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Actors Who Died on April 6

  • 1949 Seymour Hicks, British actor and theatrical impresario (Scrooge), dies at 78
  • 1966 Julia Faye, actress (10 Commandments. Samson & Delilah), dies at 73
  • 1972 Brian Donlevy, American actor (Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island), dies at 71
  • 1992 Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey), dies of Alzheimers at 94
  • 1993 Divya Bharati, "Baby Doll" Indian Bollywood actress (Diwana), dies at 19 by mysteriously falling from her husband's apartment

Greer Garson (1904-1996)

British actress (Goodbye Mr Chips, Mrs Miniver), dies at 92

  • 2007 Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (L'imperatore di Capri), dies at 90
  • 2010 Corin Redgrave, British actor (Excalibur, A Man For All Seasons), dies at 70

Mickey Rooney (1920-2014)

American Emmy award-winning actor (Boys Town, The Black Stallion), dies at 93

  • 2015 James Best [Jewel Franklin Guy], American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Sounder), dies at 88

Merle Haggard (1937-2016)

American country singer-songwriter ("Mama Tried"; "If We Make It Through December"; "Okie from Muskogee"), dies on his 79th birthday

  • 2017 Don Rickles, American comedian (Don Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey), dies at 90
  • 2020 James Drury, American actor (The Virginian), dies of natural causes at 85
  • 2022 Fujiko F. Fujio [Motoo Abiko], Japanese manga cartoon artist (Doraemon), dies at 88