July 6

Events
Up to 1900
1189 - Richard I of England comes to the throne. He is known as "Richard the Lionheart" and spends most of his reign abroad fighting in the Crusades.
1348 - Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.
1411 - Ming Dynasty 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 - Bohemian Christian reformer Jan Hus is burned and the stake and becomes a martyr.
1483 - King Richard III of England is crowned.
1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cao finds the mouth of the Congo River.
1495 - First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo - Charles VIII, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Holy League.
1535 - Thomas More is executed for treason on the orders of King Henry VIII of England.
1553 - King Edward VI of England dies at the age of 16. A succession crisis initially puts Lady Jane Grey on the throne for nine days, before Edward's sister becomes Queen Mary I of England.
1557 - King Philip II of Spain, consort of Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France. It results in England losing Calais and Mary and Philip never seeing each other again.
1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed between Scotland and England.
1573 - The city of Cordoba, Argentina, is founded by Jeronimo Luis de Cabrera.
1609 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
1630 - Thirty Years' War: 4,000 Swedish troops under King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden land in Pomerania on what is now Germany's Baltic Sea coast.
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.
1785 - The dollar is chosen as the US monetary unit.
1801 - First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
1854 - The Republican Party meets for the first time, in Jackson, Mississippi.
1885 - Louis Pasteur tests the vaccine for rabies.
1887 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawai'i, is forced at gunpoint by the Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution, giving the Americans more power in Hawai'i, while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian member of the UK Parliament.
1893 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injuring 200.
1901 2000
1905 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
1917 - World War I: Arabian troops under T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and Auda ibn Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Brunete begins with Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
1939 - Holocaust: The last-remaining Jewish-owned businesses in Germany are shut down.
1942 - Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the secret annex in Amsterdam.
1944 - A circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut kills around 168 people.
1947 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1950 - The Oder-Neisse Line is determined as the border between Poland and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
1957 - In Tennis, Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to win a Wimbledon title.
1957 - Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet for the first time.
1962 - The Late Late Show is first broadcast on US television.
1964 - Malawi becomes independent.
1966 - Malawi becomes a Republic, with Hastings Banda as president under a one-party system.
1967 - The Biafran War begins, as Biafra tries to become independent from Nigeria.
1967 - A train crash near Magdeburg in what was then East Germany kills 94 people.
1975 - The Comoros declare independence.
1988 - In the North Sea, a major fire occurs on the Piper Alpha oil rig off the east coast of Scotland, killing 167 people.
1989 - Tel Aviv-Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: 14 bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving was driven off the edge of a cliff.
1995 - Bosnian-Serb forces under Ratko Mladic start their assault on the town of Srebrenica.
2000 - Germany is given the right to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
From 2001
2003 - Tennis: Roger Federer wins his first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Mark Philippoussis of Australia in three sets. It is also the first of Federer's five consecutive Wimbledon titles.
2005 - The 2012 Summer Olympics are given to London at an IOC sitting in Singapore.
2005 - The 2005 G8 summit, lasting until July 9, held at Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland, begins.
2008 - Tennis: Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles title at Wimbledon, ending Roger Federer's run of five consecutive titles there.
2009 - Jadranka Kosor becomes Prime Minister of Croatia.
2011 - Pyeongchang, South Korea is announced as the host city for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
2013 - A 73-car oil train derails in Lac Megantic, Quebec, Canada, and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying much of the town center.
2017 - The European Union and Japan agree a trade deal.
2018 - Shoko Asahara and other members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult are executed for the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, which was carried out in 1995.
2018 - Belgium defeat Brazil 2-1 in the Quarter Finals of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, meaning that, for the first time, neither Argentina, Brazil or Germany are in the semi-finals of the tournament.
Births
Up to 1900
1387 - Blanche I of Navarre (d. 1441)
1555 - Louis II, Cardinal of Guise (d. 1588)
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 (d. 1758)
1724 - Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1748)
1747 - John Paul Jones, British-American naval commander (d. 1792)
1766 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (d. 1813)
1782 - Maria Luisa of Spain (d. 1824)
1785 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
1789 - Maria Isabella of Spain (d. 1846)
1796 - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
1808 - Johann Gustav Droysen, German historian (d. 1884)
1818 - Adolf Anderssen, chess player (d. 1879)
1824 - John Lourie Beveridge, American politician, 16th Governor of Illinois (d. 1910)
1831 - Sylvester Pennoyer, American politician, 8th Governor of Oregon (d. 1902)
1832 - Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (d. 1867)
1838 - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
1854 - Manuel Iradier, Spanish explorer (d. 1911)
1859 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer (d. 1940)
1864 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (d. 1920)
1868 - Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
1875 - Charles Perrin, French rower (d. 1954)
1876 - Louis J. Brann, American politician, Governor of Maine (d. 1948)
1878 - Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
1884 - Harold Vanderbilt, American businessman (d. 1970)
1885 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1886 - Marc Bloch, French historian (d. 1944)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Belarus-born French artist (d. 1985)
1887 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (d. 1975)
1887 - Walter Flex, writer (d. 1917)
1897 - Richard Krautheimer, German-American historian and scholar (d. 1994)
1898 - Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
1899 - Susannah Mushatt Jones, American supercentenarian (d. 2016)
1900 - Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright, screenwriter and writer (d. 2012)
1901 1950
1903 - Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist (d. 1982)
1904 - Erik Wickberg, Swedish General of the Salvation Army (d. 1996)
1907 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
1907 - George Stanley, Canadian soldier, historian and author (d. 2002)
1912 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and geographer (d. 2006)
1914 - Vince McMahon, Sr., American wrestling promoter (d. 1981)
1916 - Harold Norse, American poet (d. 2009)
1917 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner and coach (d. 2004)
1917 - Heribert Barrera, Catalan chemist and politician (d. 2011)
1918 - Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
1919 - Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d. 2007)
1919 - Unica Zurn, German author and artist (d. 1970)
1921 - Nancy Reagan, American actress and First Lady of the United States (d. 2016)
1921 - Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician (d. 2017)
1922 - William Schallert, American actor (d. 2016)
1923 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland (d. 2014)
1924 - Louie Bellson, American jazz musician (d. 2009)
1925 - Merv Griffin, American game show developer and television show host (d. 2007)
1925 - Bill Haley, American singer (Bill Haley and the Comets) (d. 1981)
1927 - Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
1927 - Hein Donner, Dutch chess player
1927 - Dolores Claman, musician and composer
1927 - Pat Paulsen, American comedian and Presidential candidate (d. 1997)
1930 - Ian Burgess, British racing driver (d. 2012)
1930 - Herbert Erhardt, German footballer (d. 2010)
1931 - Della Reese, American singer and actress (d. 2017)
1931 - Carl E. Reichardt, American banking executive (d. 2017)
1931 - Antonella Lualdi, Italian actress
1932 - Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect and educator
1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
1936 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
1937 - Ned Beatty, American actor
1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor
1937 - Michael Sata, 5th President of Zambia (d. 2014)
1939 - Jet Harris, English musician (The Shadows) (d. 2011)
1939 - Bruce Hunter, American swimmer (d. 2018)
1939 - Mary Peters, British pentathlete
1940 - Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
1942 - Izora Armstead, American singer (The Weather Girls) (d. 2004)
1944 - Bernhard Schlink, German jurist and writer
1945 - Burt Ward, American actor
1946 - Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
1946 - Toquinho, Brazilian musician
1949 - Phyllis Hyman, American singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
1949 - Noli de Castro, 14th Vice President of the Philippines
1951 1975
1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
1952 - Hilary Mantel, English writer
1952 - Grant Goodeve, American actor and television host
1953 - Nanci Griffith, American singer and songwriter
1953 - Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer (d. 2014)
1958 - Jennifer Saunders, English actress and comedienne
1959 - Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
1960 - Asahifuji Seiya, Japanese sumo wrestler
1961 - Jonas Jonasson, Swedish writer and journalist
1961 - Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, American Olympic hurdler
1962 - Peter Hedges, American author, director and screenwriter
1967 - Heather Nova, British-Bermudan guitarist and singer
1969 - Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
1970 - Roger Cicero, German singer and musician (d. 2016)
1970 - Inspectah Deck, American rapper
1972 - Isabelle Boulay, Canadian singer
1974 - Ze Roberto, Brazilian footballer
1975 - 50 Cent, American rapper
From 1976
1977 - Audrey Fleurot, French actress
1977 - Max Mirnyi, Belarussian tennis player
1978 - Tamera Mowry, American actress
1978 - Tia Mowry, American actress
1979 - Kevin Hart, American actor and comedian
1980 - Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1982 - Brandon Jacobs, American football player
1982 - Misty Upham, American actress (d. 2014)
1983 - Gregory Smith, Canadian-American actor
1984 - Zhang Hao, Chinese figure skater
1984 - Lauren Harris, English singer and actress
1984 - Natasha Zlobina, Uzbek-French actress and model
1985 - Ranveer Singh, Indian actor
1987 - Kate Nash, English singer and songwriter
1987 - Sophie Auster, American actress and singer
1988 - Brittany Underwood, American actress and singer
1989 - Elias Harris, German basketball player
1990 - Ajoo, South Korean singer and dancer
1991 - Victoire Thivisol, French actress
1994 - Camilla Rosso, British actress
1994 - Rebecca Rosso, British actress
1996 - Robert Naylor, Canadian actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
371 BC - Cleombrotus I, Spartan King
649 - Goar of Aquitaine, French-German bishop and saint (b. 585)
918 - William I, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 875)
1189 - King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
1218 - Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1249 - King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
1415 - Jan Hus, Bohemian religious reformer and Christian martyr (b. 1369)
1476 - Regiomontanus, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (b. 1436)
1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1416)
1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
1535 - Thomas More, English philosopher and Christian martyr (b. 1478)
1553 - King Edward VI of England (b. 1537)
1762 - Tsar Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
1809 - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
1835 - John Marshall, 4th United States Secretary of State (b. 1755)
1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
1868 - Harada Sanosuke, Japanese captain (b. 1840)
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, French writer (b. 1850)
1901 2000
1901 - Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst (b. 1819)
1902 - Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (b. 1890)
1904 - Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakhstani poet and philosopher (b. 1845)
1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
1930 - Cormic Cosgrove, American soccer player (b. 1869)
1932 - Kenneth Grahame, British writer (b. 1859)
1937 - Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, 31st President of Colombia (b. 1867)
1952 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (b. 1867)
1954 - Julio Acosta Garcia, President of Costa Rica (b. 1872)
1959 - George Grosz, German painter (b. 1893)
1960 - Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician (b. 1897)
1962 - William Faulkner, American writer (b. 1897)
1962 - Paul Boffa, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1890)
1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria (b. 1872)
1963 - George, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1899)
1971 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (b. 1901)
1973 - Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1895)
1974 - Francis Blanche, French actor (b. 1921)
1976 - Zhu De, Chinese general and politician (b. 1886)
1986 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
1989 - Janos Kadar, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
1997 - Chetan Anand, Indian director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1998 - Roy Rogers, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1901)
2000 - Wladyslaw Szpilman, Polish pianist, composer and writer (b. 1911)
From 2001
2002 - John Frankenheimer, American movie director (b. 1930)
2004 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
2004 - Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2005 - Claude Simon, French writer (b. 1913)
2005 - Evan Hunter, American writer (b. 1926)
2009 - Robert McNamara, American politician (b. 1916)
2009 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (b. 1932)
2009 - Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player (b. 1923)
2013 - Ruby Keeling, American basketball player and coach (b. 1947)
2014 - Benedito de Assis da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1952)
2014 - Alan J. Dixon, former United States Senator from Illinois (b. 1927)
2014 - Andrew Mango, Turkish-English author (b. 1926)
2014 - Granville Austin, American historian and academic (b. 1927)
2015 - Jerry Weintraub, American film producer (b. 1937)
2016 - John McMartin, American actor (b. 1929)
2016 - Danny Smythe, American drummer (b. 1948)
2017 - Joan B. Lee, English-American actress (b. 1921)
2017 - Heinz Schneiter, Swiss footballer (b. 1935)
2017 - Michel Aurillac, French lawyer, politician and author (b. 1928)
2017 - Diane Von Hoffman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2018 - Shoko Asahara, Japanese founder of cult group Aum Shinrikyo (b. 1955)
2018 - Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player (b. 1990)
2018 - Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer (b. 1985)
2018 - Giuseppina Projetto, Italian supercentenarian (b. 1902)
2018 - Bruce Hunter, American swimmer (b. 1939)
Observances
Independence Day in Malawi (1966), and the Comoros (1975)
Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic)
Statehood Day (Lithuania)
First Day of the San Fermin Bull run festival in Pamplona, northern Spain
July 06