December 6 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 343 – Saint Nicholas (b. 270)
  • 672 – Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya (b. ca. 710)
  • 1185 – King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
  • 1352 – Pope Clement VI (b. 1291)
  • 1562 – Jan van Scorel Dutch painter and architect (b. 1495)
  • 1618 – Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
  • 1658 – Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (b. 1601)
  • 1672 – King John II Casimir of Poland (b. 1609)
  • 1675 – John Lightfoot, English churchman (b. 1602)
  • 1716 – Benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (b. 1642)
  • 1718 – Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
  • 1746 – Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
  • 1771 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
  • 1779 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
  • 1788 – Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)
  • 1855 – William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789)
  • 1867 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)
  • 1868 – August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
  • 1878 – Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek artist (b. 1814)
  • 1879 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814)
  • 1882 – Anthony Trollope, British author (b. 1815)
  • 1882 – Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
  • 1889 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
  • 1892 – Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (b. 1816)
  • 1921 – Jesse Carleton, American golfer (b. 1862)
  • 1924 – Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
  • 1934 – Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
  • 1949 – Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1888)
  • 1951 – Harold Ross, American magazine editor (b. 1892)
  • 1955 – Honus Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1874)
  • 1956 – B. R. Ambedkar, social reformer and architect of the Constitution of India (b. 1891)
  • 1956 – John Geiger, American rower (b. 1873)
  • 1961 – Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925)
  • 1964 – Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer (b. 1895)
  • 1964 – Consuelo Vanderbilt, American socialite (b. 1877)
  • 1972 – Janet Munro, British actress (b. 1934)
  • 1976 – João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
  • 1982 – Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan politician (b. 1927)
  • 1983 – Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
  • 1985 – Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917)
  • 1988 – Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (b. 1936)
  • 1989 – Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
  • 1989 – Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (b. 1902)
  • 1989 – John Payne, American actor (b. 1912)
  • 1990 – Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
  • 1990 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia's first prime minister (b.1903)
  • 1991 – Sir Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
  • 1991 – Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon (b. 1906)
  • 1993 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
  • 1994 – Heinz Baas, German footballer (b. 1922)
  • 1996 – Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (b. 1926)
  • 1997 – Willy den Ouden, Dutch freestyle swimmer. (b. 1918)
  • 1998 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor. (b. 1921)
  • 2000 – Werner Klemperer, German actor (b. 1920)
  • 2000 – Aziz Mian, Pakistani singer (b. 1942)
  • 2001 – Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)
  • 2001 – Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (b. 1923)
  • 2002 – Philip Berrigan, American civil rights activist (b. 1923)
  • 2003 – Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (b. 1909)
  • 2003 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
  • 2003 – Jerry Tuite, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
  • 2004 – Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921)
  • 2005 – William P. Yarborough, Lieutenant General of the US Army and designer of "jump wings" (b. 1912)
  • 2005 – Charly Gaul, Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1932)
  • 2005 – Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
  • 2005 – Danny Williams, South African singer (b. 1942)
  • 2006 – John Feeney, New Zealand documentary film-director (b. 1922)
  • 2006 – Betty Moschona, Greek actress (b. 1927)
  • 2007 – Katy French, Irish supermodel and socialite (b. 1983)
  • 2010 – Mark Dailey, Canadian television journalist and announcer (b. 1953)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)