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July 6 in history

211 sourced entries recorded on July 6, from 157 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 640Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army (15,000 men) under Amr ibn al-As defeats the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt). Amr divides his troops into three parts, surrounding the Byzantines.source
  • 907July 4–6 – Battle of Pressburg: At "Brezalauspurc" (probably modern-day Bratislava in Slovakia), the advancing East Frankish army (60,000 men) is annihilated by the Hungarians led by Grand Prince Árpád. Duke Luitpold and Archbishop Dietmar I are killed, together with 19 dukes, 2 bishops and 3 abbots. The East Frankish Kingdom loses control of the March of Pannonia.source
  • 985The city of Barcelona is sacked by Moorish troops under Al-Mansur, the de facto ruler of Al-Andalus (modern-day Spain).source
  • 1016Battle of Pontlevoy: French forces of Fulk III and Herbert I defeat Odo II which determines the balance of power in the Loire Valley.source
  • 1044Battle of Ménfő: German troops under King Henry III ("the Black") defeat the Hungarian army, led by King Samuel Aba, who flees the field but is captured and killed. Peter Orseolo ("the Venetian") becomes (for the second time) king of Hungary, and a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire.source
  • 1253Mindaugas and his wife Morta are crowned as king and queen of Lithuania, ruling between 300,000 and 400,000 subjects.source
  • 1311Bolad, who had served as the Mongol Empire's representative in the Middle East as Ikhanate, is appointed as the Duke of Ze by the Mongol Emperor of Yuan dynasty China, Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khansource
  • 1311Eleven days after beginning his siege of Buda, Matthew III Csak is excommunicated by Gentile Portino da Montefiore, the Roman Catholic Cardinal sent by Pope Clement V.source
  • 1312July 6 (1 Showa, 2nd day of 6th month) – Hirotoki Hojo becomes the regent for the Kamakura shogunate in Japan.source
  • 1315In Germany, Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg is married to Anna of Saxe-Wittenberg, daughter of Albert II, Duke of Saxony. The marriage produces an heir, Albert II, who will become Duke of Mecklenburg in 1348.source
  • 1320To strengthen the alliance between Hungary and Poland, and with the approval of Pope John XXII, Charles I of Hungary marries Princess Elizabeth of Poland, the 15-year-old daughter King Wladyslaw I.source
  • 1322In northern Italy, troops of the semi-independent Patriarchate of Aquileia, led by Bishop Pagano della Torre, are routed in a battle at Bassignana against the Duchy of Milan, led by Duke Galeazzo I Visconti.source
  • 1348A papal bull is issued by Pope Clement VI, protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death pandemic.source
  • 1376The Swiss city of Basel is placed under an imperial ban by the Habsburg dynasty's Leopold III, Duke of Austria because of the February 26 riot.source
  • 1376Wenceslaus the Idle is crowned King of the Romans at a ceremony in the Aachen Cathedral.source
  • 1411Ming dynasty Chinese Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after his third voyage, and presents the ruler Vira Alakesvara, captured during the Ming–Kotte War, to China's Emperor Cheng Zu.source
  • 1437The Transylvanian peasant revolt comes to an end with a formal treaty signed at the monastery of Cluj-Manastur, reducing the tithe to be paid to their employers, and abolishing the tax requiring surrendering one-ninth of each individual's production of wine and grain, and confirming the right of peasants to move freely within Transylvania.source
  • 1439Pope Eugene IV issues the Bull of Union with the Greeks (Laetentur Caeli), signed by the Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaiologos, proclaiming the end of the East–West Schism between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy and the union of the two divisions of the Christian faith. The bull is repudiated by most Eastern bishops shortly thereafter.source
  • 1449The Ambrosian Republic of Milan defeats the armies of the Swiss canton of Uri at the Battle of Castione in what is now Switzerland.source
  • 1450Caen surrenders to the French.source
  • 1450Siege of Falaise beginssource
  • 1450Siege of Cherbourg beginssource
  • 1483Richard III and Anne Neville are crowned king and Queen of England, at Westminster Abbey.source
  • 1484Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.source
  • 1491King João I of Kongo, who had recently converted to Christianity, completes the construction of the first Christian church in sub-Saharan Africa, the Cathedral of the Holy Saviour of Congo (Kulumbimbi), in what is now the city of M'banza-Kongo in Angola.source
  • 1544Lady Margaret Douglas marries Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox in London.source
  • 1552In Hungary, Drégely Castle is attacked by the Ottoman Empire. Captain György Szondy and c. 140 soldiers in the castle die, after 4 days of fighting against 8,000 Turkish raiders.source
  • 1560The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed between England, France and Scotland, ending the Siege of Leith. The French withdraw from Scotland, largely ending the Auld Alliance between the two countries, and also ending the wars between England and its northern neighbour.source
  • 1560The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed between England, France and Scotland. The French withdraw from Scotland. This largely ends the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland, and ends the wars between England and its northern neighbour.source
  • 1560The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed between Scotland, France and England, ending the Siege of Leith. The French withdraw from Scotland, largely ending the Auld Alliance between the two countries, and also ending the wars between England and its northern neighbour.source
  • 1573Córdoba, in the Viceroyalty of Peru, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.source
  • 1586The Treaty of Berwick is signed between Queen Elizabeth I of England and King James VI of Scotland.source
  • 1586Treaty of Berwick signed, making peace between James VI and Elizabeth I of England.source
  • 1614Raid of Żejtun: Ottoman forces make a final attempt to conquer the island of Malta, but are beaten back by the Knights Hospitaller.source
  • 1616First recorded eruption of Manam Volcano (erupting frequently since), forming a 10-km-wide island in the Bismarck Sea, 13 km off coast of Papua New Guinea, in the southwestern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.source
  • 1627July 5–13 – Turkish Abductions: Barbary corsairs from Algiers raid the East Fjords of Iceland and take captives into slavery.source
  • 1630The Success, last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, Massachusetts Bay Colony.source
  • 1630Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War begins when King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, leading an army of 13,000 on the Protestant side, makes landfall at Peenemünde, Pomerania.source
  • 1630Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War begins when King Gustav Adolf of Sweden, leading an army of 13,000 on the protestant side, makes landfall at Peenemünde, Pomerania.source
  • 1648Frederick III signs his håndfæstning, which is the most restrictive of its kind to date.source
  • 1648Prince Frederick was accepted as his father's successor, and became king of both Denmark and Norway, as King Frederick III.source
  • 1666On 3 Muharram 1077 AH on the Muslim calendar, Sa'd ibn Zayd, a descendant of Hasan ibn Ali and of Muhammad (founder of Islam) becomes the new Sharif of Mecca, in modern-day Saudi Arabia. His ascension to the post follows the death of his father, Zayd ibn Muhsin, who had been the Sharif since 1631.source
  • 1673French troops conquer Maastricht.source
  • 1685Monmouth Rebellion: In the Battle of Sedgemoor, the last pitched battle fought on English soil, the armies of King James II of England defeat rebel forces under James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, and capture the Duke himself shortly after the battle.source
  • 1685Monmouth Rebellion: the Battle of Sedgemoor between the armies of King James II and rebel forces under Monmouth, the last pitched battle fought on English soil. Monmouth's army is defeated and the Duke himself is captured shortly after the battle.source
  • 1697A major naval battle takes place between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire with each side having 25 battleships, supplemented by smaller vessels. The Venetian Navy, under the command of Admiral Bartolomeo Contarini, suffers 71 deaths and 163 injuries, and even worse casualties in a second engagement on September 20.source
  • 1699Scottish-born pirate captain William Kidd is arrested and imprisoned in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, after being tricked by his former patron New York Governor Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont.source
  • 1758Seven Years' War – Battle of Bernetz Brook: British troops defeat the French.source
  • 1758Pope Clement XIII succeeds Pope Benedict XIV, as the 248th pope.source
  • 1764The last British troops depart Havana, Cuba, two years after having captured it from Spain during the Seven Years' War. The removal of troops follows the treaty between the two Kingdoms, with Spain ceding West Florida to Great Britain in return for the Havana withdrawal.source
  • 1775American Revolution: The Continental Congress issues Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, which contains the words: "Our cause is just. Our union is perfect... being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves...".source
  • 1777American Revolutionary War – Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.source
  • 1779American Revolutionary War: Battle of Grenada fought between British and French navies. British ships are badly damaged but none are lost.source
  • 1785The dollar (and a decimal currency system) is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States by the Congress of the Confederation.source
  • 1785The United States dollar is unanimously chosen as the country's money unit, the first time a nation has adopted a decimal currency.source
  • 1801First Battle of Algeciras: The French fleet defeats the British fleet.source
  • 1801The first vaccination against smallpox in Denmark is made, using the method invented by Edward Jenner.source
  • 1809Napoleon defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Wagram.source
  • 1809French troops arrest Pope Pius VII, and take him to Liguria.source
  • 1812the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway becomes the first public railway line to open in Scotland. It begins life as a 9.5-mile (16-kilometre), horse-drawn waggonway to carry coal from Kilmarnock to Troon harbour. On 27 June the horse-drawn passenger coach Caledonia began running over the line between Troon and Gargieston, near Kilmarnock.source
  • 1815Charles Bianconi runs his first car (i.e. horse-drawn carriage) for conveyance of passengers, from Clonmel to Cahir.source
  • 1825A new Combinations of Workmen Act in the United Kingdom makes trade unions legal according to narrowly defined principles.source
  • 1825The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with the Cheyenne tribe.source
  • 1825The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck gains possession of Glücksburg and changes his title to Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. Den 6te Julii har det behaget Hs. Majestæt allernaadigst at tillade Hs. høifyrstelige Durchlauchtighed, Hertug Friederich Wilhelm Paul Leopold til Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderburg Beck, for sig og hans samtlige ægte Descendentere, tillige at føre det Hertugelige Navn og Titel som Hertug af Glücksburg.source
  • 1825The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck gains possession of Glücksburg and changes his title to Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. The line of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg later becomes the royal house of Greece, Denmark and Norway.source
  • 1827Greek War of Independence: The Treaty of London between France, Britain and Russia, demands that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.source
  • 1828Peruvian–Bolivian War: The Treaty of Piquiza is signed between Sucre and Gamarra. Gran Colombian troops are required to withdraw while Peruvian troops will remain for some time.source
  • 1849The University of Santiago, Chile is established.source
  • 1854In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held.source
  • 1861Robert Palin is hanged in Western Australia following the use of Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 to secure the capital punishment of a convict for a crime not normally punishable by death.source
  • 1863Queen Victoria issues Letters Patent, annexing to South Australia the part of the colony of New South Wales that will later become the Northern Territory.source
  • 1870Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland founded, the world's oldest such organisation.source
  • 1875July 1–7 – Third Carlist War: Battle of Treviño – Advancing on the key city of Vitoria, in Navarre, Spanish Republican commander General Jenardo de Quesada sends General Tello to attack the Carlist lines just to the southwest, at Treviño. The newly appointed Carlist commander General José Pérula is heavily defeated and withdraws, and soon afterwards Quesada enters Vitoria in triumph.source
  • 1885Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux successfully test their rabies vaccine. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.source
  • 1887King Kalākaua of Hawai'i is forced by anti-monarchists to sign the 'Bayonet Constitution', stripping the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority, as well as disenfranchising most native Hawaiians, all Asians and the poor.source
  • 1887Establishment of the Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Shensisource
  • 1887Berthe bombing, targeting a Parisian landowner in conflict with several Italian anarchists. Nobody is sentenced but Vittorio Pini and Paolo Chiericotti are heavily suspected by French authorities.source
  • 1889Several aristocrats are implicated in the Cleveland Street scandal after police raid a male brothel in London.source
  • 1892Dr. José Rizal, Filipino writer, philosopher and political activist, is arrested by Spanish authorities in connection with La Liga Filipina.source
  • 1892Rizal is arrested for establishing the La Liga Filipina.source
  • 1894June 28 – July 9 – Colonial Conference of 1894 held in Ottawa.source
  • 1894A fire at the site of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago destroys most of the remaining buildings.source
  • 1906The Second Geneva Convention meets.source
  • 1907Guardians of the Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.source
  • 1908Robert Peary sets sail for the North Pole.source
  • 1915June 23 – July 7 – The First Battle of the Isonzo between the Armies of Italy and Austria-Hungary on the Italian Front in World War I. The aim of the Italian Army, under the command of Luigi Cadorna, was to drive the Austrians away from its defensive positions along the Soča (Isonzo) and on the nearby mountains.source
  • 1916July 1–12 – Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916: At least one shark attacks 5 swimmers along 80 mi of New Jersey coastline, resulting in 4 deaths and the survival of one youth, who requires limb amputation. This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.source
  • 1916July 1–12 – At least one shark mauls five swimmers along 80 mi of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, resulting in four deaths and the survival of one youth who required limb amputation. This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.source
  • 1917Battle of Aqaba: Arabian troops, led by T. E. Lawrence, capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1919July 2–6 – British airship R34 makes the first transatlantic flight by dirigible, and the first westbound flight, from RAF East Fortune, Scotland, to Mineola, New York.source
  • 1919The British dirigible airship R34 lands at Mineola, New York, completing the first transatlantic flight by airship.source
  • 1923The Ongarue railway disaster results in the deaths of 17 passengers when the overnight Auckland-Wellington Express runs into a landslip at Ongarue near Taumarunuisource
  • 1928The world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.source
  • 1930July 3–10 – The First Eastern Women's Congress takes place in Damascus in Syria.source
  • 1933The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago.source
  • 1935July 6-7. Polish Track and Field Championships take placesource
  • 1937According to Japanese government official confirmed report, a caught fire in Handa Mental Rescue Hospital in Hiroshima City, kills 23 persons.source
  • 1938The Evian Conference on Refugees is convened in France. No country in Europe is prepared to accept Jews fleeing persecution, and the United States will take only 27,370.source
  • 1939The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed by the Nazis.source
  • 1944WWII: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-martialed, for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U.S. Army bus (he is eventually acquitted).source
  • 1944Hartford Circus Fire: More than 100 children die in one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States.source
  • 19471947 Sylhet referendum: A referendum is held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.source
  • 1947The first prototype AK-47 assault rifles are built to the design of Mikhail Kalashnikov.source
  • 1948The world's first Air Car-ferry service is flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways, from Lympne to Le Touquet across the English Channel.source
  • 1950Treaty of Zgorzelec was signed between the Republic of Poland and East Germany (GDR).source
  • 1957At the age of fifteen, Paul McCartney meets John Lennon and his band, the Quarrymen, at the St Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.source
  • 1967Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade the secessionist Biafra May 30.source
  • 1967Langenweddingen level crossing disaster: A level crossing collision between a train loaded with children and a tanker-truck near Magdeburg, East Germany, kills 94 people, mostly children.source
  • 1973St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, is gazetted as a national monument.source
  • 1974The government passed austerity decrees to combat inflation and reduce the trade deficit. Measures included increasing the price of gasoline, introducing taxes on vehicles and luxury goods, and raising the value-added tax (VAT) on beef and other basic items.source
  • 1976The first class of women is inducted at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.source
  • 19781978 South Korean presidential electionsource
  • 1982A lunar eclipse (umbral duration 236 min and total duration 106 min, the longest of the 20th century) occurs.source
  • 1988The Piper Alpha production platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 oil workers and 2 rescue mariners. 61 workers survive.source
  • 1989The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack, the first Palestinian suicide attack on Israel, takes place.source
  • 1991Lale Aytaman was appointed as the Muğla Province governor. She was the first female governorsource
  • 1992July 6–29 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses a UN inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims that it has reliable information that the site contains archives related to illegal weapons activities. UN inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in" outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers.source
  • 19971997 Central European flood: Flooding began in Poland in the towns of Głuchołazy and Prudnik.source
  • 1998The Kai Tak Airport, which was the international airport of Hong Kong since 1954 was closedsource
  • 2005The European Parliament rejects the proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading.source
  • 2005Maoists bomb a civilian bus in Bandarmude, Chitwan killing 38 and injuring around 75.source
  • 2005The International Olympic Committee awards London the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympics.source
  • 2006The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.source
  • 2006In Buenos Aires, Argentina, serial shooter Martín Ríos opens fire against passers-by on Cabildo Avenue, killing an 18-year-old and injuring six others.source
  • 2011The International Olympic Committee awards Pyeongchang the right to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.source
  • 2013Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes while landing at San Francisco International Airport, killing 3 people.source
  • 2013A runaway train carrying crude oil derails in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, catching fire and exploding, killing 47 people.source
  • 2015July 5–13 – Greek government-debt crisis: After six months of clashes and futile negotiations between Greece's newly elected, leftist government and the country's creditors, over the austerity measures imposed through bailout programmes, tension peaks as Greece votes in a referendum to reject the terms offered in a third programme; however, the government eventually proceeds to concur to harsher terms than those offered before, in what was widely characterized as a coup on the creditors' part.source
  • 2016The augmented reality mobile game Pokémon Go is released, breaking numerous records in terms of sales and revenue.source
  • 2018China–United States trade war: U.S. tariffs on US$34 billion of Chinese goods come into effect, as President Trump suggests the final total could reach $550bn. China accuses the U.S. of starting the "largest trade war in economic history" and announces immediate retaliatory tariffs.source
  • 2022July 31 – UEFA Women's Euro 2022, originally intended for 2021 but indirectly delayed due to UEFA Euro 2020 being delayed, is held in England, with the hosts winning their first major tournament since 1966.source
  • 2025The National Assembly elects NDP leader Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as the first female president of Suriname.source
  • 2025The historic Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince is destroyed in an arson attack by armed gangs.source

Births

  • 1387Queen Blanche I of Navarre (died 1441)source
  • 1404Yamana Sōzen, Japanese warlord and monk (died 1473)source
  • 1423Antonio Manetti, Italian mathematician and architect (died 1497)source
  • 1473James III of Cyprus, son of James II of Cyprus and Catherine Cornaro, king of Cyprus (died 1474)source
  • 1555Louis II, Cardinal of Guise, French Catholic cardinal (died 1588)source
  • 1579Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire, English noble (died 1622)source
  • 1594Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1622–1659) (died 1659)source
  • 1598Kirsten Munk, Danish noble, spouse of King Christian IV of Denmark (died 1658)source
  • 1747John Paul Jones, American naval captain (died 1792)source
  • 1760Thomas Phillips, surgeon and educational benefactor (died 1851)source
  • 1778Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French scientist (died 1846)source
  • 1781Stamford Raffles, English founder of Singapore (died 1826)source
  • 1782Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, Spanish Royal (died 1824)source
  • 1785William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (died 1865)source
  • 1832Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (died 1867)source
  • 1876Luis Emilio Recabarren (died 1924)source
  • 1878Marmaduke Grove (died 1954)source
  • 1907Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (died 1954)source
  • 1921Nancy Reagan, American actress, First Lady of the United States (died 2016)source
  • 1940Nursultan Nazarbayev, 1st President of Kazakhstansource
  • 1943Chen Ding-shinn, hepatologist.source
  • 1946Sylvester Stallone, American actor, screenwriter and film director (Rocky)source
  • 1946George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United Statessource
  • 197550 Cent, rapper, actor, and businessmansource

Deaths

  • 157 BCEWen of Han, Emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty since 180 BC (born 200 BC)source
  • 649Goar of Aquitaine, Catholic priest and hermit (born c.585)source
  • 887Wang Chongrong, Chinese warlordsource
  • 918William I, duke of Aquitaine (born 875)source
  • 1017Genshin, Japanese Tendai scholar (born 942)source
  • 1044Samuel Aba, palatine and king of Hungarysource
  • 1070Godelieve, Flemish saint (approximate date)source
  • 1070Said al-Andalusi, Taghlib Arab astronomer (born 1029)source
  • 1189King Henry II of England ("Curtmantle") dies at the Château de Chinon, near Tours, after doing homage to Philip II (Augustus), and surrendering the territories around Issoudun in the Centre-Val de Loire. He ends the hostilities against Philip, by agreeing to the peace terms and pays him 20,000 marks in tribute. Henry is succeeded by his son, Richard I ("the Lionheart"), as ruler of England and his remaining territories in France.source
  • 1189Henry II, king of England (born 1133)source
  • 1199Archbishop Malachy (died 1148) is canonized by Pope Clement III.source
  • 1218Odo III (or Eudes), duke of Burgundy (born 1166)source
  • 1249Alexander II, king of Scotland (born 1198)source
  • 1249King Alexander II of Scotland dies of a fever at the island of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides. He is succeeded by his 7-year-old son, Alexander III, who is crowned as ruler of Scotland at Scone on July 13. Alexander's minority causes a struggle for control of affairs between Walter Comyn and Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia.source
  • 1415Jan Hus is burned at the stake in Konstanz.source
  • 1415Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (burned at the stake) (born 1369)source
  • 1476Regiomontanus, German astronomer (born 1436)source
  • 1480Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (born 1416)source
  • 1511Adolf III of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein, Germany noble (born 1443)source
  • 1533Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (born 1474)source
  • 1535Sir Thomas More, English lawyer, writer, and politician (executed) (born 1478)source
  • 1535Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason, after refusing to recognize King Henry VIII as head of the English Church, and separate from the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1553King Edward VI of England (born 1537)source
  • 1553King Edward VI of England dies at the age of 15 after a reign of only six years.source
  • 1553Edward VI, King of England and Ireland (born 1537)source
  • 1571Mōri Motonari, Japanese warlord (born 1497)source
  • 1583Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1519)source
  • 1585Elisabeth Sabina, child of Charles IX of Sweden (born 13 March 1582)source
  • 1614Man Singh I, Rajput Raja of Amer, India (born 1550)source
  • 1641Louis, Count of Soissons (born 1604)source
  • 1711James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (born 1662)source
  • 1711James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, politician (born 1662; died in London)source
  • 1759William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier (born 1696)source
  • 1790George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, British army officer (born 1717)source
  • 1795Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein, physician, physicist and engineer (born 1723)source
  • 1802Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, Congressman from Virginia, and general (born 1736)source
  • 1809Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, French cavalry general (killed in battle) (born 1775)source
  • 1810Andrianampoinimerina, ruler of Madagascar (born 1745)source
  • 1813Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (born 1735)source
  • 1819Sophie Blanchard, French aeronaut (born 1778)source
  • 1835John Marshall, influential American Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (born 1755)source
  • 1854Georg Ohm, German physicist (born 1789)source
  • 1871Castro Alves, Brazilian poet and playwright (born 1847)source
  • 1882Tomás Guardia Gutiérrezsource
  • 1892Homestead Strike: The arrival of a force of 300 Pinkerton detectives from New York and Chicago results in a fight in which about 10 men are killed.source
  • 1894Takahashi Yuichi, yōga painter (born 1828)source
  • 1934Nestor Makhno, anarchist (born 1888)source
  • 1960Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician (born 1897)source
  • 1971Louis Armstrong, African-American jazz trumpeter (born 1901)source
  • 1989Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405 attack: The first Palestinian Arab suicide attack is carried out inside Israel's borders on a crowded Egged bus when a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member seizes the steering wheel from the driver and pulls the bus over a steep precipice into a ravine in the area of Qiryat Ye'arim. 16 passengers are killed.source
  • 1990President Siad Barre's bodyguards massacre anti-government demonstrators during a soccer match; 65 people are killed, more than 300 seriously injured.source
  • 2002John Frankenheimer, 72, American film and television director (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May), heart attack, stroke.source
  • 2018Former Aum Shinrikyo leader Shoko Asahara and six other main members of Aum Shinrikyo, who led the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack, are executed by hanging.source
  • 2025July 4–7 – At least 135 people are killed and over a hundred reported missing during a flood in Central Texas, United States.source