Famous people died on May 6

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Kentaro Miura 1

Vida Blue 7

American Athlete

Max Azria 9

French Designer

Pim Fortuyn 13

Dutch Politician

Patricia A. McKillip 30

American Author

Joseph Nye 34

American Educator

Philippe Sollers 4

French Writer

Shiv Kumar Batalvi 1

Poet

Bernard Pivot 9

French Journalist

Otis Blackwell 9

American Songwriter

Humberto Maturana 14

Chilean Biologist

Denise McCluggage 1

American Celebrity

Robin Roberts 11

American Athlete

Newton N. Minow 5

John Lukacs 2

Hungarian Historian

John Clive Ward 5

Farley Mowat 7

Canadian Author

Giulio Andreotti 5

Italian Politician

Maria Lassnig 3

Austrian Artist

Philip Kapleau 11

Marlene Dietrich 58

German Actress

Agnes Smedley 26

American Journalist

Bernard Leach 1

British Potter

Theodore von Kármán 3

Hungarian-American Mathematician

Maria Montessori 57

Italian Pedagogue

Maurice Maeterlinck 36

Belgian Playwright

L. Frank Baum 123

American Author

Theodore Chickering Williams 2

American Hymnwriter

Ian Maclaren 1

Scottish Writer

Herb Gardner 2

British Cartoonist

Alexander William Williamson 1

English Scientist

Henry David Thoreau 857

American Essayist

Joseph Edwards Carpenter 2

British Composer

Judah P. Benjamin 2

American Politician

William Hamilton 5

Scottish Politician

Syed Ahmad Barelvi 2

Alexander von Humboldt 12

Prussian Geographer

Adolf Freiherr Knigge 20

German Writer

Alexander Suvorov 27

Russian Marshal

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto 15

Rabbi

Nathaniel Lee 6

See also: Famous people born on May 6