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May 6 Deaths in History - May 6 Birthdays - May 6 Events
May 6, 2005 Joe Grant, American Artist
May 6, 2004 Virginia Capers, actress, Raisin, dies at 78
May 6, 2002 Pim Fortuyn, Dutch Politician
May 6, 1996 Frank Hercules, writer, dies at 85
May 6, 1996 Geoffrey Dawes, physiologist, dies at 78
May 6, 1996 Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert, dies at 87
May 6, 1996 Joseph Stone, lawyer, dies at 79
May 6, 1996 Leon Joseph Suenens, cardinal, dies at 91
May 6, 1996 Michael Gerzon, mathematician, dies at 50
May 6, 1995 Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to Port throne, dies at 88
May 6, 1995 Leanoard "Red" Truss, R&B singer, dies at 47
May 6, 1995 Nicholas Palmer, TV writer/producer, dies at 57
May 6, 1994 Fred Sadoff, actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67
May 6, 1994 Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 59
May 6, 1994 Helen Lessore, artist, dies at 86
May 6, 1994 Montague Modlyn, broadcaster, dies at 72
May 6, 1994 Moses Rosen, Romania's chief rabbi, dies at 81
May 6, 1993 Ann Todd, actress (Things to Come, Danny Boy), dies of stroke at 84
May 6, 1993 Minnie Gentry, actress (Def by Temptation), dies in New York at 77
May 6, 1992 Jilly Rizzo, restauranteur/friend of Frank Sinatra, dies in car at 75
May 6, 1992 Marlene Dietrich, [Maria Losch], actress (Angel), dies in Paris at 90
May 6, 1991 Anthony van Kampen, writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), dies
May 6, 1991 Thomas A Carlin, dies at 62
May 6, 1991 Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brits actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 87
May 6, 1990 Charles Farrell, actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89
May 6, 1989 Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space)
May 6, 1987 William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73
May 6, 1984 William Allen Egan, American Politician
May 6, 1982 Sam Baker, dies
May 6, 1978 Ethelda Bleibtrey, U.S. swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920), dies at 76
May 6, 1978 Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P), dies at 61
May 6, 1976 Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85
May 6, 1975 Jozsef Mindszenty, [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal, dies at 83
May 6, 1973 Ernest MacMillan, composer, dies at 79
May 6, 1971 Helene Weigel, Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at 70
May 6, 1964 Harold Morris, composer, dies at 74
May 6, 1963 Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74
May 6, 1961 Lucian Blaga, philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65
May 6, 1960 Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67
May 6, 1952 Alberto Savinio, Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60
May 6, 1952 Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81
May 6, 1950 Agnes Smedley, writer, dies
May 6, 1949 P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belg philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86
May 6, 1948 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens
May 6, 1936 Hans Jelmoli, composer, dies at 59
May 6, 1924 Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet and writer (socialism), dies at 47
May 6, 1919 Frank Lyman Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62
May 6, 1916 Dirk Bos, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
May 6, 1916 Earl Ross Drake, composer, dies at 50
May 6, 1910 Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), dies at 68
May 6, 1908 Jean Reville, French vicar (Le Prophetisme Hebreu), dies at 53
May 6, 1904 Franz von Lenbach, German painter, dies at 67
May 6, 1902 Bret Harte, American Author
May 6, 1892 Ernest Guiraud, composer, dies at 54
May 6, 1890 Hubert Leonard, composer, dies at 71
May 6, 1884 Judah Philip Benjamin, American Politician
May 6, 1882 Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
May 6, 1882 Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
May 6, 1864 Henry Livermore Abbott, U.S. Union brig-general, dies in battle
May 6, 1864 Micah Jenkins, Confederate brig-general (friendly fire), dies at 28
May 6, 1862 Henry David Thoreau, U.S. writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44
May 6, 1859 Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies
May 6, 1856 William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies
May 6, 1852 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75
May 6, 1841 John Thomson, composer, dies at 35
May 6, 1836 Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78
May 6, 1814 George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64
May 6, 1794 Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59
May 6, 1776 James Kent, composer, dies at 76
May 6, 1739 Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63
May 6, 1727 Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42
May 6, 1678 Joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44
May 6, 1667 Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50
May 6, 1666 Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79
May 6, 1642 Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday
May 6, 1638 Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies
May 6, 1540 Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48
May 6, 1527 Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37
May 6, 1475 Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64
May 6, 1124 Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered
May 6, 1085 King Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies
May 6, 988 Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland
May 6, 523 Thrasamunde, king of Vandalen



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