Famous Deaths on 6 Sep

Famous Deaths on 6 Sep

1276 - Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
1536 - William Tyndale, Protestant bible translator (b. c. 1494)
1625 - Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
1635 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
1649 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)
1708 - Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
1748 - Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
1782 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
1783 - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
1808 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
1868 - Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)
1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)
1907 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
1938 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
1950 - Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
1951 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
1952 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
1962 - Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (b. 1898)
1962 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1966 - Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879)
1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
1969 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)
1974 - Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (b. 1896)
1978 - Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
1981 - Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)
1984 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
1985 - Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)
1986 - Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
1987 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
1988 - Leroy Brown, professional wrestler (b. 1950)
1990 - Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
1990 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
1991 - Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
1994 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
1997 - P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
1999 - René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)
2001 - Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
2003 - Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)
2003 - Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
2005 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)
2007 - Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
2007 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
2007 - Alex, African Grey parrot "student" of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)
957 - Liudolf, Duke of Swabia
972 - Pope John XIII