June 7
June 7 is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 207 days remain until the end of the year.
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Events
- 421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).[1]
- 879 – Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state.[2]
- 1002 – Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany.
- 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 – The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent.
- 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 looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.
- 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.
- 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 a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
- 1919 – Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
- 1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
- 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. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
- 1946 – The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of the Second World War.
- 1948 – Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.[3]
- 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.
- 1962 – The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1977 – Five hundred million 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
- 1003 – Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia (d. 1048)
- 1402 – Ichijō Kaneyoshi, Japanese noble (d. 1481)
- 1422 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero (d. 1482)[4]
- 1502 – John III of Portugal (d. 1557)[5]
- 1529 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (d. 1615)[6]
- 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)[7]
- 1837 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (d. 1903)
- 1840 – Carlota of Mexico (d. 1927)
- 1845 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1930)
- 1847 – George Washington Ball, American legislator from Iowa (d. 1915)
- 1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (d. 1903)
- 1851 – Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)
- 1861 – Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (d. 1942)[8]
- 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)
- 1884 – Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect (d. 1931)
- 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, Anglo-Irish author and critic (d. 1973)
- 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)
- 1906 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1963)
- 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)
- 1912 – Jacques Hélian, French bandleader (d. 1986)
- 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 – 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 – Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017)
- 1926 – Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2020)
- 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 – Randolph Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)
- 1929 – Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (d. 1983)
- 1929 – John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada
- 1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress and author
- 1932 – Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (d. 2013)
- 1933 – Romeo Galán, Argentine athlete[9]
- 1935 – Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2012)
- 1935 – Shyama, Indian actress (d. 2017)
- 1936 – Bert Sugar, American author and boxing historian (d. 2012)
- 1938 – Ian St John, Scottish international footballer, forward and manager[10]
- 1939 – Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian cellist, conductor and educator (d. 2013)
- 1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor
- 1940 – Ronald Pickup, English actor
- 1944 – Annette Lu, Taiwanese lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of the Republic of China
- 1944 – Clarence White, American guitarist and singer (d. 1973)
- 1945 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1945 – John Olsen, Australian politician, 42nd Premier of South Australia
- 1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian lawyer and politician, 26th Chancellor of Austria
- 1947 – Don Money, American baseball player and coach
- 1947 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
- 1948 – Jim Walton, American businessman
- 1952 – Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor
- 1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1953 – Johnny Clegg, English- born South African singer-songwriter, guitarist and anthropologist (d. 2019)
- 1954 – Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet
- 1955 – William Forsythe, American actor and producer
- 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[11]
- 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, 50th Governor of Indiana
- 1960 – Hirohiko Araki, Japanese manga artist and creator of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- 1960 – Bill Prady, American screenwriter and producer
- 1961 – Dave Catching, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
- 1962 – Thierry Hazard, French singer-songwriter
- 1962 – Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese race car driver
- 1963 – Gordon Gano, American musician[12]
- 1964 – Gia Carides, Australian actress
- 1964 – Graeme Labrooy, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1965 – Mick Foley, American wrestler, actor, and author
- 1965 – Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
- 1965 – Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector
- 1966 – Eric Kretz, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
- 1966 – Tom McCarthy, American director, screenwriter and actor
- 1966 – Stéphane Richer, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 – Dave Navarro, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1970 – Helen Baxendale, English actress
- 1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
- 1970 – Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player
- 1970 – Mike Modano, American ice hockey player
- 1972 – Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
- 1974 – Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host
- 1975 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player
- 1976 – Necro, American rapper, producer, and director
- 1976 – Mirsad Türkcan, Turkish basketball player
- 1977 – Marcin Baszczyński, Polish footballer
- 1978 – Mini Andén, Swedish-American model, actress, and producer
- 1978 – Bill Hader, Two-time Emmy winning American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
- 1979 – Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer
- 1979 – Anna Torv, Australian actress
- 1980 – Ed Moses, American swimmer
- 1981 – Stephen Bywater, English footballer
- 1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
- 1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
- 1983 – Milan Jurčina, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1983 – Piotr Małachowski, Polish discus thrower
- 1984 – Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer-songwriter
- 1984 – Eri Yanetani, Japanese snowboarder[13]
- 1985 – Arkadiusz Piech, Polish footballer
- 1985 – Charlie Simpson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1985 – Richard Thompson, Trinidadian sprinter
- 1986 – Keegan Bradley, American golfer
- 1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor
- 1988 – Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990 – Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper
- 1990 – T. J. Brodie, Canadian ice hockey player[14]
- 1990 – Allison Schmitt, American swimmer[15]
- 1991 – Cenk Tosun, Turkish professional footballer
- 1991 – Fetty Wap, American rapper
- 1992 – Sara Niemietz, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1992 – Mathias Gehrt, Danish professional footballer
- 1992 – Alípio, Brazilian footballer
- 1993 – George Ezra, English singer, songwriter and guitarist[16]
Deaths
- 555 – Vigilius, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 500)
- 862 – Al-Muntasir, Abbasid caliph (b. 837)
- 929 – Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (b. 877)
- 940 – Qian Hongzun, heir apparent of Wuyue (b. 925)
- 951 – Lu Wenji, Chinese chancellor (b. 876)
- 1329 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (b. 1274)
- 1337 – William I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1286)
- 1341 – An-Nasir Muhammad, Egyptian sultan (b. 1285)
- 1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shōgun (b. 1305)
- 1394 – Anne of Bohemia, English queen (b. 1366)
- 1492 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 (b. 1427)
- 1594 – Rodrigo Lopez, physician of Queen Elizabeth (b. 1525)
- 1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
- 1660 – George II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1621)
- 1711 – Henry Dodwell, Irish scholar and theologian (b. 1641)
- 1779 – William Warburton, English bishop and critic (b. 1698)
- 1792 – Benjamin Tupper, American general and surveyor (b. 1738)[17]
- 1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher (b. 1765)
- 1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1787)
- 1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
- 1843 – 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)
- 1932 – John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (b. 1856)
- 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)[18]
- 1956 – John Willcock, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1879)
- 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)
- 1997 – Jacques Canetti, French music executive and talent agent (b. 1909)
- 2001 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
- 2001 – Carole Fredericks, French singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
- 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)
- 2004 – Quorthon, Swedish musician (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 (b. 1945)
- 2011 – Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
- 2012 – Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Bob Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)[19]
- 2013 – Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)[20]
- 2014 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1978)[21]
- 2014 – Dora Akunyili, Nigerian academic and politician (b. 1954)
- 2014 – Epainette Mbeki, South African activist (b. 1916)
- 2015 – Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)[22]
- 2015 – Sheikh Razzak Ali, Bangladeshi journalist and politician (b. 1928)[23]
Holidays and observances
- Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
- Birthday of Prince Joachim (Denmark)
- Christian feast day:
- Antonio Maria Gianelli
- Colmán of Dromore
- Landulf of Yariglia (Asti)
- Meriasek
- Paul I of Constantinople
- Robert of Newminster
- Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church)
- Blessed Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière
- 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)
- Sette Giugno (Malta)
- Union Dissolution Day (Independence Day of Norway)
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