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===1901–present===
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[Yuan Shikai]], Chinese general and politician, 2nd [[President of the Republic of China]] (b. 1859)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yuan-Shikai |title=Yuan Shikai |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1922]] &ndash; [[Lillian Russell]], American actress and singer (b. 1860)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lillian-Russell |title=Lillian Russell |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1935]] &ndash; [[Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy]], English field marshal and politician, 12th [[Governor-General of Canada]] (b. 1862)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julian-H-G-Byng-Viscount-Byng-of-Vimy |title=Julian Hedworth George Byng, Viscount Byng of Vimy |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[Constantin Noe]], Megleno-Romanian editor and professor (b. 1883)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.academia.edu/5573680|title=Aromâni, meglenoromâni, istroromâni: aspecte identitare și culturale|first1=Adina|last1=Berciu Drăghicescu|first2=Lozovanu|last2=Dorin|first3=Coman|last3=Virgil|publisher=Editura Universității din București|year=2012|language=ro|isbn=9786061601486}}</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[Louis Chevrolet]], American race car driver and businessman, founded [[Chevrolet]] and [[Frontenac Motor Corporation]] (b. 1878)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Chevrolet |title=Louis Chevrolet |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[Gerhart Hauptmann]], German novelist, poet, and playwright, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1862)<ref>{{cite book |title=Academic American encyclopedia |publisher=Grolier |location=Danbury, Connecticut |year=1997 |page=6 |isbn=978-07-17220-68-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wl0NAQAAMAAJ}}</ref>
*[[1947]] &ndash; [[James Agate]], English author and critic (b. 1877)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Agate |title=James Agate |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Auguste and Louis Lumière|Louis Lumière]], French film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1864)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lumiere-brothers#ref632952 |title=Lumière brothers |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Arachnē : Revue Interdisciplinaire de Langue et de Littérature |year=1995 |publisher=Laurentian University |location=Sudbury, Ontario |page=294 |oclc=300266971 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5xAqAQAAIAAJ}}</ref>
*[[1955]] &ndash; [[Max Meldrum]], Scottish-Australian painter and educator (b. 1875)<ref>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |id2=meldrum-duncan-max-7553 |last1=McGrath |first1=Joyce |last2=Smith |first2=Bernard |title=Duncan Max Meldrum (1875–1955) |year=1986 |volume=10 |access-date=13 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Carl Gustav Jung]], Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (b. 1875)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Jung |title=Carl Jung |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Yves Klein]], French painter (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite book |last=Kahn |first=Annette |author-link=:fr:Annette Kahn |title=Yves Klein: Le maître du bleu |publisher=Éditions Stock |location=Paris |year=2000 |isbn=978-22-34052-18-5 |ol=21884551M |lccn=00359365}}</ref>
*  1962   &ndash; [[Tom Phillis]], Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1934)<ref>{{cite journal |title=Tom Phillis |journal=Motor Cycle |publisher=Iliffe Publications Ltd |location=London |volume=108 |issue=3079 |date=14 June 1962 |page=792}}</ref>
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[William Baziotes]], American painter and academic (b. 1912)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist/baziotes-william/ |title=William Baziotes |publisher=The Art Story Foundation |location=New York City |access-date=13 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Robert F. Kennedy]], American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th [[United States Attorney General]] (b. 1925)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/06/robert-kennedy-assassination-anniversary |last=Cohen |first=Michael |title=Bobby Kennedy: Democratic apostate, political opportunist, liberal idealist |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=6 June 2013 |access-date=6 February 2021}}</ref>
*[[1976]] &ndash; [[J. Paul Getty]], American businessman, founded the [[Getty Oil|Getty Oil Company]] (b. 1892)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/30/books/isn-t-it-funny-what-money-can-do.html |last=O'Reilly |first=Jane |title=Isn't It Funny What Money Can Do? |newspaper=New York Times |date=30 March 1986 |access-date=29 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330211214/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/30/books/isn-t-it-funny-what-money-can-do.html |archive-date=30 March 2018}}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Jack Haley]], American actor (b. 1897)<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/06/07/jack-haley-dies-was-tin-man-in-the-wizard-of-oz/2c6b95f4-2ec3-49a5-bf62-4b09596f6642/ |last=Smith |first=J. Y. |title=Jack Haley Dies, Was Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz' |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=7 June 1979 |access-date=13 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1982]] &ndash; [[Kenneth Rexroth]], American poet and academic (b. 1905)<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=6752 |title=News & Notes |journal=PN Review |date=February 1983 |volume=9 |issue=3 |access-date=2 November 2014}}</ref>
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[Hans Leip]], German author, poet, and playwright who wrote the lyrics of ''[[Lili Marleen]]'' (b. 1893)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.radioswissjazz.ch/en/music-database/musician/11542fd2cfefd1b4596672a53ddd226851e78/biography |title=Hans Leip |work=Radio Swiss Jazz |publisher=Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft (SRG SSR): trans. Swiss Broadcasting Corporation |location=Bern |date=20 April 2014 |access-date=15 January 2021}}</ref> 
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Stan Getz]], American saxophonist and jazz innovator (b. 1927)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stan-Getz |title=Stan Getz |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/08/obituaries/stan-getz-64-jazz-innovator-on-saxophone-dies.html |title=Stan Getz, 64, Jazz Innovator on Saxophone, Dies |work=The New York Times |first=Peter |last=Watrous |date=8 June 1991 |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Mark McManus]], Scottish actor (b. 1935)<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary: Mark McManus |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mark-mcmanus-1420944.html |website=The Independent |access-date=27 November 2022 |language=en |date=6 June 1994}}</ref>
*  1994   &ndash; [[Barry Sullivan (actor)|Barry Sullivan]], American film actor (b. 1912)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-barry-sullivan-1421948.html |first=David |last=Shipman |title=Obituary: Barry Sullivan |date=11 June 1994 |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[George Davis Snell]], American geneticist and immunologist; awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1980 for his studies of histocompatibility (b. 1903)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Davis-Snell |title=George Davis Snell |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[2005]] &ndash; [[Anne Bancroft]], American film actress; winner of the 1963 [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for ''[[The Miracle Worker (1962 film)|The Miracle Worker]]'' (b. 1931)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Bancroft |title=Anne Bancroft |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*  2006   &ndash; [[Billy Preston]], American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1946)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Billy-Preston |title=Billy Preston |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[Jean Dausset]], French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (b. 1916)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Dausset |title=Jean Dausset |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[Vladimir Krutov]], Russian ice hockey player; together with [[Igor Larionov]] and [[Sergei Makarov (ice hockey, born 1958)|Sergei Makarov]], formed the famed ''KLM Line''. (b. 1960)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Krutov |title=Vladimir Yevgenyevich Krutov |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/olympic-ice-hockey/photos/2014/02/12/greatest-russian-hockey-players-all-time/6 |last1=Cazeneuve |first1=Brian |title=Greatest Russian Hockey Players Of All Time |magazine=Sports Illustrated |location=Sydney |date=12 February 2014 |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[Jerome Karle]], American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (b. 1918)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jerome-Karle |title=Jerome Karle |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*  2013   &ndash; [[Esther Williams]], American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Esther-Williams |title=Esther Williams |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[2014]] &ndash; [[Lorna Wing]], English psychiatrist and physician; pioneered studies of [[autism]] (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/health/dr-lorna-wing-who-broadened-views-of-autism-dies-at-85.html?_r=0 |last=Vitello |first=Paul |title=Dr. Lorna Wing, Who Broadened Views of Autism, Dies at 85 |newspaper=New York Times |date=19 June 2014 |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[2015]] &ndash; [[Vincent Bugliosi]], American lawyer and author; prosecuting attorney in the [[Tate–LaBianca murders]] case (b. 1934)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-Bugliosi |title=Vincent Bugliosi |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*  2015   &ndash; [[Ludvík Vaculík]], Czech journalist and author; noted for ''[[The Two Thousand Words]]'' which inspired the [[Prague Spring]] (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/ludvik-vaculik-writer-and-dissident-whose-two-thousand-words-tract-led-to-the-prague-spring-and-the-10308678.html |last=Janicek |first=Karel |title=Ludvík Vaculík: Writer and dissident whose 'Two Thousand Words' tract led to the Prague Spring and the Soviet invasion |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |date=9 June 2015 |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; [[Viktor Korchnoi]], Russian chess grandmaster; arguably the best player never to become [[World Chess Champion]] (b. 1931)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Korchnoi |title=Viktor Korchnoi |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
*  2016   &ndash; [[Peter Shaffer]], English playwright and screenwriter; works included ''[[Equus (film)|Equus]]'' and ''[[Amadeus (film)|Amadeus]]'' (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Shaffer |title=Sir Peter Shaffer |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
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