1865 – David Herold, American pharmacist’s assistant who was part of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, executed by hanging at 23
1907 – James McGranahan, American composer, dies at 67
1925 – Clarence Hudson White, American photographer, dies at 54
1932 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian, dies at 87
1973 – Veronica Lake [Constance Ockleman], American actress (Sullivan’s Travels, I Married a Witch), dies from hepatitis and acute kidney injury at 50
1976 – Walter Giesler, American soccer coach (b. 1910)
1982 – Bep Bakhuys, Dutch soccer striker (23 caps, 28 goals; Metz), dies at 73
1997 – Jerry Doggett, American sportscaster, 1956-87 (Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers), dies at 80
2017 – Lala Rukh, Pakistani activist and abstract artist (Women’s Action Forum), dies at 69
2020 – Dannes Coronel, Ecuadorian soccer defender (27 caps; El Nacional), dies from a heart attack at 47
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 6th July 2025
1758 – George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general
1961 – Scott LaFaro, American jazz bassist (Bill Evans Trio), dies in a car accident at 25
1972 – Vincent Valentine, West Indian cricket pace bowler (England 1933), dies
1986 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian independence activist and politician, dies at 78
1992 – Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne and Guinness brewing heir, dies at 86
1994 – Geoffrey McQueen, English TV writer (The Bill), dies at 46
1996 – Kathy Ahern, American golfer (Women’s PGA C’ship 1972), dies of breast cancer at 47
2005 – Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
2009 – Johnny Collins, British folk and maritime music singer (b. 1938)
2017 – Heinz Schneiter, Swiss soccer defender (44 caps; BSC Young Boys) and manager (FC Thun, BSC Young Boys), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 5th July 2025
1316 – Infante Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
1862 – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist, dies at 62
1871 – Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess and politician, dies at 63
1969 – Ben Alexander, American actor (Dragnet, All Quiet on the Western Front), dies of natural causes at 58
1989 – Ernesto Halffter, Spanish classical and film score composer (Rapsodia portuguesa; is Don Quixote de la Mancha), and conductor, dies at 84
2005 – Baloo Gupte, Indian cricket leg spin bowler (3 Tests, 3 wickets; Bombay, Bengal, Railways), dies at 70
2011 – Cy Twombly, American artist (b. 1928)
2016 – Alirio Díaz, Venezuelan guitarist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 92
2020 – Willi Holdorf, German athlete (Olympic gold, United Team of Germany, decathlon 1964), dies at 80
2024 – Yvonne Furneaux [Scatcherd], British actress (La Dolce Vita; Repulsion), dies at 98
Famous Deaths for 4th July 2025
1648 – Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary and martyr, dies at 47
1672 – Ambrosius Reiner, German composer, dies at 67
1891 – Hannibal Hamlin, American attorney and 15th Vice President of U.S. (1861-65), dies at 81
1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (discovered canals of Mars), dies at 75
1950 – William C. Fownes Jr, American golfer and administrator (US Amateur C’ship 1910; President US Golf Ass’n 1926-27), dies at 72
1970 – Harold Vanderbilt, American yachtsman and America’s Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
1986 – Flor Peeters, Flemish organist (St. Rumbold’s Cathedral – Mechelen, 1923-86), composer (Lied Symphony), and pedagogue, dies on his 83rd birthday
1993 – Charles Crain, actor, dies in Hollywood at 83
2002 – Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
2022 – Janusz Kupcewicz, Polish soccer midfielder (20 caps; KS Arka Gdynia, ASSE Saint-Étienne), dies from a stroke at 66
Famous Deaths for 3rd July 2025
1741 – Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen consort of Sardinia (1737-41), dies at 29
1795 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian, dies at 81
1858 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1908 – Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (created Uncle Remus stories), dies at 59
1920 – William Crawford Gorgas, American physician and 22nd Surgeon-General of the U.S. Army (controlled yellow fever during building of the Panama Canal), dies at 65
1990 – Maurice Girodias, French publisher and founder (Olympia Press), dies at 71
1993 – “Curly” Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges), dies of pneumonia at 83
1995 – Pancho González, American tennis player (US National C’ships singles 1948-49; Wimbledon and French Open Doubles, 1949; 13 x Pro Grand Slam titles), dies of stomach cancer at 67
2003 – Charles Henderson Tidbury, British brewing executive (Whitbread and Co), dies at 77
2006 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (professor of Computer Science at the University of California and University of Oxford), dies at 65
Famous Deaths for 2nd July 2025
1863 – Stephen Hinsdale Weed, US Union brigadier general, dies in battle at 28
1940 – Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69
1952 – Henriëtte Bosmans, Dutch cellist, pianist and composer, dies at 56
1955 – Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, dies at 82
1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American author (The Old Man and the Sea, Nobel Prize for Literature – 1954), dies from suicide at 61
1973 – Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal, dies at 81
1990 – Snooky Lanson [Roy Landman], American singer (Your Hit Parade; 5 Star Jubilee), dies at 76
1995 – Gervase Jackson-Stops, British historian and architectural adviser to the National Trust (1972-95), dies of an AIDS related illness at 48
2008 – Natasha Shneider, Russian musician (Eleven), dies at 52
2015 – Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian polka and Oberkrain ethnic accordionist, piano player, and composer (Avsenik Brothers Ensemble), dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 1st July 2025
1589 – Christophe Plantin, French-Belgian book publisher (Officina Plantiniana), dies
1774 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English corrupt politician (Chiswick), dies at 68
1883 – Manuel Gregorio Tavárez, Puerto Rican composer, dies at 39
1885 – Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling’s solution), dies at 73
1943 – Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed
1983 – R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and inventor (geodesic dome), dies at 87
1988 – Robert Riefling, Norwegian concert pianist, and pedagogue (Royal Danish Academy, 1967-88; Norwegian Academy of Music, 1973-88), dies at 76
1999 – Edward Dmytryk, Canadian film director (Carpetbaggers, Young Lions, Caine Mutiny), dies at 90
2020 – Ida Haendel, Polish-British-Canadian child prodigy violinist, teacher, and author (Woman with Violin), dies of kidney cancer at 91
2023 – Dilano van ‘t Hoff, Dutch race car driver (F4 Spanish Championship, 2021), dies in a crash during Regional European Championship race at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium at 18
Famous Deaths for 30th June 2025
1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
1785 – James Oglethorpe, English military officer, philanthropist and founder of the US colony of Georgia, dies at 88
1971 – Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies in outer space aboard Soyuz 11 at 38
1973 – Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a Cold Climate), one of the Mitford sisters, dies of cancer at 68
1980 – Virginia Brown Faire, American silent film actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies at 76
1995 – Sicco Mansholt, Dutch politician, (President of the Commission of Europe 1972-1973), dies at 86
2004 – Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer, dies at 80
2020 – Alfred Kotey, Ghanaian boxer (WBO Bantamweight C’ship 1994-95), dies of complications from a stroke at 52
2021 – Inge Danielsson, Swedish soccer midfielder (17 caps; Ifö/Bromölla IF, Helsingborgs IF, AFC Ajax, IFK Norrköping), dies at 80
2022 – Bill Squires, American track and field coach (Greater Boston Track Club: Bill Rodgers, Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, Greg Meyer; Boston State College 1965-78), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 29th June 2025
1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
1798 – Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], Dutch political protester in Rotterdam (orangism), dies at 75
1900 – Ivan Pervushin, Russian mathematician (number theory), dies at 73
1956 – Max Emmerich, American athlete and gymnast (Olympic gold, triathlon 1904), dies at 77
1967 – Jayne Mansfield [Vera Jayne Palmer], American actress (The Girl Can’t Help It), dies in a car crash at 34
1995 – Roy Rowland, American film director, dies at 84
2006 – Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
2015 – Josef Masopust, Czech soccer midfielder (63 caps Czechoslovakia; Dukla Prague 386 games) and manager (Czechoslovakia, Dukla Prague, Zbrojovka Brno, Hasselt, FK Pelikán Děčín), dies at 85
2020 – Carl Reiner, American comedian, actor, screenwriter (Your Show Of Shows; 2000 Year Old Man; The Dick Van Dyke Show), director (The Comic; The Jerk), and author, dies at 98
2021 – John Lawton, British rock singer (Lucifer’s Friend, 1970-76, 1981-82, 2014–21; Uriah Heep, 1977-79), dies at 74
Famous Deaths for 28th June 2025
1754 – Martin Folkes, English antiquarian and mathematician, dies at 63
1880 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy, dies at 33
1913 – Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian lawyer, politician (President of Brazil, 1898-1902), and coffee grower, dies at 72
1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, leads to declarations of war in WWI
1915 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricket batsman (48 Tests, top score 214; key figure foundation of rugby league in Australia), dies of Bright’s disease at 37
1965 – (Ernest) “Red” Nichols, American jazz cornetist, composer and jazz bandleader (His Five Pennies – “Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider”; “Bugler’s Lament”), dies of a heart attack at 60
1981 – Floyd “Candy” Johnson, American jazz saxophonist (Andy Kirk; Count Basie; Bill Doggett), and educator, dies at 59
1994 – (Fredericka) “Fredi” Washington, American stage and screen actress (Black and Tan), writer, and civil rights activist, dies at 90
2006 – George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
2024 – Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Baseball HOF first baseman (11 × MLB All-Star; World Series and NL MVP 1967 St. Louis Cardinals; NL Rookie of the Year 1958 SF Giants), dies at 86