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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 6 is the 65th day of the year (66th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
300 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
12 BCE – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position
into that of the emperor.[1] ·
632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul
Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. ·
845 – Execution of
the 42 Martyrs of
Amorium at Samarra.[2] ·
961 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas,
end of the Emirate of Crete. ·
1204 – The Siege of
Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England,
who loses control of Normandy to
King Philip II Augustus.[3] ·
1323 – Treaty of Paris of
1323 is signed.[4] ·
1454 – Thirteen
Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian
Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who
agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights. ·
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives
at Guam. ·
1665 – The first joint
Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue
of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society,
the world's longest-running scientific journal. ·
1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found
a convict settlement. ·
1820 – The Missouri Compromise is
signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as
a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state,
and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory
slavery-free. ·
1834 – York, Upper Canada,
is incorporated as Toronto. ·
1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo:
After a thirteen-day siege by an army of
3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are
killed and the fort is captured. ·
1857 – The Supreme
Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v.
Sandford case. ·
1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the
first periodic table to
the Russian Chemical Society. ·
1882 – The Serbian kingdom is
re-founded. ·
1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark. ·
1902 – Real Madrid CF is founded. ·
1912 – Italo-Turkish War:
Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop
bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet. ·
1921 – Portuguese
Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of
the Communist International. ·
1930 – International
Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the
Comintern. ·
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D.
Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday",
closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions. ·
1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from
Want in The Saturday
Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four
Freedoms series. ·
1943 – World War II: The Battle of
Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the
occupying Royal Italian Army,
ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the
garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its
liberation a fortnight later.[5] ·
1944 – World War
II: Soviet Air Forces bomb
an evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the
entire historical Swedish-era town. ·
1945 – World War
II: Cologne is captured by American troops.
On the same day, Operation
Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war,
begins.[6] ·
1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with
France which recognizes Vietnam as an
autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. ·
1951 – Cold War: The trial of Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg begins. ·
1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of
the Soviet Union and First Secretary of
the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union. ·
1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country
to gain independence from the British. ·
1964 – Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali. ·
1964 – Constantine II becomes
the last King of Greece. ·
1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27
years in office. ·
1967 – Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. ·
1968 – Three rebels
are executed by Rhodesia, the first
executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation. ·
1970 – An explosion at
the Weather Underground safe
house in Greenwich Village kills three. ·
1975 – For the first
time the Zapruder film of
the assassination
of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV
audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. ·
1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce
a settlement of their border dispute. ·
1983 – The first United
States Football League games are played. ·
1984 – In the United
Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of
a strike that
lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the
country's miners. ·
1987 – The British
ferry MS Herald
of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing
193. ·
1988 – Three Provisional
Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius. ·
1992 – The Michelangelo
computer virus begins to affect computers. ·
2003 – Air Algérie
Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar
– Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people
on board.[7] ·
2008 – A suicide
bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills
eight students in Jerusalem. Births[edit]
·
1340 – John of Gaunt (d. 1399) ·
1405 – John II of Castile (d.
1454) ·
1459 – Jakob Fugger, German merchant and banker (d.
1525) ·
1475 – Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor
(d. 1564) ·
1483 – Francesco
Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (d. 1540) ·
1493 – Juan Luis Vives, Spanish scholar and
humanist (d. 1540) ·
1495 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and diplomat
(d. 1556) ·
1536 – Santi di Tito, Italian painter (d. 1603) ·
1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac,
French author and playwright (d. 1655)[8] ·
1663 – Francis Atterbury,
English bishop and poet (d. 1732) ·
1706 – George Pocock, English admiral (d. 1792) ·
1716 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish-Finnish botanist and
explorer (d. 1779) ·
1724 – Henry Laurens, English-American merchant and
politician, 5th President
of the Continental Congress (d. 1792) ·
1761 – Antoine-François
Andréossy, French general and diplomat (d. 1828) ·
1779 – Antoine-Henri Jomini,
Swiss-French general (d. 1869) ·
1780 – Lucy Barnes,
American writer (d. 1809)[9] ·
1785 – Karol Kurpiński,
Polish composer and conductor (d. 1857) ·
1787 – Joseph von
Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1826) ·
1806 – Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, English-Italian poet and translator (d. 1861) ·
1812 – Aaron Lufkin
Dennison, American businessman, co-founded the Waltham Watch
Company (d. 1895) ·
1817 – Princess
Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907) ·
1818 – William Claflin, American businessman and
politician, 27th Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1905) ·
1823 – Charles I of
Württemberg (d. 1891) ·
1831 – Philip Sheridan, Irish-American general (d.
1888) ·
1834 – George du Maurier,
French-English author and illustrator (d. 1896)[10] ·
1841 – Viktor Burenin, Russian author, poet,
playwright, and critic (d. 1926) ·
1849 – Georg Luger, Austrian gun designer, designed
the Luger pistol (d.
1923) ·
1864 – Richard Rushall, British businessman (d.
1953) ·
1870 – Oscar Straus,
Viennese composer and conductor (d. 1954)[11] ·
1871 – Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer and
politician, 59th Prime Minister
of Portugal (d. 1937) ·
1872 – Ben Harney, American pianist and composer
(d. 1938) ·
1879 – Jimmy Hunter, New Zealand rugby player (d.
1962) ·
1882 – F. Burrall Hoffman,
American architect, co-designed Villa Vizcaya (d. 1980) ·
1882 – Guy Kibbee, American actor and singer (d.
1956) ·
1884 – Molla Mallory, Norwegian-American tennis
player (d. 1959) ·
1885 – Ring Lardner, American journalist and author
(d. 1933) ·
1886 – Jam Handy, American swimmer and water polo
player (d. 1983) ·
1886 – Nella Walker, American actress and
vaudevillian (d. 1971) ·
1892 – Bert
Smith, English international footballer, right half (d. 1969)[12] ·
1893 – Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1981) ·
1893 – Ella P. Stewart, pioneering Black American
pharmacist (d. 1987)[13] ·
1895 – Albert Tessier, Canadian priest and
historian (d. 1976) ·
1898 – Gus Sonnenberg, American football player and
wrestler (d. 1944) ·
1900 – Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano and
actress (d. 2001) ·
1900 – Lefty Grove, American baseball player (d.
1975) ·
1900 – Henri Jeanson, French journalist and author
(d. 1970) ·
1903 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000) ·
1904 – José
Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President
of the Basque Country (d. 1960) ·
1905 – Bob Wills, American Western swing musician,
songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1975) ·
1906 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian
(d. 1959) ·
1909 – Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and
politician (d. 1987) ·
1909 – Stanisław
Jerzy Lec, Polish poet and author (d. 1966) ·
1910 – Ella Logan, Scottish-American singer and
actress (d. 1969) ·
1912 – Mohammed Burhanuddin,
Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 2014) ·
1917 – Donald
Davidson, American philosopher and academic (d. 2003) ·
1917 – Will Eisner, American illustrator and
publisher (d. 2005) ·
1917 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992) ·
1918 – Howard McGhee, American trumpeter (d. 1987) ·
1920 – Lewis Gilbert, English director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2018) ·
1921 – Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author (d. 2014) ·
1923 – Ed McMahon, American comedian, game show
host, and announcer (d. 2009) ·
1923 – Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and
songwriter (d. 1968) ·
1924 – Ottmar Walter, German footballer (d. 2013) ·
1924 – William H. Webster,
American lawyer and jurist, 14th Director
of Central Intelligence ·
1926 – Ann Curtis, American swimmer (d. 2012) ·
1926 – Alan Greenspan, American economist and
politician ·
1926 – Ray O'Connor, Australian politician,
22nd Premier of
Western Australia (d. 2013) ·
1926 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2016) ·
1927 – William J. Bell, American screenwriter and
producer (d. 2005) ·
1927 – Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and
astronaut (d. 2004) ·
1927 – Gabriel García
Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2014) ·
1929 – Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician,
57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d.
2013) ·
1929 – David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop
(d. 2005) ·
1930 – Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist,
composer, and conductor (d. 2014) ·
1932 – Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician,
49th President of Haiti (d.
2010) ·
1932 – Bronisław
Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Polish
Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2008) ·
1933 – Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d.
2004) ·
1933 – William Davis,
German-English journalist and economist (d. 2019) ·
1933 – Augusto
Odone, Italian economist and inventor of Lorenzo's oil (d. 2013) ·
1934 – Red Simpson, American singer-songwriter (d.
2016) ·
1935 – Ron Delany, Irish runner and coach ·
1935 – Derek Kevan, English footballer (d. 2013) ·
1936 – Bob Akin, American race car driver and
journalist (d. 2002) ·
1936 – Marion Barry, American lawyer and
politician, 2nd Mayor
of the District of Columbia (d. 2014) ·
1936 – Choummaly Sayasone,
Laotian politician, 5th President of Laos ·
1937 – Ivan Boesky, American businessman ·
1937 – Valentina Tereshkova,
Russian general, pilot, and astronaut ·
1938 – Keishu Tanaka, Japanese politician,
17th Japanese
Minister of Justice ·
1939 – Kit Bond, American lawyer and politician,
47th Governor of Missouri ·
1939 – Adam Osborne, Thai-Indian engineer and
businessman, founded the Osborne
Computer Corporation (d. 2003) ·
1940 – Ken Danby, Canadian painter (d. 2007) ·
1940 – Joanna Miles, French-born American actress ·
1940 – R. H. Sikes, American golfer ·
1940 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player
and coach (d. 2001) ·
1940 – Jeff Wooller, English accountant and banker ·
1941 – Peter Brötzmann,
German saxophonist and clarinet player ·
1941 – Marilyn Strathern,
Welsh anthropologist and academic ·
1942 – Ben Murphy, American actor ·
1944 – Richard Corliss, American journalist and
critic (d. 2015) ·
1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano and
actress ·
1944 – Mary Wilson,
American singer ·
1945 – Angelo Castro Jr.,
Filipino actor and journalist (d. 2012) ·
1946 – David Gilmour, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1946 – Richard Noble, Scottish race car driver and
businessman ·
1947 – Kiki Dee, English singer-songwriter ·
1947 – Dick Fosbury, American high jumper ·
1947 – Anna Maria Horsford,
American actress ·
1947 – Rob Reiner, American actor, director,
producer, and activist ·
1947 – Jean Seaton, English historian and academic ·
1947 – John Stossel, American journalist and author ·
1948 – Stephen
Schwartz, American composer and producer ·
1949 – Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani economist and
politician, 15th Prime Minister
of Pakistan ·
1949 – Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer and
manager ·
1950 – Arthur Roche, English archbishop ·
1951 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004) ·
1952 – Denis Napthine, Australian politician,
47th Premier of Victoria[14] ·
1953 – Madhav Kumar Nepal,
Nepali banker and politician, 34th Prime Minister of
Nepal ·
1953 – Carolyn Porco, American astronomer and
academic ·
1953 – Phil Alvin, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1954 – Jeff Greenwald, American author,
photographer, and monologist ·
1954 – Harald Schumacher,
German footballer and manager ·
1955 – Cyprien Ntaryamira,
Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (d.
1994) ·
1955 – Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (d. 2015) ·
1956 – Peter Roebuck, English cricketer,
journalist, and sportcaster (d. 2011) ·
1956 – Steve Vizard, Australian television host,
actor, and producer ·
1960 – Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player and
coach ·
1962 – Alison Nicholas, British golfer ·
1963 – D. L. Hughley, American actor, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1964 – Linda Pearson, Scottish sport shooter[15] ·
1965 – Allan Bateman, Welsh rugby player ·
1965 – Jim Knight, English politician ·
1966 – Alan Davies, English comedian, actor and
screenwriter ·
1967 – Julio Bocca, Argentinian ballet dancer and
director ·
1967 – Connie Britton, American actress ·
1967 – Glenn Greenwald, American journalist and
author ·
1967 – Shuler Hensley, American actor and singer ·
1968 – Moira Kelly, American actress and director ·
1971 – Darrick Martin, American basketball player
and coach ·
1972 – Shaquille O'Neal,
American basketball player, actor, and rapper ·
1972 – Jaret Reddick, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1973 – Michael Finley, American basketball player ·
1973 – Peter Lindgren,
Swedish guitarist and songwriter ·
1973 – Greg Ostertag, American basketball player ·
1973 – Trent Willmon, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1974 – Guy Garvey, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1974 – Matthew Guy, Australian politician ·
1974 – Brad Schumacher, American swimmer ·
1974 – Beanie Sigel, American rapper ·
1975 – Aracely Arámbula,
Mexican actress and singer ·
1975 – Yannick Nézet-Séguin,
Canadian pianist and conductor ·
1976 – Ken Anderson,
American wrestler and actor ·
1977 – Nantie Hayward, South African cricketer ·
1977 – Giorgos Karagounis,
Greek international footballer, midfielder[16] ·
1977 – Shabani Nonda, DR Congolese footballer ·
1977 – Marcus Thames, American baseball player and
coach ·
1978 – Sage Rosenfels, American football player ·
1978 – Chad Wicks, American wrestler ·
1979 – Clint Barmes, American baseball player ·
1979 – Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player ·
1979 – David Flair, American wrestler ·
1979 – Tim Howard, American soccer player ·
1980 – Emílson Cribari,
Brazilian footballer ·
1981 – Ellen Muth, American actress ·
1983 – Andranik Teymourian,
Armenian-Iranian footballer ·
1984 – Daniël de Ridder,
Dutch footballer[17] ·
1984 – Eskil Pedersen, Norwegian politician ·
1984 – Chris Tomson, American drummer ·
1985 – Bakaye Traoré, French-Malian footballer ·
1986 – Jake Arrieta, American baseball player ·
1986 – Francisco Cervelli,
Venezuelan-Italian baseball player ·
1986 – Ross Detwiler, American baseball player ·
1986 – Eli Marienthal, American actor ·
1986 – Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer ·
1987 – Kevin-Prince Boateng,
Ghanaian-German footballer ·
1987 – José Manuel Flores,
Spanish footballer ·
1988 – Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer ·
1988 – Marina Erakovic, New Zealand tennis player ·
1988 – Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer ·
1989 – Agnieszka
Radwańska, Polish tennis player ·
1990 – Derek Drouin, Canadian athlete[18] ·
1991 – Lex Luger,
American keyboard player and producer ·
1991 – Emma McDougall, English footballer (d. 2013) ·
1991 – Tyler Gregory Okonma,
American rapper ·
1993 – Andrés Rentería,
Colombian footballer ·
1994 – Nathan Redmond, English footballer ·
1994 – Marcus Smart, American basketball player ·
1994 – Wesley Hoedt, Dutch footballer ·
1995 – Georgi Kitanov, Bulgarian footballer ·
1996 – Christian Coleman,
American sprinter[19] ·
1996 – Tyrell Fuimaono, Australian rugby player ·
1996 – Timo Werner, German footballer Deaths[edit]
·
190 – Liu Bian (poisoned by Dong Zhuo) (b. 176) ·
653 – Li Ke, prince of the Tang Dynasty (b. 619) ·
766 – Chrodegang, Frankish bishop and saint ·
903 – Lu Guangqi, Chinese official and chancellor ·
903 – Su Jian, Chinese official and chancellor ·
1070 – Ulric I,
Margrave of Carniola ·
1251 – Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235) ·
1353 – Roger
Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn ·
1466 – Alvise Loredan, Venetian admiral and
statesman (b. 1393) ·
1490 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458) ·
1491 – Richard
Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers ·
1531 – Pedro Arias Dávila,
Spanish explorer and diplomat (b. 1440) ·
1616 – Francis Beaumont, English playwright (b.
1584) ·
1754 – Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694) ·
1758 – Henry
Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician, Lord Lieutenant
of Durham (b. 1705) ·
1764 – Philip
Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b.
1690) ·
1796 – Guillaume
Thomas François Raynal, French historian and author (b. 1713) ·
1836 – Deaths at
the Battle of the Alamo: o James Bonham, American lawyer and soldier
(b. 1807) o James Bowie, American colonel (b. 1796) o Davy Crockett, American soldier and
politician (b. 1786) o William B. Travis,
American lieutenant colonel and lawyer (b. 1809) ·
1854 – Charles
Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish colonel and
diplomat, Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (b.
1778) ·
1866 – William Whewell, English priest, historian,
and philosopher (b. 1794) ·
1867 – Charles Farrar
Browne, American-English author and educator (b. 1834) ·
1888 – Louisa May Alcott,
American novelist and poet (b. 1832)[20] ·
1895 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian novelist and
activist (b. 1813) ·
1899 – Kaʻiulani of Hawaii (b. 1875) ·
1900 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman,
co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (b.
1834) ·
1905 – John Henninger
Reagan, American surveyor, judge, and politician, 3rd Confederate States of America Secretary of the Treasury (b.
1818) ·
1905 – Makar Yekmalyan, Armenian composer (b. 1856) ·
1919 – Oskars Kalpaks, Latvian colonel (b. 1882) ·
1920 – Ömer Seyfettin,
Turkish author and educator (b. 1884) ·
1932 – John Philip Sousa,
American conductor and composer (b. 1854) ·
1933 – Anton Cermak, Czech-American lawyer and
politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (b.
1873) ·
1935 – Oliver Wendell
Holmes Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1841) ·
1939 – Ferdinand von
Lindemann, German mathematician and academic (b. 1852) ·
1941 – Francis Aveling, Canadian priest,
psychologist, and author (b. 1875) ·
1941 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor and
academic, designed Mount Rushmore (b.
1867) ·
1948 – Ross Lockridge Jr.,
American author, poet, and academic (b. 1914) ·
1948 – Alice Woodby McKane,
First Black woman doctor in Savannah, Georgia (b. 1865)[21] ·
1950 – Albert François
Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (b.
1871) ·
1951 – Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and
actor (b. 1893) ·
1951 – Volodymyr
Vynnychenko, Ukrainian playwright and politician, Prime Minister
of Ukraine (b. 1880) ·
1952 – Jürgen Stroop, German general (b. 1895) ·
1955 – Mammad Amin
Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician (b. 1884) ·
1961 – George Formby, English singer-songwriter and
actor (b. 1904) ·
1964 – Paul of Greece (b. 1901) ·
1965 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889) ·
1967 – John Haden Badley,
English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (b. 1865) ·
1967 – Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (b.
1901) ·
1967 – Zoltán Kodály,
Hungarian composer, linguist, and philosopher (b. 1882) ·
1970 – William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915) ·
1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist,
short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1892) ·
1974 – Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and
author (b. 1924) ·
1976 – Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer (b. 1903) ·
1977 – Alvin R. Dyer, American religious leader (b.
1903) ·
1978 – Dennis Viollet, English-American soccer
player and manager (b. 1933) ·
1981 – George Geary, English cricketer and coach
(b. 1893) ·
1981 – Rambhau Mhalgi, Indian politician and member of
the Lok Sabha (b. 9 July 1921)[22] ·
1982 – Ayn Rand, Russian-American philosopher,
author, and playwright (b. 1905) ·
1984 – Billy Collins Jr.,
American boxer (b. 1961) ·
1984 – Martin Niemöller,
German pastor and theologian (b. 1892) ·
1984 – Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (b. 1893) ·
1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican-American actor and
producer (b. 1905) ·
1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe,
American painter (b. 1887) ·
1988 – Mairéad Farrell, Provisional IRA volunteer (b. 1957) ·
1988 – Daniel McCann, Provisional IRA volunteer (b. 1957) ·
1988 – Seán Savage, Provisional IRA volunteer (b. 1965) ·
1994 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and
politician, 9th Greek
Minister of Culture (b. 1920) ·
1997 – Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (b.
1918) ·
1997 – Michael Manley, Jamaican soldier, pilot, and
politician, 4th Prime Minister
of Jamaica (b. 1924) ·
1997 – Ursula Torday, English author (b. 1912) ·
1999 – Isa bin Salman
Al Khalifa, Bahrain king (b. 1933) ·
2000 – John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928) ·
2002 – Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1969) ·
2004 – Hercules,
American wrestler (b. 1957) ·
2004 – Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909) ·
2005 – Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1906) ·
2005 – Danny Gardella, American baseball player and
trainer (b. 1920) ·
2005 – Tommy Vance, English radio host (b. 1943) ·
2005 – Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918) ·
2005 – Gladys Marín, Chilean activist and political
figure. (b.1938) ·
2006 – Anne Braden, American journalist and
activist (b. 1924) ·
2006 – Kirby Puckett, American baseball player and
sportscaster (b. 1960) ·
2007 – Jean Baudrillard, French photographer and
theorist (b. 1929) ·
2007 – Ernest Gallo, American businessman,
co-founded E & J Gallo
Winery (b. 1909) ·
2008 – Peter Poreku Dery,
Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918) ·
2009 – Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer,
and actor (b. 1964) ·
2010 – Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (b.
1984) ·
2010 – Mark Linkous, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (b. 1962) ·
2010 – Betty Millard, American philanthropist and
activist (b. 1911) ·
2012 – Francisco
Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese politician, 1st President of East
Timor (b. 1937) ·
2012 – Donald M. Payne, American businessman and
politician (b. 1934) ·
2012 – Helen Walulik, American baseball player (b.
1929) ·
2013 – Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Charlie Brown Jr.)
(b. 1970) ·
2013 – Stompin' Tom Connors,
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936) ·
2013 – Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1944) ·
2013 – W. Wallace Cleland,
American biochemist and academic (b. 1930) ·
2014 – Alemayehu Atomsa, Ethiopian educator and
politician (b. 1969) ·
2014 – Frank Jobe, American soldier and surgeon (b.
1925) ·
2014 – Sheila MacRae, English-American actress,
singer, and dancer (b. 1921) ·
2014 – Martin
Nesbitt, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946) ·
2014 – Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher,
author, and poet (b. 1924) ·
2015 – Fred Craddock, American minister and
academic (b. 1928) ·
2015 – Ram Sundar Das, Indian lawyer and
politician, 18th Chief Minister of
Bihar (b. 1921) ·
2015 – Enrique
"Coco" Vicéns, Puerto Rican-American basketball player
and politician (b. 1926) ·
2016 – Nancy Reagan, American actress, 42nd First
Lady of the United States (b. 1921) ·
2016 – Sheila Varian, American horse trainer and
breeder (b. 1937) ·
2017 – Robert Osborne, American actor and historian
(b. 1932) ·
2018 – Peter Nicholls,
Australian science fiction critic and encyclopedist (b. 1939) Holidays and observances[edit]
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Christian feast day: o Colette o Fridolin o Kyneburga,
Kyneswide and Tibba o William W. Mayo and Charles
Frederick Menninger (Episcopal Church
(USA)) o March
6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
European
Day of the Righteous, commemorates those who have stood up against
crimes against humanity and totalitarism with their own moral responsibility.
(Europe) ·
Foundation
Day (Norfolk Island), the founding of Norfolk Island in 1788. ·
Independence Day
(Ghana), celebrates the independence of Ghana from the UK in 1957. ·
The Day of the Dude, celebrated by the
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