Actors and Actresses Who Died on March 6 - On This Day March 6 Calendar

• 1867 Artemus Ward [Charles Farrar Browne], American humorist (considered to be America's first stand-up comedian), dies at 32
• 1924 Meyer van Beem, Dutch actor (Mottige Janus, Black Venus), dies at 85
• 1935 Fridolf Rhudin, Swedish actor and comedian (The Wrong Millionaire, Secret Svensson), dies from brain fever at 39

• 1937 Frank Vosper, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rome Express), dies at sea at 37
• 1950 Lew Lehr, American comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54
• 1951 Ivor Novello [David Ivor Davies], Welsh composer, writer and actor (Keep the Home Fires Burning, The Truth Game), dies at 58
• 1959 Fred Stone, renowned American circus performer and broadway actor (Alice Adams), dies at 85
• 1961 George Formby, British singer and comedian, dies at 56
• 1961 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright and director (Tivoli), dies at 59
• 1964 Edward Van Sloan, American actor (Frankenstein, Dracula), dies at 81
• 1965 Margaret Dumont [Daisy Baker], actress (Animal Crackers), dies at 75
• 1967 Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76
• 1970 William Hopper, American actor (Perry Mason, The Bad Seed, Rebel Without a Cause), dies of pneumonia following a stroke at 55
• 1976 Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer, actor (world light heavyweight champion 1932-34), dies of Paget's disease of bone at 68
• 1979 Charles Wagenheim, actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke), dies at 83
• 1982 Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum], Russian-American author, screenwriter and philosopher who developed the philosophical system of "Objectivism" (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead), dies of heart failure at 77

• 1982 Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer and actor (Village by the River, Beautiful Juliet), dies at 97
• 1983 Thelma Pelish, American actress (The Pajama Game), dies at 55
• 1984 Henry Wilcoxon, British actor (Cleopatra, Jericho, The Ten Commandments), dies from heart failure and cancer at 78
• 1986 Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies
• 1989 Harry Andrews, English actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77
• 1992 Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll's), dies of pneumonia
• 1993 Douglas Marland, American soap opera writer (As the World Turns), dies at 58
• 1994 Leighton Noble [Faye Leighton Jepson], American big band singer, bandleader, and TV host, dies at 81
• 1994 Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, activist and politician, dies of lung cancer at 73
• 1994 Tengiz Abuladze, Soviet Georgian filmmaker (Repentance), dies at 70
• 1996 Simon Cadell, English actor (Enemy at the Door), dies at 45
• 2000 John Colicos, Canadian actor (Battlestar Galactica), dies of a heart attack at 71
• 2004 Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2004 Hercules [Raymond Fernandez], American professional wrestler, dies at 47
• 2005 Teresa Wright, American actress (Shadow Of A Doubt; Pride of the Yankees; The Best Years of Our Lives), dies of a heart attack at 86
• 2006 Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve and activist (Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation), dies of lung cancer at 44
• 2009 Francis Magalona, Filipino Pinoy hip-hop rapper, songwriter, and television personality (Eat Bulaga!, 1995-2009), dies of leukemia at 44
• 2014 Sheila MacRae, British-born actress (Jackie Gleason Show), dies at 92
• 2017 Robert Osborne, American film historian and television host (Turner Classic Movies), dies at 84
• 2018 Shammi [Nargis Rabadi], Indian actress (Half Ticket, Dekh Bhai Dekh), dies from natural causes at 88

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