What happened on September 6 ?

972 - Pope John XIII

1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)

1625 - Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)

1635 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)

1649 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)

1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)

1708 - Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)

1748 - Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)

1783 - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)

1808 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)

1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)

1907 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)

1952 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)

1962 - Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (b. 1898)

1966 - Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879)

1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)

1969 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)

1974 - Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (b. 1896)

1984 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)

1986 - Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)

1990 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)

1990 - Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)

1994 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)

1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)

2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)

2003 - Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)