WHO ALL DIED ON 6. MAY
See all who died on 6. May

4th Duke of Somerset, English commander Edmund Beaufort died 6. May 1471. (born 1438)

Flemish painter Dieric Bouts died 6. May 1475. (born 1415)

English knight James Tyrrell died 6. May 1502. (born 1450)

Flemish-Italian composer Giaches de Wert died 6. May 1596. (born 1535)

1st Baronet, of Connington, English politician, founded the Cotton library Sir Robert Cotton died 6. May 1631. (born 1570)

French bishop Cornelius Jansen died 6. May 1638. (born 1585)

French-Canadian bishop François de Laval died 6. May 1708. (born 1623)

2nd Duke of Grafton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Charles FitzRoy died 6. May 1757. (born 1683)

Prussian field marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin died 6. May 1757. (born 1684)

Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada Francisco de Paula Santander died 6. May 1840. (born 1792)

German geographer and explorer Alexander von Humboldt died 6. May 1859. (born 1769)

American author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau died 6. May 1862. (born 1817)

Swedish-Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg died 6. May 1877. (born 1804)

Irish civil servant Thomas Henry Burke died 6. May 1882. (born 1829)

English-Irish politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish died 6. May 1882. (born 1836)

American author Bret Harte died 6. May 1902. (born 1836)

Greek assassin of George I of Greece Alexandros Schinas died 6. May 1913. (born 1870)

American author L. Frank Baum died 6. May 1919. (born 1856)

Russian-French painter Konstantin Somov died 6. May 1939. (born 1869)