1749 – Jan Frans van Bloemen, Flemish landscape painter, dies at 87
1930 – Henry Segrave, British auto racer (3 x land speed, 1 x water speed record; 2 x F1 GP victories), dies in water speed record attempt accident at 33
1939 – Arthur Coningham, Australian cricketer (one Test for Australia 1894), dies at 75
1976 – Don Bolles, American journalist (against Arizona), dies
1984 – Nathaniel Owings, American architect (Oak Ridge, TN; Sears Tower), dies at 81
2014 – Chuck Noll, American Pro Football HOF coach (Super Bowl 1974, 75, 78, 79; Pittsburgh Steelers 1969-91), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 82
2017 – Anita Pallenberg, Italian model and actress credited as the muse of the Rolling Stones, dies of complications of hepatitis C. at 75
2018 – Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (Olympic bantamweight gold 1956, 60), dies at 85
2019 – Sean McCann, Canadian character actor (…First Do No Harm; Tommy Boy; Night Heat), dies of heart disease at 83
2021 – Ziona Chana, Indian head of a Christian sect and ‘world’s largest family’ (38 wives, 89 children), dies at 76
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 12th June 2025
1567 – Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
1687 – Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried
1760 – Antoine Court, French minister and itinerant preacher in the Reformed church who restored Protestantism to France, dies at 69
1858 – Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder, dies at 74
1976 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, Prime Minister of South Vietnam, dies at 68
1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (Escape, Romeo and Juliet), dies at 82
2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird; Spellbound; Gentleman’s Agreement), dies of bronchopneumonia at 87
2011 – Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Skolt Sámi poet and writer, dies at 63
2021 – Igor Zhelezovski, Belarusian speed skater (record 6 x World Sprint Champion; Olympic silver 1994; bronze 1988), dies from COVID-19 at 57
2021 – Anatoly Chukanov, Russian cyclist (Olympic gold Soviet Union team time trial 1976; UCI Road World C’ships gold 1977), dies at 67
Famous Deaths for 11th June 2025
1811 – Charles Frederick, liberal ruler of Baden, dies at 82
1912 – Léon Dierx, French poet (Aspirations; Les Amants), dies at 74
1949 – Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
1964 – Frank D. Smith, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame administrator (Beaches/Greater Toronto Hockey League), dies at 70
1992 – Marjorie Newell Robb, oldest living survivor of Titanic, dies at 103
1995 – Lovelace Watkins, American singer known as “The Black Sinatra” (The Big, Big Voice of Lovelace Watkins), dies of leukemia at 58
2003 – David Brinkley, American NBC news anchor (The Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 82
2013 – Johnny Smith, American cool jazz guitarist (“Moonlight In Vermont”; “Walk, Don’t Run”), dies from injuries sustained in a fall at 90
2017 – Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman and white supremacist (British Israelism), dies at 67
2024 – Éric Tappy, Swiss operatic tenor, dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 10th June 2025
1075 – Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)
1849 – Frederich Kalkbrenner, German-French piano virtuoso, composer, music publisher, piano maker, and teacher, dies of cholera at 63
1858 – Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (discovered ‘Brownian Motion’), dies at 84
1930 – Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
1971 – Michael Rennie, British actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61
1994 – Edward Kienholz, American sculptor (Back Seat Dodge ’38), dies at 66
1995 – Lindsey Nelson, American sportscaster (NY Mets), dies at 76
2000 – Brian Statham, English cricket fast bowler (70 Tests, 252 wickets @ 24.84), dies at 69
2019 – Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, American epidemiologist and University of California professor (Living legacy award 2009), dies at 84
2021 – Buddhadev Dasgupta, Indian director and poet (Charachar, Grihajuddha), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 9th June 2025
1616 – Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist and composer (Madrigalen), dies at about 58
1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-British explorer and adventurer with leading role controversial African expeditions, dies of malaria at 28
1900 – Birsa Munda, Indian tribal freedom fighter, religious leader and folk hero of the Munda tribe who led an uprising in Bengal against the British Raj, dies in jail awaiting trial at 24
1950 – Edward Asahel Birge, American pioneer in limnology, dies at 98
1953 – Ugo Betti, Italian judge and dramatist (The Fugitive), dies at 61
1962 – Henry Kendall, British director and actor (Amazing Quest, Shadow, Rich and Strange), dies from a heart attack at 65
1974 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan novelist (Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67), journalist and poet, dies at 74
1980 – Leonhard Huizinga, Dutch journalist and writer (Olivier and Adrian), dies at 73
2014 – Gerd Zacher, German composer and organist, dies at 84
2018 – Kenyatta Jones, American NFL and arena football player (New England Patriots and 3 other teams, dies of cardiac arrest at 39
Famous Deaths for 8th June 2025
1628 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher who popularized the term psychology, dies at 81
1714 – Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony, dies at 83
1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
1866 – Wilhelm Schirmer, German landscape artist, dies at 64
1870 – Johann Gottlob Töpfer, German organist, composer, and teacher, dies at 78
1908 – Johan Lindegren, Swedish composer, musician and teacher, dies at 66
1990 – Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74), dies
1992 – William McGowan, entrepreneur (MCI), dies at 64
2010 – Crispian St. Peters [Robin Peter Smith], British pop singer (The Pied Piper; No No No), dies at 71
2019 – Arthur Frackenpohl, American composer, arranger, and pedagogue (Natural Superiority of Music), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 7th June 2025
1555 – Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader who fought for the Duke of Guelders, dies at about 76
1626 – Anne of Saint Bartholomew, Flemish Roman Catholic nun, dies at 76
1935 – Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Russian botanist (more than 300 new types of fruit), dies at 79
1937 – Jean Harlow [Harlean Carpentier], American actress and 1930s’ sex goddess (Dinner at 8; Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1967, dies at 80
1980 – Henry Miller, American writer (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn), dies of circulatory complications at 88
2001 – Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones), dies of a heart attack at 49
2010 – Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (b. 1928)
2011 – Hubert Du Plessis, South African pianist and composer, dies at 88
2020 – Frank Bey [Bass], American blues singer-songwriter (“All My Dues Are Paid”), dies at 74
Famous Deaths for 6th June 2025
1878 – Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (Stirling cycle engine) (b. 1790)
1911 – Charley Jones, American MLB Baseball outfielder, and one of the first sluggers, 1875-88 (Cincinnati Reds; Boston Red Caps, and 3 other teams), dies at 59
1935 – Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British army officer, dies at 72
1969 – Miles Dempsey, British WWII general (XIII Corps, Second Army), dies of cancer at 72
1984 – A. Bertram Chandler, Anglo-Australian mariner and sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72
1987 – Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor and playwright (Porridge), dies of stomach cancer at 64
2010 – Paul Wunderlich, German lithographer, surrealist painter, and sculptor, dies at 83
2015 – Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney and author (Helter-Skelter), dies at 80
2016 – Peter Shaffer, English playwright (Equus, Amadeus), twin brother to Anthony, dies at 90
2023 – Teddy McCarthy, Irish hurler (2 x All-Ireland Titles; Cork; Sarsfields GAA) and Gaelic footballer (2 x All-Ireland Titles; Cork; Glanmire GFC), dies at 57
Famous Deaths for 5th June 2025
1296 – Edmund Crouchback, English prince and son of Henry III of England, dies at 51
1667 – Francesco Sforza Pallavicino, Italian theologist and historian (Istoria del Concilio di Trento), dies at 59
1885 – Julius Benedict, German opera composer (Protoghesi), dies at 80
1893 – Mary Ann Shadd Cary, American-Canadian anti-slavery campaigner, suffragist and 1st African American newspaper publisher (“The Provincial Freeman”), dies of stomach cancer at 69
1908 – Luca Fumagalli, Italian pianist and composer (Luigi XI), dies at 71
1913 – Chris von der Ahe, German entrepreneur and owner of St. Louis Brown Stockings, dies at 61
1992 – Max Lerner, American journalist (NY Post) and educator, dies at 88
2004 – Ronald Reagan, 40th US President (Republican: 1981-89) and actor (Bedtime for Bonzo), dies at 93
2005 – Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
2012 – Barry Unsworth, English novelist (Sacred Hunger), dies from lung cancer at 81
Famous Deaths for 4th June 2025
1922 – William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies
1925 – Pierre Louÿs, French writer (Aphrodite), dies at 54
1942 – Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi leader (head of Bohemia and Moravia and the Reich Main Security Office), dies a from an infection while recovering from injuries a week after an assassination attempt at 38
1972 – Godfried Devreese, Belgian violist, conductor, and composer (Elf Dance; Gothic Symphony), dies at 79
1979 – Herman Shumlin, American Broadway producer, director and actor (Watch on the Rhine), dies at 80
1985 – John Ringling North, American circus director (Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus from 1937-43), dies at 81
1989 – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (Hi and Lois, Hagar the Horrible), dies at 71
2006 – Eric Molobi, South African activist (ANC, Kagiso Trust), dies at 58
2015 – Albert West [Albertus Westelaken], Dutch pop singer (The Shuffles – “Cha-La-La, I Need You”; Stars on 45), dies at 65
2024 – John Todd, Australian Football HOF coach (6 × WAFL Premierships; AFL: West Coast Eagles) and half-forward (Sandover Medal 1955), dies at 86