Thursday 6th of July 1415

Theologian and church reformer Jan Hus is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 46 in Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Saturday 6th of July 1535

Social philosopher, statesman and humanist Thomas More known for Utopia is executed by beheading at the age of 57 in Tower of London, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Monday 6th of July 1750

Catherine Conway, Elizabeth Banks and Margaret Harvey are executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, Tyburn, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Banks was charged with stripping another woman and Harvey was charged with robbery.

Monday 6th of July 1840

Murderer François Benjamin Courvoisier is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

A crowd of around 40.000 including Charles Dickens witnessed Courvoisier's execution. In January 2017 his plaster death mask was sold for £20.000 by Thomson Roddick auction house. The name of the buyer is unknown.

Thursday 6th of July 1848

Ex-convict turned prospering businessman César-Joseph Guillaume Regnault known for inspiring Victor Hugo’s novel ‘Jean Valjean’ commits suicide because he was blackmailed by an ex-con who recognised him in a bar at the age of 44 in Le Havre, Graville-Sainte-Honorine, Haute-Normendie, France.

Thursday 6th of July 1854

Physicist and mathematician Georg Simon Ohm dies of unknown causes at the age of 65 in München, Bayern, Germany.

Thursday 6th of July 1893

Writer Guy Henri René Albert de Maupassant dies of insanity due to syphilis at the age of 43 in Clinique Esprit Blanche, 17 Rue d'Ankara, Paris, XVIe, Île-de-France, France.

Wednesday 6th of July 1898

Composer Hanns Eisler is born in Hofmeisterstraße 14, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

Saturday 6th of July 1907

Painter Frida Kahlo is born as Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón in La Casa Azul, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico.

Thursday 6th of July 1916

Symbolist painter Odilon Bertrand-Jean Redon dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Monday 6th of July 1925

Musician Bill William John Clifton Haley is born in Highland Park, Michigan, United States.

Wednesday 6th of July 1927

Actress Janet Leigh is born as Jeanette Helen Morrison in Merced, California, United States.

Friday 6th of July 1934

Murderer Fred Hernandez is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 19 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

His 18-year-old brother Manuel was executed at the same time. It was the first execution in the Arizona gas chamber.

Friday 6th of July 1934

25-year-old Serial killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer marries 21-year-old Betty Hammer in Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.

Saturday 6th of July 1935

14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Gyatso is born as Lhamo Dondrub in Taktser, Amdo, Tibet.

Tuesday 6th of July 1937

Unidentified serial killer Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run aka Cleveland Torso Murderer An unidentified male is pulled out of Cuyahoga River, hacked to death probably three days before in West 3rd Street, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

The head was never found.

Thursday 6th of July 1944

167 die in circus fire in Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

Over 700 people were injured. Several years later, while being investigated on other arson charges, Robert Dale Segee (1929–1997), who was an adolescent at the time, confessed to starting the blaze. He was never tried for the crime and later recanted his confession.

Saturday 6th of July 1946

29-year-old Sex killer Neville Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo is arrested posing as 'Group Captain Rupert Brook' in Tollard Royal Hotel, 141 West Hill Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom.

In Heath's coat the police found a railway cloakroom ticket which led them to a suitcase containing a riding whip with a diamond pattern weave used in the murder of Margery Gardner.

Saturday 6th of July 1946

Actor and film director Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone known for portraying the boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John Rambo is born in New York City, New York, United States.

Tuesday 6th of July 1948

Serial killer Metod Trobec aka The Monster of Dolenja Vas is born in Planina nad Horjulom, Gorenjska, Slovenia.

Saturday 6th of July 1957

17-year-old Musician John Winston Lennon known from The Beatles meets Paul McCartney for the first time in St Peter's Church, Liverpool, Woolton, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

In the churchyard of St Peter's is the grave of Eleanor Rigby, whose name is said to have inspired one of The Beatles' songs.

Thursday 6th of July 1961

Murderer Edwin Albert Arthur Bush is executed by hanging by Harry Allen at the age of 21 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, London, Islington, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Bush was the last man to be hanged at Pentonville Prison.

Friday 6th of July 1962

Writer William Cuthbert Faulkner dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Wright's Sanatorium, Byhalia, Mississippi, United States.

Faulkner suffered a serious injury in a fall from his horse on 17 June which led to thrombosis.

Saturday 6th of July 1963

Victim of Dennis Nilsen aka Killing for Company Martyn Duffey is born in Birkenhead, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 6th of July 1965

27-year-old Wiener Aktionist Günter Brus performs his aktion 'Selbstbemalung und Selbstverstümmelung' in Galerie Junge Generation, Blutgasse 3, Wien, Wien, Austria.

Sunday 6th of July 1969

Architect Walter Adolph Georg Gropius known for founding the Bauhaus School dies of an inflammation of the glands at the age of 86 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Tuesday 6th of July 1971

Jazz trumpeter, composer and vocalist Louis Daniel Armstrong aka Satchmo dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Corona, New York, Queens, New York, United States.

Sunday 6th of July 1975

Rapper Curtis James Jackson aka 50 Cent is born in New York, Queens, New York, United States.

Jackson was raised by his mother Sabrina, who gave birth to him when she was fifteen.

Friday 6th of July 1984

54-year-old Serial killer David Joseph Carpenter aka The Trailside Killer is sentenced to death in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Saturday 6th of July 1985

24-year-old Serial killer Charles Chi-Tat Ng is arrested in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Ng was arrested by the Calgary Police Service after shooting security guard Sean Doyle in the hand while resisting arrest for stealing a can of salmon from a Calgary department store.

Monday 6th of July 1987

28-year-old Serial killer Michael Bruce Ross aka The Roadside Strangler is sentenced to death in Superior Court, 1061 Main Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.

Wednesday 6th of July 1988

167 die in oil production platform explosion and fire in Piper Alpha, the North Sea, Scotland, United Kingdom.

61 workers escaped and survived. Thirty bodies were never recovered.

Saturday 6th of July 1991

24-year-old Jeremiah Weinberger is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

Dahmer used Weinberger for experiments before he strangled him and cut up his body, afterwards storing it in acid.

Tuesday 6th of July 1999

Serial killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 56 in Rockview Penitentiary, Benner Township, Pennsylvania, United States.

Friday 6th of July 2001

A piece of root given to me by a Buddhist monk over a year earlier suddenly sprouting a wonderful flower in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Monday 6th of July 2015

Presumed to be the last remaining original wall painting by Aleister Crowley aka The Great Beast himself in Abbey of Thelema, Cefalù, Sicilia, Italy.

Friday 6th of July 2018

Doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara known for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway is executed by hanging at the age of 63 in Tokyo Detention House, Tokyo, Katsushika, Kantō, Japan.

Asahara was hanged with six other cult members, while still six more are on death row.

Monday 6th of July 2020

Composer Ennio Morricone as a result of injuries sustained during a fall at the age of 92 in Università Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Wednesday 6th of July 2022

Cleaning up the modelbuilding workshop for the last time in Mekano, Mutsaardstraat 31, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.