1597 – Jose de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary, dies
1834 – William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
1892 – Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
1968 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
1978 – Chief Tahachee [Jeff Davis Tahchee Cypert], Cherokee stage and film actor, dies from a heart attack at 74
1992 – Clarence Miller, blues/jazz vocalist, dies at 69 of a heart attack
1993 – Ian Mikardo, British politician, dies
1993 – Arthur Alexander, singer/songwriter (You Better Move On), dies at 53
1996 – Edward Morris Bernstein, economist, dies at 91
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 8th June 2018
1476 – George Neville, English archbishop and statesman
1695 – Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66
1771 – George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman, dies at 54
1948 – Franz Carl Bornschein, composer, dies at 69
1951 РEug̬ne Fiset, French Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
1995 – Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer, dies at 69
1997 – George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
2003 – Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
2006 – Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)
2016 – Michael Manser, English architect, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 7th June 2018
1329 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scots (1306-1329) and national hero, dies at 54
1862 – William B. Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, at 42
1866 – Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1935 – Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
1937 – Jean Harlow, actress (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
1938 – Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies
1942 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
1991 – Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies
1992 – Bill France, Sr., American racing car driver and co-founder of NASCAR, dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 82
2009 – Hugh Hopper, British musician (b. 1945)
Famous Deaths for 6th June 2018
1881 – Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61
1898 – Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62
1917 – Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59
1951 – Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1974 – Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 86
1992 – Larry Riley, American actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39
1993 – Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73
1994 – Mark McManus, actor (Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59
2005 – Dana Elcar, American actor (Peter Thornton- MacGyver), dies of pneumonia at 77
2013 – Jerome Karle, American chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 5th June 2018
1443 – Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies
1568 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont and Philip de Montmorency executed in Brussels, fueling Dutch resistance to Spanish rule
1816 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76
1852 – Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer, dies at 45
1900 – Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
1913 – Chris von der Ahe, German entrepreneur and owner of St. Louis Brown Stockings, dies at 61
1921 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58
1970 – Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69
2004 – Ronald Reagan, 40th US President (Republican: 1981-89) and actor (Bedtime for Bonzo), dies at 93
2005 – Adolfo Aguilar ZÃnser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
Famous Deaths for 4th June 2018
1608 – Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44
1921 – Heinrich E Albers-Schoenberg, German x-ray experimenter, dies at 56
1925 – Pierre Louys, [PF Louis], French writer (Aphrodite), dies
1970 – Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies
1978 – Jorge de Sena, Portuguese novelist and poet (Reino da Estupidez), dies at 58
1990 – Jack Gilford, American comedic actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2), dies at 81 of stomach cancer
1994 – [Derek] Lek Leckenby, English rock guitarist (Herman’s Hermits), dies of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at 48
1995 – William J Law, sailor, dies at 84
1997 – Kurt Alfred Adler, therapist/writer, dies at 92
2015 – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (Palatino and Optima), dies at 96
Famous Deaths for 3rd June 2018
1679 – Jean-Francius Miller, painter, buried
1809 – John “Christmas” Beckwith, composer, dies at 58
1898 – Samuel Plimsoll, English MP (Folkestone), dies at 74
1933 – William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner, dies at 88
1963 – Paul Maxey, American actor (The Narrow Margin, Till the Clouds Roll By), dies from a heart attack at 56
1975 – SatÅ Eisaku, Japanese Prime Minister (1964-72), (Nobel 1974), dies at 74
1981 – Carleton Coon, American anthropologist (What in the World), dies at 76
1995 – Estelle Brody, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything), dies at 94
1995 – Jean-Patrick Manchette, French thriller writer (3 to Kill, The Prone Gunman), dies at 52
2004 – Jonathan D Kramer, American composer (Notta Sonata), dies of leukaemia at 61
Famous Deaths for 2nd June 2018
1864 – George Pierce Doles, US businessman/Confed brigadier general, dies at 34
1951 – John Erskine, US writer/poet/pianist (Venus Love Goddess), dies at 71
1956 – Jean Hersholt, Danish actor (Heidi, Greed, Men in White, Aryan), dies form cancer at 69
1961 – George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72
1986 – Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 84 (b. 1901)
1992 – Philip Dunne, founder (Screen Writers Guild), dies of cancer at 84
1996 – Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
1997 – Doc Cheatham, jazz musician, dies of stroke at 91
2000 – Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
2005 – Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and sports official (b. 1930)