February 6 - Deaths

Deaths

• 891 – St. Photius I the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1215 – Hōjō Tokimasa, Head of the Hōjō clan and shikken of the Kamakura bakufu (b. 1138)
• 1378 – Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
• 1497 – Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c.1410)
• 1515 – Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
• 1585 – Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
• 1593 – Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
• 1593 – Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
• 1617 – Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
• 1685 – King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
• 1740 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
• 1775 – William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
• 1783 – Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
• 1793 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
• 1806 – Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, French general and father of author Alexandre Dumas, père (b. 1762)
• 1807 – John Reid, British army general and composer (b. 1721)
• 1816 – Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
• 1833 – Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
• 1834 – Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
• 1855 – Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
• 1899 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
• 1899 – Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
• 1910 – Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b. 1839)
• 1916 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
• 1918 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
• 1927 – Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
• 1929 – Maria Christina of Austria, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
• 1931 – Motilal Nehru, Indian Leader(b.1861)
• 1938 – Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
• 1950 – Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
• 1951 – Gabby Street, former MLB player (b. 1882)
• 1952 – George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
• 1958 – Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
• 1958 – Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
• 1958 – Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
• 1958 – Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager
• 1958 – Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
• 1958 – David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
• 1958 – Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
• 1958 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
• 1963 – Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, Moroccan politician (b. 1880s)
• 1964 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (b. 1869)
• 1966 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
• 1967 – Martine Carol, French film actress (b. 1920)
• 1976 – Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali Indian film maker and scriptwriter (b. 1925)
• 1976 – Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928)
• 1981 – Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
• 1981 – Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer (b. 1925)
• 1985 – James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
• 1986 – Georges Cabana, Canadian Roman Catholic Archbishop (b. 1894)
• 1986 – Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
• 1986 – Dandy Nichols, English actress (b. 1907)
• 1986 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
• 1987 – Julien Chouinard, Canadian civil servant, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (b. 1929)
• 1988 – Nuno Oliveira, Bass Player (b. 1925)
• 1989 – André Cayatte, French filmmaker (b. 1909)
• 1989 – Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
• 1989 – Joe Raposo, American composer (b. 1937)
• 1989 – Osbourne 'King Tubby' Ruddock, Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
• 1989 – Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Salvador Luria, Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
• 1993 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
• 1994 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1994 – Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
• 1995 – James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
• 1996 – Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
• 1997 – Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
• 1998 – José Marroquín Leal (better known as Pipo), Mexican actor and performer (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
• 1998 – Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
• 1999 – Don Dunstan, Australian politician (b. 1926)
• 1999 – Danny Dayton, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1999 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (b. 1924)
• 2001 – Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist (b. 1897)
• 2001 – Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
• 2002 – Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Gerald Bouey, Canadian civil servant, governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Karl Haas, German-American music educator (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Tony Rolt, English racing driver (b. 1918)
• 2008 – John McWethy, American journalist (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Philip Carey, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2009 – James Whitmore, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Gary Moore, Irish musician (Skid Row and Thin Lizzy) (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Sharada Dwivedi, Indian historian