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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[657]] – [[Pope Eugene I]]<ref name="Thomas1992">{{cite book|author=P. C. Thomas|title=A Compact History Of The Popes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYxhI6pq6R4C&pg=PA47|year=1992|publisher=St Pauls BYB|isbn=978-81-7109-142-3|pages=47–}}</ref> * [[891]] – [[Al-Muwaffaq]], Abbasid general (b. 842) * [[910]] – [[Richilde of Provence]] (b. 845) *[[1200]] – Bishop [[John of Oxford]]<ref>{{cite book|title=East Anglian Archaeology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5hnAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Suffolk County Planning Department}}</ref> *[[1258]] – [[Peter I, Count of Urgell]] *[[1292]] – [[Rhys ap Maredudd]], Welsh nobleman and rebel leader *[[1418]] – [[Katherine of Lancaster]], queen of [[Henry III of Castile]] *[[1453]] – [[Álvaro de Luna, Duke of Trujillo]], Constable of Castile *[[1567]] – [[Shane O'Neill (Irish chieftain)|Shane O'Neill]], head of the [[O'Neill dynasty]] in Ireland (b. 1530) *[[1572]] – [[Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk]] (b. 1536) *[[1581]] – [[James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton]], Scottish soldier and politician, [[Lord Chancellor of Scotland]] (b. 1525) ===1601–1900=== *[[1603]] – [[Bernard of Wąbrzeźno]], Roman Catholic priest (b. 1575) *[[1693]] – [[John Wildman]], English soldier and politician, [[Postmaster General of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1621) *[[1701]] – [[Madeleine de Scudéry]], French author (b. 1607)<ref>{{cite book |title=Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 13 Western Europe (1700-1800) |date=16 September 2019 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-40283-6 |page=482 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nkOxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA482 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1716]] – [[Ogata Kōrin]], Japanese painter and educator (b. 1658) *[[1754]] – [[Ebenezer Erskine]], Scottish minister and theologian (b. 1680) *[[1761]] – [[Jonas Alströmer]], Swedish businessman (b. 1685) *[[1785]] – [[Jean Paul de Gua de Malves]], French mathematician and academic (b. 1713) *[[1806]] – [[William Tate (painter)|William Tate]], English painter (b. 1747) *[[1853]] – [[Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre]], English general (b. 1777) *[[1865]] – [[Ner Middleswarth]], American judge and politician (b. 1783) *[[1875]] – [[Józef Kremer]], Polish psychologist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1806) *[[1881]] – [[Émile Littré]], French lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1801) *[[1882]] – [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]], Italian general and politician (b. 1807) ===1901–present=== *[[1901]] – [[George Leslie Mackay]], Canadian missionary and author (b. 1844) *[[1927]] – [[Hüseyin Avni Lifij]], Turkish painter (b. 1886) *[[1929]] – [[Enrique Gorostieta]], Mexican general (b. 1889) *[[1933]] – [[Frank Jarvis (athlete)|Frank Jarvis]], American runner and triple jumper (b. 1878) *[[1937]] – [[Louis Vierne]], French organist and composer (b. 1870) *[[1941]] – [[Lou Gehrig]], American baseball player (b. 1903) *[[1942]] – [[Bunny Berigan]], American singer and trumpet player (b. 1908) *[[1947]] – [[John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton]], English sailor and politician (b. 1867) *[[1948]] – [[Viktor Brack]], German physician (b. 1904) * 1948 – [[Karl Brandt]], German [[SS]] officer (b. 1904) * 1948 – [[Karl Gebhardt]], German physician (b. 1897) * 1948 – [[Waldemar Hoven]], German physician (b. 1903) * 1948 – [[Wolfram Sievers]], German [[SS]] officer (b. 1905) *[[1952]] – [[Naum Torbov]], Bulgarian architect, designed the [[Central Sofia Market Hall]] (b. 1880) *[[1956]] – [[Jean Hersholt]], Danish-American actor and director (b. 1886) *[[1959]] – [[Lyda Borelli]], Italian actress (b. 1884) *[[1961]] – [[George S. Kaufman]], American director, producer, and playwright (b. 1889) *[[1962]] – [[Vita Sackville-West]], English author and poet (b. 1892)<ref>{{cite web |title=Vita Sackville-West | British writer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/V-Sackville-West |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1967]] – [[Benno Ohnesorg]], German student and activist (b. 1940) *[[1968]] – [[André Mathieu]], Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1929) *[[1969]] – [[Leo Gorcey]], American actor (b. 1917) *[[1970]] – [[Orhan Kemal]], Turkish author (b. 1914) * 1970 – [[Albert Lamorisse]], French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) * 1970 – [[Bruce McLaren]], New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the [[McLaren|McLaren racing team]] (b. 1937) * 1970 – [[Giuseppe Ungaretti]], Italian soldier, journalist, and academic (b. 1888) * 1970 – [[Lucía Sánchez Saornil]], Spanish anarchist feminist (b. 1895)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Graham|first=Helen|year=2009|title=Sánchez Saornil, Lucía (1895–1970)|editor-last=Ness|editor-first=Immanuel|encyclopedia=The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest|doi=10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp1301|isbn=9781405198073|pages=1–3}}</ref> *[[1974]] – [[Hiroshi Kazato]], Japanese race car driver (b. 1949) *[[1976]] – [[Kenneth Mason (geographer)|Kenneth Mason]], English soldier and geographer (b. 1887) * 1976 – [[Juan José Torres]], Bolivian general and politician, 61st [[President of Bolivia]] (b. 1920) *[[1977]] – [[Albert Bittlmayer]], German footballer (b. 1952) * 1977 – [[Stephen Boyd]], Northern Irish-born American actor (b. 1931) *[[1978]] – [[Santiago Bernabéu Yeste]], Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1895) *[[1979]] – [[Jim Hutton]], American actor (b. 1934) *[[1982]] – [[Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry]], Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th [[President of Pakistan]] (b. 1904) * 1982 – [[Shah Abd al-Wahhab]], Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (b. 1894)<ref name="babu">{{cite book|url=https://www.boibazar.com/book/kotipoy-ujjol-nokkhotro|title=দারুল উলুম হাটহাজারীর কতিপয় উজ্জ্বল নক্ষত্র|author=[[Junaid Babunagari|Babunagari, Junaid]]|chapter=মাওলানা শাহ আব্দুল ওহাব রহ.|year=2003|publisher=Bukhari Academy|location=[[Hathazari]], [[Chittagong District]]|page=20|edition=1}}</ref> *[[1983]] – [[Stan Rogers]], Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1949) * 1983 – [[Ray Stehr]], Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1913) *[[1986]] – [[Aurèle Joliat]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901) *[[1987]] – [[Anthony de Mello (Jesuit priest)|Anthony de Mello]], Indian-American priest and psychotherapist (b. 1931) * 1987 – [[Sammy Kaye]], American bandleader and songwriter (b. 1910) * 1987 – [[Andrés Segovia]], Spanish guitarist (b. 1893) *[[1988]] – [[Raj Kapoor]], Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1924) *[[1989]] – [[Ted a'Beckett]], Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1907) *[[1990]] – [[Rex Harrison]], English actor (b. 1908) *[[1991]] – [[Ahmed Arif]], Turkish poet and author (b. 1927) *[[1992]] – [[Philip Dunne (writer)|Philip Dunne]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908) *[[1993]] – [[Johnny Mize]], American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1913) * 1993 – [[Tahar Djaout]], Algerian journalist, writer and poet (b. 1954) *[[1994]] – [[David Stove]], Australian philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1927) *[[1996]] – [[John Alton]], Hungarian-American cinematographer and director (b. 1901) * 1996 – [[Leon Garfield]], English author (b. 1921) * 1996 – [[Ray Combs]], American game show host (b. 1956) *[[1997]] – [[Doc Cheatham]], American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (b. 1905) * 1997 – [[Helen Jacobs]], American tennis champion (b. 1908)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/helen-hull-jacobs|title=International Tennis Hall of Fame|website=www.tennisfame.com}}</ref> *[[1999]] – [[Junior Braithwaite]], Jamaican singer (b. 1949) *[[2000]] – [[Svyatoslav Fyodorov]], Russian ophthalmologist, academic, and politician (b. 1927) * 2000 – [[John Schlee]], American golfer (b. 1939) * 2000 – [[Gerald James Whitrow]], English mathematician, cosmologist, and historian (b. 1912) *[[2001]] – [[Imogene Coca]], American actress and comedian (b. 1908) * 2001 – [[Joey Maxim]], American boxer (b. 1922) *[[2002]] – [[Hugo van Lawick]], Dutch director and photographer (b. 1937) *[[2003]] – [[Freddie Blassie]], American wrestler and manager (b. 1918) * 2003 – [[Alma Ricard]], Canadian broadcaster and philanthropist (b. 1906) *[[2005]] – [[Lucien Cliche]], Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1916) * 2005 – [[Gunder Gundersen]], Norwegian skier (b. 1930) * 2005 – [[Samir Kassir]], Lebanese journalist and educator (b. 1950) * 2005 – [[Melita Norwood]], English civil servant and spy (b. 1912) *[[2006]] – [[Keith Smith (rugby)|Keith Smith]], English rugby player and coach (b. 1952) *[[2007]] – [[Kentarō Haneda]], Japanese pianist and composer (b. 1949) * 2007 – [[Huang Ju]], Chinese engineer and politician, 1st [[Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China]] (b. 1938) *[[2008]] – [[Bo Diddley]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928) * 2008 – [[Mel Ferrer]], American actor (b. 1917)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/jun/05/obituaries.usa |title=Obituary: Mel Ferrer |first=Ronald |last=Bergan |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=June 5, 2008 |access-date=February 3, 2018}}</ref> *[[2009]] – [[David Eddings]], American author (b. 1931)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20070126/NEWS/101260101 |author=F.T. Norton |title=Novelist accidentally burns down office |publisher=Nevada Appeal |year=2007 |access-date=November 13, 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202025010/http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20070126/NEWS/101260101 |archive-date=February 2, 2007 }}</ref> *[[2012]] – [[Adolfo Calero]], Nicaraguan businessman and political activist (b. 1931)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18312346|title = Nicaragua ex-Contra leader Adolfo Calero dies aged 81|work = BBC News|date = 2 June 2012}}</ref> * 2012 – [[Richard Dawson]], English-American soldier, actor, television personality, and game show host (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite news |date=3 June 2012 |title=Richard Dawson, Host Who Kissed on 'Family Feud', Dies at 79 |first=Michael |last=Schwirtz |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/arts/television/richard-dawson-kissing-host-of-family-feud-dies-at-79.html |access-date=24 December 2015}}</ref> * 2012 – [[LeRoy Ellis]], American basketball player (b. 1940) * 2012 – [[Kathryn Joosten]], American actress (b. 1939) *[[2013]] – [[Mario Bernardi]], Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1930) * 2013 – [[Chen Xitong]], Chinese politician, 8th [[Mayor of Beijing]] (b. 1930) * 2013 – [[Mandawuy Yunupingu]], Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1956) *[[2014]] – [[Ivica Brzić]], Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1941) * 2014 – [[Nikolay Khrenkov]], Russian bobsledder (b. 1984) * 2014 – [[Alexander Shulgin]], American pharmacologist and chemist (b. 1925) *[[2015]] – [[Fernando de Araújo (East Timorese politician)|Fernando de Araújo]], East Timorese politician, [[President of East Timor]] (b. 1963)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/mais_cm/obituario/detalhe/fernando_de_araujo_1962_2015.html|title=Fernando de Araújo (1962-2015)|work=xl.pt|access-date=November 13, 2022|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173740/http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/mais_cm/obituario/detalhe/fernando_de_araujo_1962_2015.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Irwin Rose]], American biologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/science/irwin-rose-nobel-winning-biochemist-dies-at-88.html | title=Irwin A. Rose, Nobel-Winning Biochemist, Dies at 88 | work=New York Times | date=2 June 2015 | access-date=4 June 2015 | author=Chang, Kenneth}}</ref> *[[2017]] – [[Peter Sallis]], English actor (b. 1921)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40165443 |title=Peter Sallis: Last of the Summer Wine actor dies aged 96 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=5 June 2017 |access-date=5 June 2017}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Larry Allen]], American football player (b. 1971)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-03 |title=Larry Allen dies at 52: Hall of Famer, Cowboys legend died 'suddenly' on vacation with family, team announces |url=https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/larry-allen-dies-at-52-hall-of-famer-cowboys-legend-died-suddenly-on-vacation-with-family-team-announces/ |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=CBSSports.com |language=en}}</ref> *2024 – [[Rob Burrow]], English rugby league footballer (b. 1982)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rob Burrow: Leeds Rhinos legend's incredible life in pictures |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722zj6968wo |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref> *2024 – [[David Levy (Israeli politician)|David Levy]], Israeli politician (b. 1937)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Haberman |first=Clyde |date=June 2, 2024 |title=David Levy, Ex-Laborer Who Became a Top Israeli Leader, Dies at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/obituaries/david-levy-dead.html |access-date=June 4, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> *2024 – [[Janis Paige]], American actress and singer (b. 1922)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gates |first=Anita |date=2024-06-03 |title=Janis Paige, Star of Broadway's 'The Pajama Game,' Is Dead at 101 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/theater/janis-paige-dead.html |access-date=2024-06-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. 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