Deaths on 6 December
2000s
Maggie Tabberer
2024
Australian model and television presenter (1936–2024)
Peter Vaughan
2016
English actor (1923–2016)
Ko Chun-hsiung
2015
Taiwanese actor, director and politician
Liu Juying
2015
Chinese politician (1917–2015)
Nicholas Smith (actor)
2015
English actor (1934–2015)
Ralph H. Baer
2014
American inventor and engineer (1922–2014)
Jimmy Del Ray
2014
American professional wrestler (1962-2014)
Fred Hawkins (golfer)
2014
American golfer (1923–2014)
Luke Somers
2014
American photojournalist (1981–2014)
Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers
2013
French writer and poet (1939–2013)
Stan Tracey
2013
British jazz pianist and composer (1926–2013)
M. K. Turk
2013
American basketball player and coach (1942–2013)
Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó
2012
Equatoguinean politician (1961–2012)
Jan Carew
2012
Guyanese writer and professor (1920–2012)
Jeffrey Koo Sr.
2012
Taiwanese banker (1933–2012)
Huw Lloyd-Langton
2012
English guitarist (1951–2012)
Pedro Vaz (diplomat)
2012
Uruguayan diplomat, politician, and lawyer
Dobie Gray
2011
American singer and songwriter (1940–2011)
Mark Dailey
2010
Canadian television journalist and announcer
John Feeney (filmmaker)
2006
New Zealand director and photographer (1922–2006)
Charly Gaul
2005
Luxembourgish cyclist
Devan Nair
2005
President of Singapore from 1981 to 1985
Danny Williams (singer)
2005
South African singer (1942–2005)
William P. Yarborough
2005
United States Army general (1912–2005)
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
2003
President of Guatemala (1918–2003)
Philip Berrigan
2002
American anti-war activist (1923–2002)
Charles McClendon
2001
American football player and coach (1923–2001)
Werner Klemperer
2000
American actor (1920–2000)
Aziz Mian
2000
Pakistani qawwali singer (1942 - 2000)
1900s
César Baldaccini
1998
French sculptor (1921–1998)
Willy den Ouden
1997
Dutch swimmer (1918–1997)
Pete Rozelle
1996
American football executive (1926–1996)
Harry Babcock (American football)
1996
American football player (1930–1996)
Heinz Baas
1994
German footballer and manager
Gian Maria Volonté
1994
Italian actor (1933–1994)
Don Ameche
1993
American actor (1908–1993)
Mimi Smith
1991
Aunt and parental guardian of John Lennon (1906–1991)
Richard Stone
1991
British economist and Nobel Laureate (1913–1991)
Pavlos Sidiropoulos
1990
Greek rock musician (1948-1990)
Tunku Abdul Rahman
1990
Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1957 to 1970
Frances Bavier
1989
American actress (1902–1989)
Sammy Fain
1989
American composer (1902–1989)
John Payne (actor)
1989
American actor (1912–1989)
Roy Orbison
1988
American singer-songwriter (1936–1988)
Burr Tillstrom
1985
Puppeteer
Burleigh Grimes
1985
American baseball player and manager (1893–1985)
Carroll Cole
1985
American serial killer (1938–1985)
Lucienne Boyer
1983
French diseuse and singer
Gul Khan Nasir
1983
Pakistani politician and writer (1914–1983)
Jean-Marie Seroney
1982
Kenyan legislator (1927–1982)
Charles Deutsch
1980
French engineer and automobile maker
João Goulart
1976
President of Brazil from 1961 to 1964
Nikolai Kuznetsov (admiral)
1974
Soviet naval officer (1904–1974)
Janet Munro
1972
British actress (1934–1972)
Evert van Linge
1964
Dutch footballer
Frantz Fanon
1961
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925-1961)
B. R. Ambedkar
1956
Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer (1891–1956)
Honus Wagner
1955
American baseball player (1874–1955)
Harold Ross
1951
American journalist (1892–1951)
Edmund Dwyer-Gray
1945
Australian politician
Gene Stratton-Porter
1924
American writer and naturalist (1863–1924)
Said Halim Pasha
1921
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1917
Aleksandr Dianin
1918
Russian chemist (1851–1918)
1800s
Werner von Siemens
1892
German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816–1892)
Jefferson Davis
1889
President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
Alfred Escher
1882
19th-century Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur
Anthony Trollope
1882
English novelist (1815–1882)
Erastus Brigham Bigelow
1879
American inventor of weaving machines
Theodoros Vryzakis
1878
Greek painter (1819–1878)
August Schleicher
1868
German philologist (1821–1868)
Jean Pierre Flourens
1867
French physiologist and anesthesia pioneer (1794–1867)
William Swainson
1855
English naturalist and artist (1789–1855)
Before 1800
Jonathan Shipley
1788
British bishop (1714–1788)
Jean Siméon Chardin
1779
French painter (1699–1779)
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
1771
Italian anatomist (1682–1771)
Lady Grizel Baillie
1746
Scottish songwriter (1665–1746)
Nicholas Rowe (writer)
1718
English poet and writer (1674–1718)
Benedictus Buns
1716
Carmelite priest and composer
Eleonora Gonzaga (born 1630)
1686
Holy Roman Empress from 1651 to 1657
John Lightfoot
1675
English churchman, rabbinical scholar (1602–1675)
Baltasar Gracián
1658
Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher
Jacques Davy Duperron
1618
French politician and cardinal (1556–1618)
Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi
1616
Moroccan polygraph
Jan van Scorel
1562
Dutch painter (1495–1562)
Pope Clement VI
1352
Head of the Catholic Church from 1342 to 1352
Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk
1306
English peer
Maximos, Metropolitan of Kiev
1305
Rus' bishop
Afonso I of Portugal
1185
King of Portugal from 1139 to 1185
Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya
762
Descendant of Muhammad and revolutionary leader (died 762)
Prince Toneri
735
Son of emperor Temmu; father of emperor Junnin (676-735)
Saint Nicholas
343
4th-century Christian saint