May 6 - Deaths

Deaths

• 680 – Muawiyah I, first Caliph of the Umayyad dynasty (b. 602)
• 1502 – James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower
• 1596 – Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
• 1620 – Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)
• 1631 – Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (b. 1570)
• 1638 – Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585)
• 1708 – François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)
• 1757 – Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
• 1757 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (b. 1683)
• 1757 – Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
• 1840 – Francisco de Paula Santander, President of Colombia and independence leader (b. 1792)
• 1859 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)
• 1862 – Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1877 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)
• 1882 – Thomas Henry Burke, civil servant (b. 1829)
• 1882 – Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (b. 1836)
• 1902 – Bret Harte, American author (b. 1836)
• 1910 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• 1919 – L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
• 1939 – Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (b. 1869)
• 1949 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1951 – Élie Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1869)
• 1952 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870)
• 1961 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1963 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1881)
• 1963 – Monty Woolley, American actor (b. 1888)
• 1967 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
• 1970 – Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1879)
• 1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish left-wing political activist (b. 1947)
• 1973 – Ernest MacMillan, Canadian orchestra conductor and composer (b. 1893)
• 1975 – József Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic Cardinal (b. 1892)
• 1983 – Kai Winding, American trombonist and jazz composer (b. 1922)
• 1984 – Bonner Pink, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1912)
• 1984 – Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)
• 1985 – Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (b. 1968)
• 1987 – William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Earl Blaik, former American football coach (b. 1897)
• 1990 – Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1991 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
• 1992 – Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Jilly Rizzo, restaurateur (b. 1917)
• 1993 – Ann Todd, English actress (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)
• 1995 – Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança (also known as Hilda Toledano), writer, self-styled Duchess of Braganza and claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1907)
• 2002 – Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
• 2002 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
• 2003 – Art Houtteman, baseball player (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Philip Kapleau, American Zen teacher (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)
• 2006 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Grant McLennan, singer, songwriter and co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens (b. 1958)
• 2006 – Lorne Saxberg, Canadian television journalist (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Enéas Carneiro, Brazilian politician (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Curtis Harrington, American film director (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Đorđe Novković, Croatian songwriter (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Kevin Grubb, American NASCAR driver (b. 1978)
• 2010 – Robin Roberts, American baseball player (b. 1926)