Historical Deaths: June 2009

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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 CÃ©line, 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 PerÃ³n, 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)

Monday, June 29, 2009

Famous Deaths on 30 Jun

1181 - Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
1224 - Adolf of OsnabrÃ¼ck, 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 SokoloviÄ‡, 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

Sunday, June 28, 2009

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 - AndrÃ© 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 - JosÃ© Gregorio HernÃ¡ndez Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
1931 - NÃ©rÃ©e 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 - GermÃ¡n ValdÃ©s, 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 - HÃ©ctor 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 - FranÃ§ois PÃ©rier, 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 - FabiÃ¡n 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)

Saturday, June 27, 2009

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 HrebeljanoviÄ‡ of Serbia (b. 1329)
1586 - PrimoÅ¾ 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 BovÃ©, 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 - JosÃ© 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

Friday, June 26, 2009

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 HodÅ¾a, 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 - Ãngel Maturino ResÃ©ndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (b. 1959)
2007 - Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2007 - Dragutin TadijanoviÄ‡, 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)

Thursday, June 25, 2009

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 KÃ¶gel, 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 DÃ¶blin, 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 - FranÃ§oise DorlÃ©ac, French actress (b. 1942)
1975 - St. JosemarÃa EscrivÃ¡, 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 FoÃ©, 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)

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

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 PÃ©rez de MontalbÃ¡n, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)
1669 - FranÃ§ois de VendÃ´me, 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 - FranÃ§ois Nicolas BenoÃ®t, 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 - FranÃ§ois 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)

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

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 FranÃ§ois 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 - AndrÃ©-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 JonBenÃ©t 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

Monday, June 22, 2009

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 WÃ¼rttemberg (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 PÃ¶llnitz, 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 GliÃ¨re, 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, GalÃ¡pagos 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)

Sunday, June 21, 2009

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 TachÃ©, 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 FalliÃ¨res, 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 TÄƒnase, 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 - GÃ©rard Pelletier, Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1919)
1997 - Don Henderson, English actor (b. 1932)
1997 - Ted GÃ¤rdestad, 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)

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Famous Deaths on 21 Jun

1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
1377 - King Edward III of England (b. 1312)
1527 - NiccolÃ² 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 - KryÅ¡tof 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 - Ã‰tienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
1874 - Anders Jonas Ã…ngstrÃ¶m, 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 VelÃ¡zquez SÃ¡nchez, 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)

Friday, June 19, 2009

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 KÃ¤stner, 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 - RaphaÃ«l 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)

Thursday, June 18, 2009

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 - FranÃ§ois, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
1608 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
1650 - MatthÃ¤us 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-FranÃ§ois LagrenÃ©e, French painter (b. 1724)
1820 - Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
1844 - Ã‰tienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
1867 - Maximilian I, Mexican Emperor (b. 1832)
1902 - Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
1921 - RamÃ³n LÃ³pez 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)

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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 - FranÃ§ois 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 ArmendÃ¡riz, 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 - JÃºlio CÃ©sar 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 - AndrÃ© Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1980 - Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
1982 - John Cheever, American author (b. 1912)
1982 - Curd JÃ¼rgens, 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)

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Famous Deaths on 17 Jun

1025 - BolesÅ‚aw 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 CrÃ©billon, 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 - MartÃn Miguel de GÃ¼emes 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 - JosÃ© 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 - ClÃ¡udio Besserman Vianna, aka "Bussunda", Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)
2007 - Gianfranco FerrÃ¨, 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)

Monday, June 15, 2009

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-LÃ¼neburg-WolfenbÃ¼ttel, 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 NeuchÃ¢tel 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-FranÃ§ois 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 MÃ©ry 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 SchrÃ¶der, 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 DuruflÃ©, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 - Miguel PiÃ±ero, 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 KÅjun 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 ÅšmiaÅ‚owski, 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)

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Famous Deaths on 15 Jun

1073 - Emperor Go-SanjÅ 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 - TamÃ¡s BakÃ³cz. 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

Saturday, June 13, 2009

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 - JoÃ£o SimÃµes 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 - DorimÃ¨ne 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 - JamelÃ£o, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1913)

Friday, June 12, 2009

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 - KoÄo 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 BÃ©kÃ©sy, 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 - DÃ¼ndar TaÅŸer, 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 - GÃ©rard CÃ´tÃ©, 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 - Ãlvaro 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 FrÃ¶hlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)

Thursday, June 11, 2009

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 - FrÃ©dÃ©ric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822)
1917 - Teresa CarreÃ±o, 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 - GyÃ¶rgy 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

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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 - AndrÃ© FÃ©libien, French architect (b. 1619)
1712 - Louis Joseph, duc de VendÃ´me, 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 - ThÃ©odore 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 - ThÃch Quáº£ng Äá»©c, Vietnamese monk, self-immolation (b. 1897)
1965 - JosÃ© Mendes CabeÃ§adas, 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 cÃ©lÃ¨bre (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 GonÃ§alves, 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 - VÃµ VÄƒn Kiá»‡t, former prime minister of Vietnam (b. 1922)
2008 - Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1938)
2008 - Miroslav DvoÅ™Ã¡k, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (b. 1951)

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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 - LuÃs de CamÃµes, Portuguese poet
1607 - John Popham, English politician
1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
1680 - Johan GÃ¶ransson 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 - AndrÃ©-Marie AmpÃ¨re, 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 GaudÃ, 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 - ZoltÃ¡n MeskÃ³, 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 HernÃ¡ndez (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)

Monday, June 8, 2009

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 - GÃ©rard 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 GuÃ©rin, 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 Ãngel 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)

Famous Deaths on 9 Jun

Sunday, June 7, 2009

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 - EugÃ¨ne 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 - Å aban BajramoviÄ‡, Serbian Romani musician (b. 1936)
218 - Macrinus, Roman Emperor
632 - Muhammad, Prophet of Islam (b. 570)

Saturday, June 6, 2009

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 - Ã‰mile 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 - DraÅ¾en PetroviÄ‡, 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 - VÃctor 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)

Friday, June 5, 2009

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 CoÃ«tlogon, 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-ThÃ©odore Brongniart, French architect
1815 - Samuel Whitbread, English Politician
1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
1843 - Friedrich HÃ¶lderlin, 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 LumiÃ¨re, 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 - FrÃ©dÃ©ric 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)

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Famous Deaths on 5 Jun

1017 - Emperor SanjÅ 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 TormÃ©, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925)
2000 - Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925)
2001 - Pedro LaÃn 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 - JÃ¼rgen MÃ¶llemann, 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 ZÃnser, 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

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Famous Deaths on 4 Jun

1039 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
1135 - Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082)
1206 - AdÃ¨le 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 JosÃ© de Sucre, Great Marshall of Ayacucho (b. 1795)
1872 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
1875 - Eduard MÃ¶rike, 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 LukÃ¡cs, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1885)
1973 - Maurice RenÃ© FrÃ©chet, 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 BelaÃºnde 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)

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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 ZumÃ¡rraga, 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 IzÅ, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
1877 - Ludwig Ritter von KÃ¶chel, 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 YÃ¼an-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 SillanpÃ¤Ã¤, 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)

Monday, June 1, 2009

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 ScudÃ©ry, French writer (b. 1607)
1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
1754 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
1761 - Jonas AlstrÃ¶mer, 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 - JÃ³zef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
1881 - Ã‰mile LittrÃ©, 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 - AndrÃ© 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 JosÃ© 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 - AndrÃ©s 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