1884 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine political theorist and writer (Crime of War), dies at 74
1902 – Samuel Butler, English author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh), dies at 66
1909 – Learmont Drysdale, Scottish composer, dies at 42
2005 – J.J. Pickle, American politician (Rep-D-Texas, 1963-95), dies at 91
2006 – Vincent Sherman, American film director (Mr. Skeffington), dies at 99
2007 – Georges Thurston, Canadian RandB and reggae musician and singer (Boule Noire), dies of cancer at 55
2008 – Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984)
2016 – Paul Cox, Dutch-born Australian director (Lonely Hearts), dies at 76
2017 – Lord Joffe [Joel Goodman Joffe], South African-born British lawyer (instructing solicitor for Nelson Mandela’s defence team) and businessman, dies at 85
2020 – Vera Lynn, British popular music singer, known as ‘the Forces’ Sweetheart’ (“We’ll Meet Again”; “The White Cliffs of Dover”), dies at 103
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 17th June 2023
656 – Osman ibn Affan, 3rd kalief of Islam (644-56) murdered
1775 – Joseph Warren, American physician and soldier, dies at 34
1968 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan soccer defender (41 caps; captain FIFA World Cup 1930; CA Bella Vista 322 games), dies at 67
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
1992 – Frederick Exley, American novelist (Fan’s Note), dies at 63
2005 – Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum – “Runaway Train”), dies of complications from esophageal cancer at 41
2006 – Julian Slade, English popular composer (Salad Days), dies at 76
2007 – Paul Hodder-Williams, British publisher (Hodder and Stoughton), dies at 97
2015 – John David Crow, American College Football Hall of Fame back and tight end (Heisman Trophy 1957, Texas A and M; Pro Bowl 1959, 60, 62, 65; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 79
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 2023
1468 – Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
1837 – Valentino Fioravanti, Italian composer, dies at 72
1885 – Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1962 – Hans Kirk, Danish writer (The Fishermen), dies at 64
1969 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal and Governor General of Canada (1946-52), dies at 78
1979 – Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian chief of state (1972-78), executed by firing squad during a coup at 47
1987 – John Mikaelsson, Swedish race walker (Olympic gold 10k 1948, 52), dies at 73
1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricket batsman and captain (43 Tests; 3,073 runs @ 46.56; 10 x 100s; Victoria) and broadcaster (ABC 1956-81), dies at 79
1997 – John Wolters, American drummer (Dr. Hook -“When You’re In Love With A Beautiful Woman”), dies at 52
2008 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (b. 1921)
Famous Deaths for 15th June 2023
1341 – Andronicus III Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1328-41), dies
1724 – Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
1768 – James Short, Scottish mathematician and manufacturer of telescopes, dies at 57
1889 – Mihail Eminesco, Romanian poet (Luceafarul), dies at 39
1982 – Neil Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 90
2006 – Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist and a world expert on Achaemenid archeology, dies of cancer at 63
2013 – José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver, dies from respiratory failure at 90
2014 – Daniel Keyes, American author (Flowers for Algernon), dies from complications from pneumonia at 86
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
2017 – Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor named a People’s Artist of the USSR (1976) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1989), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 14th June 2023
1703 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (Mémoires), dies at 77
1916 – João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865)
1936 – Hans Poelzig, German architect (Grosses Schauspielhaus), dies at 67
1944 – Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist and anthropologist, dies at 78
1951 – Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73
1969 – Wynonie Harris, American rhythm and blues singer, dies of cancer at 53
1994 – Lionel Grigson, British jazz musician, dies at 52
1994 – Michel Vitold, Russian-French actor (Madame et le Mort), dies at 78
1997 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (3:10 to Yuma, Sands of Iwo Jima, Sometimes a Great Notion), dies of cancer at 70
1999 – Bernie Faloney, American-Canadian professional football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats), dies at 66
Famous Deaths for 13th June 2023
1817 – Richard Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish inventor and educationalist, dies at 73
1899 – [Robert] Lawson Tait, Scottish-born pioneering surgeon performed first salpingectomy for ectopic pregnancy, dies at 54
1946 – Edward Bowes, American radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71
1951 – Ben Chifley, Australian politician and the 16th Prime Minister of Australia (Labor: 1945-49), dies of a heart attack at 65
1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German princess by her marriage to the diplomat Prince Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst and spy, dies at 80
1982 – Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
1982 – Abdul Aziz Khaled, King of Saudi-Arabia, dies at 69
2005 – Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
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
2022 – Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer (World Light Welterweight Champion 1959-60; World Lightweight Champion 1962-65, 65-68), dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 12th June 2023
1687 – Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried
1946 – Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese fieldmarshal, dies
1989 – Lou Monte {Scaglione], Italian-American novelty song singer-songwriter (Peppino the Italian Mouse; Dominick the Donkey), dies at 72
1995 – Luigi Innocenti, Italian motorbike and auto tycoon (Lambretta), dies at 71
2005 – Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918)
2006 – György Ligeti, Hungarian classical composer (Le Grand Macabre), dies at 83 (b. 1923)
2006 – Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
2011 – Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Skolt Sámi poet and writer, dies at 63
2016 – Janet Waldo, American radio and actress (Judy Jetson, Shazzan, Penelope Pitstop), dies at 97
2020 – William S. Sessions, American director of FBI (1987-93), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 11th June 2023
1249 – Adelheid van Schaarbeek, Flemish mystic/saint, dies
1924 – Alexander de Savornin Lohman, Dutch minister and party leader (CHU), dies at 87
1956 – Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi), dies at 61
1965 – Vernon Johns, American civil rights activist, dies at 73
1970 – Aleksander Kerensky, Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government (1917), dies at 89
1992 – Scotty Sachs, actor (Hanoi Hilton), dies of gunshot wounds at 39
1999 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy-Star Trek), dies of stomach cancer at 79
2001 – Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (Échame a mi la culpa), dies at 77
2005 – Ione Mylonas Shear, American archeologist (Bronze Age Greece), dies at 68
2012 – Norman F Lent, American republican Congressman, dies from cancer at 81
Famous Deaths for 10th June 2023
1727 – George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover, King of England, dies at 67
1800 – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53
1868 – Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Serbia (1839-42,1860-68), murdered at 44
1906 – Richard Seddon, New Zealand politician (longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1893-1906), dies at 61
1942 – Stanley Lupino, English comic (Cheer Up; Over She Goes), dies at 48
1992 – Hachidal Nakamura, Japanese composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure
1993 – Richard Webb, American actor (Captain Midnight, Out of the Past), shoots himself at 77
1995 – Masaya Hanai, Japanese businessman, dies at 82
2000 – Brian Statham, English cricket fast bowler (70 Tests, 252 wickets @ 24.84), dies at 69
2002 – John Gotti, American mafia gangster and head of the Gambino family, dies of throat cancer at 61
Famous Deaths for 9th June 2023
68 – Nero, Emperor of Rome (54-68), commits suicide at 31
1382 – Philip of Lead, lawyer of Utrecht, dies
1563 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
1717 – Louis Le Quointe, Flemish composer and organist (Bouquet de fleurs), dies at 64
1976 – Paul Rodenko, Dutch poet and writer (Never Marry a Witch), dies at 55
1996 – Walter Pardon, British folk singer and carpenter, dies at 81
1996 – Robert Kidd, marine geoscientist, dies at 48
2006 – Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer, dies of heart failure at 60
2008 – Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)
2014 – Gerd Zacher, German composer and organist, dies at 84