, Russian singer and activist (Pussy Riot)
• 1988 – Israel Dagg, New Zealand rugby player
• 1988 – Gideon Glick, American actor
• 1989 – Monice, Bosnian-Austrian singer and author
• 1989 – Paula Brancati, Canadian actress
• 1990 – Vid Belec, Slovenian footballer
• 1990 – Zach Booher, American singer-songwriter and musician (While We're Up) (d. 2012)
• 1990 – Ryan Higa, a Japanese American YouTube celebrity, actor, comedian, and producer.
• 1990 – Mike G, American rapper (OFWGKTA)
• 1990 – Gavin Hoyte, English footballer
• 1990 – Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
• 1991 – Son Dong-woon, Korean singer and dancer (Beast)
• 1992 – Hyuna, Korean singer, dancer, and model (4minute and Wonder Girls)
• 1992 – Megumi Murakami, Japanese singer and actress (Cute and ZYX)
• 1997 – Josh Nicholl, English footballer and genius xD

Deaths

• 1134 – Norbert of Xanten, Holy Roman priest, saint, and founder of the Premonstratensian order of Canons Regular (b. 1060)
• 1393 – Emperor Go-En'yū of Japan (b. 1359)
• 1480 – Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect (b. 1412)
• 1548 – João de Castro, Portuguese noble and explorer (b. 1500)
• 1563 – Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)
• 1583 – Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)
• 1730 – Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, French marshal (b. 1646)
• 1740 – Alexander Spotswood, English-American lieutenant and politician, Governor of Virginia (b. 1676)
• 1784 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (b. 1741)
• 1799 – Patrick Henry, American attorney, planter, and politician, Governor of Virginia (b. 1736)
• 1813 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (b. 1739)
• 1832 – Jeremy Bentham, British philosopher (b. 1748)
• 1840 – Marcellin Champagnat, French priest and saint, founder of the Marist Brothers (b. 1789)
• 1843 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
• 1861 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
• 1862 – Turner Ashby, American confederate commander (b. 1828)
• 1865 – William Quantrill, American confederate general (b. 1837)
• 1878 – Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor, inventor of the stirling engine (b. 1790)
• 1881 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)
• 1891 – John A. Macdonald, Canadian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
• 1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
• 1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1860)
• 1924 – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish shipbuilder and businessman (b. 1847)
• 1934 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
• 1935 – Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British army officer, 12th Governor-General of Canada (b. 1862)
• 1941 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and businessman, founder of Chevrolet and Frontenac Motor Corporation (b. 1878)
• 1943 – Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Greek communist (b. 1900)
• 1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1947 – James Agate, English author and critic (b. 1877)
• 1948 – Louis Lumière, French director, writer, and producer (b. 1864)
• 1951 – Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1954 – Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1910)
• 1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. (b. 1912)
• 1955 – Max Meldrum, Scottish painter (b. 1875)
• 1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
• 1961 – Ioannis Theotokis, Greek politician, 146th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1880)
• 1962 – Yves Klein, French artist (b. 1928)
• 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, 64th United States Attorney General (b. 1925)
• 1968 – Randolph Churchill, British journalist and politician, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
• 1975 – Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1976 – J. Paul Getty, American industrialist, founded the Getty Oil Company (b. 1892)
• 1976 – Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891)
• 1979 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player, vaudeville entertainer, and talent manager (b. 1918)
• 1981 – Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904)
• 1982 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
• 1983 – Hans Leip, German novelist, poet, lyricist and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1984 – A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Stan Getz, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
• 1992 – Larry Riley, American actor (b. 1953)
• 1994 – Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935)
• 1994 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Savely Kramarov, Soviet-American actor (b. 1934)
• 1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1999 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Frédéric Dard, French writer (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt) (b. 1959)
• 2003 – Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Dave Rowberry, English singer-songwriter and pianist (The Animals) (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican pianist (b. 1952)
• 2006 – Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Camille Sandorfy, Canadian quantum chemist (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Mary Howard de Liagre, American actress (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Jim Owens, American football player and coach (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Marvin Isley, American singer-songwriter, bassist, and composer (The Isley Brothers and Isley-Jasper-Isley) (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
• 2012 – Nemanja Nešić, Serbian rower (b. 1988)
• 2012 – Cotton Owens, American race car driver (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Agostinho José Sartori, Brazilian bishop (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Mykola Volosyanko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1972)
• 2012 – Li Wangyang, Chinese activist (b. 1950)
• 2013 –Esther Williams, Retired American swimmer (b.1921)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Claude the Thaumaturge
  • Marcellin Champagnat
  • Norbert of Xanten
  • Ini Kopuria (Church of England, Episcopal Church)
  • June 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Memorial Day (South Korea)
• National Day of Sweden (Sweden)
• Normandy landings of the Allied Expeditionary Forces (D-Day), aka Operation Neptune, part of Operation Overlord (1944)
• Queensland Day (Queensland)
• Teachers' Day (Bolivia)
• Engineer's Day (Argentina)
• UN Russian Language Day (United Nations)

External links

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

• Days of the year
• June