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==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
* [[184]] &ndash; [[Qiao Xuan]], Chinese official (b. {{circa|110}})<ref>(玄以光和六年卒，時年七十五。) ''Houhanshu'', vol. 51. This recorded that Qiao Xuan died in the 6th year of the Guanghe era (178–184) of [[Emperor Ling of Han|Emperor Ling]]'s reign at the age of 75 (by [[East Asian age reckoning]]). By calculation, his birth year should be around 109. However, a tablet [[Cai Yong]] wrote for Qiao Xuan stated that Qiao Xuan died on 6 June 184.</ref> 
* [[863]] &ndash; [[Utamish|Abu Musa Utamish]], [[vizier]] to the [[Abbasid Caliphate]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Gordon |first=Matthew S. |title=The Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (A.H. 200–275 / 815–889 C.E.) |year=2001 |publisher=State University of New York Press |location=Albany, New York |pages=94–95 |isbn=978-07-91447-95-6}}</ref>
* [[913]] &ndash; [[Alexander (Byzantine emperor)|Alexander III]], Byzantine emperor (b. 870)<ref>{{cite book |last=Hupchick |first=Dennis P. |title=The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony: Silver-Lined Skulls and Blinded Armies |year=2017 |publisher=Springer Publishing |location=New York |page=169 |isbn=978-33-19562-06-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wa4sDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169}}</ref>
*[[1097]] &ndash; [[Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon and Navarre]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gutenberg.org/articles/eng/Agnes_of_Aquitaine,_Queen_of_Aragon_and_Navarre |title=Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon and Navarre |work=Gutenberg Project |location=University of North Carolina |access-date=6 February 2021}}</ref>
*[[1134]] &ndash; [[Norbert of Xanten]], German bishop and saint (b. 1060)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Norbert-of-Xanten |title=Saint Norbert of Xanten |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 February 2021}}</ref>
*[[1217]] &ndash; [[Henry I of Castile|Henry I]], [[Crown of Castile|King of Castile and Toledo]] (b. 1204)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-I-king-of-Castile |title=Henry I |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 February 2021}}</ref>
*[[1251]] &ndash; [[William II, Count of Flanders|William III of Dampierre]], Count of Flanders<ref>{{cite book |last=Jordan |first=William Chester |title=Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1979 |page=124 |isbn=9780691052854 |url=https://archive.org/details/louisixchallenge00jordrich}}</ref>
*[[1252]] &ndash; [[Robert Passelewe]], Bishop of Chichester<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=21507|title=Passelewe, Robert}}</ref>
*[[1480]] &ndash; [[Vecchietta]], Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (b. 1412)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG49491 |title=Vecchietta |publisher=British Museum |location=London |access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1548]] &ndash; [[João de Castro]], Portuguese soldier and politician, [[List of governors of Portuguese India|Governor of Portuguese India]] (b. 1500)<ref>{{cite book |last=McMurdo |first=Edward |title=The History of Portugal: The history of Portugal from the reign of D. João II to the reign of D. João V |year=1889 |publisher=Sampson Low |location=London |page=135 |isbn=978-11-65133-23-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oGdCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA135}}</ref>
*[[1583]] &ndash; [[Nakagawa Kiyohide]], Japanese daimyo (b. 1556)<ref>{{cite book |last=Papinot |first=Edmond |author-link=Edmond Papinot |title=Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon |publisher=Librarie Sansaisha |location=Tokyo |year=1906 |pages=863, 498, 662 |asin=B001E6P3PQ |language=fr}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1661]] &ndash; [[Martino Martini]], Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1614)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/martino-martini |title=Martino Martini |work=Catholic Answers |location=San Diego |access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Patrick Henry]], American lawyer and politician, 1st [[Governor of Virginia]] (b. 1736)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Tate |first1=Thad |title=Henry, Patrick (1736-1799), revolutionary statesman, orator, and lawyer |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0100396}}</ref>
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[Antonio Cachia]], Maltese architect, engineer and archaeologist (b. 1739)<ref>{{cite book |last=Schiavone |first=Michael J. |title=Dictionary of Maltese Biographies, Volume 1, A–F |publisher=Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza |location=Pietà, Malta |year=2009 |page=378 |isbn=978-99-93291-32-9}}</ref>
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[Jeremy Bentham]], English jurist and philosopher (b. 1748)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Rosen |first1=F. |title=Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832), philosopher, jurist, and reformer |date=29 May 2014 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/2153}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour]], Italian politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. 1810)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Orsi |first1=Pietro |title=Cavour and the Making of Modern Italy, 1810-1861 |date=1914 |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |location=New York |page=345}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[William Quantrill]], American Confederate guerrilla band leader (b. 1837)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Castel |first1=Albert |title=Quantrill, William Clarke (1837-1865), pro-Confederate guerrilla leader |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0400815}}</ref>
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Robert Stirling]], Scottish minister and engineer, invented the [[stirling engine]] (b. 1790)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Marsden |first1=Ben |title=Stirling, Robert (1790–1878), Church of Scotland minister and inventor of a hot-air engine |date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/26534}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Henri Vieuxtemps]], Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1820)<ref>{{cite Grove|last1=Schwarz |first1=Boris |last2=Hibberd |first2=Sarah |title=Vieuxtemps, Henry |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000380408}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[John A. Macdonald]], Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. 1815)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Alexander-Macdonald |title=Sir John Macdonald |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref>

===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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