139,211 People

People who died on January 06, 1981 (the exact day you were born)

• A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer

Unusual Deaths in 1981

• A 25-year-old dutch woman studying in paris, ren�e hartevelt, was killed and eaten by a classmate, issei sagawa, when he invited her to dinner for a literary conversation. the killer was declared unfit to stand trial and extradited back to japan, where he was released from custody within fifteen months.
• Carl mccunn, in march 1981, paid a bush pilot to drop him at a remote lake near the coleen river in alaska to photograph wildlife, but had not arranged for the pilot to pick him up again in august. rather than starve, mccunn shot himself in the head. his body was found in february 1982.
• Boris sagal, a motion picture-director, died while shooting the tv miniseries world war iii when he walked into the tail-rotor blade of a helicopter and was decapitated.

People who died on January 06 (various years)

• 2007 – Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist
• 2007 – Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special-effects artist
• 2007 – Mario Danelo, American football player
• 2006 – Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot
• 2006 – Lou Rawls, American singer
• 2005 – Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick
• 2005 – Lois Hole, Lt. Governor of Alberta
• 2004 – Francesco Scavullo, American photographer
• 2004 – Charles Dumas, American athlete
• 2004 – Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica
• 2000 – Don Martin, American cartoonist
• 1999 – Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist
• 1997 – Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress
• 1995 – Joe Slovo, South African politician
• 1993 – Dizzy Gillespie, acclaimed jazz trumpet player
• 1993 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer
• 1990 – Pavel Alekseyevich Čerenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1990 – Ian Charleson, Scottish actor
• 1978 – Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer
• 1972 – Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician
• 1969 – Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins
• 1949 – Victor Fleming, American director
• 1945 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist
• 1944 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist
• 1942 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president
• 1941 – Charley O’Leary, American baseball player
• 1937 – André Besette, Canadian religious figure
• 1934 – Herbert Chapman , Legendary Manager of Arsenal and Huddersfield Town
• 1928 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete
• 1922 – Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician
• 1919 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
• 1919 – Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic
• 1918 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician
• 1913 – Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner
• 1885 – Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer and scientist
• 1884 – Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist
• 1855 – Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer
• 1852 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind
• 1840 – Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist
• 1831 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor
• 1813 – Louis Baraguey d’Hilliers, French general
• 1734 – John Dennis, English critic and dramatist
• 1731 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist
• 1725 – Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist
• 1718 – Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker
• 1718 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist
• 1711 – Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral
• 1689 – Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer
• 1616 – Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550)
• 1537 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter
• 1537 – Alessandro de’ Medici, Duke of Florence
• 1448 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
• 1088 – Berengar of Tours, French theologian (bc. 999)
• 664 – Amr ibn al-A’as, Arab general (bc. 583)