History of Today in India – 07 June

Explore the history of today 07 June in India, including important events, famous personalities, and milestones for UPSC SSC,Banking & PSC exams.

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📜 Important Events on 07 June in World History

07 Jun 2017: A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard. Read more
07 Jun 2000: The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon. Read more
07 Jun 1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high. Read more
07 Jun 1989: Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard. Read more
07 Jun 1982: Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits. Read more
07 Jun 1981: The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. Read more
07 Jun 1977: Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television. Read more
07 Jun 1975: Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format. Read more
07 Jun 1971: The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Read more
07 Jun 1971: The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades. Read more
07 Jun 1971: Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 crashes on approach to Tweed New Haven Airport in New Haven, Connecticut, killing 28 of 31 aboard. Read more
07 Jun 1967: Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem. Read more
07 Jun 1965: The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples. Read more
07 Jun 1962: The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books. Read more
07 Jun 1955: Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films. Read more
07 Jun 1948: Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place. Read more
07 Jun 1948: Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state. Read more
07 Jun 1946: The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II. Read more
07 Jun 1945: King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II. Read more
07 Jun 1944: World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war. Read more
07 Jun 1942: World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory. Read more
07 Jun 1942: World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. Read more
07 Jun 1940: King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later. Read more
07 Jun 1938: The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight. Read more
07 Jun 1938: Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed. Read more
07 Jun 1929: The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence. Read more
07 Jun 1919: Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people. Read more
07 Jun 1917: World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops. Read more
07 Jun 1906: Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland. Read more
07 Jun 1905: Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year. Read more
07 Jun 1899: American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. Read more
07 Jun 1892: Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. Read more
07 Jun 1880: War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign). Read more
07 Jun 1866: One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East. Read more
07 Jun 1862: The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade. Read more
07 Jun 1832: The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent. Read more
07 Jun 1832: Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. Read more
07 Jun 1810: The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina. Read more
07 Jun 1800: David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. Read more

🎂 Important Births on 07 June in World History

07 Jun 2000: Ōnosato Daiki, Japanese professional sumo wrestler and the 75th yokozuna Ōnosato Daiki is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler and the 75th yokozuna. After a successful amateur career at university level, where he was called "the most eagerly awaited prospect to come out of collegiate sumo in decades", he joined the Nishonoseki stable under the tutelage of the former yokozuna Kisenosato and began his professional career at the rank of makushita 10 via the makushita tsukedashi system. He reached the top makuuchi division in January 2024 after competing in just four tournaments, and in May of the same year won his first top-division championship in a record seven tournaments. Read more
07 Jun 1997: David Montgomery, American football player David Montgomery, nicknamed Knuckles, is an American professional football running back for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa State Cyclones and was selected by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 2019 NFL draft. Read more
07 Jun 1996: Christian McCaffrey, American football player Christian Jackson McCaffrey is an American professional football running back for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal and was selected by the Carolina Panthers eighth overall in the 2017 NFL draft. As a sophomore in 2015, McCaffrey was named AP College Football Player of the Year and was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy. He holds the NCAA record for most all-purpose yards in a season (3,864). Read more
07 Jun 1993: George Ezra, English singer-songwriter George Ezra Barnett is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and podcaster. After releasing two EPs, Did You Hear the Rain? (2013) and Cassy O' (2014), Ezra rose to prominence with the release of his hit single "Budapest", which reached number one in several countries. His debut studio album, Wanted on Voyage, was released in June 2014, reaching number one in the UK and the top ten in seven other countries. It was also the third-best-selling album of 2014 in the UK. Read more
07 Jun 1993: Swae Lee, American rapper Khalif Malik Ibn Shaman Brown, known professionally as Swae Lee, is an American rapper and singer from Inglewood, California. Known for his wide-ranged, reverb-heavy vocals and genre-blending, Lee is one half of the Mississippi-based hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd, which he formed in 2010 with his older brother Slim Jxmmi. Read more
07 Jun 1992: Jordan Clarkson, Filipino-American basketball player Jordan Taylor Clarkson is an American and Filipino professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for two seasons with the Tulsa Golden Hurricane before transferring to Missouri, where he earned second-team all-conference honors in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). After forgoing his senior year in college to enter the 2014 NBA draft, Clarkson was selected by the Washington Wizards in the second round with the 46th overall pick and was immediately traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team. Clarkson was traded to the Cavaliers in 2018. In December 2019 he was traded to the Jazz. On March 24, 2015, Clarkson along with Jeremy Lin, became the first Asian-American starting back court in NBA history. In 2021, Clarkson was named the NBA Sixth Man of the Year. Read more
07 Jun 1991: Rasmus Vestergaard Madsen, Danish politician Rasmus Vestergaard Madsen is a Danish politician and Member of the Folketing. A member of the Red–Green Alliance, he has represented South Jutland since March 2026. Read more
07 Jun 1991: Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski, known occasionally as EmRata, is an American model and actress. Born in London, England, to American parents and raised in Encinitas, California, United States, she signed to Ford Models at a young age. Her modeling debut was on the cover of the March 2012 issue of the erotic magazine treats!, which led to her appearance in several music videos, including Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines", which catapulted her to global fame. Read more
07 Jun 1991: Fetty Wap, American rapper, singer, and songwriter Willie Junior Maxwell II, better known by his stage name Fetty Wap, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He quickly rose to mainstream prominence after his 2014 song "Trap Queen" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and led him to sign with 300 Entertainment, an imprint of Atlantic Records. Two of his 2015 singles, "679" and "My Way", peaked within the top ten of the chart; all three—as well as the top 40 single "Again"—preceded his eponymous debut studio album (2015), which peaked atop the Billboard 200. During this time, he became distinctive for his melodic blending of singing and rapping, lighthearted lyrics, "bouncy" production, and exclamation of various catchphrases such as "1738!" Read more
07 Jun 1990: Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model Amethyst Amelia Kelly, known professionally as Iggy Azalea, is an Australian former rapper and songwriter. Born in Sydney, Azalea moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a career in music. She earned public recognition after releasing the music videos for her songs "Pussy" and "Two Times" on YouTube. Shortly after releasing those two songs, she released her debut mixtape, Ignorant Art (2011), and subsequently signed a recording contract with American rapper T.I.'s Grand Hustle label. Read more
07 Jun 1988: Michael Cera, Canadian actor and musician Michael Austin Cera is a Canadian actor and musician. Over his career he has received nominations for a British Academy Film Award, three Critics' Choice Movie Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award. Read more
07 Jun 1978: Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter William Thomas Hader Jr. is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2013, for which he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Peabody Award. He became known for his impressions and especially for his work on the Weekend Update segments, where he played Stefon, a flamboyant New York City nightclub tour guide. Read more
07 Jun 1975: Allen Iverson, American basketball player Allen Ezail Iverson is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "the Answer", he played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as both a shooting guard and point guard. As an NBA rookie with the Philadelphia 76ers in 1997, Iverson was named NBA Rookie of the Year. He was an 11-time NBA All-Star, won the All-Star Game MVP Award in 2001 and 2005, and was the NBA's Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 2001. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. In October 2021, he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. Iverson is regarded as one of the game's greatest scorers, ball handlers, guards, and among the most influential athletes in all of American sports. Read more
07 Jun 1974: Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls is a British adventurer, television presenter and former SAS trooper. He holds several world records in hostile environments, and appeared in numerous wilderness survival television series including Man vs. Wild (2006–2011), Running Wild with Bear Grylls (2014–2023) and The Island with Bear Grylls (2014–2019). Read more
07 Jun 1970: Cafu, Brazilian footballer Marcos Evangelista de Morais, known as Cafu, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Widely regarded as one of the greatest full-backs of all time, he was known for his pace and energetic attacking runs along the right flank. He is the most-capped player for the Brazil national team with 142 appearances. Read more
07 Jun 1967: Dave Navarro, American musician and television personality David Michael Navarro is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the rock band Jane's Addiction, appearing on all four studio albums. Between 1993 and 1998 during their first breakup, Navarro was the guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers, recording one studio album, One Hot Minute (1995), before departing. He has also released one solo album to date, Trust No One (2001). Navarro has also been a member of Jane's Addiction-related bands Deconstruction and the Panic Channel. Read more
07 Jun 1965: Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist and art collector. He was one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended. Read more
07 Jun 1965: Mick Foley, American wrestler Michael Francis Foley is an American comedian, author, and retired professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Read more
07 Jun 1962: Lance Reddick, American actor (died 2023) Lance Solomon Reddick was an American actor. He portrayed Cedric Daniels in The Wire (2002–2008), Phillip Broyles in Fringe (2008–2013), and Chief Irvin Irving in Bosch (2014–2020). In film, he played Charon in the John Wick franchise (2014–2025) and General Caulfield in White House Down (2013). Read more
07 Jun 1960: Jim Hartung, American gymnast (died 2026) James Nicholas Hartung was an American gymnast. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and won a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Read more
07 Jun 1959: Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana Michael Richard Pence is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana from 2001 to 2013. Read more
07 Jun 1958: Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (died 2016) Prince Rogers Nelson, known mononymously as Prince, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, actor, and filmmaker. Often being credited as one of the greatest musicians of his generation, he pioneered the Minneapolis sound and was influential in the evolution of various other genres. Read more
07 Jun 1957: Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, composer, and record producer Juan Luis Guerra Seijas is a Dominican musician, singer, composer, and record producer. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards including 31 Latin Grammy Awards, three
Grammy Awards, and one Latin Billboard Music Award. He won three Latin Grammy Awards in 2010, including Album of the Year. In 2012, he won the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year. He has sold 15 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling Latin music artists. Read more
07 Jun 1954: Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet Karen Louise Erdrich is an American author of novels, short stories, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota, a federally recognized Ojibwe people. Read more
07 Jun 1952: Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor William John Neeson is an actor from Northern Ireland. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards and one Volpi Cup. With a film career spanning more than forty years, Neeson is regarded as one of Ireland's greatest film actors. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $11.7 billion worldwide. Neeson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2000. Read more
07 Jun 1952: Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Read more
07 Jun 1947: Thurman Munson, American baseball player (died 1979) Thurman Lee Munson was an American professional baseball catcher who played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Yankees, from 1969 until his death in 1979. A seven-time All-Star, Munson had a career batting average of .292 with 113 home runs and 701 runs batted in (RBIs). Known for his outstanding fielding, he won the Gold Glove Award in three consecutive years (1973–1975). Read more
07 Jun 1946: Zbigniew Seifert, Polish musician (died 1979) Zbigniew Seifert was a Polish jazz violinist. Read more
07 Jun 1945: Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian lawyer and politician, 26th Chancellor of Austria Wolfgang Schüssel is a retired Austrian politician. He was Chancellor of Austria for two consecutive terms from February 2000 to January 2007. While being recognised as a rare example of an active reformer in contemporary Austrian politics, his governments were also highly controversial from the beginning, starting with the fact that he formed a coalition government with Jörg Haider's Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) on both occasions. In 2011, he retired from being an active member of parliament due to a multitude of charges of corruption against members of his governments. Read more
07 Jun 1943: Nikki Giovanni, American poet, writer and activist (died 2024) Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature. She won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award. She was nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award for her poetry album, The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Additionally, she was named as one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 "Living Legends". Giovanni was a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective. Read more
07 Jun 1943: "Superstar" Billy Graham, American wrestler (died 2023) Eldridge Wayne Coleman Jr., better known by his ring name "Superstar" Billy Graham, was an American professional wrestler. He gained recognition for his tenure as the WWWF Heavyweight Champion from 1977 to 1978. He was a three-time world champion in major professional wrestling promotions. As an award-winning bodybuilder, he was a training partner and close friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was most remembered for revolutionizing the interview and physique aspects of the professional wrestling industry, and for his charismatic performance style. Read more
07 Jun 1941: Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, British party planner, writer and socialite (died 2020) Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Shakerley was a British party planner, writer and socialite from the Anson family. She was a first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II and sister of Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield. Read more
07 Jun 1940: Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor Sir Thomas Jones Woodward is a Welsh singer. His career began with a string of top 10 hits in the 1960s and he has since toured regularly, with appearances in Las Vegas from 1967 to 2011. His voice has been described by AllMusic as a "full-throated, robust baritone". Read more
07 Jun 1940: Ronald Pickup, English actor (died 2021) Ronald Alfred Pickup was an English actor. He was active in television, film, and theatre, beginning with a 1964 appearance in Doctor Who. Theatre critic Michael Billington described him as "a terrific stage star and an essential member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre company". His major screen roles included the title role in The Life of Verdi (1982) and Prince Yakimov in Fortunes of War (1987). Read more
07 Jun 1939: Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian cellist, conductor and educator (died 2013) Yuli Turovsky OC CQ was a Soviet-born Canadian cellist, conductor and music educator, known for founding the I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra. Read more
07 Jun 1938: Ian St John, Scottish international footballer and manager (died 2021) John "Ian" St John was a Scottish professional football player, coach and broadcaster. St John played as a forward for Liverpool throughout most of the 1960s. Signed by Bill Shankly in 1961, St John was a key member of the Liverpool team that emerged from the second tier of English football to win two league titles and one FA Cup—in which he scored the winner in the 1965 final—to cement a position as one of the country's top sides. He played for Scotland 21 times, scoring nine goals. Read more
07 Jun 1936: Bert Sugar, American author and boxing historian (died 2012) Herbert Randolph Sugar was an American sportswriter known for his work covering boxing and baseball. As the author of over 80 books, The New York Times called Sugar an "accomplished raconteur with a bottomless sack of anecdotes" who was always seen with his trademark fedora and cigar. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2005. Read more
07 Jun 1936: Pippo Baudo, Italian television presenter (died 2025) Giuseppe Raimondo Vittorio "Pippo" Baudo was an Italian television presenter. One of the most notable in his native country, he had a career spanning six decades, which included 13 editions of the Sanremo Music Festival – the highest number for a single presenter. Read more
07 Jun 1935: Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (died 2012) Harry Eugene Crews was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He often made use of violent, grotesque characters and set them in regions of the Deep South. Read more
07 Jun 1932: Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (died 2013) Per Maurseth was a Norwegian historian and politician for the Socialist Left Party. Read more
07 Jun 1931: Virginia McKenna, English actress and author Dame Virginia Anne McKenna is a British actress. She is best known for the films The Cruel Sea (1953), A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with the Born Free Foundation. Read more
07 Jun 1929: John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2020) John Napier Wyndham Turner was the 17th prime minister of Canada, serving from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 1984 to 1990. Read more
07 Jun 1928: James Ivory, American director, producer, and screenwriter James Francis Ivory is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a principal in Merchant Ivory Productions along with Indian film producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The trio made film adaptations of stories by authors such as E.M. Forster and Henry James. Their body of work is celebrated for its elegance, sophistication, literary fidelity, strong performances, complex themes, and rich characters. Read more
07 Jun 1927: Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (died 2014) Paul Salamunovich was a Grammy-nominated American conductor and educator. Read more
07 Jun 1927: Herbert R. Axelrod, American tropical fish expert, publisher of pet books, and entrepreneur (died 2017) Herbert Richard Axelrod was an American tropical fish expert, a publisher of pet books, and an entrepreneur. In 2005 he was sentenced in U.S. court to 18 months in prison for tax fraud. Read more
07 Jun 1926: Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2020) Jean-Noël Tremblay, was a Canadian politician, who made career at both the federal and the provincial levels. Read more
07 Jun 1925: Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (died 2017) Ernestina Laura Herrera de Noble was a prominent Argentine publisher and executive. She was the largest shareholder of the Grupo Clarín media conglomerate and director of the flagship Clarín newspaper. She was the first woman to become director of a mainstream newspaper in South America. Read more
07 Jun 1923: Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (died 2000) Jules Deschênes, was a Canadian Quebec Superior Court judge. Read more
07 Jun 1921: Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (died 1998) Talmage Holt Farlow was an American jazz guitarist. He was nicknamed "Octopus" because of how his large, quick hands spread over the fretboard. Read more
07 Jun 1920: Georges Marchais, French mechanic and politician (died 1997) Georges René Louis Marchais was the head of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1972 to 1994, and a candidate in the 1981 French presidential election. Read more
07 Jun 1917: Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (died 2000) Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. Read more
07 Jun 1917: Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (died 1995) Dean Martin was an American singer, actor, comedian and television host. Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he is regarded as one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century. Read more
07 Jun 1912: Jacques Hélian, French bandleader (died 1986) Jacques Mikaël Der Mikaëlian better known as Jacques Hélian, was a famous French orchestra conductor for French music-hall. Read more
07 Jun 1911: Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (died 1995) Clifford Brooks Stevens was an American industrial designer of home furnishings, appliances, automobiles, passenger railroad cars, and motorcycles, as well as a graphic designer and stylist. Stevens founded Brooks Stevens, Inc., headquartered in Allenton, Wisconsin. Read more
07 Jun 1910: Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (died 2014) Arthur Gardner was an American actor and film producer. He was known for his television western, The Rifleman. He was a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Read more
07 Jun 1910: Til Kiwe, German actor and screenwriter (died 1995) Jan Heinrich Tilman Kiwe, also known as Til Kiver or Till Kiwe, was a German actor, voice actor and screenwriter who also was an ethnologist and highly decorated army officer and POW. Thus, he often played soldiers, like a German guard in The Great Escape in 1963. Read more
07 Jun 1910: Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach (died 1989) Michael John "Lefty" Sebastian was an American football halfback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Cleveland Rams. Nicknamed the Rose of Sharon, he also played for the Rams while they were still members of the second American Football League (AFL) as well as the AFL's Rochester Tigers. Before his professional career, Sebastian played college football at the University of Pittsburgh. At Pitt, he played under coach Jock Sutherland, who had declared Sebastian the best passer that he had seen in "many days." Read more
07 Jun 1910: Bradford Washburn, American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (died 2007) Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. was an American explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer. He established the Boston Museum of Science, served as its director from 1939–1980, and from 1985 until his death served as its Honorary Director. Bradford married Barbara Polk in 1940 and honeymooned in Alaska, making the first ascent of Mount Bertha together. Read more
07 Jun 1910: Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (died 1990) Marion Post Wolcott was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, documenting poverty, the Jim Crow South, and deprivation. Read more
07 Jun 1910: Bluey, Australian cattle dog, second-oldest recorded dog (died 1939) Bluey was a female Australian Cattle Dog owned by Les and Rosalie Hall of Rochester, Victoria. She holds the Guinness World Record as the oldest verified dog to have ever lived. The record was briefly disputed by Bobi, but Bobi's certification was revoked by Guinness due to the lacking evidence, after veterinarians came forward challenging Bobi's claimed age. Additionally, Bluey's title was also challenged by many other dogs including Max, Chilla, Maggie, and Bella, though they were never verified. Read more
07 Jun 1909: Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (died 1974) Virginia Apgar was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. In 1952, she developed the 10-point Apgar score to assist physicians and nurses in assessing the status of newborns. Given at one minute and five minutes after birth, the Apgar test measures a child's breathing, skin color, reflexes, motion, and heart rate. A friend said, "She probably did more than any other physician to bring the problem of birth defects out of back rooms." She was a leader in the fields of anesthesiology and teratology, and introduced obstetrical considerations to the established field of neonatology. Read more
07 Jun 1909: Peter W. Rodino, American lawyer, and politician (died 2005) Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1989. A liberal Democrat, he represented parts of Newark, New Jersey and surrounding Essex and Hudson. He was the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey until passed by Chris Smith in 2021. Read more
07 Jun 1909: Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (died 1994) Jessie Alice Tandy, known professionally as Jessica Tandy, was an English and American actress. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV, receiving an Academy Award, four Tony Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Tandy is one of few performers to achieve Triple Crown of Acting status. Read more
07 Jun 1907: Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (died 2002) Sigvard Oscar Fredrik, Prince Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg born as, and until 1934 known as, Prince Sigvard of Sweden, Duke of Uppland, was a member of the Swedish Royal Family and a successful industrial designer. Read more
07 Jun 1905: James J. Braddock, American world heavyweight boxing champion (died 1974) James Walter Braddock was an American boxer who was the world heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1937. Read more
07 Jun 1902: Georges Van Parys, French composer (died 1971) Georges Van Parys was a French composer of film music and operettas. Among his musical influences were the group Les Six, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy. Later in his career he served as vice-president of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique.
He is buried in the cemetery at Villiers-sur-Marne. Read more
07 Jun 1902: Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic (died 2000) Herman B Wells, a native of Boone County, Indiana, was the eleventh president of Indiana University Bloomington and its first university chancellor. He was pivotal in the transformation of Indiana University from a small, locally oriented college into a world-class institution of higher learning through expanded enrollment, recruitment of new faculty, construction of new buildings, new program offerings, and campus beautification projects. He remained steadfast in his support of IU's faculty and students, especially in the areas of academic freedom and civil rights. Read more
07 Jun 1900: Frederick Terman, American engineering professor and academic administrator, nicknamed "the father of Silicon Valley." (died 1982) Frederick Emmons Terman was an American professor and academic administrator. He was the dean of the school of engineering from 1944 to 1958 and provost from 1955 to 1965 at Stanford University. He is widely credited as being the father of Silicon Valley. Read more
07 Jun 1900: Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 1963) Glenn Gray Knoblauch, known professionally as Glen Gray, was an American jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra. Read more
07 Jun 1899: Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic (died 1973) Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about "the Big House" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London. Read more
07 Jun 1897: George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (died 1970) George Szell, originally György Széll, György Endre Széll, or Georg Szell, was an Austro-Hungarian-born American conductor, composer and pianist. Considered one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors, he was music director of the Cleveland Orchestra of Cleveland, Ohio, and recorded much of the standard classical repertoire in Cleveland and with other orchestras. Read more
07 Jun 1896: Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot (died 1990) Douglas Campbell was an American aviator and World War I flying ace. He was the first American aviator flying in an American-trained air unit to achieve the status of ace. Read more
07 Jun 1896: Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986) Robert Sanderson Mulliken was an American physical chemist, primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital theory, i.e. the elaboration of the molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules. Mulliken received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1966 and the Priestley Medal in 1983. Read more
07 Jun 1896: Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1958) Imre Nagy was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet-backed government, for which he was sentenced to death and executed two years later. He was not related to previous agrarianist Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy. Read more
07 Jun 1894: Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (died 1974) Alexander Nikolayevich Prokofiev de Seversky was a Russian-American aviation pioneer, inventor, and influential advocate of strategic air power. He was also a World War I flying ace. Read more
07 Jun 1893: Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (died 1938) Gillis Emanuel Grafström was a Swedish figure skater. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He won three successive Olympic gold medals in Men's Figure Skating as well as an Olympic silver medal in the same event in 1932, and three World Championships. Grafström is one of the few athletes who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games. He and Eddie Eagan are the only athletes to have won gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, although Eagan remains the only one to have managed the feat in different disciplines. He is one of the oldest figure skating Olympic champions. Read more
07 Jun 1892: Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1975) Leopold Adolph Emile Reise, Sr. was a Canadian hockey player who played 8 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Hamilton Tigers, New York Americans and New York Rangers. Prior to turning professional in 1920 he played several years for the amateur Hamilton Tigers, joining the professional version when they started and staying for four seasons. He also spent three seasons with the Saskatoon Crescents of the Western Canada Hockey League, and returned to the NHL in 1926 with the New York Americans, spending four seasons with them before finishing his time in the NHL with the New York Rangers. Reise spent two additional seasons in the minor International Hockey League before retiring in 1932. His son, Leo Reise, Jr., also played in the NHL. Read more
07 Jun 1890: Karl Lashley, American psychologist and behaviorist (died 1958) Karl Spencer Lashley was an American psychologist and behaviorist remembered for his contributions to the study of learning and memory. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Lashley as the 61st most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Read more
07 Jun 1888: Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator (died 1958) Clarence Harrison DeMar was a U.S. marathoner, winner of seven Boston Marathons, and Bronze medalist at the 1924 Paris Olympics. He was known by the nickname "Mr. DeMarathon." Read more
07 Jun 1886: Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (died 1972) Henri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics. Read more
07 Jun 1884: Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect (died 1931) Ester Laura Matilda Claesson was a Swedish landscaping pioneer and is considered the first female landscape architect in Sweden. Read more
07 Jun 1883: Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar (died 1948) Sylvanus Griswold Morley was an American archaeologist and epigrapher who studied the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the early 20th century. Morley led extensive excavations of the Maya site of Chichen Itza on behalf of the Carnegie Institution and published several large compilations and treatises on Maya hieroglyphic writing. He also wrote popular accounts on the Maya for a general audience. Read more
07 Jun 1879: Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer (died 1933) Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit. Read more
07 Jun 1879: Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic (died 1963) Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus Voûte was a Dutch astronomer. Read more
07 Jun 1877: Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer (died 1960) Roelof Klein was a Dutch rower who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Klein was part of the Dutch eight team that won a bronze medal with Hermanus Brockmann as the coxswain. Brockmann also steered the boat of Klein and François Brandt in the coxed pairs semifinal, which they lost to France. The pair realized that the 60 kg weight of Brockmann puts them in disadvantage; they replaced him with a local boy of 33 kg and won the final, narrowly beating the French team. Read more
07 Jun 1868: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect (died 1928) Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macdonald, was influential on European design movements such as Art Nouveau and Secessionism and praised by great modernists such as Josef Hoffmann. Mackintosh was born in Glasgow, Scotland and died in London, England. He is among the most important figures of the Modern Style. Read more
07 Jun 1863: Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager (died 1952) William Frederick "Bones" Ely was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball. He was born in North Girard, Pennsylvania. Read more
07 Jun 1862: Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947) Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard was a Hungarian–German experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays. This work led to his experimental realization of the photoelectric effect, discovering that the energy (speed) of the electrons ejected from a cathode depends only on the frequency and not the intensity of light. Read more
07 Jun 1861: Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (died 1942) Robina Nicol was a Scottish-born New Zealand photographer and suffragist. Read more
07 Jun 1851: Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (died 1922) Ture Robert Ferdinand Malmgren was a Swedish journalist, book publisher, and municipal politician. A prominent figure in his hometown of Uddevalla, Malmgren became a colorful and well-known part of the city's history through, among other things, his long-lasting ownership of the newspaper Bohusläningen, work in the local political scene, eccentric and extravagant lifestyle, and faux-medieval Tureborg Castle. Read more
07 Jun 1848: Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (died 1903) Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influential practitioner of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. While only moderately successful during his lifetime, Gauguin has since been recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. Read more
07 Jun 1847: George Washington Ball, American legislator from Iowa (died 1915) George Washington Ball was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. He served in the Iowa General Assembly as Representative of Johnson County and later as State Senator. He also served on the city council of Iowa City from 1881 to 1883, and was mayor of the city from 1905 to 1909. Read more
07 Jun 1845: Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1930) Leopold von Auer was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor. Many of his students went on to become prominent concert performers and teachers. Read more
07 Jun 1840: Carlota of Mexico (died 1927) Charlotte of Belgium, known by the Spanish version of her name, Carlota, was by birth a princess of Belgium and member of the House of Wettin in the branch of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. As the wife of Archduke Maximilian of Austria, Viceroy of Lombardy–Venetia and later Emperor of Mexico, she became Archduchess of Austria and Empress of Mexico. She was the daughter, granddaughter, sister, sister-in-law, cousin and wife of reigning or deposed sovereigns throughout Europe and Mexico. Read more
07 Jun 1837: Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (died 1903) Alois Hitler was an Austrian civil servant in the customs service and the father of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany. Read more
07 Jun 1831: Amelia Edwards, English journalist and author (died 1892) Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, also known as Amelia B. Edwards, was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist. Her literary successes included the ghost story "The Phantom Coach" (1864), the novels Barbara's History (1864) and Lord Brackenbury (1880), and the travelogue of Egypt A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877). She also edited a poetry anthology published in 1878. Read more
07 Jun 1811: James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician (died 1870) Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine. He was the first physician to demonstrate the anaesthetic properties of chloroform in humans and helped to popularize its use in medicine. Read more

🕊️ Important Deaths on 07 June in World History

07 Jun 2025: Uriah Rennie, English association football referee (born 1959) Uriah Duddley Rennie was a British football referee. He was the first black referee to officiate in the Premier League, and officiated over 300 Premier League matches between 1997 and 2008. Outside of football, he was a magistrate in Sheffield and briefly served as chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University in 2025. Read more
07 Jun 2024: William Anders, American astronaut and lunar explorer (born 1933) William Alison Anders was a United States Air Force (USAF) major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. In December 1968, he was a member of the crew of Apollo 8, the first three people to leave low Earth orbit and travel to the Moon. Along with fellow astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, he circled the Moon ten times, and broadcast live images and commentary back to Earth, including the Christmas Eve Genesis reading. During one of the mission's lunar orbits, he took the iconic Earthrise photograph. Read more
07 Jun 2023: The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler and actor (born 1942) Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, better known by his ring name the Iron Sheik, was an Iranian-American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler and actor. To date he is the only Iranian champion in WWE history, having won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship in 1983. Read more
07 Jun 2015: Christopher Lee, English actor (born 1922) Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was an English actor and singer. In a career spanning over 60 years, he became known as an actor with tremendous screen presence and a deep and commanding voice who often portrayed villains in horror and franchise films. Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in June 2009 by Charles Prince of Wales, and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011 and received the BFI Fellowship in 2013. Read more
07 Jun 2013: Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1928) Pierre Mauroy was a French politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001 and President of the Socialist International from 1992 to 1999. At the time of his death, Mauroy was the emeritus mayor of the city of Lille. Read more
07 Jun 2013: Richard Ramirez, American serial killer and sex offender (born 1960) Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez, better known as Richard Ramirez, was an American serial killer, sex offender and burglar whose killing spree occurred in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of California. From April 1984 to August 1985, Ramirez murdered at least fifteen people during various break-ins. With his crimes usually taking place after dark, Ramirez was dubbed the Night Stalker, the Walk-In Killer, and the Valley Intruder. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1989 and died while awaiting execution in 2013. Read more
07 Jun 2012: Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (born 1925) Phillip Vallentine Tobias was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was best known for his work at South Africa's hominid fossil sites. He was also an activist for the eradication of apartheid and gave numerous anti-apartheid speeches at protest rallies and also to academic audiences. Read more
07 Jun 2006: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (born 1966) Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, born Ahmad Fadeel Nazal al-Khalayleh, was a Jordanian jihadist militant who ran a training camp in Afghanistan. He became known after going to Iraq and masterminding a series of bombings, beheadings, and other attacks during the Iraq War, reportedly "turning an insurgency against U.S. troops" in Iraq into a Shia–Sunni civil war. He was sometimes known by his supporters as the "Sheikh of slaughtering". Read more
07 Jun 2002: Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (born 1915) Signe Eleonora Cecilia Hasso was a Swedish actress. Read more
07 Jun 2001: Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (born 1907) Ángel Víctor Paz Estenssoro was a Bolivian politician who served as the 45th president of Bolivia for three nonconsecutive and four total terms from 1952 to 1956, 1960 to 1964 and 1985 to 1989. He ran for president eight times and was victorious in 1951, 1960, 1964 and 1985. His 1951 victory was annulled by a military junta led by Hugo Ballivián, and his 1964 victory was interrupted by the 1964 Bolivian coup d'état. Read more
07 Jun 2001: Betty Neels, English nurse and author (born 1910) Betty Neels was a prolific British writer of over 134 romance novels, beginning in 1969 and continuing until her death. Her work is known for being particularly chaste. Read more
07 Jun 1995: Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (born 1918) Hsuan Hua, also known as An Tzu, Tu Lun and Master Hua by his Western disciples, was a Chinese monk of Chan Buddhism and a contributing figure in bringing Chinese Buddhism to the United States in the late 20th century. Read more
07 Jun 1992: Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (born 1909) William Henry Getty France was an American businessman and racing driver. He was also known as Bill France Sr. or Big Bill. He is best known for founding and managing NASCAR, a sanctioning body of American-based stock car racing. Read more
07 Jun 1987: Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (born 1940) Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu was a Turkish poet and writer. Read more
07 Jun 1985: Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (born 1906) Klaudia Taev was an Estonian vocal pedagogue. Read more
07 Jun 1980: Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (born 1883) Elizabeth Josephine Craig, MBE, FRSA was a Scottish journalist, home economist and a notable author on cookery. Read more
07 Jun 1980: Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (born 1913) Philip Guston was a Canadian and American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction," and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years". He frequently depicted racism, antisemitism, fascism and American identity, as well as—especially in his later most cartoonish and mocking work—the banality of evil. In 2013, Guston's painting To Fellini set an auction record at Christie's when it sold for US$25.8 million. Read more
07 Jun 1980: Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (born 1891) Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blends character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, which are based on his experiences in New York City and Paris, and all of which were banned in the United States until 1961. He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism and painted watercolors. Read more
07 Jun 1978: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897) Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS was a British chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Read more
07 Jun 1970: E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (born 1879) Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays. His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of technological dystopian fiction. He also co-authored the libretto to Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd (1951). Many of his novels examine class differences and hypocrisy. His views as a humanist are at the heart of his work. Read more
07 Jun 1968: Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (born 1907) Dan Duryea was an American actor in film, stage, and television. Known for portraying villains, he had a long career in a variety of leading and secondary roles. Read more
07 Jun 1967: Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1909) Anatoly Ivanovich Maltsev was born in Misheronsky, near Moscow, and died in Novosibirsk, USSR. He was a mathematician noted for his work on the decidability of various algebraic groups. Malcev algebras, as well as Malcev Lie algebras are named after him. Read more
07 Jun 1967: Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (born 1893) Dorothy Parker was an American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction. Based in New York, she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. Read more
07 Jun 1966: Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (born 1886) Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp, better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist. Read more
07 Jun 1965: Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (born 1921) Judy Holliday was an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter. Read more
07 Jun 1956: John Willcock, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (born 1879) John Collings Willcock was an Australian politician. He was the premier of Western Australia from 1936 to 1945, holding office as state leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1916 to 1947, representing the seat of Geraldton. Prior to entering politics he was a railways worker and train driver. Read more
07 Jun 1954: Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1912) Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science. Read more
07 Jun 1945: Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher and academic (born 1870) Kitarō Nishida was a Japanese moral philosopher, philosopher of mathematics and science, and religious scholar. He was the founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. He graduated from the University of Tokyo during the Meiji period in 1894 with a degree in philosophy. He was named professor of the Fourth Higher School in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1899 and later became professor of philosophy at Kyoto University. Nishida retired in 1927. In 1940, he was awarded the Order of Culture. He participated in establishing the Chiba Institute of Technology (千葉工業大学) from 1940. Read more
07 Jun 1942: Alan Blumlein, English engineer (born 1903) Alan Dower Blumlein was an English electronics engineer, notable for his many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereophonic sound, television and radar. He received 128 patents and was considered one of the most significant engineers and inventors of his time. Read more
07 Jun 1937: Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (born 1911) Jean Harlow was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of "bad girl" characters, she was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the pre-Code era of American cinema. Often nicknamed the "Blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde,” Harlow was popular for her "Laughing Vamp" screen persona. Harlow was in the film industry for only nine years, but she became one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars, whose image has endured in the public eye. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Harlow number 22 on its greatest female screen legends list. Read more
07 Jun 1936: Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (born 1875) Mirko Seljan and Stjepan Seljan were Croatian explorers. Read more
07 Jun 1933: Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian lawyer, judge, and poet (born 1875) Dragutin Milivoj Domjanić was a Croatian poet. He is well known for his work of Domjanic and the poems Fala and Popevke sam slagal. Read more
07 Jun 1932: John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (born 1856) John Verran was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He served as premier of South Australia from 1910 to 1912, the second member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to hold the position. Read more
07 Jun 1927: Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (born 1905) Charles Archibald Cecil Birkin was an English motorcycle racer, brother of Tim Birkin, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s. Read more
07 Jun 1927: Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (born 1847) Edmund James Flynn was a Canadian lawyer, politician and the tenth premier of Quebec, from 1896 to 1897. Read more
07 Jun 1924: William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1847) William James Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie was a leading British shipbuilder and businessman. He was chairman of Harland & Wolff, shipbuilders, between 1895 and 1924, and also served as Lord Mayor of Belfast between 1896 and 1898. He was ennobled as Baron Pirrie in 1906, appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1908 and made Viscount Pirrie in 1921. Lord Pirrie was involved in the building of the Olympic-class ocean liners, along with his nephew Thomas Andrews. In Belfast, he was already a controversial figure: a Protestant employer associated as a leading Liberal with a policy of Home Rule for Ireland. Read more
07 Jun 1921: Patrick Maher, executed Irish republican (born 1889) Patrick Maher was a member of the Irish Republican Army executed in Mountjoy Prison. He was 32 years old at the time of his death. Read more
07 Jun 1921: Edmond Foley, executed Irish republican (born 1897) Edmond Foley, sometimes known as Edmund or Edward, was a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who was hanged in Mountjoy Prison on 7 June 1921. Together with nine other men executed by hanging during the War of Independence, he was one of The Forgotten Ten. Read more
07 Jun 1916: Émile Faguet, French author and critic (born 1847) Auguste Émile Faguet was a French author and literary critic. Read more
07 Jun 1915: Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (born 1822) Charles Reed Bishop was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist in Hawaii. Born in Glens Falls, New York, he sailed to Hawaii in 1846 at the age of 24, and made his home there, marrying into the royal family of the kingdom. He served several monarchs in appointed positions in the kingdom, before its overthrow in 1893 by Americans from the United States and organization as the Territory of Hawaii. Read more
07 Jun 1911: Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1842) Maurice Rouvier was a French statesman of the "Opportunist" faction, who twice served as the Prime Minister of France. He is best known for his financial policies and his unpopular policies designed to avoid a rupture with Germany. Read more
07 Jun 1896: Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (born 1829) Pavlos Carrer or Pavlos Carreris, was a Greek composer, one of the leaders of the Ionian art music school and the first to create national operas and national songs on Greek plots, Greek librettos and verses, as well as melodies inspired by the folk and the urban popular musical tradition of modern Greece. Read more
07 Jun 1879: William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (born 1836) William Tilbury Fox was an English dermatologist. Read more
07 Jun 1866: Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (born 1780) Seattle was a leader of the Duwamish and Suquamish peoples. A leading figure among his people, he pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, forming a personal relationship with Doc Maynard. The city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named after him. A widely publicized speech arguing in favor of ecological responsibility and respect for Native Americans' land rights has been attributed to him. Read more
07 Jun 1863: Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (born 1790) Antonio Vicente Miguel Valero de Bernabé Pacheco, a.k.a. The Liberator from Puerto Rico, was a Puerto Rican military leader. Trained in Spain, he fought with the Spanish Army to expel the French leader, Napoleon, from Spain and was promoted to colonel during these years. A variant of his name, Manuel Antonio Valero, has been adopted by some historians, but it is not present in official documentation nor was it used by him. Read more
07 Jun 1861: Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (born 1777) Patrick Brontë was an Irish Anglican clergyman and author who spent most of his adult life in England. One of ten children from a very poor family, he managed to secure a scholarship to study theology at St John's College, Cambridge, and went on to take holy orders. In 1811 he published a collection of poetry, Cottage Poems. He continued to write and publish throughout his life. In 1812 he married Maria Branwell, and they had six children, including the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, and Branwell Brontë, their only son. Read more
07 Jun 1859: David Cox, English painter (born 1783) David Cox was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism. Read more
07 Jun 1854: Charles Baudin, French admiral (born 1792) Charles Baudin, was a French admiral, whose naval service extended from the First Empire through the early days of the Second Empire. Read more
07 Jun 1853: Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (born 1787) Joseph-Norbert Provencher was a Canadian clergyman and missionary and one of the founders of the modern province of Manitoba. He was the first Bishop of Saint Boniface and was an important figure in the history of the Franco-Manitoban community. Read more
07 Jun 1843: Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet and author (born 1770) Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Particularly due to his early association with and philosophical influence on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, he was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism. Read more
07 Jun 1840: Frederick William III of Prussia (born 1770) Frederick William III was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, when the empire was dissolved. Read more
07 Jun 1826: Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1787) Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass, an achromatic telescope, and objective lenses. He developed diffraction gratings and also invented the spectroscope. In 1814, he discovered and studied the dark absorption lines in the spectrum of the sun now known as Fraunhofer lines. Read more
07 Jun 1810: Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher (born 1765) Luigi Schiavonetti was an Italian reproductive engraver and etcher. Read more

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