Saturday, June 30, 2012

Famous Deaths on 1 Jul

Famous Deaths on 1 Jul

1109 - King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)
1277 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
1592 - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer
1614 - Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
1622 - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
1681 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
1708 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
1774 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (b. 1705)
1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730)
1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
1819 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
1860 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800)
1863 - John Fulton Reynolds, American Civil War general (b. 1820)
1894 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b. 1811)
1925 - Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866)
1944 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (b. 1930)
1948 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904)
1950 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)
1950 - Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1873)
1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
1964 - Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875)
1965 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
1968 - Fritz Bauer, German judge and prosecutor (b. 1903)
1971 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1974 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
1976 - Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
1978 - Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (b. 1890)
1981 - Rushton Moreve, American bass player (b. 1948)
1981 - Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher (b. 1903)
1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)
1987 - Snakefinger, British-born musician (b. 1949)
1991 - Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
1992 - Franco Cristaldi, Italian film producer (b. 1924)
1992 - Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933)
251 - Herennius Etruscus, Roman Emperor (b. ca. 227)
251 - Decius, Roman Emperor (b. 207)
868 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)

Friday, June 29, 2012

Famous Deaths on 30 Jun

Famous Deaths on 30 Jun

1181 - Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
1224 - Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
1364 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
1538 - Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
1579 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary
1607 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
1660 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
1666 - Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
1704 - John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665)
1709 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
1785 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
1796 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
1882 - Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
1882 - Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
1919 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)
1934 - Night of the Long Knives murders
350 - Nepotianus, Roman usurper

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Famous Deaths on 29 Jun

Famous Deaths on 29 Jun

1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
1509 - Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
1744 - André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
1852 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
1931 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
1935 - Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
1958 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
1960 - Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
1969 - Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
1969 - Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
1973 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
1975 - Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
1978 - Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
1979 - Lowell George, American country-rock singer (b. 1945)
1982 - Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
1982 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
1990 - Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
1995 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
1997 - William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
1998 - Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
2002 - François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
2007 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
2007 - Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)
2008 - Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Famous Deaths on 28 Jun

Famous Deaths on 28 Jun

1061 - Floris I, Count of Holland
1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
1194 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
1385 - Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)
1389 - Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)
1586 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
1598 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish-born cartographer (b. 1527)
1716 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
1813 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b. 1755)
1834 - Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
1836 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
1880 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1881 - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
1889 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
1892 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
1913 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
1914 - Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
1915 - Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1916 - Åžtefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1922 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
1929 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
1960 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
1962 - Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
1962 - Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1965 - Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
1971 - Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
1974 - Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
1975 - Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
1975 - Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
1975 - Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b. 1924)
1976 - Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1927)
1978 - Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
1980 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
1981 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
1985 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1989 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)
1992 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
1993 - GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
2000 - Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
2000 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
2001 - Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
2001 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
2003 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2004 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
2005 - Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
2006 - George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
2006 - Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
2006 - Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919)
2006 - George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
2007 - Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
2007 - Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)
2008 - Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b.1987)
548 - Theodora, Byzantine empress
767 - Pope Paul I
928 - Louis the Blind, King of Provence and Holy Roman Emperor

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Famous Deaths on 27 Jun

Famous Deaths on 27 Jun

1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1458 - King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
1574 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
1603 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (b. 1539)
1627 - John Hayward, English historian
1655 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
1672 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597)
1720 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
1773 - Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. circa 1706)
1794 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
1827 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
1829 - James Smithson, English scientist and philanthropist (b. 1765)
1831 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
1844 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1805)
1907 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
1912 - George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (b. 1855)
1917 - Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (b. 1896)
1935 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
1944 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
1952 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
1954 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1960 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
1962 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1986 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1989 - Alfred Jules Ayer, British philosopher (b. 1910)
1991 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (b. 1953)
1991 - Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
1996 - Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
1998 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (b. 1935)
1999 - George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
2001 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
2002 - John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who) (b. 1944)
2003 - David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937)
2004 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
2005 - Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
2005 - Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector
2005 - John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
2005 - Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
2005 - Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
2006 - Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (b. 1959)
2007 - Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2007 - Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (b. 1905)
2007 - William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920)
2008 - Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
2008 - Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914)

Monday, June 25, 2012

Famous Deaths on 26 Jun

Famous Deaths on 26 Jun

1291 - Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England
1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru
1688 - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (b. 1617)
1784 - Caesar Rodney, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)
1793 - Gilbert White, English ornithologist (b. 1720)
1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)
1836 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise) (b. 1760)
1878 - Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)
1918 - Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
1922 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
1939 - Ford Madox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868)
1946 - Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)
1946 - Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)
1947 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
1948 - Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924)
1949 - Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
1956 - Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930)
1957 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
1958 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1958 - Andrija Å tampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
1964 - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888)
1964 - Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian sports executive (b. 1889)
1967 - Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942)
1975 - St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1902)
1990 - Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (b. 1909)
1992 - Herman Rohde, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1993 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (b. 1920)
1993 - Roy Campanella, American baseball player (b. 1921)
1994 - Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and activist (b. 1929)
1996 - Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
2001 - Soccer (dog actor) (b. 1988)
2002 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
2002 - Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
2003 - Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
2003 - Denver Randleman, U.S. Army Seargent (b. 1920)
2003 - Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (b. 1902)
2003 - Sir Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
2004 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929)
2004 - Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer and song-writer (b. 1930)
2005 - Richard Whiteley, British television game show host (b. 1943)
2007 - Joey Sadler, All Black rugby player (b. 1914)
2007 - Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (b. 1929)
2007 - Natasja Saad, Danish Reggae singer (b. 1974)
363 - Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (b. 331)

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Famous Deaths on 25 Jun

Famous Deaths on 25 Jun

1134 - King Niels of Denmark
1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
1483 - Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
1522 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
1533 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
1579 - Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
1593 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
1634 - John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
1638 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)
1669 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
1673 - Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France (b. 1611)
1686 - Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
1715 - Jean du Casse, French admiral (b. 1646)
1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
1792 - Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder (b. 1738)
1798 - Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)
1838 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1866 - Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1875 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
1876 - Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier & Irish Soldier of Fortune (b. 1840)
1876 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (b. 1839)
1876 - Thomas Custer, Brother of George A. Custer & 2-time Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1845)
1876 - Boston Custer, Brother of George A. Custer (b. 1848)
1876 - James C. Calhoun, Brother-in-Law of George Armstrong Custer & U.S. Soldier (b. 1845)
1882 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
1884 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
1916 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
1918 - Jake Beckley, baseball player (b. 1867)
1937 - Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
1944 - Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
1948 - William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
1949 - Buck Freeman, baseball player (b. 1871)
1959 - Charles Starkweather, spree killer (b. 1938)
1960 - Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b. 1869)
1971 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1880)
1974 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
1976 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
1979 - Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
1983 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
1984 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
1985 - Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
1987 - Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)
1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
1990 - Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer
1992 - Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
1995 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1995 - Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1907)
1996 - Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (b. 1914)
1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
1999 - Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)
2002 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2003 - Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
2005 - John Fiedler, American Actor (b. 1925)
2006 - Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect (b. 1918)
2007 - Mahasti, Persian singer (b. 1946)
2007 - J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer and teacher (b. 1933)
635 - Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Famous Deaths on 24 Jun

Famous Deaths on 24 Jun

1398 - Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)
1439 - Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382)
1519 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1480)
1520 - Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)
1604 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550)
1637 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
1643 - John Hampden, English politician (b. 1595)
1766 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678)
1778 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714)
1803 - Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)
1817 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1734)
1835 - Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician, commander of Greek naval forces in Greek War of Independence (b. 1769)
1894 - Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (b. 1837)
1908 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (heart failure) (b. 1837)
1909 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
1922 - Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1867)
1935 - Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash) (b. 1890)
1946 - Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
1947 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (b. 1864)
1968 - Tony Hancock, British comedian (b. 1924)
1977 - André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
1978 - Robert Charroux, French writer (b. 1909)
1984 - Clarence Campbell, Canadian NHL president (b. 1905)
1987 - Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (b. 1916)
1991 - Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (b. 1899)
1997 - Don Hutson, American athlete (b. 1913)
1997 - Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
2000 - David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
2000 - Vera Atkins, Romanian-born British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
2002 - Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
2003 - Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (b. 1987)
2004 - Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (b. 1957)
2005 - Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
2005 - Hakham Yedidia Shofet, Former chief rabbi of Iran (b. 1908)
2006 - Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956)
2007 - Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dancehall artist (b. 1974)
2007 - Byron Baer, American politician (b. 1929)
2007 - Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967)
2007 - Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1938)
2008 - Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1919)
803 - Higbald of Lindisfarne

Friday, June 22, 2012

Famous Deaths on 23 Jun

Famous Deaths on 23 Jun

1018 - Henry I of Austria
1555 - Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
1582 - Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
1615 - Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
1677 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
1686 - William Coventry, English statesman
1707 - John Mill, English theologian
1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
1770 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
1775 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
1779 - Ras Mikael Sehul, warlord of Ethiopia (b. about 1691)
1806 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723)
1832 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
1836 - James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian, (b. 1773)
1856 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b. 1806)
1891 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
1893 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)
1926 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1956 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
1959 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b. 1920)
1969 - Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907)
1970 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (b. 1895)
1980 - Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
1980 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894)
1981 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907)
1982 - Vincent Chin, Chinese-American hate crime victim (b. 1955)
1989 - Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (b. 1903)
1992 - Eric Andolsek, American football player (b. 1966)
1995 - Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918)
1995 - Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b. 1914)
1996 - Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
1997 - Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X (b. 1936)
1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
1999 - Buster Merryfield, British actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
2002 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
2003 - Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b. 1938)
2005 - Shana Alexander, American columnist (b. 1926)
2005 - Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (b. 1925)
2006 - Harriet, Galápagos tortoise (b. 1830)
2006 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
2006 - Luke Graham, American wrestler (b. 1940)
2007 - Rod Beck, American baseball player (b. 1968)
79 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. 9)

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Famous Deaths on 22 Jun

Famous Deaths on 22 Jun

1276 - Pope Innocent V
1429 - Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1535 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed)
1632 - James Whitelocke, English judge (b. 1570)
1634 - Johann von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (b. 1588)
1699 - Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
1714 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (b. 1662)
1868 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)
1874 - Howard Staunton, English chess master (b. 1810)
1892 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
1894 - Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b. 1823)
1905 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1913 - Åžtefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)
1925 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1928 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
1931 - Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841)
1932 - Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (b. 1892)
1933 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (b. 1896)
1935 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
1936 - Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher (b. 1882)
1938 - C.J. Dennis, Australian writer and poet (b. 1876)
1959 - Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
1961 - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
1963 - Maria Tănase, Romanian singer of traditional and popular music (b. 1913)
1964 - Havank, Dutch writer (b. 1904)
1965 - David O. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1902)
1969 - Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
1974 - Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker and billiards player (b. 1912)
1974 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
1977 - Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (b. 1952)
1979 - Louis Chiron, Monaco race car driver (b. 1899)
1984 - Joseph Losey, American theater and film director (b. 1909)
1987 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
1988 - Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
1989 - Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician (b. 1916)
1990 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1992 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
1993 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
1995 - Al Hansen, American artist (b. 1927)
1997 - Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1919)
1997 - Don Henderson, English actor (b. 1932)
1997 - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (b. 1956)
2002 - Darryl Kile, American baseball player (b. 1968)
2002 - Ann Landers, American columnist (b. 1918)
2004 - Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
2004 - Bob Bemer, American computer scientist (b. 1920)
2004 - Kim Sun-il, South Korean translator (b. 1970)
2006 - Moose (dog actor), dog actor popular for role on Frasier (b. 1990)
2007 - Nancy Benoit, former professional wrestling valet(b. 1964)
2007 - Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1964)
2008 - George Carlin, American comedian, actor (b. 1937)
2008 - Dody Goodman, American comedienne (b. 1914)
2008 - Jane McGrath, British-born Australian cancer support campaigner (b. 1966)

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Famous Deaths on 21 Jun

Famous Deaths on 21 Jun

1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
1377 - King Edward III of England (b. 1312)
1527 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
1529 - John Skelton, English poet
1547 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
1591 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)
1621 - Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
1652 - Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
1738 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
1796 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
1824 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
1874 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
1893 - Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University
1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
1914 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1934 - Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
1940 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881)
1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
1952 - Wilfrid 'Wop' May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
1954 - Gideon Sundback, American inventor, perfected the zipper (b. 1880)
1957 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1964 - Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)
1964 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
1964 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
1969 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
1970 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
1976 - Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
1979 - Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)
1980 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
1985 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
1986 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author (b. 1923)
1987 - Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer, TV commercial actor (b. 1914)
1993 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
1997 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
1998 - Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
1999 - Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
2000 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
2001 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
2001 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
2001 - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
2003 - Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967)
2003 - Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
2003 - Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
2005 - Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
2007 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
2008 - Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Famous Deaths on 20 Jun

Famous Deaths on 20 Jun

1597 - Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator
1668 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
1776 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704)
1787 - Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723)
1800 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)
1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1770)
1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
1869 - Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)
1870 - Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830)
1906 - John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (b. 1842)
1945 - Bruno Frank, German author (b. 1878)
1947 - Bugsy Siegel, American crime figure (b. 1906)
1952 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1963 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (b. 1898)
1972 - Howard Johnson, American businessman, originator of restaurant chain (b. 1897)
1976 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
1978 - Mark Robson, Canadian film director and producer (b. 1913)
1995 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher (b. 1911)
1996 - Jim Ellison, Singer/Guitarist for the band Material Issue (b. 1964)
1997 - Lawrence Payton, American singer (The Four Tops) (b. 1938)
1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
1999 - Clifton Fadiman, American author (b. 1902)
2002 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (b. 1905)
2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
2003 - Bob Stump, American politician (b. 1927)
2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (b. 1923)
2005 - Larry Collins, American writer (b. 1929)
2006 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2007 - Trevor Henry, New Zealand Justice (b. 1902)
451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths
840 - Louis the Pious, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778)
885 - Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (b. 841)

Monday, June 18, 2012

Famous Deaths on 19 Jun

Famous Deaths on 19 Jun

1312 - Piers Gaveston, French favorite of Edward II of England
1542 - Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
1545 - Abraomas Kulvietis Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
1584 - François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
1608 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
1650 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)
1747 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
1762 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
1768 - Benjamin Tasker, Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
1786 - Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (b. 1742)
1805 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
1820 - Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
1844 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
1867 - Maximilian I, Mexican Emperor (b. 1832)
1902 - Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
1921 - Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (b. 1888)
1937 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (b. 1860)
1939 - Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
1949 - Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
1951 - Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
1952 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
1953 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1918)
1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1915)
1956 - Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (b. 1874)
1966 - Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
1968 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
1975 - Sam Giancana, American gangster (b. 1908)
1977 - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
1977 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (b. 1889)
1979 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
1984 - Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
1986 - Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
1986 - Coluche, French comedian (b. 1944)
1987 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
1988 - Fernand Seguin, Canadian biologist (b. 1922)
1988 - Gladys Spellman, American. Congresswoman (b. 1918)
1991 - Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
1993 - William Golding, English writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
1995 - Peter Townsend, RAF officer (b. 1914)
1996 - G. David Schine, American businessman (b. 1927)
1997 - Olga Georges-Picot, French actress (b. 1944)
1997 - Bobby Helms, American singer (b. 1933)
2001 - John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (b. 1916)
2003 - Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
2007 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (b. 1932)
2007 - Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1919)
2007 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
2007 - El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
2008 - Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist (b. 1934)
2008 - Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Famous Deaths on 18 Jun

Famous Deaths on 18 Jun

1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
1291 - King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
1464 - Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter
1536 - Henry Fitzroy, (b. 1519) bastard son of Henry VIII
1588 - Robert Crowley, English printer and poet
1629 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (b. 1577)
1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer
1673 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606)
1680 - Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
1704 - Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
1726 - Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
1742 - John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670)
1749 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
1772 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
1772 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (b. 1700)
1788 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
1794 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1760)
1794 - James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
1815 - Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1758)
1815 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
1835 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
1889 - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (b. 1855)
1902 - Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
1915 - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho
1916 - Max Immelmann, German flying ace (b. 1890)
1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
1928 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
1936 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868)
1937 - Gaston Doumergue, French statesman (b. 1863)
1947 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
1959 - Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
1963 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
1967 - Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
1967 - Giacomo Russo, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
1971 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
1971 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
1973 - Roger Delgado, British actor (b. 1918)
1974 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (b. 1896)
1974 - Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
1978 - Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
1980 - André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1980 - Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
1982 - John Cheever, American author (b. 1912)
1982 - Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915)
1984 - Alan Berg, American radio talk show host
1985 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (b. 1892)
1986 - Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921)
1989 - I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
1992 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)
1992 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
1997 - Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
2000 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
2002 - Jack Buck, American baseball announcer (b. 1924)
2003 - Larry Doby, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2005 - Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
2005 - Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
2006 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (b. 1906)
2007 - Bernard Manning, British comedian (b. 1930)
2007 - Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (b. 1951)
2008 - Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908)
2008 - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (b. 1915)

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Famous Deaths on 17 Jun

Famous Deaths on 17 Jun

1025 - Bolesław I the Brave, first king of Poland
1091 - Dirk V, Count of Holland (b. 1052)
1463 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (b. 1436)
1565 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)
1694 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629)
1696 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland (b. 1629)
1719 - Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b. 1672)
1734 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (b. 1653)
1740 - Sir William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687)
1762 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (b. 1674)
1775 - Major John Pitcairn, British marine (killed in battle) (b. 1722)
1797 - Agha Muhammad Khan, Shah of Persia (b. 1742)
1813 - Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (b. 1726)
1821 - Martín Miguel de Güemes Argentine military leader (b. 1785)
1858 - Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India, one of the leading figures of the Indian rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828)
1898 - Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
1904 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, Russian politician, Governor-General of Finland (assassinated) (b. 1839)
1939 - Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1940 - Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1942 - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician (b. 1853)
1952 - Jack Parsons, American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914)
1956 - Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
1956 - Bob Sweikert, American racing driver (b. 1926)
1957 - Dorothy Richardson, English writer (b. 1873)
1961 - Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
1968 - José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
1974 - Pamela Britton, American actress (b. 1923)
1979 - Duffy Lewis, baseball player (b. 1888)
1981 - Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (b. 1889)
1981 - Richard O'Connor, British general (b. 1889)
1982 - Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
1983 - Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b. 1923)
1986 - Kate Smith, American singer (God Bless America) (b. 1907)
1987 - Dick Howser, American baseball player and manager (b. 1936)
1996 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
2001 - Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
2002 - Willie Davenport, American athlete (b. 1943)
2002 - Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
2004 - Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
2005 - Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962)
2005 - Sam Loeb, comic book writer (b. 1988)
2006 - Arthur Franz, American actor (b. 1920)
2006 - Cláudio Besserman Vianna, aka "Bussunda", Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)
2007 - Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian fashion designer (b. 1944)
2007 - Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (b. 1933)
2008 - Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
2008 - Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (b. 1922)

Friday, June 15, 2012

Famous Deaths on 16 Jun

Famous Deaths on 16 Jun

1216 - Pope Innocent III
1397 - Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
1468 - Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
1622 - Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
1623 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
1666 - Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608)
1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed)
1707 - Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
1722 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
1749 - Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
1752 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
1752 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1778 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779 - Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
1792 - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
1804 - Johann Adam Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
1824 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
1849 - Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
1850 - William Lawson explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774)
1855 - John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
1858 - John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
1866 - Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
1869 - Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
1872 - Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
1878 - Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
1881 - Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1902 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
1925 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
1925 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
1928 - Dr. Mark Keppel, County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b. 1867)
1929 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
1930 - Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (b. 1860)
1939 - Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
1940 - DuBose Heyward, American writer (b. 1885)
1944 - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
1945 - Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
1952 - Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861)
1953 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
1955 - Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864)
1958 - Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
1959 - George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
1961 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
1969 - Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1970 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
1971 - Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
1977 - Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
1979 - Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
1979 - Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
1981 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
1982 - James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (b. 1956)
1984 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 - Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. (b. 1946)
1990 - Megan Leigh, American porn star (b. 1964)
1993 - Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
1994 - Kristen Pfaff, American bass guitarist (Hole) (b. 1967)
1996 - Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (b. 1913)
1996 - Curt Swan, American comic book artist (b. 1920)
1999 - David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
2000 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
2003 - Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2004 - Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
2005 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
2006 - Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
2006 - Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist, (b. 1942)
2007 - Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, (b. 1931)
2007 - Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
2008 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
2008 - Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (b. 1921)

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Famous Deaths on 15 Jun

Famous Deaths on 15 Jun

1073 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
1246 - Duke Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)
1341 - Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297)
1381 - John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England
1381 - Wat Tyler, English rebel
1383 - John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor
1389 - Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
1389 - Prince Lazar, Serbian Orthodox saint (b. 1329)
1467 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
1521 - Tamás Bakócz. Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
1614 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
1679 - Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
1724 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
1750 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684)
1768 - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
1772 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694)
1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
1858 - Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter (b. 1795)
1888 - Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
1889 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
1917 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
1934 - Alfred Bruneau, French composer (b. 1857)
1941 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
1941 - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
1961 - Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
1962 - Alfred Cortot, Franco-Swiss pianist (b. 1877)
1965 - Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
1965 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902
1968 - Sam Crawford, baseball player (b. 1880)
1968 - Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1976 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
1983 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910)
1984 - Meredith Willson, American composer (b. 1902)
1985 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b. 1927)
1985 - Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (b. 1961)
1989 - Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
1989 - Victor French, American actor (b. 1934)
1991 - Happy Chandler, American politician and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
1991 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
1993 - John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)
1993 - James Hunt, English race car driver and 1976 F1 world champion (b. 1947)
1994 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
1995 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (b. 1903)
1996 - Dick Murdoch, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
2000 - Jules Roy, French writer (b. 1907)
2001 - Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
2002 - Choi Hong Hi, founder of Taekwon-Do (b. 1918)
2003 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
2005 - Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
2006 - Raymond Devos, French humourist (b. 1922)
2006 - Herb Pearson, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1910)
2007 - Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (b. 1950)
2007 - Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler and valet (b. 1958)
2008 - Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist, and film director (b. 1946)
923 - Robert I of France (b. 866)
991 - Empress Theophanu

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Famous Deaths on 14 Jun

Famous Deaths on 14 Jun

1161 - Emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100)
1381 - Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1497 - Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Borgia (b. 1474)
1544 - Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
1548 - Carpentras, French composer
1594 - Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer
1662 - Henry Vane the Younger, British Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1613)
1674 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
1703 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
1794 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718)
1800 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader (b. 1768)
1800 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (b. 1753)
1801 - Benedict Arnold, American general (b. 1741)
1825 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect (b. 1754)
1837 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
1883 - Edward FitzGerald, English poet (b. 1809)
1886 - Alexandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (b. 1823)
1908 - Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor general of Canada (b. 1841)
1916 - João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865)
1920 - Max Weber, German sociologist (b. 1864)
1926 - Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1843)
1927 - Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859)
1927 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst, British feminist (b. 1857)
1932 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian business pioneer
1936 - G. K. Chesterton, English author (b. 1874)
1936 - Hans Poelzig, German architect (b. 1869)
1946 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (b. 1888)
1967 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
1968 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Laureate (b. 1901)
1975 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (b. 1902)
1977 - Robert Middleton, American actor (b. 1911)
1986 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899)
1986 - Alan Jay Lerner, American composer (b. 1918)
1990 - Erna Berger, German soprano (b. 1900)
1991 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907)
1994 - Henry Mancini, American composer (b. 1924)
1994 - Marcel Mouloudji, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
1995 - Rory Gallagher, Irish guitarist (b. 1949)
1995 - Roger Zelazny, American author (b. 1937)
1997 - Tesslynn O'Cull, American child abuse victim (b. 1995)
1997 - Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
1999 - Bernie Faloney, professional football player (b. 1932)
2000 - Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (b. 1911)
2002 - June Jordan, American writer and teacher (b. 1936)
2003 - Dale Whittington, American racing driver (b. 1959)
2004 - Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1900)
2004 - Eamonn McGirr, Irish-born singer and entertainer
2005 - Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (b. 1924)
2005 - Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
2006 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (b. 1930)
2006 - Monty Berman, British film and television producer (b. 1905)
2007 - Ruth Graham, wife of Billy Graham (b. 1920)
2007 - Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (b. 1922)
2007 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and statesman (b. 1918)
2008 - Jamelão, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1913)

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Famous Deaths on 13 Jun

Famous Deaths on 13 Jun

1036 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)
1231 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
1256 - Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
1636 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
1645 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
1665 - Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
1760 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)
1784 - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
1881 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1898 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
1904 - Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
1918 - Tsar Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (b. 1878)
1930 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
1943 - Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
1951 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1958 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
1965 - David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
1965 - Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
1972 - Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932)
1972 - Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
1972 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891)
1972 - Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925)
1977 - Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
1979 - Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)
1980 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
1982 - Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
1982 - Riccardo Paletti, Formula One driver (b. 1958)
1986 - Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)
1987 - Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
1989 - Fran Allison, American, early television personality (Kukla, Fran and Ollie) (b. 1907)
1993 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
1993 - Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
1998 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
2002 - John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
2003 - Malik Meraj Khalid, Former caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
2004 - Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
2004 - Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
2005 - Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
2005 - David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
2005 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
2005 - Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
2006 - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (b. 1925)
2007 - Walid Eido, Lebanese MP (b. 1942)
2008 - Tim Russert, American television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator (b. 1950)
2008 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)

Monday, June 11, 2012

Famous Deaths on 12 Jun

Famous Deaths on 12 Jun

1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
1036 - Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo
1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
1560 - Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
1560 - Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
1565 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
1647 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian
1675 - Duke Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (b. 1634)
1734 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military commander (b. 1670)
1758 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
1778 - Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
1816 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
1818 - Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia
1904 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
1912 - Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822)
1917 - Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (b. 1853)
1937 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
1957 - Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)
1962 - John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
1963 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (b. 1891)
1969 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)
1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)
1980 - Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)
1980 - Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
1980 - Masayoshi Ohira, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
1982 - Sgt Ian McKay VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1953)
1982 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1983 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (b. 1902)
1989 - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
1994 - Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
1994 - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902)
1994 - Ronald Goldman, American actor and model (b. 1969)
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson (b. 1959)
1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
2000 - P.L.Deshpande, Marathi writer (b. 1919)
2002 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)
2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
2005 - Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918)
2006 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
2006 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
2007 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (b. 1917)
2008 - Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932)
816 - Pope Leo III
918 - Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Famous Deaths on 11 Jun

Famous Deaths on 11 Jun

1183 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)
1216 - Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire
1488 - King James III of Scotland
1557 - King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
1695 - André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619)
1712 - Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654)
1727 - King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1796 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)
1847 - John Franklin, English sea captain and explorer (b. 1786)
1852 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
1858 - Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)
1879 - Prince Willem of the Netherlands, disgraced heir apparent to the Dutch throne (b. 1840)
1882 - Louis Maigret, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1804)
1903 - Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (b. 1876)
1903 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
1911 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (b. 1815)
1914 - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
1924 - Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (b. 1837)
1927 - William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
1934 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
1936 - Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)
1937 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895)
1941 - Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
1963 - Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk, self-immolation (b. 1897)
1965 - José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
1970 - William 'Billy Batts' Devino, American crime figure (b. 1921)
1970 - Frank Laubach, Christian missionary (b. 1884)
1970 - Earl Grant, American musician and singer (b. 1931)
1974 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
1974 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)
1976 - Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)
1979 - John Wayne, American actor (b. 1907)
1984 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)
1985 - Sapfo Notara, Greek actress (b. 1907)
1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954)
1986 - Chesley Bonestell, American-born engineer, architect, and artist (b. 1888)
1991 - Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)
1993 - Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952)
1996 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1908)
1998 - Catherine Cookson, British novelist (b. 1906)
1999 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (b. 1923)
2001 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (by execution; b. 1968)
2003 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (b. 1920)
2004 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b. 1946)
2004 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
2005 - Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese general (b. 1922)
2006 - Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b. 1944)
2006 - Michael Bartosh, computer expert and author (b. 1977)
2006 - Bruce Shand, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1917)
2007 - Imre Friedmann, American scientist (b. 1921)
2007 - Mala Powers, American film actress (b. 1931)
2008 - Võ Văn Kiệt, former prime minister of Vietnam (b. 1922)
2008 - Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1938)
2008 - Miroslav Dvořák, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (b. 1951)

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Famous Deaths on 10 Jun

Famous Deaths on 10 Jun

1075 - Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)
1190 - Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
1424 - Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
1552 - Alexander Barclay, English poet
1556 - Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
1580 - Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet
1607 - John Popham, English politician
1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
1680 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
1735 - Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
1776 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
1791 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
1831 - Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
1836 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
1849 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)
1896 - Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
1898 - Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language.
1899 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
1901 - Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
1902 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
1909 - Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
1912 - Anton AÅ¡kerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
1918 - Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)
1923 - Pierre Loti, French sailor (b. 1850)
1926 - Antoni Gaudí, Spanish, Catalan architect (b. 1852)
1930 - Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
1934 - Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
1937 - Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
1940 - Marcus Garvey, American civil rights activist (b. 1887)
1944 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
1946 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
1947 - Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
1949 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1958 - Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
1959 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
1967 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
1971 - Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
1973 - William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
1974 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
1976 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born producer (b. 1873)
1982 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German author (b. 1945)
1982 - Addie "Micki" Harris, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1940)
1986 - Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
1987 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
1988 - Louis L'Amour, American author (b. 1908)
1991 - Vercors, French writer (b. 1902)
1992 - U.S. Army Sgt. Zak Hernández (b. 1973)
1993 - Les Dawson, English Comedian (b. 1934)
1996 - George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
1996 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
1998 - Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
1998 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2000 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
2000 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
2001 - Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)
2001 - Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970)
2002 - John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
2003 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
2003 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
2003 - Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
2004 - Ray Charles, American musician (b. 1930)
2005 - Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
2007 - Augie Auer, Meteorologist and television presenter (b. 1940)
2008 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-Soviet writer (b. 1928)
323 BC - Alexander the Great (b. 356 BC)

Friday, June 8, 2012

Famous Deaths on 9 Jun

Famous Deaths on 9 Jun

1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
1834 - William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
1892 - Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
1892 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writter (b. 1852)
1946 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)
1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
1958 - Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1979 - Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
1981 - Allen Ludden, TV game show host (b. 1917)
1989 - Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
1989 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
1993 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
2000 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
2004 - Brian Williamson, Jamaican Gay Activist (b. 1945)
2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
2007 - Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate (b. 1981)
2008 - Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)
373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
597 - St. Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia
68 - Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Famous Deaths on 8 Jun

Famous Deaths on 8 Jun

1042 - Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018)
1376 - Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
1383 - Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
1384 - Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
1476 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman
1505 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)
1611 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
1612 - Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b. 1562)
1621 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
1628 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
1714 - Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (b. 1630)
1716 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
1727 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (b. 1663)
1768 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar and archaeologist (b. 1717)
1771 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
1795 - King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
1809 - Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer (b. 1737)
1835 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1857 - Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
1874 - Cochise, Apache leader
1876 - George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
1885 - Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal (b. 1799)
1924 - George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1886)
1924 - Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1902)
1929 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
1945 - Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
1951 - Eugène Fiset, French Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
1956 - Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
1965 - Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b. 1884)
1966 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
1969 - Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
1970 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
1972 - Jimmy Rushing, American blues singer (b. 1903?)
1980 - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
1982 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
1984 - Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
1993 - Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (b. 1945)
1998 - Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
1998 - Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
2000 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (b. 1948)
2003 - Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
2004 - Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
2006 - Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
2006 - Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)
2007 - Kenny Olsson, Swedish speedway racer (b. 1977)
2007 - Richard Rorty, American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher (b. 1931)
2008 - Šaban Bajramović, Serbian Romani musician (b. 1936)
218 - Macrinus, Roman Emperor
632 - Muhammad, Prophet of Islam (b. 570)

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Famous Deaths on 7 Jun

Famous Deaths on 7 Jun

1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 - Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367)
1618 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
1676 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
1711 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
1779 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)
1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1840 - King Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1859 - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1896 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
1916 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1927 - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1937 - Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
1942 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
1951 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (b. 1892)
1954 - Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)
1963 - Zasu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
1965 - Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)
1966 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
1967 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
1967 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1968 - Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)
1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
1978 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1979 - Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)
1980 - Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
1980 - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
1989 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
1993 - Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
1995 - Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
1996 - Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
1999 - Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer (b. 1942)
2001 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
2001 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
2003 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
2006 - John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)
2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born Mujahid (b. 1966)
2008 - Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
2008 - Jim McKay, American sportscaster (b. 1921)

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Famous Deaths on 6 Jun

Famous Deaths on 6 Jun

1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)
1480 - Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect
1548 - Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)
1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)
1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)
1730 - Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (b. 1646)
1740 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony
1784 - Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (b. 1741)
1799 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)
1813 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect
1815 - Samuel Whitbread, English Politician
1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
1861 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
1865 - William Quantrill, American Confederate raider (b. 1837)
1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790)
1881 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)
1891 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
1916 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
1922 - Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1860)
1934 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
1935 - Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862)
1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1948 - Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
1951 - Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1955 - Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (b. 1875)
1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
1962 - Yves Klein, French artist (b. 1928)
1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, United States Attorney General and Senator (b. 1925)
1968 - Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
1975 - Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)
1976 - Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891)
1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892)
1979 - Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
1981 - Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904)
1982 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
1984 - A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author (b. 1912)
1986 - Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress
1991 - Stan Getz, American musician (b. 1927)
1992 - Larry Riley, American actor (b. 1952)
1994 - Mark McManus, Scottish actor (Taggart) (b. 1935)
1994 - Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912)
1996 - George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1999 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
2000 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (b. 1921)
2002 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)
2003 - Dave Rowberry, British musician (The Animals) (b. 1940)
2003 - Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
2005 - Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)
2006 - Billy Preston, American musician (b. 1946)
2006 - Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist (b. 1952)
2006 - Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)

Monday, June 4, 2012

Famous Deaths on 5 Jun

Famous Deaths on 5 Jun

1017 - Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976)
1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
1316 - King Louis X of France (b. 1289)
1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
1568 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522)
1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)
1667 - Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)
1688 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
1722 - Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist, and harpsichordist (b. 1660)
1738 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
1791 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
1816 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)
1825 - Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence
1826 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
1866 - John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
1898 - Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker
1900 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
1902 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)
1906 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
1916 - Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)
1920 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
1930 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
1976 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
1993 - Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
1998 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
1998 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
1999 - Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925)
2000 - Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925)
2001 - Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist
2002 - Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
2003 - Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
2004 - Ronald Reagan, American radio sports announcer, western film actor, governor of California, and 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
2004 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
2005 - Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
2005 - Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
2006 - Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
2007 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Famous Deaths on 4 Jun

Famous Deaths on 4 Jun

1039 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
1135 - Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082)
1206 - Adèle of Champagne, wife of Louis VII of France
1257 - Duke Przemysl I of Poland
1394 - Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England (b. c 1369)
1463 - Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist (b. 1392)
1585 - Muretus, French humanist (b. 1526)
1663 - William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1582)
1798 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian womanizer and writer (b. 1725)
1801 - Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (b. 1750)
1830 - Antonio José de Sucre, Great Marshall of Ayacucho (b. 1795)
1872 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
1875 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
1922 - William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864)
1926 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853)
1928 - Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
1929 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (b. 1881)
1939 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900)
1941 - Wilhelm II of Germany, German emperor (b. 1859)
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, German SS senior officer and Nazi official, by assassination (b. 1904)
1951 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
1956 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress (b. 1881)
1962 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (b. 1882)
1964 - Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1968 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898)
1970 - Sonny Tufts, American actor (b. 1911)
1971 - Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1885)
1973 - Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (b. 1878)
1973 - Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (b. 1917)
1989 - Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
1992 - Carl Stotz, American Little League Founder (b. 1910)
1994 - Derek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (b. 1943)
1994 - Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (b. 1953)
1997 - Ronnie Lane, British bass player (b. 1946)
2001 - John Hartford, American musician (b. 1937)
2001 - Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
2002 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician (b. 1912)
2004 - Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
2004 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
2007 - Craig L. Thomas, United States Senator (b. 1933)
2007 - Freddie Scott, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
2007 - Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (b. 1940)
2007 - Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer (b. 1933)
2007 - Jim Clark, American sheriff and segregationist (b. 1922)
2007 - Clete Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1937)
2008 - Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1952)

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Famous Deaths on 3 Jun

Famous Deaths on 3 Jun

1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
1397 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
1411 - Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
1548 - Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
1594 - John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
1640 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
1657 - William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
1659 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
1780 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
1826 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
1858 - Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
1861 - Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
1865 - Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
1877 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
1882 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
1924 - Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
1928 - Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
1933 - William Muldoon, wrestler (b. 1852)
1955 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
1963 - Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
1963 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
1964 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1970 - Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877)
1971 - Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
1973 - Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
1975 - Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
1975 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
1977 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
1977 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
1983 - Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Lollywood actor, Lahore
1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1902)
1989 - John McCauley, NHL official (b. 1945)
1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
1990 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
1991 - Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
1991 - Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1946)
1991 - Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1942)
1992 - Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
1994 - Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (b. 1925)
1997 - Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
1998 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
2001 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)
2003 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
2004 - Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
2005 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
2006 - Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932)

Friday, June 1, 2012

Famous Deaths on 2 Jun

Famous Deaths on 2 Jun

1418 - Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile
1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain
1581 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland
1693 - John Wildman, English soldier and politician
1701 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
1754 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
1761 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1833 - Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
1865 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
1875 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
1881 - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807)
1901 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
1933 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
1937 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
1941 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1948 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1948 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
1948 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (b. 1897)
1948 - Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
1948 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (b. 1904)
1956 - Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
1961 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
1962 - Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (b. 1892)
1967 - Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
1968 - André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
1969 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
1970 - Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1970 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and founder of eponymous race team (b. 1937)
1970 - Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
1974 - Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
1976 - Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
1977 - Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
1979 - Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
1983 - Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
1984 - Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
1986 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901)
1987 - Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
1987 - Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (b. 1910)
1989 - Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907)
1990 - Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
1990 - Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908)
1990 - Stiv Bators, American singer (The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church) (b. 1949)
1992 - Phillip Dunne, American film director (b. 1908)
1993 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1994 - David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
1996 - John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
1996 - Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956)
1996 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
1996 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (b. 1921)
1997 - Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1905)
1998 - Sylvester Ritter, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
1999 - Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
2000 - Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
2000 - Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)
2001 - Frank Stagg, Baptist Theologian (b. 1911)
2001 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
2001 - Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
2004 - Loyd Sigmon, American amateur ("ham") radio broadcaster (b. 1909)
2005 - Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and sports official (b. 1930)
2005 - Chloe Jones, Model and pornographic actress (b. 1975)
2005 - Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
2005 - Melita Norwood, British spy (b. 1912)
2006 - Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
2006 - Keith Smith, English professional rugby player (b. 1952)
2007 - Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier
2007 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (b. 1949)
2008 - Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
2008 - Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer (b. 1917)
829 - Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
910 - Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia