July 6 - Deaths

Deaths

• 918 – William I, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 875)
• 966 – Berengar II, King of Italy (b. 900)
• 1017 – Genshin, Japanese Tendai scholar (b. 942)
• 1189 – King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
• 1218 – Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
• 1249 – King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
• 1415 – Jan Hus, Bohemian religious reformer (b. 1369)
• 1476 – Regiomontanus, German astronomer (b. 1436)
• 1480 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
• 1533 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
• 1535 – Sir Thomas More, English philosopher (b. 1478)
• 1553 – King Edward VI of England (b. 1537)
• 1583 – Edmund Grindal, English Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1519)
• 1585 – Thomas Aufield, English priest and Catholic martyr (b. 1552)
• 1684 – Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
• 1758 – George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (b. c. 1725)
• 1762 – Tsar Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
• 1768 – Conrad Beissel, German-born religious leader (b. 1690)
• 1802 – Daniel Morgan, American Revolutionary general and politician (b. 1736)
• 1809 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
• 1813 – Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735)
• 1835 – John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1755)
• 1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
• 1863 – Ernst Merck, German businessman and politician (d. 1811)
• 1868 – Sanosuke Harada, Japanese Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
• 1883 – Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (b. 1853)
• 1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
• 1901 – Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
• 1902 – Maria Goretti, Italian saint (b. 1890)
• 1904 – Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
• 1907 – August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist and theologian (b. 1826)
• 1916 – Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1922 – Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863)
• 1932 – Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
• 1934 – Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1888)
• 1950 – Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpetist (b. 1923)
• 1952 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French-Canadian politician (b. 1867)
• 1959 – George Grosz, German painter (b. 1893)
• 1960 – Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
• 1961 – Scott LaFaro, American jazz bassist (Bill Evans Trio) (b. 1936)
• 1961 – Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
• 1962 – William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
• 1962 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
• 1963 – Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, Russian-born head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899)
• 1964 – Claude V. Ricketts, United States naval admiral (b. 1906)
• 1966 – Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
• 1968 – Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (b. 1906)
• 1971 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1901)
• 1972 – Brandon De Wilde, American actor (b. 1942)
• 1973 – Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1885)
• 1975 – Otto Skorzeny, WWII German SS commando (b. 1908)
• 1976 – Zhu De, Chinese Communist military leader and statesman (b. 1886)
• 1976 – Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
• 1977 – Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer (b. 1907)
• 1979 – Van McCoy, American music producer, musician, songwriter and orchestra leader (b. 1940)
• 1982 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
• 1989 – János Kádár, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
• 1994 – Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1994 – Geoff McQueen, British television screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 1995 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish humorist and author (b. 1915)
• 1996 – Kathy Ahern, American golfer (b. 1949)
• 1998 – Roy Rogers, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
• 1999 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
• 1999 – Barry Winchell, American soldier (b. 1977)
• 1999 – Gary M. Heidnik, American convicted rapist, murderer, and torturer (executed) (b. 1943)
• 2000 – Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and memoir writer (b. 1911)
• 2002 – Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
• 2002 – John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician, 10th President of Austria (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Syreeta Wright, American singer (b. 1946)
• 2005 – Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)
• 2005 – L. Patrick Gray III, American FBI director (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Kasey Rogers, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist (b.1939)
• 2008 – Bobby Durham, American jazz drummer (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (b. 1915)
• 2009 – Johnny Collins, British folk and maritime music singer (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (b. 1932)