On this day: 7 June
Events, births and deaths on 7 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1917 · Births · Dean Martin
- 1929 · Events · Lateran Treaty
- 1935 · Deaths · Ivan Michurin
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1099 · Events · Siege of Jerusalem
- 929 · Deaths · Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders
- 1003 · Births · Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia
Events · 16
- 1099(Julian date)Siege of Jerusalem — 1099 battle during which the Crusaders captured Jerusalem from the Fatimid Caliphate
- 1494(Julian date)Treaty of Tordesillas — treaty dividing territory between Portugal and Spain
- 1640Corpus de Sang — 1640 riot in Catalonia triggering the Reapers' War
- 16921692 Jamaica earthquake — 1692 earthquake and tsunami centered on Port Royal, British Jamaica
- 1788Day of the Tiles — Event of popular unrest in Grenoble, France
- 1880Battle of Arica — battle in the War of the Pacific 1879-1884
- 1905Norway — country in Northern Europe
- 1917Battle of Messines — 1917 offensive conducted by the British Second Army
- 1929Lateran Treaty — treaty between the Holy See and Kingdom of Italy
- 1944
- 19481948 Oujda and Jerada Anti-Jewish pogrom — 1948 pogroms in the towns of Oujda and Jerada, Morocco
- 1981Operation Opera — Israeli air strike carried out on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor Osirak
- 1989Surinam Airways Flight 764 — Aviation accident
- 1998murder of James Byrd Jr. — African-American lynching
- 2013Xiamen bus fire — murder-suicide attack in Xiamen, China
- 20172017 Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crash — aircraft accident in Myanmar on June 6, 2017
Births · 60
- 1422(Julian date)Federico da Montefeltro — condottiere of the Italian Renaissance, and lord of Urbino
- 1502(Julian date)John III of Portugal — King of Portugal (r. 1521-1557)
- 1757Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire — English socialite, style icon, author, and activist (1757–1806)
- 1770Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827
- 1837Alois Hitler — Austrian civil servant; father of Adolf Hitler (1837-1903)
- 1840Charlotte of Belgium — Empress consort of Mexico (1863-1867)
- 1845Leopold Auer — Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer (1845–1930)
- 1848Paul Gauguin — French painter and printmaker (1848–1903)
- 1862Philipp Lenard — German physicist (1862–1947)
- 1868Charles Rennie Mackintosh — Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist (1868-1928)
- 1879Knud Rasmussen — Danish explorer and anthropologist
- 1886Henri Coandă — Romanian inventor (1886-1972)
- 1896Imre Nagy — Hungarian politician (1896-1958)
- 1896Robert S. Mulliken — American physicist, chemist and botanical collector (1896 - 1986)
- 1897Kirill Meretskov — Soviet marshal (1897–1968)
- 1897George Szell — Classical conductor and composer (1897–1970)
- 1899Elizabeth Bowen — Anglo-Irish novelist and diarist (1899–1973)
- 1905James J. Braddock — American boxer (1905-1974)
- 1909Jessica Tandy — British actress (1909–1994)
- 1909Virginia Apgar — American obstetrical anesthesiologist (1909-1974)
- 1917Dean Martin — American singer, actor, comedian and film producer (1917–1995)
- 1917Gwendolyn Brooks — American writer (1917–2000)
- 1928James Ivory — American film director
- 1929John Turner — 17th Prime Minister of Canada (1929–2020)
- 1931Virginia McKenna — British actress
Deaths · 58
- 555(Julian date)Vigilius — pope
- 862(Julian date)Al-Muntasir — 11th Abbasid caliph from 861 to 862
- 929Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders — Countess consort of Flanders (877-929)
- 1329(Julian date)Robert I of Scotland — King of Scotland (1306–1329)
- 1337(Julian date)William I, Count of Hainaut — Count of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut (1287–1337)
- 1341(Julian date)Al-Nasir Muhammad — Sultan of Egypt from 1293 to 1294
- 1358(Julian date)
- 1394(Julian date)Anne of Bohemia — Czech princess (1366-1394)
- 1492Casimir IV Jagiellon — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
- 1594Roderigo López — 16th century physician
- 1618(Julian date)Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr — English nobleman (1576–1618)
- 1660George II Rákóczi — Hungarian nobleman, Prince of Transylvania (1648–1660), the eldest son of George I and Zsuzsanna Lorántffy
- 1711Henry Dodwell — Irish theologian
- 1740Alexander Spotswood — British soldier, explorer, and colonial administrator (1676–1740)
- 1779William Warburton — Bishop of Gloucester (1698-1779)
- 1826Joseph von Fraunhofer — Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer
- 1840Frederick William III of Prussia — King of Prussia from 1797 to 1840
- 1843Friedrich Hölderlin — German poet
- 1848Vissarion Belinsky — Russian literary critic (1811-1848)
- 1854Charles Baudin — French admiral (1784-1854)
- 1859David Cox — English landscape painter, 1783-1859
- 1861Patrick Brontë — Irish Anglican clergyman and writer (1777–1861)
- 1866Chief Seattle — Duwamish chief
- 1896(Julian date)Pavlos Carrer — Greek composer (1829–1896)
- 1911Maurice Rouvier — French statesman (1842-1911)
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