What happened on December 6 ?

1185 - King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)

1352 - Pope Clement VI (b. 1291)

1562 - Jan van Scorel Dutch painter and architect

1618 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)

1658 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (b. 1601)

1672 - King John II Casimir of Poland (b. 1609)

1675 - John Lightfoot, English churchman (b. 1602)

1718 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)

1746 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)

1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)

1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)

1788 - Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)

1867 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)

1868 - August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)

1882 - Anthony Trollope, British author (b. 1815)

1882 - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)

1889 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)

1892 - Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (b. 1816)

1949 - Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1885)

1951 - Harold Ross, American magazine editor (b. 1892)

1955 - Honus Wagner, baseball player (b. 1874)

1956 - Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, Indian Minister of Law (b. 1891)

1961 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925)

1976 - João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)

1985 - Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917)

1988 - Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (b. 1936)

1989 - Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)

1991 - Sir Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)

1993 - Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)

1997 - Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (b. 1942)

2001 - Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)

2002 - Philip Berrigan, American civil rights activist (b. 1923)

2003 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)

2003 - Jerry Tuite, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)

2004 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921)

2005 - Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist

2005 - Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)