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)
Category: Famous Deaths
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
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