451 – Theodoric I, King of the Visigoths (418-451), killed fighting the Huns. at the Battle of Châlons, dies at 60 or 61 [birth date uncertain]
1870 – Jules de Goncourt, French writer, wrote with his brother Edmond de Goncourt, dies at 39
1922 – Vittorio Monti, composer, dies at 54
1963 – Gordon Jones, American character actor (The Green Hornet; Flying Tigers; Abbott and Costello), dies from a heart attack at 52
1963 – Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician, dies at 64
1998 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard, committed suicide at 56
2007 – Trevor Henry, New Zealand Justice (b. 1902)
2012 – Andrew Sarris, American movie critic (Village Voice), dies at 83
2017 – Prodigy [Albert Johnson], American rapper (Mobb Deep), dies at 42
2018 – Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer, dies at 94
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 19th June 2024
1584 – François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
1844 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist, dies at 72
1956 – (Luise) “Lulu” von Strauss und Torney, German poet (Erde der Väter – Our Forefathers’ Soil), and novelist (Der jüngste Tag – Judgment Day), dies at 82
1995 – Peter Townsend, British RAF officer, war hero, courtier and writer (had romance with Princess Margaret), dies at 80
1996 – Ande Anderson, English opera director, dies at 78
1996 – Edvin Wide, Swedish runner (Olympic silver 1924 and world record holder), dies at 100
2010 – Ursula Thiess [Schmidt], German actress (Monsoon, Bengal Brigade, Americano), dies at 86
2010 – Angela Rumbold, British politician (C), dies at 78
2013 – Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter (Psí vojáci – Dog Soldiers), dies at 48
2016 – Götz George, German actor (Tatort), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 18th June 2024
1234 – Emperor Chūkyō, 85th emperor of Japan, dies at 15
1580 – Juliana van Stolberg, German countess, mother of William of Orange and Jan Nassau, dies at 74
1704 – Thomas “Tom” Brown, English translator and writer of satire (Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London), dies at 41
1749 – Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
1866 – Jacob Abels, Dutch painter, dies at 62
1964 – Alexander Shamil’yevich Melik-Pashayev, Georgian conductor and composer (Bol’shoy Theatre, 1931-62), dies at 58
1967 – Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver, killed in crash at Caserta, Italy at 23
1971 – Paul Karrer, Swiss organic chemist (Nobel 1937), dies at 82
1971 – Thomas Gomez, American actor (Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout), dies after a car accident at 65
1986 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921)
Famous Deaths for 17th June 2024
1839 – Lord William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, British soldier and statesman (Governor-General of India, 1828-1835), dies at 64
1862 – Charles Canning, English 1st viceroy of British-Indies, dies at 49
1871 – Clement Vallandigham, American politician (Rep-D-Ohio, convicted of opposing civil war, exiled to Confederate States), dies after accidentally shooting himself at 50
1938 – Ranji Hordern, Australian cricket spin bowler (7 Tests, 46 wickets, BB 7/90; NSW CA), dies at 55
1947 – Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, dies at 62
1989 – John Matuszak, American NFL defensive end, 1973-82 (Oakland Raiders and 3 other teams), and actor (Caveman; The Goonies), dies of an accidental propoxyphene overdose at 38
2001 – Thomas Winning, Scottish controversial Roman Catholic Cardinal, dies at 76
2002 – Willie Davenport, American bobsledder and track athlete (Olympic gold 110m hurdles 1968), dies from a heart attack at 59
2004 – Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 78
2020 – Paulinho Paiakan, Brazilian indigenous chief (led Kayapó people against Belo Monte dam), dies of COVID-19 at about 65
Famous Deaths for 16th June 2024
1808 – Georg Wenzel Ritter, German bassoonist, composer and friend of Mozart, dies at 60
1824 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
1902 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (algebraic logic), dies at 60
1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American entrepreneur and inventor (gyrocompass), dies at 69
1936 – Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies at 41
1940 – Vitezslava Kapralova, Czech composer and conductor, dies from typhoid fever at 25
1975 – Don Robey, American record label executive and record producer, dies at 71
1976 – Francis E. Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed at 59
1994 – Terence de Vere White, Irish novelist (An Affair with the Moon), dies at 82
2022 – Don Neely, New Zealand cricket historian, administrator (President NZ Cricket 2006-09), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 15th June 2024
991 – Theophanu, wife of Holy Roman Emperor Otto II and regent of Otto III, dies (b. 960)
1341 – Andronicus III Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1328-41), dies
1869 – Albert Grisar, Belgian comic opera composer, dies at 60
1895 – Richard Genée, Austrian playwright, librettist, and composer, dies at 72
1941 – Evelyn Underhill, British Anglo-Catholic poet, dies at 65
1965 – E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902
1968 – Sam Crawford, American Baseball HOF outfielder (MLB HR leader 1901, 08; AL RBI leader 1910, 14, 15; MLB record 309 career triples; Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers), dies at 88
1992 – Leo Halle, soccer goalie (Go Ahead, Orange), dies
2000 – Jules Roy, French writer (b. 1907)
2015 – Jean Doré, Canadian politician (39th Mayor of Montreal), dies at 70
Famous Deaths for 14th June 2024
1800 – Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader (b. 1768)
1968 – Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish composer (Facettes; Aniara), dies at 51
1968 – Ken Errair, American pop-jazz singer (Four Freshmen, 1953-55 – “Graduation Day”), dies in a chartered plane crash at 42
1988 – Johnny Farrell, American golfer (US Open 1928), dies of a stroke at 87
1994 – Mark Alexander Lees, English rowing coach, dies at 38
1995 – Els Aarne, Estonian composer, dies at 78
1995 – Gordon Greig, British political journalist (Daily Mail), dies at 63
2000 – Paul Griffin, American session musician and pianist, dies at 62
2007 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-81) and 9th President of Austria (1986-92), dies at 88
2012 – Dumitru Capoianu, Romanian conductor and classical and film composer (The Little Man), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 12th June 2024
1904 – Camille de Renesse, Belgian nobleman and entrepreneur, dies at 67
1932 – René de Clerq, Flemish poet and writer (Book of Love), dies at 54
1936 – Karl Kraus, Austrian satirical writer, dies at 62
1952 – Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (Archbishop of Munich who opposed Nazi regime), dies at 83
1963 – Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80
1980 – Milburn Stone, American actor (Gunsmoke, Pickup on South Street), dies from a heart attack at 75
1989 – Peter Baden, Norwegian composer, organist and music critic, dies at 80
1997 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian poet-bard and singer-songwriter (founder of author’s song genre), dies at 73
2011 – Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Skolt Sámi poet and writer, dies at 63
2023 – Harvey Glance, American athlete (Olympic gold 4x100m relay 1976; World C’ship gold 4x100m relay 1987), dies of a heart attack at 66
Famous Deaths for 11th June 2024
1698 – Balthasar Bekker, Dutch theologist (helped end persecution of witches), dies at 64
1859 – Klemens von Metternich, Austrian statesman, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1809-48) and host of the Congress of Vienna (1814-15), dies at 86
1903 – King Alexander I of Serbia assassinated during a coup d’etat at 26
1956 – Ralph Morgan [Wupperman], American actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), dies at 73
1970 – Frank Silvera, Jamaican-American actor (High Chaparral, Killer’s Kiss, Fear and Desire), accidentally electrocutes himself at 55
1991 – Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation), dies
1993 – Bernard Bresslaw, English comedian (Carry On team), dies of a heart attack at 59
1994 – Kitty Muggeridge, British author and translator, dies at 90
2001 – Timothy McVeigh, American Oklahoma City bomber and terrorist, executed for bombing Oklahoma City at 33
2003 – William Marshall, American stage and screen actor, director, and operatic singer (Frederick Douglass: Slave and Statesman; Blacula; Scream Blacula Scream), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 78
Famous Deaths for 10th June 2024
1580 – Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal’s national poet (Os Lusiados), dies
1607 – John Popham, English politician (Speaker of the House, Lord Chief Justice), dies at 75 or 76
1849 – Friedrich Kalkbrenner, German-French pianist and composer, dies at 63
1849 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly, dies at 64
1955 – Margaret Abbott, American golfer (1st American woman to win Olympic event, golf 1900), dies at 76
1968 – Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, Russian composer, dies at 65
1996 – Norman Lambert, British restaurateur, dies at 63 (b. 1933)
2016 – Gordie Howe, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (23-time NHL All Star; NHL: Detroit Red Wings; WHA: Houston Aeros), dies of a stroke at 88
2020 – Harry Glickman, American journalist, promoter and sports executive (co-founder NBA Portland Trail Blazers, President 1987-94), dies at 96
2023 – Giannis Markopoulos, Greek composer (Zavara-Katra-Nemia; 24 Dances), dies of cancer at 84