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August 6, 2005 Robin Cook, Scottish Politician August 6, 2004 Rick James, Singer, Super Freak, dies at 54 August 6, 2004 Donald Justice, American Poet August 6, 2002 Edsger Dijkstra, programmer, helped to vanquish the GOTO statement in programming, dies at 72 August 6, 2001 Larry Adler, harmonica player, dies at 87 August 6, 2000 Robin Day, British Journalist August 6, 1999 Andrew Keith, writer, Wing Commander, dies at 41 August 6, 1996 Buland Al Haidary, poet, dies at 69 August 6, 1996 Hernan Siles Zuazo, President of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82 August 6, 1996 Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer, dies at 63 August 6, 1996 Muhammad al-Badr, magnate of Northern Yemen (1962), dies August 6, 1996 Ossie Raymond Clark, fashion designer, dies at 54 August 6, 1996 Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist, dies at 83 August 6, 1995 Paul James Nunn, mountaineer, dies at 52 August 6, 1995 Youly Algaroff, ballet dancer, dies at 77 August 6, 1994 Domenico Modugno, Italian singer (Volare), dies at 66 August 6, 1993 Milton "Milt" Thompson, U.S. NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, dies at 67 August 6, 1991 Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68 August 6, 1991 Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris August 6, 1990 Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82 August 6, 1990 Gordon Metcalfe, actor (Monster in the Closet), dies of AIDS at 43 August 6, 1990 Jacques Soustelle, Fren ethnology/minister of Information, dies at 78 August 6, 1990 Mario De Andrade, founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola), dies August 6, 1990 Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31 August 6, 1989 Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper founder (Le Monde), dies at 87 August 6, 1988 Anatoli S Levchenko, cosmonaut (TM-4), dies of brain tumor at 47 August 6, 1988 J Skelly Wright, U.S. judge (anti-segregationist), dies at 77 August 6, 1988 Francis Ponge, French Poet August 6, 1987 Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91 August 6, 1987 Sherwood Bailey, actor (Spud-Our Gang), dies August 6, 1986 Emilio Fernandez, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82 August 6, 1986 Manfred Hausmann, writer, dies at 87 August 6, 1986 William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial) heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump) August 6, 1980 Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66 August 6, 1979 Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65 August 6, 1978 Edward Durrell Stone, U.S. architect, dies at 76 August 6, 1978 Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80 August 6, 1978 Pope Paul VI, Italian Pope August 6, 1976 Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist, dies at 73 August 6, 1973 Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, dictator Cuba (1940-58), dies at 72 August 6, 1970 Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante and Arioso), dies at 58 August 6, 1969 Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 65 August 6, 1968 Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies at 60 August 6, 1966 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53 August 6, 1965 Aksel Sandemose, writer, dies August 6, 1965 Everett Sloane, dies of apparent suicide with bartiturates at 55 August 6, 1965 Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60 August 6, 1965 Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30 August 6, 1964 Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71 August 6, 1963 Tom Keene, actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68 August 6, 1961 Jozef E Van Roey, Flemish cardinal and archbishop of Mechelen, dies at 87 August 6, 1959 Preston Sturges, [Edmund Biden], U.S. director/screenwriter, dies at 60 August 6, 1938 Warner Oland, actor (Werewolf of London, Jazz Singer), dies at 57 August 6, 1937 Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 76 August 6, 1937 Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72 August 6, 1935 Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70 August 6, 1930 Joseph Force Crater, American Judge August 6, 1928 William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68 August 6, 1924 John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76 August 6, 1914 Ellen Wilson, 1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54 August 6, 1904 Eduard Hanslick, German Writer August 6, 1900 Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74 August 6, 1895 George Frederick Root, composer, dies at 74 August 6, 1890 John Hart or William Kemmler, U.S., 1st executed in electric chair (NY) August 6, 1886 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45 August 6, 1867 Faustin-Elie Soulouque, emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown) August 6, 1862 Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71 August 6, 1853 Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57 August 6, 1848 Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58 August 6, 1821 Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64 August 6, 1820 Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59 August 6, 1820 M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies August 6, 1816 Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80 August 6, 1799 Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74 August 6, 1784 Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57 August 6, 1783 Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 August 6, 1775 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72 August 6, 1746 Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies August 6, 1727 Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61 August 6, 1718 Jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28 August 6, 1686 Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60 August 6, 1666 Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43 August 6, 1661 Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies August 6, 1660 Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61 August 6, 1637 Ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65 August 6, 1637 Ben Jonson, English Poet August 6, 1623 Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies August 6, 1548 Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies August 6, 1458 Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58), dies at 79 August 6, 1272 Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies August 6, 1221 Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans) August 6, 1195 Henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies August 6, 966 Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963) August 6, 523 Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies August 6, 258 Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded |