History of Today in India – 06 June

Explore the history of today 06 June in India, including important events, famous personalities, and milestones for UPSC SSC,Banking & PSC exams.

Last updated on 06 June 2026, 10:05 AM

📜 Important Events on 06 June in World History

06 Jun 2024: The launch of SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4) Read more
06 Jun 2023: Russo-Ukrainian war: The Kakhovka Dam is destroyed. Read more
06 Jun 2017: Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to capture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Read more
06 Jun 2002: Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. Read more
06 Jun 1994: China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board. Read more
06 Jun 1993: Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia. Read more
06 Jun 1992: Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes into the Darién Gap in Panama, killing all 47 aboard. Read more
06 Jun 1985: The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979. Read more
06 Jun 1982: 1982 Lebanon War: The war begins as forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut. Read more
06 Jun 1976: Chief Minister of Sabah Faud Stephens, Peter Joinud Mojuntin, and several other politicians are killed in a plane crash near Kota Kinabalu International Airport in Malaysia. Read more
06 Jun 1975: British referendum results in continued membership of the European Economic Community, with 67% of votes in favour. Read more
06 Jun 1971: Soyuz 11 is launched. The mission ends in disaster when all three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are suffocated by uncontrolled decompression of the capsule during re-entry on 29 June. Read more
06 Jun 1971: Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collides with a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the United States Marine Corps over the San Gabriel Mountains, killing 50. Read more
06 Jun 1966: March Against Fear: African-American civil rights activist James Meredith is wounded in an ambush by white sniper James Aubrey Norvell. Meredith and Norvell are photographed by Jack R. Thornell, whose photo will receive the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in Photography, the last one to be awarded in the category. Read more
06 Jun 1944: World War II: Commencement of Operation Overlord: The Allied invasion of Normandy begins with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred to as D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. By the end of the day, the Allies have landed on five invasion beaches and are pushing inland. Read more
06 Jun 1944: World War II: Capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges by British paratroopers, also known as Operation Coup de Main (incorrectly referred to as Operation Deadstick.) Read more
06 Jun 1942: World War II: The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part—Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū and Hiryū—are sunk, as is the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The American carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann are also sunk. Read more
06 Jun 1934: New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Read more
06 Jun 1933: The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey. Read more
06 Jun 1925: The original Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Chrysler from the remains of the Maxwell Motor Company. Read more
06 Jun 1918: World War I: U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties during the Battle of Belleau Wood while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry (the losses are exceeded at the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943). Read more
06 Jun 1912: The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. Read more
06 Jun 1894: Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike. Read more
06 Jun 1892: The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation. Read more
06 Jun 1889: The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle. Read more
06 Jun 1882: The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River. Read more
06 Jun 1862: American Civil War: The First Battle of Memphis, a naval engagement fought on the Mississippi River, results in the capture of Memphis, Tennessee by Union forces from the Confederates. Read more
06 Jun 1859: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales. The date is still celebrated as Queensland Day. Read more
06 Jun 1844: The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London. Read more
06 Jun 1832: The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard. Read more
06 Jun 1822: Alexis St Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion. Read more
06 Jun 1813: War of 1812: In the Battle of Stoney Creek, considered a critical turning point in the war, a British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler. Read more

🎂 Important Births on 06 June in World History

06 Jun 2001: Rayan Aït-Nouri, French-Algerian footballer Rayan Aït-Nouri is a professional footballer who plays as a left-back or a left wing-back for Premier League club Manchester City. Born in France, he plays for the Algeria national team. Read more
06 Jun 2000: Haechan, South Korean singer Lee Dong-hyuck, known professionally as Haechan (해찬), is a South Korean singer. He is a member of South Korean boy band NCT and its subunit NCT U alongside its fixed subunits NCT 127 and NCT Dream. On September 8, 2025, Haechan began his solo debut with the release of his first studio album Taste. Read more
06 Jun 1998: Kenny Pickett, American football player Kenneth Pickett is an American professional football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers, winning the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award in 2021, and was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft. Pickett spent two seasons as the Steelers' primary starter, helping lead the team to a playoff appearance in 2023. Due to inconsistent play, he was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles, where he spent one season as a backup and was a member of the team that won Super Bowl LIX. Read more
06 Jun 1996: Jack Hetherington, Australian rugby league player Jack Hetherington is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop forward for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League (NRL). Read more
06 Jun 1995: Julian Green, American soccer player Julian Wesley Green is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for 2. Bundesliga club Greuther Fürth. Read more
06 Jun 1994: Yvon Mvogo, Swiss footballer Yvon Landry Mvogo Nganoma is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Lorient. Born in Cameroon, he plays for the Switzerland national team. Read more
06 Jun 1993: Vic Mensa, American rapper and singer Victor Kwesi Mensah, known professionally as Vic Mensa, is an American rapper. Born and raised in Chicago, he was a member of the regional hip-hop groups Kids These Days and Savemoney prior to releasing his debut solo mixtape, Innanetape (2013). As a solo artist, Mensa has been signed to Virgin EMI Records, Def Jam Recordings, Capitol Records, and Roc Nation. Read more
06 Jun 1992: DeAndre Hopkins, American football player DeAndre Rashaun Hopkins, nicknamed "DHop" and "Nuk", is an American professional football wide receiver. He played college football for the Clemson Tigers and was selected by the Houston Texans in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft. He has also played in the NFL for the Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Titans, Kansas City Chiefs, and Baltimore Ravens. Hopkins is a five-time Pro Bowler and has been named to five All-Pro teams. Read more
06 Jun 1990: Gavin Hoyte, English born footballer who represented Trinidad and Tobago Gavin Andrew Hoyte is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Isthmian League South East Division club Sittingbourne. Born in England, he has represented the Trinidad and Tobago national team. Read more
06 Jun 1990: Anthony Rendon, American baseball player Anthony Michael Rendon is an American baseball third baseman for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Washington Nationals. Read more
06 Jun 1990: Pape Souaré, Senegalese footballer Pape N'Diaye Souaré is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a left-back. Read more
06 Jun 1988: Anthony Pilkington, Irish footballer Anthony Neil James Pilkington is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a winger. Read more
06 Jun 1986: Gin Wigmore, New Zealand singer and songwriter Virginia Claire Wigmore is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. Featured on the Smashproof single "Brother" in 2009, Wigmore went on to release four albums – Holy Smoke (2009), Gravel & Wine (2011), Blood to Bone (2015) and Ivory (2018) – with the first three having been chart-toppers on the New Zealand Albums Chart. She is known for her high pitched and raspy voice. Read more
06 Jun 1985: Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer Bengt Ulf Sebastian Larsson is a Swedish professional football coach and former player who is assistant coach of the Sweden national team. Renowned for being a set-piece specialist, Larsson played as a midfielder. Read more
06 Jun 1985: Drew McIntyre, Scottish professional wrestler Andrew McLean Galloway IV is a Scottish professional wrestler. As of April 2017, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Smackdown brand under the ring name Drew McIntyre. Read more
06 Jun 1985: Becky Sauerbrunn, American footballer; twice a winner of the FIFA Women's World Cup, also an Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Elizabeth Sauerbrunn is an American former professional soccer player who played as a center back. She co-captained the United States national team with Carli Lloyd from 2016 to 2018 and was the captain of the team from 2021 to 2023. Read more
06 Jun 1983: Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer Michael Krohn-Dehli is a Danish former professional footballer. He played mostly as an attacking midfielder, but was also deployed as a winger. Read more
06 Jun 1980: Pete Hegseth, American author, political commentator and 29th United States Secretary of Defense Peter Brian Hegseth is an American government official and former television personality who is serving as the 19th United States secretary of defense since 2025. Read more
06 Jun 1979: Roberto De Zerbi, Italian football manager Roberto De Zerbi is an Italian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. Read more
06 Jun 1977: David Connolly, Irish footballer David James Connolly is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played for various clubs including Feyenoord and Excelsior in the Netherlands as well as Wigan Athletic and Sunderland in the Premier League. Born in England, Connolly represented the Republic of Ireland national team at international level. He was a member of Ireland's 2002 FIFA World Cup squad that lost to Spain in the knockout stage where his penalty kick was saved by Iker Casillas during the shootout. Read more
06 Jun 1974: Uncle Kracker, American musician Matthew Shafer, also known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer and musician. He came to prominence in the 1990s as a turntablist for Kid Rock's backing group Twisted Brown Trucker and launched a solo career in 1999. He is best known for his singles "Follow Me", "Drift Away", and "Smile" – all of which peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Read more
06 Jun 1974: Sonya Walger, British-American actress Sonya Walger is a British and American actress. She had a starring role in the HBO sitcom The Mind of the Married Man (2001–2002) before landing her role as Penny Widmore in the ABC drama series Lost (2006–2010). Walger later starred on Tell Me You Love Me (2007), FlashForward (2009–2010), Common Law (2012), The Catch (2016–2017), and For all Mankind (2019–2022). Read more
06 Jun 1973: Jackie Arklöv, Swedish mercenary and convicted murderer Jackie Banny Arklöv is a Swedish convicted murderer and bankrobber. Arklöv is an ex-neo-Nazi, Yugoslav Wars mercenary and war criminal, who, with two other neo-Nazis, murdered two police officers after a bank robbery in 1999. Read more
06 Jun 1972: Natalie Morales, American television journalist and NBC News anchor Natalie Morales-Rhodes is an American journalist who recently was a co-host and moderator of the CBS Daytime talk show The Talk. Prior to that, Morales worked for NBC News for 22 years in various roles
as the West Coast anchor of Today and appeared on Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News. Read more
06 Jun 1967: Paul Giamatti, American actor and producer Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and three Golden Globes, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award. Read more
06 Jun 1966: Sophie Jamal, Canadian endocrinologist involved in scientific misconduct Abida Sophie Jamal is a Canadian endocrinologist and former osteoporosis researcher who was at the centre of a scientific misconduct case in the mid-to-late 2010s. Jamal published a high-profile paper suggesting that the heart medication nitroglycerin was a treatment for osteoporosis, and was later demonstrated to have misrepresented her results. She received a lifetime ban from receiving funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and was named directly in their disclosure report, becoming the first person mentioned by name by the institute for scientific misconduct. Jamal was later stripped of her medical license for two years, regaining it in a controversial 3–2 decision. Read more
06 Jun 1966: Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer Anthony Yeboah is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a striker. Read more
06 Jun 1963: Jason Isaacs, English actor Jason Michael Isaacs is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of D.J. in Event Horizon (1997), Ronald Quincy in Armageddon (1998), Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot (2000), Michael D. Steele in Black Hawk Down (2001), Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series (2002–2011), Captain Hook in Peter Pan (2003), Captain Waggoner in Fury (2014), Georgy Zhukov in The Death of Stalin (2017), Jay Perry in Mass (2021), John Godfrey in Operation Mincemeat (2021), and Timothy Ratliff in The White Lotus (2025). Read more
06 Jun 1962: Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda is a Japanese filmmaker. Most known for his drama films Nobody Knows (2004), Still Walking (2008) and Like Father, Like Son (2013), for the latter he won the Jury Prize at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. Read more
06 Jun 1960: Steve Vai, American musician Steven Siro Vai is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, and played in Zappa's band from 1980 to 1983. He embarked on a solo career in 1983 and has released 11 solo albums to date. He has recorded and toured with Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth, and Whitesnake, as well as recording with artists such as Ozzy Osbourne, Public Image Ltd, Mary J. Blige, Spinal Tap, Alice Cooper, Motörhead, and Polyphia. Additionally, Vai has toured with live-only acts G3, Zappa Plays Zappa, Beat and the Experience Hendrix Tour, as well as headlining international tours. Read more
06 Jun 1960: Raudin Anwar, Indonesian diplomat Raudin Anwar is an Indonesian retired diplomat specializing in international law. He spent most of his career in the foreign ministry's international treaties directorate general, including assignments abroad in Washington, Port Moresby, London, and Canberra. His last assignment was as ambassador to Libya from 2013 to 2017. Read more
06 Jun 1959: Colin Quinn, American comedian and actor Colin Edward Quinn is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He first gained widespread attention for his work as a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2000, and he became known for anchoring Weekend Update, the show's news parody segment. Prior to SNL, he was best known as the announcer/sidekick/co-host on MTV's 1980s game show Remote Control. Following his departure from SNL, Quinn went on to host Comedy Central's late-night panel show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, where he and a panel of New York's big names in stand-up comedy discussed and debated news stories of the day. Notable film work includes his role as Dooey in A Night at the Roxbury, Dickey Bailey in the Grown Ups films, and playing Amy Schumer's father in the film Trainwreck. Comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, Tina Fey, Chris Rock, and Dave Attell have cited Quinn as the quintessential "comic's comic" and New York comedian. Read more
06 Jun 1956: Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player; winner of eleven Grand Slam singles titles including five consecutive Wimbledons Björn Rune Borg is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 109 weeks. Borg won 66 singles titles during his career, including eleven majors: six at the French Open and five consecutively at Wimbledon. Borg was ATP Player of the Year from 1976 to 1980, the year-end No. 1 in the ATP rankings in 1979 and 1980, and the ITF World Champion from 1978 to 1980. Read more
06 Jun 1955: Sam Simon, American director, producer and screenwriter; co-developer of The Simpsons (died 2015) Samuel Michael Simon was an American television writer, producer and animal rights activist who co-developed the animated sitcom The Simpsons. Read more
06 Jun 1955: Sandra Bernhard, American stand-up comic and actress Sandra Bernhard is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy, where she often critiqued celebrity culture and political figures. Bernhard is also well known as the ex-best friend of Madonna. Read more
06 Jun 1954: Wladyslaw Zmuda, Polish footballer and manager; 91 caps for Poland and voted Best Young Player at the 1974 FIFA World Cup Władysław Żmuda can refer to:Władysław Jan Żmuda, Polish footballer
Władysław Antoni Żmuda, Polish footballer Read more
06 Jun 1952: Harvey Fierstein, American actor and playwright; winner of four Tony Awards Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter, known for his distinctive gravelly voice. He gained notice for his theater work in Torch Song Trilogy, winning both the Tony Award for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play. He went on to win the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for La Cage aux Folles, then Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, a role he reprised for the Hairspray Live! television special. Read more
06 Jun 1951: Dwight Twilley, American pop/rock singer and songwriter (died 2023) Dwight Twilley was an American pop/rock singer and songwriter, best known for the top 20 hit singles "I'm on Fire" (1975) and "Girls" (1984). His music is associated with the power pop style. Twilley and Phil Seymour performed as the Dwight Twilley Band through 1978, and Twilley performed as a solo act afterwards. Read more
06 Jun 1949: Holly Near, American folk singer and songwriter Holly Near is an American singer-songwriter, actress, teacher, and activist. Read more
06 Jun 1948: Arlene Harris, American entrepreneur, inventor, investor and policy advocate Arlene Joy Harris is an entrepreneur, inventor, investor, and policy advocate in the telecommunications industry. She is the president and co-founder of Dyna LLC, an incubator for start-up and early-stage organizations historically in the wireless technology field. Harris is widely recognized as a pioneer in mobile and wireless enterprise and an innovator of consumer products and services. In May 2007, she became the first female inductee of the Wireless Hall of Fame, and was named to the Consumer Technology Hall of Fame in 2017. Read more
06 Jun 1947: David Blunkett, British Labour politician; Home Secretary 2001–2004 David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Employment from 1997 to 2001, Home Secretary from 2001 to 2004 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2005. A member of the Labour Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough from 1987 to 2015 and was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2015. Read more
06 Jun 1947: Robert Englund, American actor; best known for Nightmare on Elm Street Robert Barton Englund is an American actor and director. Englund is best known for playing the villain Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Englund has received multiple accolades and honors, including a Saturn Award, a Fangoria Chainsaw Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Read more
06 Jun 1947: Ada Kok, Dutch butterfly stroke swimmer; winner of three Olympic medals including gold in 1968 Aagje ("Ada") Kok is a Dutch former swimmer who ranked among the world's best in the butterfly stroke category during the 1960s. Read more
06 Jun 1947: Keith Daniel Williams, American convicted rapist and triple murderer (died 1996) Keith Daniel Williams was an American triple murderer who was executed by the state of California for the October 1978 murders of three people in Merced, California. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1979 and was subsequently executed in 1996 at San Quentin State Prison by lethal injection. Read more
06 Jun 1946: Tony Levin, American bass player and songwriter Anthony Frederick Levin is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson and Peter Gabriel. He is also a member of Liquid Tension Experiment, Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (1998–2000) and HoBoLeMa (2008–2010). He has led his own band, Stick Men, since 2010. Read more
06 Jun 1944: Monty Alexander, Jamaican jazz pianist Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander OJ CD is a Jamaican American jazz pianist. His playing has a Caribbean influence and bright swinging feeling, with a strong vocabulary of bebop jazz and blues rooted melodies. He was influenced by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Erroll Garner, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Les McCann, and Frank Sinatra. Alexander also sings and plays the melodica. He is known for his surprising musical twists, bright rhythmic sense, and intense dramatic musical climaxes. His recording career has covered many of the well-known American songbook standards, jazz standards, pop hits, and Jamaican songs from his original homeland. Alexander has resided in New York City for many years and performs frequently throughout the world at jazz festivals and clubs. Read more
06 Jun 1944: Phillip Allen Sharp, American molecular biologist; 1993 Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine) Phillip Allen Sharp is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence". He was awarded the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal. Read more
06 Jun 1944: Tommie Smith, American sprinter and football player; winner of 1968 Olympic 200m gold medal in a world record time Tommie C. Smith is an American former track and field athlete and wide receiver in the American Football League. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Smith, aged 24, won the 200-meter sprint finals and gold medal in 19.83 seconds – the first time the 20-second barrier was broken officially. His Black Power salute with John Carlos atop the medal podium caused controversy, as it was seen as politicizing the Olympic Games. It remains a symbolic moment in the history of the Black Power movement. Read more
06 Jun 1943: Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1996 for chemistry (died 2005) Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. He was an advocate of nanotechnology and its applications. Read more
06 Jun 1941: Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist (died 2012) Alexander Claud Cockburn was a Scottish-born Irish-American political journalist and writer. Cockburn was brought up by British parents in Ireland, and lived and worked in the United States from 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter CounterPunch. Cockburn also wrote the "Beat the Devil" column for The Nation, and another column for The Week in London, syndicated by Creators Syndicate. Read more
06 Jun 1940: Willie John McBride, Northern Irish rugby player who toured with the British Lions five times William James McBride, better known as Willie John McBride, is a former rugby union footballer from Northern Ireland who played as a lock for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions. He made 63 appearances for Ireland, including eleven as captain, and toured with the Lions five times; a record that earned him 17 Lions Test caps and 71 appearances in the red jersey. He also captained one of the most successful Lions sides, which returned undefeated from South Africa in 1974. McBride, inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2009, is regarded as one of the most influential figures ever to play the game. Read more
06 Jun 1939: Louis Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer (died 2021) Louis Joseph Andriessen was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent of The Hague school of composition. Although his music was initially dominated by neoclassicism and serialism, his style gradually shifted to a synthesis of American minimalism, big band jazz and the expressionism of Igor Stravinsky. Read more
06 Jun 1939: Gary U.S. Bonds, American singer-songwriter Gary U.S. Bonds is an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, known for his hits "New Orleans" and "Quarter to Three". Read more
06 Jun 1939: Marian Wright Edelman, American child rights activist Marian Wright Edelman is an American activist for civil rights and children's rights. She is the founder and president emerita of the Children's Defense Fund. She influenced leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Hillary Clinton. Read more
06 Jun 1939: Eddie Giacomin, Canadian Hockey goaltender Edward Giacomin was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1965 and 1978. Read more
06 Jun 1936: D. Ramanaidu, Indian actor, director, and producer, founded Suresh Productions (died 2015) Daggubati Ramanaidu was an Indian film producer known for his work in Telugu cinema. He founded Suresh Productions in 1964 which became of one of the largest film production companies in India. He was one of the most influential movie moguls in Indian cinema. He was placed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most films produced by an individual, with more than 150 films in all official Indian languages. He also served as a Member of Parliament for the Bapatla constituency in Andhra Pradesh in the 13th Lok Sabha from 1999 to 2004. Read more
06 Jun 1936: Levi Stubbs, American soul singer; lead vocalist of the Four Tops (died 2008) Levi Stubbs was an American baritone singer, widely known as the lead vocalist of the R&B group the Four Tops, that released a variety of Motown hit records during the 1960s and 1970s. He was noted for his powerful, emotional, and dramatic singing style. In 1990, Stubbs was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Four Tops. Read more
06 Jun 1935: Jon Henricks, Australian swimmer; winner of two Olympic gold medals in 1956 John Malcolm Henricks is an Australian Olympic swimmer who won two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Henricks set world records in two freestyle events. Read more
06 Jun 1935: Grant Green, American jazz guitarist and composer (died 1979) Grant Green was an American jazz guitarist and composer. Read more
06 Jun 1934: Albert II, King of the Belgians from 9 August 1993 to 21 July 2013 (abdicated) Albert II is a member of the Belgian royal family who reigned as King of the Belgians from 1993 until his abdication in 2013. Read more
06 Jun 1934: Taichi Yamada, Japanese screenwriter and novelist (died 2023) Taichi Yamada was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. His real name was Taichi Ishizaka . Read more
06 Jun 1933: Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013) Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. The Heinrich Rohrer Medal is presented triennially by the Surface Science Society of Japan with IBM Research – Zurich, Swiss Embassy in Japan, and Ms. Rohrer in his memory. The medal is not to be confused with the Heinrich Rohrer Award presented at the Nano Seoul 2020 conference. Read more
06 Jun 1932: David Scott, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut who was the commander of Apollo 15 David Randolph Scott is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the seventh person to walk on the Moon. Selected as part of the third group of astronauts in 1963, Scott flew to space three times and commanded Apollo 15, the fourth lunar landing; he is one of four surviving Moon walkers and the only living commander of a spacecraft that landed on the Moon. Read more
06 Jun 1931: Richard Hickock, American convicted murderer (died 1965) Richard Eugene Hickock was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. Along with Perry Edward Smith, Hickock took part in the burglary and multiple murders at the Clutter family farmhouse. Read more
06 Jun 1930: Frank Tyson, English-Australian cricketer, coach and journalist (died 2015) Frank Holmes Tyson was an England international cricketer of the 1950s, who also worked as a schoolmaster, journalist, cricket coach and cricket commentator after emigrating to Australia in 1960. Nicknamed "Typhoon Tyson" by the press, he was regarded by many commentators as one of the fastest bowlers ever seen in cricket and took 76 wickets at an average of 18.56 in 17 Test matches. Read more
06 Jun 1929: James Barnor, Ghanaian photographer James Barnor Hon. FRPS, OV is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences. In his street and studio photography, Barnor represents societies in transition in the 1950s and 1960s: Ghana moving toward independence, and London becoming a multicultural metropolis. He has said: "I was lucky to be alive when things were happening…when Ghana was going to be independent and Ghana became independent, and when I came to England the Beatles were around. Things were happening in the 60s, so I call myself Lucky Jim." He was Ghana's first full-time newspaper photographer in the 1950s, and he is credited with introducing colour processing to Ghana in the 1970s. It has been said: "James Barnor is to Ghana and photojournalism what Ousmane Sembène was to Senegal and African cinema." Read more
06 Jun 1929: Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (died 2005) Balraj Raghunath Dutt, publicly known as Sunil Dutt, was an Indian actor, film producer, director, and politician known for his work in Hindi cinema. He acted in more than 80 films over a career spanning five decades and was the recipient of three Filmfare Awards, including two for Best Actor. Regarded as one of the most successful and finest actors in the history of Indian cinema, Dutt was known for his unique style and delivering impactful messages through his films. In 1968, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, for his contribution to Indian cinema. Read more
06 Jun 1926: Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (died 1998) Klaus Hermann Wilhelm Tennstedt was a German conductor from Merseburg. Known for his interpretation of the Austro-German repertoire, especially his sympathetic approaches towards Gustav Mahler, Tennstedt is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential conductors of the late 20th century. He worked with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra, and other highly regarded ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and most notably the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he was closely associated and recorded many of his celebrated recordings under the EMI label, including a cycle of Mahler's 10 symphonies. Read more
06 Jun 1925: Maxine Kumin, American poet and author (died 2014) Maxine Kumin was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982. Read more
06 Jun 1925: Frank Chee Willeto, American soldier and politician, 4th Vice President of the Navajo Nation and a noted code talker during World War II (died 2013) Frank Chee Willeto was an American politician and Navajo code talker during World War II. Willeto served as the vice president of the Navajo Nation under President Milton Bluehouse, Sr. from his appointment in August 1998 until January 1999, when the Begaye administration took office. Read more
06 Jun 1923: V. C. Andrews, American author, illustrator, and painter (died 1986) Cleo Virginia Andrews, better known as Virginia C. Andrews or V. C. Andrews, was an American novelist. She was best known for her 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic, which inspired two movie adaptations and four sequels. While her novels are not classified by her publisher as Young Adult, their young protagonists have made them popular among teenagers for decades. After her death in 1986, a ghostwriter who was initially hired to complete two unfinished works has continued to publish books under her name. Read more
06 Jun 1923: Jean Pouliot, Canadian broadcaster (died 2004) Jean Adélard Pouliot was a Canadian broadcasting pioneer who helped establish television stations in Kitchener, Ontario, and Quebec City, Quebec. Pouliot was the president and CEO for the first publicly traded Quebec broadcasting company, Télé-Capitale, and started two French language networks: TVA, and TQS. Read more
06 Jun 1920: Virginia Oliver (died 2026), American lobster fisherwoman Virginia Oliver was an American lobster fisherwoman. Read more
06 Jun 1919: Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, English army officer and politician, 6th Secretary General of NATO (died 2018) Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, chairman of the General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. In Margaret Thatcher's first government, he played a major role in negotiating the Lancaster House Agreement that ended the conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe. Carington later served as the Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Bilderberg Group's meetings from 1990 to 1998. Read more
06 Jun 1918: Kenneth Connor, English comedy actor (died 1993) Kenneth Connor was a British stage, film and broadcasting actor, who rose to national prominence with his appearances in the Carry On films. Read more
06 Jun 1918: Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009) Edwin Gerhard Krebs was an American biochemist. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University in 1989 together with Alfred Gilman and, together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. Read more
06 Jun 1917: Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, founded the Tracinda Corporation (died 2015) Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the president and CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his private holding company based in Beverly Hills, California. Kerkorian was one of the important figures in the shaping of Las Vegas and, with architect Martin Stern Jr., is described as the "father of the mega-resort". He built the world's largest hotel in Las Vegas three times: the International Hotel, the original MGM Grand Hotel (1973) and the current MGM Grand (1993). He purchased the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio in 1969. Read more
06 Jun 1916: Hamani Diori, Nigerien academic and politician, 1st President of Niger (died 1989) Hamani Diori was the first President of the Republic of Niger. He was appointed to that office in 1960, when Niger gained independence from France. Although corruption was a common feature of his administration, he gained international respect for his role as a spokesman for African affairs and as a popular arbitrator in conflicts. His rule ended with a military coup in 1974. Read more
06 Jun 1915: Vincent Persichetti, American pianist and composer (died 1987) Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching, as well as for training many noted composers in composition at the Juilliard School. Read more
06 Jun 1909: Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian and philosopher (died 1997) Sir Isaiah Berlin was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Although he became increasingly averse to writing for publication, his improvised lectures and talks were sometimes recorded and transcribed, and many of his spoken words were converted into published essays and books, both by himself and by others, especially by his principal editor from 1974, Henry Hardy. Read more
06 Jun 1907: Bill Dickey, American baseball player and manager who played in eight World Series, winning seven (died 1993) William Malcolm Dickey was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees for 17 seasons. Dickey managed the Yankees as a player-manager in 1946 in his last season as a player. Read more
06 Jun 1906: Max August Zorn, German mathematician and academic who is noted for Zorn's Lemma (died 1993) Max August Zorn was a German mathematician. He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a method used in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, and ordered sets amongst others. Zorn's lemma was first postulated by Kazimierz Kuratowski in 1922, and then independently by Zorn in 1935. Read more
06 Jun 1903: Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (died 1978) Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers. Read more
06 Jun 1902: Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 1947) James Melvin Lunceford was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader in the swing era. Read more
06 Jun 1901: Jan Struther, English author, poet and hymnwriter who created the character Mrs Miniver (died 1953)

Jan Struther was the pen name of Joyce Anstruther, later Joyce Maxtone Graham and finally Joyce Placzek, an English writer remembered for her character Mrs. Miniver and a number of hymns, such as "Lord of All Hopefulness". Read more
06 Jun 1901: Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (died 1970) Sukarno was an Indonesian statesman, activist, and revolutionary who served as the first president of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967. Read more
06 Jun 1900: Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (died 1957) Manfred Joshua Sakel was an Austrian-American neurophysiologist and psychiatrist, credited with developing insulin shock therapy in 1927. Read more
06 Jun 1898: Jacobus Johannes Fouché, South African politician, 2nd State President of South Africa (died 1980) Jacobus Johannes Fouché, also known as J. J. Fouché, was a South African politician who served as the second state president of South Africa from 1968 to 1975. Read more
06 Jun 1898: Ninette de Valois, English ballerina, choreographer, and director (died 2001) Dame Ninette de Valois was an Irish-born British ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. She danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later establishing The Royal Ballet, one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century and one of the leading ballet companies in the world. She also established the Royal Ballet School and the touring company which became the Birmingham Royal Ballet. She is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of ballet and as the "godmother" of English and Irish ballet. Read more
06 Jun 1897: Joel Rinne, Finnish actor (died 1981) Toivo Joel Rinne was a prolific Finnish actor of stage and screen. Among his most memorable film parts is the title role in the Inspector Palmu movie series, which started in 1960s Komisario Palmun erehdys, and continued in three sequels. Another well-known role by Rinne is in the 1970 film Päämaja, directed by Matti Kassila, in which Rinne interprets in the role of Marshal Mannerheim. Read more
06 Jun 1896: Henry Allingham, English World War I soldier and supercentenarian (died 2009) Henry William Allingham was an English supercentenarian. He is the longest-lived man ever recorded from the United Kingdom, a First World War veteran, and, for one month, was the verified oldest living man in the world. He is also the second-oldest military veteran ever. Read more
06 Jun 1896: Italo Balbo, Italian air marshal and fascist politician who played a key role in developing Mussolini's air force (died 1940) Italo Balbo was an Italian fascist politician and Blackshirts' leader who served as Italy's Marshal of the Air Force, Governor-General of Italian Libya and Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa. Due to his young age, he was sometimes seen as a possible successor to dictator Benito Mussolini. Read more
06 Jun 1891: Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Indian author and academic (died 1986) Masti Venkatesha Iyengar was a well-known writer in Kannada language. He was the fourth among Kannada writers to be honored with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honor conferred in India. He was popularly referred to as Maasti Kannadada Aasti which means "Maasti, Kannada's Treasure". He is most renowned for his short stories. He wrote under the pen name Srinivasa. He was honoured with the title Rajasevasakta by then Maharaja of Mysore Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wadeyar. Read more
06 Jun 1891: Erich Marcks, German general in WWII who planned Operation Barbarossa (died 1944) Erich Marcks was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He authored the first draft of the operational plan, Operation Draft East, for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, advocating what was later known as A–A line as the goal for the Wehrmacht to achieve, within nine to seventeen weeks. Marcks studied philosophy in Freiburg in 1909. Read more
06 Jun 1890: Ted Lewis, American singer, clarinet player, and bandleader (died 1971) Ted Lewis was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He was well known for his catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" He fronted a band and touring stage show that presented a combination of hot jazz, comedy, and nostalgia that was a hit with the American public before and after World War II. Read more
06 Jun 1875: Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955) Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modern versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer. Read more
06 Jun 1872: Alix of Hesse, German princess and Russian empress (died 1918) Alexandra Feodorovna was the last empress of Russia as the consort of Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March [O.S. 2 March] 1917. Read more
06 Jun 1872: Arthur Henry Adams, Australian journalist and author (died 1936) Arthur Henry Adams was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London. Read more
06 Jun 1868: Robert Falcon Scott, English sailor and explorer (died 1912) Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910–13. Read more
06 Jun 1867: David T. Abercrombie, American entrepreneur and co-founder of lifestyle brand Abercrombie & Fitch (died 1931) David Thomas Abercrombie was the founder of the American brand Abercrombie & Fitch. A topographer and expert in the outdoors, Abercrombie opened the company as New York's outfitter for the elite and later partnered up with co-founder Ezra Fitch – both men managed the Company through great years of success. Read more
06 Jun 1862: Henry Newbolt, English historian, author, and poet (died 1938) Sir Henry John Newbolt, CH was an English poet, novelist and historian. He also had a role as a government adviser with regard to the study of English in England. He is perhaps best remembered for his poems "Vitaï Lampada" and "Drake's Drum". Read more
06 Jun 1857: Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (died 1918) Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. He was the son of the astronomer Mikhail Lyapunov and the brother of the pianist and composer Sergei Lyapunov. Read more
06 Jun 1851: Angelo Moriondo, Italian inventor of the espresso machine (died 1914) Angelo Moriondo was an Italian inventor, who is usually credited with patenting the earliest known espresso machine, in 1884. His machine used a combination of steam and boiling water to efficiently brew coffee. Read more
06 Jun 1850: Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1909 for physics (died 1918) Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German applied physicist who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi for their contributions to the development of radio. With his two circuit system, long range radio transmissions and modern telecommunications were made possible. His invention of the phased array antenna in 1905 led to the development of radar, smart antennas, and MIMO. Braun built the first cathode-ray tube in 1897, which led to the development of television, and the first semiconductor diode in 1874, which co-started the development of electronics and electronic engineering. Read more
06 Jun 1843: Henriette Wulfsberg, Norwegian school owner and writer (died 1906) Henriette Wulfsberg was a Norwegian educator, writer and translator. Read more
06 Jun 1841: Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (died 1910) Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during the foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more
06 Jun 1825: Friedrich Bayer, German pharmacist, founded Bayer (died 1880) Friedrich Bayer was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. He founded the dyestuff factory Friedrich Bayer along with Johann Friedrich Weskott in 1863 in Elberfeld, a flourishing city in the early industrialised region of the Wuppertal or Wupper Valley. Read more
06 Jun 1810: Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German philologist and scholar (died 1856) Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, was a German classical scholar. Read more

🕊️ Important Deaths on 06 June in World History

06 Jun 2016: Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster; arguably the best player never to become World Chess Champion (born 1931) Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi was a Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Read more
06 Jun 2016: Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter; works included Equus and Amadeus (born 1926) Sir Peter Levin Shaffer was an English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. His best-known works are the plays Equus and Amadeus, both of which earned him the Tony Award for Best Play. They were later adapted for the screen by Shaffer himself in 1977 and 1984, respectively. He was nominated for an Academy Award for both screenplays, winning for Amadeus, which also earned him a Golden Globe Award. Shaffer also earned nominations for two BAFTA Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. Read more
06 Jun 2015: Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author; prosecuting attorney in the Tate–LaBianca murders case (born 1934) Vincent T. Bugliosi Jr. was an American prosecutor and author who served as Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office between 1964 and 1972. He became best known for successfully prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the August 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders. Read more
06 Jun 2015: Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author; noted for The Two Thousand Words which inspired the Prague Spring (born 1926) Ludvík Vaculík was a Czech writer and journalist. He was born in Brumov, Moravian Wallachia. A prominent samizdat writer, he was best known as the author of the "Two Thousand Words" manifesto of June 1968. Read more
06 Jun 2014: Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician; pioneered studies of autism (born 1928) Lorna Gladys Wing was a British psychiatrist who conducted research into autism. She coined the term Asperger's syndrome and helped found the National Autistic Society. Read more
06 Jun 2013: Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (born 1918) Jerome Karle was an American physical chemist. Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques. Read more
06 Jun 2013: Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (born 1921) Esther Jane Williams was an American competitive swimmer and actress. She set regional and national records in her late teens on the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team. Unable to compete in the 1940 Summer Olympics because of the outbreak of World War II, she joined Billy Rose's Aquacade, where she took on the role vacated by Eleanor Holm after the show's move from New York City to San Francisco. While in the city, she spent five months swimming alongside Olympic gold medal-winner and Tarzan star Johnny Weissmuller. Williams caught the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer scouts at the Aquacade. After appearing in several small roles, then with Mickey Rooney in an Andy Hardy film, and with future five-time co-star Van Johnson in A Guy Named Joe, Williams made a series of films in the 1940s and early 1950s known as "aquamusicals", which featured elaborate performances with synchronised swimming and diving. Read more
06 Jun 2012: Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player; together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line. (born 1960) Vladimir Yevgenyevich Krutov, nicknamed "The Tank", was a Russian professional ice hockey forward. Together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, he was part of the famed "KLM Line". He is considered one of the best ice hockey wingers of the 1980s. Read more
06 Jun 2009: Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (born 1916) Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell for their discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex. Using the money from his Nobel Prize and a grant from the French Television, Dausset founded the Human Polymorphism Study Center (CEPH) in 1984, which was later renamed the Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH in his honour. He married Rose Mayoral in 1963, with whom he had two children, Henri and Irène. Jean Dausset died on June 6, 2009, in Mallorca, Spain, at the age of 92. Read more
06 Jun 2006: Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1946) William Everett Preston was an American keyboardist, singer, and songwriter whose work encompassed R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel. Preston was a top session keyboardist in the 1960s, backing Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, the Everly Brothers, Reverend James Cleveland, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. He gained attention as a solo artist with hit singles "That's the Way God Planned It", the Grammy-winning "Outa-Space", "Will It Go Round in Circles", "Space Race", "Nothing from Nothing", and "With You I'm Born Again". Additionally, Preston co-wrote "You Are So Beautiful", which became a hit for Joe Cocker. Read more
06 Jun 2005: Anne Bancroft, American film actress; winner of the 1963 Academy Award for Best Actress for The Miracle Worker (born 1931) Anne Bancroft was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. She is one of 24 thespians to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. Read more
06 Jun 1996: George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist; awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 for his studies of histocompatibility (born 1903) George Davis Snell NAS was an American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist. Read more
06 Jun 1994: Mark McManus, Scottish actor (born 1935) Mark McManus was a Scottish actor known for his roles in the British television series Sam, Bulman, The Brothers, Strangers, and Dramarama, and the feature film 2000 Weeks. He was best known for playing the tough Glaswegian Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart in the long-running STV television series Taggart from 1983 until his death in 1994. Read more
06 Jun 1994: Barry Sullivan, American film actor (born 1912) Patrick Barry Sullivan was an American actor of film, television, theatre, and radio. In a career that spanned over 40 years, Sullivan appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s, primarily as a leading actor after establishing himself in the industry, and later as a character actor. Read more
06 Jun 1991: Stan Getz, American saxophonist and jazz innovator (born 1927) Stan Getz was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, with his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott Yanow as "one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists". Getz performed in bebop and cool jazz groups. Influenced by João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim, he also helped popularize bossa nova in the United States with the hit 1964 single "The Girl from Ipanema". Read more
06 Jun 1983: Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright who wrote the lyrics of Lili Marleen (born 1893) Hans Leip was a German soldier, novelist, poet and playwright, best remembered as the lyricist of Lili Marleen. Read more
06 Jun 1982: Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and academic (born 1905) Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Although he did not consider himself to be a Beat poet, and disliked the association, he was dubbed the "Father of the Beats" by Time magazine. Largely self-educated, Rexroth learned several languages and translated poems from Chinese, French, Spanish, and Japanese. Read more
06 Jun 1979: Jack Haley, American actor (born 1897) John Joseph Haley Jr. was an American actor, comedian, dancer, radio host, singer, drummer and vaudevillian. He is most notable for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand counterpart Hickory in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. Read more
06 Jun 1976: J. Paul Getty, American businessman, founded the Getty Oil Company (born 1892) Jean Paul Getty Sr. was an American petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was the son of pioneer oilman George Getty. In 1957, Fortune magazine named J. Paul Getty the wealthiest living American, while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records declared him to be the world's wealthiest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion. At the time of his death, he was worth more than $6 billion. A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th wealthiest American who ever lived. Read more
06 Jun 1968: Robert F. Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (born 1925) Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he is considered an icon of modern American liberalism in the 21st century. Read more
06 Jun 1963: William Baziotes, American painter and academic (born 1912) William Baziotes was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism. Read more
06 Jun 1962: Yves Klein, French painter (born 1928) Yves Klein was a French artist and an important figure in postwar European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme, founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. He developed and used International Klein Blue. Read more
06 Jun 1962: Tom Phillis, Australian motorcycle racer (born 1934) Thomas Edward Phillis was an Australian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He won the 1961 125cc motorcycle road racing World Championship and was the first person to lap the Isle of Man TT mountain circuit at over 100 mph on a pushrod engined motorcycle. He was also the first person to win a World Championship motorcycle race on a Japanese machine. Read more
06 Jun 1961: Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (born 1875) Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author of over twenty books, illustrator, correspondent, and academic, best known for his concept of archetypes. Widely considered one of the most influential psychologists of all time, Jung's work has fostered not only scholarship, but also popular interest. His work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Read more
06 Jun 1955: Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter and educator (born 1875) Duncan Max Meldrum was a Scottish-born Australian artist and art teacher, best known as the founder of Australian tonalism, a representational painting style that became popular in Melbourne during the interwar period. He also won fame for his portrait work, winning the prestigious Archibald Prize for portraiture in 1939 and 1940. Read more
06 Jun 1948: Louis Lumière, French film director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1864) The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière and Louis Jean Lumière, were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and 1905, which places them among the earliest filmmakers. Read more
06 Jun 1947: James Agate, English author and critic (born 1877) James Evershed Agate was an English diarist and theatre critic between the two world wars. He took up journalism in his late twenties and was on the staff of The Manchester Guardian in 1907–1914. He later became a drama critic for The Saturday Review (1921–1923), The Sunday Times (1923–1947) and the BBC (1925–1932). The nine volumes of Agate's diaries and letters cover the British theatre of his time and non-theatrical interests such as sports, social gossip and private preoccupations with health and finances. He published three novels, translated a play briefly staged in London, and regularly published collections of theatre essays and reviews. Read more
06 Jun 1946: Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862) Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912. Read more
06 Jun 1941: Louis Chevrolet, American race car driver and businessman, founded Chevrolet and Frontenac Motor Corporation (born 1878) Louis-Joseph Chevrolet was a Swiss-born American racing driver, mechanic, and entrepreneur who co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911. Read more
06 Jun 1939: Constantin Noe, Megleno-Romanian editor and professor (born 1883) Constantin Noe was a Megleno-Romanian editor and professor. He was born in 1883 in the Megleno-Romanian village of Lagkadia, then in the Ottoman Empire and now in Greece. He was one of the best students of the Romanian High School of Bitola, from which he graduated in 1903. On the same year, Noe became professor in several of the Romanian schools in the Balkans and one of the main figures of the Megleno-Romanian national movement. In 1907, he and several others of his colleagues were arrested and sentenced to four months in prison under the pretext of not using books approved by the General Directorate of Education of the Salonica vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in the schools they were teaching at. Read more
06 Jun 1935: Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and politician, 12th Governor-General of Canada (born 1862) Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada, the 12th since the Canadian Confederation. Read more
06 Jun 1922: Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (born 1860) Lillian Russell was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, praised for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence. Read more
06 Jun 1916: Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (born 1859) Yuan Shikai was a Chinese general and statesman. As leader of the Beiyang Army, he played a decisive role in securing the abdication of the Qing court. He served as the second provisional president and the first formal president of the Republic of China, with his administration known as the Beiyang government. He declared himself Emperor of the Chinese Empire in December 1915 and abdicated in March 1916. Read more
06 Jun 1891: John A. Macdonald, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (born 1815) Sir John Alexander Macdonald was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 until his death in 1891. He was the dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, and had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Read more
06 Jun 1881: Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer (born 1820) Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th century. He is also known for playing what is now known as the Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesù, a violin of superior workmanship. Read more
06 Jun 1878: Robert Stirling, Scottish minister and engineer, invented the stirling engine (born 1790) Robert Stirling was a Scottish clergyman and engineer. He invented the Stirling engine and was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame in 2014. Read more
06 Jun 1865: William Quantrill, American Confederate guerrilla band leader (born 1837) William Clarke Quantrill was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. Read more
06 Jun 1861: Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (born 1810) Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour, Isolabella and Leri, generally known as the Count of Cavour or simply Cavour, was an Italian politician, statesman, businessman, economist, and noble, and a leading figure in the movement towards Italian unification. He was one of the leaders of the Historical Right and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1852, a position he maintained until his death, throughout the Second Italian War of Independence and Giuseppe Garibaldi's campaigns to unite Italy. After the declaration of a united Kingdom of Italy, Cavour took office as the first Prime Minister of Italy; he died after only three months in office and did not live to see the Roman Question solved through the complete unification of the country after the Capture of Rome in 1870. Read more
06 Jun 1832: Jeremy Bentham, English jurist and philosopher (born 1748) Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Read more
06 Jun 1813: Antonio Cachia, Maltese architect, engineer and archaeologist (born 1739) Antonio Cachia (1739–1813) was a Maltese architect, civil and military engineer and archaeologist who was active in the late 18th and early 19th century. Read more

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