June 7

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Holidays & Observances Sette Giugno, Union Dissolution Day, Flag Day (Peru), Journalist Day (Argentina) Events 69th Tony Awards, 41st G7 summit Famous birthdays Emily Ratajkowski, Prince, Iggy Azalea, Liam Neeson, Fetty Wap

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June 7 is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 207 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

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Events

421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding was celebrated at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).

879 – Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia under duke Branimir as an independent state.

1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.

1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.

1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.

1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.

1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.

1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.

1788 – French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.

1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.

1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.

1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.

1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.

1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.

1866 – One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they looted and plundered around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.

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).

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.

1893 – Mohandas Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience.

1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.

1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.

1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.

1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.

1919 – Sette Giugno: Four people are killed in a riot in Malta.

1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.

1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Philip Murray elected as its first president.

1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.

1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.

1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leaves Tromsø and goes into exile in London. They return exactly five years later

1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.

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.

1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.

1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.

1948 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.

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.

1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.

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.

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.

1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.

1977 – 500,000,000 people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.

1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.

1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.

1991 – Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.

2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.

2013 – A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people and injuring more than 34 others.

2013 – A gunman opens fire at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, after setting a house on fire nearby, killing six people, including the suspect.

2014 – At least 37 people are killed in an attack in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's South Kivu province.

Births

156 BC – Emperor Wu of Han (d. 87 BC)

939 – Emperor Taizong of Song (d. 997)

1082 – Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)

1003 – Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia (d. 1048)

1422 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian son of Guidantonio da Montefeltro (d. 1482)

1502 – John III of Portugal (d. 1557)

1529 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (d. 1615)

1687 – Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian actor and singer (d. 1734)

1702 – Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1761)

1757 – Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)

1761 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)

1770 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)

1778 – Beau Brummell, English cricketer and fashion designer (d. 1840)

1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician (d. 1870)

1831 – Amelia Edwards, English journalist and author (d. 1892)

1837 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (d. 1903)

1840 – Carlota of Mexico (d. 1927)

1845 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1930)

1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (d. 1903)

1851 – Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)

1862 – Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)

1863 – Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager (d. 1952)

1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect (d. 1928)

1877 – Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer (d. 1960)

1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer (d. 1933)

1879 – Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1963)

1880 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian-Danish actor (d. 1956)

1884 – Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect.

1883 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1948)

1886 – Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (d. 1972)

1888 – Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator (d. 1958)

1892 – Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)

1893 – Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (d. 1938)

1894 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (d. 1974)

1896 – Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1990)

1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)

1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1958)

1897 – George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1970)

1899 – Elizabeth Bowen, Irish-English author and critic (d. 1973)

1900 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra) (d. 1963)

1902 – Georges Van Parys, French composer (d. 1971)

1902 – Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic (d. 2000)

1905 – James J. Braddock, American lieutenant and boxer (d. 1974)

1907 – Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (d. 2002)

1909 – Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (d. 1974)

1909 – Peter W. Rodino, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 2005)

1909 – Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (d. 1994)

1910 – Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (d. 2014)

1910 – Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach (d. 1989)

1910 – Bradford Washburn, American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (d. 2007)

1910 – Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (d. 1990)

1911 – Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (d. 1995)

1915 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991)

1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)

1917 – Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995)

1920 – Georges Marchais, French mechanic and politician (d. 1997)

1921 – Myrtle Edwards, Australian cricketer and softball player (d. 2010)

1921 – Tal Farlow, American guitarist (d. 1998)

1921 – Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2012)

1922 – Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)

1923 – Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2000)

1925 – John Biddle, American sailor and cinematographer (d. 2008)

1926 – Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician

1927 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian race car driver (d. 1953)

1927 – Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)

1928 – Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 1995)

1928 – James Ivory, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1928 – Reg Park, English-South African bodybuilder and actor (d. 2007)

1928 – Randolph Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)

1929 – John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada

1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress and author

1932 – Tina Brooks, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1974)

1932 – Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (d. 2013)

1935 – Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2012)

1937 – Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor and director

1938 – Ian St John, Scottish footballer and manager

1939 – Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian cellist, conductor and educator (d. 2013)

1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor

1940 – Evi Nemeth, American author and engineer (d. 2013)

1940 – Ronald Pickup, English actor

1942 – Charles R. Boutin, American lawyer and politician

1943 – Nikki Giovanni, American author, poet, and educator

1943 – Ken Osmond, Actor, police officer

1944 – Annette Lu, Taiwanese lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of the Republic of China

1944 – Erling Wicklund, Swedish-Norwegian trombonist, composer, and journalist

1945 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)

1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian lawyer and politician, 26th Chancellor of Austria

1946 – Jenny Jones, Palestinian-Canadian singer, drummer, and talk show host

1947 – Don Money, American baseball player and coach

1947 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)

1947 – Edward C. Prado, American federal judge

1948 – Jim Walton, American businessman

1949 – Christopher W. Morris, Canadian philosopher and academic

1951 – Terry O'Reilly, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1952 – Royce Campbell, American guitarist, composer, and producer

1952 – Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor

1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1953 – Colleen Camp, American actress

1953 – Johnny Clegg, English-South African singer-songwriter and guitarist

1954 – Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet

1955 – William Forsythe, American actor and producer

1955 – Jon Balke, Norwegian pianist and orchestra leader

1955 – Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)

1956 – L.A. Reid, American songwriter and producer, co-founded LaFace Records

1957 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer-songwriter and producer

1957 – Paddy McAloon, English singer-songwriter (Prefab Sprout)

1958 – Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (d. 2016)

1958 – Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai politician and diplomat

1959 – Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States

1960 – Bill Prady, American screenwriter and producer

1961 – Dave Catching, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

1962 – Michael Cartellone, American drummer

1962 – Thierry Hazard, French singer-songwriter

1962 – Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese race car driver

1963 – Roberto Alagna, French-Italian tenor and actor

1963 – Ailsa McKay, Scottish economist and academic (d. 2014)

1964 – Gia Carides, Australian actress

1964 – Graeme Labrooy, Sri Lankan cricketer

1964 – Geir Lippestad, Norwegian lawyer and activist

1965 – Mick Foley, American wrestler, actor, and author

1965 – Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer

1965 – Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector

1965 – Billy Reeves, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer

1966 – Eric Kretz, American drummer, songwriter, and producer

1966 – Stéphane Richer, Canadian ice hockey player

1967 – Dave Navarro, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer

1969 – Prince Joachim of Denmark

1970 – Helen Baxendale, English actress

1970 – Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player

1970 – Mike Modano, American ice hockey player

1970 – Cha Seung-won, South Korean model and actor

1971 – Terrell Buckley, American football player and coach

1971 – Alex Mooney, American lawyer and politician

1974 – Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player

1974 – Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host

1975 – Shane Bond, New Zealand cricketer and coach

1975 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player

1976 – Necro, American rapper, producer, and director

1976 – Mirsad Türkcan, Turkish basketball player

1977 – Marcin Baszczyński, Polish footballer

1977 – Preston Campbell, Australian rugby league player

1978 – Tony An, South Korean singer (H.O.T and jtL)

1978 – Mini Andén, Swedish-American model, actress, and producer

1978 – Adrienne Frantz, American actress and singer-songwriter

1978 – Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter

1978 – Donaldo Méndez, Venezuelan baseball player

1979 – Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer

1979 – Anna Torv, Australian actress

1980 – Ed Moses, American swimmer

1981 – Stephen Bywater, English footballer

1981 – Tyler Johnson, American baseball player

1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player

1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer

1981 – Larisa Oleynik, American actress

1982 – Kurt Gidley, Australian rugby league player

1982 – Germán Lux, Argentinian footballer

1982 – Virgil Vasquez, American baseball player

1983 – Ryan Bader, American mixed martial artist

1983 – Milan Jurčina, Slovak ice hockey player

1983 – Mark Lowe, American baseball player

1983 – Piotr Małachowski, Polish discus thrower

1983 – Pierre Pierce, American basketball player

1984 – Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer-songwriter

1985 – Arkadiusz Piech, Polish footballer

1985 – Shannon Shorr, American professional poker player

1985 – Charlie Simpson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1985 – Richard Thompson, Trinidadian sprinter

1985 – Simon Whaley, English footballer

1986 – Keegan Bradley, American golfer

1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor

1989 – Mitch Robinson, Australian footballer

1989 – Matt Smith, English footballer

1990 – Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper

1990 – Allison Schmitt, American swimmer

1990 – Fetty Wap, American rapper

1991 – Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress

1991 – Gary Rohan, Australian footballer

1992 – Sara Niemietz, American singer-songwriter and actress

1992 – Mathias Gehrt, Danish professional footballer

1992 – Alípio, Brazilian footballer

1993 – Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress

1993 – George Ezra, English singer-songwriter

1995 – Macky Bagnack, Cameroonian footballer

1998 – Graham Newberry, American-English figure skater

Deaths

555 – Pope Vigilius

929 – Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (b. 877)

1329 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (b. 1274)

1337 – William I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1286)

1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)

1394 – Anne of Bohemia (b. 1367)

1492 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (b. 1427)

1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)

1711 – Henry Dodwell, Irish scholar and theologian (b. 1641)

1779 – William Warburton, English bishop and critic (b. 1698)

1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher (b. 1765)

1821 – Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebel leader (b. 1780)

1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1787)

1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)

1840 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet (b. 1770)

1853 – Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (b. 1787)

1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)

1859 – David Cox, English painter (b. 1783)

1861 – Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (b. 1777)

1863 – Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (b. 1790)

1866 – Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (b. 1780)

1879 – William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (b. 1836)

1896 – Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)

1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)

1915 – Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (b. 1822)

1916 – Émile Faguet, French author and critic (b. 1847)

1927 – Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (b. 1905)

1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)

1931 – Viktor Schwanneke, German actor and director (b. 1880)

1933 – Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian lawyer, judge, and poet (b. 1875)

1936 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)

1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (b. 1911)

1942 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer (b. 1903)

1945 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher and academic (b. 1870)

1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)

1961 – Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English navy officer and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (b. 1885)

1963 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)

1965 – Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (b. 1921)

1966 – Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)

1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)

1967 – Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (b. 1893)

1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (b. 1907)

1970 – E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1879)

1978 – Charles Moran, American race car driver (b. 1906)

1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

1979 – Asa Earl Carter, American Ku Klux Klan leader (b. 1925)

1980 – Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (b. 1883)

1980 – Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (b. 1913)

1980 – Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (b. 1891)

1985 – Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (b. 1906)

1987 – Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1940)

1988 – Martin Sommer, German SS officer (b. 1915)

1989 – Chico Landi, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1907)

1989 – William McLean Hamilton, Canadian politician, Postmaster General of Canada (b. 1919)

1992 – Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (b. 1909)

1993 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer 2002 (b. 1964)

1995 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (b. 1918)

1995 – Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat, High Commission of Canada to the United Kingdom (b. 1906)

1996 – Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)

2001 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907)

2001 – Betty Neels, English nurse and author (b. 1910)

2002 – Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (b. 1915)

2002 – B. D. Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (b. 1912)

2002 – Lilian, Princess of Réthy (b. 1916)

2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist (b. 1966)

2008 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor and producer (b. 1953)

2008 – Jim McKay, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1921)

2008 – Dino Risi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1916)

2009 – Hugh Hopper, English bass player and songwriter (The Wilde Flowers and Soft Machine) (b. 1945)

2009 – Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)

2010 – Stuart Cable, Welsh drummer (b. 1970)

2010 – Omar Rayo, Colombian painter and sculptor (b. 1928)

2010 – Adriana Xenides, Argentinian-Australian television host (b. 1956)

2011 – Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)

2012 – John T. Cunningham, American journalist and historian (b. 1915)

2012 – Cotton Owens, American race car driver (b. 1924)

2012 – J. Michael Riva, American production designer and art director (b. 1948)

2012 – Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (b. 1925)

2012 – Bob Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)

2013 – Lesley Cantwell, New Zealand race walker (b. 1987)

2013 – Charlie Coles, American basketball player and coach (b. 1942)

2013 – Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)

2013 – Mark Starr, English-American wrestler (b. 1962)

2014 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1978)

2014 – Dora Akunyili, Nigerian academic and politician (b. 1954)

2014 – Rafael A. Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast and academic (b. 1928)

2014 – Epainette Mbeki, South African activist (b. 1916)

2014 – James McNair, American comedian (b. 1952)

2015 – Harold LeDoux, American cartoonist (b. 1926)

2015 – Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)

2015 – Sean Pappas, South African golfer and coach (b. 1966)

2015 – Sheikh Razzak Ali, Bangladeshi journalist and politician (b. 1928)

2016 – Amber Gurung, Nepalese composer, singer, and lyricist (b. 1938)

Holidays and observances

Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)

Birthday of Prince Joachim (Denmark)

Christian feast day:

Colmán of Dromore

Paul I of Constantinople

Robert of Newminster

Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)

June 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA))

Battle of Arica Day (Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile)

Flag Day (Peru)

Journalist Day (Argentina)

Ludi Piscatorii (Roman Empire)

Sette Giugno (Malta)

The first day of the Vestalia (Roman Empire)

Union Dissolution Day (Norway)

References

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