6 October Deaths

Published : 06 Oct 2017, 10:52

Jagoroniya Desk

October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).

Deaths

AD 23 – Wang Mang, "usurper" of the throne of the Han Dynasty and Emperor of the Xin Dynasty (b. 45 BC)
404 – Aelia Eudoxia, Roman wife of Arcadius
836 – Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine general, monk, and saint (b. 761)
869 – Ermentrude of Orléans (b. 823)
877 – Charles the Bald, Roman emperor (b. 823)
1014 – Samuel of Bulgaria, Tsar of the First Bulgarian Empire (b. 958)
1145 – Baldwin, archbishop of Pisa
1090 – Saint Adalbero
1101 – Bruno of Cologne, German-Italian monk and saint, founded Carthusian Order (b. 1030)
1173 – Engelbert III, Margrave of Istria
1349 – Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1311)
1398 – Jeong Dojeon, Korean prime minister (b. 1342)
1413 – Dawit I of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1536 – William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (b. c. 1494)
1553 – Şehzade Mustafa, Ottoman prince (b. 1515)
1641 – Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
1644 – Elisabeth of France (b. 1602)
1657 – Kâtip Çelebi, Turkish geographer, historian, and scholar (b. 1609)
1660 – Paul Scarron, French poet and author (b. 1610)
1661 – Guru Har Rai, Indian 7th Sikh guru (b. 1630)
1688 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (b. 1652)
1762 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1684)
1819 – Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (b. 1751)
1829 – Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
1836 – Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (b. 1770)
1873 – Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
1883 – Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
1891 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
1892 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
1912 – Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
1923 – Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
1942 – Siegmund Glücksmann, German-Jewish politician (b. 1884)
1945 – Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
1947 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
1959 – Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
1962 – Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
1968 – Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
1969 – Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)
1969 – Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (b. 1893)
1973 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)
1973 – François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
1973 – Dick Laan, Dutch actor, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
1973 – Dennis Price, English actor (b. 1915)
1973 – Margaret Wilson, American missionary and author (b. 1882)
1974 – Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (b. 1948)
1976 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher and author (b. 1900)
1979 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer (b. 1911)
1980 – Hattie Jacques, English actress and producer (b. 1922)
1980 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
1981 – Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1983 – Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b. 1921)
1985 – Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (b. 1921)
1986 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921)
1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
1990 – Bahriye Üçok, Turkish sociologist and politician (b. 1919)
1991 – Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
1992 – Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1905)
1993 – Nejat Eczacıbaşı, Turkish chemist, businessman, and philanthropist, founded Eczacıbaşı (b. 1913)
1993 – Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (b. 1949)
1995 – Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (b. 1961)
1997 – Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1914)
1998 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1999 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
1999 – Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1937)
2000 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman (b. 1920)
2001 – Arne Harris, American director and producer (b. 1934)
2002 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
2006 – Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (b. 1930)
2006 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
2006 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
2006 – Wilson Tucker, American author and critic (b. 1914)
2007 – Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian lawyer and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 1921)
2007 – Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Indian scholar, jurist, and politician (b. 1931)
2008 – Peter Cox, Australian public servant and politician (b. 1925)
2009 – Douglas Campbell, Scottish-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2010 – Rhys Isaac, South-African-Australian historian and author (b. 1937)
2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch television and film actor, and musician (b. 1966)
2011 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress and author (b. 1933)
2012 – Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
2012 – Anthony John Cooke, English organist and composer (b. 1931)
2012 – Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1977)
2012 – Albert, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1943)
2012 – Joseph Meyer, American lawyer and politician, 19th Secretary of State of Wyoming (b. 1941)
2012 – B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of West Bengal (b. 1927)
2012 – J. J. C. Smart, English-Australian philosopher and academic (b. 1920)
2013 – Ulysses Curtis, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926)
2013 – Rift Fournier, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1936)
2013 – Paul Rogers, English actor (b. 1917)
2013 – Nico van Kampen, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1921)
2014 – Vic Braden, American tennis player and coach (b. 1929)
2014 – Igor Mitoraj, German-Polish sculptor (b. 1944)
2014 – Diane Nyland, Canadian actress, director and choreographer (b. 1944)
2014 – Marian Seldes, American actress (b. 1928)
2014 – Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1976)
2014 – Feridun Buğeker, Turkish football player (b. 1933)
2015 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (b. 1922)
2015 – Vladimir Shlapentokh, Ukrainian-American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and academic (b. 1926)
2015 – Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino, Peruvian historian, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1923)

Source: wikipedia

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