Famous Deaths for 6th August 2018

1815 – James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
1853 – Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57
1900 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German socialist (Social Democratic Party), dies at 74
1914 – Ellen Axson Wilson, US 1st Lady (1913-14), dies during Woodrow Wilson’s 1st term of Bright’s Disease at 54
1979 – Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65
1987 – Sherwood Bailey, actor (Spud-Our Gang), dies
1993 – Milt Thompson, American astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), NASA test pilot and chief-engineer, dies at 67
2001 – Dorothy Tutin, British actress (Importance of Being Ernest, Cromwell), dies at 71
2001 – Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (b. 1911)
2005 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)

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