Monday, March 5, 2012

Famous Deaths on 6 Mar

Famous Deaths on 6 Mar

1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador
1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)
1796 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
1836 - Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
1836 - James Butler Bonham, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1807)
1836 - William Barret Travis, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1809)
1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)
1842 - Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
1854 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)
1860 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
1866 - William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (b. 1794)
1881 - Horatia Nelson, the illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)
1888 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
1895 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
1899 - Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1834)
1905 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
1932 - John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
1933 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
1935 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1939 - Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (b. 1852)
1941 - Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867)
1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (b. 1914)
1950 - Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
1951 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
1951 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
1952 - Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (executed) (b. 1895)
1961 - George Formby, British comedian and singer (b. 1904)
1964 - King Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
1965 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
1967 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
1967 - John Haden Badley, English author and educator (b. 1865)
1969 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
1970 - William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
1971 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
1981 - George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)
1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
1984 - Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905)
1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
1988 - Vol. Mairéad Farrell, Vol. Seán Savage and Vol. Daniel McCann killed within minutes of each other; Irish Republicans.
1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, political activist, and politician (b. 1920)
1997 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
1997 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
1998 - Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1999 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)
1999 - Dennis Viollet, former footballer (b. 1933)
2000 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
2001 - Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
2002 - Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
2003 - John Sanford, American author (b. 1904)
2004 - Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
2004 - Ray Fernandez, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
2005 - Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
2005 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2005 - Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)
2005 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
2006 - Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (b. 1924)
2006 - King Floyd, American musician (b. 1945)
2006 - Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (b. 1960)
2006 - Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)
2007 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
2007 - Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator and photographer (b. 1929)
2007 - Allen Coage (aka "Bad News Brown", "Bad News Allen"), American professional wrestler and judoka (b. 1943)
2008 - Peter Poreku Cardinal Dery Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale, Ghana
766 - Chrodegang of Metz, Frankish bishop of Metz

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