Famous Deaths on 6 May

Famous Deaths on 6 May

1502 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed)
1596 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
1620 - Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)
1631 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician
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, Colombian president 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) and Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (b.1836) in the Phoenix Park Murders.
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 GezmiÅŸ, 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 - Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)
1984 - Bonner Pink, Conservative Party politician
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 - Jilly Rizzo, restaurateur (b. 1917)
1993 - Ann Todd, English actress (b. 1909)
1995 - Hilda Toledano (b. 1907)
1995 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)
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 - Grant McLennan, co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens (b. 1958)
2006 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
2006 - Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)
2006 - Lorne Saxberg, Canadian television journalist (b. 1958)
2007 - Curtis Harrington, American film director (b. 1926)
2007 - Enéas Carneiro, Brazilian politician (b. 1938)
2007 - ĐorÄ'e Novković, Croatian songwriter (b. 1943)
680 - Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602)