6 June Deaths

June 6 is the 157th day of the year (158th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 208 days remaining until the end of the year.

Deaths

184 – Qiao Xuan, Chinese official (b. 110)
863 – Abu Musa Utamish, Muslim vizier
913 – Alexander III, Byzantine emperor (b. 870)
1097 – Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon and Navarre
1134 – Norbert of Xanten, German bishop and saint (b. 1060)
1217 – Henry I, King of Castile and Toledo (b. 1204)
1237 – John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon
1251 – William III of Dampierre, Count of Flanders
1252 – Robert Passelewe, Bishop of Chichester
1333 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (b. 1312)
1393 – Emperor Go-En'yū of Japan (b. 1359)
1480 – Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (b. 1412)
1548 – João de Castro, Portuguese soldier and politician, Governor of Portuguese India (b. 1500)
1561 – Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Italian painter (b. 1483)
1583 – Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese daimyo (b. 1556)
1659 – Nadira Banu Begum, Mughal princess (b. 1618)
1661 – Martino Martini, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1614)
1730 – Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, French general (b. 1646)
1740 – Alexander Spotswood, Moroccan-American colonial and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (b. 1676)
1784 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (b. 1741)
1799 – Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (b. 1736)
1813 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect, designed the Hôtel de Mademoiselle de Condé (b. 1739)
1813 – Antonio Cachia, Maltese architect, engineer and archaeologist (b. 1739)
1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English jurist and philosopher (b. 1748)
1840 – Marcellin Champagnat, French priest and saint, founded the Marist Brothers (b. 1789)
1843 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and author (b. 1770)
1861 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
1862 – Turner Ashby, American colonel (b. 1828)
1865 – William Quantrill, American captain (b. 1837)
1878 – Robert Stirling, Scottish minister and engineer, invented the stirling engine (b. 1790)
1881 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1820)
1883 – Ciprian Porumbescu, Ukrainian-Romanian composer and poet (b. 1853)
1891 – John A. Macdonald, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (b. 1859)
1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (b. 1860)
1924 – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (b. 1847)
1934 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and author (b. 1864)
1935 – Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and politician, 12th Governor-General of Canada (b. 1862)
1941 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and businessman, founded Chevrolet and Frontenac Motor Corporation (b. 1878)
1943 – Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Greek politician (b. 1900)
1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1947 – James Agate, English author and critic (b. 1877)
1948 – Louis Lumière, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1864)
1951 – Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1954 – Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer and author (b. 1910)
1955 – Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter and educator (b. 1875)
1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (b. 1875)
1962 – Yves Klein, French painter (b. 1928)
1962 – Tom Phillis, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1934)
1963 – William Baziotes, American painter and academic (b. 1912)
1968 – Randolph Churchill, English journalist and politician (b. 1911)
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (b. 1925)
1968 – Kâzım Özalp, Turkish general and politician, 3rd Turkish Minister of National Defence (b. 1880)
1975 – Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)
1976 – J. Paul Getty, American businessman, founded the Getty Oil Company (b. 1892)
1979 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1897)
1980 – Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player and manager (b. 1918)
1982 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and academic (b. 1905)
1983 – Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
1984 – A. Bertram Chandler, English-Australian soldier and author (b. 1912)
1991 – Stan Getz, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
1994 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912)
1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1997 – Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (b. 1915)
2000 – Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
2001 – Suzanne Schiffman, French screenwriter and director (b. 1939)
2003 – Ken Grimwood, American author (b. 1944)
2003 – Dave Rowberry, English singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1940)
2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
2005 – Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)
2006 – Arnold Newman, American photographer and educator (b. 1918)
2006 – Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1946)
2006 – Camille Sandorfy, Hungarian-Canadian chemist and academic (b. 1920)
2009 – Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2009 – Jim Owens, American football player and coach (b. 1927)
2010 – Marvin Isley, American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1953)
2012 – Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
2012 – Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1957)
2012 – Mykola Volosyanko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1972)
2013 – Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2013 – Eugen Merzbacher, German-American physicist and academic (b. 1921)
2013 – Tom Sharpe, English-Spanish author and academic (b. 1928)
2013 – Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
2014 – Ado Bayero, Nigerian politician and diplomat (b. 1930)
2014 – Eric Hill, English-American author and illustrator (b. 1927)
2014 – Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician (b. 1928)
2015 – Pierre Brice, French actor (b. 1929)
2015 – Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author (b. 1934)
2015 – Ronnie Gilbert, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
2015 – Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author (b. 1926)
2016 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player (b. 1931)
2016 – Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926)

Source: wikipedia