1828 – Brizio Petrucci, Italian composer, dies at 91
1858 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French Romantic painter, etcher and sculptor, dies at 63
1943 – Cecil Parkin, English cricket spin bowler (10 Tests, 32 wickets, BB 5/38; Durham CCC) and author (Cricket Reminiscences: Humorous and Otherwise), dies at 57
1961 – Tommy Scott, West Indian cricket spin bowler (8 Tests, 22 wickets; Jamaica), dies at 68
1981 – Philip Toynbee, British journalist and writer (Savage Days, Barricade), dies at 64
2007 – Richard Bell, Canadian musician (Full Tilt Boogie Band), dies of multiple myeloma at 61
2010 – Bekim Fehmiu, Yugoslavian actor (Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro), dies of suspected suicide at 74
2014 – Casey Kasem, American radio personality (creator of American Top 40) and the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo, dies from Lewy body dementia at 82
2014 – Jacques Bergerac, French actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun) and business executive (Revlon), dies at 87
2017 – Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor named a People’s Artist of the USSR (1976) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1989), dies at 88
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 14th June 2025
1349 – Günther von Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349 who gave up his claim to the throne for 20,000 marks of silver, dies at about 44
1916 – João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865)
1951 – Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73
1988 – Johnny Farrell, American golfer (US Open 1928), dies of a stroke at 87
1994 – Lionel Grigson, British jazz musician, dies at 52
1995 – Els Aarne, Estonian composer, dies at 78
1995 – Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47
1999 – Bernie Faloney, American-Canadian professional football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats), dies at 66
2016 – Henry McCullough, Irish guitarist (Wings), dies at 72
2023 – Charles L. Blockson, American historian, author, bibliophile, and curator (co-founder of the African American Museum in Philadelphia), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 13th June 2025
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
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