Did you know
Robert Mugabe served as the first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from internationally recognised independence in 1980 to 1987, then as the second president of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017.
Notable Deaths on September 6
2019 — Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)
September 6 has 115 recorded notable deaths across history, from 394 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
115 source records
394 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on September 6
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1930 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup. Source
- 2013 The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft. Source
- 1936 Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established. Source
- 1522 The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world. Source
Did you know
Nicholas Christian Hopkins was an English pianist and organist.
Did you know
Kate Millett attended the University of Oxford and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Did you know
Len Hutton set a record in 1938 for the highest individual innings in a Test match in only his sixth Test appearance, scoring 364 runs against Australia, a milestone that stood for nearly 20 years.
Did you know
Eugenius was a Western Roman emperor from 392 to 394, unrecognized by the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius I.
More major people who died on September 6
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1994
Nicky Hopkins
English pianist (born 1944)
Nicholas Christian Hopkins was an English pianist and organist.
2017
Kate Millett
American feminist author and activist (born 1934)
Katherine Murray Millett was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist.
1990
Len Hutton
English cricketer and soldier (born 1916)
Sir Leonard Hutton was an English cricketer. He played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1934 to 1955 and for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and 1955.
394
Eugenius
Roman usurper
Eugenius was a Western Roman emperor from 392 to 394, unrecognized by the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius I.
2000
Abdul Haris Nasution
Indonesian general (born 1918)
Abdul Haris Nasution was a high-ranking Indonesian general and politician.
1949
Yang Hucheng
Chinese general (born 1893)
Yang Hucheng was a Chinese general during the Warlord Era of Republican China and Kuomintang (KMT) general during the Chinese Civil War.
1949
Song Qiyun
Chinese communist activist (born 1904)
Song Qiyun was a Chinese journalist and member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Born in Pi County, Jiangsu, to a poor family, he attended the Sixth Normal School but left teaching in 1926 to join the military.
2024
Cathy Merrick
Canadian First Nations leader (born 1961/1962)
Catherine Ann Merrick was a Cree woman from Pimicikamak Cree Nation and the Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.
1625
Thomas Dempster
Scottish historian and scholar (born 1579)
Thomas Dempster was a Scottish scholar and historian. Born into the aristocracy in Aberdeenshire, which comprises regions of both the Scottish Highlands and the Scottish Lowlands, he was sent abroad as a youth for his…
1949
Xu Linxia
Chinese communist activist (born 1904/1905)
Xu Linxia was a Chinese communist. Born in Pi County, she attended the No. 3 Normal School before joining the Kuomintang (KMT).
1944
James Cannon Jr.
American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (born 1864)
James Cannon Jr. was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1918. He was a prominent leader in the temperance movement in the United States in the 1920s, until derailed by scandal. H. L.
1959
Edmund Gwenn
English actor (born 1877)
Edmund Gwenn was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (1947), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the…
2014
Seth Martin
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1933)
Seth Martin was a Canadian ice hockey goalie. He played 30 games in the National Hockey League with the St. Louis Blues during the 1967–68 season.
2010
Boris Chetkov
Russian painter (born 1926)
Boris Alexandrovitch Chetkov was a Russian painter and glass artist whose works ranged across genres but can be loosely aligned with Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism and Figurative Expressionism.
1959
Kay Kendall
English actress and comedian (born 1927)
Justine Kay Kendall McCarthy was an English actress and singer. She began her film career in the musical film London Town (1946), a financial failure.
1949
Song Zhenzhong
Chinese child internee (born 1941)
Song Zhenzhong, popularly known as Little Radish Head, was the son of Chinese Communist Party members Song Qiyun and Xu Linxia.
2020
Lou Brock
American baseball player (born 1939)
Louis Clark Brock was an American professional baseball left fielder. He began his 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the 1961 Chicago Cubs but spent most of it as a left fielder for the St.
1988
Leroy Brown
American wrestler (born 1950)
Roland C. Daniels, better known by his ring name "Bad Bad" Leroy Brown, was an American professional wrestler.
2021
Jean-Paul Belmondo
French actor (born 1933)
Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo was a French actor, producer and distributor.