Died on Sunday, 6th July – Famous Deaths

06/07/2024

Khyree Jackson, American football player (born 1999)

Khyree Anthony Jackson was an American football cornerback. He played college football for the Fort Scott CC Greyhounds, Alabama Crimson Tide, and the Oregon Ducks. The Minnesota Vikings selected him in the fourth round of the 2024 NFL draft, as the 108th overall pick.

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06/07/2022

James Caan, American actor (born 1940)

James Edmund Caan was an American actor. He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1978.

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Arnaldo Pambianco, Italian former professional road racing cyclist (born 1935)

Arnaldo Pambianco was an Italian professional road racing cyclist who was active between 1956 and 1966. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1961 Giro d'Italia. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in the road race and finished in seventh individually and fourth with the Italian team.

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Norah Vincent, American writer (born 1968)

Norah Mary Vincent was an American writer. She was a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a quarterly columnist on politics and culture for the national gay news magazine The Advocate. She was a columnist for The Village Voice and Salon.com. Her writing appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, New York Post, The Washington Post and other periodicals. She gained particular attention in 2006 for her book Self-Made Man, detailing her experiences when she lived as a man for eighteen months.

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06/07/2020

Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter, fiddle-player and guitarist (born 1936)

Charles Edward Daniels was an American singer, musician and songwriter. His music fused rock, country, blues and jazz and was a pioneering contribution to Southern rock and progressive country. He was best known for his number-one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Much of his output, including all but one of his eight Billboard Hot 100 charting singles, was credited to the Charlie Daniels Band.

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Mary Kay Letourneau, American child rapist (born 1962)

Mary Katherine Fualaau was an American teacher who pleaded guilty in 1997 to two counts of felony second-degree rape of a child and subsequently married her victim/former student. The case received national attention.

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Ennio Morricone, Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player (born 1928)

Ennio Morricone was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello, eleven Nastro d'Argento, two European Film Awards, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and the Polar Music Prize.

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06/07/2019

Cameron Boyce, American actor (born 1999)

Cameron Mica Boyce was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor, appearing in the 2008 films Mirrors and Eagle Eye, along with the comedy film Grown Ups (2010) and its 2013 sequel. His first starring role was on the Disney Channel comedy series Jessie (2011–2015).

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João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova music style (born 1931)

João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto, was a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s. Around the world, he was often called the "father of bossa nova"; in his native Brazil, he was referred to as "O Mito" . In 1965, the album Getz/Gilberto was the first jazz record to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It also won Best Jazz Instrumental Album – Individual or Group and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Gilberto's Amoroso was nominated for a Grammy in 1978 in the category Best Jazz Vocal Performance. In 2001 he won in the Best World Music Album category with João voz e violão.

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06/07/2018

Shoko Asahara, founder of Japanese cult group Aum Shinrikyo (born 1955)

Shoko Asahara , born Chizuo Matsumoto , was a Japanese cult leader and terrorist who founded and led the doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo. He was convicted of masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway which killed 14 people and injured thousands more, and was also involved in several other assassinations and terrorist attacks. Asahara was sentenced to death in 2004, and his final appeal failed in 2011. In June 2012, his execution was postponed due to further arrests of Aum members. He was ultimately executed along with other senior members of Aum Shinrikyo on July 6, 2018.

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06/07/2015

Jerry Weintraub, American film producer, and talent agent (born 1937)

Jerome Charles Weintraub was an American film producer, talent manager and actor whose television films won him three Emmys.

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06/07/2014

Alan J. Dixon, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 34th Illinois Secretary of State (born 1927)

Alan John Dixon was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1951 to 1971, as the Illinois Treasurer from 1971 to 1977, as the Illinois Secretary of State from 1977 to 1981 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1981 to 1993.

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06/07/2013

Lo Hsing Han, Burmese businessman, co-founded Asia World (born 1935)

Lo Hsing Han or Law Sit Han was a Burmese businessman and drug trafficker. He later became a major business tycoon across Burma, with financial ties to Singapore. He was an ethnic Kokang-Chinese. His spouse, Zhang Xiaowen, is a Chinese citizen and native of Gengma County in Yunnan.

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06/07/2012

Hani al-Hassan, Palestinian engineer and politician (born 1939)

Hani al Hassan, also known as Abu Tariq and Abu-l-Hasan, was a leader of the Fatah organization in Germany and member of the Palestinian Authority Cabinet and the Palestinian National Council.

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06/07/2011

Carly Hibberd, Australian road racing cyclist (born 1985)

Carly Hibberd was an Australian professional road racing cyclist who competed in Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)-sanctioned races. She won the 2008 Australian National Criterium Championships and was second in that year's Tour de Perth. Aged six, Hibberd took up BMX before moving onto mountain biking and then road cycling.through a talent identification scheme. She began riding competitive events in 2004 and went on to compete in several women's events organised by the UCI. Hibberd was hit while riding her bike by a driver while training in Northern Italy and died from her injuries. A memorial trophy and park in Toowoomba are named after her.

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06/07/2010

Harvey Fuqua, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1929)

Harvey Fuqua was an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label executive.

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06/07/2009

Vasily Aksyonov, Russian author and academic (born 1932)

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the author of The Burn and of Generations of Winter, a family saga following three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.

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Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1916)

Robert Strange McNamara was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. He remains the longest-serving secretary of defense, having remained in office over seven years. He played a major role in promoting the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.

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06/07/2007

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American author (born 1939)

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss was an American novelist. She pioneered the historical romance genre with the 1972 publication of her novel The Flame and the Flower.

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06/07/2006

Kasey Rogers, American actress (born 1925)

Kasey Rogers was an American actress and writer, best known for playing the second Louise Tate in the sitcom Bewitched.

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06/07/2005

Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (born 1926)

Evan Hunter was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of the 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of the police procedural genre.

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Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)

Claude Eugène Henri Simon was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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06/07/2004

Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician, 10th President of Austria (born 1932)

Thomas Klestil was an Austrian diplomat and politician who served as the president of Austria from 1992 until his death in 2004. He was elected in 1992 and re-elected in 1998.

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Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter (born 1946)

Syreeta Wright, known as Syreeta, was an American singer-songwriter, best known for her music during the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Wright's career heights were songs in collaboration with her ex-husband Stevie Wonder and musical artist Billy Preston.

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06/07/2003

Buddy Ebsen, American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1908)

Buddy Ebsen, was an American actor and dancer, widely known for his role as Jed Clampett in the CBS television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971) as well his title role in the television detective drama Barnaby Jones (1973–1980). Also known as Frank "Buddy" Ebsen.

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Çelik Gülersoy, Turkish lawyer, historical preservationist, writer and poet (born 1930)

Çelik Gülersoy was a Turkish lawyer, historical preservationist, writer and poet of Kurdish origin. He is best remembered for the heritage conservation works he carried out on historical sites during his long-time tenure as director general of the Touring and Automobile Club of Turkey (TTOK).

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06/07/2002

Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman, founded Reliance Industries (born 1932)

Dhirajlal Hirachand "Dhirubhai" Ambani was an Indian businessman who founded Reliance Industries in 1958. Ambani took Reliance public in 1977. In 2016, he was honoured posthumously with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour for his contributions to trade and industry. Ambani faced numerous accusations of market manipulation, tax evasion, and cronyism.

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John Frankenheimer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930)

John Michael Frankenheimer was an American film and television director, known both for his social dramas and his action/suspense pictures. Among his best-known theatrical film credits are Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, The Train, Seconds, Grand Prix, The Fixer (1968), The Iceman Cometh (1973), French Connection II (1975), Black Sunday (1977), 52 Pick-Up (1986), and Ronin (1998).

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06/07/2000

Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (born 1911)

Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Warsaw Uprising.

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06/07/1999

Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1901)

Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquess of the Gardens of Aranjuez, was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist. He is best known for composing the Concierto de Aranjuez, a cornerstone of the classical guitar repertoire.

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06/07/1998

Roy Rogers, American cowboy, actor, and singer (born 1911)

Roy Rogers, nicknamed the King of the Cowboys, was an American actor, singer, television host, and rodeo performer.

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06/07/1997

Chetan Anand, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)

Chetan Anand was a Bollywood film producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose first film, Neecha Nagar, was awarded the Grand Prix Prize at the first ever Cannes Film Festival in 1946. Later, he co-founded Navketan Films with his younger brother Dev Anand in 1949.

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06/07/1995

Aziz Nesin, Turkish author and poet (born 1915)

Aziz Nesin was a Turkish writer, humorist and the author of more than 100 books. Born in a time when Turks did not have official surnames, he had to adopt one after the Surname Law of 1934 was passed. Although his family carried the nickname "Topalosmanoğlu", after an ancestor named "Topal Osman", he chose the surname "Nesin". In Turkish, Nesin? means, What are you?.

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06/07/1994

Ahmet Haxhiu, Kosovan activist (born 1932)

Ahmet Haxhiu was a Kosovo Albanian political activist and one of the main gunrunners for Kosovo Liberation Army in the early 1990s. He was one of the leading figures of the Revolutionary Movement for Albanian Unification, which aimed at uniting various illegal groups who fought against the government of FR Yugoslavia. Haxhiu later joined People's Movement of Kosovo and was considered the right hand of Adem Demaçi.

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06/07/1992

Marsha P. Johnson, American drag queen performer and activist (born 1945)

Marsha P. Johnson was an American LGBTQ activist, sex worker, and performer. Sometimes known as the "Saint of Christopher Street", she is considered an important figure in the LGBTQ and transgender rights movements due to her involvement in the Stonewall riots, her work with Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), and her advocacy for people with AIDS.

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06/07/1991

Mudashiru Lawal, Nigerian footballer (born 1954)

Mudashiru Babatunde "Muda" Lawal was a Nigerian footballer who played as a midfielder for both club and country.

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06/07/1989

János Kádár, Hungarian mechanic and politician, Hungarian Minister of the Interior (born 1912)

János József Kádár was a Hungarian Communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, a position he held for 32 years. Declining health led to his retirement in 1988, and he died in 1989 after being hospitalized for pneumonia.

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06/07/1987

Elli Stenberg, Finnish politician (born 1903)

Ellen Aleksandra Stenberg was a Finnish politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) and the Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL), she represented Häme Province North between April 1945 and April 1966. Prior to being elected, she was imprisoned for twelve years for political reasons.

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06/07/1986

Jagjivan Ram, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (born 1908)

Jagjivan Ram, popularly known as Babuji, was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as a minister with various portfolios for over 30 years, making him the longest-serving Union Cabinet minister in Indian history. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India from January to July 1979. He played a pivotal role as the Defence Minister of India during the Indo-Pak War of 1971. As Union Agriculture Minister during two separate tenures, he contributed significantly to the Green Revolution and the modernization of Indian agriculture, particularly during the 1974 drought when he was entrusted with addressing a severe food crisis.

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06/07/1979

Van McCoy, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1940)

Van Allen Clinton McCoy was an American record producer, arranger, songwriter and singer. He is known for his 1975 internationally successful hit "The Hustle". He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit, and produced songs by such recording artists as Brenda & the Tabulations, David Ruffin, The Stylistics, The Presidents, Faith, Hope & Charity, New Censation, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Aretha Franklin, Peaches & Herb, Lesley Gore, and Stacy Lattisaw.

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06/07/1978

Babe Paley, American socialite and fashion style icon (born 1915)

Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley was an American magazine editor and socialite. Affectionately known as Babe throughout her life, Paley made notable contributions to the field of magazine editing. In recognition of her distinctive fashion sense, she was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1958. Together with her two sisters, Minnie and Betsey, she was a popular debutante in her youth and the trio were dubbed "The Fabulous Cushing Sisters" in high society. She was married twice; first, to the sportsman Stanley G. Mortimer Jr. and second, to CBS founder William S. Paley.

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06/07/1977

Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli viola player and composer (born 1907)

Ödön Pártos [alternate transcription in English: Oedoen Partos, Hungarian: Pártos Ödön, Hebrew: עֵדֶן פרטוש ] was a Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer. A recipient of the Israel Prize, he taught and served as director of the Rubin Academy of Music, now known as the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv.

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06/07/1976

Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (born 1886)

Zhu De was a Chinese general, military strategist, politician and revolutionary in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician (born 1887)

Fritz Gottlieb Karl Lenz was a German geneticist, member of the Nazi Party, and influential specialist in eugenics in Nazi Germany.

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06/07/1975

Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Turkish historian, scholar, and poet (born 1905)

Reşad Ekrem Koçu was a Turkish writer and historian. His best known work is the unfinished Istanbul Encyclopedia, which recounts many tales of Istanbul from Ottoman times. Koçu and his colorful depictions of Ottoman Istanbul are celebrated in Orhan Pamuk's book Istanbul: Memories and the City.

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06/07/1973

Otto Klemperer, German-American conductor and composer (born 1885)

Otto Nossan Klemperer was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain. He began his career as an opera conductor, but he was later better known as a conductor of symphonic music.

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06/07/1971

Louis Armstrong, American singer and trumpet player (born 1901)

Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist. Among the most influential figures in jazz, his career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of the genre. Armstrong received numerous accolades including the Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance for Hello, Dolly! in 1965, as well as a posthumous win for the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1972. His influence crossed musical genres, with inductions into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame, among others.

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06/07/1967

Hilda Taba, Estonian architect and educator (born 1902)

Hilda Taba was an architect, a curriculum theorist, a curriculum reformer, and a teacher educator. Taba was born in the small village of Kooraste, Estonia. Her mother's name was Liisa Leht, and her father was a schoolmaster whose name was Robert Taba. Hilda Taba began her education at the Kanepi Parish School. She then attended the Võru’s Girls’ Grammar School and earned her undergraduate degree in English and Philosophy at the University of Tartu. When Taba was given the opportunity to attend Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, she earned her master's degree. Following the completion of her degree at Bryn Mawr College, she attended Teachers College at Columbia University. She applied for a job at the University of Tartu but was turned down because she was female, so she became curriculum director at the Dalton School in New York City. In 1951, Taba accepted an invitation to become a professor at San Francisco State College, now known as San Francisco State University.

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06/07/1966

Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player and manager (born 1892)

Samuel Pond "Sad Sam" Jones was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball with the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox between 1914 and 1935. Jones batted and threw right-handed. His sharp breaking curveball also earned him the nickname "Horsewhips Sam".

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06/07/1964

Claude V. Ricketts, American admiral (born 1906)

Claude Vernon Ricketts was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy, who served as the Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1961 to 1964.

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06/07/1963

George, duke of Mecklenburg (born 1899)

George, Duke of Mecklenburg was the head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1934 until his death. Through his father, he was a descendant of Emperor Paul I of Russia.

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06/07/1962

Paul Boffa, Maltese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1890)

Sir Paul Boffa, OBE, was a Maltese politician and medical doctor who served as prime minister in the Colony of Malta after self-rule was reinstated by the British colonial authorities, following the end of the Second World War. He was created a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956.

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William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.

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Joseph August, archduke of Austria (born 1872)

Archduke Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia was a Feldmarschall of the Austro-Hungarian Army and for a short period head of state of Hungary. He was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the eldest son of Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (1833–1905) and his wife Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1846–1927). Joseph August's grandfather had been Palatine Joseph of Hungary (1776–1847), Palatine and Viceroy of Hungary, a younger son of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor.

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06/07/1961

Scott LaFaro, American bassist (born 1936)

Rocco Scott LaFaro was an American jazz double bassist known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. LaFaro broke new ground on the instrument, developing a countermelodic style of accompaniment rather than playing traditional walking basslines, as well as virtuosity that was practically unmatched by any of his contemporaries. Despite his short career and death at the age of 25, he remains one of the most influential jazz bassists, and was ranked number 16 on Bass Player magazine's top 100 bass players of all time.

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Woodall Rodgers, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Dallas (born 1890)

James Woodall Rodgers was an American attorney, businessman, and mayor of Dallas, Texas.

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06/07/1960

Aneurin Bevan, Welsh-English politician, Secretary of State for Health (born 1897)

Aneurin "Nye" Bevan PC was a Welsh Labour Party politician, noted for spearheading the creation of the British National Health Service during his tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee's government. He is also known for his wider contribution to the founding of the British welfare state. He was first elected as MP for Ebbw Vale in 1929, and used his Parliamentary platform to make a number of influential criticisms of Winston Churchill and his government during the Second World War. Before entering Parliament, Bevan was involved in miners' union politics and was a leading figure in the 1926 general strike. Bevan is widely regarded as one of the most influential left-wing politicians in British history.

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06/07/1959

George Grosz, German painter and illustrator (born 1893)

George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taught for many years at the Art Students League of New York. In 1959 he returned to Berlin, where he died shortly afterwards.

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06/07/1954

Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (born 1866)

Cornelia Sorabji was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University. Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system. Hoping to remedy this, Sorabji presented herself for the LLB examination of Bombay University in 1897 and the pleader's examination of Allahabad High Court in 1899. She became the first female advocate in India but would not be recognised as a barrister until the law which barred women from practising was changed in 1923.

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06/07/1952

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (born 1867)

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was the 14th premier of Quebec from 1920 to 1936. A member of the Parti libéral du Québec, Taschereau's near 16-year tenure remains the longest uninterrupted term of office among Quebec premiers.

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06/07/1947

Adolfo Müller-Ury, Swiss-American painter (born 1862)

Adolfo Müller-Ury, KSG was a Swiss-born American portrait painter and impressionistic painter of roses and still life.

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06/07/1946

Horace Pippin, American painter (born 1888)

Horace Pippin was an American painter who painted a range of themes, including scenes inspired by his service in World War I, landscapes, portraits, and biblical subjects. Some of his best-known works address the U.S.'s history of slavery and racial segregation. He was the first Black artist to be the subject of a monograph, Selden Rodman's Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America (1947), and The New York Times eulogized him as "the most important Negro painter" in American history. He is buried at Chestnut Grove Cemetery Annex in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania. A Pennsylvania State historical Marker at 327 Gay Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, identifies his home at the time of his death and commemorates his accomplishments.

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06/07/1932

Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English author (born 1859)

Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Born in Scotland, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted and he joined the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. Before writing The Wind in the Willows, he published three other books: Pagan Papers (1893), The Golden Age (1895), and Dream Days (1898).

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06/07/1922

Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and missionary (born 1863)

Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, ; 29 April 1863 – 6 July 1922), was a Polish Catholic religious sister who founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, dedicated to spreading Catholicism in Africa. She was beatified in 1975.

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06/07/1918

Wilhelm von Mirbach, German diplomat (born 1871)

Wilhelm Maria Theodor Ernst Richard Graf von Mirbach-Harff was a German diplomat. He was assassinated while ambassador to Russia.

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06/07/1916

Odilon Redon, French painter and illustrator (born 1840)

Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist draftsman, printmaker, and painter.

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06/07/1914

Georges Legagneux, French aviator (born 1882)

Georges Théophile Legagneux was a French aviator, the first person to fly an aircraft in several countries, and the first to fly a fixed-wing aircraft higher than both 10,000 and 20,000 feet.

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06/07/1907

August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist and theologian (born 1826)

August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein was a Baltic German linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, and theologian.

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06/07/1904

Abai Qunanbaiuly, Kazakh poet and philosopher (born 1845)

Abai Qūnanbaiūly was a Kazakh poet, composer and Hanafi Maturidi theologian philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened Islam.

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06/07/1902

Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (born 1890)

Maria Teresa Goretti was an Italian virgin martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine, and the family had to share a house with another family, the Serenellis. She took over household duties while her mother and siblings worked in the fields.

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06/07/1901

Chlodwig Carl Viktor, German prince and chancellor (born 1819)

Chlodwig Carl Viktor, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince of Ratibor and Corvey, usually referred to as the Prince of Hohenlohe, was a German statesman, who served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia from 1894 to 1900.

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06/07/1893

Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (born 1850)

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

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06/07/1868

Harada Sanosuke, Japanese captain (born 1840)

Harada Sanosuke was a Japanese warrior (samurai) who lived in the late Edo period. He was the 10th unit captain of the Shinsengumi, and died during the Boshin War.

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06/07/1854

Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (born 1789)

Georg Simon Ohm was a German mathematician and physicist. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current; this relation is known as Ohm's law.

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06/07/1835

John Marshall, American captain and politician, 4th United States Secretary of State (born 1755)

John Marshall was an American statesman, jurist, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835. He remains the longest-serving chief justice and fifth-longest-serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential justices ever to serve. Prior to joining the court, Marshall briefly served as both the U.S. secretary of state under President John Adams and a U.S. representative from Virginia, making him one of the few Americans to have held a constitutional office in each of the three branches of the United States federal government.

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06/07/1815

Samuel Whitbread, English politician (born 1764)

Samuel Whitbread was a British politician. The heir of a wealthy brewer, he was a staunch Whig sitting in Parliament from 1790 to his death. Shortly after the Battle of Waterloo he died by suicide, having been very sympathetic to the defeated French emperor Napoleon.

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06/07/1813

Granville Sharp, English activist (born 1735)

Granville Sharp was an English scholar, philanthropist and one of the first campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. Born in Durham, he initially worked as a civil servant in the Board of Ordnance. His involvement in abolitionism began in 1767 when he defended a severely injured enslaved person from Barbados in a legal case against his master. Increasingly devoted to the cause, he continually sought test cases against the legal justifications for slavery, and in 1769 he published the first tract in England that explicitly attacked the concept of slavery.

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06/07/1809

Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, French general (born 1775)

Antoine-Charles-Louis, Comte de Lasalle was a French cavalry general during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Often called "The Hussar General," he first gained fame for his role in the Capitulation of Stettin. Throughout his short career, he became known as a daring adventurer and was credited with many exploits, fighting on every front. He was killed at the Battle of Wagram.

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06/07/1802

Daniel Morgan, American general and politician (born 1736)

Daniel Morgan was an American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia. One of the most respected battlefield tacticians of the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, he later commanded troops during the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791–1794.

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06/07/1768

Conrad Beissel, German-American religious leader (born 1690)

Johann Conrad Beissel was a German-born religious leader who in 1732 founded the Ephrata Community in the Province of Pennsylvania.

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06/07/1758

George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, English general and politician (born 1725)

Brigadier-General George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, was a British Army officer. He was described by James Wolfe as "the best officer in the British Army". Howe was killed in the French and Indian War in a skirmish at Fort Ticonderoga the day before the Battle of Carillon, a failed attempt by the British to capture French-controlled Fort Carillon.

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06/07/1684

Peter Gunning, English bishop (born 1614)

Peter Gunning was an English Royalist church leader, Bishop of Chichester and Bishop of Ely.

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06/07/1614

Man Singh I, Rajput Raja of Amer (born 1550)

Mirza Raja Man Singh I was the 24th Kachawaha Rajput ruler of the Kingdom of Amber from 1589 to 1614. For the Mughals, he also served as the foremost imperial Subahdar of Bihar Subah from 1587 to 1594, then for Bengal Subah for three terms from 1595 to 1606 and the Subahdar of Kabul Subah from 1585 to 1586. He served in the imperial Mughal Army under Emperor Akbar. Man Singh fought sixty-seven important battles in Kabul, Balkh, Bukhara, Bengal and Central and Southern India. He was well versed in the battle tactics of both the Rajputs as well as the Mughals. He is commonly considered to be one of the Navaratnas, or the nine (nava) gems (ratna) of the royal court of Akbar.

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06/07/1585

Thomas Aufield, English priest and martyr (born 1552)

Thomas Aufield, also called Thomas Alfield, was an English Roman Catholic martyr.

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06/07/1583

Edmund Grindal, English archbishop (born 1519)

Edmund Grindal was successively Bishop of London, Archbishop of York, and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Elizabeth I. Though born far from the centres of political and religious power, he had risen rapidly in the church during the reign of Edward VI, culminating in his nomination as Bishop of London. However, the death of the King prevented his taking up the post, and along with other Marian exiles, he was a supporter of Calvinist Puritanism. Grindal sought refuge in continental Europe during the reign of Mary I. Upon Elizabeth's accession, Grindal returned and resumed his rise in the church, culminating in his appointment to the highest office.

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06/07/1553

Edward VI, king of England and Ireland (born 1537)

Edward VI was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. The only surviving son of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, Edward was the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a regency council because Edward never reached maturity. The council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (1550–1553).

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06/07/1535

Thomas More, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and martyr (born 1478)

Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state.

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06/07/1533

Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet and playwright (born 1474)

Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516-1532). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. The poem is transformed into a satire of the chivalric tradition. Ariosto composed the poem in the ottava rima rhyme scheme and introduced narrative commentary throughout the work.

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06/07/1480

Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (born 1416)

Antonio Squarcialupi was a Florentine organist and composer. He was the most famous organist in Italy in the mid-15th century.

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06/07/1476

Regiomontanus, German mathematician and astrologer (born 1436)

Johannes Müller von Königsberg, better known as Regiomontanus, was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His contributions were instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.

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06/07/1415

Jan Hus, Czech priest, philosopher, and reformer (born 1369)

Jan Hus, sometimes anglicized as John Goose or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as Iohannes Hus or Johannes Huss, was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and the inspiration of Hussitism, a key predecessor to Protestantism, and a seminal figure in the Bohemian Reformation. Hus is considered to be the first Church reformer, even though some designate the theorist John Wycliffe. His teachings had a strong influence, most immediately in the approval of a reformed Bohemian religious denomination and, over a century later, on Martin Luther.

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06/07/1249

Alexander II, king of Scotland (born 1198)

Alexander II (1198–1249) was King of Scotland from 1214 until his death. He was the son of William the Lion and Ermengarde de Beaumont, succeeding to the throne at the age of sixteen. He ruled for thirty-five years, during which time he began consolidating the Scottish kingdom. Alexander’s early reign was marked by conflict with John of England and his involvement in the First Barons' War. He supported the rebel English barons and campaigned mainly in northern England. Following John’s death in 1216, Alexander made peace with John's son and successor, Henry III of England, taking a more diplomatic approach between the two kingdoms. This was strengthened by his marriage in 1221 to Joan of England.

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06/07/1218

Odo III, duke of Burgundy (born 1166)

Odo III was Duke of Burgundy between 1192 and 1218. Odo was the eldest son of Duke Hugh III and his first wife Alice, daughter of Duke Matthias I of Lorraine.

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06/07/1189

Henry II, king of England (born 1133)

Henry II was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189. During his reign he controlled England, substantial parts of Wales and Ireland, and much of France, an area that was later called the Angevin Empire, and also held power over Scotland for a time and the Duchy of Brittany.

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06/07/1070

Godelieve, Flemish saint (born 1049)

Saint Godelieve was a Flemish saint.

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06/07/1017

Genshin, Japanese scholar (born 942)

Genshin was a prominent Japanese monk of the Tendai school, recognized for his significant contributions to both Tendai thought and Pure Land Buddhism. Genshin studied under Ryōgen, a key Tendai reformer, and became well known for his intellectual prowess, particularly after his success in official debates. He was also known as Eshin Sōzu and Yokawa Sōzu.

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06/07/0918

William I, duke of Aquitaine (born 875)

William I, called the Pious, was the Count of Auvergne from 886 and Duke of Aquitaine from 893, succeeding the Poitevin ruler Ebalus Manser. He made numerous monastic foundations, most important among them the foundation of Cluny Abbey on 11 September 910.

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06/07/0887

Wang Chongrong, Chinese warlord

Wang Chongrong, formally the Prince of Langye (瑯琊王), was a warlord of the late Chinese Tang dynasty who controlled Hezhong Circuit. He was instrumental in Tang's eventual defeat of the agrarian rebel Huang Chao, but at times had an adversarial relationship with the court of Emperor Xizong and the powerful eunuch Tian Lingzi.

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06/07/0649

Goar of Aquitaine, French bishop

Saint Goar of Aquitaine was a French priest and hermit of the seventh century. He was offered the position of Bishop of Trier, but prayed to be excused from the position. Goar is noted for his piety and is revered as a miracle-worker. He is a patron saint of innkeepers, potters, and vine growers.

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07/07/2001

Cleombrotus I, Spartan king

Cleombrotus I was a Spartan king of the Agiad line, reigning from 380 BC until 371 BC. Little is known of Cleombrotus' early life. Son of Pausanias, he became king of Sparta after the death of his brother Agesipolis I in 380 BC, and led the allied Spartan-Peloponnesian army against the Thebans under Epaminondas in the Battle of Leuctra. His death and the utter defeat of his army led to the end of Spartan dominance in ancient Greece. Cleombrotus was succeeded by his son Agesipolis II. His other son was Cleomenes II.

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