What happened on June 7 ?

1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)

1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)

1394 - Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367)

1618 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)

1676 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist

1711 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)

1779 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)

1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)

1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)

1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)

1840 - King Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)

1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)

1859 - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)

1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader

1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)

1927 - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)

1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)

1937 - Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)

1942 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)

1951 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (b. 1892)

1954 - Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)

1963 - Zasu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)

1965 - Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)

1966 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)

1967 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)

1968 - Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)

1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)

1978 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

1979 - Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)

1980 - Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)

1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)

1993 - Dra?en Petrovi?, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)

1995 - Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)

2001 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)

2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)

2003 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)

2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (b. 1966)

2006 - John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)

2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born terrorist (b. 1966)