Notable Deaths on June 6th
June 6th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
840 |
Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies |
1134 |
Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51 |
1393 |
Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359) |
1480 |
Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect |
1548 |
Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500) |
1563 |
Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519) |
1583 |
Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556) |
1671 |
Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader quartered alive (ns. 16 June) |
1686 |
Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Neth, dies at 60 |
1710 |
Francoise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of King Louis XIV, dies at 65 |
1730 |
Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (b. 1646) |
1735 |
Georg Osterreich, composer, dies at 71 |
1740 |
Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony |
1747 |
Jean Barriere, composer, dies |
1784 |
Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42 |
1785 |
Johann Michael Demmler, composer, dies at 36 |
1799 |
Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736) |
1813 |
Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect |
1815 |
Samuel Whitbread, English Politician |
1816 |
Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe, dies at 51 |
1832 |
Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748) |
1836 |
Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36), dies at 80 |
1840 |
Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789) |
1843 |
Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770) |
1852 |
Tommaso Marchesi, composer, dies at 79 |
1861 |
Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59 |
1861 |
Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810) |
1862 |
Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33 |
1863 |
Franz Gruber, Forrest Gump |
1867 |
Theodore O'Hara, Wandering Here and There |
1877 |
Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca & chief Standing Bear, dies |
1878 |
Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70 |
1878 |
Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790) |
1881 |
Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61 |
1883 |
Ciprian Porumbescu, composer, dies at 29 |
1891 |
John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815) |
1898 |
Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62 |
1911 |
Frithiof Strömberg, Järnbäraren |
1914 |
Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies |
1916 |
Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56 |
1917 |
Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59 |
1920 |
Henrik Scharling, Noedebo Vicarage |
1922 |
Lillian Russell, entertainer, dies at 60 |
1922 |
Lillian Russell, How to Live 100 Years |
1924 |
Victor Neumann, Children of the Stage; or, When Love Speaks |
1926 |
Henry Tate, composer, dies at 52 |
1927 |
Robert Hilliard, The Ex-Convict |
1927 |
William K. Ziegfeld, The Black Panther's Cub |
1928 |
Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67 |
1929 |
Richard Reti, Chess Fever |
1931 |
Gloria Greer, Moonlight and Monkey Business |
1934 |
Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864) |
1934 |
Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor and early television pioneer (also invented the altimeter and automobile self-starter) dies at 66 |
1935 |
Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68 |
1935 |
Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862) |
1935 |
George Grossmith, The Time Machine |
1937 |
Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26 |
1939 |
Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65 |
1939 |
George Fawcett, The Son of the Sheik |
1939 |
Febo Mari, Il Fauno |
1939 |
Sydney Jarvis, Movie Crazy |
1940 |
E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56 |
1940 |
E.E. Clive, Bride of Frankenstein |
1940 |
Florence Roberts, Babes in Toyland |
1940 |
Henry Otho, Clipped Wings |
1941 |
Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878) |
1943 |
Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74 |
1943 |
E.T. Mazy, One A.M. |
1943 |
James Edward Freeman, One Foot in Heaven |
1944 |
Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day landing WWII |
1944 |
Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41 |
1945 |
Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide |
1945 |
M.M. Rost van Tonningen, |
1945 |
Frank Conklin, Federal Man-Hunt |
1946 |
Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83 |
1946 |
Gene Layman, Are Golfers Cuckoo? |
1946 |
Wilfried Basse, Deutschland zwischen gestern und heute |
1946 |
Lisca Malbran, Junge Herzen |
1946 |
Gerhart Hauptmann, Faust |
1947 |
Norman Reid, cricketer (Test S Af v Aust 1921-22, 11 & 6, 2-63), dies |
1948 |
Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864) |
1948 |
Louis Lumière, Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory |
1950 |
William Wadsworth, A Christmas Accident |
1951 |
Lionel Hallam, cricketer (England capt 1921), dies |
1951 |
Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894) |
1951 |
Olive Tell, The Scarlet Empress |
1951 |
Major General Bogomoletz, Into Her Kingdom |
1952 |
Mabel Colcord, Little Women |
1953 |
Hans Alpassy, Melusine |
1954 |
Tommy Coats, Grand Canyon Trail |
1955 |
Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (b. 1875) |
1955 |
Hulda Lauritzen, Den grimme Ælling |
1955 |
Fred Myton, The Gambling Terror |
1955 |
Fritz Odemar, M |
1955 |
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, Number 17 |
1956 |
Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 74 |
1956 |
Hiram Bingham, American Archaeologist (Incan site of Machu Picchu), dies at 80 |
1956 |
Margaret Wycherly, White Heat |
1956 |
Hiram Bingham III, Some Opinions on Hoover Board's Dry Law Report |
1957 |
Jindrich Brichta, Stavitel chrámu |
1957 |
Paul Gerson, The Cricket on the Hearth |
1958 |
Lily Theresa Strickland, composer, dies at 71 |
1958 |
Lloyd Hughes, The Lost World |
1958 |
Carl Heinz Charrell, Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt? |
1959 |
Arnold Jensen, En mand af betydning |
1959 |
Homer Dickenson, Sudden Money |
1960 |
Ferdinand Mayerhofer, An Orphan Boy of Vienna |
1961 |
Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875) |
1961 |
Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist, dies at 85 |
1961 |
Art Gillham, The Public Enemy |
1962 |
Guinn Williams, actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of poisoning at 63 |
1962 |
Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter, dies at 34 |
1962 |
Jean Dax, The King of Paris |
1964 |
Robert Warwick, actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85 |
1965 |
Lester Matthews, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu), dies at 64 |
1966 |
Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash |
1967 |
Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47 |
1968 |
Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies |
1968 |
robert kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42 |
1968 |
Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911) |
1971 |
Arnold Elston, composer, dies at 63 |
1974 |
Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 86 |
1975 |
Larry Blyden, actor (Joe & Mabel, What's My Line), dies at 49 |
1975 |
Albert Augustíny, The Organ |
1976 |
J. Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83 |
1976 |
Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings), dies at 85 |
1977 |
Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69 |
1978 |
Harold McNulty, A Place in the Sun |
1979 |
Jack Haley, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), dies of a heart attack at 80 |
1979 |
Ken Harvey, Bright Victory |
1979 |
Kenneth Harvey, Search for Tomorrow |
1979 |
Kazimierz Opalinski, Czlowiek na torze |
1979 |
Jack Haley, The Wizard of Oz |
1980 |
Gualtiero De Angelis, The Conspirators |
1981 |
Carleton Coon, Episode dated 10 October 1954 |
1982 |
Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905) |
1982 |
Kenneth Rexroth, The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
1982 |
Gösta Rodin, Smålänningar |
1982 |
Antti Koskinen, 'Herra ja ylhäisyys' |
1983 |
Hans Leip, Judgment at Nuremberg |
1983 |
Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Alexandria... Why? |
1983 |
Nancy Cornelius, Gold Digger of Weepah |
1983 |
Ralph Wildman, Bride for Sale |
1984 |
A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72 |
1984 |
Bill Voce, cricketer (key player of the Bodyline series), dies |
1984 |
John Damler, Frame for Two |
1984 |
Maxwell Arnow, From Here to Eternity |
1984 |
Peter Höglund, Rejoice While You're Young, Fellow Cadets |
1984 |
Edith Sharpe, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness |
1985 |
Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54 |
1985 |
Leonard Lake, |
1985 |
Daniel Núñez, Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
1985 |
Siem Vroom, A Bridge Too Far |
1985 |
Lester Cooper, Make a Wish |
1985 |
Alice Cooke, Babes in Toyland |
1986 |
Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress |
1986 |
Marrit Ohlsson, Fanny and Alexander |
1986 |
Alex Ameri, The Wizard of Gore |
1986 |
Herbert Eisenreich, Wovon wir leben und woran wir sterben |
1986 |
Neil Flanagan, Guru, the Mad Monk |
1987 |
Dmitriy Klebanov, Secret Agent |
1987 |
Judy King, Lion Love |
1987 |
Albert W. Selden, Man of La Mancha |
1987 |
Fulton Mackay, Local Hero |
1987 |
Richard Münch, Patton |
1988 |
Ella Raines, actress (Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 66 |
1988 |
Revaz Mirzashvili, The Wishing Tree |
1989 |
Frederic Prokosch, The Conspirators |
1989 |
Steffen Zacharias, They Call Me Trinity |
1990 |
György Sebestyén, Maria Theresia |
1990 |
Joe Loss, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit |
1990 |
Marcel Grignon, Fantomas |
1991 |
Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60 |
1991 |
Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64 |
1991 |
Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77 |
1991 |
Stan Getz, Whiplash |
1992 |
Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39 |
1992 |
Thijs van Lier, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies at 44 |
1992 |
Larry Riley, A Soldier's Story |
1992 |
Werner Kreindl, Der Schüler Gerber |
1992 |
Kurt Sperling, Verliebt und vorbestraft |
1993 |
James Bridges, writer/director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57 |
1993 |
Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73 |
1993 |
Jean Higgs, Jack and Jill: A Postscript |
1993 |
Elaine Fulkerson, A Woman for All Men |
1993 |
Mort Mills, Psycho |
1993 |
Howard Fortune, Fail Safe |
1993 |
James Bridges, The China Syndrome |
1994 |
Barry Sullivan, actor (Great Gadsby), dies at 81 |
1994 |
John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80 |
1994 |
John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies |
1994 |
Mark McManus, actor (Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59 |
1994 |
Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 82 |
1994 |
Willie Humphrey, jazz clarinetist, dies at 93 |
1994 |
Barry Sullivan, The Bad and the Beautiful |
1994 |
Mark McManus, Ned Kelly |
1994 |
Peter Graves, The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella |
1994 |
Flemming Adelson, Den russiske sangerinde |
1994 |
Johnny Downs, The Mad Monster |
1994 |
Agustín Parra Dueñas 'Parrita', |
1995 |
Imam Elissa, singer, dies at 76 |
1995 |
James Anderson, writer, dies at 41 |
1995 |
David Climie, Right Royal |
1995 |
Gracia Lee, The Kentucky Fried Movie |
1995 |
Saveliy Kramarov, 2010 |
1996 |
George Snell, genetecist, dies at 92 |
1996 |
Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster, dies at 57 |
1996 |
Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner, dies at 88 |
1996 |
Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer, dies at 70 |
1996 |
Mary Lee, Ridin' on a Rainbow |
1996 |
Marc de Jonge, Rambo III |
1996 |
Branko Celovic, Pecat |
1996 |
Glyn Worsnip, That's Life! |
1996 |
Chuck Hemingway, My Science Project |
1997 |
Gladys Tell, Is Everybody Happy? |
1997 |
Magda Gabor, The People vs. Zsa Zsa Gabor |
1997 |
Klára Bihari, Kutyakötelesség |
1997 |
Hannu Leminen, Valkoiset ruusut |
1997 |
Michael Orrom, Portrait of Queenie |
1998 |
Svend S. Schultz, Storstrømsbroen |
1998 |
Pierre Krieg, Mai 68 |
1998 |
David Navarrette, John Williams Live at the Hollywood Bowl |
1999 |
Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930) |
1999 |
Berta Hall, Port of Call |
1999 |
Aleksandr Vitenzon, The Scrapper |
1999 |
Anne Haddy, The Fourth Wish |
1999 |
Bent From, Støv for alle pengene |
2000 |
Frédéric Dard, French writer (b. 1921) |
2000 |
Frédéric Dard, Back to the Wall |
2000 |
Moreira da Silva, Chikwembo! |
2001 |
Lyubov Sokolova, Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy, kotoraya lyubila, da ne vyshla zamuzh |
2001 |
Suzanne Schiffman, The Last Metro |
2001 |
Ami Priyono, Bintang Kejora |
2001 |
Al Trescony, Joe Smith, American |
2001 |
Piotr Wawrzynczak, Kronika wypadków milosnych |
2001 |
Marvin 'Smokey' Montgomery, Striptease |
2001 |
Alfonso Brescia, Iron Warrior |
2001 |
George Pratt, A Man in Uniform |
2001 |
Bob Wolcott, Creepshow |
2001 |
Lee Howell, The Prophecy |
2002 |
Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959) |
2002 |
Yat Malmgren, Sean Connery |
2002 |
Holly Solomon, The Plot Against Harry |
2002 |
Robbin Crosby, The Wrestler |
2002 |
Desmond Cullum-Jones, Freak Out |
2003 |
Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944) |
2003 |
Dave Rowberry, British musician (The Animals) (b. 1940) |
2003 |
Bronislava Tronova, Small Comedies of a Big House |
2003 |
Margaret Harper Nelson, The Lavender Hill Mob |
2003 |
Robert Schneider, White Fang |
2003 |
Pim Peters, Indian Attack in Death Pass |
2003 |
Dave Rowberry, Episode #3.39 |
2004 |
Judy Campbell, Green for Danger |
2004 |
Mark Northover, Willow |
2004 |
Dick Durrance, G.I. Holiday |
2004 |
Pavel Lisitsian, Armenian Film-Concert |
2005 |
Anne Bancroft, American actress, dies from uterine cancer at 73 |
2005 |
Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927) |
2005 |
Maya Kopitseva, Russian painter of the Leningrad school dies aged 81 |
2005 |
Robert Tafur, To Serve Man |
2005 |
Pamela May, The Rake's Progress |
2005 |
Tommy Batten, Rationing |
2005 |
Tom Batten, Crocodile Dundee II |
2005 |
Siegfried Palm, Doktor Faustus |
2005 |
Usko Viitanen, Rigoletto |
2005 |
Arthur Wasson, It! The Terror from Beyond Space |
2005 |
Richard Norris, The Last Voyage |
2005 |
Anne Bancroft, The Graduate |
2005 |
Manolo Codeso, Espérame en el cielo |
2005 |
Dana Elcar, The Sting |
2005 |
Daphne Goddard, Prime Suspect: Inner Circles |
2005 |
Óscar Morelli, Yesenia |
2006 |
Billy Preston, American musician (b. 1946) |
2006 |
Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist (b. 1952) |
2006 |
Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918) |
2006 |
Hilton Ruiz, American Beauty |
2006 |
Asoka Perera, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
2006 |
Billy Preston, Inglourious Basterds |
2006 |
Arnold Newman, Marilyn Monroe: Still Life |
2007 |
Benito Alazraki, Roots |
2007 |
Manuel Toledano, Shampoo Horns |
2007 |
Stefan Felsenthal, De nachtwacht |
2008 |
Dwight White, Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier |
2008 |
Eugenio Montejo, 21 Grams |
2008 |
Nikola Gec, One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away |
2008 |
Eugene Persson, Earth vs the Spider |
2008 |
Saeko Himuro, Ocean Waves |
2008 |
Yanna Kroyt Brandt, FYI: For Your Information |
2008 |
Robert J. Anderson, Demolition Man |
2008 |
Tomislav Lipljin, The Third Key |
2008 |
Ferenc Sánta, The Fifth Seal |
2009 |
Pio Sagapolutele, Super Bowl XXXI |
2009 |
Andrej Gardenin, Uncle Tom's Cabin |
2009 |
Jean Dausset, Reporters |
2009 |
Mary Howard, Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
2009 |
Bobby Haarms, Ajax-Hark the Herald Angels Sing |
2009 |
Jim Owens, 1964 Rose Bowl |
2009 |
Nita Loveless, Married Too Young |
2010 |
Marvin Isley, American Musician The Isley Brothers (b. 1953) |
2010 |
Hans Gottschalk, Der Attentäter |
2010 |
Marvin Isley, The Wolf of Wall Street |
2010 |
Megan Waterman, Bodies at the Beach: Search for a Serial Killer |
2010 |
Jack Beeson, My Heart's in the Highlands |
2010 |
Roland Chenail, Le clan Beaulieu |
2010 |
Alta Lee, Swing, Cowboy, Swing |
2010 |
Ladislav Smoljak, An Uncertain Season |
2010 |
Robert B. Radnitz, Sounder |
2010 |
Nick Schoren, The Slasher |
2010 |
Zygmunt Molik, Apocalypsis cum figuris |
2011 |
Howard Spiegel, Men in Black II |
2011 |
Gene Hardy, Stripped Cars |
2011 |
Yuzef Mironenko, Dve dueli |
2011 |
John Boswall, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest |
2012 |
Estela Raval, Como un sueño |
2012 |
Vyacheslav Ivanov, The Sun |
2012 |
Carl Cropley, Ashes |
2012 |
Lillian Gallo, Princess Daisy |
2012 |
Nolan Miller, Soapdish |
2012 |
Dai Vaughan, The End of a Revolution |
2012 |
Vladimir Krutov, CCCP Hockey |
2013 |
Jerome Karle, American chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 94 |
2013 |
Tom Sharpe, British satirist and author, dies from complications from diabetes at 85 |
2013 |
Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress, dies from natural causes at 91 |
2013 |
Tom Sharpe, The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt |
2013 |
Maxine Stuart, General Hospital |
2013 |
Malcolm Todd, The Lost Legions of Varus |
2013 |
Olga Prokhvatylo, Demobbed |
2013 |
Bert Wilson, Store Front New York |
2013 |
Esther Williams, Take Me Out to the Ball Game |
2013 |
Annabel Tollman, 50 Cent |
2013 |
Vivienne Maya, A Clockwork Orange |
2014 |
Jonathon Gibson, Benny the Boy Atlas |
2014 |
Eric Hill, Spot's Musical Adventures |
2014 |
Greg Potocky, Janitors the Movie |
2014 |
Paul Wilson, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
2015 |
Corry van der Linden, Pip + Zip |
2015 |
Enza Pantano, Episode dated 28 October 1975 |
2015 |
Ludvík Vaculík, History of Jaroslav Sabata |
2015 |
Vincent Bugliosi, Parkland |
2015 |
Callisto Cosulich, Planet of the Vampires |
2015 |
Ronnie Gilbert, Running on Empty |
2015 |
Pierre Brice, Winnetou |
2015 |
Aarti Agarwal, Nuvvu Naaku Nachchav |
2016 |
Former Vice-Chancellor, Lord Neill of Bladen dies aged 89 |
2016 |
Manohar Aich, India's first bodybuilder dies aged 102 |
2017 |
Poet and author Helen Dunmore dies aged 64 |
2017 |
Cheick Tiote, former Newcastle United and Ivory Coast midfielder, dies aged 30 |
2017 |
Wallace and Gromit actor Peter Sallis dies, aged 96 |
2018 |
Fashion designer Kate Spade dies aged 55 in apparent suicide |
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