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July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 178 days remain until the end of the year.
Events [ ]
371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra shatters Sparta's reputation of military invincibility.[1]
640 – Battle of Heliopolis : The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt ).
1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania .
1348 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death .
1411 – Ming China 's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese king, captured during the Ming–Kotte War , to the Yongle Emperor .
1415 – Jan Hus is condemned by the assembly of the council in the cathedral as a heretic and sentenced to be burned at the stake. (See Deaths section.)[2]
1438 – A temporary compromise between the rebellious Transylvanian peasants and the noblemen is signed in Kolozsmonostor Abbey .
1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England.
1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River .
1495 – First Italian War : Battle of Fornovo : Charles VIII defeats the Holy League .
1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England .
1557 – King Philip II of Spain , consort of Queen Mary I of England , sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the City of Calais , the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
1560 – The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
1573 – Córdoba, Argentina , is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera .
1573 – French Wars of Religion : Siege of La Rochelle ends.
1614 – Raid on Żejtun : The south east of Malta , and the town of Żejtun , suffer a raid from Ottoman forces. This was the last unsuccessful attempt by the Ottomans to conquer the island of Malta .
1630 – Thirty Years' War : Four thousand Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania , Germany.
1685 – Battle of Sedgemoor : Last battle of the Monmouth Rebellion . troops of King James II defeat troops of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth .
1751 – Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia .
1777 – American Revolutionary War : Siege of Fort Ticonderoga : After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne , American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga , New York.
1779 – Battle of Grenada : The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War .
1801 – First Battle of Algeciras : Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras .
1809 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram ; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars.
1854 – In Jackson, Michigan , the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.
1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister , a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1887 – David Kalākaua , monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii , is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution , which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii .
1892 – Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike , leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
1917 – World War I : Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt .
1918 – The Left SR uprising in Russia starts with the assassination of German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach by Cheka members.
1919 – The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park . The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
1936 – A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61 m) into the River Irwell .
1937 – Spanish Civil War : Battle of Brunete : The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
1939 – Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany closes the last remaining Jewish enterprises.
1940 – Story Bridge , a major landmark in Brisbane , as well as Australia's longest cantilever bridge is formally opened.
1941 – The German army launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk .
1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe " above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1944 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial .
1944 – The Hartford circus fire , one of America's worst fire disasters , kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut .[3]
1947 – Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India .[4]
1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union .
1957 – Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships , becoming the first black athlete to do so.[5]
1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.[6]
1962 – As a part of Operation Plowshare , the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
1962 – The Late Late Show , the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
1964 – Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
1966 – Malawi becomes a republic , with Hastings Banda as its first President .
1967 – Nigerian Civil War : Nigerian forces invade Biafra , beginning the war.
1975 – The Comoros declares independence from France.
1986 – Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France .
1988 – The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
1989 – The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack : Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.
1990 – The Electronic Frontier Foundation is founded.
1995 – In the Bosnian War , under the command of General Ratko Mladić , Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica .
1997 – The Troubles : In response to the Drumcree dispute , five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland .
1998 – Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok , Hong Kong , replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport.
2003 – The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2 ) to five stars: Hip 4872 , HD 245409 , 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.
2006 – The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War , re-opens for trade after 44 years.
2013 – At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State , Nigeria .
2013 – A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport , killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.
2013 – A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the town's central area.
Births [ ]
1387 – Queen Blanche I of Navarre (d. 1441)[7]
1423 – Antonio Manetti , Italian mathematician and architect (d. 1497)[8]
1580 – Johann Stobäus , German lute player and composer (d. 1646)[9]
1623 – Jacopo Melani , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1676)
1678 – Nicola Francesco Haym , Italian cellist and composer (d. 1729)
1686 – Antoine de Jussieu , French biologist and academic (d. 1758)
1701 – Mary, Countess of Harold , English aristocrat and philanthropist (d. 1785)[10] [11]
1736 – Daniel Morgan , American general and politician (d. 1802)
1747 – John Paul Jones , Scottish-American captain (d. 1792)
1766 – Alexander Wilson , Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (d. 1813)
1781 – Stamford Raffles , English politician, founded Singapore (d. 1826)
1782 – Maria Luisa of Spain (d. 1824)
1785 – William Hooker , English botanist and academic (d. 1865)
1789 – María Isabella of Spain (d. 1846)
1796 – Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)[12]
1797 – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (d. 1869)[13]
1799 – Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill , American author (d. 1879)[14]
1817 – Albert von Kölliker , Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d. 1905)
1818 – Adolf Anderssen , German chess player (d. 1879)
1823 – Sophie Adlersparre , Swedish publisher, writer, and women's rights activist (d. 1895)[15]
1829 – Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1880)
1831 – Sylvester Pennoyer , American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Oregon (d. 1902)
1832 – Maximilian I of Mexico (d. 1867)
1837 – R. G. Bhandarkar , Indian orientalist and scholar (d. 1925)
1838 – Vatroslav Jagić , Croatian philologist and scholar (d. 1923)
1840 – José María Velasco Gómez , Mexican painter and academic (d. 1912)
1843 – John Downer , Australian politician, 16th Premier of South Australia (d. 1915)
1856 – George Howard Earle, Jr. , American lawyer and businessman (d. 1928)
1858 – William Irvine , Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (d. 1943)
1865 – Émile Jaques-Dalcroze , Swiss composer and educator (d. 1950)
1868 – Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
1873 – Dimitrios Maximos , Greek banker and politician, 140th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1955)
1877 – Arnaud Massy , French golfer (d. 1950)
1878 – Eino Leino , Finnish poet and journalist (d. 1926)
1883 – Godfrey Huggins , Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (d. 1971)
1884 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt , American businessman and sailor (d. 1970)
1885 – Ernst Busch , German field marshal (d. 1945)
1886 – Marc Bloch , French historian and academic (d. 1944)
1887 – Marc Chagall , Belarusian-French painter and poet (d. 1985)
1887 – Annette Kellerman , Australian swimmer and actress (d. 1975)
1890 – Dhan Gopal Mukerji , Indian-American author and scholar (d. 1936)
1892 – Will James , American author and illustrator (d. 1942)
1897 – Richard Krautheimer , German-American historian and scholar (d. 1994)
1898 – Hanns Eisler , German-Austrian soldier and composer (d. 1962)
1899 – Susannah Mushatt Jones , American supercentarian (d. 2016)
1900 – Frederica Sagor Maas , American author and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1900 – Elfriede Wever , German Olympic runner (d. 1941)
1903 – Hugo Theorell , Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
1904 – Robert Whitney , American conductor and composer (d. 1986)
1904 – Erik Wickberg , Swedish 9th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1996)
1905 – Juan O'Gorman , Mexican painter and architect (d. 1982)[16]
1907 – Frida Kahlo , Mexican painter and educator (d. 1954)
1907 – George Stanley , Canadian soldier, historian, and author, designed the flag of Canada (d. 2002)
1908 – Anton Muttukumaru , Sri Lankan general and diplomat (d. 2001)
1909 – Eric Reece , Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Tasmania (d. 1999)
1910 – René Le Grèves , French cyclist (d. 1946)
1911 – June Gale , American actress (d. 1996 )
1912 – Heinrich Harrer , Austrian geographer and mountaineer (d. 2006)
1912 – Molly Yard , American feminist (d. 2005)
1913 – Vance Trimble , American journalist and author
1914 – Vince McMahon Sr. , American wrestling promoter, founded WWE (d. 1984)
1914 – Ernest Kirkendall , American chemist and metallurgist (d. 2005)
1915 – Leonard Birchall , Royal Canadian Air Force pilot (d. 2004)
1916 – Harold Norse , American poet and author (d. 2009)
1916 – Don R. Christensen , American animator, cartoonist, illustrator, writer and inventor (d. 2006)
1917 – Arthur Lydiard , New Zealand runner and coach (d. 2004)
1918 – Sebastian Cabot , English-Canadian actor (d. 1977)
1918 – Herm Fuetsch , American professional basketball player (d. 2010)
1918 – Francisco Moncion , Dominican-American ballet dancer, charter member of the New York City Ballet (d.1995)
1919 – Ernst Haefliger , Swiss tenor and educator (d. 2007)
1919 – Edward Kenna , Australian Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 2009)
1919 – Ray Dowker , New Zealand cricketer (d. 2004)
1921 – Allan MacEachen , Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2017)
1921 – Billy Mauch , American actor (d. 2006)
1921 – Bobby Mauch , American actor (d. 2007)
1921 – Nancy Reagan , American actress and activist, 42nd First Lady of the United States (d. 2016)[17]
1922 – William Schallert , American actor; president (1979–81) of the Screen Actors Guild (d. 2016)
1923 – Wojciech Jaruzelski , Polish general and politician, 1st President of Poland (d. 2014)
1924 – Mahim Bora , Indian writer and educationist, recipients of the Padma Shri , India's fourth highest civilian honour (d. 2016)
1924 – Louie Bellson , American drummer, composer, and bandleader (d. 2009)
1925 – Merv Griffin , American actor, singer, and producer, created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! (d. 2007)
1925 – Bill Haley , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)
1925 – Gazi Yaşargil , Turkish neurosurgeon and academic
1926 – Sulev Vahtre , Estonian historian and academic (d. 2007)
1926 – Armando Silvestre , Mexican-American actor
1927 – Jan Hein Donner , Dutch chess player and journalist (d. 1988)
1927 – Janet Leigh , American actress and author (d. 2004)
1928 – Bernard Malgrange , French mathematician
1929 – Hélène Carrère d'Encausse , French politician historian
1930 – George Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1930 – Ian Burgess , English racing driver (d. 2012)[18]
1931 – Della Reese , American actress and singer (d. 2017)
1931 – László Tábori , Hungarian runner and coach (d. 2018)
1932 – Herman Hertzberger , Dutch architect and academic
1935 – Candy Barr , American model, dancer, and actress (d. 2005)
1935 – Tenzin Gyatso , 14th Dalai Lama
1936 – Dave Allen , Irish comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1937 – Vladimir Ashkenazy , Russian-Icelandic pianist and conductor
1937 – Ned Beatty , American actor
1937 – Gene Chandler , American singer-songwriter and producer
1937 – Bessie Head , Botswanan writer [19]
1937 – Michael Sata , Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (d. 2014)
1939 – Jet Harris , English bass player (d. 2011)
1939 – Mary Peters , English-Irish pentathlete and shot putter
1939 – Bruce Hunter , American swimmer (d. 2018)
1940 – Jeannie Seely , Grammy Award-winning country music singer-songwriter and Grand Ole Opry member
1940 – Nursultan Nazarbayev , Kazakh politician, 1st President of Kazakhstan
1941 – David Crystal , British linguist, author, and academic
1941 – Reinhard Roder , German footballer and manager
1943 – Tamara Sinyavskaya , Russian soprano
1944 – Gunhild Hoffmeister , German runner
1946 – George W. Bush , American businessman and politician, 43rd President of the United States [20]
1946 – Fred Dryer , American football player and actor
1946 – Peter Singer , Australian philosopher and academic
1946 – Sylvester Stallone , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1947 – Roy Señeres , Filipino diplomat and politician (d. 2016)
1948 – Nathalie Baye , French actress
1948 – Jean-Pierre Blackburn , Canadian academic and politician, 26th Canadian Minister of Veterans Affairs
1948 – Brad Park , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
1949 – Noli de Castro , Filipino journalist and politician, 14th Vice President of the Philippines
1949 – Phyllis Hyman , American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1995)
1949 – Michael Shrieve , American composer, drummer, and percussionist
1950 – John Byrne , English-American author and illustrator
1951 – Lorna Golding , Former First Lady of Jamaica
1951 – Geoffrey Rush , Australian actor and producer
1952 – Hilary Mantel , English author and critic[21]
1953 – Nanci Griffith , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 – Kaiser Kalambo , Zambian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1953 – Robert Ménard , French politician and former journalist
1954 – Allyce Beasley , American actress
1954 – Willie Randolph , American baseball player and manager
1958 – Jennifer Saunders , English actress, comedian and screenwriter
1959 – Richard Dacoury , French basketball player
1960 – Maria Wasiak , Polish businesswoman and politician, Polish Minister of Infrastructure and Development
1961 – Robin Antin , American dancer, choreographer, and businesswoman
1962 – Todd Bennett , English runner and coach (d. 2013)
1962 – Peter Hedges , American author, screenwriter, and director
1967 – Heather Nova , Bermudian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – Inspectah Deck , American rapper and producer
1970 – Martin Smith , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Daniel Andrews , Australian politician, 48th Premier of Victoria
1972 – Laurent Gaudé , French author and playwright
1972 – Greg Norton , American baseball player and coach
1972 – Zhanna Pintusevich-Block , Ukrainian sprinter
1974 – Zé Roberto , Brazilian footballer
1975 – 50 Cent , American rapper, producer, and actor
1975 – Sebastián Rulli , Argentine-Mexican actor and model
1975 – Amir-Abbas Fakhravar , Iranian journalist and activist
1976 – Rory Delap , English-Irish footballer
1976 – Ioana Dumitriu , Romanian-American mathematician and academic
1977 – Max Mirnyi , Belarusian tennis player
1977 – Makhaya Ntini , South African cricketer
1978 – Adam Busch , American actor, director, and producer
1978 – Tamera Mowry , American actress and producer
1978 – Tia Mowry , American actress and producer
1978 – Kevin Senio , New Zealand rugby player
1979 – Nic Cester , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Kevin Hart , American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1980 – Joell Ortiz , American rapper
1980 – Eva Green , French actress and model[22]
1981 – Nnamdi Asomugha , American football player
1981 – Roman Shirokov , Russian footballer
1982 – Brandon Jacobs , American football player
1982 – Misty Upham , American actress (d. 2014)[23]
1983 – Gregory Smith , Canadian actor, director, and producer
1984 – Zhang Hao , Chinese figure skater
1985 – Ranveer Singh , Indian film actor[24]
1986 – David Karp , American businessman, founded Tumblr
1987 – Sophie Auster , American singer-songwriter and actress
1987 – Manteo Mitchell , American runner
1987 – Kate Nash , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1987 – Caroline Trentini , Brazilian model[25]
1988 – Kevin Fickentscher , Swiss footballer
1990 – Magaye Gueye , French footballer
1992 – Manny Machado , Dominican-American baseball player[26]
Deaths [ ]
371 BC – Cleombrotus I , Spartan king
649 – Goar of Aquitaine , French bishop
887 – Wang Chongrong , Chinese warlord
918 – William I , duke of Aquitaine (b. 875)
1017 – Genshin , Japanese scholar (b. 942)
1070 – Godelieve , Flemish saint (b. 1049)
1189 – Henry II , king of England (b. 1133)
1218 – Odo III , duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1249 – Alexander II , king of Scotland (b. 1198)
1415 – Jan Hus , Czech priest, philosopher, and reformer (b. 1369)[2]
1476 – Regiomontanus , German mathematician and astrologer (b. 1436)
1480 – Antonio Squarcialupi , Italian composer (b. 1416)
1533 – Ludovico Ariosto , Italian poet and playwright (b. 1474)
1535 – Thomas More , English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1478)
1553 – Edward VI , king of England and Ireland (b. 1537)
1583 – Edmund Grindal , English archbishop (b. 1519)
1585 – Thomas Aufield , English priest and martyr (b. 1552)
1614 – Man Singh I , Rajput Raja of Amer (b. 1550)
1684 – Peter Gunning , English bishop (b. 1614)
1758 – George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe , English general and politician (b. 1725)
1768 – Conrad Beissel , German-American religious leader (b. 1690)
1802 – Daniel Morgan , American general and politician (b. 1736)
1809 – Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle , French general (b. 1775)
1813 – Granville Sharp , English activist (b. 1735)
1815 – Samuel Whitbread , English politician (b. 1764)
1835 – John Marshall , American captain and politician, 4th United States Secretary of State (b. 1755)
1854 – Georg Ohm , German physicist and mathematician (b. 1789)
1868 – Harada Sanosuke , Japanese captain (b. 1840)
1893 – Guy de Maupassant , French short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1850)
1901 – Chlodwig Carl Viktor , German prince and chancellor (b. 1819)
1902 – Maria Goretti , Italian martyr and saint (b. 1890)
1904 – Abai Qunanbaiuly , Kazakh poet and philosopher (b. 1845)
1907 – August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein , German linguist and theologian (b. 1826)
1916 – Odilon Redon , French painter and illustrator (b. 1840)
1918 – Wilhelm von Mirbach , German diplomat (b. 1871)
1922 – Maria Teresia Ledóchowska , Polish-Austrian nun and missionary (b. 1863)
1932 – Kenneth Grahame , Scottish-English author (b. 1859)
1934 – Nestor Makhno , Ukrainian commander (b. 1888)
1946 – Horace Pippin , American painter (b. 1888)
1947 – Adolfo Müller-Ury , Swiss-American painter (b. 1862)
1952 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau , Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (b. 1867)
1959 – George Grosz , German painter and illustrator (b. 1893)
1960 – Aneurin Bevan , Welsh-English politician, Secretary of State for Health (b. 1897)
1961 – Scott LaFaro , American bassist (b. 1936)
1961 – Woodall Rodgers , American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Dallas (b. 1890)
1962 – Paul Boffa , Maltese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1890)
1962 – William Faulkner , American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1962 – Joseph August , archduke of Austria (b. 1872)
1963 – George , duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1899)
1964 – Claude V. Ricketts , American admiral (b. 1906)
1966 – Sad Sam Jones , American baseball player and manager (b. 1892)
1967 – Hilda Taba , Estonian architect and educator (b. 1902)
1971 – Louis Armstrong , American singer and trumpet player (b. 1901)
1973 – Otto Klemperer , German-American conductor and composer (b. 1885)
1975 – Reşat Ekrem Koçu , Turkish historian, scholar, and poet (b. 1905)
1976 – Zhu De , Chinese general and politician, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (b. 1886)
1976 – Fritz Lenz , German geneticist and physician (b. 1887)
1977 – Ödön Pártos , Hungarian-Israeli viola player and composer (b. 1907)
1978 – Babe Paley , American socialite and fashion style icon (b. 1915)
1979 – Van McCoy , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
1986 – Jagjivan Ram , Indian lawyer and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1908)
1989 – János Kádár , Hungarian mechanic and politician, Hungarian Minister of the Interior (b. 1912)
1991 – Mudashiru Lawal , Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
1992 – Marsha P. Johnson , American drag queen performer and activist (b. 1945)
1994 – Ahmet Haxhiu , Kosovan activist (b. 1932)
1995 – Aziz Nesin , Turkish author and poet (b. 1915)
1997 – Chetan Anand , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1998 – Roy Rogers , American cowboy, actor, and singer (b. 1911)
1999 – Joaquín Rodrigo , Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1901)
2000 – Władysław Szpilman , Polish pianist and composer (b. 1911)
2002 – Dhirubhai Ambani , Indian businessman, founded Reliance Industries (b. 1932)
2002 – John Frankenheimer , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2003 – Buddy Ebsen , American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1908)
2003 – Çelik Gülersoy , Turkish lawyer, historical preservationist, writer and poet (b. 1930)
2004 – Thomas Klestil , Austrian politician, 10th President of Austria (b. 1932)
2004 – Syreeta Wright , American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2005 – Ed McBain , American author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2005 – Claude Simon , Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
2006 – Kasey Rogers , American actress (b. 1925)
2007 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss , American author (b. 1939)
2009 – Vasily Aksyonov , Russian author and academic (b. 1932)
2009 – Robert McNamara , American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
2010 – Harvey Fuqua , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
2011 – Carly Hibberd , Australian road racing cyclist (b. 1985)[27]
2012 – Hani al-Hassan , Palestinian engineer and politician (b. 1939)
2013 – Lo Hsing Han , Burmese businessman, co-founded Asia World (b. 1935)
2014 – Alan J. Dixon , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 34th Illinois Secretary of State (b. 1927)
2015 – Jerry Weintraub , American film producer, and talent agent (b. 1937)
2018 – Shoko Asahara , founder of Japanese cult group Aum Shinrikyo (b. 1955)[28]
2019 – João Gilberto , Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova music style (b. 1931)[29]
2020 – Charlie Daniels , American singer-songwriter, fiddle-player and guitarist (b. 1936)[30]
2020 – Ennio Morricone , Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player (b. 1928)[31]
Holidays and observances [ ]
The first day of San Fermín , which lasts until July 14. (Pamplona )
Christian feast day :
Maria Goretti
Romulus of Fiesole
July 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Cayman Islands )
Day of the Capital (Kazakhstan )
Independence Day (Comoros) , celebrates the independence of the Comoros from France in 1975.
Independence Day (Malawi) , celebrates the independence of Malawi from United Kingdom in 1964.
International Kissing Day (informally observed)[32]
Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic )
Kupala Night (Poland , Russia , Belarus and Ukraine )
National Fried Chicken Day (United States )
Statehood Day (Lithuania)
Teachers' Day (Peru)
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