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History Deaths on October 06


Leevi Madetoja
Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)

#Leevi_Madetoja

Igor Talkov
Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1956)

#Igor_Talkov

Vladimir Shlapentokh
Vladimir Shlapentokh, Ukrainian-American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and academic (b. 1926)

#Vladimir_Shlapentokh

Ralphie May
Ralphie May, American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1972)

#Ralphie_May

Marian Seldes
Marian Seldes, American actress (b. 1928)

#Marian_Seldes

Nick Curran
Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1977)

#Nick_Curran

Pawe? Strzelecki
Pawe? Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)

#Pawe?_Strzelecki

Bertha Brouwer
Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (b. 1930)

#Bertha_Brouwer

Otto Fritz Meyerhof
Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)

#Otto_Fritz_Meyerhof

D?c ??c
D?c ??c, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)

#D?c_??c

Will Keith Kellogg
Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)

#Will_Keith_Kellogg

Johannes Jelgerhuis
Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (b. 1770)

#Johannes_Jelgerhuis

Walter Hagen
Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)

#Walter_Hagen

François Cevert
François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)

#François_Cevert

Paul Scarron
Paul Scarron, French poet and author (b. 1610)

#Paul_Scarron

Minamoto no Mitsunaka
Minamoto no Mitsunaka, Japanese samurai (b. 912)

#Minamoto_no_Mitsunaka

?ehzade Mustafa
?ehzade Mustafa, Ottoman prince (b. 1515)

#?ehzade_Mustafa

Buck O'Neil
Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)

#Buck_O'Neil

Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

#Anwar_Sadat

Scott Wilson (actor)
Scott Wilson, American actor (b. 1942)

#Scott_Wilson_(actor)

Rhys Isaac
Rhys Isaac, South-African-Australian historian and author (b. 1937)

#Rhys_Isaac

Charles the Bald
Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 823)

#Charles_the_Bald

Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia
Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (b. 1751)

#Charles_Emmanuel_IV_of_Sardinia

Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)

#Bernard_Berenson

Tod Browning
Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)

#Tod_Browning

Johnny Vander Meer
Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1914)

#Johnny_Vander_Meer

Joan II of Navarre
Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 13112

#Joan_II_of_Navarre

Wilson Tucker
Wilson Tucker, American author and critic (b. 1914)

#Wilson_Tucker

Serhiy Zakarlyuka
Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1976)

#Serhiy_Zakarlyuka

Jean Robic
Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)

#Jean_Robic

Samuel of Bulgaria
Samuel, tsar of the Bulgarian Empire

#Samuel_of_Bulgaria

Bruno of Cologne
Bruno of Cologne, German monk, founded the Carthusian Order

#Bruno_of_Cologne

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)

#Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson

Antonie Kamerling
Antonie Kamerling, Dutch television and film actor, and musician (b. 1966)

#Antonie_Kamerling

Pierre Derbigny
Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)

#Pierre_Derbigny

Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento, Australian actress and author (b. 1933)

#Diane_Cilento

Prince Claus of the Netherlands
Prince Claus of the Netherlands (b. 1926)

#Prince_Claus_of_the_Netherlands

William Tyndale
William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (b. c. 1494)

#William_Tyndale

Leonardo Conti
Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)

#Leonardo_Conti

Árpád Göncz
Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (b. 1922)

#Árpád_Göncz

Guru Har Rai
Guru Har Rai, Indian 7th Sikh guru (b. 1630)

#Guru_Har_Rai

Johnny O'Keefe
Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1935)

#Johnny_O'Keefe

Paul Rogers (actor)
Paul Rogers, English actor (b. 1917)

#Paul_Rogers_(actor)

Elisabeth of France (1602-1644)
Elisabeth of France, queen of Spain and Portugal (b. 1602)

#Elisabeth_of_France_(1602-1644)

Feridun Bu?eker
Feridun Bu?eker, Turkish football player (b. 1933)

#Feridun_Bu?eker

Amália Rodrigues
Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)

#Amália_Rodrigues

Gilbert Ryle
Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher and author (b. 1900)

#Gilbert_Ryle

Sidney Blackmer
Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)

#Sidney_Blackmer

Bette Davis
Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)

#Bette_Davis

Bill O'Reilly (cricketer)
Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1905)

#Bill_O'Reilly_(cricketer)

Igor Mitoraj
Igor Mitoraj, German-Polish sculptor (b. 1944)

#Igor_Mitoraj

Albert, Margrave of Meissen (1934-2012)
Albert, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1943)

#Albert,_Margrave_of_Meissen_(1934-2012)

Auguste Beernaert
Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)

#Auguste_Beernaert

Cléo de Verberena
Cléo de Verberena, Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909)

#Cléo_de_Verberena

Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle
Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (b. 1652)

#Christopher_Monck,_2nd_Duke_of_Albemarle

Bahriye Üçok
Bahriye Üçok, Turkish sociologist and politician (b. 1919)

#Bahriye_Üçok

Terence Cooke
Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b. 1921)

#Terence_Cooke

Ginger Baker
Ginger Baker, English drummer (b. 1939)

#Ginger_Baker

Mark Belanger
Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)

#Mark_Belanger

Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer (b. 1911)

#Elizabeth_Bishop

Jeong Dojeon
Jeong Dojeon, Korean prime minister (b. 1342)

#Jeong_Dojeon

Laxmi Mall Singhvi
Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Indian scholar, jurist, and politician (b. 1931)

#Laxmi_Mall_Singhvi

Wang Mang
Wang Mang, emperor of the Han Dynasty

#Wang_Mang

Adalbero of Würzburg
Adalbero, bishop of Würzburg

#Adalbero_of_Würzburg

Damat Ferid Pasha
Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)

#Damat_Ferid_Pasha

Rift Fournier
Rift Fournier, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1936)

#Rift_Fournier

Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino
Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino, Peruvian historian, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1923)

#Juan_Vicente_Ugarte_del_Pino

Chadli Bendjedid
Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)

#Chadli_Bendjedid

Montserrat Caballé
Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (b. 1933)

#Montserrat_Caballé

Aelia Eudoxia
Aelia Eudoxia, Byzantine empress

#Aelia_Eudoxia

Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)

#Charles_Stewart_Parnell

Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player (b. 1936)
David Marks, British architect, designer of the London Eye (b. 1952)
Diane Nyland, Canadian actress, director and choreographer (b. 1944)
Vic Braden, American tennis player and coach (b. 1929)
Nico van Kampen, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1921)
Ulysses Curtis, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926)
J. J. C. Smart, English-Australian philosopher and academic (b. 1920)
B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of West Bengal (b. 1927)
Joseph Meyer, American lawyer and politician, 19th Secretary of State of Wyoming (b. 1941)
Anthony John Cooke, English organist and composer (b. 1931)
Douglas Campbell, Scottish-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)
Peter Cox, Australian public servant and politician (b. 1925)
Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian lawyer and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 1921)
Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
Arne Harris, American director and producer (b. 1934)
Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman (b. 1920)
Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1937)
Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (b. 1961)
Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (b. 1949)
Nejat Eczac?ba??, Turkish chemist, businessman, and philanthropist, founded Eczac?ba?? (b. 1913)
Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921)
Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (b. 1921)
Hattie Jacques, English actress and producer (b. 1922)
Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (b. 1948)
Margaret Wilson, American missionary and author (b. 1882)
Dennis Price, English actor (b. 1915)
Dick Laan, Dutch actor, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (b. 1893)
Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1684)
Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
Dawit I, ruler (Emperor) of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
Engelbert III, margrave of Istria
Baldwin, archbishop of Pisa
Frederick of Luxembourg, count of Moselgau (b. 965)
Ermentrude of Orléans, Frankish queen (b. 823)
Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine general