Famous Deaths for 4th July 2025

1648 – Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary and martyr, dies at 47
1672 – Ambrosius Reiner, German composer, dies at 67
1891 – Hannibal Hamlin, American attorney and 15th Vice President of U.S. (1861-65), dies at 81
1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (discovered canals of Mars), dies at 75
1950 – William C. Fownes Jr, American golfer and administrator (US Amateur C’ship 1910; President US Golf Ass’n 1926-27), dies at 72
1970 – Harold Vanderbilt, American yachtsman and America’s Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
1986 – Flor Peeters, Flemish organist (St. Rumbold’s Cathedral – Mechelen, 1923-86), composer (Lied Symphony), and pedagogue, dies on his 83rd birthday
1993 – Charles Crain, actor, dies in Hollywood at 83
2002 – Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
2022 – Janusz Kupcewicz, Polish soccer midfielder (20 caps; KS Arka Gdynia, ASSE Saint-Étienne), dies from a stroke at 66

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