What happened on July 6 ?

1189 - King Henry II of England (b. 1133)

1218 - Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)

1249 - King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)

1415 - Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (burned at the stake) (b. 1369)

1476 - Regiomantus, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1436)

1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)

1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)

1535 - Sir Thomas More, English writer and philosopher (executed) (b. 1478)

1553 - King Edward VI of England (b. 1537)

1583 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury

1585 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552)

1684 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)

1758 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (killed in battle)

1762 - Tsar Peter III of Russia (murdered) (b. 1728)

1768 - Conrad Beissel, German-born religious leader (b. 1690)

1835 - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1755)

1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)

1868 - Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)

1893 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)

1901 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)

1902 - St. Maria Goretti, Italian saint (b. 1890)

1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)

1932 - Kenneth Grahame, English children's author (b. 1859)

1960 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)

1961 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)

1961 - Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1890)

1962 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)

1966 - Sad Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1892)

1971 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (b. 1901)

1972 - Brandon De Wilde, American actor (b. 1942)

1973 - Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1885)

1982 - Bob Johnson, baseball player (b. 1905)

1986 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)

1989 - János Kádár, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)

1998 - Roy Rogers, American cowboy actor and singer (b. 1911)

1999 - Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)

1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)

2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)

2002 - John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)

2003 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)

2004 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)

2005 - L. Patrick Gray III, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1916)

2005 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)

2005 - Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)

2006 - Kasey Rogers, American actress and motocross racer (b. 1926)