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)