Sunday 6th of June 1599

Painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez is born in Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain.

Friday 6th of June 1755

America's first spy Nathan Hale is born in Coventry, Connecticut, United States.

Thursday 6th of June 1799

Romantic poet and writer Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin aka the founder of modern Russian literature known for his novel in verse Eugene Onegin is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

Saturday 6th of June 1863

Ship's captain George William Harper commits suicide by drowning at the age of 44 in County Cork, Munster, Ireland.

Upon Harper's body a photograph and a letter were found, the photograph was of a young lady, the letter read "Through what I have been accused of I have been driven to commit this dreadful act. Adieu from me in this world".

Saturday 6th of June 1868

Arctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott is born in Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.

Sunday 6th of June 1875

Writer, social critic and philanthropist Thomas Paul Mann is born in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Sunday 6th of June 1886

Actor Tyler Brooke is born as Victor Hugo de Bierre in New York City, New York, United States.

Wednesday 6th of June 1917

Sex killer Neville Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo is born in Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom.

Saturday 6th of June 1931

Mass murderer Richard Eugene Hickock aka In Cold Blood is born in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.

Wednesday 6th of June 1934

6th King of Belgium Albert II is born as Felix Humbert Theodoor Christiaan Eugène Marie Albert in Château du Stuyvenberg, Brussel, Laeken, Brabant, Belgium.

Sunday 6th of June 1937

35-year-old Rose Wallace is found hacked to death by unidentified serial killer Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run aka Cleveland Torso Murderer in Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

The body was decapitated and missing a rib.

Friday 6th of June 1941

Cop killer IJje Wijkstra dies of tuberculosis at the age of 46 in Rijkskrankzinnigengesticht, Woensel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

Friday 6th of June 1941

Racer and automobile manufacterer Louis-Joseph Chevrolet dies of unknown causes at the age of 63 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Wednesday 6th of June 1945

Serial killer Arthur John Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer is born in Kittery, Maine, United States.

Sunday 6th of June 1948

Film pioneer Louis Jean Lumière dies of unknown causes at the age of 84 in Bandol, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Thursday 6th of June 1957

Victim of David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam Stacy Robin Moskowitz is born in New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Saturday 6th of June 1959

Rapist and murderer John Albert Taylor is born in Ogden, Utah, United States.

Tuesday 6th of June 1961

Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung dies of unknown causes at the age of 86 in Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland.

Wednesday 6th of June 1962

Artist Yves Klein known for his International Klein Blue dies of a heart attack at the age of 34 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Monday 6th of June 1966

33-year-old American Civil Rights Movement figure James Howard Meredith known for becoming the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi is shot at by Aubrey James Norvell in an assassination attempt during the civil rights March Against Fear in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

Thursday 6th of June 1968

Politician Robert Francis 'Bobby' Kennedy dies of brain damage due to bullets fired by 24-year-old Sirhan Bashira Sirhan outside the Ambassador Hotel the day before at the age of 43 in Good Samaritan Hospital, 1125 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Sunday 6th of June 1976

Industrialist Jean Paul Getty aka The Richest Living American dies of heart failure at the age of 84 in Sutton Place, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

Saturday 6th of June 1981

500 to 800 die in passenger train derailment in Baghmati River, Badlaghat, Bihar, India.

The train plunged into the river Bagmati while it was crossing a bridge. Probable cause of the accident was a brake failure while trying to avoid hitting a water buffalo.

Saturday 6th of June 1981

30-year-old Giovanni Foggi and 21-year-old Carmela De Nuccio are shot dead and stabbed by Unidentified serial killer Il Mostro di Firenze in Scandicci, Toscana, Italy.

De Nuccio's body was pulled out of the car and the killer cut out her pubic area with a notched knife.

Monday 6th of June 1983

17-year-old Ruth Grunert is attacked and raped by serial killer Thomas Rath aka Der Moormörder in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.

Thursday 6th of June 1985

Serial killer Leonard Thomas Lake aka The Eye of Evil commits suicide by cyanide poisoning at the age of 39 in Kaiser Permanente Hospital, 1200 El Camino Real, San Francisco, California, United States.

Lake had been arrested for theft four days earlier and swallowed a cyanide capsule from a secret niche in his belt buckle. When the police searched his house in Wilseyville they found pictures and videotapes depicting a career of violence, pornography and murder. His accomplice Charles Chitat Ng escaped to Canada.

Tuesday 6th of June 1989

5-year-old Ayako Nomoto is abducted, strangled and partly eaten by serial killer, cannibal and necrophile Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer in Tokyo, Ariake, Kantō, Japan.

Miyazaki spent the next two days engaging in sexual acts with the corpse, taking pictures of it in various positions and filming it. When the body began to decompose Miyazaki dismembered it, abandoning the torso in a cemetery and the head in the nearby hills. He kept the hands, from which he drank blood and ate part of them.

Wednesday 6th of June 1990

39-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Susanne Albrecht is arrested in Rosenbecker Straße 3, Berlin, Marzahn, Berlin, Germany.

Albrecht was found living as a housewife under the name Becker. Albrecht was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment by the upper state court in Stuttgart but she was paroled in 1996.

Monday 6th of June 1994

160 die in China Northwest Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M Flight 2303 crash in Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, Xi'an, Shanxi, China.

Friday 6th of June 1997

Ku-Klux-Klan member and murderer Henry Francis Hays is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 43 in Holman Correctional Facility, Ross Road, Atmore, Alabama, United States.

Hays is the only known Ku-Klux-Klan member to have been executed in the 20th century for the murder of an African American.

Sunday 6th of June 1999

Mass murderer Sa'eed Qashash is executed by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 20 in Swaqa Prison, Swaqa, Amman Governate, Jordan.

Qashash was sentenced in November for shooting dead a school friend and 11 relatives including his parents and two toddlers.

Friday 6th of June 2003

Leftover lonely plates after the opening of new offices in NICC, Museumstraat, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Monday 6th of June 2005

Actress Anne Bancroft dies of uterine cancer at the age of 74 in Mount Sinai Hospital, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Tuesday 6th of June 2006

Murderer Timothy Tyler Titsworth is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Saturday 6th of June 2009

50-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Yves Klein was Never in Art Ghraib' and 'A Chance Meeting of Yves Klein and Gordon Matta-Clark on the Gold Plated Corpse of James Lee Byars' at Momentum #4 Festival in Bains Connective, Berthelotstraat 34, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

I filled golden paper bags alternately with earth from my hole and ‘Yves Klein’ blue paint, and tied them to a piece of canvas. Then I hoisted the canvas up so the bags formed a figure. I hoisted myself up upside down and pulled at a rope until I was hanging at a distance away from the canvas, let go and swirled like a projectile against the canvas which made the bags tear and the earth and the paint were mixed and spattered around.

Saturday 6th of June 2015

Attorney and writer Vincent T. Bugliosi known for prosecuting Charles Manson dies of cancer at the age of 81 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Tuesday 6th of June 2023

Double murderer Michael A. Tisius is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Potosi Correctional Center, Bonne Terre, Missouri, United States.

Tisius' last meal request was for two bacon cheeseburgers, curly fries, regular fries and a chocolate shake.