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)