Deaths on 6 January
2000s
Mary Lou Kownacki
2023
Nun, peace activist, and writer (1941–2023)
Peter Bogdanovich
2022
American film director (1939–2022)
Sidney Poitier
2022
Bahamian-American actor, filmmaker, diplomat (1927–2022)
F. Sionil José
2022
Filipino writer (1924–2022)
Killing of Ashli Babbitt
2021
2021 shooting in the US Capitol Building
Gord Renwick
2021
Canadian ice hockey administrator (1935–2021)
James Cross
2021
British diplomat (1921–2021)
Richard Maponya
2020
South African businessman (1920–2020)
José Ramón Fernández
2019
Cuban politician (1923–2019)
Lamin Sanneh
2019
Gambian American scholar (1942–2019)
W. Morgan Sheppard
2019
British actor (1932–2019)
Paul Streeten
2019
Austrian-born British economics professor (1917–2019)
Octavio Lepage
2017
President of Venezuela from May to June 1993
Om Puri
2017
Indian actor (1950-2017)
Pat Harrington Jr.
2016
American actor (1929–2016)
Florence King
2016
American journalist
Christy O'Connor Jnr
2016
Irish golfer (1948–2016)
Silvana Pampanini
2016
Italian actress (1925–2016)
John Mason (meteorologist)
2015
British meteorologist (1923–2015)
Marina GinestÃ
2014
French-born Spanish journalist
Nelson Ned
2014
Brazilian singer-songwriter (1947–2014)
Julian Rotter
2014
American psychologist
Ruth Carter Stevenson
2013
American art collector (1923–2013)
Bob Holness
2012
British broadcaster (1928–2012)
Uche Okafor
2011
Nigerian footballer
Shmuel Berenbaum
2008
American rabbi
Roberta Wohlstetter
2007
American academic (1912–2007)
Lou Rawls
2006
American singer (1933–2006)
Eileen Desmond
2005
Irish politician (1932–2005)
Lois Hole
2005
Canadian politician (1929–2005)
Tarquinio Provini
2005
Italian motorcycle racer (1933–2005)
Pierre Charles (Dominican politician)
2004
Dominican politician
1900s
Michel Petrucciani
1999
French jazz pianist
Joe Slovo
1995
South African politician (born 1926-1995)
Dizzy Gillespie
1993
American jazz trumpeter (1917–1993)
Rudolf Nureyev
1993
Soviet-born ballet dancer (1938–1993)
Steve Gilpin
1992
New Zealand singer-songwriter (1949–1992)
Alan Wiggins
1991
American baseball player (1958–1991)
Ian Charleson
1990
Scottish actor (1949–1990)
Pavel Cherenkov
1990
Soviet physicist (1904–1990)
Ernest Laszlo
1984
Hungarian-American cinematographer
A. J. Cronin
1981
Scottish physician and novelist (1896–1981)
Burt Munro
1978
New Zealand motorcycle racer
David Alfaro Siqueiros
1974
Mexican social realist painter (1896–1974)
Chen Yi (marshal)
1972
Chinese general, People's Republic of China (1901–1972)
Jean Lurçat
1966
French artist (1892–1966)
Victor Fleming
1949
American film director, cinematographer, and producer (1889–1949)
Vladimir Vernadsky
1945
Soviet geochemist (1863–1945)
Ida Tarbell
1944
American writer, journalist, biographer and lecturer (1857–1944)
Emma Calvé
1942
French operatic soprano (1858-1942)
Henri de Baillet-Latour
1942
President of the IOC from 1925 to 1942
Charley O'Leary
1941
American baseball player and coach (1875–1941)
André Bessette
1937
Canadian Catholic brother and saint (1845–1937)
Herbert Chapman
1934
English association football player and manager (1878–1934)
Vladimir de Pachmann
1933
Alvin Kraenzlein
1928
American track-and-field athlete (1876–1928)
Wilhelm Ramsay
1928
Finnish geologist (1865–1928)
Jakob Rosanes
1922
German mathematician and chess player
Devil Anse Hatfield
1921
American patriarch of the Hatfield clan (1839–1921)
Theodore Roosevelt
1919
President of the United States from 1901 to 1909
Georg Cantor
1918
Mathematician (1845–1918)
Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack
1917
Dutch legal scholar, economist and historian (1834 - 1917)
Lars Hertervig
1902
Norwegian painter (1830–1902)
1800s
Bharatendu Harishchandra
1885
Indian writer and poet (1850–1885)
Gregor Mendel
1884
Austrian biologist and friar (1822–1884)
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
1882
American author and lawyer (1815–1882)
Giacomo Beltrami
1855
Italian explorer (1779–1855)
Louis Braille
1852
French educator and inventor of braille (1809–1852)
Frances Burney
1840
English novelist, diarist and playwright (1752–1840)
Rodolphe Kreutzer
1831
French violinist and composer (1766–1831)
Josef Dobrovský
1829
Czech historian and philologist (1753–1829)
Before 1800
John Dennis (dramatist)
1734
English critic and dramatist (1657–1734)
Étienne François Geoffroy
1731
French physician and chemist
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
1725
Japanese playwright (1653–1725)
Mehmed IV
1693
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687
Seth Ward (bishop of Salisbury)
1689
English mathematician, astronomer and bishop
Philip Henslowe
1616
16th/17th-century English theatrical entrepreneur and impresario
Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence
1537
Duke of Florence from 1532 to 1537
Baldassare Peruzzi
1537
Italian architect and painter
Uzun Hasan
1478
Sultan of the Aq Qoyunlu from 1452 to 1478
Christopher of Bavaria
1448
King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under the Kalmar Union (1416–1448)
Roger Walden
1406
15th-century Bishop of London, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Treasurer of England
Gertrude van der Oosten
1358
Raymond of Peñafort
1275
Dominican Master General and archbishop and saint (c. 1367–1439)
Matilda of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon
1233
Anglo-Norman noblewoman (1171–1233)
Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke
1148
Anglo-Norman nobleman (c. 1100–1148)
Berengar of Tours
1088
French theologian involved in transubstantiation controversy (999–1088)
Abo of Tiflis
786
Christian martyr