What happened on March 6 ?

1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)

1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)

1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador

1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)

1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1694)

1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician

1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)

1796 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)

1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)

1854 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)

1888 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)

1895 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)

1899 - Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)

1905 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)

1932 - John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer (b. 1854)

1933 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)

1941 - Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867)

1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (b. 1914)

1950 - Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)

1951 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)

1951 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukraianian politician and statesman (b. 1880)

1952 - Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (executed) (b. 1895)

1961 - George Formby, British comedian and singer (b. 1904)

1964 - King Paul of Greece (b. 1901)

1965 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)

1967 - John Haden Badley, author and educator (b. 1865)

1967 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)

1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)

1969 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)

1970 - William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)

1971 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)

1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)

1981 - George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)

1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)

1985 - Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905)

1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)

1993 - Douglas Marland, American writer (b. 1935)

1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, political activist, and politician (b. 1920)

1997 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)

1997 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)

2000 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)

2001 - Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)

2003 - John Sanford, American author (b. 1904)

2004 - Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)

2005 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

2005 - Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)

2006 - Kirby Puckett, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1960)

2006 - Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)