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Among his best-known works are Forget Foucault (1977), Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991).
Notable Deaths on March 6
2007 — Jean Baudrillard
French photographer and theorist (born 1929)
March 6 has 117 recorded notable deaths across history, from 190 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
117 source records
190 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on March 6
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1820 The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by United States President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free. Source
- 1957 Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British. Source
- 1943 World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later. Source
- 2008 A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem. Source
Did you know
Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo: spent most of his life in Louisiana, where he was raised and where he later worked as a land speculator.
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Teresa Wright won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carol Beldon in Mrs.
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Holmes retired from the Court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest justice on the Supreme Court.
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Melina Mercouri received an Academy Award nomination and won a French Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in the film Never on Sunday (1960) and an Italian David di Donatello for Topkapi (1964).
More major people who died on March 6
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1836
Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo:
James Bowie was an American military officer, landowner and slave trader who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He was among the Americans who died at the Battle of the Alamo.
2005
Teresa Wright
American actress (born 1918)
Muriel Teresa Wright was an American actress. She won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carol Beldon in Mrs. Miniver.
1935
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
American colonel, lawyer, and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1841)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932.
1994
Melina Mercouri
Greek actress and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (born 1920)
Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a prominent political family for multiple generations.
1899
Kaʻiulani of Hawaii (born 1875)
Princess Kaʻiulani was a Hawaiian royal, the only child of Princess Miriam Likelike, and the last heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom. She was the niece of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani.
2004
Hercules
American wrestler (born 1957)
Raymond Constantine Fernandez Jr. was an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Hercules Hernandez, or simply Hercules.
1952
Jürgen Stroop
German SS general, and executed war criminal (born 1895)
Jürgen Stroop was a German SS commander and perpetrator of the Holocaust during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942–1943 and 1943–1944.
2005
Tommy Vance
English radio host (born 1943)
Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, known professionally as Tommy Vance, was an English radio broadcaster.
2013
Chorão
Brazilian singer-songwriter (born 1970)
Alexandre Magno Abrão, known professionally as Chorão, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter, skateboarder, filmmaker, screenwriter and businessman.
2016
Sheila Varian
American horse trainer and breeder (born 1937)
Sheila Varian was an American breeder of Arabian horses who lived and worked at the Varian Arabians Ranch near Arroyo Grande, California.
1948
Alice Woodby McKane
First Black woman doctor in Savannah, Georgia (born 1865)
Alice Woodby McKane was the first woman to work as a medical doctor in Savannah, Georgia. She was not only known as a physician but also as a politician and an author.
2005
Gladys Marín
Chilean activist and political figure (born 1938)
Gladys del Carmen Marín Millie was a Chilean activist and political figure. She was Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) (1994–2002) and then president of the PCCh until her death.
1955
Mammad Amin Rasulzade
Azerbaijani scholar and politician (born 1884)
Mahammad Amin Akhund Haji Molla Alakbar oghlu Rasulzade was an Azerbaijani politician, journalist and the head of the Azerbaijani National Council.
1986
Georgia O'Keeffe
American painter (born 1887)
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.
1967
Nelson Eddy
American actor and singer (born 1901)
Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American actor and baritone singer who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs.
1970
William Hopper
American actor (born 1915)
William DeWolf Hopper Jr. was an American stage, film, and television actor.
2006
Anne Braden
American journalist and activist (born 1924)
Anne McCarty Braden was an American civil rights activist, journalist, and educator dedicated to the cause of racial equality. She and her husband bought a suburban house for an African American couple during Jim Crow.
2012
Francisco Xavier do Amaral
East Timorese politician, 1st President of East Timor (born 1937)
Francisco Xavier do Amaral was an East Timorese politician. A founder of the Frente Revolucionária de Timor Leste Independente (Fretilin), Amaral was sworn in as the first President of East Timor when the country, then…
1888
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist and poet (born 1832)
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886).