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May 6th famous deaths

List of celebrities and famous people who died on May 6th

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2019 - 2010

Famous deaths on May 6th for the celebrities who died in the years 2019 - 2010

2010
  • American television broadcaster. Roberts anchors ABC's Good Morning America morning show.

2009 - 2000

Famous deaths on May 6th for the celebrities who died in the years 2009 - 2000

200920072006
  • Singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the Australian band The Go-Betweens. (Born 1958).

  • Japanese Ainu activist (Born in 1926)

  • Canadian television journalist (Born 1958)

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1999 - 1990

Famous deaths on May 6th for the celebrities who died in the years 1999 - 1990

1996199519941993
  • Ann Todd

    Actress (Things to Come Danny Boy), suffers a stroke at the age of 84

  • Actress (Def By Temptation), is killed in New York at the age of 77

1992
  • Marlene Dietrich

    German-American singer and actress who enjoyed 62 years of international success as a screen goddess in American and German films. For her efforts in entertaining Allied soldiers during WWII, she was awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor. She began performing cabaret on stage all over the world in 1954. Her love affairs with prominent …

  • Belgian runner. He won the 1948 Olympic title at London's 5,000-meter race. He died in May 1992.

  • Frank Sinatra's friend and restauranteur, Frank Sinatra, is killed in a car accident at 75 years old.

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  • American actor with a long, steady career. He was the star of 10 silent films and 40 talkies. He and Ralph Bellamy constructed the Palm Springs Tennis Club in 1931. It was later transformed into the Racquet Club. It was sold to them for $1 million on the 9th of January 1958. He was Palm Spring's mayor from 1948-1953.

1989 - 1980

Famous deaths on May 6th for the celebrities who died in the years 1989 - 1980

1989
  • Former American football coach (Born in 1897).

1987
  • American politician, 13th Director for Central Intelligence (d.87)

  • Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (1981-1987), dies aged 73 (born 1913).

1984
  • British Conservative Party politician (Born in 1912).

1983
  • Danish-born jazz trombonist, composer (d. 1983).

1982

1979 - 1970

Famous deaths on May 6th for the celebrities who died in the years 1979 - 1970

19781976197519731972
  • Yusuf Aslan, HuseyinInan are executed in Ankara because they tried to overthrow Constitutional order.

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1969 - 1960

Famous deaths on May 6th for the celebrities who died in the years 1969 - 1960

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  • Philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65.

1960
  • Hungarian Composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67

1959 - 1950

Famous deaths on May 6th for the celebrities who died in the years 1959 - 1950

1952
  • Capitano Ulisse, an Italian composer, dies at the age of 60

  • Italian educator, who in 1895 was the first woman to earn a medical degree in Italy. Her primary focus was on subnormal children in Rome tenements. She then developed her own teaching method. Her book, "The Montessori Method," was published in English in 1912. It earned her an international reputation.

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1949 - 1940

Famous deaths on May 6th for the celebrities who died in the years 1949 - 1940

1949
  • At 86, Belg philosopher (Nobel 1911), is dead

  • Belgian essayist, poet and playwright. He was also a naturalist and lawyer. He won the 1911 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was made a count in 1932 by the Belgian King. He is best known for his books "The Blind", 1891, and "The Interior", 1892. There are also many studies on nature. Maeterlinck was able to dedicate all his time …

1948

1939 - 1930

Famous deaths on May 6th for the celebrities who died in the years 1939 - 1930

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1929 - 1920

Famous deaths on May 6th for the celebrities who died in the years 1929 - 1920

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1919 - 1910

Famous deaths on May 6th for the celebrities who died in the years 1919 - 1910

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1909 - 1900

Famous deaths on May 6th for the celebrities who died in the years 1909 - 1900

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