Notable Deaths on August 6th
August 6th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
258 |
Saint Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded |
523 |
Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies |
966 |
Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963) |
1162 |
Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona |
1195 |
Henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies |
1221 |
Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans) |
1272 |
Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies |
1414 |
King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377) |
1458 |
Callixtus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58), dies at 79 |
1548 |
Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies |
1623 |
Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies |
1628 |
Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573) |
1637 |
Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, dies at 65 |
1637 |
Ben Jonson, Sense and Sensibility |
1645 |
Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575) |
1657 |
Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble |
1660 |
Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61 |
1661 |
Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies |
1666 |
Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43 |
1679 |
John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629) |
1686 |
Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60 |
1695 |
François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625) |
1718 |
Jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28 |
1727 |
Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61 |
1746 |
Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies |
1753 |
Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711) |
1759 |
Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704) |
1775 |
Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72 |
1783 |
Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 |
1784 |
Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57 |
1794 |
Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714) |
1799 |
Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74 |
1815 |
James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767) |
1816 |
Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80 |
1820 |
Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59 |
1820 |
M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies |
1821 |
Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64 |
1828 |
Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman |
1848 |
Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58 |
1850 |
Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805) |
1853 |
Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57 |
1862 |
Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71 |
1866 |
John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818) |
1881 |
James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821) |
1884 |
Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812) |
1886 |
Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45 |
1890 |
William Kemmier, The Chair |
1893 |
Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811) |
1895 |
George Frederick Root, composer, dies at 74 |
1895 |
George Frederick Root, Lincoln |
1900 |
Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74 |
1904 |
Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825) |
1914 |
Ellen Axson Wilson, US 1st Lady (1913-14), dies during Woodrow Wilson's 1st term of Bright's Disease at 54 |
1920 |
Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890) |
1924 |
John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76 |
1926 |
Gordon Sackville, The Toilers of the Sea |
1928 |
William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68 |
1928 |
Corinne Barker, The Silent Barrier |
1929 |
Mary MacLane, Men Who Have Made Love to Me |
1931 |
Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist (In Mist), dies at 29 |
1931 |
Bix Beiderbecke, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
1935 |
Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70 |
1935 |
Monroe Salisbury, The Squaw Man |
1936 |
Jules Hanft, One-Thing-At-a-Time O'Day |
1936 |
William G. Crosby, The Enchanted Island |
1936 |
Willy Ostermann, The Dream of the Rhine |
1937 |
Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 76 |
1937 |
Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72 |
1938 |
Warner Oland, actor (Werewolf of London, Jazz Singer), dies at 57 |
1938 |
Henrique Alegria, A Rosa do Adro |
1938 |
Gustaf Molin, Elämän maantiellä |
1938 |
Warner Oland, The Jazz Singer |
1938 |
John G. Blystone, Our Hospitality |
1941 |
Leonid Leonidov, Seeds of Freedom |
1942 |
Margaret Carthew, 42nd Street |
1942 |
Valdemar Poulsen, Ingeniør Valdemar Poulsen paa sin station for traadløs telegrafi i Lyngby og i sit laboratorium |
1942 |
Janusz Korczak, Król Macius I |
1943 |
Tom Garrett, cricketer (last survivor of 1st Test in 1877), dies |
1943 |
Walter O. Stahl, Phantom of the Opera |
1944 |
Mariusz Maszynski, Kazdemu wolno kochac |
1945 |
Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866) |
1945 |
Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912) |
1945 |
Hiram Johnson, Governor Johnson of California |
1946 |
Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903) |
1946 |
Tony Lazzeri, Slide, Kelly, Slide |
1947 |
Wanda Siemaszkowa, O czym sie nie mówi |
1948 |
Robert C. Bruce, Deschutes Driftwood |
1948 |
Bob Murphy, In Old Chicago |
1950 |
Harvey Meyers, The Bat Whispers |
1951 |
Clyde Westover, The Tong Man |
1951 |
Drusilla Wills, Murder! |
1952 |
A.G. Heimerl, The Bowery Bishop |
1953 |
Houseley Stevenson, Dark Passage |
1953 |
John Reinhardt, Chicago Calling |
1954 |
Theo[by] Van Reijn, sculptor/drawer/lithograph, dies at 70 [or 8/10] |
1954 |
Vera Sisson, The Married Virgin |
1954 |
Peter Fritch, Big Business Girl |
1954 |
Hanson T. Fritch, The Call of the Wild |
1954 |
Emilie Dionne, Five Times Five |
1954 |
Roy Bucko, Young Blood |
1954 |
Arthur Riscoe, Kiss Me Goodbye |
1955 |
Janet Beecher, The Lady Eve |
1956 |
Gordon Magee, Mason of the Mounted |
1956 |
Jack Killifer, High Sierra |
1956 |
Adelqui Migliar, Ambición |
1958 |
Evelyn Burns, Bad Boy |
1958 |
Geoffrey Willans, The Bridal Path |
1958 |
Reinhold Lütjohann, Feinde |
1959 |
Preston Sturges, [Edmund Biden], US director/screenwriter, dies at 60 |
1959 |
Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels |
1959 |
Jacob Mestel, The Wandering Jew |
1959 |
Clarence Derwent, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle |
1960 |
Fryderyk Jarossy, Parada gwiazd Warszawy |
1961 |
Jozef E Van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechelen, dies at 87 |
1961 |
Werner Segtrop, Hotelboy Ed Martin |
1962 |
Ralph Bucko, Code of the West |
1963 |
Tom Keene, actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68 |
1964 |
Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71 |
1964 |
Cedric Hardwicke, Rope |
1964 |
Reed Howes, The Dawn Rider |
1965 |
Aksel Sandemose, writer, dies |
1965 |
Everett Sloane, dies of apparent suicide with bartiturates at 55 |
1965 |
Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60 |
1965 |
Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30 |
1965 |
Nancy Carroll, Laughter |
1966 |
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53 |
1966 |
Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913) |
1966 |
Henry Sharp, Duck Soup |
1968 |
Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies at 60 |
1969 |
Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 65 |
1970 |
Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante & Arioso), dies at 58 |
1973 |
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, Cuban Dictator (1940-58), dies at 72 |
1974 |
Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925) |
1976 |
Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist, dies at 73 |
1977 |
Wilton Lackaye Jr., Registered Nurse |
1978 |
Edward Durrell Stone, US architect, dies at 76 |
1978 |
Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80 |
1978 |
Ivar Hallbäck, Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo |
1979 |
Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65 |
1979 |
Kurt Kasznar, The Last Time I Saw Paris |
1980 |
Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66 |
1980 |
Barry Justice, King & Country |
1980 |
Carlota Solares, La isla de las mujeres |
1981 |
José Suárez, Main Street |
1981 |
Mario Abbate, Accadde al commissariato |
1981 |
Marcel Barnault, The Battle of the Rails |
1982 |
Eli Brucker, House Cleaning Blues |
1982 |
Hans Cürlis, Drei Meister schneiden in Holz |
1983 |
Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944) |
1983 |
Klaus Nomi, The Nomi Song |
1985 |
John Harmon, Funny Girl |
1985 |
Jeanne Helbling, The Three-Sided Mirror |
1985 |
Marie Vásová, The King's Baker and the Baker's King |
1985 |
Jirí Kostka, The Last Shot |
1985 |
Philippe de Dieuleveult, La chasse aux trésors |
1985 |
Krystyna Ankwicz, Cham |
1986 |
Emilio Fernandez, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82 |
1986 |
Manfred Hausmann, writer, dies at 87 |
1986 |
William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial) heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump) |
1986 |
Emilio Fernández, The Wild Bunch |
1986 |
Clara Tabody, Balkezes angyal |
1986 |
Beppe Wolgers, Dunderklumpen! |
1986 |
Manfred Hausmann, Abel with the Mouth Organ |
1987 |
Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91 |
1987 |
Sherwood Bailey, actor (Spud-Our Gang), dies |
1987 |
Paula Bauersmith, The Sinner |
1987 |
Risto Veste, Anja tule kotiin |
1987 |
Ira C. Eaker, The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress |
1987 |
Sherwood Bailey, Hook and Ladder |
1988 |
Anatoli S Levchenko, cosmonaut (TM-4), dies of brain tumor at 47 |
1988 |
J Skelly Wright, US judge (anti-segregationist), dies at 77 |
1988 |
Francis Ponge, Dieu sait quoi |
1988 |
Marie La Manna, In His Father's Footsteps |
1988 |
John Bingham, Married Life |
1989 |
Nat Levine, Winds of the Wasteland |
1989 |
Harry Curtis, The Journey of Natty Gann |
1989 |
Hubert Beuve-Méry, Munich or Peace in Our Time |
1990 |
Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82 |
1990 |
Gordon Metcalfe, actor (Monster in the Closet), dies of AIDS at 43 |
1990 |
Jacques Soustelle, Fren ethnology/minister of Information, dies at 78 |
1990 |
Mario De Andrade, founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola), dies |
1990 |
Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31 |
1990 |
Charles Arnt, My Favorite Brunette |
1990 |
Frederick Vyvyan Jones, Celebrate What? |
1990 |
Gordon Metcalfe, Monster in the Closet |
1990 |
Don Tomlinson, The Great Escape |
1991 |
Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68 |
1991 |
Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris |
1991 |
Roland Michener, Canadian politician and governor general (b. 1900) |
1991 |
Harry Reasoner, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir |
1991 |
Arthur Pentelow, Gladiatorerna |
1991 |
Nelson Welch, Waxwork |
1991 |
Brooks Read, Blaze |
1992 |
Kay Sabban, Zwei ziehen zusammen |
1992 |
Wanda Falkowska, Nie zaznasz spokoju |
1992 |
Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Restless hearts |
1993 |
Milton "Milt" Thompson, US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, dies at 67 |
1993 |
Nóra Káldi, Love |
1993 |
Bob Miller, Game 4 |
1993 |
Bob Cooper, The Wild One |
1993 |
Oscar Casco, El cielo en las manos |
1994 |
Domenico Modugno, Italian singer (Volare), dies at 66 |
1994 |
Jacques Pelzer, La danseuse du Gai-moulin |
1994 |
Steven Arnold, Luminous Procuress |
1994 |
Domenico Modugno, A Fish Called Wanda |
1994 |
Ugo Calise, The Numbers Game |
1995 |
Paul James Nunn, mountaineer, dies at 52 |
1995 |
Youly Algaroff, ballet dancer, dies at 77 |
1995 |
Bretly W.R. Baughn, John Ewing III: Part 1 |
1995 |
Dominique Vilar, Une fille seule |
1995 |
Marsh Hendry, The Red Pony |
1996 |
Buland Al Haidary, poet, dies at 69 |
1996 |
Hernan Siles Zuazo, Pres of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82 |
1996 |
Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer, dies at 63 |
1996 |
Muhammad al-Badr, magnate of Northern Yemen (1962), dies |
1996 |
Ossie Raymond Clark, fashion designer, dies at 54 |
1996 |
Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist, dies at 83 |
1996 |
Lee Davis, Behind Locked Doors |
1996 |
Lee Davis, His Marriage Wow |
1996 |
Leland Davis, The Best Man |
1996 |
Lev Mirsky, Karyera Dimy Gorina |
1996 |
Alvah Stanley, The Sword and the Sorcerer |
1996 |
Ossie Clark, A Bigger Splash |
1997 |
Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, Amarcord |
1997 |
Brenda Denaut, Olga's House of Shame |
1997 |
Mikhail Gerasimov, Khrustalyov, My Car! |
1997 |
Eugène Guillevic, Eugène Guillevic: Avec |
1998 |
Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906) |
1998 |
Jack Brickhouse, 1953 MLB All-Star Game |
1998 |
Roswell Rogers, So This Is Washington |
1998 |
Nat Gonella, Sing as You Swing |
1998 |
Delbert Ward, Brother's Keeper |
1998 |
Janusz Czecz, Archaeology |
1999 |
Tommy Biondo, Scrapbook |
1999 |
Kathryn Murray, Episode #9.38 |
1999 |
Phyllis Garr, Young Frankenstein |
1999 |
Mara Finci, Nema malih bogova |
2000 |
Evgeniy Grigorev, The Star |
2000 |
Masahiko Tanimura, None But the Brave |
2000 |
Robin Day, Episode dated 12 July 1989 |
2000 |
Petrica Gheorghiu, Next Stop Paradise |
2000 |
Petre Gheorghiu-Goe, Prin cenusa imperiului |
2000 |
Max Phipps, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior |
2000 |
Don Ettlinger, Studio One in Hollywood |
2001 |
Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912) |
2001 |
Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930) |
2001 |
Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (b. 1911) |
2001 |
Alan Rafkin, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken |
2001 |
Jorge Amado, The Sandpit Generals |
2001 |
Larry Adler, Genevieve |
2001 |
Dorothy Tutin, Cromwell |
2001 |
Robert Dunham, Godzilla vs. Megalon |
2001 |
George Brackman, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade |
2002 |
Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930) |
2002 |
Clifford Ray Sam, The Exiles |
2002 |
Katherine Schofield, The Naked Civil Servant |
2002 |
Vivian Tobin, The World Accuses |
2003 |
Julius Baker, New York Stories |
2003 |
Larry Taylor, Zulu |
2003 |
Roberto Marinho, Beyond Citizen Kane |
2003 |
Sophie Sel, The Tour of the Grand Dukes |
2004 |
Rick James, American funk musician ("Super Freak") dies aged 56 |
2004 |
Argentino Ledesma, El asalto |
2004 |
Ennio Antonelli, Ugly, Dirty and Bad |
2004 |
Ivan Voronov, The Day the Earth Froze |
2004 |
Maggie Paige, The Killing of Sister George |
2004 |
Rick James, Lost in Translation |
2005 |
Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927) |
2005 |
Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928) |
2005 |
Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946) |
2005 |
Robin Cook, Episode #28.3 |
2005 |
Ibrahim Ferrer, Buena Vista Social Club |
2005 |
Carlo Little, Long Distance Information |
2005 |
Gunnar Kilgas, Elu tsitadellis |
2005 |
Valentin Nikulin, Rusalochka |
2006 |
Stella Moray, Episode dated 16 April 1987 |
2006 |
Susan Butcher, Eight Below |
2006 |
Dieter Seidenkranz, Aasgeier |
2006 |
Dorothy Ray Healey, Seeing Red |
2006 |
Steve Malito, Scream |
2006 |
Fabrizio Moroni, Four Flies on Grey Velvet |
2006 |
Roman Miastowski, Interrogation |
2006 |
Moacir Santos, The Guns |
2006 |
Sonny Vallie, 3 Ring Circus |
2006 |
Stewart McLean, Episode #2.4 |
2006 |
Hirotaka Suzuoki, Millennium Actress |
2007 |
Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (b. 1969) |
2007 |
Heinz Barth, German convicted war criminal (SS) (b. 1920) |
2007 |
Philip Keatley, Cold Squad |
2007 |
Maurice Liu, Shadow of Chinatown |
2007 |
Teizô Matsumura, Musuko |
2008 |
Jack Kamen, Creepshow |
2008 |
John Cooley, Our Own Private Bin Laden |
2008 |
Jud Taylor, The Old Man and the Sea |
2008 |
Kreso Novosel, Olujne tisine 1895-1995 |
2008 |
Boris Butakov, Adventures of Mowgli |
2008 |
Simon Gray, Butley |
2008 |
Gene Galusha, Loved to Death |
2008 |
Tony Russo, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers |
2008 |
Jennifer Hilary, Becket |
2008 |
Borislav Ikonomov, Lagerat |
2008 |
Eiko Mizuhara, Sandakan 8 |
2009 |
John Hughes, American film director (b. 1950) |
2009 |
Willy DeVille, American singer (Mink DeVille), dies of pancreatic cancer at 58 |
2009 |
Willy DeVille, The Princess Bride |
2009 |
Murali, Kanakkinavu |
2009 |
The Alaskan Malamute Goblin, White Air |
2009 |
Lee Kheel, Jersey Guy |
2009 |
John Hughes, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York |
2009 |
Reiko Ôhara, Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival |
2009 |
Jaromír Pleskot, Doggie and Three |
2009 |
Anilza Leoni, Depois do Carnaval |
2009 |
Otha Young, Beyond the Law |
2009 |
W.S. Rendra, Al kautsar |
2009 |
Lola Lemos, Tío Vania |
2009 |
Sándor Petróczy, Sztornó |
2010 |
Phelps 'Catfish' Collins, Superbad |
2010 |
Christopher Dedrick, The Saddest Music in the World |
2010 |
Louis Mansi, The Italian Job |
2010 |
Yoshie Minami, Ikiru |
2010 |
Jane Pesci-Townsend, Jargon |
2010 |
Tony Judt, Episode dated 10 April 2006 |
2011 |
Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist (b. 1911) |
2011 |
Roman Opalka, Tentatives de se décrire |
2011 |
Rudolf Rohlinger, Novemberverbrecher - Eine Erinnerung |
2011 |
Fred Imus, Imus in the Morning on MSNBC |
2011 |
John Wood, WarGames |
2011 |
Bernadine Healy, Business Case |
2011 |
Henri Tisot, The Fuhrer Runs Amok |
2012 |
Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor, diest at 68 |
2012 |
Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer, dies at 98 |
2012 |
Ruggiero Ricci, American composer/violinist, dies from heart failure at 94 |
2012 |
Robert Hughes, Australian art critic, dies at 74 |
2012 |
Bernard Lovell, Moon |
2012 |
Rummy Bishop, Adventures in Babysitting |
2012 |
Robert Hughes, Crumb |
2012 |
Ruggiero Ricci, El complex de Stradivarius |
2012 |
Mark O'Donnell, Hairspray |
2012 |
Peter Strauss, Happiness Machines |
2012 |
Carl Andersen, I Was a Teenage Zabbadoing |
2012 |
Valentin Chernykh, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears |
2012 |
William Tailford, Jerusalem Countdown |
2012 |
Celso Blues Boy, Right On |
2012 |
Richard Cragun, The Turning Point |
2012 |
Marvin Hamlisch, The Spy Who Loved Me |
2012 |
Breena Camden, The Making of 'One Hour Photo' |
2013 |
Ilkka Talasranta, Biisikärpänen |
2013 |
Jeremy Geidt, Next Stop Wonderland |
2013 |
Giuliano Persico, Oltre il confine |
2013 |
Lidia Korsakówna, Adventure in Marienstadt |
2013 |
Seetha Kumari Ehalepola, Mother Alone |
2014 |
Dave Weidman, Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol |
2014 |
Musa Dudayev, White Sun of the Desert |
2014 |
Imre Bajor, Le a fejjel! |
2014 |
Hubert Mann, Wohin und zurück - Teil 3: Welcome in Vienna |
2014 |
Olaf Buhl, Kennzeichen D |
2015 |
Djurdjija Cvetic, Shadows of Memories |
2015 |
Mark Sheeler, The Lost Art |
2015 |
Orna Porat, Ha-Dybbuk B'sde Hatapuchim Hakdoshim |
2016 |
Litterateur Mahim Bora dies aged 92 |
2017 |
Former Texas Gov. Mark White dies at age 77 |
2018 |
Chuckle Brothers star Barry Chuckle dies aged 73 |
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