Famous Deaths for 6th June 2019

1934 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
1944 – Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day landing WWII
1944 – Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41
1951 – Lionel Hallam, British cricketer (England capt 1921), dies at 61
1965 – Lester Matthews, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu), dies at 64
1983 – James E. Casey, American businessman and founder (United Parcel Service), dies at 95
1984 – A. Bertram Chandler, Anglo-Australian mariner and sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72
1993 – Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73
2005 – Anne Bancroft [Anna Italiano], American actress, director, screenwriter and singer (Graduate, Miracle Worker), dies from uterine cancer at 73
2013 – Jerome Karle, American chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 94

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