May 6 Deaths |
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| May 6th, 2007 (May 06 2007) | Death | Eneas Carneiro, Brazilian politician (born in 1938) | |
| May 6th, 2007 (May 06 2007) | Death | Curtis Harrington, American film director (born in 1926) | |
| May 6th, 2007 (May 06 2007) | Death | Dorde Novkovic, Croatian songwriter (born in 1943) | |
| May 6th, 2006 (May 06 2006) | Death | Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor (born in 1906) | |
| May 6th, 2006 (May 06 2006) | Death | Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (born in 1926) | |
| May 6th, 2006 (May 06 2006) | Death | Grant McLennan, co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens (born in 1958) | |
| May 6th, 2006 (May 06 2006) | Death | Lorne Saxberg, Canadian television journalist (born in 1958) | |
| May 6th, 2004 (May 06 2004) | Death | Philip Kapleau, American Zen teacher (born in 1912) | |
| May 6th, 2004 (May 06 2004) | Death | Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (born in 1923) | |
| May 6th, 2003 (May 06 2003) | Death | Art Houtteman, baseball player (born in 1927) | |
| May 6th, 2002 (May 06 2002) | Death | Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (born in 1932) | |
| May 6th, 2002 (May 06 2002) | Death | Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (born in 1948) | |
| May 6th, 1995 (May 06 1995) | Death | Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (born in 1956) | |
| May 6th, 1995 (May 06 1995) | Death | Hilda Toledano (born in 1907) | |
| May 6th, 1993 (May 06 1993) | Death | Ann Todd, English actress (born in 1909) | |
| May 6th, 1992 (May 06 1992) | Death | Marlene Dietrich, German actress (born in 1901) | |
| May 6th, 1992 (May 06 1992) | Death | Jilly Rizzo, restaurateur (born in 1917) | |
| May 6th, 1991 (May 06 1991) | Death | Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor (born in 1903) | |
| May 6th, 1990 (May 06 1990) | Death | Charles Farrell, American actor (born in 1901) | |
| May 6th, 1989 (May 06 1989) | Death | Earl Blaik, Former American football coach (born in 1897) | |
| May 6th, 1987 (May 06 1987) | Death | William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (born in 1913) | |
| May 6th, 1985 (May 06 1985) | Death | Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (born in 1968) | |
| May 6th, 1984 (May 06 1984) | Death | Bonner Pink, Conservative Party politician | |
| May 6th, 1984 (May 06 1984) | Death | Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (born in 1904) | |
| May 6th, 1983 (May 06 1983) | Death | Kai Winding, American trombonist and jazz composer (born in 1922) | |
| May 6th, 1975 (May 06 1975) | Death | Jozsef Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic Cardinal (born in 1892) | |
| May 6th, 1973 (May 06 1973) | Death | Ernest MacMillan, Canadian orchestra conductor and composer (born in 1893) | |
| May 6th, 1972 (May 06 1972) | Death | Deniz Gezmis, Turkish Left-wing Political Activist (born in 1947) | |
| May 6th, 1970 (May 06 1970) | Death | Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (born in 1879) | |
| May 6th, 1967 (May 06 1967) | Death | Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (born in 1885) | |
| May 6th, 1963 (May 06 1963) | Death | Theodore von Karman, Hungarian-born physicist (born in 1881) | Theodore von Karman Quotes |
| May 6th, 1963 (May 06 1963) | Death | Monty Woolley, American actor (born in 1888) | |
| May 6th, 1961 (May 06 1961) | Death | Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (born in 1895) | Philo Quotes |
| May 6th, 1952 (May 06 1952) | Death | Maria Montessori, Italian educator (born in 1870) | |
| May 6th, 1951 (May 06 1951) | Death | Elie Cartan, French mathematician (born in 1869) | |
| May 6th, 1949 (May 06 1949) | Death | Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1862) | |
| May 6th, 1939 (May 06 1939) | Death | Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (born in 1869) | |
| May 6th, 1919 (May 06 1919) | Death | L. Frank Baum, American writer (born in 1856) | L. Frank Baum Quotes |
| May 6th, 1910 (May 06 1910) | Death | King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (born in 1841) | |
| May 6th, 1902 (May 06 1902) | Death | Bret Harte, American author (born in 1836) | |
| May 6th, 1882 (May 06 1882) | Death | Thomas Henry Burke, civil servant (b.1829) and Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (b.1836) in the Phoenix Park Murders. | |
| May 6th, 1877 (May 06 1877) | Death | Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (born in 1804) | |
| May 6th, 1862 (May 06 1862) | Death | Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (born in 1817) | Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| May 6th, 1859 (May 06 1859) | Death | Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (born in 1769) | Alexander von Humboldt Quotes |
| May 6th, 1840 (May 06 1840) | Death | Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (born in 1792) | |
| May 6th, 1757 (May 06 1757) | Death | Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (born in 1705) | |
| May 6th, 1757 (May 06 1757) | Death | Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (born in 1683) | |
| May 6th, 1757 (May 06 1757) | Death | Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (born in 1684) | |
| May 6th, 1708 (May 06 1708) | Death | Francois de Laval, first bishop of New France (born in 1623) | |
| May 6th, 1638 (May 06 1638) | Death | Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (born in 1585) | |
| May 6th, 1631 (May 06 1631) | Death | Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician | |
| May 6th, 1620 (May 06 1620) | Death | Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (born in 1543) | |
| May 6th, 1596 (May 06 1596) | Death | Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (born in 1535) | |
| May 6th, 1502 (May 06 1502) | Death | James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed) | |
| May 6th, 0680 (May 06 0680) | Death | Muawiyah I, caliph (born in 602) | |
