1630 – Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Italian composer, choirmaster, and oratorio pioneer, dies at 60
1796 – Felice Giardini, Italian composer, dies at 80
1902 – Charles Ingalls, father of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie), dies at 66
2013 – John Boyd [Boyd Bradfield Upchurch], American sci-fi author (The Last Starship from Earth), dies at 93
2016 – Pierre Aubert, Swiss lawyer and politician (Member of the Swiss Federal Council, 1978-87), dies at 89
2018 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (7 Grand Slam singles titles), dies of mouth cancer at 78
2018 – Eunice Gayson, British actress and 1st Bond Girl (Sylvia Trench- “Dr. No” and “From Russia With Love”), dies at 90
2025 – P. Adams Sitney, American avant-garde film scholar (Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde), dies of cancer at 80
2025 – Nick Hedges, British photographer known for documenting the lives of poor people, dies at 81
2025 – Nina Kuscsik, American long-distance runner and officially the first woman to win the Boston Marathon, dies of respiratory failure at 86
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 7th June 2026
1555 – Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader who fought for the Duke of Guelders, dies at about 76
1893 – Edwin Booth, American Shakespearean actor (Hamlet), dies at 59
1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (10th Premier of Quebec), dies at 79
1948 – Georges Hüe, French composer, dies at 90
1974 – Émilie Charmy, French avant-garde artist, dies at 96
1988 – Vernon Washington, American actor (Roots, The Last Starfighter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning), dies at 60
1994 – Dennis Potter, British TV dramatist (The Singing Detective, Karaoke, Midnight Movie), dies of cancer at 59
2012 – Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist and three time Nobel Prize nominee (hominid fossil sites), dies at 86
2023 – The Iron Sheik (Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri), Iranian pro wrestler (WWF Heavyweight C’hip 1983-84; WWF Tag Team C’ship 1985 [Nikolai Volkoff], dies at 81
2024 – Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, German minimalist composer (Unisono Diviso; Im Klang), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 6th June 2026
1710 – Francoise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of King Louis XIV, dies at 65
1840 – Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
1852 – Tommaso Marchesi, Italian composer, dies at 79
1861 – Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59
1862 – Turner Ashby, American cavalry commander, killed in the Battle of Good’s Farm near Harrisonburg, Virginia, dies at 33
1955 – Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter (founder of Australian Tonalism), dies at 79
1994 – Peter Graves, British actor (Paradise Lagoon, Admirable Crichton), dies at 82
2003 – Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
2006 – Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American bebop and Afro-Cuban jazz pianist, dies from injuries sustained in a fall at 54
2024 – Joseph Hardy, American Tony Award-winning stage and screen director (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown), and producer, dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 5th June 2026
1443 – Ferdinand, the Holy Prince, Portuguese prince, dies serving as a hostage in Moorish Fez, at 40
1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence (Chani of Gravia,), executed for supposedly collaborating with the Ottomans at 37
1826 – Carl Maria von Weber, German pianist, romantic composer (Der Freischutz; Oberon), and lithographer, dies of tuberculosis at 39
1871 – Isodore-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian-French composer and conductor, dies at 77
1905 – William Claflin, American politician, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (1869-72), dies at 86
1931 – John Lawson Stoddard, American lecturer, photographer, and author, considered the father of travelogue, dies at 81
1946 – Maud Watson, British tennis player (first Wimbledon female champion 1884-85), dies at 81
2020 – Shigeru Yokota, Japanese activist whose daughter was kidnapped by North Korea, dies at 87
2022 – Alec John Such [Szűcs], American rock bassist (Bon Jovi, 1983-94 – “Wanted Dead or Alive”), dies at 70
2025 – John Shulock, American baseball umpire (World Series 1985, 92, MLB All-Star Games 1983, 94; American League 1979-99), dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 4th June 2026
1257 – Duke Przemysl I of Poland
1463 – Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65
1925 – Pierre Louÿs, French writer (Aphrodite), dies at 54
1972 – A.C. Bilbrew (née Harris), American poet, composer (“The Death of Emmett Till”), singer, choral conductor, and radio personality, dies at 81
1973 – Murray Wilson, father of the Beach Boys: Brian, Carl, and Dennis, dies at 55
2011 – Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer, dies at 58
2012 – Pedro Borbón, Dominican baseball pitcher (World Series 1975, 76; Cincinnati Reds), dies from cancer at 65
2017 – Juan Goytisolo Gay, Spanish novelist and essayist (Marks of Identity, Count Julian), dies at 86
2019 – Jiggs Kalra, Indian food writer “Czar of Indian cuisine”, dies at 72
2021 – Friederike Mayröcker, Austrian poet and author (Death by Muses, Requiem for Ernst Jandl), dies at 96
Famous Deaths for 3rd June 2026
1864 – James P. McMahon, US Union colonel (164th NY), dies in the Battle of Cold Harbour at about 29
1865 – Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
1898 – Nikolai Afanisev, Russian violinist and composer, dies at 77
1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American big band leader, radio and television actor and producer (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies from cancer at 69
1981 – Eric Dalton, South African cricket batsman (15 Tests, top score 117), dies at 74
1991 – Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist, dies at 78
2000 – Merton Miller, American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1990), dies at 77
2004 – Victor Reuther, American labor leader (United Automobile Workers union), dies at 92
2019 – Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese writer (A Sibila), dies at 96
2021 – F. Lee Bailey, American criminal defense attorney (Sam Sheppard; Boston Strangler; Patty Hearst; OJ Simpson), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 2nd June 2026
1567 – Shane O’Neill, Irish chieftain
1750 – Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German organist, Benedictine priest, choirmaster, and composer (Augsburger Tafel-Confect), dies of gout at 68
1812 – Jan William de Winter, Dutch admiral (commanded Dutch navy in Battle of Campertown), dies at 51
1833 – Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle boxer (Irish heavyweight champion), dies as a result of boxing match injuries at 27
1901 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
1977 – Stephen Boyd [William Millar], Irish actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur), dies of a heart attack at 45
1993 – French JFM of Thiel, Dutch 2nd chamber chairman (1963-72), dies at 86
1997 – Charles Jones, Canadian contemporary classical composer and music educator, dies at 86
2003 – Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler, manager and subject of “My Breakfast with Blassie”, dies of heart and kidney failure at 85
Famous Deaths for 1st June 2026
1660 – Louis d’Ailleboust de Coulonge, French engineer and Governor of New France (1648-51, acting 1657-58), buried at 47 or 48
1676 – Uggla, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
1729 – Matthaeus de Cock, governor general of Dutch Indies (1725-29), dies at about 65
1825 – Lady Elizabeth Finch-Hatton, British aristocrat and subject of the David Martin painting “Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray”, dies at 65
1969 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (Olympic gold 5,000m 1928; 500m, 5,000m 10,000m 1936), dies at 65
1987 – Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (elected Prime Minister 8 times between 1958-87), assassinated by a bomb rigged in his helicopter at 65
1994 – Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered
1997 – Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet politician (Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union 1980-85), dies at 92
2001 – Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, killed by her son Dipendra in the Nepalese Royal Massacre at 51
2008 – Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
Famous Deaths for 31st May 2026
1831 – Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer and naval architect, dies at 74
1955 – Jacob Clay, Dutch philosopher and physicist (cosmic rays as charged particles), dies at 63
1981 – Giuseppe Pella, 31st Prime Minister of Italy, dies at 79
1987 – Roy Winsor, American producer (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life), dies at 75
1997 – Anton Zischka, Austrian writer (Lebendiges Europa), dies at 92
2010 – William A. Fraker, American cinematographer (b. 1923)
2010 – Brian Duffy, British photographer and film producer (b. 1933)
2010 – Rubén Juárez, Argentine bandoneonist, dies of cancer at 62
2014 – Marilyn Beck, American newspaper columnist and entertainment reporter, dies at 85
2021 – Mike Marshall, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1974, 75; NL Cy Young Award 1974; Montreal Expos, LA Dodgers, Atlanta Braves), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 30th May 2026
1744 – Alexander Pope, English poet (The Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer), dies at 56
1770 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
1975 – Michel Simon, Swiss actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80
1978 – Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violin prodigy, conductor (CBC, 1935-78), and composer, dies at 68
1980 – Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (Derek and the Dominoes), dies of a kidney infection at 37
1988 – Ella Raines, American actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact, Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 67
2000 – Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
2003 – Mickie Most [Michael Hayes], British record producer (Herman’s Hermits; The Nashville Teens; Donovan; Lulu), dies of stomach cancer at 64
2015 – Azmat Rana, Pakistan cricket batsman (1 Test, top score 49; 2 ODIs), dies at 63
2019 – Frank Lucas, American drug kingpin (fictionalised in 2007 film “American Gangster”), dies at 88