September 6 - Deaths

Deaths

• 394 – Eugenius, Roman usurper
• 957 – Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (b. 930)
• 972 – Pope John XIII
• 1276 – Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal (b. 1215)
• 1431 – Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine soldier and statesman
• 1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
• 1625 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
• 1635 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
• 1649 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
• 1683 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician (b. 1619)
• 1708 – Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet, English merchant and philanthropist, founded Morden College (b. 1623)
• 1748 – Edmund Gibson, English jurist and scholar (b. 1669)
• 1782 – Martha Jefferson, American wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
• 1783 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and author (b. 1710)
• 1808 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
• 1833 – Antoine le Blanc, French-American murderer (b. 1800)
• 1868 – Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1797)
• 1885 – Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan engineer, designed the Ictineo I and Ictineo II (b. 1819)
• 1902 – Frederick Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)
• 1907 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
• 1919 – Lord Charles Beresford, English admiral and politician (b. 1846)
• 1927 – Charles Woodruff, American archer (b. 1846)
• 1938 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and aviator (b. 1907)
• 1939 – Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (b. 1867)
• 1945 – John S. McCain, Sr., American admiral (b. 1884)
• 1949 – Walter Widdop, English tenor (b. 1892)
• 1950 – Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (b. 1886)
• 1951 – James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
• 1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
• 1956 – Lee Jung Seob, Korean painter (b. 1916)
• 1959 – Edmund Gwenn, English-American actor (b. 1877)
• 1959 – Kay Kendall, English actress (b. 1926)
• 1962 – Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (b. 1898)
• 1962 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
• 1963 – Wladimir Aïtoff, French rugby player (b. 1879)
• 1966 – Margaret Sanger, American nurse, educator, and activist (b. 1879)
• 1966 – Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
• 1969 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)
• 1972 – Victims of the Munich Massacre
  • Luttif Afif, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1945)
  • David Mark Berger, American-Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
  • Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
  • Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (b. 1931)
  • Eliezer Halfin, Russian-Israeli wrestler (b. 1948)
  • Amitzur Shapira, Russian-Israeli runner and coach (b. 1932)
  • Kehat Shorr, Romanian shooting coach (b. 1919)
  • Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
  • Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (b. 1945)
  • Yakov Springer, Polish-Israeli wrestler and weightlifting coach (b. 1921)
• 1974 – Olga Baclanova, Russian actress (b. 1896)
• 1978 – Max Decugis, French tennis player (b. 1882)
• 1978 – Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Ronald Binge, English composer (b. 1910)
• 1981 – Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)
• 1984 – Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1985 – Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)
• 1985 – Franco Ferrara, Italian conductor (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1987 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
• 1988 – Roland Daniels, American wrestler (b. 1950)
• 1988 – Bill Northam, Australian businessman and sailor (b. 1905)
• 1990 – Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
• 1990 – Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
• 1992 – Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1912)
• 1994 – Nicky Hopkins, English pianist (The Jeff Beck Group, The Kinks, Jerry Garcia Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Sweet Thursday, (b. 1944)
• 1994 – Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Ester Soré, Chilean musician (b. 1915)
• 1997 – P. H. Newby, English author (b. 1918)
• 1998 – Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (b. 1928)
• 1998 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Ric Segreto, American singer-songwriter, actor, and journalist (b. 1952)
• 1999 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician, 3rd President of Nauru (b. 1938)
• 1999 – René Lecavalier, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Carl Crack, German rapper and DJ (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
• 2002 – Ilya Livykou, Greek actress (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountaineer (b. 1969)
• 2005 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Eugenia Charles, Dominican politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Percy Rodriguez, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racer and trainer (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2009 – Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian novelist (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Clive Donner, English director (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Lawrie Dring, English scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Art Modell, American businessman (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Bertil Norström, Swedish actor (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Terry Nutkins, English television host and author (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Herbert O. Sparrow, Canadian politician (b. 1930)