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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 6th of June 1513 | EVENT | Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored. |
| 6th of June 1523 | EVENT | Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union. |
| 6th of June 1644 | EVENT | The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchus would rule China until 1912 when the Republic of China is established. |
| 6th of June 1654 | EVENT | Charles X succeeds his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne. |
| 6th of June 1674 | EVENT | Shivaji, founder of the Maratha empire is coronated. |
| 6th of June 1683 | EVENT | The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum. |
| 6th of June 1752 | EVENT | A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes. |
| 6th of June 1808 | EVENT | Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain. |
| 6th of June 1809 | EVENT | Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism. |
| 6th of June 1813 | EVENT | War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek : A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler. |
| 6th of June 1832 | EVENT | The June Rebellion of Paris is put down by the National Guard. |
| 6th of June 1833 | EVENT | U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train. |
| 6th of June 1844 | EVENT | The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London. |
| 6th of June 1857 | EVENT | Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway. |
| 6th of June 1859 | EVENT | Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day). |
| 6th of June 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Memphis : Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates. |
| 6th of June 1882 | EVENT | More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour. |
| 6th of June 1882 | EVENT | The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River. |
| 6th of June 1889 | EVENT | The Great Seattle Fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington. |
| 6th of June 1892 | EVENT | Chicago El begins operation |
| 6th of June 1894 | EVENT | Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike. |
| 6th of June 1906 | EVENT | Paris Metro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orleans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz). |
| 6th of June 1912 | EVENT | The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. |
| 6th of June 1918 | EVENT | World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood : The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry. |
| 6th of June 1919 | EVENT | The Republic of Prekmurje ends. |
| 6th of June 1921 | EVENT | The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary. |
| 6th of June 1925 | EVENT | The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler. |
| 6th of June 1932 | EVENT | The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ?/L) sold. |
| 6th of June 1933 | EVENT | The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States. |
| 6th of June 1934 | EVENT | New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. |
| 6th of June 1939 | EVENT | Judge Joseph Force Crater is declared legally dead. |
| 6th of June 1939 | EVENT | German dictator Adolf Hitler gives a public address to returning German volunteers who fought as Legion Kondor during the Spanish Civil War. |
| 6th of June 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers. |
| 6th of June 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history. |
| 6th of June 1944 | EVENT | Alaska Airlines commences operations. |
| 6th of June 1946 | EVENT | The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City. |
| 6th of June 1946 | EVENT | Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with Argentina. |
| 6th of June 1964 | EVENT | Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume. |
| 6th of June 1966 | EVENT | James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi. |
| 6th of June 1968 | EVENT | Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers throws his record 58th consecutive scoreless inning, a major league record until 1988. |
| 6th of June 1971 | EVENT | Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches. |
| 6th of June 1971 | EVENT | A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives. |
| 6th of June 1971 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins. |
| 6th of June 1974 | EVENT | A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy. |
| 6th of June 1981 | EVENT | Bihar train disaster A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed. |
| 6th of June 1982 | EVENT | 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee", eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut. |
| 6th of June 1984 | EVENT | The Indian Army attacks the Golden Temple in Amritsar following an order from Indira Gandhi. Official casualties are 576 combatants killed and 335 wounded; independent observers estimate that thousands of unarmed Sikh civilians are also killed in the crossfire. A total death count adds up to almost 6,000. |
| 6th of June 1985 | EVENT | The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February, 1979. |
| 6th of June 1990 | EVENT | U.S. District court judge Jose Alejandro Gonzalez, Jr. rules that the rap album As Nasty As They Wanna Be by 2 Live Crew violates Florida's obscenity law; he declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the 'dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind." |
| 6th of June 1993 | EVENT | Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections. |
| 6th of June 1999 | EVENT | In Australian Rules Football, Tony Lockett breaks the record for career goals, previously 1299 by Gordon Coventry and which had stood since 1937. |
| 6th of June 2002 | EVENT | Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. |
| 6th of June 2004 | EVENT | Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament. |
| 6th of June 2005 | EVENT | The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich. |
| 6th of June 1236 | BIRTHDAY | Wen Tianxiang, Chinese statesman (d. 1283) |
| 6th of June 1296 | BIRTHDAY | W?adys?aw of Legnica, Duke of Legnica (d. 1352) |
| 6th of June 1436 | BIRTHDAY | Regiomontanus, German mathematician (d. 1476) |
| 6th of June 1502 | BIRTHDAY | King John III of Portugal (d. 1557) |
| 6th of June 1519 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603) |
| 6th of June 1542 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (d. 1591) |
| 6th of June 1576 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649) |
| 6th of June 1580 | BIRTHDAY | Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667) |
| 6th of June 1599 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660) |
| 6th of June 1606 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684) |
| 6th of June 1622 | BIRTHDAY | Claude-Jean Allouez, French missionary and explorer (d. 1857) |
| 6th of June 1699 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Georg Estor, German jurist (d. 1773) |
| 6th of June 1714 | BIRTHDAY | King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777) |
| 6th of June 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Hale, American writer and patriot (d. 1776) |
| 6th of June 1756 | BIRTHDAY | John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843) |
| 6th of June 1772 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1807) |
| 6th of June 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1837) |
| 6th of June 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856) |
| 6th of June 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862) |
| 6th of June 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (d. 1910) |
| 6th of June 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905) |
| 6th of June 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1918) |
| 6th of June 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918) |
| 6th of June 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Henry John Newbolt, English author (d. 1938) |
| 6th of June 1867 | BIRTHDAY | David T. Abercrombie, American entrepreneur (d. 1931) |
| 6th of June 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912) |
| 6th of June 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (d. 1918) |
| 6th of June 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1955) |
| 6th of June 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (d. 1956) |
| 6th of June 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971) |
| 6th of June 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar, Karnatakaian poet and playwright (d. 1986) |
| 6th of June 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (d. 1971) |
| 6th of June 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran, and supercentenarian (d. 2009) |
| 6th of June 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Italo Balbo, Italian fascist leader (d. 1940) |
| 6th of June 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer (d. 2001) |
| 6th of June 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987) |
| 6th of June 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957) |
| 6th of June 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Sukarno, Indonesian politician (d. 1970) |
| 6th of June 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmie Lunceford, American bandleader (d. 1947) |
| 6th of June 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978) |
| 6th of June 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Max August Zorn, German-born mathematician (d. 1993) |
| 6th of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Dickey, American baseball player (d. 1993) |
| 6th of June 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991) |
| 6th of June 1914 | BIRTHDAY | H. Adams Carter, American mountaineer (d. 1995) |
| 6th of June 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Persichetti, American composer (d. 1987) |
| 6th of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Hamani Diori, former President of Niger (d. 1989) |
| 6th of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman |
| 6th of June 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009) |
| 6th of June 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Carrington, British politician |
| 6th of June 1923 | BIRTHDAY | V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986) |
| 6th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jinyong, Chinese novelist |
| 6th of June 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (d. 2009) |
| 6th of June 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998) |
| 6th of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005) |
| 6th of June 1932 | BIRTHDAY | David Scott, American astronaut |
| 6th of June 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Billie Whitelaw, English actress |
| 6th of June 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Eli Broad, American entrepreneur and philanthropist |
| 6th of June 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 6th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | King Albert II of Belgium |
| 6th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Innis, American civil rights activist |
| 6th of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | A. Venkatesh Naik, Indian politician |
| 6th of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops) (d. 2008) |
| 6th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Luis of Orleans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne |
| 6th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer |
| 6th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (d. 2006) |
| 6th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Gary U.S. Bonds, American musician |
| 6th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Marian Wright Edelman, American activist |
| 6th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Giacomin, Canadian hockey player |
| 6th of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Lujack, American disc jockey |
| 6th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist |
| 6th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jose de Jesus Gudino Pelayo, Mexican jurist |
| 6th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005) |
| 6th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Hatfield, American football coach |
| 6th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, Nobel laureate |
| 6th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | David Penhaligon, British politician (d. 1986) |
| 6th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Monty Alexander, Jamaican pianist |
| 6th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Tommie Smith, American track and field athlete |
| 6th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | David E. Bonior, American politician |
| 6th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000) |
| 6th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Shawcross, American serial killer (d. 2008) |
| 6th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | David Blunkett, English politician |
| 6th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Englund, American actor |
| 6th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer |
| 6th of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Sinclair, English musician (Caravan) |
| 6th of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Levin, American bassist (King Crimson) |
| 6th of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ioannis Matzourakis, Greek association football manager and former player |
| 6th of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Holly Near, American folk singer |
| 6th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Chantal Akerman, Belgian film director |
| 6th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Marietta Giannakou, Greek politician |
| 6th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Noritake Takahara, Japanese racing driver |
| 6th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dwight Twilley, American pop/rock singer |
| 6th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese musician and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra) |
| 6th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Fierstein, American actor |
| 6th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Hamel, Canadian hockey player |
| 6th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greek politician |
| 6th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Cynthia Rylant, American author |
| 6th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | W?adys?aw Zmuda, Polish footballer |
| 6th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Bernhard, American actress and comedian |
| 6th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Bubbi Morthens, Icelandic singer and songwriter |
| 6th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Bjorn Borg, Swedish tennis player |
| 6th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Rach, German chef |
| 6th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Gatting, English cricketer |
| 6th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Webb, English actor |
| 6th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Jam, American record producer |
| 6th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Quinn, American comedian |
| 6th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | David Schultz, American wrestler (d. 1996) |
| 6th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Pays, English actress |
| 6th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Voulgarakis, Greek politician |
| 6th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Pribilinec, Slovak athlete |
| 6th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Lola Forner, Spanish actress |
| 6th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Vai, American musician |
| 6th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Bates, American football player |
| 6th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Nir Brand, Israeli composer |
| 6th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Araya, Chilean musician (Slayer) |
| 6th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Aldo Costa, Italian engineer |
| 6th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Drechsler, German social scientist |
| 6th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Cantor, American politician |
| 6th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Isaacs, English actor |
| 6th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Cam Neely, Canadian hockey player |
| 6th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer |
| 6th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Yseult, American musician (White Zombie) |
| 6th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Giamatti, American actor |
| 6th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Max Casella, American actor |
| 6th of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Licht, American guitarist, composer and journalist |
| 6th of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Avard, Canadian writer and scenarist |
| 6th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Eugeni Berzin, Russian cyclist |
| 6th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Norris, American wrestler |
| 6th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Ferrer, Spanish footballer |
| 6th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Dessen, American author |
| 6th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | James Shaffer, American rock musician (Korn) |
| 6th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Morales, American television journalist |
| 6th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Cristina Scabbia, Italian singer (Lacuna Coil) |
| 6th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kat Swift, American politician |
| 6th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Strong, American actor |
| 6th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sonya Walger, British actress |
| 6th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Uncle Kracker, American musician |
| 6th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Cheer Chen, Taiwanese singer and musician |
| 6th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Staci Keanan, American actress |
| 6th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Niklas Sundstrom, Swedish hockey player |
| 6th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Kaczorowski, American actress |
| 6th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | aKido, Canadian musician |
| 6th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Z-Ro, American rapper |
| 6th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Emilie-Claire Barlow, Canadian singer |
| 6th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Rowley, British skateboarder |
| 6th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bryn Williams, Welsh chef |
| 6th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | David Connolly, Irish footballer |
| 6th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Barat, English musician |
| 6th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer |
| 6th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988) |
| 6th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Reynolds, American professional skater |
| 6th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Joy Enriquez, American singer |
| 6th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Belisle, American baseball player |
| 6th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Pacar, American film actor |
| 6th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Philip McGinley, English actor |
| 6th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Gemma Bissix, British actress |
| 6th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Gianna Michaels, American porn actress |
| 6th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Rokocoko, Fijian rugby player |
| 6th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer |
| 6th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Stewart, American model |
| 6th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Trusnik, American football player |
| 6th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Galloway, Scottish wrestler |
| 6th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Henry, American football player |
| 6th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress |
| 6th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Allgaier, American racing driver |
| 6th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Hyun Joong, Korean singer (SS501) |
| 6th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Falconer, Scottish musician |
| 6th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Logan, New Zealand actor |
| 6th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Rubin Okotie, Austrian footballer |
| 6th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Israel Dagg, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 6th of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Brancati, Canadian actress |
| 6th of June 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Vid Belec, Slovenian footballer |
| 6th of June 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Hyuna, Korean dance-pop singer (4minute) |
| 6th of June 1393 | DEATH | Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (Born 1359) |
| 6th of June 1480 | DEATH | Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect (Born 1412) |
| 6th of June 1548 | DEATH | Joao de Castro, Portuguese noble and explorer (Born 1500) |
| 6th of June 1563 | DEATH | Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (Born 1519) |
| 6th of June 1583 | DEATH | Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (Born 1556) |
| 6th of June 1730 | DEATH | Alain Emmanuel de Coetlogon, Marshal of France (Born 1646) |
| 6th of June 1740 | DEATH | Alexander Spotswood, British Crown Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (Born 1676) |
| 6th of June 1784 | DEATH | Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (Born 1741) |
| 6th of June 1799 | DEATH | Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (Born 1736) |
| 6th of June 1813 | DEATH | Alexandre-Theodore Brongniart, French architect (Born 1739) |
| 6th of June 1815 | DEATH | Samuel Whitbread, English Politician (Born 1758) |
| 6th of June 1832 | DEATH | Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (Born 1748) |
| 6th of June 1840 | DEATH | Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (Born 1789) |
| 6th of June 1843 | DEATH | Friedrich Holderlin, German poet and dramatist (Born 1770) |
| 6th of June 1861 | DEATH | Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (Born 1810) |
| 6th of June 1865 | DEATH | William Quantrill, American confederate raider (Born 1837) |
| 6th of June 1878 | DEATH | Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (Born 1790) |
| 6th of June 1881 | DEATH | Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (Born 1820) |
| 6th of June 1891 | DEATH | John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1815) |
| 6th of June 1916 | DEATH | Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (Born 1859) |
| 6th of June 1922 | DEATH | Lillian Russell, American actress (Born 1860) |
| 6th of June 1934 | DEATH | Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (Born 1864) |
| 6th of June 1935 | DEATH | Julian Byng, British Field Marshal and 12th Governor-General of Canada (Born 1862) |
| 6th of June 1941 | DEATH | Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (Born 1878) |
| 6th of June 1943 | DEATH | Pandelis Pouliopoulos, secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (Born 1900) |
| 6th of June 1946 | DEATH | Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel laureate (Born 1862) |
| 6th of June 1948 | DEATH | Louis Lumiere, French movie pioneer (Born 1864) |
| 6th of June 1951 | DEATH | Olive Tell, American actress (Born 1894) |
| 6th of June 1954 | DEATH | Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (Born 1910) |
| 6th of June 1955 | DEATH | Max Meldrum, Scottish-born painter (Born 1875) |
| 6th of June 1961 | DEATH | Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (Born 1875) |
| 6th of June 1961 | DEATH | Ioannis Theotokis, Greek politician, 146th Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1880) |
| 6th of June 1962 | DEATH | Yves Klein, French artist (Born 1928) |
| 6th of June 1968 | DEATH | Robert F. Kennedy, 64th United States Attorney General and politician (Born 1925) |
| 6th of June 1968 | DEATH | Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (Born 1911) |
| 6th of June 1974 | DEATH | Frank Sutton, American actor (Born 1923) |
| 6th of June 1975 | DEATH | Larry Blyden, American actor (Born 1925) |
| 6th of June 1976 | DEATH | J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (Born 1892) |
| 6th of June 1976 | DEATH | Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (Born 1891) |
| 6th of June 1979 | DEATH | Jack Haley, American actor (Born 1898) |
| 6th of June 1981 | DEATH | Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (Born 1904) |
| 6th of June 1982 | DEATH | Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (Born 1905) |
| 6th of June 1984 | DEATH | A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author (Born 1912) |
| 6th of June 1991 | DEATH | Stan Getz, American musician (Born 1927) |
| 6th of June 1992 | DEATH | Larry Riley, American actor (Born 1952) |
| 6th of June 1994 | DEATH | Mark McManus, Scottish actor (Born 1935) |
| 6th of June 1994 | DEATH | Barry Sullivan, American actor (Born 1912) |
| 6th of June 1996 | DEATH | George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (Born 1903) |
| 6th of June 1999 | DEATH | Anne Haddy, Australian actress (Born 1930) |
| 6th of June 2000 | DEATH | Frederic Dard, French writer (Born 1921) |
| 6th of June 2002 | DEATH | Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (Born 1959) |
| 6th of June 2003 | DEATH | Ken Grimwood, American writer (Born 1944) |
| 6th of June 2003 | DEATH | Dave Rowberry, British musician (The Animals) (Born 1940) |
| 6th of June 2005 | DEATH | Anne Bancroft, American actress (Born 1931) |
| 6th of June 2005 | DEATH | Dana Elcar, American actor (Born 1927) |
| 6th of June 2006 | DEATH | Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican jazz pianist (Born 1952) |
| 6th of June 2006 | DEATH | Billy Preston, American musician (Born 1946) |
| 6th of June 2006 | DEATH | Arnold Newman, American photographer (Born 1918) |
| 6th of June 2009 | DEATH | Jean Dausset, French immunologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1916) |
| 6th of June 2009 | DEATH | Jim Owens, American college football head coach (Born 1927) |
| 6th of June 2009 | DEATH | Mary Howard de Liagre, American actress (Born 1913) |
| 6th of June 2010 | DEATH | Marvin Isley, American musician The Isley Brothers (Born 1953) |
| 6th of June 2010 | DEATH | Khaled Saeed, victim of Egyptian Police Brutality; Figure of the Egyptian Revolution on January 25, 2011 |