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