Famous Deaths on 7th June

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555 - Vigilius, Italian Pope (537-55), dies
1329 - Robert Bruce, King of Scots (1306-29), dies at 53
1337 - Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49
1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 - Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367)
1492 - Kazimierz IV, King of Poland (1447-92), dies at 64
1549 - Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded
1555 - Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76
1571 - Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer, dies at 68
1572 - August I [Sigismund II August], king of Poland (1548-72), dies at 42
1618 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
1624 - Anne of Saint Bartolomaeus, Flemish nun/monk/saint, dies at 74
1631 - Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal)
1654 - Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76
1667 - Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried
1672 - Willem J van Gendt, admiral/governor of Breda, dies at about 37
1676 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
1711 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
1754 - Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish, architect (Amalienborg Square), dies at 52
1778 - Johann Georg Zechner, composer, dies at 62
1779 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
1784 - Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer, dies at 71
1789 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer, dies at 81
1800 - Willem A Alting, governor-genl of Neth-Indies (1780-97), dies at 75
1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1814 - Robert Jasper van der de Capellen, mister of Marsch, dies at 71
1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)
1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1840 - Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69
1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1859 - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
1862 - William B Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, at 42
1863 - Franz Xavier Gruber, composer, dies at 75
1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1876 - George Sand, writer, dies at 71
1877 - Winand C H Staring, geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68
1893 - Johann Schrammel, composer, dies at 43
1896 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
1906 - Johan P Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74
1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
1915 - Benjamin Lambord, composer, dies at 35
1916 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1926 - Henry Charles Tonking, composer, dies at 63
1927 - Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
1927 - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
1928 - Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered
1929 - J E P McMaster, cricketer (Eng v S Af Test 1889 (out for 0), dies
1932 - Emil Pauer, composer, dies at 76
1935 - Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1938 - Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies
1940 - James Hall, writer/actor (Millie, Hell's Angels), dies at 39
1942 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
1945 - Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74
1945 - Ruben Marcos Campos, composer, dies at 69
1948 - Georges Adolphe Hue, composer, dies at 90
1951 - Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals, hanged
1954 - Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41
1956 - Julien Benda, Fren philosopher/writer (La trahison des clercs), dies
1957 - Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies
1958 - Roger Hartigan, cricketer (2 Tests for Aust in 1908), dies
1961 - Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies
1963 - Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65
1964 - Charlie Llewellyn, cricketer (544 runs in 15 Tests for South Africa), dies
1965 - Judy Holliday, comedienne (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), dies at 42
1965 - Pierre Cardevielle, Fren composer/conductor (L'ile Rouge), dies at 59
1965 - Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (Bauernpassion), dies
1966 - Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor, dies at 78
Short Story Writer Dorothy Parker (1967) 1967 - Dorothy Parker, US writer (Enough Rope), dies at 73
1967 - Pauline Brooks, actress (Make a Million), dies of cancer at 54
1967 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1968 - Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60
1969 - Leo Gorcey, actor (Bowery Boys), dies at 53
1970 - Edward M Forster, Brit writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91
1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
1973 - Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50
1976 - Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orchestra leader (Air time '57), dies at 61
1978 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1979 - Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)
1980 - Henry [Valentine] Miller, US writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies at 88
1980 - Richard Bonnelli, actor (Enter Madame), dies
1980 - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
1980 - Henry Miller, American artist/author, dies at 88
Author Henry Miller (1980) 1983 - Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried
1983 - Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer, dies at 81
1984 - George Givot, actor (Versatile Vaudeville), dies at 81
1987 - John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73
1988 - Joe Partridge, cricketer (S Afr pace bowler 1963-65), commits suicide
1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
1989 - Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist, dies
1989 - Percy Stuart, Suriname/Dutch sports journalist, dies
1989 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
1990 - Barbara Baxley, actress (Norma Rae), dies at 63 of a heart attack
1991 - Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies
1992 - Bob Sweeney, director/actor (Toby Tyler), dies of cancer at 73
1992 - William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82
1993 - Drazen Petrovic, NBA player (NJ Nets), dies in auto-accident at 28
1994 - Barry Sullivan, actor (Streets of SF, Oh, God!), dies at 81
1994 - Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven), dies at 59
1994 - Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered
1994 - Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist, dies at 42
1994 - Vincent Nsengijumva, Rwandan archbishop of Kigali, murdered
1995 - Joseph Tomelty, actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick), dies at 84
1995 - Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
1996 - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator, dies at 70
1996 - Noel Walton Bott, engineer, dies at 88
1996 - [Francis] Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies at 91
1999 - Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer (b. 1942)
2001 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
2001 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
2003 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
2006 - John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)
2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born Mujahid (b. 1966)
2008 - Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
2008 - Jim McKay, American sportscaster (b. 1921)
2009 - Kenny Rankin, American singer (b. 1940)
2009 - Hugh Hopper, British musician (b. 1945)
2010 - Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)
2010 - Adriana Xenides, Australian TV personality (b. 1956)
2010 - Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (b. 1928)
2011 - Nataraja Ramakrishna, Indian classical dancer and composer. (b. 1923)
2011 - Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
2012 - Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist, dies at 86
2012 - Bob Welch, American musician, commits suicide by gunshot at 66