1815 – Hammida, Algerian admiral, dies in battle
1876 – Harriet Scott, American ex-slave, who with husband Dred Scott unsuccessfully sued for their freedom
1956 – Bob Sweikert, American racing driver (b. 1926)
1984 – Chet Allen, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter), dies at 51
1986 – Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker’s union leader, dies at 75
1989 – John Matuszak, American NFL defensive end (Oak Raider) and actor (The Goonies), dies of an accidental propoxyphene overdose at 38
1990 – Palmira Henry, fashion designer, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 44
2002 – Fritz Walter, German footballer, dies at 81
2005 – Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962)
2008 – Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 16th June 2018
1749 – Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1793 – Louis A count d’Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies
1815 – Frederik Willem, Duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle at 43
1858 – John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
1910 – Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
1925 – Emmett Hardy, American jazz musician, dies at 22
1994 – Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88
2014 – Tony Gwynn, American Hall of Fame baseball player, dies from salivary gland cancer at 54
2017 – John G. Avildsen, American film director (Rocky, The Karate Kid), dies of cancer at 81
Famous Deaths for 15th June 2018
923 – Robert I, King of France (922-23), dies in battle
1677 – Giovanni Battista Chinelli, Italian composer, dies at 67
1750 – Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684)
1889 – Mihail Eminesco, Romanian poet (Luceafarul), dies at 39
1987 – J A K Cochrane, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1931), dies
1989 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
2001 – Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
2008 – Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist, and film director (b. 1946)
2017 – Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor named a People’s Artist of the USSR (1976) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1989), dies at 88
2017 – John Robert Jones [John Dalmas], American sci-fi author (White Regiment, Lizard War), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 14th June 2018
1744 – Andre Campra, French composer, dies at 83
1886 – Aleksandr Ostrovsky [Alexander Ostrovsky], Russian playwright (Artists and Admirers), dies at 63
1920 – Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies
1948 – John Blackwood McEwen, composer, dies at 80
1977 – Alan Reed, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany’s) and voice artist (Fred Flintstone, Lady and the Tramp), dies at 69
1989 – Pete de Freitas, British drummer (Echo and the Bunnyman), dies in a motorcycle accident at 27
1995 – Gesualdo Bufalino, novelist, dies at 74
2007 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-81) and 9th President of Austria (1986-92), dies at 88
2008 – Jamelão, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1913)
2008 – Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1964)
Famous Deaths for 13th June 2018
1256 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
1371 – Jan V of Virneburg, bishop of Utrecht (Pledge Vollenhove), dies
1825 – Johann Peter Melchior, German sculptor, dies at 82
1839 – Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer, dies at 66
1905 – Theodoros Delyannis, premier Greece, murdered
1920 – Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at the Versailles Peace Conference
1962 – Eugene Goossens, British conductor and composer (Perseus), dies at 69
1969 – Martita Hunt, Argentine-born English actress (Great Expectations), dies at 69
1979 – Darla Hood, American child actress (Little Rascals, The Bat), dies from acute hepatitis at 47
2012 – William S. Knowles, American chemist and Nobel laureate, dies from complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 95
Famous Deaths for 12th June 2018
1231 – Antonius van Padua, [Fernando M de Bulhom], Port minister, dies at 35
1565 – Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
1816 – Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
1904 – Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
1972 – Edmund Wilson, American writer (To the Finland station), dies at 79
1982 – Sgt Ian McKay VC, Platoon Sergeant 4 Platoon, B Company, 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment (British Army) (Falklands War) (b. 1953)
1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (Escape, Romeo and Juliet), dies at 82
2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur), dies of bronchopneumonia at 87
2006 – György Ligeti, Hungarian classical composer (Le Grand Macabre), dies at 83 (b. 1923)
Famous Deaths for 11th June 2018
1825 – Daniel D Tompkins, 6th US Vice President (1817-25), dies at 54
1828 – Dugald Stewart, Scottish philosopher and mathematician (Scottish common sense), dies at 74
1858 – Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)
1903 – King Alexander I and Queen Draga of Serbia are assassinated by a group of army officers as part of a coup
1956 – Ralph Morgan [Wupperman], American actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), dies at 73
1970 – Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, taught reading through phonetics, dies
1994 – Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge, author, dies at 90
2001 – Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (b. 1923)
2013 – Robert Fogel, American economic historian and Nobel Laureate, dies at 86
2015 – Jim Ed Brown, American country music singer (Nashville on the Road), dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 10th June 2018
1923 – Pierre Loti, [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer, dies
1944 – Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28
1944 – Gerrit Jan van der Veen [Wolffensperger], Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 41 (b. 1902)
1954 – Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87
1992 – Hachidal Nakamura, composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure
1996 – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter, dies at 89
1996 – Uno Chiyo, Japanese writer (Confessions of Love), dies at 98
2000 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
2000 – Hafez al-Assad, General and President of Syria (1971-2000), dies of a heart attack at 69
2001 – Princess Leila Pahlavi of Iran, youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, dies at 31
Famous Deaths for 9th June 2018
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
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