On this day: 6 June
Events, births and deaths on 6 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Raidi
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Viktor Korchnoi
- Deaths · Peter Shaffer
100 years ago1926
- Births · Klaus Tennstedt
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1097 · Deaths · Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon and Navarre
Events · 27
- 1505(Julian date)1505 Lo Mustang earthquake — 1505 catastrophic earthquake centered in northern Nepal
- 1513(Julian date)Battle of Novara — 1513 battle of the Italian wars
- 1762Battle of Havana — 1762 battle
- 1813Battle of Stoney Creek — war of 1812 battle
- 1832Paris Uprising of 1832 — rebellion in Paris in June 1832
- 1844World Alliance of YMCAs — worldwide organization
- 1862First Battle of Memphis — 1862 naval battle of the American Civil War
- 1882Battle of Embabo — 1882 battle between the Ethiopian kingdoms of Shewa and Gojjam
- 1889Great Seattle Fire — major fire in Seattle, Washington in 1889
- 1892Chicago "L" — rapid transit system in Chicago, Illinois, operated by the CTA
- 1934United States Securities and Exchange Commission — U.S. federal agency that enforces securities laws and regulates securities markets and major market participants (public companies, brokers, exchanges, and asset managers)
- 1944Normandy landings — 1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
- 1944Operation Overlord — 1944 Allied liberation of German-occupied France during World War II
- 1944Operation Deadstick — 1944 airborne forces operation by the British Army during the Normandy landings
- 1971Hughes Airwest Flight 706 — 1971 aviation accident in Los Angeles County, California
- 1971Battle of Long Khanh — 1971 battle of the Vietnam War
- 19761976 Sabah Air GAF Nomad crash — aviation accident
- 19821982 Lebanon War — Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- 19821982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident — accidental downing of a helicopter in the Falklands War
- 1992Copa Airlines Flight 201 — aviation accident
- 1993
- 1994China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 — Chinese aviation tragedy
- 2002Eastern Mediterranean event — atmospheric explosion above the Mediterranean Sea, caused by small asteroid
- 2017Battle of Raqqa — 2017 major battle in the Syrian Civil War
- 20202020 Kaohsiung mayoral recall vote — recall election
- 2021London, Ontario truck attack — 2021 killing in Canada
- 2023destruction of the Kakhovka Dam — 6 June 2023 event on the Dnieper River during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Births · 60
- 1436(Julian date)Regiomontanus — German mathematician and astronomer (1436–1476)
- 1599Diego Velázquez — Spanish painter (1599–1660)
- 1606Pierre Corneille — French tragedian (1606–1684)
- 1714José I of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1750 to 1777 (lived 1714-1777)
- 1755Nathan Hale — soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
- 1756John Trumbull — American artist (1756–1843)
- 1772Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily — last Holy Roman Empress and first Empress of Austria
- 1799Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
- 1841Eliza Orzeszkowa — Polish writer
- 1850Karl Ferdinand Braun — German physicist (1850–1918)
- 1857Aleksandr Lyapunov — Russian mathematician (1857–1918)
- 1868Robert Falcon Scott — Royal Navy officer and explorer (1868–1912)
- 1872Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) — Empress consort of Russia (1872–1918)
- 1875Thomas Mann — German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
- 1896Italo Balbo — Italian Marshal of the Air Force and minister (1896–1940)
- 1896Henry Allingham — British supercentenarian,who lived to age 113
- 1898Ninette de Valois — British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet
- 1901Sukarno — 1st President of Indonesia (1901—1970)
- 1903Aram Khachaturian — Soviet Armenian composer (1903–1978)
- 1909Isaiah Berlin — Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas (1909–1997)
- 1916Diori Hamani — President of Niger from 1960 to 1974 (1916-1989)
- 1917Kirk Kerkorian — American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (1917–2015)
- 1918Edwin G. Krebs — American biochemist (1918–2009)
- 1919Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington — British Conservative politician (1919–2018)
- 1923V. C. Andrews — American novelist (1923–1986)
Deaths · 57
- 913Alexander — Byzantine emperor from 912 to 913
- 1097(Julian date)Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon and Navarre — Queen of Aragon and Navarre
- 1134(Julian date)Norbert of Xanten — 12th‑century German bishop and founder of the Premonstratensians, Catholic saint, reformer of clergy and defender of the Eucharist
- 1217(Julian date)Henry I of Castile — King of Castile
- 1251(Julian date)William II, Count of Flanders — Count of Flanders (1224-1251)
- 1393(Julian date)Go-En'yū — Emperor of Japan
- 1480(Julian date)Vecchietta — Italian painter (1412-1480)
- 1548João de Castro — Portuguese explorer
- 1583Nakagawa Kiyohide — daimyo
- 1661Martino Martini — Italian Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian (1614-1661)
- 1799Patrick Henry — American Founding Father, orator and politician (1736 – 1799)
- 1832Jeremy Bentham — British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
- 1861Camillo Benso di Cavour — first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in 1861
- 1865William Quantrill — Confederate Army officer (1837-1865)
- 1878Robert Stirling — clergyman, engineer, inventor of the Stirling engine (1790–1878)
- 1881Henri Vieuxtemps — Belgian violinist and composer (1820-1881)
- 1891John A. Macdonald — 1st prime minister of Canada from 1867 to 1873 and 1878 to 1891
- 1916Yuan Shikai — Chinese military and government official (1859–1916)
- 1922Lillian Russell — American opera singer and actress (1860-1922)
- 1935Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy — British Army officer & 12th Governor-General of Canada (1862-1935)
- 1941Louis Chevrolet — Swiss motor company founder and racecar driver (1878-1941)
- 1943Guido Fubini — Italian mathematician (1879-1943)
- 1946Gerhart Hauptmann — German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)
- 1947James Agate — British diarist and critic (1877-1947)
- 1961Carl Jung — Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
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