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June 7 in history

202 sourced entries recorded on June 7, from 49 BCE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 49 BCECicero slips out of Italy and goes to Thessaloniki.source
  • 421Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia, a woman of Greek origin. The wedding is celebrated at Constantinople with chariot racing in the Hippodrome.source
  • 879Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia, under Duke (knyaz) Branimir, as an independent state.source
  • 1002Henry II, a cousin of Otto III, is elected and crowned as King of Germany by Archbishop Willigis at Mainz. Henry does not recognise the coronation of Arduin. Otto of Worms withdraws his nomination for the title of Holy Roman Emperor and receives the Duchy of Carinthia (modern Austria) - Henry is the first King to be elected away from the Cathedral of Aachen since the tradition was begun by Otto I in 936.source
  • 1099Siege of Jerusalem: The Crusaders reach the outskirts of Jerusalem, and begin the siege of the Holy City. Iftikhar al-Dawla offers a peace agreement but this is refused.source
  • 1226King Louis VIII of France begins the Crusade against the Cathars (Albigensians) in southern France and against Raymond VII, count of Count of Toulouse. Over the next three months, the Crusaders capture the cities of Béziers, Carcassonne, Beaucaire and Marseille and by Avignon's surrender on September 9, Louis forces the region of Languedoc into submission, and reasserts his authority upon the autonomous municipalities of his estates. Most cities have to accept the authority of Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Provence, but Marseille and Nice rebel.source
  • 1244Pope Innocent IV is driven from Rome by imperial forces of Emperor Frederick II, and travels secretly in disguise to Sutri. Genoese galleys prepared by his relatives are waiting for him at the port of Civitavecchia to take him to Genoa.source
  • 1329David II becomes King of Scots at age 5; he will rule Scotland for nearly 42 years.source
  • 1340Rotterdam is officially declared a city.source
  • 1376The day before his death, Prince Edward of Wales, heir to the English throne and known as "The Black Prince" summons his father, King Edward III, and brother, John of Gaunt, and makes them swear to uphold the claim to the throne of his son Richard. Edward is the first "English" Prince of Wales (as opposed to Welsh) not to become King of England.source
  • 1390Construction begins on San Petronio Basilica in Bologna.source
  • 1420Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine after a long siege, ending the independence of the Patriarchal State of Friuli, run by the Patriarch of Aquileia.source
  • 1427Pope Martin V orders the Roman Catholic bishops of Portro and Alba to work on driving the Fraticelli faction of the Franciscan Order from Italy.source
  • 1438Upon the death of Al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Dīn Barsbāy, the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria, his 14 year old son Al-Aziz Jamal al-Din Yusuf temporarily becomes the new monarch, under the guardianship of the regent Sayf al-Din Jaqmaq, Na'ib of Damascus.source
  • 1441The University of Bordeaux is established by Pope Eugene IV while Bordeaux is under the control of France. Closed in 1793 during the French Revolution, it will reopen in 1896 and continue to be in existence 280 years later.source
  • 1441The University of Bordeaux is foundedsource
  • 1468King Edward IV of England gives royal assent to numerous laws passed by the English Parliament, including the Cloths Act, the Liveries Act and the Sheriffs Act.source
  • 1486Pope Innocent VIII responds to complaints made in a letter to him from King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Austria, and declares that the Holy See does not resent Hungary for its war against the Holy Roman Empire, and promises to examine the Hungarian King's concerns.source
  • 1494Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the New World between themselves.source
  • 1520King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France meet at the famous Field of the Cloth of Gold.source
  • 1546The Treaty of Ardres (also known as the Treaty of Camp) is signed, resulting in peace between the kingdoms of England and France and ending the Italian War of 1542–1546.source
  • 1552The king orders the Irish currency to be reduced to parity with that of England.source
  • 1557Mary I of England joins her husband Philip II of Spain, in his war against France.source
  • 1563The King's brother Duke John and his spouse are accused of treason in their absence.source
  • 1586Anglo-Spanish War: The Siege of Grave in the Netherlands, by Spanish General Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, ends with the surrender of the garrison after a siege of four months.source
  • 1593Battle of Salbertrand in Piedmont: Victory of François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières, over the Spanish of Rodrigue Alvarez of Toledo, allies of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy.source
  • 1598Nine Years' War: The temporary ceasefire agreed between the Irish rebel lordships and the English in October 1597 expires.source
  • 1610Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates decides to abandon Jamestown.source
  • 1614The Addled Parliament is dissolved by King James I of England, having sat or two months without imposing any new taxes.source
  • 1628King Charles I reconvenes the English Parliament, and accepts the Petition of Right as a concession to gain his subsidies.source
  • 1629The Dutch States-General ratifies the Dutch West India Company's Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions, making it more attractive to invest in the colony of New Netherland in North America.source
  • 1640Catalan rebels assassinate Dalmau de Queralt, Count of Santa Coloma, beginning the three-day Corpus de Sang riots.source
  • 1663Under the pretext of working out a treaty with Dutch settlers in the colony of New Netherland, the Esopus tribe of the Delaware people enter the fortress at Wiltwijck (now the U.S. city of Kingston, New York) and stage a surprise attack. Unbeknownst to the Wiltwijck residents, another group of Esopus warriors had destroyed the village of Nieu Dorp (now Hurley, New York) earlier in the day. The episode begins the Second Esopus War.source
  • 1671The coronation ceremony of Christian V of Denmark-Norway takes place at the Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød, north of Copenhagen. Christian had assumed the throne on February 9, 1670, upon the death of his father, Frederick III.source
  • 1672Third Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of Solebay: An indecisive sea battle results, between the Dutch Republic, and the joined forces of England and France.source
  • 1673First Battle of Schooneveld: In a sea battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, fought off the Netherlands coast, the Dutch Republic fleet (commanded by Michiel de Ruyter) defeats the allied Anglo-French fleet, commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.source
  • 1673First Battle of Schooneveld: In a sea battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, fought off the Netherlands coast, the Dutch Republic fleet (commanded by Michiel de Ruyter) defeats the allied Anglo-French fleet, commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.source
  • 1684After a siege of six weeks that began on April 27, Luxembourg City is taken by the French Army from control by Spain, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, previously part of the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium) is acquired by France.source
  • 1692Jamaica earthquake: An earthquake and related tsunami destroy Port Royal, capital of Jamaica, and submerge a major part of it; an estimated 2,000 are immediately killed, 2,300 injured, and a probable additional 2,000 die from the diseases which ravage the island in the following months.source
  • 1742Christian Goldbach first describes Goldbach's conjecture ("Every even number is the sum of two primes") in a letter to fellow mathematician Leonhard Euler.source
  • 1753Archibald Cameron of Lochiel (born 1707) becomes the last Jacobite to be executed for treason when he is hanged and beheaded at Tyburn in London under a bill of attainder. On 26 March he has returned from exile in France in the service of Charles Edward Stuart to retrieve the Loch Arkaig treasure and to participate in a desperate plot to assassinate George II of Great Britain and other members of the British royal family. However, while staying secretly at Brenachyle by Loch Katrine, he has been betrayed by Alastair Ruadh MacDonnell of Glengarry (the notorious spy "Pickle") and members of his own clan and arrested.source
  • 1753The British Museum is established in London, by Act of Parliament.source
  • 1753the British Museum is established in London by Act of Parliament.source
  • 1769Frontiersman Daniel Boone first begins to explore modern-day Kentucky.source
  • 1774Wedding between Prince Charles and Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp.source
  • 1776American Revolution: Lee Resolution – Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposes to the Second Continental Congress (meeting in Philadelphia) that "these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states."source
  • 1777Gustav III visits Catherine the Great in Russia.source
  • 1780The Gordon Riots in London are ended by the intervention of troops. About 285 people are shot dead, with another 200 wounded and around 450 arrested.source
  • 1788Riots broke out in Grenoble, the Day of the Tiles.source
  • 1788France: Day of the Tiles, which some consider the beginning of the French Revolution.source
  • 1795June 5–7 – The Copenhagen Fire of 1795, starting in a naval warehouse, destroys 941 houses.source
  • 1796June 6–7 – Ragunda lake in Sweden bursts and drains completely, leaving the Döda fallet dry.source
  • 1798Carnew is burned by rebels led by Anthony Perry.source
  • 1799War of the Second Coalition: First Battle of Zurich – Four days of fighting ends in victory for Archduke Charles and the Austrian army over the French army under André Masséna.source
  • 1801War of the Oranges ends: Portugal and Spain sign the Treaty of Badajoz; Portugal loses the city of Olivenza.source
  • 1803Indiana Territory governor (and future U.S. president) William Henry Harrison signs treaties at Fort Wayne, with representatives of the Delaware, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Miami, Kickapoo, Eel River, Wea, Piankeshaw and Kaskaskia Indian tribes. The U.S. Senate ratifies the treaties on November 25.source
  • 1809Shoja Shah of the Durrani Empire signs a treaty with the British; only weeks later, he is succeeded by Mahmud Shah.source
  • 1809Shoja Shah of Afghanistan signs a treaty with the British. Only weeks later, he is succeeded by Mahmud Shah.source
  • 1810Argentina's new junta publishes the country's first newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres, edited by Mariano Moreno.source
  • 1821June 7 (O.S.)/June 19 (N.S.) – Battle of Drăgășani, Wallachia: The Filiki Eteria are decisively defeated by the Ottomans.source
  • 1827Greek defenders in Athens surrender to Egyptian forces under the command of General Rashid Pasha.source
  • 1829C. F. Hansen's new Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen inaugurated after the previous building was destroyed in the British Bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.source
  • 1832The Reform Act receives royal assent after passage by the British Parliament, reforming the electoral system and setting uniform law for voting rights in England and Wales, though not in Scotland or Ireland.source
  • 1834Greek independence: General Theodoros Kolokotronis is sentenced to death for treason, for resisting the rule of Otto of Greece (he is released the following year).source
  • 1840On the death of Frederick William III of Prussia, he is succeeded on the throne of the Kingdom of Prussia (which he has ruled for more than 40 years) by his eldest son Frederick William IV.source
  • 1841Darlinghurst Gaol took in its first prisoners.source
  • 1848June 2–12 – The Prague Slavic Congress brings together members of the Pan-Slavism movement.source
  • 1859Lauritz Dorenfeldt Jenssen, businessperson (born 1801)source
  • 1861June 7/8 - Shipwreck of the "Prince of Wales" in Rio Grande do Sul.source
  • 1863French intervention in Mexico: French forces enter Mexico City.source
  • 1865Rednal rail crash in Shropshire: 13 killed, 30 injured.source
  • 1868The Presbyterian Church in Chile is founded. It is the first Protestant church in Chile.source
  • 1878an underground explosion at Wood Pit, Haydock, kills at least 189.source
  • 1886Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first Canadian cardinalsource
  • 1886Palermo Centrale railway station, the main railway station of Palermo, capital of Sicily, is opened.source
  • 1892Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man, is arrested for deliberately sitting in a whites-only railroad car in Louisiana, leading to the landmark United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson, which legitimizes "separate but equal" racial segregation in the United States.source
  • 1896Mahdist War: Battle of Ferkeh – British and Egyptian troops are victorious.source
  • 1898William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover neon at their laboratory at University College London, after extracting it from liquid nitrogen.source
  • 1902Italy takes in possession its concession in Tientsin from the Chinese government. Foreign powers had obtained the right to station troops to protect their legations under the terms of the 1901 Boxer Protocol after China's defeat in the intervention to put down the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.source
  • 1905The Norwegian Parliament, the Storting, declares dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden, giving Norway full independence.source
  • 1906Cunard liner RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow, as the world's largest ship.source
  • 1906Cunard liner RMS Lusitania is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank as the world's largest ship.source
  • 1910An earthquake hits the Province of Avellino and the town of Calitri in particular.source
  • 1911Mexican Revolution: Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City, just after the 1911 Michoacán earthquake.source
  • 1914Red Week after the killing of three anti-militarist demonstrators in Ancona. Many elements of the left protest and the Italian Socialist Party declare a general strike. Various acts of civil disobedience occur in major cities and small towns such as seizing railway stations, cutting telephone wires, and burning tax-registers. Two days later the strike was officially called off, but the civil strife continued. Militarist nationalists and anti-militarist leftists fought on the streets until the Italian Royal Army forcefully restored calm after having used thousands of men to put down the various protesting forces.source
  • 1924June 7–16 – Rudolf Steiner delivers his Agriculture Course at Koberwitz beginning of the organic agriculture movement.source
  • 1926Liberal politician Carl Gustaf Ekman succeeds Rickard Sandler as Prime Minister of Sweden.source
  • 1926Free State – Harrismith to Warden, 35 mi 33 ch.source
  • 1929The Lateran Treaty, making Vatican City a sovereign state, is ratified.source
  • 1930Carl Gustaf Ekman becomes Prime Minister of Sweden, for the second and final time.source
  • 1936First outdoors radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious service from Iona Abbey, transmitted by the BBC.source
  • 1940Norwegian Campaign: The Norwegian royal family and the Norwegian Government was evacuated from Tromsø aboard the British cruiser HMS Devonshire which later on arrived safely in London where Haakon VII and his cabinet set up a Norwegian government in exile.source
  • 1940King Haakon VII of Norway and his government are evacuated from Tromsø to London, on HMS Devonshire.source
  • 1942June 4–7 – WWII: Battle of Midway – An American naval victory halts the Japanese advance in the Pacific.source
  • 1942first mass held at the new Roman Catholic Cavan Cathedral (dedication 27 September).source
  • 1942The Income Tax (War-time Arrangements) Act 1942 is enacted, transferring the power to levy personal income tax from the states to the federal government.source
  • 1947Establishment of the Toraja Mamasa Churchsource
  • 1947The Romanian Army founds the association football club CCA (Clubul Central al Armatei – The Army's Central Club), which will become the most successful Romanian football team during its time as CSA Steaua București.source
  • 1949June 7–25 – Dock workers strike in the United Kingdom.source
  • 1951Nazi war criminal Otto Ohlendorf is hanged at Landsberg Prison, Bavaria.source
  • 1953Italian general election: the Christian Democracy party wins a plurality in both legislative houses.source
  • 1953June 7–9 – Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A single storm-system spawns 46 tornadoes of various sizes, in 10 states from Colorado to Massachusetts, over 3 days, killing 246.source
  • 1955The television quiz program The $64,000 Question premieres on CBS-TV in the United States, with Hal March as the host.source
  • 1959Charly Gaul wins the 1959 Giro d'Italia.source
  • 1965Kakanj mine disaster: A mining accident in Kakanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, results in 128 deaths.source
  • 1967East Jerusalem is captured in a battle conducted by Israeli forces, without the use of artillery, in order to avoid damage to the Holy City.source
  • 1968Ford sewing machinists strike for equal pay starts at the Ford Dagenham plant in London.source
  • 1968Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) is established as a think-tank to research on trends and politics in Southeast Asia and beyond.source
  • 1972A complaint is filed against the Minister of Mines Eduardo Paredes Barrientos for customs fraud for the so-called Cuban packages.source
  • 1972June 5–16 – The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is held in Stockholm, Swedensource
  • 1976The nation's first McDonald's restaurant opens in central Porirua; a Big Mac initially cost 75c.source
  • 19791979 European Parliament election: The first direct elections to the European Parliament begin, allowing citizens from across all nine (at this time) member states of the European Communities to elect 410 MEPs. It is also the first international election in history.source
  • 1981Operation Opera: The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, killing ten Iraqi troops and a French technician.source
  • 1981Israel bombs the nearly completed but not operational Iraqi nuclear reactor 18 miles south of Baghdad in an operation known as Operation Opera. It was the world's first attack on a nuclear plant.source
  • 1986Washington DC metro opens Falls Church, Vienna, and Dunn Loring train stations on the Orange line.source
  • 1989June 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Sweden.source
  • 1989Short Brothers sold to Bombardier Aerospace.source
  • 1989Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes in Paramaribo, Suriname, killing 176.source
  • 1990Metropolitan Alexy of Moscow is elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.source
  • 1990June 7–8 – 1990 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Churchsource
  • 1990State President F.W. de Klerk lifts the state of emergency in South Africa that has been in place for ten years.source
  • 1992June 3–14 – The Earth Summit is held in Rio de Janeiro.source
  • 1994June 6–8 – Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in Geneva; they agree to a one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days).source
  • 1997June 1–7: Tropical Storm Andres (1997)source
  • 1998Former Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané seizes control over military barracks in Bissau, marking the beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998–99).source
  • 1999The Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu State University is founded in Cahul.source
  • 2000Argentine state-owned company INVAP wins a bid to construct a nuclear reactor for Australia .source
  • 2001Former Argentinian president Carlos Menem is arrested on suspicion of illegal arms sales.source
  • 20012001 United Kingdom general election: Tony Blair and the Labour Party win a second landslide victory.source
  • 2005Human Rights Watch demands an investigation into the unrest and accuses the government of covering up a massacre.source
  • 2006The World Bank Group says Cambodia must repay US$7.6 million in development funds that were mishandled.source
  • 2007President of the United States George W. Bush and President of Russia Vladimir Putin meet to discuss missile defense. Putin, in a minor reversal of recent rhetoric regarding Bush's European missile shield plans, suggests placing a radar installation in Azerbaijan.source
  • 20077 June 2007 - United States agrees to cancel 100% ($58 million USD) of Sierra Leone's foreign debt.source
  • 2008June 7–29 – Austria and Switzerland jointly host the UEFA Euro 2008 football tournament, which is won by Spain.source
  • 20092009 European Parliament election in Lithuania.source
  • 2012Morley and Dianella in Perth, Western Australia, have a once in a decade tornado.source
  • 2017Two terrorist attacks are simultaneously carried out by five Islamic State (ISIL) terrorists against the Iranian Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, both in Tehran, leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 more wounded.source
  • 2018May 28–June 7 – The 2018 Stanley Cup Final are played between the Washington Capitals and the Vegas Golden Knights and won by the former.source
  • 2019British Prime Minister Theresa May resigns as leader of the Conservative Party.source
  • 2019July 7 – The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is held in France and is won by the United States.source
  • 2021The Juno spacecraft performs its only flyby of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the first flyby of the moon by any spacecraft in over 20 years.source
  • 20212021 Ghotki rail crash: In Pakistan, 2 trains collided in Daharki, in the Ghotki District of Sindh. Killing 65 people and injuring 150 people.source
  • 2022The Bahamas report their first suspected cases of monkeypox.source
  • 2024June 6–9 – The 2024 European Parliament election is held. The EPP, of incumbent Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, retains its status as the largest group in parliament amid notable gains by far-right political groups.source

Births

  • 1082Huizong, emperor of the Song dynasty (died 1135)source
  • 1402Ichijō Kaneyoshi, Japanese court noble (died 1481)source
  • 1422Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (died 1482)source
  • 1529Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer, poet and author (died 1615)source
  • 1529Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer. (died 1615)source
  • 1532Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died 1560)source
  • 1561John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (died 1623)source
  • 1570Sultan Murad Mirza, Mughal prince (died 1599)source
  • 1630John Talbot of Lacock, English politician and general (died 1714)source
  • 1660King George I of Great Britain (died 1727)source
  • 1761John Rennie the Elder, Scottish-born civil engineer (died 1821)source
  • 1770Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1828)source
  • 1840Carlota of Mexico, Empress of Mexico (died 1927)source
  • 1848Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary and educator (died 1925)source
  • 1848Paul Gauguin, French artist (died 1903)source
  • 1905James J. Braddock, American heavyweight boxer (died 1974)source
  • 1917Dean Martin, American actor, singer (died 1995)source
  • 1942Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist (died 2011)source
  • 1958Prince, African-American musician (died 2016)source
  • 1959Mike Pence, American politician and former Vice President of the United Statessource
  • 1965Mick Foley, American professional wrestlersource

Deaths

  • 555Pope Vigilius dies at Syracuse on his journey back home. His body is brought to Rome and buried in the San Martino ai Monti.source
  • 929Ælthryth, English princess and countess of Flanders (born 877)source
  • 940Qian Hongzun, heir apparent of Wuyue (born 925)source
  • 951Lu Wenji, Chinese chancellor (born 876)source
  • 1048Berno of Reichenau, German abbotsource
  • 1232Wawrzyniec (bishop of Wrocław) (or Lawrence), Polish bishopsource
  • 1263Boniface, Savoyan nobleman (House of Savoy) (born 1245)source
  • 1283Robert of Holy Island, English Benedictine monk and bishopsource
  • 1329Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (born 1274)source
  • 1329Robert I dies, to be succeeded by his 5-year-old son, David II.source
  • 1337William I, Count of Hainaut (born 1286)source
  • 1358Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shōgun (born 1305)source
  • 1394Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (plague) (born 1366)source
  • 1492Casimir IV Jagiellon, of the Jagiellon Royal House, dies, ending his reign over Poland and Lithuania.source
  • 1492Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (born 1427)source
  • 1498Anđeo Zvizdović, Bosnian Franciscan friar and evangelist (born c. 1420)source
  • 1571Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer (born 1502)source
  • 1594Rodrigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's physician (executed for treason) (born 1525)source
  • 1603Prince Şehzade Mahmud of the Ottoman Empire, the 16-year-old son of Sultan Murad III, is executed on orders of his father, on advice of the Grand Vizier, after being accused unjustly of an assassination plot.source
  • 1618Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (born 1577)source
  • 1697John Aubrey, English writer and antiquarian (born 1626)source
  • 1697John Aubrey, antiquary and memoirist (born 1626)source
  • 1710Louise de La Vallière, mistress of King Louis XIV of France (born 1644)source
  • 1753Archibald Cameron of Locheil, last Scottish Jacobite to be executed for treason (born 1707)source
  • 1754Nicolai Eigtved, Danish architect (born 1701)source
  • 1779William Warburton, English critic, Bishop of Gloucester (born 1698)source
  • 1826Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician (born 1787)source
  • 1840King Frederick William III of Prussia (born 1770)source
  • 1843Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (born 1770)source
  • 1863Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (born 1790)source
  • 1876Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway (born 1807)source
  • 1893Edwin Booth, American actor (born 1833)source
  • 1910Goldwin Smith, British-born Canadian historian and journalist (born 1823)source
  • 1937Jean Harlow, American actress (born 1911)source
  • 1954English cryptanalyst, mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, age 41, commits suicide by cyanide poisoning.source
  • 1954Alan Turing, British mathematician, cryptanalyst, and pioneer computer scientist (born 1912)source
  • 2006Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is killed by a US airstrike.source