Anniversaries 6 July
Birth
![Daniel Morgan photo]()
American pioneer, soldier and politician
1736–1802
![John Paul Jones photo]()
American naval officer
1747–1792
![Stamford Raffles photo]()
British statesman who founded Singapore
1781–1826
![Leonard H. Courtney photo]()
British politician
1832–1918
![George Howard Earle, Jr. photo]()
American lawyer
1856–1928
![J.A. Hobson photo]()
English economist, social scientist and critic of imperiali…
1858–1940
![Eino Leino photo]()
Finnish poet and journalist
1878–1926
![Marc Bloch photo]()
French historian, medievalist, and historiographer
1886–1944
![Annette Kellerman photo]()
Australian swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress and writer
1886–1975
![Syama Prasad Mookerjee photo]()
Indian politician
1901–1953
![Frida Kahlo photo]()
Mexican painter
1907–1954
![Heinrich Harrer photo]()
Austrian writer, photographer, geographer and mountain clim…
1912–2006
![Nancy Reagan photo]()
actress and first lady of the United States
1921–2016
![Wojciech Jaruzelski photo]()
Polish military officer and politician
1923–2014
![David Hawkes (sinologist) photo]()
British sinologist
1923–2009
![Pat Paulsen photo]()
United States Marine
1927–1997
![M. Balamuralikrishna photo]()
Carnatic vocalist, instrumentalist and playback singer
1930–2016
![Doris Veillette photo]()
Quebec journalist
1935–2019
![Tenzin Gyatso photo]()
spiritual leader of Tibet
1935
![Dave Allen photo]()
Irish comedian and satirist
1936–2005
![Nursultan Nazarbayev photo]()
first president of Kazakhstan
1940
![David Crystal photo]()
British linguist and writer
1941
![Fred Dryer photo]()
Player of American football
1946
![George W. Bush photo]()
43rd President of the United States
1946
![Sylvester Stallone photo]()
American actor, screenwriter, and film director
1946
![Peter Singer photo]()
Australian philosopher
1946
![Tibor Kalman photo]()
American graphic designer
1949–1999
![John Byrne photo]()
American author and artist of comic books
1950
![Geoffrey Rush photo]()
Australian actor and film producer
1951
![Edmund Whalen photo]()
roman-catholic clergyman
1958
![Peter Hedges photo]()
American novelist, screenwriter, film director
1962
![Jacques Berlinerblau photo]()
Associate Professor, Director of the Program for Jewish Civ…
1966
![Amir-Abbas Fakhravar photo]()
Iranian political activist
1975
![50 Cent photo]()
American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and televisio…
1975
![Kevin Hart photo]()
American comedian, actor and producer
1979
![Prevale photo]()
Italian DJ and producer
1983
![Kate Nash photo]()
English pop singer and actor
1987
![Cornelius Keagon photo]()
Liberian humanitarian aid worker
1996
Death
![Jan Hus photo]()
Czech linguist, religion writer, theologist, university edu…
1369–1415
![Thomas More photo]()
English Renaissance humanist
1478–1535
![Edward VI of England photo]()
King of England, Tudor dynasty
1537–1553
![Joshua Evans (Quaker minister) photo]()
American Quaker minister and abolitionist
1731–1798
![Granville Sharp photo]()
English campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade
1735–1813
![Daniel Morgan photo]()
American pioneer, soldier and politician
1736–1802
![John Marshall photo]()
fourth Chief Justice of the United States
1755–1835
![Georg Ohm photo]()
German physicist and mathematician
1789–1854
![Samuel Lover photo]()
Irish song-writer, novelist, and painter
1797–1868
![David Macbeth Moir photo]()
Scottish physician and writer
1798–1851
![George Pope Morris photo]()
American publisher
1802–1864
![Paul Hamilton Hayne photo]()
American editor and poet
1830–1886
![Paul Deussen photo]()
German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar
1845–1919
![Kenneth Grahame photo]()
British novelist
1859–1932
![Chuichi Nagumo photo]()
Japanese admiral
1887–1944
![Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark photo]()
Secretary of Sarawak
1894–1945
![William Faulkner photo]()
American writer
1897–1962
![Aneurin Bevan photo]()
Welsh politician
1897–1960
![Louis Armstrong photo]()
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
1901–1971
![Kathleen Raine photo]()
poet, critic, translator
1908–2003
![Julia de Burgos photo]()
Puerto Rican politician
1914–1953
![Robert S. McNamara photo]()
American businessman and Secretary of Defense
1916–2009
![William B. Ruger photo]()
American inventor
1916–2002
![Louis Zamperini photo]()
Italian-American middle distance runner
1917–2014
![Ajaib Singh photo]()
Sant Ajaib Singh (11 September 1926 – 6 July 1997) was born…
1926–1997
![Lois Wyse photo]()
American advertising executive
1926–2007
![Ennio Morricone photo]()
Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor
1928–2020
![Dhirubhai Ambani photo]()
Indian business tycoon
1932–2002
![Kathleen E. Woodiwiss photo]()
American writer
1939–2007
