July 6

The Bohemian reformer Jan Hus was condemned by the Council of Constance and burned at the stake, having refused to recant his teachings.

The bull Laetentur Caeli was proclaimed at the Council of Florence, briefly reuniting the Latin and Greek churches before it was widely repudiated in the East.

The scholar and former Lord Chancellor Thomas More was beheaded on Tower Hill after refusing the oath affirming royal supremacy over the Church.

Emile Brugsch descended a hidden cliff shaft at Deir el-Bahari and began removing the Royal Cache, a hoard of reburied New Kingdom pharaohs' mummies.

Kurt Sethe, the German philologist behind the 'Urkunden des aegyptischen Altertums' editions of ancient Egyptian texts, died in Berlin.

Tenzin Gyatso, later the 14th Dalai Lama and a widely traveled teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, was born in the village of Taktser in northeastern Tibet.