Deaths on 6 April
2000s
Clem Burke
2025
American drummer (1954–2025)
Jay North
2025
American actor (1951–2025)
Joseph E. Brennan
2024
American lawyer and politician (1934–2024)
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
2022
Russian politician (1946–2022)
Jill Knight
2022
British politician (1923–2022)
Hans Küng
2021
Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author (1928–2021)
Alcee Hastings
2021
American politician and judge (1936–2021)
Al Kaline
2020
American baseball player (1934–2020)
Michael O'Donnell (physician)
2019
British physician, journalist, author, and broadcaster (1928–2019)
Don Rickles
2017
American comedian and actor (1926–2017)
Merle Haggard
2016
American singer-songwriter (1937–2016)
Giovanni Berlinguer
2015
Italian politician, humanist, and professor of social medicine (1924–2015)
James Best
2015
American actor, musician, artist (1926–2015)
Ray Charles (conductor)
2015
American musician, conductor and arranger (1918–2015)
Dollard St. Laurent
2015
Canadian ice hockey player
Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918)
2014
American actress (1918–2014)
Jacques Castérède
2014
French composer and pianist (1926–2014)
Liv Dommersnes
2014
Norwegian actress and reciter of poetry
Mickey Rooney
2014
American actor (1920–2014)
Chuck Stone
2014
Tuskegee Airman and journalist (1924–2014)
Massimo Tamburini
2014
Italian motorcycle designer (1943–2014)
Hilda Bynoe
2013
Governor of Grenada (1921-2013)
Bill Guttridge
2013
English footballer and manager
Bigas Luna
2013
Spanish film director, designer and artist (1946–2013)
Ottmar Schreiner
2013
German lawyer and politician (1946–2013)
Roland Guilbault
2012
Thomas Kinkade
2012
American painter (1958–2012)
Fang Lizhi
2012
Political dissident and astrophysicist
Sheila Scotter
2012
Australian fashion businesswoman
Reed Whittemore
2012
American poet (1919–2012)
Gerald Finnerman
2011
American cinematographer
Wilma Mankiller
2010
Cherokee Nation chief and activist (1945–2010)
Corin Redgrave
2010
English actor (1939–2010)
J. M. S. Careless
2009
Canadian historian (1919–2009)
Shawn Mackay
2009
Australian rugby union footballer
Luigi Comencini
2007
Italian film director
Maggie Dixon
2006
American basketball player and coach (1977–2006)
Francis L. Kellogg
2006
American diplomat
Stefanos Stratigos
2006
Greek actor
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
2005
Prince of Monaco from 1949 to 2005
Anthony F. DePalma
2005
American orthopedic surgeon and professor
Lou Berberet
2004
American baseball player (1929–2004)
Larisa Bogoraz
2004
Soviet dissident
David Bloom
2003
American journalist (1963–2003)
Anita Borg
2003
American computer scientist
Gerald Emmett Carter
2003
Catholic cardinal
Babatunde Olatunji
2003
Nigerian drummer and educator (1927–2003)
Dino Yannopoulos
2003
Greek-American stage director and opera educator
Charles & Eddie
2001
American soul duo (1990–1997)
Habib Bourguiba
2000
President of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987
1900s
Red Norvo
1999
American jazz vibraphonist (1908–1999)
Norbert Schmitz
1998
German footballer
Tammy Wynette
1998
American country singer (1942–1998)
Greer Garson
1996
British and American actress (1904–1996)
Ioannis Alevras
1995
Greek politician and President (1985-1985)
Juvénal Habyarimana
1994
President of Rwanda from 1973 to 1994
Cyprien Ntaryamira
1994
President of Burundi in 1994
Isaac Asimov
1992
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri
1983
Indian Army general (1908–1983)
Ivan Vasilyov
1979
Bulgarian architect
Kōichi Kido
1977
Japanese statesman (1889–1977)
Willem Marinus Dudok
1974
Dutch architect (1884–1974)
Hudson Fysh
1974
Australian aviator and businessman (1895–1974)
Igor Stravinsky
1971
Russian composer (1882–1971)
Maurice Stokes
1970
American basketball player (1933–1970)
Otto Struve
1963
Ukrainian-American astronomer (1897–1963)
Jules Bordet
1961
Belgian scientist and Nobel laureate (1870–1961)
Leo Aryeh Mayer
1959
Israeli scholar of Islamic art (1895–1959)
Idris Davies
1953
Welsh poet
Louis Wilkins
1950
American pole vaulter (1882–1950)
Herbert Backe
1947
German Nazi politician and SS functionary (1896–1947)
Rose O'Neill
1944
American illustrator (1874–1944)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
1935
American poet and playwright (1869–1935)
Florence Van Leer Earle Coates
1927
American writer and poet (1850-1927)
Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore
1913
Irish nobleman and Conservative politician (1835–1913)
Alexander Kielland
1906
Norwegian realist writer (1849–1906)
1800s
Alvan Wentworth Chapman
1899
American botanist and physician (1809–1899)
William Edward Forster
1886
British politician and businessman (1818–1886)
Benjamin Wright Raymond
1883
American politician (1801–1883)
Albert Sidney Johnston
1862
Confederate States Army officer (1803–1862)
James Kirke Paulding
1860
American government official (1778–1860)
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva
1838
Brazilian politician (1763–1838)
Adamantios Korais
1833
Greek humanist scholar (1748–1833)
Niels Henrik Abel
1829
Norwegian mathematician (1802–1829)
Nikolis Apostolis
1827
Greek naval commander (1770–1827)
Vladimir Borovikovsky
1825
Russian artist (1757–1825)
Before 1800
Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
1790
Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
Richard Rawlinson
1755
English antiquarian and cleric (1690–1755)
Willem van de Velde the Younger
1707
Dutch painter
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey
1686
Anglo-Irish royalist statesman (1614–1686)
John Winthrop the Younger
1676
English-born physician, colonial administrator and alchemist (1606–1676)
Leonora Baroni
1670
Italian lutenist and composer
David Blondel
1655
French minister and theologian (1590–1655)
Domenichino
1641
Italian painter (1581–1641)
Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford
1621
English nobleman (1539–1621)
John Stow
1605
16th-century English historian and antiquarian (1524–1605)
Henry Barrowe
1593
English Separatist Puritan (c. 1550 – 1593)
Francis Walsingham
1590
English spy and politician (c. 1532–1590)
John Hamilton (archbishop of St Andrews)
1571
Scottish prelate and politician (1512–1571)
Joachim Vadian
1551
Swiss humanist, scholar and mayor
Albrecht Dürer
1528
German painter, printmaker and theorist (1471–1528)
Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
1523
English peer
Raphael
1520
Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
Matthias Corvinus
1490
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490
Przecław of Pogorzela
1376
Polish cardinal (1310–1376)
James I, Count of La Marche
1362
French prince and Count of Ponthieu (1344–1393)
Basil of Trebizond
1340
Emperor of Trebizond from 1332 to 1340
Peter of Verona
1252
Italian Roman Catholic priest (1205–1252)
Guillaume de Sonnac
1250
Grand Master of the Knights Templar
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
1231
English noble (1190–1231)
Richard I of England
1199
King of England from 1189 to 1199
Umara al-Yamani
1174
Yemeni writer
Frederick II, Duke of Swabia
1147
Hohenstaufen Duke of Swabia (1090–1147)
Liu Churang
943
Nasr II
943
Emir of the Samanids from 914 to 943
Pei Che
887
Cyril and Methodius
885
9th-century Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries
Prudentius of Troyes
861