History Deaths on January 06

Emma Calvé, French soprano and actress (b. 1858)

#Emma_Calvé

Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and choreographer (b. 1938)

#Rudolf_Nureyev

W. Morgan Sheppard, British actor (b. 1932)

#W._Morgan_Sheppard

Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1923)

#Octavio_Lepage

Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1934)

#Sneaky_Pete_Kleinow

Honoratus, French archbishop and saint (b. 350)

#Honoratus

Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-South African lawyer and politician (b. 1926)

#Joe_Slovo

Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (b. 1835)

#Thomas_W._Knox

Raymond Mays, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1899)

#Raymond_Mays

Ida Tarbell, American journalist, reformer, and educator (b. 1857)

#Ida_Tarbell

Frances Burney, English author and playwright (b. 1752)

#Frances_Burney

Shmuel Berenbaum, Rabbi of Mir Yeshiva (Brooklyn)

#Shmuel_Berenbaum

Gertrude van der Oosten, Beguine mystic

#Gertrude_van_der_Oosten

Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (b. 1672)

#Étienne_François_Geoffroy

Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1653)

#Chikamatsu_Monzaemon

Silvana Pampanini, Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (b. 1925)

#Silvana_Pampanini

Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (b. 1830)

#Lars_Hertervig

John Dennis, English playwright and critic (b. 1657)

#John_Dennis_(dramatist)

Vladimir de Pachmann, Ukrainian-German pianist (b. 1848)

#Vladimir_de_Pachmann

Jean Lurçat, French painter (b. 1892)

#Jean_Lurçat

Alvin Kraenzlein, American hurdler and long jumper (b. 1876)

#Alvin_Kraenzlein

Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist and historian (b. 1834)

#Hendrick_Peter_Godfried_Quack

Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (b. 1863)

#Vladimir_Vernadsky

A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and author (b. 1896)

#A._J._Cronin

Hasan ibn Zayd, Tabaristan ruler

#Hasan_ibn_Zayd

Om Puri, Indian actor (b. 1950)

#Om_Puri

Max Heindel, Danish-American astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)

#Max_Heindel

Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)

#Georg_Cantor

André Bessette, Canadian saint (b. 1845)

#André_Bessette

Spike Pola, Australian footballer and soldier (b. 1914)

#Spike_Pola

Giovanni I di Murta, second doge of the Republic of Genoa

#Giovanni_I_di_Murta

Abo of Tiflis, Iraqi martyr and saint (b. 756)

#Abo_of_Tiflis

Lamin Sanneh, Gambian-born American professor (b. 1942)

#Lamin_Sanneh

Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian journalist and politician, 2nd President of Latvia (b. 1871)

#Gustavs_Zemgals

Bharatendu Harishchandra, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1850)

#Bharatendu_Harishchandra

Giacomo Beltrami, Italian jurist, explorer, and author (b. 1779)

#Giacomo_Beltrami

Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)

#Louis_Baraguey_d'Hilliers

Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (b. 1921)

#Francesco_Scavullo

Ioannis Petridis, Greek politician (b. 1931)

#Ioannis_Petridis

Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor (b. 1917)

#Paul_Streeten

Dizzy Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (b. 1917)

#Dizzy_Gillespie

Sofoklis Dousmanis, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1868)

#Sofoklis_Dousmanis

Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1664)

#Giovanni_Vincenzo_Gravina

Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (b. 1418)

#Christopher_of_Bavaria

Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822)

#Gregor_Mendel

Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician and chess player (b. 1842)

#Jakob_Rosanes

Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)

#Alessandro_de'_Medici,_Duke_of_Florence

Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617)

#Seth_Ward_(bishop_of_Salisbury)

Peter IV of Aragon (b. 1319)

#Peter_IV_of_Aragon

David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896)

#David_Alfaro_Siqueiros

Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)

#Louis_Braille

Ahmed Khan bin Küchük, Mongolian ruler

#Ahmed_Khan_bin_Küchük

Philips van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)

#Philips_van_Almonde

José Ramón Fernández, Cuban revolution leader (b. 1923)

#José_Ramón_Fernández

Frederick Hitch, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1856)

#Frederick_Hitch

Raymond of Penyafort, Catalan archbishop and saint (b. 1175)

#Raymond_of_Penyafort

Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter, designed the Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne (b. 1481)

#Baldassare_Peruzzi

Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (b. 1882)

#Charley_O'Leary

Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)

#Theodore_Roosevelt

Elias Holl, German architect, designed the Augsburg Town Hall (b. 1573)

#Elias_Holl

Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766)

#Rodolphe_Kreutzer

Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (b. 1642)

#Mehmed_IV

Victor Fleming, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1883)

#Victor_Fleming

Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

#Pavel_Cherenkov

Nelson Ned, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1947)

#Nelson_Ned

Christy O'Connor Jnr, Irish golfer and architect (b. 1948)

#Christy_O'Connor_Jnr

Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753)

#Josef_Dobrovský

Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman, 3rd President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1876)

#Henri_de_Baillet-Latour

Devil Anse Hatfield, American guerrilla leader (b. 1839)

#Devil_Anse_Hatfield

Berengar of Tours, French scholar and theologian (b. 999)

#Berengar_of_Tours

Tarquinio Provini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1933)

#Tarquinio_Provini

Gerard Helders, Dutch jurist and politician (b. 1905)

#Gerard_Helders

Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1100)

#Gilbert_de_Clare,_1st_Earl_of_Pembroke

Tilikum, American-held orca (b. ca. 1981)

Florence King, American journalist and author (b. 1936)

Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)

Basil John Mason, English meteorologist and academic (b. 1923)

Arthur Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter (b. 1918)

Julian Rotter, American psychologist and academic (b. 1916)

Marina Ginestà, French Resistance soldier and photographer (b. 1919)

Bob Bolen, American businessman and politician (b. 1926)

Cho Sung-min, South Korean baseball player (b. 1973)

John Ingram, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)

Ruth Carter Stevenson, American art collector, founded the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (b. 1923)

Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1938)

Bob Holness, South African-English radio and television host (b. 1928)

John Celardo, American illustrator (b. 1918)

Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist and engineer (b. 1938)

Uche Okafor, Nigerian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1967)

Ron Asheton, American guitarist, songwriter, and actor (b. 1948)

Roberta Wohlstetter, American political scientist, historian, and academic (b. 1912)

Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)

Hugh Thompson, Jr., American soldier and pilot (b. 1943)

Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)

Louis Robichaud, Canadian lawyer and politician, 25th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)

Lois Hole, Canadian academic and politician, 15th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (b. 1929)

Eileen Desmond, Irish civil servant and politician, 12th Irish Minister for Health (b. 1932)

Pierre Charles, Dominican educator and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)

Hirini Melbourne, New Zealand singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1949)

Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)

Michel Petrucciani, French-American pianist (b. 1962)

Richard Mortensen, Danish painter and educator (b. 1910)

Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Turkish composer and musicologist (b. 1907)

Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1949)

Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)

Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)

Chen Yi, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (b. 1901)

Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (b. 1878)

Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)

George Van Cleaf, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)

Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1815)

Philip Henslowe, English businessman (b. 1550)

Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme

Roger Walden, English bishop

William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey

'Amr ibn al-'As, Arabian general and politician, Governor of Egypt (b. 583)