October 6 - Deaths

Deaths

• 404 – Aelia Eudoxia, Roman wife of Arcadius
• 836 – Saint Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine general and monk (b. 762)
• 869 – Ermentrude of Orléans (b. 823)
• 877 – Charles the Bald, Roman emperor (b. 823)
• 1014 – Samuel of Bulgaria, Bulgarian general (b. 958)
• 1101 – Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian (b. 1030)
• 1413 – Dawit I, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1382)
• 1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
• 1641 – Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
• 1644 – Elisabeth of France (b. 1602)
• 1660 – Paul Scarron, French poet and author (b. 1610)
• 1661 – Guru Har Rai, Pakistani 7th Sikh guru (b. 1630)
• 1688 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician (b. 1652)
• 1739 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (b. 1684)
• 1762 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)
• 1819 – Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (b. 1751)
• 1829 – Pierre Derbigny, American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
• 1836 – Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter (b. 1770)
• 1873 – Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
• 1883 – Duc Duc, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
• 1891 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
• 1892 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
• 1912 – Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1945 – Leonardo Conti, German nazi leader (b. 1900)
• 1947 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
• 1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1953 – William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (b. 1875)
• 1959 – Bernard Berenson, American historian (b. 1865)
• 1962 – Tod Browning, American director (b. 1880)
• 1968 – Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician (b. 1917)
• 1973 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1973 – François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1973 – Dick Laan, Dutch author (b. 1894)
• 1973 – Dennis Price, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1974 – Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (b. 1948)
• 1976 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher (b. 1900)
• 1977 – Danny Greene, American mobster (b. 1933)
• 1979 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Hattie Jacques, English actress (b. 1922)
• 1980 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
• 1981 – Anwar Sadat, Egyptian politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1983 – Terence Cooke, American archbishop (b. 1921)
• 1985 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader and composer (b. 1921)
• 1986 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
• 1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
• 1992 – Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
• 1993 – Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (b. 1961)
• 1997 – Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player (b. 1914)
• 1998 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
• 1999 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler (b. 1937)
• 2000 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Arne Harris, American director and producer (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Marvin Santiago. Puerto Rican singer and actor (b. 1947)
• 2006 – Bertha Brouwer, Dutch runner (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician (d. 1921)
• 2007 – Bud Ekins, American stuntman (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Viet Nguyen, Vietnamese conjoined twin (b. 1981)
• 2007 – Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Indian jurist (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Peter Cox, Australian politician (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985)
• 2009 – Douglas Campbell, Scottish-Canadian actor (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1966)
• 2010 – Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Piet Wijn, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Ahmed Jaber al-Qattan, Bahraini protester (b. 1994)
• 2012 – Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian politician, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Antonio Cisneros, Peruvian poet (b. 1942)
• 2012 – John Cleary, Canadian politician (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) (b. 1977)
• 2012 – Raoul De Keyser, Belgian painter (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Gérard Gropaiz, French swimmer (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Albert, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1943)
• 2012 – B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1927)