Anniversaries 6 July

Birth

Daniel Morgan4

American pioneer, soldier and politician 1736–1802

John Paul Jones7

American naval officer 1747–1792

Stamford Raffles1

British statesman who founded Singapore 1781–1826

Leonard H. Courtney9

British politician 1832–1918

George Howard Earle, Jr.13

American lawyer 1856–1928

J.A. Hobson26

English economist, social scientist and critic of imperiali… 1858–1940

Eino Leino7

Finnish poet and journalist 1878–1926

Marc Bloch9

French historian, medievalist, and historiographer 1886–1944

Annette Kellerman3

Australian swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress and writer 1886–1975

Syama Prasad Mookerjee16

Indian politician 1901–1953

Frida Kahlo51

Mexican painter 1907–1954

Heinrich Harrer2

Austrian writer, photographer, geographer and mountain clim… 1912–2006

Nancy Reagan25

actress and first lady of the United States 1921–2016

Wojciech Jaruzelski13

Polish military officer and politician 1923–2014

David Hawkes (sinologist)8

British sinologist 1923–2009

Neal A. Maxwell40

Mormon leader 1926–2004

Pat Paulsen13

United States Marine 1927–1997

M. Balamuralikrishna17

Carnatic vocalist, instrumentalist and playback singer 1930–2016

Doris Veillette11

Quebec journalist 1935–2019

Tenzin Gyatso112

spiritual leader of Tibet 1935

Dave Allen4

Irish comedian and satirist 1936–2005

Nursultan Nazarbayev2

first president of Kazakhstan 1940

David Crystal24

British linguist and writer 1941

Bernhard Schlink17

German writer 1944

Vicki Robin3

American writer 1945

Burt Ward4

American actor 1945

Fred Dryer1

Player of American football 1946

George W. Bush675

43rd President of the United States 1946

Sylvester Stallone8

American actor, screenwriter, and film director 1946

Peter Singer54

Australian philosopher 1946

Tibor Kalman1

American graphic designer 1949–1999

John Byrne25

American author and artist of comic books 1950

Jos Engelen1

Dutch physicist 1950

Geoffrey Rush1

Australian actor and film producer 1951

Hilary Mantel21

British writer 1952

Suzanne Weyn5

American writer 1955

Edmund Whalen1

roman-catholic clergyman 1958

Peter Hedges1

American novelist, screenwriter, film director 1962

Jacques Berlinerblau7

Associate Professor, Director of the Program for Jewish Civ… 1966

Cheng Wen-tsan2

Taiwan politician 1967

Jill Vogel2

American politician 1970

Amir-Abbas Fakhravar1

Iranian political activist 1975

50 Cent18

American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and televisio… 1975

Kevin Hart6

American comedian, actor and producer 1979

Prevale1278

Italian DJ and producer 1983

Kate Nash3

English pop singer and actor 1987

Cornelius Keagon25

Liberian humanitarian aid worker 1996

Death

Jan Hus9

Czech linguist, religion writer, theologist, university edu… 1369–1415

Ludovico Ariosto97

Italian poet 1474–1533

Thomas More26

English Renaissance humanist 1478–1535

Edward VI of England5

King of England, Tudor dynasty 1537–1553

Joshua Evans (Quaker minister)3

American Quaker minister and abolitionist 1731–1798

Granville Sharp2

English campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade 1735–1813

Daniel Morgan4

American pioneer, soldier and politician 1736–1802

John Marshall41

fourth Chief Justice of the United States 1755–1835

Georg Ohm1

German physicist and mathematician 1789–1854

Samuel Lover9

Irish song-writer, novelist, and painter 1797–1868

David Macbeth Moir1

Scottish physician and writer 1798–1851

George Pope Morris5

American publisher 1802–1864

Paul Hamilton Hayne2

American editor and poet 1830–1886

Odilon Redon2

French painter 1840–1916

Paul Deussen1

German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar 1845–1919

Guy De Maupassant59

French writer 1850–1893

Kenneth Grahame83

British novelist 1859–1932

Chuichi Nagumo4

Japanese admiral 1887–1944

George Grosz9

German artist 1893–1959

Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark1

Secretary of Sarawak 1894–1945

William Faulkner214

American writer 1897–1962

Aneurin Bevan33

Welsh politician 1897–1960

Louis Armstrong12

American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer 1901–1971

Kathleen Raine5

poet, critic, translator 1908–2003

Julia de Burgos1

Puerto Rican politician 1914–1953

Robert S. McNamara7

American businessman and Secretary of Defense 1916–2009

William B. Ruger2

American inventor 1916–2002

Louis Zamperini9

Italian-American middle distance runner 1917–2014

Ajaib Singh4

Sant Ajaib Singh (11 September 1926 – 6 July 1997) was born… 1926–1997

Lois Wyse3

American advertising executive 1926–2007

Ennio Morricone14

Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor 1928–2020

Dhirubhai Ambani5

Indian business tycoon 1932–2002

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss2

American writer 1939–2007