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)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “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)