1965 – Bessie Barriscale, American actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks), dies at 81
1973 – Elmer Layden, College Football Hall of Fame fullback (Notre Dame legendary 4-horsemen, 1st NFL Commissioner), dies at 70
1987 – Thor Thorvaldsen, Norwegian yachtsman (Olympic gold dragon class 1948, 52), dies at 78
1992 – Nico Booken, Dutch director (Jewish Labor Social), dies at 72
1996 – David McCampbell, US Navy captain, fighter pilot, and Medal of Honor recipient (WWII, Pacific theatre, downed 34 Japanese planes), dies at 86
2003 – Robert McCloskey, American children’s book writer and illustrator (Make Way For Ducklings), dies at 88
2010 – Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor, and K-pop and J-pop singer, takes his own life at 32
2015 – Leonard Starr, American comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 89
2016 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet, dies at 84
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
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 29th June 2024
1725 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
1933 – Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, American actor (The Bell Boy, Moonshine, Keystone comedies), dies from a heart attack at 46
1959 – A. Cecil Snyder, American lawyer and Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, dies at 51
1966 – Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer, dies at 82
1970 – Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), dies at 77
2000 – Il Mattatore [Vittorio Gassman], Italian actor, director and screenwriter (Scent of a Woman, War and Peace), dies at 77
2011 – R. C. Alston, British bibliographer, dies at 78
2020 – Ernesto Marcel, Panamanian boxer (WBA featherweight title 1972-74), dies at 72
2021 – Stuart Damon [Zonis], American stage and screen actor (General Hospital, 1977-2007 – “Dr. Alan Quartermaine”), dies of kidney failure at 84
2021 – Yitzhak “Vicky” Peretz, Israeli soccer striker (40 caps; Maccabi Tel Aviv, Strasbourg, Rennes), dies at 68
Famous Deaths for 28th June 2024
1385 – Andronicus IV Paleologus, Byzantine anti-emperor, dies
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 – [Theodora E] Betsy Ranucci-Beckman, actress (Dood Water), dies at 88
1981 – Mohammed Beheshti, Iranian cleric and politician (Chief Justice of Iran), assassinated in Hafte Tir bombing at 52
1982 – Gerard Rutten, Dutch film director (Sterren stralen overal), dies at 79
1991 – Klas Bruinsma, clergyman, dies
2001 – Joan Sims, British actress (“Carry on” films, As Time Goes By), dies from liver failure and diverticulitis at 71
2006 – Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author, dies at 87
2008 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model, dies aged 20 after falling from the ninth-floor balcony of her Manhattan apartment under unexplained circumstances
2012 – Leontine T. Kelly, 1st African American female bishop (United Methodist Church), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 27th June 2024
1296 – Floris V, Count of Holland and Zeeland, murdered after being captured by local lords in a conspiracy encouraged by the English crown at 41
1794 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
1829 – Louis-Sébastien Lebrun, French composer, dies at 64
1876 – Harriet Martineau, British controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist, dies at 74
1917 – Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism), dies at 79
1939 – David Werner Amram, American lawyer, legal and Talmudic scholar, Zionist, and author (The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy), dies at 73
1952 – Max Dehn, German mathematician (Dehn’s lemma), dies at 73
1968 – Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for South Africa), dies at 87
1992 – Allan Jones, American actor and singer (A Day at the Races; Showboat), dies at 84
2020 – Johnny Mandel, American composer, arranger and musician (M*A*S*H theme), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 26th June 2024
1631 – Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies
1819 – Johann Wilhelm Stadler, German composer (Die Kreuzfahrer – The Crusaders), dies at 71
1830 – George IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover (1820-30), dies of upper gastrointestinal bleeding resulting from the rupture of a blood vessel in his stomach at 67
1984 – Carl Foreman, producer, dies of cancer at 69
1987 – Henk Badings, Dutch opera composer (Orestes), dies at 80
2015 – Ash Brownridge, American conservationist (National Wildlife Federation) creator of Ranger Rick, dies at 98
2018 – Phil Rodgers, American golfer (5 PGA Tour wins), dies of leukemia at 80
2020 – Theo Foley, Irish soccer defender (9 caps, Republic of Ireland; Burnley, Charlton Athletic) and manager (Northampton Town), dies at 83
2021 – Marcelo Campo, Argentine rugby union winger (20 Tests Argentina, 6 South America; Pueyrredón SC), dies from a heart attack at 63
2022 – Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician and statistical theorist, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 25th June 2024
1423 – Reinald IV, duke of Gelre and Gulik (Reinoud I), dies
1798 – Thomas Sandby, English architect (Royal Academy’s 1st professor of Architecture), dies at about 77
1804 – Georges Cadoudal, Breton politician and royalist who plotted to overthrow Napoleon, executed at 33
1876 – Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
1916 – Thomas Eakins, American artist (The Gross Clinic), dies at 71
1949 – Buck Freeman, American baseball outfielder (World Series 1903; HR leader 1899, 1903; AL RBI leader 1902, 03; Boston Americans), dies at 77
1964 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect and furniture designer (Sonsbeek Pavilion), dies at 76
1968 – Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (Hancock’s Half Hour), commits suicide at 44
2021 – Jack Ingram, American auto racer (NASCAR Busch Series champion 1982, 1985), dies at 84
2022 – Bill Woolsey, American swimmer (Olympic gold men’s 4×200m freestyle relay 1952, silver 1956), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 24th June 2024
1712 – Simon van der Stel, 1st governor of Dutch Cape Colony (1679-99), dies at 72
1817 – Thomas McKean, American attorney and politician (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 83
1933 – Sissieretta Joyner Jones, American singer (“Black Patti”), dies at about 64
1935 – Carlos Gardel, French-Argentine singer-songwriter and prominent figure in the history of tango, dies in a plane crash at 44
1977 – André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician, dies in car crash at 33
1984 – William Keighley, American director (The Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94
1992 – Tony LeMans [MansFortier], American singer-songwriter (“Cookie Crumbles”), dies in a motorcycle crash at 29
2005 – Hakham Yedidia Shofet, Former chief rabbi of Iran (b. 1908)
2007 – Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1938)
2015 – Marva Nettles Collins, American educator (West Side Preparatory School), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 23rd June 2024
1444 – Marcus [Manuel] Eugenicus, Byzantine bishop of Efeze/theologist, dies
1946 – William S. Hart, American silent film actor (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds), dies at 81
1951 – Armin Knab, German composer (Wunderhorn), dies at 70
1958 – Edvard Armas Jarnefeldt, composer, dies at 88
1973 – Fay Holden, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), dies at 77
1995 – Jonas Salk, American medical researcher and virologist who created the Polio vaccine, dies of heart failure at 80
2005 – Shana Alexander, American journalist (Life magazine, 60 Minutes), dies of cancer at 79
2011 – Peter Falk, American actor (Colombo, Scared Straight), dies at 83
2015 – Richard “Dick” Van Patten, American actor, businessman, and animal welfare advocate (Tom Bradford in 8 is Enough), dies at 86
2021 – Ellen McIlwaine, American blues singer-songwriter, and slide guitarist (“Honky Tonky Angel”; “In My Time of Dying”), dies of esophageal cancer at 75
Famous Deaths for 22nd June 2024
1429 – Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1843 – Gabriele Prota, Italian composer, dies at 88
1867 – Leopold Marquard, South African clergyman, missionary and educationist, dies at 80
1915 – James Murray Spangler, American inventor of portable vacuum cleaner (Hoover), dies at 66
1965 – David O Selznick, American Academy Award-winning producer (Gone With The Wind; Rebecca), dies of a heart attack at 63
1993 – Hannah Troy, fashion designer (petite), dies of a heart attack at 93
1999 – Lubos Fiser, Czech composer, dies at 63
2007 – Derek Simpson, British cellist (Aeolian String Quartet, 1956-81; Beatles – “Strawberry Fields Forever), and teacher, dies at 79
2007 – Nancy Benoit, former professional wrestling valet (b. 1964)
2012 – Fernie Flaman, Canadian Hockey HOF defenceman (Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs) and coach (Northeastern University 1970-89), dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 21st June 2024
1377 – Edward III, King of England (1327-77) noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority, dies at 64
1573 – Antonie van Burgundy, mayor of sealand, dies in battle
1913 – Gaston Tarry, French mathematician, dies at 69
1957 – Frantisek Kupka, Czech pioneering abstract artist, dies at 85
1965 – Bernard Baruch, American presidential advisor (termed “Cold War”), dies at 94
1989 – Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist and TV host (Amsterdamned), dies at 70
2000 – Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo), dies at 89
2001 – Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
2003 – Leon Uris, American novelist (Exodus; Topaz; QB VII), dies of kidney failure at 78
2017 – Ludger Rémy, German harpsichordist, conductor (Les Amis de Philippe), and musicologist, dies at 68