1973 53 years ago Notable Births June 6 2 sources

Jackie Arklöv, Swedish mercenary and convicted murderer

On June 6, in the year 1973, Jackie Arklöv, Swedish mercenary and convicted murderer. This event is recorded as a Notable Births event in the history of June 6, one of 238 recorded events on this date across all of history.

1 notable person is associated with this event, including Jackie Arklöv. Learn more below.

Jackie Banny Arklöv is a Swedish convicted murderer and bankrobber. Arklöv is an ex-neo-Nazi, Yugoslav Wars mercenary and war criminal, who, with two other neo-Nazis, murdered two police officers after a bank robbery in 1999.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on June 6, 1973 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Notable Births event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 2 Wikipedia articles.
  • 1 notable person is recorded as involved in or associated with this event.
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 19 February 2026.

On This Date in History 238

Type Year Date Event
Historical Events 2024 Jun 6 The launch of SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4)
Historical Events 2023 Jun 6 Russo-Ukrainian War: The Kakhovka Dam is destroyed
Selected Events 2021 Jun 6 A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing 4 members of the same
Historical Events 2017 Jun 6 Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to capture the city
Selected Events 2017 Jun 6 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (soldiers pictured) opened the Second Battle of Raqqa, the final phase of
Notable Deaths 2016 Jun 6 Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster; arguably the best player never to become World Chess Champion (born 1931)
Notable Deaths 2016 Jun 6 Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter; works included Equus and Amadeus (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jun 6 Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author; prosecuting attorney in the Tate–LaBianca murders case (born 1934)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jun 6 Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author; noted for The Two Thousand Words which inspired the Prague Spring (born 192
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 6 Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician; pioneered studies of autism (born 1928)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 6 Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the mo
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 6 Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2012 Jun 6 Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player; together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line
Notable Deaths 2009 Jun 6 Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his s
Notable Deaths 2006 Jun 6 Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1946)
Notable Deaths 2005 Jun 6 Anne Bancroft, American film actress; winner of the 1963 Academy Award for Best Actress for The Miracle Worker (born 193
Historical Events 2002 Jun 6 Eastern Mediterranean event
Notable Births 2001 Jun 6 Rayan Aït-Nouri, French-Algerian footballer
Notable Births 2000 Jun 6 Haechan, South Korean singer
Notable Births 1998 Jun 6 Kenny Pickett, American football player
Notable Births 1996 Jun 6 Jack Hetherington, Australian rugby league player
Notable Deaths 1996 Jun 6 George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist; awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 for
Notable Births 1995 Jun 6 Julian Green, American soccer player
Historical Events 1994 Jun 6 China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board
Notable Births 1994 Jun 6 Yvon Mvogo, Swiss footballer
Notable Deaths 1994 Jun 6 Mark McManus, Scottish actor (born 1935)
Notable Deaths 1994 Jun 6 Barry Sullivan, American film actor (born 1912)
Historical Events 1993 Jun 6 Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia
Notable Births 1993 Jun 6 Vic Mensa, American rapper and singer
Historical Events 1992 Jun 6 Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes into the Darién Gap in Panama, killing all 47 aboard
Notable Births 1992 Jun 6 DeAndre Hopkins, American football player
Notable Deaths 1991 Jun 6 Stan Getz, American saxophonist and jazz innovator (born 1927)
Notable Births 1990 Jun 6 Gavin Hoyte, English born footballer who represented Trinidad and Tobago
Notable Births 1990 Jun 6 Anthony Rendon, American baseball player
Notable Births 1990 Jun 6 Pape Souaré, Senegalese footballer
Notable Births 1988 Jun 6 Anthony Pilkington, Irish footballer
Notable Births 1986 Jun 6 Gin Wigmore, New Zealand singer and songwriter
Historical Events 1985 Jun 6 The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Men
Notable Births 1985 Jun 6 Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer
Notable Births 1985 Jun 6 Drew McIntyre, Scottish professional wrestler
Notable Births 1985 Jun 6 Becky Sauerbrunn, American footballer; twice a winner of the FIFA Women's World Cup, also an Olympic gold medallist
Selected Events 1985 Jun 6 The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exh
Notable Births 1983 Jun 6 Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer
Notable Deaths 1983 Jun 6 Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright who wrote the lyrics of Lili Marleen (born 1893)
Historical Events 1982 Jun 6 1982 Lebanon War: The war begins as forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Op
Notable Deaths 1982 Jun 6 Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and academic (born 1905)
Selected Events 1982 Jun 6 Falklands War: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly-fire i
Notable Births 1980 Jun 6 Pete Hegseth, American author, political commentator and 29th United States Secretary of Defense
Notable Births 1979 Jun 6 Roberto De Zerbi, Italian football manager
Notable Deaths 1979 Jun 6 Jack Haley, American actor (born 1897)

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Jackie Arklöv

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