1896
Jun 7, Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (The Power of Women), was born.

1899
Jun 7, Elizabeth Bowen (d.1973), Irish-British novelist and short story writer (The Death of the Heart), was born in Dublin.

1909
Jun 7, Jessica Tandy, actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included), was born in London.

1917
Jun 7, Gwendolyn Brooks, one of the foremost African American poets of the 20th Century, was born. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her verse narrative "Annie Allen."

1924
Jun 7, Dolores Gray, singer, actress (Designing Woman, Kismet), was born in Chicago.

1957
Jun 7, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, died.

1990
Jun 7, Barbara Baxley (b.1923), actress (Norma Rae), died of a heart attack in NYC.

2006
Jun 7, In Houston, Texas, Gabriel Granillo (14) was beaten by about a dozen gang members with baseball bats and tire irons. A teenage girl in the group stabbed him to death.

2008
Jun 7, Hillary Clinton pledged her support for Barack Obama and asked her supporters to do the same.

2010
Jun 7, Iran's first women-only bank branch opened, allowing women to manage their finances without dealing with unrelated men, something likely to appeal to religious families who oppose mingling between the sexes.

2012
Jun 7, Japan’s coastguard plucked British adventurer Sarah Outen to safety after she got into trouble in the northern Pacific during her attempt to row solo across the ocean. A patrol boat was also heading towards fellow Briton Charlie Martell, who was separately attempting to row solo across the Pacific when he was also caught in bad weather.

2012
Jun 7, A panel of Mexican judges agreed to extradite Sandra Avila Beltran, a suspected drug trafficker known as the “Queen of the Pacific," to face charges in the US.