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||1415 – Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake.
||1415 – Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake. Pic.


||1423 – Antonio Manetti, Italian mathematician and architect (d. 1497)
||1423 – Antonio Manetti, Italian mathematician and architect (d. 1497). Pic.


File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction|1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] dies. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the follwing decades.
File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction|1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] dies. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the follwing decades.


||1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.
||1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. Pic.


||1686 – Antoine de Jussieu, French biologist and academic (d. 1758)
||1686 – Antoine de Jussieu, French biologist and academic (d. 1758). No pic.


||Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, FRS (b. 6 July 1781) was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore.
||Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, FRS (b. 6 July 1781) was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore. Pic.


||1817 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d. 1905)
||1817 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d. 1905). Pic.


||1818 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879)
||1818 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879). Pic.


||Daniel Coit Gilman (b. July 6, 1831) was an American educator and academic.[1] Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College,[2] and subsequently served as the third president of the University of California, as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S."
||Sophie Blanchard (d. 6 July 1819), commonly referred to as Madame Blanchard, was a French aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Blanchard was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, and after her husband's death she continued ballooning, making more than 60 ascents. Known throughout Europe for her ballooning exploits, Blanchard entertained Napoleon Bonaparte, who promoted her to the role of "Aeronaut of the Official Festivals", replacing André-Jacques Garnerin. On the restoration of the monarchy in 1814 she performed for Louis XVIII, who named her "Official Aeronaut of the Restoration". Pic.


||Sir Alfred Bray Kempe DCL FRS (b. 6 July 1849) was a mathematician best known for his work on linkages and the four colour theorem.
||Daniel Coit Gilman (b. July 6, 1831) was an American educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and subsequently served as the third president of the University of California, as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S."


||1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1789)
||Sir Alfred Bray Kempe (b. 6 July 1849) was a mathematician best known for his work on linkages and the four colour theorem. Pic.
 
||1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1789). Pic.


||Friedrich Fichter (b. 6 July 1869) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel. His main field of interest was electrochemistry.  Pic. Death date uncertain 1952.
||Friedrich Fichter (b. 6 July 1869) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel. His main field of interest was electrochemistry.  Pic. Death date uncertain 1952.
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||1892 – Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
||1892 – Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.


||Hermann Lorenz Künneth (b. July 6, 1892) was a German mathematician and renowned algebraic topologist, best known for his contribution to what is now known as the Künneth theorem.
||Hermann Lorenz Künneth (b. July 6, 1892) was a German mathematician and renowned algebraic topologist, best known for his contribution to what is now known as the Künneth theorem. Pic.


||1903 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
||1903 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982). Pic.


||Lothar Collatz (b. July 6, 1910) was a German mathematician
||Lothar Collatz (b. July 6, 1910) was a German mathematician. Pic.


File:Jordan Carson Mark.gif|link=J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician [[J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|Jordan Carson Mark]] born. He will oversee the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
File:Jordan Carson Mark.gif|link=J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician [[J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|Jordan Carson Mark]] born. He will oversee the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
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||Lawrence Hargrave (d. 6 July 1915) was an Australian engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Pic.
||Lawrence Hargrave (d. 6 July 1915) was an Australian engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Pic.


||1944 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial.
||1944 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial. Pic.


||1944 – The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
||1944 – The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.

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