History of Today 06 July: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 06 July in History

06 Jul 2022: The Georgia Guidestones, a monument in the United States, are heavily damaged in a bombing, and are dismantled later the same day. Read more
06 Jul 2021: An Antonov An-26 operating as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing all 28 aboard. Read more
06 Jul 2013: At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria. Read more
06 Jul 2013: A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board. Read more
06 Jul 2013: A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the town's central area. Read more
06 Jul 2006: The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years. Read more
06 Jul 2003: The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively. Read more
06 Jul 1998: Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport. Read more
06 Jul 1997: The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland. Read more
06 Jul 1996: A McDonnell Douglas MD-88 operating as Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 experiences a turbine engine failure during takeoff from Pensacola International Airport, killing two and injuring five of the 147 people on board. Read more
06 Jul 1995: In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. Read more
06 Jul 1989: The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff. Read more
06 Jul 1988: The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life. Read more
06 Jul 1982: While attempting to return to Sheremetyevo International Airport, Aeroflot Flight 411, an Ilyushin Il-62, crashes near Mendeleyevo, Moscow Oblast, killing all 90 people on board. Read more
06 Jul 1975: The Comoros declares independence from France. Read more
06 Jul 1967: Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war. Read more
06 Jul 1966: Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President. Read more
06 Jul 1964: Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom. Read more
06 Jul 1962: As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place. Read more
06 Jul 1962: The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time. Read more
06 Jul 1957: Althea Gibson wins at the Wimbledon Championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so. Read more
06 Jul 1957: John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles. Read more
06 Jul 1947: Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India. Read more
06 Jul 1947: The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. Read more
06 Jul 1944: Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to his court-martial. Read more
06 Jul 1944: The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut. Read more
06 Jul 1942: Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. Read more
06 Jul 1941: World War II: The German army launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk. Read more
06 Jul 1940: Story Bridge, a major landmark in Brisbane, as well as Australia's longest cantilever bridge is formally opened. Read more
06 Jul 1939: Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany closes the last remaining Jewish enterprises. Read more
06 Jul 1937: Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid. Read more
06 Jul 1936: A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61 m) into the River Irwell. Read more
06 Jul 1933: The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2. Read more
06 Jul 1919: The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship. Read more
06 Jul 1918: The Left SR uprising in Russia starts with the assassination of German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach by Cheka members. Read more
06 Jul 1917: World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt. Read more
06 Jul 1892: Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded. Read more
06 Jul 1887: David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Read more
06 Jul 1885: Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. Read more
06 Jul 1854: The Republican Party of the United States held its first convention in Jackson, Michigan. Read more
06 Jul 1809: The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars. Read more
06 Jul 1801: First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras. Read more

Famous Births on 06 July

06 Jul 2000: Zion Williamson, American basketball player Zion Lateef Williamson is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays the power forward position. Following a freshman-year stint with the Duke Blue Devils, Williamson was selected by the Pelicans with the first overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2020. In 2021, he became the fourth youngest NBA player to be selected to an All-Star game. Injuries have curtailed his subsequent NBA seasons. Read more
06 Jul 1998: Comethazine, American rapper Frank Jahmier Childress, known professionally as Frank Kole and formerly as Comethazine, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his platinum-selling single "Walk", which peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and "Bands". Both songs were included on his debut mixtape, Bawskee (2018). Read more
06 Jul 1995: Ludwig Ahgren, American YouTuber and live streamer Ludwig Anders Ahgren, also known mononymously as Ludwig, is an American live streamer, YouTuber, podcaster, esports commentator and competitor. He is best known for his live streams, which have been broadcast on Twitch from 2018 through late 2021, on YouTube from late 2021 until 2024, and again on Twitch since 2024. He broadcasts video game-related content as well as non-video-game-related content such as game shows and contests. Ahgren is also known for his work as an esports commentator at various Super Smash Bros. Melee tournaments. He is the co-owner of the esports organization Shopify Rebellion. He began streaming full-time in 2019. Read more
06 Jul 1994: Andrew Benintendi, American baseball player Andrew Sebastian Benintendi is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Royals, and New York Yankees. Read more
06 Jul 1992: Na-Lae Han, South Korean tennis player Han Na-lae is a South Korean former professional tennis player.
Han has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 149, achieved June 2019, and a doubles ranking of No. 95, set on 7 November 2022. Han won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and two doubles titles on the Challenger Tour, along with 13 singles titles and 28 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. A left-hander, she hits both forehand and backhand with two hands. Read more
06 Jul 1992: Manny Machado, Dominican-American baseball player Manuel Arturo Machado is an American professional baseball third baseman and shortstop for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). Highly recruited from an early age, he was raised in Miami, where he attended Brito High School and was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles with the third overall pick in the 2010 MLB draft. He bats and throws right-handed. Born in the United States, he represents the Dominican Republic internationally. Read more
06 Jul 1990: Jae Crowder, American basketball player Corey Jae Crowder is an American professional basketball player for the Vaqueros de Bayamón of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). Not being heavily recruited out of high school, Crowder committed to South Georgia Technical College and later Howard College, where he led the team to an NJCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in his sophomore season. While at Howard College, Crowder was also named State Farm Junior College Player of the Year. Later, he transferred to Marquette, where he was named Big East Player of the Year in his senior season. Read more
06 Jul 1990: Magaye Gueye, French footballer Magaye Serigne Falilou Gueye is a former professional footballer who played as a forward. A former French youth and under-21 international, in 2012 he switched to play for the Senegal U23s. Read more
06 Jul 1990: Jamal Idris, Australian rugby league player Jamal Dasuki Idris is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. Idris played in representative teams such as Country, Indigenous All Stars, New South Wales and Australia. A centre, he previously played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Gold Coast Titans, Penrith Panthers and Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League. Read more
06 Jul 1990: Justin Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player Justin Schultz is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, and Seattle Kraken, as well as in the National League for HC Lugano. Schultz won back-to-back Stanley Cups with the Penguins in 2016 and 2017. Read more
06 Jul 1988: Kevin Fickentscher, Swiss footballer Kevin Fickentscher is a Swiss professional footballer who plays for Sion II as a goalkeeper. Read more
06 Jul 1987: Sophie Auster, American singer-songwriter and actress Sophie Auster is an American singer/songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of authors Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt. Read more
06 Jul 1987: Manteo Mitchell, American runner Manteo Mitchell is an American sprinter and bobsledder. As a sprinter, he competed in the 200 m, 400 m, and 4 × 400 m relay. He was a member of the USA team that won the gold medal in the Men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Mitchell successfully ran in the 4 x 400 m relay qualifiers at the 2012 Olympic Games despite breaking his fibula during the race, and was later awarded a silver medal after the team's placement in the final. Read more
06 Jul 1987: Kate Nash, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress Kate Marie Nash is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. Her singles "Foundations" (2007) and "Do-Wah-Doo" (2010) charted at numbers 2 and 15 on the UK singles chart and her albums Made of Bricks (2007) and My Best Friend Is You (2010) charted at numbers 1 and 8 on the UK Albums Chart. Read more
06 Jul 1987: Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model Caroline Aparecida Trentini is a Brazilian model. Known for her doll-like face, Trentini rose to fame after capturing Marc Jacob's attention and being cast on the ad campaign. As of 2024, Trentini has been on the cover of international Vogue, 40 times. Trentini ranks on the ''Icons'' list on models.com. Read more
06 Jul 1986: David Karp, American businessman, founded Tumblr David Karp is an American businessperson, best known as the founder and former CEO of the microblogging platform Tumblr. Read more
06 Jul 1985: Ranveer Singh, Indian film actor Ranveer Singh Bhavnani is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi films. Known for his work in a variety of genres, he has received several accolades, including five Filmfare Awards. Singh is among India's highest-paid actors and has been featured in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2012. Read more
06 Jul 1984: Zhang Hao, Chinese figure skater Zhang Hao is a Chinese retired pair skater. With current partner Yu Xiaoyu, he is the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, 2017 Asian Winter Games champion and 2018 Chinese national champion. With former partner Peng Cheng, he is the 2015 Four Continents silver medalist. With former partner Zhang Dan, he is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, a four-time World medalist, and a two-time Four Continents champion. Read more
06 Jul 1983: Gregory Smith, Canadian actor, director, and producer Gregory Edward Smith is a Canadian and American actor and director. Smith has appeared in several Hollywood films, and is known for his roles as Alan Abernathy in Small Soldiers, Ephram Brown on The WB television series Everwood, and Dov Epstein on the Global police drama series Rookie Blue. Read more
06 Jul 1982: Brandon Jacobs, American football player Brandon Christopher Jacobs is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the New York Giants. He played college football for the Auburn Tigers and Southern Illinois Salukis. He was selected by the Giants in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL draft, and won two Super Bowl rings with the team, both against the New England Patriots. He also played one season for the San Francisco 49ers before returning to New York for his final season. Read more
06 Jul 1982: Misty Upham, American actress (died 2014) Misty Anne Upham was an American actress. She attracted critical acclaim for her performance in the 2008 film Frozen River, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. She also appeared in Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian and August: Osage County. Read more
06 Jul 1981: Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player Nnamdi Asomugha is a Nigerian-American actor, director, producer, and former professional football cornerback who played 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles, and San Francisco 49ers. He played college football for the California Golden Bears, and was selected in the first round of the 2003 NFL draft by the Raiders. For several years, he was considered one of the best shutdown corners in the NFL. In his 11-year career, he was voted All-Pro four times, including twice to the first team. Asomugha was selected as a member of Fox Sports's NFL All-Decade Team 2000–2009 and USA Today's NFL All-Decade Team 2000s, and is considered one of the greatest Raiders of all time. Read more
06 Jul 1981: Roman Shirokov, Russian footballer Roman Nikolayevich Shirokov is a Russian international football official and a former player. He is the general director of Leon Saturn Ramenskoye. Read more
06 Jul 1980: Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player Pau Gasol Sáez is a Spanish former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 18 seasons, primarily as a power forward. He was a six-time NBA All-Star and a four-time All-NBA team selection, twice on the second team and twice on the third team. Gasol won two NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009 and 2010. He was the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2002 with the Memphis Grizzlies, the first non-American to win that award. He is regarded as one of the greatest power forwards of all time and one of the greatest European players of all time. He is the older brother of former NBA player Marc Gasol. Read more
06 Jul 1980: Eva Green, French actress and model Eva Gaëlle Green is a French actress, known for starring in both major studio and independent productions, in which she often portrays eccentric, villainous, and complex characters. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she began her career in theatre before making her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003). She portrayed Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven (2005). The following year, she played Bond girl Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film Casino Royale (2006), for which she received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. Read more
06 Jul 1980: Joell Ortiz, American rapper Joell Christopher Ortiz is an American rapper and former member of the group Slaughterhouse. Raised in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn's Cooper Park Houses, he first gained recognition after appearing in the Unsigned Hype column of The Source Magazine, as well as on the Chairman's Choice list on XXL Magazine. Read more
06 Jul 1979: Kevin Hart, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter Kevin Darnell Hart is an American comedian and actor. After winning several stand-up comedy competitions, Hart had his first breakthrough when Judd Apatow cast him in a recurring role on the TV series Undeclared (2001). Hart's comedic reputation continued to grow with the release of his first stand-up album I'm a Grown Little Man (2009). He has since released four more comedy albums: Seriously Funny (2010), Laugh at My Pain (2011), Let Me Explain (2013), and What Now? (2016). Read more
06 Jul 1978: Adam Busch, American actor, director, and producer Adam Busch is an American actor best known for starring as Warren Mears on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Read more
06 Jul 1978: Tamera Mowry, American actress and producer Tamera Darvette Mowry-Housley is an American actress, television personality, and former singer. She first gained fame for her teen role as Tamera Campbell on the ABC/WB sitcom Sister, Sister. She has also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Twitches and its sequel, Twitches Too, and played Dr. Kayla Thornton on the medical drama Strong Medicine. Read more
06 Jul 1978: Tia Mowry, American actress and producer Tia Dashon Mowry is an American actress. She first gained recognition for her starring role as Tia Landry in the sitcom Sister, Sister (1994–1999), opposite her twin sister Tamera Mowry. The sisters then starred together in the fantasy comedy film Seventeen Again (2000) and voiced the LaBelle sisters in the animated series Detention (1999–2000). The two also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Twitches (2005) and its sequel, Twitches Too (2007). They were featured in the reality series Tia & Tamera from 2011 to 2013. Read more
06 Jul 1978: Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player Kevin Senio is a former New Zealand rugby union professional who most recently played professionally for ASM Clermont Auvergne. He is currently the head coach of Ponsonby Rugby club, based in Auckland, New Zealand. Senio is also a former All Black, making his debut after coming on for Piri Weepu against Australia in New Zealand's 34–24 win in the final match of the 2005 Tri Nations Series and is currently a Junior All Black. That is Senio's only test thus far into his career. During his time at Bay of Plenty, Senio played in a tour match against the British & Irish Lions and was later called into the Junior All Blacks tour of Australia against Australia A. Read more
06 Jul 1977: Max Mirnyi, Belarusian tennis player Maksim Mikalaevich "Max" Mirnyi is a Belarusian former professional tennis player. Read more
06 Jul 1977: Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer Makhaya Ntini is a South African former professional cricketer, who played all forms of the game. He was the first black player to play for the South African national cricket team. Ntini made his Test cricket debut against Sri Lanka, One Day International debut against New Zealand in 1998. Ntini was a member of the South Africa team that won the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy. Read more
06 Jul 1976: Rory Delap, English-Irish footballer Rory John Delap is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in England, he made 11 appearances for the Republic of Ireland national team. Read more
06 Jul 1976: Ioana Dumitriu, Romanian-American mathematician and academic Ioana Dumitriu is a Romanian-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include the theory of random matrices, numerical analysis, scientific computing, and game theory. Read more
06 Jul 1975: 50 Cent, American rapper and actor Curtis James Jackson III, known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, television producer, record executive, and businessman. Born in Queens, a borough of New York City, Jackson began pursuing a musical career in 1996. In 1999–2000, he recorded his debut album, Power of the Dollar, for Columbia Records. During a shooting in May 2000, he was struck by nine bullets, causing its release to be canceled and Jackson to be dropped from the label. His 2002 mixtape Guess Who's Back? was discovered by Detroit rapper Eminem, who signed Jackson to his label Shady Records that year. Read more
06 Jul 1975: Sebastián Rulli, Argentine-Mexican actor and model Sebastián Oscar Rulli is an Argentine-Mexican actor and model. Born in Argentina, he has spent most of his professional career in Mexico, becoming a dual Argentine and Mexican citizen. Read more
06 Jul 1975: Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Iranian journalist and activist Amir Abbas Fakhravar is an Iranian political activist and dissident. He is the founder and senate chairman of the National Iranian Congress (NIC) an organization opposing the Islamic Republic regime in Iran. Read more
06 Jul 1975: Kristian Woolf, Australian rugby league player and coach Kristian Woolf is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is the head coach of the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL). At international level, he has coached Tonga. Read more
06 Jul 1974: Harashima, Japanese professional wrestler Harashima is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is currently working in DDT Pro-Wrestling, where he is a ten-time KO-D Openweight Champion and a former eleven-time KO-D Tag Team Champion. Read more
06 Jul 1974: Zé Roberto, Brazilian footballer José Roberto da Silva Júnior, commonly known as Zé Roberto, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a left wing-back or as a midfielder. He is most well known for his time with Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, as well as Portuguesa, Grêmio and Palmeiras in the Brazilian league. Read more
06 Jul 1972: Daniel Andrews, Australian politician, 48th Premier of Victoria Daniel Michael Andrews is an Australian former politician who served as the 48th premier of Victoria from 2014 to 2023 and the leader of the Victorian Labor Party from 2010 to 2023. He was the member of the Legislative Assembly (MP) for the district of Mulgrave from 2002 to 2023. Andrews is the longest-serving Labor premier and the fourth-longest-serving premier in Victorian state history. Read more
06 Jul 1972: Laurent Gaudé, French author and playwright Laurent Gaudé is a French writer. Read more
06 Jul 1972: Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, Ukrainian sprinter Zhanna Pintusevich-Block is a Ukrainian former world champion sprinter who competed in the Olympic Games. Read more
06 Jul 1970: Inspectah Deck, American rapper and producer Jason S. Hunter, better known by his stage name Inspectah Deck, is an American rapper and hip hop producer. He is a member of the groups Wu-Tang Clan and Czarface. Read more
06 Jul 1967: Heather Nova, Bermudian singer-songwriter and guitarist Heather Nova is a Bermudian singer-songwriter. Born in Bermuda to a Canadian mother and Bermudian father, she spent most of her childhood aboard a sailboat, sailing throughout the Atlantic and Caribbean oceans. As a teenager, she relocated to the United States, where she attended the Rhode Island School of Design, earning a degree in film in 1989. Read more
06 Jul 1964: Thierry Warmoes, politician Thierry Warmoes is a Belgian politician and former member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, he represented Namur from June 2019 to July 2023. Read more
06 Jul 1962: Todd Bennett, English runner and coach (died 2013) Todd Anthony Bennett was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. Read more
06 Jul 1962: Peter Hedges, American author, screenwriter, and director Peter Simpson Hedges is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, film director and film producer. Read more
06 Jul 1960: Maria Wasiak, Polish businesswoman and politician, Polish Minister of Infrastructure and Development Maria Wasiak is a Polish politician who served as Minister of Infrastructure and Development of Poland and the President of Polish State Railways. Read more
06 Jul 1959: Richard Dacoury, French basketball player Richard Dacoury is a former French professional basketball player. He retired in 1998, as the basketball player who won the most French League titles during his career, with 9. Dacoury is considered to be one the greatest players in French basketball history. He had his jersey number 7 retired by Limoges, in October 2010. Read more
06 Jul 1958: Jennifer Saunders, English actress, comedian and screenwriter Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedian, actress, singer, impressionist, satirist and screenwriter. Saunders originally found attention in the 1980s, when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with her best friend and comedy partner, Dawn French. With French, Saunders co-wrote and starred in their eponymous sketch show, French and Saunders and later received acclaim in the 1990s for writing and playing her character Edina Monsoon in her sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She received a BAFTA Fellowship in 2009 with French. Read more
06 Jul 1957: Phil Mallow, American politician Phil Mallow is an American politician serving as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. Read more
06 Jul 1953: Nanci Griffith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2021) Nanci Caroline Griffith was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She often appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits, starting in 1985 during season 10. Griffith's career spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country, folk, and what she termed "folkabilly." She won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1994 for her 1993 recording, Other Voices, Other Rooms. The album features Griffith covering the songs of artists who were her major influences. One of her better-known songs is "From a Distance," which was written and composed by Julie Gold. Read more
06 Jul 1953: Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer and manager (died 2014) Kaiser Kalambo was a Zambian coach and former footballer. He represented Zambia in three African Cup of Nations tournaments and was named Zambian captain in 1980, the same year in which he was voted Zambian footballer of the year. He later coached several club sides in Zambia and Botswana. Read more
06 Jul 1953: Robert Ménard, French politician and former journalist Robert Ménard is a French politician and former journalist who has served as Mayor of Béziers since 2014. Read more
06 Jul 1952: Hilary Mantel, English author and critic (died 2022) Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces. Read more
06 Jul 1952: Adi Shamir, Israeli cryptographer and co-inventor of RSA cryptography Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm, a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme, one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science. In 2002, Ron Rivest, Len Adleman, and Shamir won the ACM Turing Award. Read more
06 Jul 1951: Lorna Golding, Former First Lady of Jamaica Lorna Golding is the wife of the 8th Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding. Lorna Golding, is sister of retired JLP MP, Minister, and Speaker of the House Pearnel Charles. She completed school at New York Business Institute and worked at the office of British and Africa Affairs and the United Kingdom and Supply delegation, a subsidiary of the British Consulate. She later worked for the NAACP and with the Sierra Leone Mission to the United Nations. Her career has included working in Early Childhood Education – Building a Better Jamaica. Read more
06 Jul 1951: Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor and producer Geoffrey Roy Rush is an Australian actor. Known for often playing eccentric roles on both stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award, making him the only Australian to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, in addition to three BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Rush is the founding president of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year. Read more
06 Jul 1951: Rick Sternbach, American illustrator and concept designer Richard Michael Sternbach is an illustrator who is best known for his space illustrations and his work on the Star Trek television series. Read more
06 Jul 1950: John Byrne, English-American author and illustrator John Lindley Byrne is a British-born American comic book writer and artist of superhero comics. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes; with noted work on Marvel Comics's X-Men and Fantastic Four. Byrne also facilitated the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics's Superman franchise with the limited series The Man of Steel, the first issue of which featured the comics' first variant cover. Read more
06 Jul 1949: Noli de Castro, Filipino journalist and politician, 14th Vice President of the Philippines Manuel "Noli" Leuterio de Castro Jr. is a Filipino broadcaster, journalist, and former politician who served as the 12th vice president of the Philippines from 2004 until 2010 under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He was elected to the Senate of the Philippines in 2001 after receiving the most votes of any senator in the 2001 election. Read more
06 Jul 1949: Phyllis Hyman, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 1995) Phyllis Linda Hyman was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Hyman's music career spanned the late 1970s through the early 1990s, and she was best known for her expansive contralto range. Some of her most notable songs are "You Know How to Love Me" (1979), "Living All Alone" (1986) and "Don't Wanna Change the World" (1991). Hyman is also known for her covers of popular songs, which include renditions of "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "Here's That Rainy Day", and "What You Won't Do For Love". Read more
06 Jul 1949: Michael Shrieve, American composer, drummer, and percussionist Michael Shrieve is an American drummer, percussionist, and composer. He is best known as the drummer of the rock band Santana, playing on the band's first seven albums from 1969 to 1974. At age 20, Shrieve was the second youngest musician to perform at Woodstock. His drum solo during "Soul Sacrifice" in the Woodstock film has been described as "electrifying", although he considers his solo during the same piece in 1970 at Tanglewood the superior performance. Read more
06 Jul 1948: Nathalie Baye, French actress (died 2026) Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye was a French film, television and stage actress. She began her career in 1970 and has appeared in more than 80 films. A ten-time César Award nominee, her four wins were for Every Man for Himself (1980), Strange Affair (1981), La Balance (1982), and The Young Lieutenant (2005). Her other films include Day for Night (1973), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Tell No One (2006), and The Assistant (2015). In 2009, she was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Read more
06 Jul 1948: Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Canadian academic and politician, 26th Canadian Minister of Veterans Affairs Jean-Pierre Blackburn, is a Canadian politician and diplomat. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Jonquière—Alma from 2006 to 2011; earlier, he was the Progressive Conservative MP for Jonquière from 1984 to 1993. Read more
06 Jul 1948: Brad Park, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach Douglas Bradford Park is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A defenceman, Park played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings. Considered to be one of the best defencemen of his era, he was named to an All-Star team seven times. The most productive years of Park's career were overshadowed by superstars Bobby Orr — with whom he played for a brief time — and Denis Potvin, so Park never won the Norris Trophy as the season's top defenceman. Park was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988. In 2017, he was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history. Read more
06 Jul 1947: Roy Señeres, Filipino diplomat and politician (died 2016) Roy Villareal Señeres was a Filipino politician and diplomat who initially ran in the 2016 Philippine presidential election under the Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka party before withdrawing on February 5, 2016, three days before his death. Señeres was elected as a member of the Philippine House of Representatives representing the OFW Family Club party-list in the 2013 general elections. He is the father of former congressman Christian Señeres. Read more
06 Jul 1946: George W. Bush, American businessman and politician, 43rd President of the United States George Walker Bush is an American former politician, businessman, and former United States Air Force officer who was the 43rd president of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He is the eldest son of George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States. Read more
06 Jul 1946: Fred Dryer, American football player and actor John Frederick Dryer is an American actor, radio host, and former professional football player who played as a defensive end in the National Football League for 13 years with the New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams, participating in 176 games and recorded 103 career sacks starting in 1969 until his retirement in 1981, and is the only NFL player to score two safeties in one game. Following his retirement from football, Dryer had a successful career as a film and television actor, notably starring as the titular character Detective Sgt. Rick Hunter in the NBC police drama series Hunter, with his height of 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) and physique proving useful for action roles. Read more
06 Jul 1946: Peter Singer, Australian philosopher and academic Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He wrote the book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues for vegetarianism, and the essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", which argues the moral imperative of donating to help the poor around the world. For most of his career he was a preference utilitarian. He revealed in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian. Read more
06 Jul 1946: Sylvester Stallone, American actor, director, and screenwriter Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is an American actor and filmmaker. In a film career spanning more than fifty years, Stallone has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two BAFTA Awards. Stallone is one of only two actors in history to have starred in a box-office No. 1 film across six consecutive decades. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $7.5 billion worldwide. Read more
06 Jul 1945: Burt Ward, American actor Burt Ward is an American actor, animal welfare activist and businessman. He played Dick Grayson's Robin, the sidekick of Batman, in the television series Batman (1966–1968), its theatrical feature film, the Saturday morning animated series The New Adventures of Batman (1977), the two-episode pilot Legends of the Superheroes (1979), the animated reunion films Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) and Batman vs. Two-Face (2017), and the live-action television event Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019). Read more
06 Jul 1944: Byron Berline, American world champion bluegrass fiddle player (died 2021) Byron Douglas Berline was an American fiddle player who played many American music styles, including old time, ragtime, bluegrass, Cajun, country, and rock. Read more
06 Jul 1944: Gunhild Hoffmeister, German runner Gunhild Hoffmeister is a retired German middle-distance runner. She competed for East Germany at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won two silver and one bronze medal, becoming the only German distance runner to win three Olympic medals. Together with Hans Grodotzki, she is the only German runner to win two medals at the same Olympics. Her personal best time in 1,500 metres was 4:01.4, achieved in July 1976 in Potsdam. This places her ninth on the German all-time list. Read more
06 Jul 1943: Tamara Sinyavskaya, Russian soprano Tamara Ilyinichna Sinyavskaya is a Soviet and Russian mezzo-soprano from the Bolshoi Theatre. Read more
06 Jul 1942: Ian Leslie, Indonesian-Australian journalist and television host Ian Craig Leslie OAM is an Indonesian-born Australian television journalist and corporate communicator. Read more
06 Jul 1941: David Crystal, British linguist, author, and academic David Crystal is a British linguist who studies the English language. Read more
06 Jul 1941: Reinhard Roder, German footballer and manager Reinhard Roder is a German former football player and manager. Read more
06 Jul 1940: Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh politician, 1st President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev is a Kazakh politician who served as the first president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. He also held the special title of Elbasy from 2010 to 2022 and chairman of the Security Council from 1991 to 2022. Read more
06 Jul 1940: Jeannie Seely, Grammy Award-winning country music singer-songwriter and Grand Ole Opry member (died 2025) Marilyn Jeanne Seely was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and author. Primarily identified with country music, Seely found success with the Grammy Award-winning song "Don't Touch Me" (1966). Her soul-inspired vocal delivery gave her the nickname of "Miss Country Soul". Seely was a member of and performer on the Grand Ole Opry, having appeared more times on the program than any other performer. She was credited with breaking the "Gingham Curtain," the Opry's conservative dress code for performers. Read more
06 Jul 1940: Siti Norma Yaakob, Malaysian lawyer and judge Tan Sri Dato' Seri Siti Norma binti Yaakob was a Malaysian lawyer and judge, noted for being the first woman to become Chief Judge of Malaya. After completing her legal studies in London, England and being called to the bar in 1962, Siti Norma returned to Malaysia and worked her way up through the judicial system. She was the first Malaysian woman barrister of Malay heritage and the first woman to take up an executive position in the government's legal service, and she achieved many more "firsts" as she advanced in her career, finally becoming Chief Judge in 2005. Read more
06 Jul 1939: Jet Harris, English bass player (died 2011) Terence "Jet" Harris was an English rock and roll musician. He was an original member of Cliff Richard's backing band the Shadows, serving as the bass guitarist from the group's inception until April 1962, after which he had success as a soloist and as a duo with that band's drummer, Tony Meehan. Read more
06 Jul 1939: Mary Peters, English-Irish pentathlete and shot putter Lady Mary Elizabeth Peters is a Northern Irish former athlete and athletics administrator. She is best known as the 1972 Olympic champion in the pentathlon, for which she won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. Peters was named as Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter on 27 February 2019. She was installed in St. George's Chapel, the chapel of the Order, on Garter Day, 17 June. Read more
06 Jul 1939: Gérard Bourgoin, French sports executive, president of AJ Auxerre (2011–2013) and (Ligue de Football Professionnel) (died 2025) Gérard Bourgoin was a French businessman, sports chairman and politician. He was the president of the French football club AJ Auxerre from 24 May 2011 to 19 April 2013. Read more
06 Jul 1937: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian-Icelandic pianist and conductor Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Soviet-born Icelandic pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. Ashkenazy has collaborated with well-known orchestras and soloists. In addition, he has recorded a large repertoire of classical and romantic works. His recordings have earned him seven Grammy Awards and he has been awarded three stages of Iceland's Order of the Falcon for his contribution to music. Read more
06 Jul 1937: Ned Beatty, American actor (died 2021) Ned Thomas Beatty was an American actor. In a career that spanned five decades, he appeared in more than 160 film and television roles. Throughout his career, Beatty gained a reputation for being "the busiest actor in Hollywood". His film appearances included Deliverance (1972), White Lightning (1973), All the President's Men (1976), Network (1976), Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), Back to School (1986), Rudy (1993), Shooter (2007) and voice roles in Toy Story 3 (2010), and Rango (2011). He also had the series regular role of Stanley Bolander in the first three seasons of the hit NBC TV drama Homicide: Life on the Street. Read more
06 Jul 1937: Gene Chandler, American singer-songwriter and producer Gene Chandler is an American singer, songwriter, music producer, and record-label executive. Chandler is nicknamed "the Duke of Earl" or, simply, "the Duke." He is best known for his most successful songs, "Duke of Earl" and "Groovy Situation", and his association with the Dukays, the Impressions, and Curtis Mayfield. Read more
06 Jul 1937: Bessie Head, Botswanan writer (died 1986) Bessie Amelia Emery Head was a South African writer who, though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer. She wrote novels, short fiction and autobiographical works that are infused with spiritual questioning and reflection. Notable books by her include When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), Maru (1971) and A Question of Power (1973). Read more
06 Jul 1937: Michael Sata, Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (died 2014) Michael Charles Chilufya Sata was a Zambian politician who served as the fifth president of Zambia from 2011 until his death in 2014. A social democrat, he led the Patriotic Front (PF), a major political party in Zambia. Under President Frederick Chiluba, Sata was a minister during the 1990s as part of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government. He went into opposition in 2001, forming the PF. Read more
06 Jul 1936: Dave Allen, Irish comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2005) David Tynan O'Mahony, known professionally as Dave Allen, was an Irish comedian, satirist, and actor. He was best known for his observational comedy. Allen regularly provoked indignation by highlighting political hypocrisy and showing disdain for religious authority. His technique and style have influenced young British comedians. Read more
06 Jul 1935: Candy Barr, American model, dancer, and actress (died 2005) Juanita Dale Slusher, better known by her stage name Candy Barr, was an American stripper, burlesque dancer, actress, and adult model in men's magazines of the mid-20th century. Read more
06 Jul 1935: Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama is the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served as the resident spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet before 1959, and subsequently led the Tibetan government in exile represented by the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamshala, India. Read more
06 Jul 1932: Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect and academic Herman Hertzberger is a Dutch architect, and a professor emeritus of the Delft University of Technology. In 2012 he received the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Read more
06 Jul 1931: Della Reese, American actress and singer (died 2017) Della Reese was an American singer, actress, television personality, author and ordained minister. As a singer, she recorded blues, gospel, jazz and pop. Several of her singles made the US Hot 100, including the number two charting song, "Don't You Know?" (1959). As a television personality and actress, she was the first black woman to host her own talk show and starred on the highly-rated CBS television series Touched by an Angel. Read more
06 Jul 1931: László Tábori, Hungarian runner and coach (died 2018) László Tábori was a Hungarian middle- and long-distance runner, best known for equalling the 1500 metres world record and placing 4th in that event at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Read more
06 Jul 1930: George Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2021) George Edward Armstrong was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. A centre, he played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He played 1,188 NHL games between 1950 and 1971, all with Toronto and a franchise record. He was the team's captain for 13 seasons. Armstrong was a member of four Stanley Cup championship teams and played in seven NHL All-Star Games. He scored the final goal of the NHL's "Original Six" era as Toronto won the 1967 Stanley Cup. Read more
06 Jul 1930: Ian Burgess, English racing driver (died 2012) Ian John Burgess was a British racing driver. He participated in 20 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 19 July 1958, and numerous non-Championship Formula One races. He scored no championship points. Read more
06 Jul 1929: Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, French politician historian (died 2023) Hélène Carrère d'Encausse was a French political historian who specialised in Russian history. From 1999 until her death in 2023, she served as the Perpetual Secretary of the Académie Française, to which she was first elected in 1990. Read more
06 Jul 1927: Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player and journalist (died 1988) Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. He was born in The Hague. His father Jan Donner was a prominent Dutch politician and judge. Donner won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957, and 1958. At the Gijón tournament of 1956 he came third, behind Bent Larsen and Klaus Darga, equal with Alberic O'Kelly. FIDE, the World Chess Federation, awarded Donner the GM title in 1959. He played for the Netherlands in the Chess Olympiads 11 times. He was the uncle of a former Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Piet Hein Donner. Read more
06 Jul 1927: Janet Leigh, American actress and author (died 2004) Jeanette Helen Morrison, known professionally as Janet Leigh, was an American actress, businesswoman and author. Leigh was established as one of the earliest scream queens for starring in horror films, and is also known for starring in dramatic productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). She amassed several screen and stage credits over five decades, and received accolades such as a Golden Globe Award, a Laurel Award, and a nomination for an Academy Award. Read more
06 Jul 1927: Pat Paulsen, American comedian (died 1997) Patrick Layton Paulsen was an American comedian and satirist known for his roles on several of the Smothers Brothers television shows, and for his satirical campaigns for President of the United States between 1968 and 1996. Read more
06 Jul 1926: Sulev Vahtre, Estonian historian and academic (died 2007) Sulev Vahtre was an eminent Estonian historian. Read more
06 Jul 1926: Dorothy E. Smith, Canadian sociologist (died 2022) Dorothy Edith Smith was a British-born Canadian ethnographer, feminist studies scholar, sociologist, and writer with research interests in a variety of disciplines. These include women's studies, feminist theory, psychology, and educational studies. Smith was also involved in certain subfields of sociology, such as the sociology of knowledge, family studies, and methodology. She founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography. Read more
06 Jul 1925: Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (died 2002) Ruth Winifred Cracknell AM was an Australian character and comic actress, comedian and author. Her career encompassed all genres, including radio, theatre, television, and film. She appeared in many dramatic as well as comedy roles throughout a career spanning some 56 years. In theatre she was well known for her Shakespearean roles. Read more
06 Jul 1925: Merv Griffin, American actor, singer, and producer, created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! (died 2007) Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. was an American television show host and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer, later appearing in film and on Broadway. From 1962 to 1986, Griffin hosted his own talk show, The Merv Griffin Show. Griffin also created several game shows, including Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, through his production companies, Merv Griffin Enterprises and Merv Griffin Entertainment. Read more
06 Jul 1925: Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1981) William John Clifton Haley was an American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later, Alligator", "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Rocket 88", "Skinny Minnie", and "Razzle Dazzle". Haley has sold over 60 million records worldwide. In 1987, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Read more
06 Jul 1925: Gazi Yaşargil, Turkish neurosurgeon and academic (died 2025) Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil was a Turkish-Swiss medical scientist and neurosurgeon. He collaborated with Raymond M. P. Donaghy M.D at the University of Vermont in developing microneurosurgery. Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumours with instruments of his own design. From 1953 until his retirement in 1993, he was first resident, chief resident and then professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Zurich and the Zurich University Hospital. In 1999, he was honored as "Neurosurgery’s Man of the Century 1950–1999" at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting.
He was a founding member of Eurasian Academy. Read more
06 Jul 1924: Mahim Bora, Indian writer and educationist, recipients of the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour (died 2016) Mahim Bora was a prominent Indian writer and educationist from Assam. His notable works include "Kathonibari Ghat," a collection of short stories, and "Edhani Mahir Hanhi," a novel. He was elected as a president of the Assam Sahitya Sabha held in 1989 at Doomdooma. He was awarded most notably the Padma Shri in 2011, the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2001 and the Assam Valley Literary Award in 1998. Assam Sahitya Sabha conferred its highest honorary title Sahityacharyya on him in 2007.
He also participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942 held in Kaliabor town in the Nagaon district of Assam. Read more
06 Jul 1924: Louie Bellson, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (died 2009) Louie Bellson, was an American jazz drummer, composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator. He is credited with pioneering the use of two bass drums. His name was often seen in sources as Louis Bellson, although he himself preferred the spelling Louie. Read more
06 Jul 1923: Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general and politician, 1st President of Poland (died 2014) Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski was a Polish military general, politician and de facto leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 until 1989, serving as a military dictator from 13 December 1981 until 22 July 1983. He was the First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party between 1981 and 1989, making him the last leader of the Polish People's Republic. Jaruzelski served as Prime Minister from 1981 to 1985, the Chairman of the Council of State from 1985 to 1989 and briefly as President of Poland from 1989 to 1990, when the office of President was restored after 37 years. He was also the last commander-in-chief of the Polish People's Army, which in 1990 became the Polish Armed Forces. Read more
06 Jul 1922: William Schallert, American actor; president (1979–81) of the Screen Actors Guild (died 2016) William Joseph Schallert was an American character actor who appeared in dozens of television shows and films over a career spanning more than 60 years. He is known for his roles on Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957–1959), Death Valley Days (1955–1962), and The Patty Duke Show (1963–1966). Read more
06 Jul 1921: Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (died 2017) Allan Joseph MacEachen was a Canadian politician and statesman who served as a senator and several times as a Cabinet minister. He was the first deputy prime minister of Canada and served from 1977 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984. Read more
06 Jul 1921: Nancy Reagan, American actress and activist, 42nd First Lady of the United States (died 2016) Nancy Davis Reagan was an American actress who was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She was the second wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States. Read more
06 Jul 1919: Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor and educator (died 2007) Ernst Haefliger was a Swiss tenor. Read more
06 Jul 1919: Edward Kenna, Australian Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 2009) Edward Kenna, VC was an Australian soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. Before his death, he was the last surviving Australian to have been awarded a Victoria Cross during the Second World War. Read more
06 Jul 1918: Sebastian Cabot, English-Canadian actor (died 1977) Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot was a British actor. He is best remembered as the gentleman's gentleman Giles French in the CBS-TV sitcom Family Affair (1966–1971). He was also known for playing the Wazir in the film Kismet (1955) and Dr. Carl Hyatt in the CBS-TV series Checkmate (1960–1962). Read more
06 Jul 1918: Francisco Moncion, Dominican-American ballet dancer, charter member of the New York City Ballet (died 1995) Francisco Monción was a Dominican-born American ballet dancer and choreographer who was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his long career, spanning some forty years, he created roles in major works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and others. He was also an amateur painter. Read more
06 Jul 1917: Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner and coach (died 2004) Arthur Leslie Lydiard was a New Zealand runner and athletics coach. He has been lauded as one of the outstanding athletics coaches of all time and is credited with popularising the sport of running and making it commonplace across the sporting world. His training methods are based on a strong endurance base and periodisation. Read more
06 Jul 1916: Harold Norse, American poet and author (died 2009) Harold Norse was an American writer who created a body of work using the American idiom of everyday language and images. One of the expatriate artists of the Beat Generation, Norse was widely published and anthologized. Read more
06 Jul 1915: Leonard Birchall, Royal Canadian Air Force pilot (died 2004) Air Commodore Leonard Joseph Birchall,, "The Saviour of Ceylon", was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) officer who warned of a Japanese attack on the island of Ceylon during the Second World War. Read more
06 Jul 1914: Viola Desmond, Canadian businesswoman and civil rights activist (first Canadian woman on a Canadian banknote) (died 1965) Viola Irene Desmond was a Canadian civil and women's rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre. For this, she was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between the seat that she had paid for and the seat that she used, which was more expensive. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada. Read more
06 Jul 1914: Vince McMahon Sr., American wrestling promoter, founded WWE (died 1984) Vincent James McMahon, also referred to as Vince McMahon Sr., was an American professional wrestling promoter. He is best known for running the Capitol Wrestling Corporation, later known as the World Wide Wrestling Federation and the World Wrestling Federation. His father, Jess McMahon, and his son Vince McMahon were also professional wrestling promoters. Read more
06 Jul 1914: Ernest Kirkendall, American chemist and metallurgist (died 2005) Ernest Oliver Kirkendall was an American chemist and metallurgist. He is known for his 1947 discovery of the Kirkendall effect. Read more
06 Jul 1912: Heinrich Harrer, Austrian geographer and mountaineer (died 2006) Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and an SS sergeant. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps, in July 1938. Harrer and the team flew the Nazi flag atop the mountain. Harrer had joined the Nazi Party shortly after the annexation of Austria in March 1938, and was personally received by Hitler after the climb. A year later in 1939, he and the climbing team went on an expedition to the Indian Himalayas, where they were arrested by British colonial authorities due to the outbreak of World War II. He eventually escaped to Tibet, staying there until 1951. He is the author of two autobiographical books, Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959). Read more
06 Jul 1911: June Gale, American actress (died 1996) June Gale was an American actress sometimes credited under her married name as June Levant. Read more
06 Jul 1910: René Le Grèves, French cyclist (died 1946) René Le Grevès was a French professional road bicycle racer. As an amateur cyclist, he won the silver medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit. In 1933 Le Grevès became professional, and between 1933 and 1939, he won sixteen stages in the Tour de France. Read more
06 Jul 1909: Eric Reece, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Tasmania (died 1999) Eric Elliott Reece, AC was Premier of Tasmania on two occasions: from 26 August 1958 to 26 May 1969, and from 3 May 1972 to 31 March 1975. His 13 years as premier remains the second longest in Tasmania's history, second to only Robert Cosgrove. Reece was the first Premier of Tasmania to have been born in the 20th century. Read more
06 Jul 1908: Anton Muttukumaru, Sri Lankan general and diplomat (died 2001) Major General Anton Muttukumaru, OBE, ED, ADC was the first native Ceylonese to serve as the Commander of the Ceylon Army, a post he held from 1955 to 1959. He also served as Ceylon's High Commissioner to Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Ambassador to Egypt. Read more
06 Jul 1907: Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and educator (died 1954) Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. Her 1940 self-portrait titled The Dream holds the record for the most expensive work by a female artist ever auctioned, at $54.7 million. Read more
06 Jul 1907: George Stanley, Canadian soldier, historian, and author, designed the flag of Canada (died 2002) Colonel George Francis Gillman Stanley was a Canadian author, soldier, historian at the Royal Military College of Canada and Mount Allison University, public servant, and designer of the Canadian Flag. Read more
06 Jul 1905: Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (died 1982) Juan O'Gorman was a Mexican painter and architect. Read more
06 Jul 1903: Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982) Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine. Read more
06 Jul 1900: Frederica Sagor Maas, American author and screenwriter (died 2012) Frederica Alexandrina Sagor Maas was an American screenwriter, playwright, supercentenarian, memoirist and author,
the youngest daughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia. As an essayist, Maas was best known for a detailed, tell-all memoir of her time spent in early Hollywood. A supercentenarian, she was one of the oldest surviving entertainers from the silent film era. Read more
06 Jul 1900: Elfriede Wever, German Olympic runner (died 1941) Elfriede Wever was a German runner. She competed at the 1928 Olympics in the 800 m event and finished in ninth place. Read more
06 Jul 1899: Susannah Mushatt Jones, American supercentarian (died 2016) Susannah Mushatt Jones was an American supercentenarian who was, aged 116 years and 311 days, the world's oldest living person and the last living American verified to have been born in the 19th century. She received tributes from the United States House of Representatives and from the Alabama House of Representatives "for a remarkable lifetime of exceptional achievement lived during three centuries." Read more
06 Jul 1898: Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian soldier and composer (died 1962) Hanns Eisler was an Austrian and German composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin is named after him. Read more
06 Jul 1897: Richard Krautheimer, German-American historian and scholar (died 1994) Richard Krautheimer was a German art historian, architectural historian, Baroque scholar, and Byzantinist. Read more
06 Jul 1892: Will James, American author and illustrator (died 1942) William Roderick James was a Canadian-American artist and writer of the American West. He is known for writing Smoky the Cowhorse, for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal, and numerous "cowboy" stories for adults and children. His artwork, which predominantly involved cowboy and rodeo scenes, followed "in the tradition of Charles Russell", and much of it was used to illustrate his books. In 1992, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Read more
06 Jul 1891: Earle S. MacPherson, American engineer, created MacPherson strut (died 1960) Earle Steele MacPherson was an American automotive engineer, most famous for developing the MacPherson strut in the 1940s. Read more
06 Jul 1890: Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American author and scholar (died 1936) Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and won a Newbery Medal in 1928. He studied at Duff School, and at Duff College, both within the University of Calcutta in India, at the University of Tokyo in Japan and at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University in the US. Read more
06 Jul 1887: Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter and poet (died 1985) Marc Chagall was a Russian and French artist of Jewish ancestry. An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. Read more
06 Jul 1887: Annette Kellermann, Australian swimmer and actress (died 1975) Annette Marie Sarah Kellermann was an Australian professional swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress, and writer, usually spelt with a single final n as Annette Kellerman. Read more
06 Jul 1886: Marc Bloch, French historian and academic (died 1944) Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on medieval France over the course of his career. As an academic, he worked at the University of Strasbourg, the University of Paris, and the University of Montpellier. Read more
06 Jul 1885: Ernst Busch, German field marshal (died 1945) Ernst Bernhard Wilhelm Busch was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II who commanded the 16th Army and Army Group Centre. Read more
06 Jul 1884: Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American businessman and sailor (died 1970) Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, an innovator and champion player of contract bridge, and a member of the Vanderbilt family. Read more
06 Jul 1883: Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (died 1971) Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, was a Rhodesian politician and physician. He served as the fourth Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1933 to 1953 and remained in office as the first prime minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until October 1956, becoming the longest serving prime minister in British Commonwealth history, until 1961. Read more
06 Jul 1878: Eino Leino, Finnish poet and journalist (died 1926) Eino Leino was a Finnish poet and journalist who is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poetry and a national poet of Finland. His poems combine modern and Finnish folk elements. Much of his work is in the style of the Kalevala and folk songs in general. Nature, love, and despair are frequent themes in Leino's work. He is beloved and widely read in Finland today. Read more
06 Jul 1877: Arnaud Massy, French golfer (died 1950) Arnaud George Watson Massy was one of France's most successful professional golfers, most notable for winning the 1907 Open Championship. He was the first player from outside Scotland and England to win a major golf championship. Read more
06 Jul 1873: Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician, 140th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1955) Dimitrios E. Maximos was a Greek banker and politician. He briefly served as Prime Minister of Greece after World War II. Read more
06 Jul 1868: Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (died 1935) Princess Victoria was the fourth child and second daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra and the younger sister of King George V. Read more
06 Jul 1865: Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (died 1950) Émile Jaques-Dalcroze was a Swiss composer, musician, and music educator who developed Dalcroze eurhythmics, an approach to learning and experiencing music through movement. Dalcroze eurhythmics influenced Carl Orff's pedagogy, used in music education throughout the United States. Read more
06 Jul 1858: William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (died 1943) Sir William Hill Irvine was an Australian politician and judge. He served as Premier of Victoria (1902–1904), Attorney-General of Australia (1913–1914), and Chief Justice of Victoria (1918–1935). Read more
06 Jul 1856: George Howard Earle, Jr., American lawyer and businessman (died 1928) George Howard Earle Jr. was an American lawyer and businessman from Philadelphia who worked as a receiver and rescued multiple businesses from financial hardship. He was a political reformer and a member of the Committee of One Hundred in Philadelphia which worked to end bossism politics in the city. Read more
06 Jul 1846: Ángela Peralta, Mexican opera singer (died 1883) Ángela Peralta was an operatic soprano of international fame and a leading figure in the operatic life of 19th-century Mexico. Called the "Mexican Nightingale" in Europe, she had already sung to acclaim in major European opera houses by the age of 20. Although primarily known for her singing, she was also a composer as well as an accomplished pianist and harpist. Read more
06 Jul 1843: John Downer, Australian politician, 16th Premier of South Australia (died 1915) Sir John William Downer, KCMG, KC was an Australian politician who served two terms as Premier of South Australia, from 1885 to 1887 and again from 1892 to 1893. He later entered federal politics and served as a Senator for South Australia from 1901 to 1903. He was the first of four Australian politicians from the Downer family dynasty. Read more
06 Jul 1840: José María Velasco Gómez, Mexican painter and academic (died 1912) José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús Velasco Gómez Obregón, generally known as José María Velasco, was a 19th-century Mexican polymath, most famous as a painter who made Mexican geography a symbol of national identity through his paintings. He was both one of the most popular artists of the time and internationally renowned. He received many distinctions such as the gold medal of the Mexican National Expositions of Bellas Artes in 1874 and 1876; the gold medal of the Philadelphia International Exposition in 1876, on the centenary of U.S. independence; and the medal of the Paris Universal Exposition in 1889, on the centenary of the outbreak of the French Revolution. His painting El valle de México is considered Velasco's masterpiece, of which he created seven different renditions. Of all the nineteenth-century painters, Velasco was the "first to be elevated in the post-Revolutionary period as an exemplar of nationalism." Read more
06 Jul 1838: Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian philologist and scholar (died 1923) Vatroslav Jagić was a Croatian scholar of Slavic studies in the second half of the 19th century. Read more
06 Jul 1837: R. G. Bhandarkar, Indian orientalist and scholar (died 1925) Sir Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar (Konkani: [raːmkɾuʂɳ ɡopaːɭ bʱaːɳɖaːɾkɑɾ], Marathi: [raːməkɾuʂɳə ɡoːpaːɭ bʱaːɳɖaːɾkəɾ] was an Indian scholar, orientalist, and social reformer. Read more
06 Jul 1832: Maximilian I of Mexico (died 1867) Maximilian I was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Mexican Republic on 19 June 1867. Read more
06 Jul 1831: Sylvester Pennoyer, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Oregon (died 1902) Sylvester Pennoyer was an American educator, attorney, and politician in Oregon. He was born in Groton, New York, attended Harvard Law School, and moved to Oregon at age 25. A Democrat, he served two terms as the eighth governor of Oregon from 1887 to 1895. He joined the Populist cause in the early 1890s and became the second Populist Party state governor in history. He was noted for his political radicalism, his opposition to the conservative Bourbon Democracy of President Grover Cleveland, his support for labor unions, and his opposition to the Chinese in Oregon. He was also noted for his prickly attitude toward both U.S. Presidents whose terms overlapped his own — Benjamin Harrison and Cleveland, whom he once famously told via telegram to mind his own business. Read more
06 Jul 1829: Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (died 1880) Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg was the German pretender to the throne of second duke of Schleswig-Holstein from 1863, although in reality Prussia took overlordship and real administrative power. Read more
06 Jul 1823: Sophie Adlersparre, Swedish publisher, writer, and women's rights activist (died 1895) Carin Sophie Adlersparre, known by her pen-name Esselde, was a Swedish feminist, writer and publisher who was one of the pioneers of the 19th-century women's rights movement in Sweden. She was the founder and editor of the first women's magazine in Scandinavia, Home Review, in 1859–1885; co-founder of Friends of Handicraft in 1874–1887; founder of the Fredrika Bremer Association (Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet) in 1884; and one of the first two women to be a member of a state committee in Sweden in 1885. Read more
06 Jul 1818: Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (died 1879) Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen was a German chess master. He won the great international tournaments of 1851 and 1862, but lost matches to Paul Morphy in 1858, and to Wilhelm Steinitz in 1866. Accordingly, he is generally regarded as having been the world's leading chess player from 1851 to 1858, and leading active player from 1862 to 1866, although the title of World Chess Champion did not yet exist. Read more
06 Jul 1817: Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (died 1905) Albert von Kölliker was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, and histologist. Read more

Notable Deaths on 06 July

06 Jul 2024: Khyree Jackson, American football player (born 1999) Khyree Anthony Jackson was an American football cornerback. He played college football for the Fort Scott CC Greyhounds, Alabama Crimson Tide, and the Oregon Ducks. The Minnesota Vikings selected him in the fourth round of the 2024 NFL draft, as the 108th overall pick. Read more
06 Jul 2022: James Caan, American actor (born 1940) James Edmund Caan was an American actor. He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1978. Read more
06 Jul 2022: Arnaldo Pambianco, Italian former professional road racing cyclist (born 1935) Arnaldo Pambianco was an Italian professional road racing cyclist who was active between 1956 and 1966. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1961 Giro d'Italia. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in the road race and finished in seventh individually and fourth with the Italian team. Read more
06 Jul 2022: Norah Vincent, American writer (born 1968) Norah Mary Vincent was an American writer. She was a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a quarterly columnist on politics and culture for the national gay news magazine The Advocate. She was a columnist for The Village Voice and Salon.com. Her writing appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, New York Post, The Washington Post and other periodicals. She gained particular attention in 2006 for her book Self-Made Man, detailing her experiences when she lived as a man for eighteen months. Read more
06 Jul 2020: Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter, fiddle-player and guitarist (born 1936) Charles Edward Daniels was an American singer, musician and songwriter. His music fused rock, country, blues and jazz and was a pioneering contribution to Southern rock and progressive country. He was best known for his number-one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Much of his output, including all but one of his eight Billboard Hot 100 charting singles, was credited to the Charlie Daniels Band. Read more
06 Jul 2020: Mary Kay Letourneau, American child rapist (born 1962) Mary Katherine Fualaau was an American teacher who pleaded guilty in 1997 to two counts of felony second-degree rape of a child and subsequently married her victim/former student. The case received national attention. Read more
06 Jul 2020: Ennio Morricone, Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player (born 1928) Ennio Morricone was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello, eleven Nastro d'Argento, two European Film Awards, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and the Polar Music Prize. Read more
06 Jul 2019: Cameron Boyce, American actor (born 1999) Cameron Mica Boyce was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor, appearing in the 2008 films Mirrors and Eagle Eye, along with the comedy film Grown Ups (2010) and its 2013 sequel. His first starring role was on the Disney Channel comedy series Jessie (2011–2015). Read more
06 Jul 2019: João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova music style (born 1931) João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto, was a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s. Around the world, he was often called the "father of bossa nova"; in his native Brazil, he was referred to as "O Mito" .
In 1965, the album Getz/Gilberto was the first jazz record to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It also won Best Jazz Instrumental Album – Individual or Group and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
Gilberto's Amoroso was nominated for a Grammy in 1978 in the category Best Jazz Vocal Performance. In 2001 he won in the Best World Music Album category with João voz e violão. Read more
06 Jul 2018: Shoko Asahara, founder of Japanese cult group Aum Shinrikyo (born 1955) Shoko Asahara , born Chizuo Matsumoto , was a Japanese cult leader and terrorist who founded and led the doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo. He was convicted of masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway which killed 14 people and injured thousands more, and was also involved in several other assassinations and terrorist attacks. Asahara was sentenced to death in 2004, and his final appeal failed in 2011. In June 2012, his execution was postponed due to further arrests of Aum members. He was ultimately executed along with other senior members of Aum Shinrikyo on July 6, 2018. Read more
06 Jul 2015: Jerry Weintraub, American film producer, and talent agent (born 1937) Jerome Charles Weintraub was an American film producer, talent manager and actor whose television films won him three Emmys. Read more
06 Jul 2014: Alan J. Dixon, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 34th Illinois Secretary of State (born 1927) Alan John Dixon was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1951 to 1971, as the Illinois Treasurer from 1971 to 1977, as the Illinois Secretary of State from 1977 to 1981 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1981 to 1993. Read more
06 Jul 2013: Lo Hsing Han, Burmese businessman, co-founded Asia World (born 1935) Lo Hsing Han or Law Sit Han was a Burmese businessman and drug trafficker. He later became a major business tycoon across Burma, with financial ties to Singapore. He was an ethnic Kokang-Chinese. His spouse, Zhang Xiaowen, is a Chinese citizen and native of Gengma County in Yunnan. Read more
06 Jul 2012: Hani al-Hassan, Palestinian engineer and politician (born 1939) Hani al Hassan, also known as Abu Tariq and Abu-l-Hasan, was a leader of the Fatah organization in Germany and member of the Palestinian Authority Cabinet and the Palestinian National Council. Read more
06 Jul 2011: Carly Hibberd, Australian road racing cyclist (born 1985) Carly Hibberd was an Australian professional road racing cyclist who competed in Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)-sanctioned races. She won the 2008 Australian National Criterium Championships and was second in that year's Tour de Perth. Aged six, Hibberd took up BMX before moving onto mountain biking and then road cycling.through a talent identification scheme. She began riding competitive events in 2004 and went on to compete in several women's events organised by the UCI. Hibberd was hit while riding her bike by a driver while training in Northern Italy and died from her injuries. A memorial trophy and park in Toowoomba are named after her. Read more
06 Jul 2010: Harvey Fuqua, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1929) Harvey Fuqua was an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label executive. Read more
06 Jul 2009: Vasily Aksyonov, Russian author and academic (born 1932) Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the author of The Burn and of Generations of Winter, a family saga following three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953. Read more
06 Jul 2009: Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1916) Robert Strange McNamara, also known by his initials RSM, was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. He remains the longest-serving secretary of defense, having remained in office over seven years. He played a major role in promoting the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. Read more
06 Jul 2007: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American author (born 1939) Kathleen E. Woodiwiss was an American novelist. She pioneered the historical romance genre with the 1972 publication of her novel The Flame and the Flower. Read more
06 Jul 2006: Kasey Rogers, American actress (born 1925) Kasey Rogers was an American actress and writer, best known for playing the second Louise Tate in the sitcom Bewitched. Read more
06 Jul 2005: Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (born 1926) Evan Hunter was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of the 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of the police procedural genre. Read more
06 Jul 2005: Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913) Claude Eugène Henri Simon was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more
06 Jul 2004: Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician, 10th President of Austria (born 1932) Thomas Klestil was an Austrian diplomat and politician who served as the president of Austria from 1992 until his death in 2004. He was elected in 1992 and re-elected in 1998. Read more
06 Jul 2004: Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter (born 1946) Syreeta Wright, known as Syreeta, was an American singer-songwriter, best known for her music during the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Wright's career heights were songs in collaboration with her ex-husband Stevie Wonder and musical artist Billy Preston. Read more
06 Jul 2003: Buddy Ebsen, American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1908) Buddy Ebsen, was an American actor and dancer, widely known for his role as Jed Clampett in the CBS television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971) as well as his title role in the television detective drama Barnaby Jones (1973–1980). Also known as Frank "Buddy" Ebsen. Read more
06 Jul 2003: Çelik Gülersoy, Turkish lawyer, historical preservationist, writer and poet (born 1930) Çelik Gülersoy was a Turkish lawyer, historical preservationist, writer and poet. He is best remembered for the heritage conservation works he carried out on historical sites during his long-time tenure as director general of the Touring and Automobile Club of Turkey (TTOK). Read more
06 Jul 2002: Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman, founded Reliance Industries (born 1932) Dhirajlal Hirachand "Dhirubhai" Ambani was an Indian businessman who founded Reliance Industries in 1958. Ambani took Reliance public in 1977. In 2016, he was honoured posthumously with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour for his contributions to trade and industry. Read more
06 Jul 2002: John Frankenheimer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930) John Michael Frankenheimer was an American film and television director, known both for his social dramas and his action/suspense pictures. Among his best-known theatrical film credits are Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, The Train, Seconds, Grand Prix, The Fixer (1968), The Iceman Cometh (1973), French Connection II (1975), Black Sunday (1977), 52 Pick-Up (1986), and Ronin (1998). Read more
06 Jul 2000: Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (born 1911) Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Warsaw Uprising. Read more
06 Jul 1999: Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1901) Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquess of the Gardens of Aranjuez, was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist. He is best known for composing the Concierto de Aranjuez, a cornerstone of the classical guitar repertoire. Read more
06 Jul 1998: Roy Rogers, American cowboy, actor, and singer (born 1911) Roy Rogers, nicknamed the King of the Cowboys, was an American actor, singer, television host, and rodeo performer. Read more
06 Jul 1997: Chetan Anand, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921) Chetan Anand was a Bollywood film producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose first film, Neecha Nagar, was awarded the Grand Prix Prize at the first ever Cannes Film Festival in 1946. Later, he co-founded Navketan Films with his younger brother Dev Anand in 1949. Read more
06 Jul 1995: Aziz Nesin, Turkish author and poet (born 1915) Aziz Nesin was a Turkish writer, humorist and the author of more than 100 books. Born in a time when Turks did not have official surnames, he had to adopt one after the Surname Law of 1934 was passed. Although his family carried the nickname "Topalosmanoğlu", after an ancestor named "Topal Osman", he chose the surname "Nesin". In Turkish, Nesin? means, What are you?. Read more
06 Jul 1994: Ahmet Haxhiu, Kosovan activist (born 1932) Ahmet Haxhiu was a Kosovo Albanian political activist and one of the main gunrunners for Kosovo Liberation Army in the early 1990s. He was one of the leading figures of the Revolutionary Movement for Albanian Unification, which aimed at uniting various illegal groups who fought against the government of FR Yugoslavia. Haxhiu later joined People's Movement of Kosovo and was considered the right hand of Adem Demaçi. Read more
06 Jul 1992: Marsha P. Johnson, American drag queen performer and activist (born 1945) Marsha P. Johnson was an American LGBTQ activist, sex worker and performer. Sometimes known as the "Saint of Christopher Street", she is considered an important figure in the LGBTQ and transgender rights movements due to her involvement in the Stonewall riots, her work with Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), and her advocacy for people with AIDS. Read more
06 Jul 1991: Mudashiru Lawal, Nigerian footballer (born 1954) Mudashiru Babatunde "Muda" Lawal was a Nigerian footballer who played as a midfielder for both club and country. Read more
06 Jul 1989: János Kádár, Hungarian mechanic and politician, Hungarian Minister of the Interior (born 1912) János József Kádár was a Hungarian Communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, a position he held for 32 years. Declining health led to his retirement in 1988, and he died in 1989 after being hospitalized for pneumonia. Read more
06 Jul 1987: Elli Stenberg, Finnish politician (born 1903) Ellen Aleksandra Stenberg was a Finnish politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) and the Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL), she represented Häme Province North between April 1945 and April 1966. Prior to being elected, she was imprisoned for twelve years for political reasons. Read more
06 Jul 1986: Jagjivan Ram, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (born 1908) Jagjivan Ram, popularly known as Babuji, was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as a minister with various portfolios for over 30 years, making him the longest-serving Union Cabinet minister in Indian history. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India from January to July 1979. He played a pivotal role as the Defence Minister of India during the Indo-Pak War of 1971. As Union Agriculture Minister during two separate tenures, he contributed significantly to the Green Revolution and the modernization of Indian agriculture, particularly during the 1974 drought when he was entrusted with addressing a severe food crisis. Read more
06 Jul 1979: Van McCoy, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1940) Van Allen Clinton McCoy was an American record producer, arranger, songwriter and singer. He is known for his 1975 internationally successful hit "The Hustle". He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit, and produced songs by such recording artists as Brenda & the Tabulations; David Ruffin; The Stylistics; The Presidents; Faith, Hope & Charity; New Censation; Gladys Knight & the Pips; Aretha Franklin; Peaches & Herb; Lesley Gore; and Stacy Lattisaw. Read more
06 Jul 1978: Babe Paley, American socialite and fashion style icon (born 1915) Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley was an American magazine editor and socialite. Affectionately known as Babe throughout her life, Paley made notable contributions to the field of magazine editing. In recognition of her distinctive fashion sense, she was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1958. Together with her two sisters, Minnie and Betsey, she was a popular debutante in her youth and the trio were dubbed "The Fabulous Cushing Sisters" in high society. She was married twice; first, to the sportsman Stanley G. Mortimer Jr. and second, to CBS founder William S. Paley. Read more
06 Jul 1977: Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli viola player and composer (born 1907) Ödön Pártos [alternate transcription in English: Oedoen Partos, Hungarian: Pártos Ödön, Hebrew: עֵדֶן פרטוש ] was a Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer. A recipient of the Israel Prize, he taught and served as director of the Rubin Academy of Music, now known as the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv. Read more
06 Jul 1976: Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (born 1886) Zhu De was a Chinese general, military strategist, politician and revolutionary in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Read more
06 Jul 1976: Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician (born 1887) Fritz Gottlieb Karl Lenz was a German geneticist, member of the Nazi Party, and influential specialist in eugenics in Nazi Germany. Read more
06 Jul 1975: Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Turkish historian, scholar, and poet (born 1905) Reşad Ekrem Koçu was a Turkish writer and historian. His best known work is the unfinished Istanbul Encyclopedia, which recounts many tales of Istanbul from Ottoman times. Koçu and his colorful depictions of Ottoman Istanbul are celebrated in Orhan Pamuk's book Istanbul: Memories and the City. Read more
06 Jul 1973: Otto Klemperer, German-American conductor and composer (born 1885) Otto Nossan Klemperer was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain. He began his career as an opera conductor, but he was later better known as a conductor of symphonic music. Read more
06 Jul 1971: Louis Armstrong, American singer and trumpet player (born 1901) Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist. Among the most influential figures in jazz, his career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of the genre. Armstrong received numerous accolades including the Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance for Hello, Dolly! in 1965, as well as a posthumous win for the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1972. His influence crossed musical genres, with inductions into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame, among others. Read more
06 Jul 1967: Hilda Taba, Estonian architect and educator (born 1902) Hilda Taba was an architect, a curriculum theorist, a curriculum reformer, and a teacher educator. Taba was born in the small village of Kooraste, Estonia. Her mother's name was Liisa Leht, and her father was a schoolmaster whose name was Robert Taba. Hilda Taba began her education at the Kanepi Parish School. She then attended the Võru’s Girls’ Grammar School and earned her undergraduate degree in English and Philosophy at the University of Tartu. When Taba was given the opportunity to attend Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, she earned her master's degree. Following the completion of her degree at Bryn Mawr College, she attended Teachers College at Columbia University. She applied for a job at the University of Tartu but was turned down because she was female, so she became curriculum director at the Dalton School in New York City. In 1951, Taba accepted an invitation to become a professor at San Francisco State College, now known as San Francisco State University. Read more
06 Jul 1966: Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player and manager (born 1892) Samuel Pond "Sad Sam" Jones was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball with the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox between 1914 and 1935. Jones batted and threw right-handed. His sharp breaking curveball also earned him the nickname "Horsewhips Sam". Read more
06 Jul 1964: Claude V. Ricketts, American admiral (born 1906) Claude Vernon Ricketts was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy, who served as the Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1961 to 1964. Read more
06 Jul 1963: George, duke of Mecklenburg (born 1899) George, Duke of Mecklenburg was the head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1934 until his death. Through his father, he was a descendant of Emperor Paul I of Russia. Read more
06 Jul 1962: Paul Boffa, Maltese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1890) Sir Paul Boffa, OBE, was a Maltese politician and medical doctor who served as prime minister in the Colony of Malta after self-rule was reinstated by the British colonial authorities, following the end of the Second World War. He was created a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. Read more
06 Jul 1962: William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897) William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Read more
06 Jul 1962: Joseph August, archduke of Austria (born 1872) Archduke Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia was a prominent member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, who was a Feldmarschall of the Austro-Hungarian Army, and briefly the head of state of Hungary after World War I. Read more
06 Jul 1961: Scott LaFaro, American bassist (born 1936) Rocco Scott LaFaro was an American jazz double bassist known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. LaFaro broke new ground on the instrument, developing a countermelodic style of accompaniment rather than playing traditional walking basslines, as well as virtuosity that was practically unmatched by any of his contemporaries. Despite his short career and death at the age of 25, he remains one of the most influential jazz bassists, and was ranked number 16 on Bass Player magazine's top 100 bass players of all time. Read more
06 Jul 1961: Woodall Rodgers, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Dallas (born 1890) James Woodall Rodgers was an American attorney, businessman, and mayor of Dallas, Texas. Read more
06 Jul 1960: Aneurin Bevan, Welsh-English politician, Secretary of State for Health (born 1897) Aneurin "Nye" Bevan was a Welsh Labour Party politician, noted for spearheading the creation of the British National Health Service during his tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee's government. He is also known for his wider contribution to the founding of the British welfare state. He was first elected as MP for Ebbw Vale in 1929, and used his Parliamentary platform to make a number of influential criticisms of Winston Churchill and his government during the Second World War. Before entering Parliament, Bevan was involved in miners' union politics and was a leading figure in the 1926 general strike. Bevan is widely regarded as one of the most influential left-wing politicians in British history. Read more
06 Jul 1959: George Grosz, German painter and illustrator (born 1893) George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taught for many years at the Art Students League of New York. In 1959 he returned to Berlin, where he died shortly afterwards. Read more
06 Jul 1954: Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (born 1866) Cornelia Sorabji was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University. Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system. Hoping to remedy this, Sorabji presented herself for the LLB examination of Bombay University in 1897 and the pleader's examination of Allahabad High Court in 1899. She became the first female advocate in India but would not be recognised as a barrister until the law which barred women from practising was changed in 1923. Read more
06 Jul 1952: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (born 1867) Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was the 14th premier of Quebec from 1920 to 1936. A member of the Parti libéral du Québec, Taschereau's near 16-year tenure remains the longest uninterrupted term of office among Quebec premiers. Read more
06 Jul 1947: Adolfo Müller-Ury, Swiss-American painter (born 1862) Adolfo Müller-Ury, KSG was a Swiss-born American portrait painter and impressionistic painter of roses and still life. Read more
06 Jul 1946: Horace Pippin, American painter (born 1888) Horace Pippin was an American painter who painted a range of themes, including scenes inspired by his service in World War I, landscapes, portraits, and biblical subjects. Some of his best-known works address the U.S.'s history of slavery and racial segregation. He was the first Black artist to be the subject of a monograph, Selden Rodman's Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America (1947), and The New York Times eulogized him as "the most important Negro painter" in American history. He is buried at Chestnut Grove Cemetery Annex in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania. A Pennsylvania State historical Marker at 327 Gay Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, identifies his home at the time of his death and commemorates his accomplishments. Read more
06 Jul 1932: Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English author (born 1859) Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Born in Scotland, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted and he joined the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. Before writing The Wind in the Willows, he published three other books: Pagan Papers (1893), The Golden Age (1895), and Dream Days (1898). Read more
06 Jul 1922: Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and missionary (born 1863) Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, ; 29 April 1863 – 6 July 1922), was a Polish Catholic religious sister who founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, dedicated to spreading Catholicism in Africa. She was beatified in 1975. Read more
06 Jul 1918: Wilhelm von Mirbach, German diplomat (born 1871) Wilhelm Maria Theodor Ernst Richard Graf von Mirbach-Harff was a German diplomat. He was assassinated by Left Socialist-Revolutionaries while serving as ambassador to Russia. Read more
06 Jul 1916: Odilon Redon, French painter and illustrator (born 1840) Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist draftsman, printmaker, and painter. Read more
06 Jul 1914: Georges Legagneux, French aviator (born 1882) Georges Théophile Legagneux was a French aviator, the first person to fly an aircraft in several countries, and the first to fly a fixed-wing aircraft higher than both 10,000 and 20,000 feet. Read more
06 Jul 1907: August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist and theologian (born 1826) August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein was a Baltic German linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, and theologian. Read more
06 Jul 1904: Abai Qunanbaiuly, Kazakh poet and philosopher (born 1845) Abai Qūnanbaiūly was a Kazakh poet, composer and Hanafi Maturidi theologian philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened Islam. His name is also transliterated as Abay Kunanbayev ; among Kazakhs he is known as Abai. Read more
06 Jul 1902: Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (born 1890) Maria Teresa Goretti was an Italian virgin martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine, and the family had to share a house with another family, the Serenellis. She took over household duties while her mother and siblings worked in the fields. Read more
06 Jul 1901: Chlodwig Carl Viktor, German prince and chancellor (born 1819) Chlodwig Carl Viktor, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince of Ratibor and Corvey, usually referred to as the Prince of Hohenlohe, was a German statesman, who served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia from 1894 to 1900. Read more
06 Jul 1893: Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (born 1850) Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. Read more
06 Jul 1868: Harada Sanosuke, Japanese captain (born 1840) Harada Sanosuke was a Japanese warrior (samurai) who lived in the late Edo period. He was the 10th unit captain of the Shinsengumi, and died during the Boshin War. Read more
06 Jul 1854: Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (born 1789) Georg Simon Ohm was a German mathematician and physicist. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current; this relation is known as Ohm's law. Read more
06 Jul 1835: John Marshall, American captain and politician, 4th United States Secretary of State (born 1755) John Marshall was an American statesman, jurist, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835. He remains the longest-serving chief justice and fifth-longest-serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential justices ever to serve. Prior to joining the court, Marshall briefly served as both the U.S. secretary of state under President John Adams and a U.S. representative from Virginia, making him one of the few Americans to have held a constitutional office in each of the three branches of the United States federal government. Read more
06 Jul 1815: Samuel Whitbread, English politician (born 1764) Samuel Whitbread was a British politician. The heir of a wealthy brewer, he was a staunch Whig sitting in Parliament from 1790 to his death. Shortly after the Battle of Waterloo he died by suicide, having been very sympathetic to the defeated French emperor Napoleon. Read more
06 Jul 1813: Granville Sharp, English activist (born 1735) Granville Sharp was an English scholar, philanthropist and one of the first campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. Born in Durham, he initially worked as a civil servant in the Board of Ordnance. His involvement in abolitionism began in 1767 when he defended a severely injured enslaved person from Barbados in a legal case against his master. Increasingly devoted to the cause, he continually sought test cases against the legal justifications for slavery, and in 1769 he published the first tract in England that explicitly attacked the concept of slavery. Read more
06 Jul 1809: Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, French general (born 1775) Antoine-Charles-Louis, Comte de Lasalle was a French cavalry general during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Often called "The Hussar General," he first gained fame for his role in the Capitulation of Stettin. Throughout his short career, he became known as a daring adventurer and was credited with many exploits, fighting on every front. He was killed at the Battle of Wagram. Read more
06 Jul 1802: Daniel Morgan, American general and politician (born 1736) Daniel Morgan was an American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia. One of the most respected battlefield tacticians of the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, he later commanded troops during the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791–1794. Read more

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