Famous Deaths on 6 Jun

Famous Deaths on 6 Jun

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)
1730 - Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (b. 1646)
1740 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony
1784 - Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (b. 1741)
1799 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)
1813 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect
1815 - Samuel Whitbread, English Politician
1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
1861 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
1865 - William Quantrill, American Confederate raider (b. 1837)
1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790)
1881 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)
1891 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
1916 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
1922 - Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1860)
1934 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
1935 - Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862)
1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1948 - Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
1951 - Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1955 - Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (b. 1875)
1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
1962 - Yves Klein, French artist (b. 1928)
1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, United States Attorney General and Senator (b. 1925)
1968 - Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
1975 - Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)
1976 - Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891)
1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892)
1979 - Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
1981 - Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904)
1982 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
1984 - A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author (b. 1912)
1986 - Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress
1991 - Stan Getz, American musician (b. 1927)
1992 - Larry Riley, American actor (b. 1952)
1994 - Mark McManus, Scottish actor (Taggart) (b. 1935)
1994 - Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912)
1996 - George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1999 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
2000 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (b. 1921)
2002 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)
2003 - Dave Rowberry, British musician (The Animals) (b. 1940)
2003 - Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
2005 - Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)
2006 - Billy Preston, American musician (b. 1946)
2006 - Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist (b. 1952)
2006 - Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)