June 6 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1393 – Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)
• 1480 – Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect (b. 1412)
• 1548 – João de Castro, Portuguese noble and explorer (b. 1500)
• 1563 – Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)
• 1583 – Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)
• 1730 – Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (b. 1646)
• 1740 – Alexander Spotswood, British Crown Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (b. 1676)
• 1784 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (b. 1741)
• 1799 – Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)
• 1813 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (b. 1739)
• 1815 – Samuel Whitbread, English Politician (b. 1758)
• 1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
• 1840 – Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
• 1843 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
• 1861 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
• 1865 – William Quantrill, American confederate raider (b. 1837)
• 1878 – Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790)
• 1881 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)
• 1891 – John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
• 1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
• 1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1860)
• 1934 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
• 1935 – Julian Byng, British Field Marshal and 12th Governor-General of Canada (b. 1862)
• 1941 – Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
• 1943 – Pandelis Pouliopoulos, secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1900)
• 1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
• 1948 – Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
• 1951 – Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1954 – Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1910)
• 1955 – Max Meldrum, Scottish-born painter (b. 1875)
• 1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
• 1962 – Yves Klein, French artist (b. 1928)
• 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, 64th United States Attorney General and politician (b. 1925)
• 1968 – Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
• 1974 – Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1975 – Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1976 – J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892)
• 1976 – Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891)
• 1979 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
• 1981 – Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904)
• 1982 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
• 1984 – A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Stan Getz, American musician (b. 1927)
• 1992 – Larry Riley, American actor (b. 1952)
• 1994 – Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935)
• 1994 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912)
• 1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1999 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Frédéric Dard, French writer (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)
• 2003 – Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Dave Rowberry, British musician (The Animals) (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Billy Preston, American musician (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican jazz pianist (b. 1952)
• 2006 – Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Jim Owens, American college football head coach (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Mary Howard de Liagre, American actress (b. 1913)
• 2010 – Marvin Isley, American Musician The Isley Brothers (b. 1953)