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)

Famous Deaths on 5 May

Famous Deaths on 5 May

1028 - King Alfonso V of Castile, León, and Galicia
1194 - King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
1219 - King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
1309 - King Charles II of Naples
1525 - Frederick III of Saxony (b. 1463)
1586 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)
1671 - Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602)
1672 - Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
1705 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
1760 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1720)
1766 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)
1811 - Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)
1821 - Napoleon I of France (b. 1769)
1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
1855 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)
1859 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805)
1892 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
1896 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
1900 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
1931 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
1941 - Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)
1942 - Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
1945 - Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
1947 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
1959 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
1962 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
1971 - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)
1977 - Ludwig Erhard, German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966 (b. 1897)
1981 - Bobby Sands, Irish activist (b. 1954)
1983 - Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (b. 1901)
1985 - Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
1988 - Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928)
1992 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b.1927)
1995 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player, grandmaster and world champion (b. 1911)
1997 - Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
200 - Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)
2000 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
2001 - Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher
2001 - Raymond Kessler, American midget wrestler
2002 - Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (b. 1904)
2002 - George Sidney, American film director (b. 1916)
2002 - Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (b. 1926)
2003 - Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)
2004 - Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2006 - Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919)
2007 - Theodore Harold Maiman, Inventor (b. 1927)
2008 - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917)
311 - Galerius, Roman Emperor
984 - Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia