May 6 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 680 – Muawiyah I (b. 602)
  • 1475 – Dieric Bouts, Flemish painter (b. c. 1415)
  • 1502 – James Tyrrell, English knight, alleged murderer of Edward V of England and the Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York (b. c. 1450)
  • 1596 – Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
  • 1620 – Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian rabbi (b. 1543)
  • 1631 – Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (b. 1570)
  • 1638 – Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585)
  • 1708 – François de Laval, French bishop (b. 1623)
  • 1757 – Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
  • 1757 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English politician (b. 1683)
  • 1757 – Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
  • 1840 – Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian politician (b. 1792)
  • 1859 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)
  • 1862 – Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
  • 1877 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)
  • 1882 – Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
  • 1882 – Lord Frederick Cavendish, English politician (b. 1836)
  • 1902 – Bret Harte, American author (b. 1836)
  • 1910 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
  • 1913 – Alexandros Schinas, Greek assassin of King George I of Greece (b. 1870)
  • 1919 – L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
  • 1939 – Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (b. 1869)
  • 1949 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
  • 1951 – Élie Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1869)
  • 1952 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870)
  • 1961 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
  • 1963 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (b. 1881)
  • 1963 – Ted Weems, American bandleader and musician (b. 1901)
  • 1963 – Monty Woolley, American actor (b. 1888)
  • 1967 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
  • 1970 – Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1879)
  • 1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish activist (b. 1947)
  • 1973 – Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
  • 1975 – József Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1892)
  • 1983 – Kai Winding, American trombonist and composer (b. 1922)
  • 1984 – Bonner Pink, English politician (b. 1912)
  • 1984 – Mary Cain, American editor and politician (b. 1904)
  • 1985 – Julie Vega, Filipino actress, singer, and model (b. 1968)
  • 1987 – William Casey, American CIA director (b. 1913)
  • 1989 – Earl Blaik, American football coach (b. 1897)
  • 1990 – Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1901)
  • 1991 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor (b. 1903)
  • 1992 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
  • 1992 – Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1921)
  • 1992 – Jilly Rizzo, American restaurateur (b. 1917)
  • 1993 – Ann Todd, English actress (b. 1909)
  • 1995 – Noel Brotherston, Irish footballer (b. 1956)
  • 1995 – Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, Portuguese claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1907)
  • 2000 – Gordon McClymont, Australian agricultural scientist. Originator of the term "sustainable agriculture" (b. 1920)
  • 2002 – Murray Adaskin, Canadian violinist, composer, conductor, and teacher (b. 1906)
  • 2002 – Otis Blackwell, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1932)
  • 2002 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
  • 2003 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
  • 2004 – Philip Kapleau, American Zen Buddhism teacher (b. 1912)
  • 2004 – Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (The Wrecking Crew) (b. 1923)
  • 2006 – Lillian Asplund, American Titanic survivor (b. 1906)
  • 2006 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (b. 1926)
  • 2006 – Grant McLennan, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Go-Betweens) (b. 1958)
  • 2006 – Lorne Saxberg, Canadian journalist (b. 1958)
  • 2007 – Enéas Carneiro, Brazilian politician (b. 1938)
  • 2007 – Curtis Harrington, American director (b. 1926)
  • 2007 – Đorđe Novković, Croatian songwriter (b. 1943)
  • 2009 – Kevin Grubb, American race car driver (b. 1978)
  • 2009 – Viola Wills, American popsinger (b. 1939)
  • 2010 – Robin Roberts, American baseball player (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Fahd al-Quso, Yemeni terrorist (b. 1974)
  • 2012 – Pat Frink, American basketball player (b. 1945)
  • 2012 – Iraj Ghaderi, Iranian actor and director (b. 1935)
  • 2012 – James Isaac, American director and visual effects specialist (b. 1960)
  • 2012 – Félix Kouadjo, Ivorian bishop (b. 1939)
  • 2012 – Jean Laplanche, French author, theorist and psychoanalyst (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – George Lindsey, American actor (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – Jan Trøjborg, Danish politician (b. 1955)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)