Wednesday, 30 June 2021

20 PEOPLE WHO LEFT THE WORLD ON DECEMBER 6TH

 

1185 Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85) aged 76

1352 Clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52)

1779 Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, French still life painter aged 80

1882 Anthony Trollope, writer

1889 Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter,  48

1889 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States (1861-5), 81

1926 Claude [Oscar] Monet, French impressionist painter aged 86

1933 Auguste Chapuis, composer, 75

1943 Hermann Lohr, composer, 72

1946 Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer, aged 63

1973 Robert A Watson-Watt, English physicist (radar), 81

1988 Roy Orbison, singer (Pretty Woman), dies of massive heart attack at 52

1989 John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), aged 77 

1992 Percy Herbert, actor, dies of heart attack at 72

1993 Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel prize winner 1989, aged 80

1993 Don Ameche, actor, dies of prostate cancer at 85

1994 Alan Owen, English screenplay writer and actor (Hard Day's Night), 69

1995 Claire Polin, composer aged 69

1995 Kathleen Harrison, British actress (Mrs Thusday), dies aged 103

1997 Eliot Daniel, composer (I Love Lucy theme), aged 89

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