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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[656]] – [[Uthman]], caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate (b. 579)<ref>{{cite book| last = Madelung| first = Wilferd| title = The Succession to Muhammad A Study of the Early Caliphate| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2QKBUwBUWWkC&pg=PA80| year = 1998| publisher = Cambridge University Press| isbn = 978-0-521-64696-3 }}</ref> * [[676]] – [[Pope Adeodatus II|Adeodatus]], pope of the Catholic Church * [[811]] – [[Sakanoue no Tamuramaro]], Japanese shōgun (b. 758) * [[850]] – [[Tachibana no Kachiko]], Japanese empress (b. 786) * [[900]] – [[Fulk (archbishop of Reims)|Fulk]], French archbishop and chancellor *[[1025]] – [[Bolesław I the Brave]], Polish king (b. 967) *[[1091]] – [[Dirk V, Count of Holland|Dirk V]], count of Holland (b. 1052) *[[1207]] – [[Ji Gong|Daoji]], Chinese buddhist monk (b. 1130) *[[1219]] – [[David, Earl of Huntingdon|David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon]] *[[1361]] – [[Ingeborg of Norway]], princess consort and regent of Sweden (b. 1301) *[[1400]] – [[Jan of Jenštejn]], archbishop of Prague (b. 1348) *[[1463]] – [[Catherine of Portugal (nun)|Catherine of Portugal]], Portuguese princess (b. 1436) *[[1501]] – [[John I Albert]], Polish king (b. 1459) *[[1565]] – [[Ashikaga Yoshiteru]], Japanese shōgun (b. 1536) ===1601–1900=== *[[1631]] – [[Mumtaz Mahal]], Mughal princess (b. 1593) *[[1649]] – [[Injo of Joseon]], Korean king (b. 1595) *[[1674]] – [[Jijabai]], Dowager Queen, mother of Shivaji (b. 1598)<ref>{{Cite book|title=IMPORTANCE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES OF CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI ON THE BATTLE GROUND A STUDY|last=GHUGARE|first=GANESH JANARDAN|publisher=Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tibarewala University|others=Chapter 3|year=2017|pages=47|hdl = 10603/193985}}</ref> *[[1694]] – [[Philip Howard (cardinal)|Philip Howard]], English cardinal (b. 1629) *[[1696]] – [[John III Sobieski]], Polish king (b. 1629) *[[1719]] – [[Joseph Addison]], English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician (b. 1672) *[[1734]] – [[Claude Louis Hector de Villars]], French general and politician, [[Minister of Defence (France)|French Secretary of State for War]] (b. 1653) *[[1740]] – [[Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet]], English politician, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] (b. 1687) *[[1762]] – [[Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon]], French poet and playwright (b. 1674) *[[1771]] – [[Daskalogiannis]], Greek rebel leader (b. 1722) *[[1775]] – [[John Pitcairn]], Scottish-English soldier (b. 1722) *[[1797]] – [[Mohammad Khan Qajar]], Persian tribal chief (b. 1742) *[[1813]] – [[Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham]], Scottish-English admiral and politician (b. 1726) *[[1821]] – [[Martín Miguel de Güemes]], Argentinian general and politician (b. 1785) *[[1839]] – [[Lord William Bentinck]], English general and politician, 14th [[Governor-General of India]] (b. 1774) *[[1866]] – [[Joseph Méry]], French poet and author (b. 1798) *[[1889]] – [[Lozen]], Chiracaua Apache warrior woman (b. ~1840)<ref>{{cite book|last=Stockel|first=H. Henrietta|title=Chiricahua Apache Women and Children: Safekeepers of the Heritage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Iuv4d1A7dcC&pg=PP75|year=2000|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=978-0-89096-921-2|page=75}}</ref> *[[1898]] – [[Edward Burne-Jones]], English soldier and painter (b. 1833) ===1901–present=== *[[1904]] – [[Nikolay Bobrikov]], Russian soldier and politician, [[Governor-General of Finland]] (b. 1839) *[[1914]] – [[Julien Félix]], French military officer and aviator (b. 1869)<ref>[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6554320t/f16.image.r=F%C3%A9lix.langFR "La Mort Du Commandant Félix"] ''La Revue Aérienne'' (June 25, 1914, p. 342) via [[Bibliothèque nationale de France|BnF]]; retrieved April 7, 2021</ref> *[[1936]] – [[Julius Seljamaa]], Estonian journalist, politician, and diplomat, [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Estonia)|Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs]] (b. 1883) *[[1939]] – [[Allen Sothoron]], American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1893) * 1939 – [[Eugen Weidmann]], German criminal (b. 1908) *[[1940]] – [[Arthur Harden]], English biochemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1865) *[[1941]] – [[Johan Wagenaar]], Dutch organist and composer (b. 1862) * 1941 – [[Đorđe Bogić]], protopresbyter of the [[Serbian Orthodox Church]], victim of [[Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia|Genocide of Serbs]] (b. 1911)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://orthochristian.com/114594.html|title = The Role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Genocide of Serbs on the Territory of the "Independent State of Croatia". Protodeacon Vladimir Vasilik}}</ref> *[[1942]] – [[Charles Fitzpatrick]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th [[Chief Justice of Canada]] (b. 1853) *[[1952]] – [[Jack Parsons (rocket engineer)|Jack Parsons]], American chemist and engineer (b. 1914) *[[1954]] – [[Danny Cedrone]], American guitarist and bandleader (b. 1920) *[[1956]] – [[Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry]], English businessman (b. 1878) * 1956 – [[Paul Rostock]], German surgeon and academic (b. 1892) * 1956 – [[Bob Sweikert]], American race car driver (b. 1926) *[[1957]] – [[Dorothy Richardson]], English journalist and author (b. 1873)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McCracken |first1=Scott |title=Richardson, Dorothy (1873–1957) |journal=Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism |date=2016 |doi=10.4324/9781135000356-REM122-1|isbn=9781135000356 }}</ref> * 1957 – [[J. R. Williams]], Canadian-American cartoonist (b. 1888) *[[1961]] – [[Jeff Chandler]], American actor (b. 1918) *[[1963]] – [[Aleksander Kesküla]], Estonian politician (b. 1882) *[[1968]] – [[José Nasazzi]], Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1901) *[[1974]] – [[Refik Koraltan]], Turkish lawyer and politician, 8th [[Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey]] (b. 1889) *[[1975]] – [[James Phinney Baxter III]], American historian and academic (b. 1893) *[[1979]] – [[Hubert Ashton]], English cricketer and politician (b. 1898) * 1979 – [[Duffy Lewis]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1888) *[[1981]] – [[Richard O'Connor]], Indian-English general (b. 1889) * 1981 – [[Zerna Sharp]], American author and educator (b. 1889) *[[1982]] – [[Roberto Calvi]], Italian banker (b. 1920) *[[1983]] – [[Peter Mennin]], American composer and educator (b. 1923) *[[1985]] – [[John Boulting]], English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1913) *[[1986]] – [[Kate Smith]], American singer (b. 1907) *[[1987]] – [[Dick Howser]], American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1936) *[[1996]] – [[Thomas Kuhn]], American historian and philosopher (b. 1922) * 1996 – [[Curt Swan]], American illustrator (b. 1920) *[[1999]] – [[Basil Hume]], English cardinal (b. 1923) *[[2000]] – [[Ismail Mahomed]], South African lawyer and jurist, 17th [[Chief Justice of South Africa]] (b. 1931) *[[2001]] – [[Donald J. Cram]], American chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1919) * 2001 – [[Thomas Winning]], Scottish cardinal (b. 1925) *[[2002]] – [[Willie Davenport]], American sprinter and hurdler (b. 1943) * 2002 – [[Fritz Walter]], German footballer (b. 1920) *[[2004]] – [[Gerry McNeil]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926) *[[2006]] – [[Bussunda]], Brazilian comedian (b. 1962) *[[2007]] – [[Gianfranco Ferré]], Italian fashion designer (b. 1944) * 2007 – [[Serena Wilson]], American dancer and choreographer (b. 1933) *[[2008]] – [[Cyd Charisse]], American actress and dancer (b. 1922) *[[2009]] – [[Ralf Dahrendorf]], German-English sociologist and politician (b. 1929) * 2009 – [[Darrell Powers]], American sergeant (b. 1923) *[[2011]] – [[Rex Mossop]], Australian rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1928) *[[2012]] – [[Stéphane Brosse]], French mountaineer (b. 1971) * 2012 – [[Patricia Brown (baseball)|Patricia Brown]], American baseball player (b. 1931) * 2012 – [[Nathan Divinsky]], Canadian mathematician and chess player (b. 1925) * 2012 – [[Rodney King]], American victim of [[police brutality]] (b. 1965) * 2012 – [[Fauzia Wahab]], Pakistani actress and politician (b. 1956) *[[2013]] – [[Michael Baigent]], New Zealand-English theorist and author (b. 1948) * 2013 – [[Atiqul Haque Chowdhury]], Bangladeshi playwright and producer (b. 1930) * 2013 – [[Pierre F. Côté]], Canadian lawyer and civil servant (b. 1927) * 2013 – [[Bulbs Ehlers]], American basketball player (b. 1923) * 2013 – [[James Holshouser]], American politician, 68th [[Governor of North Carolina]] (b. 1934) *[[2014]] – [[Patsy Byrne]], English actress (b. 1933) * 2014 – [[Éric Dewailly]], Canadian epidemiologist and academic (b. 1954) * 2014 – [[Stanley Marsh 3]], American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1938) * 2014 – [[Arnold S. Relman]], American physician and academic (b. 1923) * 2014 – [[Larry Zeidel]], Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1928) *[[2015]] – [[Ron Clarke]], Australian runner and politician, [[Mayor of the Gold Coast]] (b. 1937) * 2015 – [[John David Crow]], American football player and coach (b. 1935) * 2015 – [[Süleyman Demirel]], Turkish engineer and politician, 9th [[President of Turkey]] (b. 1924) * 2015 – [[Roberto M. Levingston]], Argentinian general and politician, 36th [[President of Argentina]] (b. 1920) * 2015 – [[Clementa C. Pinckney]], American minister and politician (b. 1973) *[[2017]] – [[Baldwin Lonsdale]], president of Vanuatu (b. 1948) *[[2019]] – [[Gloria Vanderbilt]], American artist, author actress, fashion designer, heiress and socialite (b. 1924)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Puente|first=Maria|date=2019-06-17|title=Gloria Vanderbilt dead at age 95: 'What an extraordinary woman,' son Anderson Cooper says|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/06/17/gloria-vanderbilt-dead-age-95-son-anderson-cooper-confirms/2080530002/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622212527/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/06/17/gloria-vanderbilt-dead-age-95-son-anderson-cooper-confirms/2080530002/|archive-date=2019-06-22|access-date=2021-06-20|website=USA TODAY|language=en-US}}</ref> * 2019 – [[Mohamed Morsi]], Egyptian professor and politician, first elected [[List of presidents of Egypt|president of Egypt]] after [[2011 Egyptian revolution|Egyptian revolution]] (b. 1951)<ref>{{Cite news|date=27 June 2019|title=Mursi's death in Cairo prison raises fears for other inmates|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-mursi-idUSKCN1TS0QX|access-date=30 May 2020}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Jean Kennedy Smith]], American activist, humanitarian, author and diplomat ([[United States Ambassador to Ireland]], 1993–1998) (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite news|title=Jean Kennedy Smith, Kennedy sister and architect of peace in Northern Ireland, dies at 92|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jean-kennedy-smith-kennedy-sister-and-architect-of-peace-in-northern-ireland-dies-at-92/2020/06/18/a236b0b0-b15a-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html|first=Vincent P.|last=Bzdek |date=June 18, 2020|access-date=November 16, 2024|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[Kenneth Kaunda]], Zambian educator and politician, first [[president of Zambia]] (b. 1924)<ref>{{cite news |last=Arnold |first=Guy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/17/kenneth-kaunda-obituary |title=Kenneth Kaunda obituary |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=17 June 2021 |access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.-->
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