Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/June/June 6


 * 1436 – Birth of mathematician Regiomontanus
 * 1843 – Death of poet Friedrich Hölderlin
 * 1850 – Birth of physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * 1944 – D-Day: The Battle of Normandy begins
 * 1946 – Death of dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature