Famous Deaths on 1 Jun

Famous Deaths on 1 Jun

1434 - Wladislaus II of Poland
1571 - John Story, English Catholic
1616 - Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
1625 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
1639 - Melchior Franck, German composer
1660 - Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred)
1710 - David Mitchell, British admiral (b. 1642)
1740 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
1769 - Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard University (b. 1689)
1795 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
1815 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1853)
1823 - Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770)
1826 - Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
1830 - Sahajanand Swami, believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal body. (b. 1781)
1841 - David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b. 1785)
1846 - Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
1864 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812)
1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
1872 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1795)
1873 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
1879 - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial son of Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856)
1927 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
193 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
1941 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (b. 1873)
1943 - Leslie Howard, English actor (b. 1893)
1943 - Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
1946 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
1948 - Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (b. 1914)
195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China
1954 - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (b. 1869)
1959 - Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
1960 - Paula Hitler, sister of Adolf Hitler. (b. 1896)
1960 - Lester Patrick, Canadian hockey player (b. 1883)
1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (by execution; b. 1906)
1965 - Earl "Curly" Lambeau, American football coach (b. 1898)
1966 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873)
1968 - Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880)
1968 - André Laurendeau, French Canadian writer, journalist and politician (b. 1912)
1969 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (b. 1904)
1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (b. 1892)
1973 - Mary Kornman, American actress (b. 1915)
1979 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1904)
1980 - Rube Marquard, baseball player (b. 1886)
1980 - Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
1981 - Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (b. 1883)
1983 - Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)
1985 - Richard Greene, British actor (b. 1918)
1986 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1958)
1987 - Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (b. 1921)
1989 - Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari; b. 1917)
1991 - David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1941)
1994 - Frances Heflin, American actress (b. 1923)
1996 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Fifth President of India (b. 1913)
1998 - Darwin Joston, American actor (b. 1937)
1999 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (b. 1910)
2001 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
2001 - King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
2001 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2002 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
2003 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player (b. 1916)
2004 - William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922)
2005 - George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
2006 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2007 - Arn Shein, American sports writer (b. 1928)
2007 - Tony Thompson, Singer in R&B group Hi-Five (b. 1975)
2008 - Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
2008 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)