1634 – John Marston, English poet and playwright known for “The Malcontent”, dies at 57
1671 – Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (Almagestum Novum), dies at 73
1673 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d’Artagnan, Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France (b. 1611)
1822 – Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German Romantic writer, judge and composer (Undine), dies at 46
1876 – John Patton, American trumpeter, dies at the Battle of the Little Bighorn at 24 or 25
1884 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer, dies at 25
1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher and historian (History of Sexuality), dies of AIDS at 57
1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
2023 – John B. Goodenough, American materials scientist (lithium-ion battery), solid-state physicist and Nobel laureate in chemistry, dies at 100
2024 – Jewel Brown, American jazz and blues singer (Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars), dies of colon cancer at 86
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 24th June 2026
1707 – Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner), dies at 74
1798 – Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen and Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, dies at 56
1817 – Thomas McKean, American attorney and politician (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 83
1846 – Jan Frans Willems, Flemish writer and philologist, dies at 53
1882 – Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer (Cavatine), dies at 60
1970 – Man Singh II, Maharajah of Jaipur State, dies at 57
1973 – Mary Carr, American actress (Forbidden Trail, 2nd Wife), dies at 99
1995 – Inshan Ali, West Indian cricketer (WI chinaman bowler 1971-77), dies at 45
1999 – Jim Allen, British socialist, screenwriter and playwright (Days of Hope, Perdition), dies at 72
2008 – Viktor Kuzkin, Soviet ice hockey player (Olympic gold 1964, 68, 72), dies at 67
Famous Deaths for 23rd June 2026
1611 – Henry Hudson, English explorer Henry Hudson, his son John, and seven other crew members are set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship ‘Discovery’ and never seen again
1901 – Charles Kensington Salaman, British pianist and synagogue music composer, dies at 87
1959 – Jean Gallon, French composer, dies at 80
1971 – Walter Schulthess, Swiss composer, dies at 76
1995 – Jack Schroer, American rock saxophonist (Van Morrison’s The Caledonia Soul Orchestra), dies at 51
2003 – Maynard Jackson, American lawyer and the first African American mayor of Atlanta (1974-82; 1990-94), dies of a heart attack at 65
2006 – Luke Graham, American wrestler, dies at 66
2015 – Helmuth Lohner, Austrian stage and screen actor and stage director (Mrs. Warren’s Profession), dies at 82
2017 – Gabe Pressman, American television journalist (WNBC-TV, 1956-72; 1980-2017) and 11x Emmy Award winner, dies at 93
2023 – Jimmy Kim, American taekwondo practitioner (Olympic gold heavyweight 1988; World Cup gold 1987), dies at 56
Famous Deaths for 22nd June 2026
1846 – Benjamin Haydon, British painter (Waiting for The Times), commits suicide at 60
1906 – Fritz Schaudinn, German zoologist (examined syphilis), dies at 34
1945 – Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri
1950 – Julio Fonseca, Costa Rican composer, dies at 65
1969 – Judy Garland [Frances Gumm], American actress (The Wizard of Oz; Meet Me In St. Louis; Easter Parade), and singer (“Over The Rainbow”); dies at 47; coroner determines cause as unintentional, incautious overdose of prescription barbiturates
1979 – (Walter) “Pee Wee” Hunt, American jazz trombonist (Casa Loma Orchestra, 1929-43; “Twelfth Street Rag”, “Oh!”), and bandleader, dies at 72
1989 – Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician, dies at 72
1994 – L. V. Prasad, Indian pioneering filmmaker, dies at 87
1997 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (b. 1956)
2003 – Brian Dillon, British lawyer and judge, Lord Justice of Appeal (1982-94), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 21st June 2026
1964 – James E. Chaney, American civil rights activist who helped organize the Freedom Summer campaign, murdered by the Ku Klux Klan at 21
1964 – Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist, murdered at 21
1965 – Kay Fisker, Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen), dies at 72
1970 – Sukarno, 1st President of Indonesia (1945-67), dies from kidney failure while under house arrest at 69
1973 – Frank Leahy, American football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64
1979 – Angus Maclise, American percussionist, mystic, shaman, and composer (Velvet Underground), dies of hypoglycemia and pulmonary tuberculosis at 41
1995 – Laurence McKinley Gould, American Geologist and Polar Explorer who was chief scientist and second-in-command on the first expedition to the interior of Antarctica in 1929, dies at 98
2001 – Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress the “Cinderella” of Arab cinema, dies falling from a balcony at 58
2011 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author (b. 1927)
2023 – Peter Allan, Australian cricket fast bowler (1 Test, 2 wickets; Queensland), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 20th June 2026
1837 – Giovanni Furno, Italian composer and famous music teacher in Naples, dies at 89
1933 – Clara Zetkin, German feminist, Socialist, and Communist leader, dies at 75
1964 – Edgar Barrier, American actor (Phantom of the Opera, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered), dies from a heart attack at 57
1978 – Mark Robson, Canadian-American film director (Peyton Place, Valley of the Dolls), dies of a heart attack at 64
1996 – Michel Lebrun [Cade], French crime novelist (Pleins Feux sur Sylvie), screenwriter, and literary critic, dies at 66
1996 – Joseph Green, Polish-American filmmaker, dies at 96
1996 – Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies
1999 – Clifton Fadiman, American editor, radio and TV host (Information, Please!; Quiz Kids), dies of pancreatic cancer at 95
2012 – Andrew Sarris, American movie critic (Village Voice), dies at 83
2018 – Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer, dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 19th June 2026
1768 – Benjamin Tasker, Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
1953 – Julius Rosenberg, 1st American civilian executed for espionage after he and his wife were convicted of passing secret radar, jet and nuclear information to the Soviet Union, executed at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, NY at 35
1962 – Will Wright, American actor (Adam’s Rib, Living Christ Story), dies of cancer at 68
1965 – James Collip, Canadian biochemist and physiologist (insulin), dies at 72
1993 – William Golding, English author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel Prize for Literature 1983), dies at 81
1996 – Henry Ralph Carr, English WWII soldier (A Sapper’s War), dies at 82
2008 – Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2012 – Gerhard Kallmann, German-American academic and architect best known for helping design Boston City Hall, dies at 97
2013 – (Ottis) “Slim” Whitman, American country singer (“Rose Marie”; “Guess Who”), dies from heart failure at 90
2016 – Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor (Star Trek), dies in an accident at 27
Famous Deaths for 18th June 2026
1686 – Johann Quirsfeld, German composer, dies at 43
1772 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician (Austrian Empress Maria Theresa’s personal physician), dies at 72
1853 – Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies of tuberculosis at 29
1939 – Frans “Sas” van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas), dies at 73
1980 – Terence Fisher, English film director (Hammer Films), dies at 76
1980 – Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician known for his work on topological and metric structures, dies at 84
1983 – Luther Tucker, American blues guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 57
1987 – Bruce Marshall, Scottish writer, dies at 87
2005 – J.J. Pickle, American politician (Rep-D-Texas, 1963-95), dies at 91
2024 – Willie Mays, American Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder (24 x MLB All Star; 12 x Gold Glove Award; 660 career HRs, NL MVP 1954, 65; NY/SF Giants, NY Mets), dies of heart failure at 93
Famous Deaths for 17th June 2026
1501 – John I Albert [Jan I Olbracht], Polish sovereign (King of Poland, 1492-1501; Duke of Głogów, 1491-98), dies at 41
1565 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, 13th Japanese shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate (1545-65), dies at 29
1734 – Duke of Berwick, French general strategist, dies in battle
1965 – Arnold Meijer, Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National and Black Front, dies at 60
1978 – Cully Richards, actor (Don’t Call Me Charlie), dies at 68
1981 – Richard O’Connor, British general (b. 1889)
1987 – Dick Howser, American baseball shortstop (MLB All Star All-Star 1961, 61²; KC A’s) and manager (World Series 1977, 78 NY Yankees; KC Royals 1985), dies of brain cancer at 51
2002 – J. Carter Brown, American art director (Washington National Gallery), dies at 67
2007 – Paul Hodder-Williams, British publisher (Hodder and Stoughton), dies at 97
2015 – Ron Clarke, Australian athlete (17 x WRs, 5,000m, 10,000m, 20,000m; 2, 3, 6, 10 miles) and politician (mayor Gold Coast), dies from kidney failure at 78
Famous Deaths for 16th June 2026
1671 – Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured and executed in Moscow
1707 – Marie d’Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
1752 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher, dies at 60
1928 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928, dies at 61
1929 – Vernon Louis Parrington, American author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928), dies at 57
1939 – Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band bandleader (introduced Ella Fitzgerald), dies of Pott’s disease (tuberculosis of the spine), at 34
1946 – Ludwig Winder, Austrian-Czech writer and journalist, dies of heart disease at 57
1970 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (Koit (Dawn); Videvik (Twilight)), pedagogue (Tallinn Conservatory, 1940 -70), and teacher of Arvo Pärt, dies at 83
1981 – John S Knight, American journalist and publisher (Knight Newspapers), dies at 86
1996 – David Mourão-Ferreira, Portuguese poet (Cancioneiro de Natal) and film maker, dies at 69