Deaths on 6 June
2000s
Viktor Korchnoi
2016
Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster (1931–2016)
Peter Shaffer
2016
English playwright and screenwriter (1926–2016)
Vincent Bugliosi
2015
American lawyer and true crime writer (1934–2015)
Ludvík Vaculík
2015
Czech writer and journalist (1926–2015)
Lorna Wing
2014
British psychiatrist and autism researcher (1928–2014)
Jerome Karle
2013
American physical chemist (1918–2013)
Esther Williams
2013
American swimmer and actress (1921–2013)
Vladimir Krutov
2012
Russian ice hockey player (1960–2012)
Jean Dausset
2009
French immunologist (1916–2009)
Billy Preston
2006
American keyboardist, singer, and songwriter (1946–2006)
Anne Bancroft
2005
American actress (1931–2005)
1900s
George Davis Snell
1996
American geneticist
Mark McManus
1994
Scottish actor (1935–1994)
Barry Sullivan (American actor)
1994
American actor (1912–1994)
Stan Getz
1991
American jazz saxophonist (1927–1991)
Hans Leip
1983
German writer
Kenneth Rexroth
1982
American poet and translator (1905–1982)
Jack Haley
1979
American actor (1897–1979)
J. Paul Getty
1976
American industrialist (1892–1976)
Robert F. Kennedy
1968
American politician and lawyer (1925–1968)
William Baziotes
1963
American painter (1912–1963)
Yves Klein
1962
French artist (1928–1962)
Tom Phillis
1962
Australian motorcycle racer (1934–1962)
Carl Jung
1961
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
Max Meldrum
1955
Australian painter
Auguste and Louis Lumière
1948
French brothers, filmmakers and inventors
James Agate
1947
English diarist and theatre critic (1877–1947)
Gerhart Hauptmann
1946
German author (1862–1946)
Louis Chevrolet
1941
American racing driver (1878–1941)
Constantin Noe
1939
Megleno-Romanian editor and professor in Romania
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
1935
British Army officer & 12th Governor-General of Canada (1862-1935)
Lillian Russell
1922
American singer and actress (1860–1922)
Yuan Shikai
1916
First president of the Republic of China (1859–1916)
1800s
John A. Macdonald
1891
Canadian prime minister and Father of Confederation (1815–1891)
Henri Vieuxtemps
1881
Belgian composer and violinist
Robert Stirling
1878
Scottish clergyman and engineer (1790-1878)
William Quantrill
1865
American Confederate guerrilla leader (1837–1865)
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
1861
First Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in 1861
Jeremy Bentham
1832
British philosopher and jurist (1748–1832)
Antonio Cachia
1813
Maltese architect, civil and military engineer and archaeologist (1739–1813)
Before 1800
Patrick Henry
1799
American Founding Father, Governor of Virginia (1776–1779; 1784–1786)
Martino Martini
1661
Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian (1614–1661)
Nakagawa Kiyohide
1583
Japanese warlord (daimyō; 1542–1583)
João de Castro
1548
Portuguese explorer (1500–1548)
Vecchietta
1480
Italian painter (1410–1480)
Robert Passelewe
1252
13th-century Bishop of Chichester-elect
William II, Count of Flanders
1251
Count of Flanders (1224–1251)
Henry I of Castile
1217
King of Castile and Toledo from 1214 to 1217
Norbert of Xanten
1134
German Catholic bishop, founder of the Premonstratensian order
Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon and Navarre
1097
Queen of Aragon and Navarre from 1094 to 1097
Alexander (Byzantine emperor)
913
Byzantine emperor from 912 to 913
Utamish
863
Officer in the Abbasid Military
Qiao Xuan
184
Han dynasty official and general (110-184)