March 6 - Deaths

Deaths

• 766 – Chrodegang of Metz, Frankish bishop of Metz
• 1252 – Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
• 1490 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
• 1531 – Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador (b. c. 1440)
• 1627 – Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
• 1658 – Ivan Bunić Vučić, politician and poet from the Republic of Dubrovnik (b. 1591 or 1592)
• 1754 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
• 1758 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
• 1764 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)
• 1796 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
• 1836 – Notable figures at the Battle of the Alamo:
  • James Butler Bonham, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1807)
  • James "Jim" Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
  • Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)
  • William Barret Travis, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1809)
• 1842 – Constanze Mozart, former widow of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
• 1854 – Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)
• 1860 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
• 1866 – William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher and historian (b. 1794)
• 1867 – Artemus Ward, American comic writer (b. 1834)
• 1881 – Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)
• 1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
• 1895 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
• 1899 – Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
• 1900 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1834)
• 1905 – John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
• 1917 – Valdemar Psilander Danish actor (b. 1884)
• 1932 – John Philip Sousa, American conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
• 1933 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
• 1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American politician (b. 1841)
• 1935 – Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1939 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (b. 1852)
• 1941 – Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867)
• 1948 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (b. 1914)
• 1950 – Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
• 1951 – Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
• 1951 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
• 1952 – Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (b. 1895)
• 1961 – George Formby, British comedian and singer (b. 1904)
• 1964 – King Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
• 1965 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1967 – John Haden Badley, English author and educator (b. 1865)
• 1967 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
• 1967 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
• 1969 – Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
• 1970 – William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1971 – Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
• 1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1974 – Ernest Becker, American anthropologist, Pulitzer Prize author of Denial of Death (b. 1924)
• 1976 – Mary Petty, American illustrator (b. 1899)
• 1976 – Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
• 1978 – Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933)
• 1981 – George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)
• 1982 – Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
• 1984 – Billy Collins, Irish-American professional boxer (b. 1961)
• 1984 – Martin Niemöller, German theologian (b. 1892)
• 1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905)
• 1984 – Homer N. Wallin, American vice-admiral (b. 1893)
• 1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
• 1988 – Mairéad Farrell, Irish Republican (b. 1957)
• 1988 – Daniel McCann, Irish Republican (b. 1957)
• 1988 – Seán Savage, Irish Republican (b. 1965)
• 1994 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and Minister for Culture of Greece (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
• 1997 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, Emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)
• 2000 – John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
• 2001 – Balla Moussa Keïta, Malian actor and comedian (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
• 2004 – Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2004 – Ray Fernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
• 2005 – Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Danny Gardella, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (b. 1924)
• 2006 – King Floyd, American singer, songwriter (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (b. 1960)
• 2006 – Dana Reeve, American actress and activist, widow of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Jean Baudrillard, French theorist and photographer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Allen Coage ("Bad News Brown"), American wrestler and judoka (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Pierre Moinot, French novelist (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Peter Poreku Dery, Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Francis Magalona, Filipino media artist and photographer. (b. 1964)
• 2009 – Susan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean stateswoman, wife of Morgan Tsvangirai (b. 1959)
• 2010 – Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1984)
• 2010 – Mark Linkous, American singer (Sparklehorse) (b. 1962)
• 2010 – Betty Millard, American writer, artist, political activist, philanthropist and feminist (b.1911)