Died on This Day (06-Apr)

Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
Ernest Hollings	Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005.	United States Senator	97	1
Don Rickles	Donald Jay Rickles was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author.	American stand-up comedian	90	3
James Best	Jewel Franklin Guy , known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician.	American actor	88	5
Bigas Luna	José Juan Bigas Luna was a Spanish film director, designer and artist.	Film director	67	7
Diaa al-Din Dawoud	Diaa al-Din Dawoud was an Egyptian politician and activist.	Egyptian politician	85	9
Prince Rainier	Rainier III was the Prince of Monaco from 9 May 1949 to his death in 2005.	Prince of Monaco	81	15
V. J. Sukselainen	Vieno Johannes Sukselainen , was twice Prime Minister of Finland and four times Speaker of the Parliament.	Finnish politician	88	25
Gene Davis	Gene Davis was an American Color Field painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color.	American artist	64	35
Heinrich Bulle	Heinrich Bulle was a German archaeologist born in Bremen.	German archaeologist	77	75
Christen Mikkelsen Kold	Christen Mikkelsen Kold was a Danish teacher, notable for creating the Danish Folk high school system, for non-degree education of adults.	Educator	54	150

Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
Donald McKayle	Donald McKayle was an American modern dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and writer best known for creating socially conscious concert works during the 1950s and '60s that focus on expressing the human condition and, more specifically, the black experience in America.	American modern dancer	87	2
Merle Haggard	Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.	American singer	79	4
Mickey Rooney	Mickey Rooney was an American actor, producer, radio entertainer and vaudevillian.	American actor	93	6
Fang Lizhi	Fang Lizhi was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.	Professor of astrophysics	76	8
Anatoly Dobrynin	Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin was a Soviet statesman, diplomat and politician.	Soviet Diplomat	90	10
Habib Bourguiba	Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian lawyer, nationalist leader and statesman who led the country from 1956 to 1987 as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia then as the first president of Tunisia .	President of Tunisia	96	20
B. T. Ranadive	Bhalchandra Trimbak Ranadive , popularly known as BTR was an Indian communist politician and trade union leader.	Indian politician	85	30
Sam Sheppard	Samuel Holmes Sheppard was an American osteopathic physician-neurosurgeon.	American neurosurgeon	46	50
Archibald Peake	Archibald Henry Peake was an Australian politician.	Australian politician	61	100
Raphael	Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.	Italian Renaissance artist and architect	37	500

Anniversary Date: 06-Apr

Died on This Day (06-Apr)