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December 6 Deaths in History - December 6 Birthdays - December 6 Events
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December 6, 2000 Werner Klemperer, actor, Hogan's Heroes, dies at 80 December 6, 1998 Michael Zaslow, actor, The Guiding Light, dies at 56 December 6, 1997 Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at 68 December 6, 1997 Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer, dies at 91 December 6, 1997 Eliot Daniel, composer (I Love Lucy theme), dies at 89 December 6, 1996 Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant, dies at 83 December 6, 1996 [Alvin] Pete Rozelle, commissioner (NFL), dies at 70 December 6, 1995 Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67 December 6, 1995 James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, journalist, dies at 86 December 6, 1995 John Trevor Key, photographer, dies at 48 December 6, 1995 Kathleen Harrison, actress (Fast Lady, Big Money), dies at 103 December 6, 1995 Leslie Wilkinson, journalist, dies at 97 December 6, 1995 [Schaff] Claire Polin, composer, dies at 69 December 6, 1994 AJ Bronkhorst, vicar/theologist (Reform The Netherlands), dies at 80 December 6, 1994 Alan Owen, English screenplay/actor (Hard Day's Night), dies at 69 December 6, 1994 Gian Maria Volonte, actresss (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61 December 6, 1993 Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon), dies of prostate cancer at 85 December 6, 1993 Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80 December 6, 1993 Rita Macedo, actress (Divinas Palabras), dies of heart attack at 65 December 6, 1993 Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, murdered December 6, 1992 Hank Worden, actor (Red River), dies of natural causes at 91 December 6, 1992 Percy Herbert, actor (Capt Apache), dies of heart attack at 72 December 6, 1991 Ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 December 6, 1991 Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies December 6, 1990 Tunku Abdul Rahman, PM of Malaysia (1957-70), dies December 6, 1989 Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry), dies at 86 December 6, 1989 John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), dies at 77 December 6, 1989 Sammy Fain, composer, dies at 87 December 6, 1988 Bill Harris, U.S. guitarist (Clovers-Love Potion No 9), dies at 63 December 6, 1988 Roy Orbison, singer (Pretty Woman), dies of massive heart attack at 52 December 6, 1987 James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies December 6, 1986 Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22 December 6, 1985 Burleigh Grimes, U.S. baseball pitcher, dies at 92 December 6, 1985 Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran and Ollie), dies at 68 December 6, 1984 Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90 December 6, 1973 Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer, dies at 94 December 6, 1973 Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies at 81 December 6, 1972 Janet Munro, actress (Crawling Eye, Swiss Family Robinson), dies at 38 December 6, 1971 Hugo Godron, composer, dies at 71 December 6, 1971 Jan Altink, Dutch painter/co-founder (Plough), dies at 86 December 6, 1970 Thomas S Power, USAF-gen (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65 December 6, 1966 Hermann Heiss, composer, dies at 68 December 6, 1965 Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar, dies at 90 December 6, 1963 Jozef Goossenaerts, Flem philologist (Language Boundary), dies at 81 December 6, 1959 Len Doyle, actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66 December 6, 1958 Erwin Bodky, composer, dies at 62 December 6, 1953 Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48 December 6, 1951 J Edward Bromberg, dies at 47 December 6, 1951 Harold Ross, American Editor December 6, 1949 Leadbelly, [Huddie William Ledbetter], blues singer, dies at 64 December 6, 1946 Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer, dies at 63 December 6, 1943 Firmin Baes, Flemish painter, dies at 69 December 6, 1943 Hermann Lohr, composer, dies at 72 December 6, 1941 Anthony G Kroller, entrepreneur/government advisor, dies December 6, 1933 Auguste Chapuis, composer, dies at 75 December 6, 1926 Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies at 86 December 6, 1920 Karel Kovarovic, composer, dies at 57 December 6, 1914 Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47 December 6, 1903 Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54 December 6, 1892 E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75 December 6, 1889 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States (1861-5), dies at 81 December 6, 1889 Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter, dies at 48 December 6, 1882 A Trollope, writer, dies December 6, 1882 Anthony Trollope, English Author December 6, 1873 Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24 December 6, 1869 Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54 December 6, 1867 Giovanni Pacini, composer, dies at 71 December 6, 1865 Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56 December 6, 1834 Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer, dies at 54 December 6, 1799 Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71 December 6, 1793 Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded December 6, 1779 Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, French still life painter, dies at 80 December 6, 1658 Gracian, writer, dies December 6, 1651 Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poet, dies at 68 December 6, 1640 Matthijs Elsevier, Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75 December 6, 1598 Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78 December 6, 1562 Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter/architect, dies December 6, 1550 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48 December 6, 1531 John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded December 6, 1352 Clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies December 6, 1185 Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76 |