Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 6

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[edit] Births

• 1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
• 1599 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
• 1755 - Nathan Hale, American writer and patriot (d. 1776)
• 1799 - Alexander Pushkin Russian poet (d. 1837)
• 1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912)
• 1875 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1901 - Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
• 1924 - Jinyong, Chinese novelist
• 1960 - Steve Vai, American musician

[edit] Deaths

• 1799 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)
• 1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
• 1891 - Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
• 1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
• 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, (pictured) United States Attorney General and Senator from New York (b. 1925)

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