What happened on February 6 ?

891 - Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople

1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)

1497 - Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c. 1410)

1515 - Aldus Manutius, Italian printer

1585 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)

1593 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)

1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)

1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)

1685 - King Charles II of England (b. 1630)

1740 - Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)

1775 - William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)

1783 - Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)

1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)

1816 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)

1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)

1834 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1804)

1855 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)

1899 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)

1916 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)

1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)

1938 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)

1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)

1952 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)

1963 - Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician

1976 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928)

1985 - James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)

1986 - Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)

1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)

1989 - Chris Gueffroy, last person killed escaping over the Berlin wall (b. 1968)

1989 - Barbara Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)

1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)

1991 - Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)

1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)

1993 - Joseph Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and writer (b. 1909)

1994 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)

1994 - Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)

1995 - James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)

1996 - Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)

1998 - Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)

1998 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)

2001 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)

2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1914)

2005 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)

2005 - Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)