6 February Deaths

February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days remaining until the end of the year (329 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

    743 – Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, Arab caliph (b. 691)
    797 – Donnchad Midi, Irish king (b. 733)
    891 – Photios I of Constantinople (b. 810)
    1140 – Thurstan, Archbishop of York
    1155 – King Sigurd II of Norway (b. 1133)
    1215 – Hōjō Tokimasa, Japanese emperor (b. 1138)
    1378 – Joanna of Bourbon (b. 1338)
    1497 – Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer and educator (b. 1410)
    1515 – Aldus Manutius, Italian publisher, founded the Aldine Press (b. 1449)
    1585 – Edmund Plowden, English lawyer and scholar (b. 1518)
    1593 – Jacques Amyot, French author and translator (b. 1513)
    1593 – Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
    1612 – Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1538)
    1617 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1553)
    1685 – Charles II of England (b. 1630)
    1695 – Ahmed II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1643)
    1740 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
    1775 – William Dowdeswell, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1721)
    1783 – Capability Brown, English gardener and architect (b. 1716)
    1793 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian-French playwright (b. 1707)
    1804 – Joseph Priestley, English chemist and theologian (b. 1733)
    1806 – Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Haitian-French general (b. 1762)
    1807 – John Reid, Scottish general (b. 1721)
    1833 – Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1762)
    1834 – Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (b. 1804)
    1899 – Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1874)
    1899 – Leo von Caprivi, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
    1916 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat (b. 1867)
    1918 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and illustrator (b. 1862)
    1929 – Maria Christina of Austria (b. 1858)
    1931 – Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (b. 1861)
    1938 – Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
    1942 – Jaan Soots, Estonian general and politician, 7th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1880)
    1951 – Gabby Street, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1882)
    1952 – George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
    1958 – victims of the Munich air disaster
        – Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
        – Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
        – Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
        – Walter Crickmer, English footballer and manager (b. 1900)
        – Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
        – David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
        – Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
        – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
    1963 – Piero Manzoni, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1933)
    1964 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (b. 1869)
    1967 – Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920)
    1976 – Ritwik Ghatak, Bangladeshi-Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
    1976 – Vince Guaraldi, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1928)
    1981 – Hugo Montenegro, American composer and conductor (b. 1925)
    1982 – Ben Nicholson, British painter (b. 1894)
    1985 – James Hadley Chase, English-Swiss soldier and author (b. 1906)
    1986 – Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1899)
    1986 – Dandy Nichols, English actress (b. 1907)
    1986 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center (b. 1912)
    1987 – Julien Chouinard, Canadian lawyer and jurist (b. 1929)
    1989 – Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (b. 1912)
    1990 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American pianist and composer (b. 1913)
    1991 – Salvador Luria, Italian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
    1991 – Danny Thomas, American actor, producer, and humanitarian (b. 1914)
    1993 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1943)
    1994 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
    1994 – Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
    1995 – James Merrill, American poet and playwright (b. 1926)
    1999 – Don Dunstan, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (b. 1926)
    1999 – Jimmy Roberts, American tenor (b. 1924)
    2000 – Phil Walters, American racing driver (b. 1916)
    2001 – Filemon Lagman, Filipino theoretician and activist (b. 1953)
    2002 – Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
    2004 – Gerald Bouey, Canadian lieutenant and economist (b. 1920)
    2005 – Karl Haas, German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (b. 1913)
    2007 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)
    2007 – Frankie Laine, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1913)
    2007 – Willye White, American runner and long jumper (b. 1939)
    2008 – Tony Rolt, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1918)
    2009 – Philip Carey, American actor (b. 1925)
    2009 – James Whitmore, American actor (b. 1921)
    2011 – Gary Moore, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1952)
    2012 – David Rosenhan, American psychologist and academic (b. 1929)
    2012 – Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
    2012 – Janice E. Voss, American engineer and astronaut (b. 1956)
    2013 – Chokri Belaid, Tunisian lawyer and politician (b. 1964)
    2013 – Menachem Elon, German-Israeli academic and jurist (b. 1923)
    2014 – Vasiľ Biľak, Slovak politician (b. 1917)
    2014 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1922)
    2014 – Maxine Kumin, American author and poet (b. 1925)
    2014 – Vaçe Zela, Albanian-Swiss singer and guitarist (b. 1939)
    2015 – André Brink, South African author and playwright (b. 1935)
    2015 – Alan Nunnelee, American lawyer and politician (b. 1958)
    2015 – Pedro León Zapata, Venezuelan cartoonist (b. 1929)
    2016 – Dan Gerson, American screenwriter (b. 1966)
    2016 – Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)

Source: Wikipedia