June 7

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.

Events

Up to 1900

555 – Pope Vigilius (b. 500)
1329 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 – Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of Richard II of England (b. 1367)
1594 – Roderigo Lopez, Portuguese-English physician
1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1821 – Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebel leader (b. 1780)
1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
1842 – James Barbour, Governor of Virginia (b. 1775)
1843 – Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer (b. 1767)
1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1863 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian composer (b. 1787)
1866 – Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1871 – August Immanuel Bekker, German philologist (b. 1785)
1876 – Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1807)

1901 – 2000

1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
1916 – Emile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1927 – Edmund James Flynn, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
1931 – Viktor Schwanneke, German director and actor (b. 1880)
1933 – Dragutin Domjanic, Croatian poet (b. 1875)
1936 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
1945 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)
1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
1954 – Alan Turing, British mathematician (b. 1912)
1965 – Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)
1966 – Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter and poet (b. 1866)
1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1967 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)
1970 – E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (b. 1897)
1980 – Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
1988 – Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
1989 – Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
1992 – Bill France, Sr., American racing driver and businessman, co-founder of NASCAR (b. 1909)
1996 – Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
1996 – Jan Kerouac, American writer (b. 1952)

From 2001

2001 – Charles Templeton, Canadian cartoonist and television evangelist (b. 1915)
2001 – Victor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian President (b. 1907)
2002 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, 5th Vice president of India (b. 1912)
2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist, leader in Al-Qaeda (b. 1966)
2008 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
2008 – Dino Risi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
2009 – Baron Vaea, Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1921)
2010 – Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)
2011 – Jorge Semprun, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1923)
2012 – Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer (b. 1957)
2012 – Bob Welch, American musician (b. 1945)
2012 – J. Michael Riva, American production designer (b. 1948)
2012 – Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi military officer (b. 1957)
2013 – Pierre Mauroy, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)
2013 – Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (b. 1960)
2014 – Jane Gray, Scottish-Australian supercentenarian (b. 1901)
2014 – Fernandao, Brazilian footballer (b. 1978)
2014 – Rafael Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast (b. 1928)
2014 – Jacques Herlin, French actor (b. 1927)
2014 – Pierre Patry, Canadian filmmaker (b. 1933)
2015 – Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer (b. 1954)
2015 – Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
2016 – Johnny Brooks, English footballer (b. 1931)
2016 – Amber Gurung, Nepalese musician and composer (b. 1937)
2016 – Sean Rooks, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2016 – Thomas J. Perkins, American businessman (b. 1932)
2016 – Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and manager (b. 1962)
2017 – Arthur Bunting, English rugby player and coach (b. 1936)
2017 – Trento Longaretti, Italian painter (b. 1916)
2017 – James Hardy, American football player (b. 1985)
2017 – France Rode, Slovenian engineer (b. 1934)
2018 – David Douglas Duncan, American photojournalist (b. 1916)
2018 – Fu Da-ren, Taiwanese sports broadcaster and assisted suicide activist (b. 1933)
2018 – Francis Smerecki, French footballer and manager (b. 1946)
2018 – Stefan Weber, Austrian singer (b. 1946)
2019 – Noémi Ban, Hungarian-American public speaker and Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
2019 – Ryszard Bugajski, Polish film director (b. 1943)
2019 – Nonnie Griffin, Canadian actress (b. 1933)
2019 – Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Uruguayan-Spanish film director (b. 1935)
2019 – Noel Lloyd, Welsh academic (b. 1946)
2019 – Tony Rodham, American businessman and political consultant, brother of Hillary Clinton (b. 1954)
2021 – Ben Roberts, British actor (b. 1950)

Births

1901 – 1950

1906 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1963)
1907 – Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg, Swedish royal (d. 2002)
1909 – Jessica Tandy, British actress (d. 1994)
1909 – Virginia Apgar, American physician (d. 1974)
1909 – Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005)
1910 – Bradford Washburn, American explorer, mountaineer, photographer and mapmaker (d. 2007)
1910 – Arthur Gardner, American actor and movie producer (d. 2014)
1911 – Mario Perazzolo, Italian footballer (d. 2001)
1914 – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Indian director, producer and journalist (d. 1987)
1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
1917 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1995)
1920 – Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)
1921 – Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician (d. 2012)
1922 – Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1927 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
1927 – Ian McColl, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2008)
1927 – Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)
1928 – Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer (d. 1995)
1928 – James Ivory, American director
1928 – Randy Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)
1929 – John Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)
1929 – Antonio Carbajal, Mexican footballer
1929 – Mickey Duff, Polish-born British boxing trainer and promoter (d. 2014)
1930 – Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
1930 – Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1974)
1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress
1933 – Arkady Arkanov, Russian writer and satirist (d. 2015)
1936 – Pippo Baudo, Italian television presenter
1937 – Neeme Jarvi, Estonian conductor
1938 – Ian St John, Scottish footballer
1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer
1940 – Ronald Pickup, English actor
1942 – Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libyan colonel and military leader (d. 2011)
1943 – Ken Osmond, American actor
1944 – Annette Lu, Taiwanese politician and lawyer
1944 – Miguel Ríos, Spanish singer
1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, former Chancellor of Austria
1947 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1949 – Lou Macari, Scottish footballer
1950 – Gary Graham, American actor

1951 – 1975

1952 – Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor
1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer
1953 – Johnny Clegg, British musician
1953 – Libuse Safrankova, Czech actress
1955 – William Forsythe, American actor
1956 – L.A. Reid, American recording executive, songwriter and record producer
1957 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, songwriter and producer
1957 – Fred Vargas, French writer, historian and archaeologist
1957 – Paulo Vitor, Brazilian footballer
1957 – Iain Gray, Scottish politician
1958 – Prince, American singer and musician (d. 2016)
1958 – Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai politician and diplomat
1959 – Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States and 50th Governor of Indiana
1960 – Bill Prady, American television writer and producer
1960 – Steffen Seibert, German television journalist and government spokesman
1961 – Dave Catching, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1962 – Michael Cartellone, American drummer
1962 – Thierry Hazard, French singer-songwriter
1962 – Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver
1963 – Judie Aronson, American actress
1963 – Luca Fusi, Italian footballer
1964 – Geir Lippestad, Norwegian lawyer
1965 – Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and actor
1965 – Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
1965 – Damien Hirst, British artist
1967 – Dave Navarro, American guitarist
1969 – Prince Joachim of Denmark
1969 – Alex Aguinaga, Ecuadorean footballer
1969 – Adam Buxton, English comedian and actor
1969 – Kim Rhodes, American actress
1970 – Helen Baxendale, British actress
1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
1970 – Mike Hodano, American ice hockey player
1970 – Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player
1970 – Cha Seung-won, South Korean actor and model
1970 – Alexander Dobrindt, German politician
1972 – Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
1973 – Song Yun-ah, South Korean model, actress and singer
1974 – Sunshine Anderson, American singer
1974 – Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
1974 – Bear Grylls, British adventurer
1974 – Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian writer (d. 2014)
1975 – Shane Bond, New Zealand cricketer
1975 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player

From 1976

1976 – Necro, American rapper, producer and actor
1976 – Mirsad Türkcan, Turkish basketball player
1977 – Marcin Baszczynski, Polish footballer
1978 – Bill Hader, American comedian, actor, writer and producer
1978 – Mini Andén, Swedish-American model, actress and producer
1979 – Viktor Kostyuchenko, Belarussian ice hockey player
1980 – Ed Moses, American swimmer
1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian model and tennis player
1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
1981 – Larisa Oleynuk, American actress
1982 – German Lux, Argentine footballer
1983 – Pierre Pierce, American basketball player
1984 – Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer
1985 – Dani Evans, American model
1985 – Charlie Simpson, English musician
1986 – Keegan Bradley, American golfer
1988 – Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor
1988 – Philipp Tischendorf, German figure skater
1990 – Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper
1990 – Amy Childs, English TV personality
1990 – Alison Schmitt, American swimmer
1991 – Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress
1991 – Fetty Wap, American rapper
1993 – George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
1993 – Jordan Fry, American actor
1993 – Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer, actress and dancer

Deaths

Observances

Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation
Birthday of Prince Joachim of Denmark
Flag Day (Peru)
Journalist Day (Argentina)
Sette Giugno (Malta)
Union Dissolution Day (Norway)

June 7 Media

The Sette Giugno monument, in its original location in Palace Square, Valletta