1631 – John Smith, English explorer (Chesapeake Bay, New England) and leader of the Virginia Colony (Jamestown), dies at 51
1788 – Johann Georg Hamann, German counter-enlightenment philosopher (“Reason is language”), dies at 57
1968 – Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91
1980 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter, dies of a stroke at 56
1989 – Lee Quencey Calhoun, hurdler (Olympic gold 1956, 60), dies at 56
1993 – Frank Moro, entertainer, dies
2000 – Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo), dies at 89
2001 – John Lee Hooker, American blues guitarist (Boogie Chillen), dies at 83
2005 – Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
2015 – Gunther Schuller, American hornist and jazz composer (1994 Pulitzer Prize), dies at 89
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 20th June 2018
1776 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer, dies at 72
1906 – John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
1915 – Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies
1941 – [Stephanie] Hélène Swarth, Dutch poet (“Lonely flowers”), dies at 81
1960 – Mahlon Hamilton, American actor (Peg O’My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80 (b. 1880)
1972 – Horst Salomon, writer, dies
1977 – Abner Biberman, American director and actor (His Girl Friday, The Leopard Man), dies at 68
1995 – Al Hansen, American artist (Fluxus), found dead at 67
1999 – Clifton Fadiman, American author (b. 1902)
2012 – Andrew Sarris, American movie critic (Village Voice), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 19th June 2018
1341 – Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies
1584 – François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
1837 – Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle
1840 – John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50
1936 – John Sharpe, cricketer (1-eyed fast bowler for England 1891-92), dies
1944 – Bill Bradley, cricketer (bowled for England in two Tests 1899), dies
1944 – Han Yong-woon, Korean Buddhist reformer and poet, at 65
1966 – Ed Wynn [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], American comedian (Ed Wynn Show), dies at 79
1988 – Gladys Spellman, American. Congresswoman (b. 1918)
1991 – Jean Arthur, American actress (Shane, Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 18th June 2018
1580 – Juliana van Stolberg, Engraver of Nassau, dies
1902 – Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66
1939 – Frans “Sas” van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas), dies at 73
1967 – Giacomo Russo, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
1985 – Paul Colin, French poster designer (b. 1892)
1995 – Charles Martin, cartoonist, dies at 85
1996 – Maitland Mackie, farmer, dies at 84
2005 – Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
2008 – Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908)
2017 – Lord Joffe [Joel Goodman Joffe], South African-born British lawyer (instructing solicitor for Nelson Mandela’s defence team) and businessman, dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 17th June 2018
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)
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)