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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 6th of July 1044 | EVENT | The Battle of Menfo between troops led by Emperor Henry III and Magyar forces led by King Samuel takes place. |
| 6th of July 1189 | EVENT | Richard I "the Lionheart" is crowned King of England. |
| 6th of July 1253 | EVENT | Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania. |
| 6th of July 1348 | EVENT | Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting the Jews accused to have caused the Black Death. |
| 6th of July 1415 | EVENT | Jan Hus is burned at the stake. |
| 6th of July 1483 | EVENT | Richard III is crowned King of England. |
| 6th of July 1484 | EVENT | Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cao finds the mouth of the Congo River. |
| 6th of July 1495 | EVENT | First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo : Charles VIII defeats the Holy League, but ultimately ends his attempted conquest of Italy. |
| 6th of July 1535 | EVENT | Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. |
| 6th of July 1560 | EVENT | The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England. |
| 6th of July 1573 | EVENT | Cordoba, Argentina, is founded by Jeronimo Luis de Cabrera. |
| 6th of July 1609 | EVENT | Bohemia is granted freedom of religion. |
| 6th of July 1630 | EVENT | Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany. |
| 6th of July 1751 | EVENT | Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia. |
| 6th of July 1777 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga : After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York. |
| 6th of July 1779 | EVENT | Battle of Grenada: French victory over British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War. |
| 6th of July 1785 | EVENT | The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States. |
| 6th of July 1801 | EVENT | Battle of Algeciras: the French navy are defeated by the Royal Navy. |
| 6th of July 1809 | EVENT | The second day of the Battle of Wagram sees a French victory over the Austrian army in the largest battle yet of the Napoleonic Wars. |
| 6th of July 1854 | EVENT | In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held. |
| 6th of July 1885 | EVENT | Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. |
| 6th of July 1887 | EVENT | David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights. |
| 6th of July 1892 | EVENT | 3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded. |
| 6th of July 1892 | EVENT | Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. |
| 6th of July 1893 | EVENT | The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200. |
| 6th of July 1905 | EVENT | Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time. |
| 6th of July 1917 | EVENT | World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt. |
| 6th of July 1919 | EVENT | The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship. |
| 6th of July 1933 | EVENT | The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeats the National League 4 : 2. |
| 6th of July 1936 | EVENT | A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61 m) into the River Irwell. |
| 6th of July 1939 | EVENT | Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed. |
| 6th of July 1942 | EVENT | Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. |
| 6th of July 1944 | EVENT | The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut. |
| 6th of July 1944 | EVENT | 2LT Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial. |
| 6th of July 1947 | EVENT | The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. |
| 6th of July 1957 | EVENT | John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles are introduced to each other when Lennon's band the Quarrymen performs at the St. Peter's Church Hall fete in Woolton. |
| 6th of July 1957 | EVENT | Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so. |
| 6th of July 1962 | EVENT | As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place. |
| 6th of July 1964 | EVENT | Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 6th of July 1966 | EVENT | Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President. |
| 6th of July 1967 | EVENT | Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war. |
| 6th of July 1975 | EVENT | The Comoros declare independence from France. |
| 6th of July 1978 | EVENT | The Taunton sleeping car fire occurs in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people. |
| 6th of July 1986 | EVENT | Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France. |
| 6th of July 1988 | EVENT | The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster. |
| 6th of July 1989 | EVENT | The Israeli 405 Bus slaughter in which 14 bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus is driving by the edge of a cliff. |
| 6th of July 1994 | EVENT | Storm King Mountain, Glenwood Springs, Colorado: South Canyon Fire: 14 firefighters died in the fire. |
| 6th of July 1998 | EVENT | Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational. |
| 6th of July 1999 | EVENT | U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams. |
| 6th of July 2003 | EVENT | The 70-metre Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044 and 2049 respectively. |
| 6th of July 2006 | EVENT | The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years. |
| 6th of July 1686 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758) |
| 6th of July 1736 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Morgan, American battlefield tactician (d. 1802) |
| 6th of July 1747 | BIRTHDAY | John Paul Jones, American naval commander (d. 1792) |
| 6th of July 1766 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist (d. 1813) |
| 6th of July 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Stamford Raffles, British statesman (d. 1826) |
| 6th of July 1782 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Luisa of Spain, Duchess of Lucca and Queen of Etruria (d. 1824) |
| 6th of July 1785 | BIRTHDAY | William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865) |
| 6th of July 1789 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Isabella of Spain, Queen consort of the Two Sicilies, wife of Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1846) |
| 6th of July 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855) |
| 6th of July 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Albert von Kolliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905) |
| 6th of July 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879) |
| 6th of July 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, Indian scholar (d. 1925) |
| 6th of July 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian Slavic studies scholar (d. 1923) |
| 6th of July 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish poet and novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 1940) |
| 6th of July 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and music educator (d. 1950) |
| 6th of July 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, member of the British Royal Family (d. 1935) |
| 6th of July 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926) |
| 6th of July 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American railroad executive, yachtsman and bridge player, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1970) |
| 6th of July 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945) |
| 6th of July 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Bloch, French historian (d.1994) |
| 6th of July 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (d. 1975) |
| 6th of July 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Krautheimer, German-American art historian (d.1994) |
| 6th of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962) |
| 6th of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and supercentenarian |
| 6th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982) |
| 6th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Wickberg, Swedish 9th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1996) |
| 6th of July 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954) |
| 6th of July 1907 | BIRTHDAY | George Stanley, Canadian politician and designer of the flag of Canada (d. 2002) |
| 6th of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006) |
| 6th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent J. McMahon, American wrestling promoter (d. 1984) |
| 6th of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Norse, American writer (d. 2009) |
| 6th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (d. 2004) |
| 6th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977) |
| 6th of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Haefliger, Swiss singer (d. 2007) |
| 6th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States |
| 6th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish Communist politician, Prime Minister and President of Poland |
| 6th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Gazi Yasargil, Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon (d. 1993) |
| 6th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Merv Griffin, American television show host (d. 2007) |
| 6th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Haley, American singer (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1981) |
| 6th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player (d. 1988) |
| 6th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Freeman, Australian-born British DJ and radio personality (d. 2006) |
| 6th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 6th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (d. 2004) |
| 6th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Paulsen, American comedian (d. 1997) |
| 6th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Balamurali Krishna, Indian Carnatic musician, poet and composer. |
| 6th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Campeau, French-Canadian businessman and politician |
| 6th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Della Reese, American singer and actress |
| 6th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Austin, English footballer |
| 6th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace Prize laureate |
| 6th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Candy Barr, American stripper and actress (d. 2005) |
| 6th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005) |
| 6th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian-born pianist and conductor |
| 6th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Chandler, American soul singer |
| 6th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ned Beatty, American actor |
| 6th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Luana Patten, American actress (d. 1996) |
| 6th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jet Harris, English bassist (The Shadows) |
| 6th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh politician, 1st President of the Republic of Kazakhstan |
| 6th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jeannie Seely, American country music singer |
| 6th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Reinhard Roder, German football player and manager |
| 6th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Burt Ward, American actor |
| 6th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Matthews, English fantasy artist and illustrator |
| 6th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States |
| 6th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Singer, Australian philosopher |
| 6th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Dryer, American football player and actor |
| 6th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvester Stallone, American actor |
| 6th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Beckinsale, English actor (d. 1979) |
| 6th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Clemons, American baseball player (d. 2008) |
| 6th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Blackburn, French-Canadian politician |
| 6th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Curley, American media executive |
| 6th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Nathalie Baye, French actress |
| 6th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Park, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 6th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Phyllis Hyman, American soul singer and actress (d. 1995) |
| 6th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | John Byrne, American comic book author and artist |
| 6th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Helene Scherrer, Canadian politician |
| 6th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor |
| 6th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Nanci Griffith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 6th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Allyce Beasley, American actress |
| 6th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Randolph, American baseball player |
| 6th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Sontag, American radio personality |
| 6th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | William Wall, Irish writer |
| 6th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Sander, American actor |
| 6th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Duguay, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 6th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Saunders, English actress, comedienne and screenwriter |
| 6th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Dacoury, French basketball player |
| 6th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Asahifuji Seiya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 63rd Yokozuna |
| 6th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Antin, American reality television personality and model |
| 6th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Price, Australian singer-songwriter |
| 6th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Burns, American baseball player |
| 6th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Johnson, American baseball player |
| 6th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Cristina D'Avena, Italian singer and actress |
| 6th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Posehn, American actor |
| 6th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Olivares, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 6th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Nova, Bermudian singer-songwriter |
| 6th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | James Hannon, American filmmaker |
| 6th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Gaspare Manos, Italian painter and sculptor |
| 6th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Van Holt, American actor |
| 6th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer |
| 6th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Inspectah Deck, American rapper |
| 6th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kenya D. Williamson, American actress |
| 6th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Norton, American baseball player |
| 6th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Isabelle Boulay, French-Canadian singer |
| 6th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Gasser, British pianist |
| 6th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Babi Xavier, Brazilian presenter and actress |
| 6th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ze Roberto, Brazilian footballer |
| 6th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | 50 Cent, American rapper |
| 6th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Rulli, Argentine actor |
| 6th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Iranian journalist and activist |
| 6th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Con Blatsis, Australian footballer |
| 6th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Handley, Welsh film director |
| 6th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer |
| 6th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tamera Mowry, American actress |
| 6th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tia Mowry, American actress |
| 6th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player |
| 6th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Nic Cester, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Jet) |
| 6th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Deuchar, Scottish Footballer and Doctor |
| 6th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player |
| 6th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Joell Ortiz, American hip hop artist |
| 6th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player |
| 6th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Jacobs, American football player |
| 6th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Smith, Canadian actor |
| 6th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Harris, British rock singer |
| 6th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Derrick Williams, American football player |
| 6th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Gronert, German tennis player |
| 6th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Nash, English singer-songwriter |
| 6th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Matt O'Leary, American actor |
| 6th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model |
| 6th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jamal Idris, Australian Rugby League player |
| 6th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Ajoo, South Korean singer |
| 6th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Suarez, American actor |
| 6th of July 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Rosso, English actress |
| 6th of July 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Camilla Rosso, English actress |
| 6th of July 0918 | DEATH | William I, Duke of Aquitaine (Born 875) |
| 6th of July 0966 | DEATH | Berengar II, King of Italy (Born 900) |
| 6th of July 1017 | DEATH | Genshin, Japanese Tendai scholar (Born 942) |
| 6th of July 1189 | DEATH | King Henry II of England (Born 1133) |
| 6th of July 1218 | DEATH | Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (Born 1166) |
| 6th of July 1249 | DEATH | King Alexander II of Scotland (Born 1198) |
| 6th of July 1415 | DEATH | Jan Hus, Bohemian religious reformer (Born 1369) |
| 6th of July 1476 | DEATH | Regiomontanus, German astronomer (Born 1436) |
| 6th of July 1480 | DEATH | Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (Born 1416) |
| 6th of July 1533 | DEATH | Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Born 1474) |
| 6th of July 1535 | DEATH | Sir Thomas More, English philosopher (Born 1478) |
| 6th of July 1553 | DEATH | King Edward VI of England (Born 1537) |
| 6th of July 1583 | DEATH | Edmund Grindal, English Archbishop of Canterbury (Born c. 1519) |
| 6th of July 1585 | DEATH | Thomas Aufield, English priest and Catholic martyr (Born 1552) |
| 6th of July 1684 | DEATH | Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (Born 1614) |
| 6th of July 1758 | DEATH | George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (Born c. 1725) |
| 6th of July 1762 | DEATH | Tsar Peter III of Russia (Born 1728) |
| 6th of July 1768 | DEATH | Conrad Beissel, German-born religious leader (Born 1690) |
| 6th of July 1802 | DEATH | Daniel Morgan, American Revolutionary general and politician (Born 1736) |
| 6th of July 1809 | DEATH | Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (Born 1775) |
| 6th of July 1813 | DEATH | Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (Born 1735) |
| 6th of July 1835 | DEATH | John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (Born 1755) |
| 6th of July 1854 | DEATH | Georg Ohm, German physicist (Born 1789) |
| 6th of July 1863 | DEATH | Ernst Merck, German businessman and politician (d. 1811) |
| 6th of July 1868 | DEATH | Sanosuke Harada, Japanese Shinsengumi Captain (Born 1840) |
| 6th of July 1883 | DEATH | Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (Born 1853) |
| 6th of July 1893 | DEATH | Guy de Maupassant, French author (Born 1850) |
| 6th of July 1901 | DEATH | Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, Chancellor of Germany (Born 1819) |
| 6th of July 1902 | DEATH | Maria Goretti, Italian saint (Born 1890) |
| 6th of July 1904 | DEATH | Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (Born 1845) |
| 6th of July 1907 | DEATH | August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist and theologian (Born 1826) |
| 6th of July 1916 | DEATH | Odilon Redon, French painter (Born 1840) |
| 6th of July 1922 | DEATH | Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (Born 1863) |
| 6th of July 1932 | DEATH | Kenneth Grahame, English author (Born 1859) |
| 6th of July 1934 | DEATH | Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (Born 1888) |
| 6th of July 1950 | DEATH | Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpetist (Born 1923) |
| 6th of July 1952 | DEATH | Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French-Canadian politician (Born 1867) |
| 6th of July 1959 | DEATH | George Grosz, German painter (Born 1893) |
| 6th of July 1960 | DEATH | Aneurin Bevan, British politician (Born 1897) |
| 6th of July 1961 | DEATH | Scott LaFaro, American jazz bassist (Bill Evans Trio) (Born 1936) |
| 6th of July 1961 | DEATH | Woodall Rodgers, American politician (Born 1890) |
| 6th of July 1962 | DEATH | William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1897) |
| 6th of July 1962 | DEATH | Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (Born 1872) |
| 6th of July 1963 | DEATH | Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, Russian-born head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Born 1899) |
| 6th of July 1964 | DEATH | Claude V. Ricketts, United States naval admiral (Born 1906) |
| 6th of July 1966 | DEATH | Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (Born 1892) |
| 6th of July 1968 | DEATH | Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (Born 1906) |
| 6th of July 1971 | DEATH | Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter (Born 1901) |
| 6th of July 1972 | DEATH | Brandon De Wilde, American actor (Born 1942) |
| 6th of July 1973 | DEATH | Otto Klemperer, German conductor (Born 1885) |
| 6th of July 1975 | DEATH | Otto Skorzeny, WWII German SS commando (Born 1908) |
| 6th of July 1976 | DEATH | Zhu De, Chinese Communist military leader and statesman (Born 1886) |
| 6th of July 1976 | DEATH | Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (Born 1887) |
| 6th of July 1977 | DEATH | Odon Partos, Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer (Born 1907) |
| 6th of July 1979 | DEATH | Van McCoy, American music producer, musician, songwriter and orchestra leader (Born 1940) |
| 6th of July 1982 | DEATH | Bob Johnson, American baseball player (Born 1905) |
| 6th of July 1986 | DEATH | Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (Born 1908) |
| 6th of July 1989 | DEATH | Janos Kadar, Hungarian politician (Born 1912) |
| 6th of July 1991 | DEATH | Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (Born 1954) |
| 6th of July 1994 | DEATH | Cameron Mitchell, American actor (Born 1918) |
| 6th of July 1994 | DEATH | Geoff McQueen, British television screenwriter (Born 1947) |
| 6th of July 1995 | DEATH | Aziz Nesin, Turkish humorist and author (Born 1915) |
| 6th of July 1996 | DEATH | Kathy Ahern, American golfer (Born 1949) |
| 6th of July 1998 | DEATH | Roy Rogers, American actor (Born 1911) |
| 6th of July 1999 | DEATH | Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (Born 1901) |
| 6th of July 1999 | DEATH | Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (Born 1938) |
| 6th of July 1999 | DEATH | Barry Winchell, American soldier (Born 1977) |
| 6th of July 1999 | DEATH | Gary M. Heidnik, American convicted rapist, murderer, and torturer (executed) (Born 1943) |
| 6th of July 2000 | DEATH | W?adys?aw Szpilman, Polish pianist and memoir writer (Born 1911) |
| 6th of July 2002 | DEATH | Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (Born 1932) |
| 6th of July 2002 | DEATH | John Frankenheimer, American film director (Born 1930) |
| 6th of July 2003 | DEATH | Buddy Ebsen, American actor (Born 1908) |
| 6th of July 2004 | DEATH | Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician, 10th President of Austria (Born 1932) |
| 6th of July 2004 | DEATH | Syreeta Wright, American singer (Born 1946) |
| 6th of July 2005 | DEATH | Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (Born 1923) |
| 6th of July 2005 | DEATH | Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1913) |
| 6th of July 2005 | DEATH | L. Patrick Gray III, American FBI director (Born 1916) |
| 6th of July 2005 | DEATH | Evan Hunter, American novelist (Born 1926) |
| 6th of July 2005 | DEATH | Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (Born 1926) |
| 6th of July 2006 | DEATH | Kasey Rogers, American actress (Born 1926) |
| 6th of July 2006 | DEATH | Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (Born 1914) |
| 6th of July 2007 | DEATH | Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist (Born1939) |
| 6th of July 2008 | DEATH | Bobby Durham, American jazz drummer (Born 1937) |
| 6th of July 2009 | DEATH | Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (Born 1915) |
| 6th of July 2009 | DEATH | Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense (Born 1916) |
| 6th of July 2009 | DEATH | Johnny Collins, British folk and maritime music singer (Born 1938) |
| 6th of July 2009 | DEATH | Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (Born 1932) |