Deaths in History on June 6

Patrick Henry (1736-1799)

American Revolutionary and Founding Father famous for his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, dies at 63

1813 Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect
1816 Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dies at 51
1832 Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher, social reformer and founder of modern utilitarianism, dies at 84
1836 Anthony of Saxony, King of Saxony (1827-36), dies at 80
1840 Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
1843 Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
1861 Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
1861 Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59
1862 Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg, Virginia, dies at 33
1865 William Quantrill, American guerrilla leader in the Confederate Army who led Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre, dies of wounds at 27
1878 Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (Stirling cycle engine) (b. 1790)

John A. Macdonald (1815-1891)

1st Prime Minister of Canada (1867-73 and 1878-91), dies of a stroke at 76

1898 Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62
1906 Johan Philip van der Kellen, Dutch stamp cutter, lithographer and writer, dies at 74
1908 Felipe G. Calderon, Filipino lawyer, politician, educator, and co-author of Malolos Constitution (of the First Philippine Republic), dies at 40
1914 Walter T Watts-Dunton, English lawyer, poet and writer (Aylwin), dies at 81

Yuan Shikai (1859-1916)

Chinese general and President of the Republic of China (1916), dies of uremia at 56

1934 Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor and early television pioneer (also invented the altimeter and automobile self-starter), dies at 66
1934 Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
1935 Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British army officer, dies at 72
1938 Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop (cared for the wounded, sick, and dying during the Mexican Revolution), dies at 60
1943 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian immunologist and pathologist (Nobel 1930 for the discovery of different blood groups), dies at 74
1944 Den Brotheridge, British lieutenant who was the 1st to die during D-Day landings in World War II is killed at 28
1945 Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, Dutch Nazi collaborator (National Socialist Movement (1937-41), commits suicide at 51

Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946)

German author (Before Dawn - Nobel Prize in Literature, 1912), dies at 83

1948 Louis Lumière, French inventor, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895, dies at 83
1955 Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter (founder of Australian Tonalism), dies at 79

Hiram Bingham (1875-1956)

American archaeologist who re-discovered the Incan site of Machu Picchu, dies at 80

Carl Jung (1875-1961)

Swiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology), dies at 85

1962 Yves Klein, French sculptor and painter, dies at 34
1963 William Baziotes, American painter (abstract expressionist), dies at 50
1967 Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47
1968 Franklin Clark Fry, American minister (World Rad of Church), dies at 67
1968 Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)

Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)

American politician (D-Sen-NY, US Attorney General), assassinated in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan at 42

Miles Dempsey (1896-1969)

British WWII general (XIII Corps, Second Army), dies of cancer at 72

J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

American oil magnate and billionaire (Getty Oil), dies at 83

1982 Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
1983 James E. Casey, American businessman and founder (United Parcel Service), dies at 95
1984 A. Bertram Chandler, Anglo-Australian mariner and sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72
1986 Herbert Eisenreich, Austrian writer, dies at 61
1991 Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77
1993 James Bridges, writer/director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57
1993 Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73
1994 Jan Slot, Dutch mayor (Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede), dies at 80
1995 James Anderson, writer, dies at 41
1995 Rene Firino-Martell, French cognac manufacturer (Martell), dies at 68
1996 George Davis Snell, American geneticist (1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, H-2 gene), dies at 92
1996 Jean Sinclair, South African campaigner, founder member and first president of the Black Sash in 1955, dies at 88
2000 Frédéric Dard, French writer (San-Antonio), dies at 78
2003 Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
2003 Tom Jackson, British union leader (Post Office), dies at 78
2004 Kate Worley, American comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer), dies of cancer at 46
2005 Maya Kopitseva, Russian painter of the Leningrad school, dies at 81
2006 Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
2011 Shrek the sheep, New Zealand sheep that held world record for biggest shorn fleece, dies at 16
2013 Jerome Karle, American chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 94
2013 Tom Sharpe, British satirist and author, dies from complications from diabetes at 85
2014 Eric Hill, British children's books author and illustrator (Where's Spot), dies at 86
2015 Ludvik Vaculik, Czech writer (Two Thousand Words), dies at 88
2015 Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney and author (Helter-Skelter), dies at 80
2016 Kimbo Slice [Kevin Ferguson], American mixed martial artist, dies at 42