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June 7
June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining.
Events
1000-1899
1900-1999
Births
1400-1899
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1491 - Jacques Cartier, explorer (d. 1557)
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1761 - John Rennie, engineer (d. 1821)
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1778 - Beau Brummel, fashion leader
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1811 - James Simpson, obstetrician (used chloroform) (d. 1870)
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1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
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1848 - Paul Gauguin, painter (d. 1903)
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1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and illustrator (d. 1928)
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1879 - Knut Rasmussen, explorer (d. 1933)
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1886 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
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1896 - Imre Nagy, politician (d. 1958)
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1897 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970
1900-1999
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1909 - Jessica Tandy, actress (d. 1994)
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1917 - Dean Martin, actor (d. 1995)
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1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, poet (d. 2000)
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1920 - Georges Marchais, politician (d. 1997)
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1928 - James Ivory, producer
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1929 - John Turner, seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada
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1931 - Malcolm Morley, painter
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1937 - Neemi Järvi, Estonian conductor
- 1937 - Claus Peymann , theater director
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1938 - Goose Gonsoulin, American football player
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1940 - Tom Jones, singer
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1943 - Nikki Giovanni, poet
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1945 - Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian Bundeskanzler since 2000
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1946 - Bill Kreutzmann of The Grateful Dead
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1946 - Jenny Jones, comedienne, talk show host
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1952 - Liam Neeson, actor
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1954 - Louise Erdrich, author
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1955 - Tim Richmond, NASCAR race car driver (d. 1989)
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1958 - Prince, musician
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1965 - Mick Foley, professional wrestler and author
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1972 - Karl Urban, actor
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1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi, tennis player
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1975 - Allen Iverson, Basketball player
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1981 - Anna Kournikova, tennis player
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1988 - Michael Cera, actor
Deaths
1300-1899
1900-1999
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1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
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1937 - Jean Harlow, actress (b. 1911)
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1954 - Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist (b. 1912)
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1963 - Zasu Pitts, actress (b. 1894)
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1965 - Judy Holliday, actress (b. 1921)
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1966 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
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1967 - Dorothy Parker, writer (b. 1893)
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1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
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1979 - Forrest Carter, author (b. 1925)
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1980 - Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
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1993 - Dražen Petrović, Basketball Hall of Famer (b. 1964)
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1996 - Max Factor, cosmetics pioneer
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
dream theater - octavarium
External links
June 6 - June 8 - May 7 - July 7 -- listing of all days
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