The following folks died on this day in history, June 6.
1799 – Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (b. 1736)
1878 – Robert Stirling, Scottish minister and engineer, invented the stirling engine (b. 1790)
1954 – Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer and author (b. 1910)
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (b. 1925)
2003 – Dave Rowberry, English singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1940)
2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
2009 – Jim Owens, American football player and coach (b. 1927)
2014 – Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician (b. 1928)
2015 – Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author (b. 1934)
2015 – Ronnie Gilbert, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
2015 – Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author (b. 1926)
2016 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player (b. 1931)
2016 – Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926)
