What Happened On 6th June 2013 In History

June 6th Famous Deaths for 2013

• » Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, Danish-American cellist (b. 1932)
• » Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• » Elaine Laron, American songwriter (b. 1930)
• » Eugen Merzbacher, German-American physicist and academic (b. 1921)
• » Tom Sharpe, English-Spanish author (b. 1928)
• » Maxine Stuart, American actress (b. 1918)
• » Malcolm Todd, English archaeologist and academic (b. 1939)
• » Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)

June 6th Holidays in History

• » Christian Feast Day:
• » Claudius of Besançon e.g Claude the Thaumaturge
• » Marcellin Champagnat
• » Norbert of Xanten
• » Ini Kopuria (Church of England, Episcopal Church (USA) e.g Episcopal Church)
• » June 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• » Memorial Day (South Korea)
• » National Day of Sweden (Sweden)
• » Normandy landings of the Allied Expeditionary Forces (D-Day), aka Operation Neptune, part of Operation Overlord (1944)
• » Queensland Day (Queensland)

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