1762 – George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, British Royal Navy officer, dies at 65
1951 – Lionel Hallam, English cricket batsman and captain (9 Tests, 4 x 50; Hampshire CCC) and politician (Member House of Lords, Lord Temporal 1928–51), dies at 61
1976 – J. Paul Getty, American oil magnate and billionaire (Getty Oil), dies at 83
1983 – James E. Casey, American businessman and founder (United Parcel Service), dies at 95
1993 – James Bridges, writer/director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57
1996 – Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer, dies at 70
1996 – Glyn Worsnip, British radio and television presenter (That’s Life!), dies at 57
2000 – Frédéric Dard, French writer (San-Antonio), dies at 78
2013 – Tom Sharpe, British satirist and author, dies from complications from diabetes at 85
2018 – Red Schoendienst, American Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman/manager (10-time All Star), dies at 95
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 5th June 2022
1722 – Johann Kuhnau, Bohemian organist, choirmaster, and composer (Biblical Sonatas), dies at 62
1791 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
1981 – Philo McCullough, actor (Branded, Ridin’ Thru), dies
1995 – Jan Decadt Flemish composer, dies at 81
1995 – Bettina Vernon-Warren, Austrian ‘Bodenwieser’ dancer, dies at 75
2001 – Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist, dies at 93
2002 – Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones), dies of a heroin overdose at 51
2015 – Richard Johnson, British stage and screen actor and producer (Never So Few, Restless, Beyond the Door), dies at 87
2018 – Kate Spade, American fashion designer, commits suicide by hanging at 55
Famous Deaths for 4th June 2022
1135 – Huizong, 8th Emperor of Song Dynasty of China, dies at 53
1394 – Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England and mother of Henry V, dies at about 26
1945 – Georg Kaiser, German playwright (The Burghers of Calais), dies at 66
1950 – Sam Staples, English cricket medium pace bowler (3 Tests, 15 wickets; Nottinghamshire), dies at 57
1951 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American conductor (Boston Symphony, 1924-49), dies at 76
1970 – Sonny Tufts [Bowen Charleton Tufts III], American actor (The Seven Year Itch, Variety Girl), dies from pneumonia at 58
1983 – Ivan Tors, Hungarian TV producer (Sea Hunt, Flipper), dies at 66
2001 – Dipendra of Nepal, Nepal prince who shot his parent and seven other family members, dies in a coma while technically King at 29
2008 – Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1952)
2013 – Joey Covington [Michno], American drummer (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and Jefferson Starship), dies in a single vehicle car crash at 67
Famous Deaths for 3rd June 2022
1640 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician, dies at 55
1872 – Heinrich Esser, German composer and conductor, dies at 53
1882 – Christian Wilberg, German painter, dies at 42
1898 – Samuel Plimsoll, English MP (Folkestone), dies at 74
1936 – Clara Noyes, American nurse (head of the American Red Cross WW1), dies from a heart attack at 66
1963 – Pope John XXIII [Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli], 261st Pope (1958-63), dies at 81
1975 – Satō Eisaku, Japanese Prime Minister (1964-72), (Nobel Peace Prize 1974), dies at 74
1987 – Will Sampson, American Muscogee actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose), dies at 54
1995 – Alastair Webster Mackie, Scottish poet and teacher, dies at 69
1996 – Len Creed, British bookmaker (discovered Viv Richards), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 2nd June 2022
1832 – Manuel del Popolo García, Spanish composer and tenor, dies at 57
1881 – Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
1950 – Stanislas Bizot, French draughts champion (1925), dies at 70
1986 – Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 84 (b. 1901)
1987 – Sammy Kaye, American orchestra leader (Swing and Sway With Sammy Kaye)), dies of cancer at 77
1990 – Robert Noyce, American inventor (co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968), dies at 62
1995 – Harper MacKay, American orchestra leader (NBC Follies), dies at 73
1996 – Pilar Lorengar [Lorenza Pilar García], Aragones soprano, dies of cancer at 68
2003 – Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
2018 – Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate for research on the “enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)” (1997), dies at 99
Famous Deaths for 1st June 2022
1434 – Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Lithuania and later also Poland, dies (b.1351)
1568 – Gijsbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded
1938 – Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian writer (A Child of Our Time), dies at 36
1951 – Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian, dies at 85
1960 – Lester Patrick, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman (6 x Stanley Cups as player, coach and manager), dies from a heart attack at 76
1965 – Curly Lambeau, American Pro Football Hall of Fame halfback, coach (founder, first coach Green Bay Packers), dies of a heart attack at 67
1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (Hermeticism) and journalist, dies at 82
1980 – Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
1996 – Michael Fox, American actor (Perry Mason, Quincy, Dallas, Bold and the Beautiful), dies at 75
2014 – Ann B. Davis, American stage and screen actress (Bob Cummings Show – “Schultzy”; The Brady Bunch – “Alice”) dies from subdural hematoma incurred in a fall at 88
Famous Deaths for 31st May 2022
1740 – Frederik Willem I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51
1837 – Joseph Grimaldi, English pantomimist and the “greatest clown in history”, dies at 57
1900 – John Power, Irish baronet and whiskey manufacturer (Powers Whiskey), dies in battle
1987 – Dorothy Patrick, Canadian-American actress (Torch Song, New Orleans, High Wall), dies at 65
1993 – John Granger, American actor (Advise and Consent), dies at 69
1996 – Colin Morris, British playwright and documentary filmmaker, dies at 80
1996 – Peter Gordon Dorrell, British archaeologist and photographer, dies at 68
2002 – Subhash “Fergie” Gupte, Indian cricketer (brilliant Indian leg-spinner), dies at 72
2004 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter, dies at 62
2011 – Andy Robustelli, American NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants), dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 30th May 2022
1865 – William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27
1901 – Victor D’Hondt, Belgian mathematician, dies at 60
1951 – Hermann Broch, Austrian novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment), dies at 64
1958 – Jozef van Mierlo, Belgian Jesuit and literary (Hadewych), dies at 79
1975 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (5K 1972 Olympic 4th), dies in a car accident at 24
1994 – Marcel Bich, Italian-French baron and pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79
1995 – Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87
2000 – Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
2010 – Duff Roblin, Canadian politician (b. 1917).
2012 – Andrew Huxley, British physiologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 29th May 2022
1691 – Cornelis Tromp, Dutch naval officer and son of Maarten Tromp, dies at 61
1866 – Henry Darwin Rogers, American Geologist (theory of mountain building, first geological mapping of Pennsylvania), dies at 57
1953 – Man Mountain Dean [Frank Simmons Leavitt], American professional wrestler, dies at 61
1973 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer and songwriter, dies of a heart attack at 44
1992 – Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol), dies of AIDS at 37
1992 – Peter “Ollie” Halsall, British rock guitarist and vibraphone player (Patto; The Rutles; Kevin Ayers), dies of a heart attack at 43
1997 – Jeff Buckley, American musician and singer (“Hallelujah”), drowns at 30
1998 – Barry M. Goldwater, American politician (U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1953-65, 1969-87; Republican presidential candidate, 1964), dies at 89
2010 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider), dies at 74
2013 – Marvin Junior, American singer (The Dells – Oh What a Nite), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 28th May 2022
1089 – Lanfranc, Italian Archbishop of Canterbury (1070-89) and counsellor to William the Conqueror, dies
1650 – Gilles Hayne, Flemish composer, dies at 59
1948 – Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer and one of the Mitford sisters, dies from the effects of a bullet in her head at 33
1981 – Stefan Wyszyński, Polish Cardinal, dies at 79
1991 – Brigitte B Fischer, writer, dies
2001 – Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist, dies at 79
2002 – Jean Berger [Arthur Schloßberg], German-born American composer, dies at 92
2008 – Robert Justman, American television producer (b. 1926)
2018 – Jens Christian Skou, Danish scientist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1997), dies at 99
2018 – María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer and actress, dies at 93