1537 – Madeleine of Valois, French princess who briefly became Queen of Scotland after marrying James V, dies only six months after the wedding at 16
1799 – William Curtis, English botanist and publisher (Botanical Magazine), dies at 53
1889 – Giovanni Bottesini, Italian Romantic composer, conductor and a double bass virtuoso, dies at 67
1907 – James McGranahan, American composer, dies at 67
1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British author who brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice, dies at 71
1968 – Leo Sowerby, American organist and composer (Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1946), dies at 73
1973 – Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (Dialectic of Enlightenment, Eclipse of Reason), dies at 78
1975 – Barbara Brown, American actress dies at 73
2008 – Bruce Conner, American artist and experimental filmmaker (A Movie, America is Waiting), dies at 74
2021 – Jovenel Moïse, Haitian politician, President of Haiti (2017-21), assassinated at 53
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 6th July 2026
1017 – Genshin [Eshin Sōzu], Japanese scholar-monk of the Buddhist Tendai sect (Ōjōyōshū -“Essentials of Birth in the Pure Land”), dies at around 75
1950 – Theodore “Fats” Navarro, American jazz trumpet player, dies from poor health following long-term heroin addiction, tuberculosis, and a weight problem, at 26
1962 – George, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, dies at 63
1971 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer (Hello Dolly; What A Wonderful World), dies of a heart attack at 69
1992 – Edgardo Pallero, Argentine film producer (Los hijos de fierro), dies at about 56
1993 – Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, dies at 84
2000 – Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist, classical and popular music composer, memoirist, and subject of the film “The Pianist”, dies at 88
2004 – Syreeta Wright, American singer (b. 1946)
2017 – Thomas E. Sanders, American aerial cameraman (Living Daylights), dies at 63
2019 – Cameron Boyce, American actor (Mirrors, Jessie), dies from an epileptic seizure at 20
Famous Deaths for 5th July 2026
967 – Murakami, 62nd Emperor of Japan (946-67) who fathered 19 Imperial sons and daughters, dies at 42
1863 – Lewis Armistead, Confederate brigadier general at Gettysburg (Pickett’s Charge), dies of his injuries from the battle of Gettysburg at 46
1883 – Frederick Scotson Clark, English organist and composer, dies at 42
1913 – Alfred Lyttelton, English politician and sportsman, 1st to represent England at cricket and football, dies of a stomach abscess at 56
1950 – Private Kenneth Shadrick becomes the first identified American soldier killed in the Korean War
1965 – Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat, race car driver, and international playboy, dies when he crashes his Ferrari into a tree at 56
1969 – Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86
2005 – Baloo Gupte, Indian cricket leg spin bowler (3 Tests, 3 wickets; Bombay, Bengal, Railways), dies at 70
2010 – Bob Probert, Canadian NHL right wing, 1985-2002 (Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings), dies of a heart attack while boating at 45
2011 – Armon Gilliam, American NBA forward, 1987-2000 (Phoenix Suns, Milwaukee Bucks, NJ Nets, and 3 other teams), and college coach, 2001-05 (Penn State), dies of a heart attack at 47
Famous Deaths for 4th July 2026
1780 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Imperial Army field marshal, dies at 67
1826 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (1801-09), dies at 83
1910 – Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, French Breton composer, dies at 70
1938 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (French C’ships 1925-26, Wimbledon 1919-23, 25), dies of anemia at 39
1990 – Ludi Claire, American actress, dies at 70
1999 – Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
2002 – Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician, 1950 Fields Medal for his theory of distributions, dies at 87
2011 – Otto von Habsburg, last crown prince of Austria-Hungary and MEP (1979-1999), dies at 98
2021 – Dicky Maegle [born Moegle], American College Football HOF halfback (Rice Uni; Pro Bowl 1955, SF 49ers) and broadcaster (color announcer Houston Oilers), dies at 86
2022 – Richard J. Bernstein, American philosopher (The Abuse of Evil, The Pragmatic Turn), dies of heart and lung disease at 90
Famous Deaths for 3rd July 2026
1704 – Sophia Alekseyevna, Regent of Russia (1682-89), dies at 46
1863 – Richard B. Garnett, American Confederate Brigadier General, killed during Pickett’s Charge, Battle of Gettysburg at 45
1863 – Samuel K. Zook, American Union general-major, dies of his wounds from the Battle of Gettysburg at 40
1890 – Gilman Marston, American Brigadier General (Union Army) and politician (R-NH), dies at 78
1978 – James Daly, American actor (Medical Center, Planet of the Apes), dies of heart failure at 59
1996 – B. Gerald Cantor, American investment banker, philanthropist and arts patron (Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation), dies at 79
2004 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 3), dies at 73
2004 – John Barron, British actor (Emergency – Ward 10; The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin), dies at 83
2018 – Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer (Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak), dies at 78
2023 – Vince Tobin, American football coach (head coach Arizona Cardinals 1996-2000), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 2nd July 2026
1298 – Adolf, German Count of Nassau, King of the Roman (1292-98), dies in the battle of Göllheim at about 43
1911 – Felix Mottl, Austrian conductor and composer (Agnes Bernauer), dies at 54
1918 – Mehmed V Resjad, Sultan of Turkey (1909-18), dies at 73
1946 – Anthony Overton, publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at 81
1949 – Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (Prime Minister 1946-49), dies at 67
1975 – James Robertson Justice, British actor (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Moby-Dick), dies from complication following a stroke at 68
1987 – Michael Bennett, American theater director and choreographer (Chorus Line), dies of AIDS at 44
1994 – Marion Williams, American gospel singer (Stars of Faith), dies of diabetes at 66
1995 – Krissy Taylor, American model (17 Mag), dies of respiratory problems at 17
2022 – Saúl Lorenzo Rivero, Uruguayan soccer midfielder (9 caps; Liverpool de Montevideo, Atlético Español México), dies at 67
Famous Deaths for 1st July 2026
1943 – Johan Brouwer, Dutch writer, Hispanist, and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, executed at 45
1963 – Camille Chautemps, French politician (Prime Minister of France, 1930, 1933-34, and 1937-38), dies at 78
1982 – Ray Scarborough, American MLB pitcher (All Star 1950), dies at 64
1989 – Chauncey Haughton, American jazz clarinetist, and saxophonist (Blanche Calloway; Chick Webb; Cab Calloway), dies at 80
1994 – Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies
2005 – Luther Vandross, American soul singer, songwriter (“Endless Love”; “Dance With My Father”), and vocal arranger (David Bowie – Young Americans), dies of a heart attack at 54
2014 – Jean Garon, Quebec economist and politician, dies at 76
2017 – Heathcote Williams [John Henly Heathcote Williams], British poet, actor and political activist, dies at 75
2020 – Everton Weekes, West Indian cricket batsman (48 Tests; 4,455 runs @ 58.61, 15 x 100s), dies at 95
2025 – Brian Clarke, British artist known for his work with stained glass (World Without End), dies of cancer at 71
Famous Deaths for 30th June 2026
1874 – James Cantey, Brigadier General of the Confederate Army, dies at 55
1889 – Eugenio Terziani, Italian composer and music director (Teatro Apollo; La Scala), dies at 64
1905 – John Hay, American politician and statesman who was a private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and US Secretary of State (1898-1905), dies at 66
1938 – Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61
1942 – Arnoldus Johannes Hubertus Aerts, Dutch bishop of New Guinea, executed at 62
1946 – Michael Zadora, American composer and pianist, dies at 64
1948 – Karl Wolfskehl, German Jewish writer, dies at 78
2005 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican ska and reggae singer-songwriter (The Dynamites, “Feel the Rhythm”), and record producer, dies of complications after a heart attack at 64
2011 – Barry Bremen, American sports imposter and businessman (b. 1947)
2023 – Vahidin Musemić, Bosnian soccer striker (17 caps Yugoslavia; FK Sarajevo, OGC Nice), dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 29th June 2026
1784 – Caesar Rodney, American judge and Founding Father (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 55
1852 – Henry Clay, American politician known as “the Great Compromiser”, Speaker of the House, Senator and Secretary of State (1825-29), dies of tuberculosis at 75
1969 – Moïse Tshombe, Congolese politician (President of the Democratic Republic of Congo 1964-5), dies at 49
1976 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician, dies at 62
1986 – John P. East, American politician (Sen-R-NC), dies at 55
1989 – Keith Chapman, American organist (Wanamaker Grand Court, 1966-89), dies in a plane crash at 43
1992 – Pierre Billotte, French military officer (Battle for France WWII), dies at 86
1996 – Bobby Keetch, English footballer and entrepreneur, dies at 54
2011 – R. C. Alston, British bibliographer, dies at 78
2018 – Steve Ditko, American comic artist and co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 28th June 2026
1194 – Emperor Xiaozong, 11th emperor of the Song dynasty in China (1162-89), dies at 66
1757 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia and Electress of Brandenburg (1713-40), dies at 70
1788 – Johann Christoph Vogel, German composer, dies at 32
1876 – August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian Czech musicologist (History of Music), dies at 59
1909 – Israel Durham, Phillies president dies
1981 – Peter Paul Kreuder, German-Austrian pianist and film score composer, dies at 75
1982 – Harry Mills, American baritone pop singer and vocal trumpet (The Brothers – “Paper Doll”, “Up A Lazy River”, “The Glow-Worm”), dies at 70
1985 – Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (O blofatzis, Anna of Rhodes), dies at 72
2006 – Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author, dies at 87
2012 – Leontine T. Kelly, 1st African American female bishop (United Methodist Church), dies at 92