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October 6th
155 Notable deaths
Pádraic Ó Conaire
Irish writer.
Born February 28th, 1882 in Galway.
Died October 6th, 1928 at 46 years old in Dublin.
Giulio Gavotti
Italian air force officer.
Born October 17th, 1882 in Genoa.
Died October 6th, 1939 at 56 years old in Rome.
Fyodor Vasilyev
Russian painter (1850-1873).
Born February 22nd, 1850 in Gatchina. [ref]
Died October 6th, 1873 at 23 years old in Yalta. [ref]
Ilse Weber
Czech composer and writer (1903-1944).
Born January 11th, 1903 in Ostrava, Vítkovice. [ref]
Died October 6th, 1944 at 41 years old in Auschwitz, Oświęcim, Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp. [ref]
Walter Greiner
German physicist (1935-2016).
Born October 29th, 1935 in Neuenbau.
Died October 6th, 2016 at 80 years old
Theodore von Eltz
Actor (1893-1964).
Born November 5th, 1893 in New Haven.
Died October 6th, 1964 at 70 years old in Woodland Hills.
Masaichi Kaneda
Zainichi korean baseball player (1933-2019).
Born August 1st, 1933 in Inazawa. [ref]
Died October 6th, 2019 at 86 years old in Tokyo (sepsis). [ref]
Herbert Feuerstein
Austrian-born german journalist, comedian and entertainer (1937-2020).
Born June 15th, 1937 in Zell am See.
Died October 6th, 2020 at 83 years old in Erftstadt. [ref]
Pamela Blake
Actress (1915-2009).
Born August 6th, 1915 in California.
Died October 6th, 2009 at 94 years old in Las Vegas. [ref]
Michitarō Komatsubara
Japanese general.
Born July 20th, 1886 in Yokohama.
Died October 6th, 1940 at 54 years old in Tokyo (stomach cancer).
Deaths 71 to 80 of 155
When I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed. Ovid