Famous People Who Died on March 6

• Alcott, Louisa May (1888)

  The author of Little Women

• Buck, Pearl S. (1973)

  The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote The Good Earth

• Crockett, Davy (1836)

  Tennessee frontiersman and defender of the Alamo

• Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr. (1935)

  The U.S. Supreme Court's "Great Dissenter" from 1902-1932

• O'Keeffe, Georgia (1986)

  American artist who painted flowers and cow skulls

• Rand, Ayn (1982)

  The author of The Fountainhead and leader of Objectivism movement

• Reagan, Nancy (2016)

  First Lady of the United States, 1981-89

• Sousa, John Philip (1932)

  The guy who wrote "Stars and Stripes Forever"

• Tyner, McCoy (2020)

  The piano player in The John Coltrane Quartet in the 1960s

See also: Born on March 6