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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[366]] – [[Procopius (usurper)|Procopius]], Roman usurper (b. 325) * [[398]] – [[Murong Bao]], emperor of the [[Xianbei]] state [[Later Yan]] (b. 355) * [[475]] – [[Eutropius of Orange|Eutropius]], [[Ancient Diocese of Orange|bishop of Orange]] * [[866]] – [[Ordoño I of Asturias]] (b. 831) * [[927]] – [[Simeon I of Bulgaria]] first Bulgarian Emperor (b. 864) *[[1039]] – [[Dirk III, Count of Holland]] (b. 981) *[[1045]] – [[Bruno of Würzburg]], imperial chancellor of Italy (b. c. 1005) *[[1178]] – [[Godfrey van Rhenen]], bishop of Utrecht *[[1240]] – [[William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey]] (b. 1166) *[[1444]] – [[John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset]], English commander (b. 1404) *[[1508]] – [[Ludovico Sforza]], Duke of Milan (b. 1452) *[[1525]] – [[Thomas Müntzer]], German mystic and theologian (b. 1488) *[[1541]] – [[Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury]] (b. 1473) *[[1564]] – [[John Calvin]], French pastor and theologian (b. 1509) ===1601–1900=== *[[1610]] – [[François Ravaillac]], French assassin of [[Henry IV of France]] (b. 1578) *[[1624]] – [[Diego Ramírez de Arellano]], Spanish sailor and cosmographer (b. c. 1580) *[[1637]] – [[John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield]], English politician (b. c. 1566) *[[1661]] – [[Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll]], Scottish general and politician (b. 1607) *[[1675]] – [[Gaspard Dughet]], Italian-French painter (b. 1613) *[[1690]] – [[Giovanni Legrenzi]], Italian organist and composer (b. 1626) *[[1702]] – [[Dominique Bouhours]], French priest and critic (b. 1628) *[[1707]] – [[Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan]], French mistress of [[Louis XIV]] of France (b. 1640) *[[1781]] – [[Giovanni Battista Beccaria]], Italian physicist and academic (b. 1716) *[[1797]] – [[François-Noël Babeuf]], French journalist (b. 1760) *[[1831]] – [[Jedediah Smith]], American hunter, explorer, and author (b. 1799) *[[1840]] – [[Niccolò Paganini]], Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782) *[[1867]] – [[Thomas Bulfinch]] American mythologist (b. 1796) *[[1896]] – [[Aleksandr Stoletov]], Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839) ===1901–present=== *[[1910]] – [[Robert Koch]], German physician and microbiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1843) *[[1918]] – [[Ōzutsu Man'emon]], Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] (b. 1869) *[[1919]] – [[Kandukuri Veeresalingam]], Indian author and activist (b. 1848) *[[1933]] – [[Achille Paroche]], French target shooter (b. 1868) *[[1939]] – [[Joseph Roth]], Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894) *[[1941]] – [[Ernst Lindemann]], German captain (b. 1894) * 1941 – [[Günther Lütjens]], German admiral (b. 1889) *[[1942]] – [[Muhammed Hamdi Yazır]], Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (b. 1878) *[[1943]] – [[Gordon Coates]], New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (b. 1878) *[[1945]] – [[Enno Lolling]], German physician (b. 1888) *[[1947]] – [[Ed Konetchy]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1885) *[[1949]] – [[Robert Ripley]], American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded ''[[Ripley's Believe It or Not!]]'' (b. 1890) *[[1953]] – [[Jesse Burkett]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1868) *[[1960]] – [[James Montgomery Flagg]], American painter and illustrator (b. 1877) *[[1963]] – [[Grigoris Lambrakis]], Greek physician and politician (b. 1912) *[[1964]] – [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], Indian lawyer and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of India]] (b. 1889) *[[1965]] – [[John Rinehart Blue]], American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician (b. 1905)<ref name="Cumberland Evening Times 6">{{cite news| title =John R. Blue| newspaper =[[Cumberland Times-News|Cumberland Evening Times]]| location =[[Cumberland, Maryland]]| date =May 28, 1965| page =20| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66807954/john-r-blue/| access-date =January 3, 2021| url-status =live| via =Newspapers.com| archive-date =January 3, 2021| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20210103224402/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66807954/john-r-blue/}}</ref> *[[1967]] – [[W. Otto Miessner]], American composer and educator (b. 1880) * 1967 – [[Ernst Niekisch]], German academic and politician (b. 1889) *[[1969]] – [[Jeffrey Hunter]], American actor and producer (b. 1926) *[[1971]] – [[Béla Juhos]], Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1901) * 1971 – [[Armando Picchi]], Italian footballer and coach (b. 1935) *[[1980]] – [[Gün Sazak]], Turkish agronomist and politician (b. 1932) *[[1984]] – [[Vasilije Mokranjac]], Serbian composer (b. 1923) *[[1986]] – [[Murder of the Faruqis]]:<ref name="NST">{{cite news |title=Assassination motive behind al-Faruqi killings |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860820&id=MNRHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vo4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5815,1095948 |work=New Straits Times |date=August 20, 1986 |location=Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |access-date=June 22, 2024}}</ref><ref name="NYT1986">{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=AROUND THE NATION; Islamic Scholar and Wife Slain in Pennsylvania |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/28/us/around-the-nation-islamic-scholar-and-wife-slain-in-pennsylvania.html |work=The New York Times |date=May 28, 1986 |access-date=July 10, 2024 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20070123000000/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/28/us/around-the-nation-islamic-scholar-and-wife-slain-in-pennsylvania.html |archive-date=January 23, 2007}}</ref> ** [[Ismail al-Faruqi]], Palestinian-American Muslim philosopher and scholar (b. 1921) ** [[Lois Lamya al-Faruqi]], American scholar of ethnomusicology, wife of Ismail al-Faruqi (b. 1926) * 1986 – [[Ajoy Mukherjee]], Indian politician, [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] (b. 1901) * 1986 – [[Giorgos Tzifos]], Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1918) *[[1987]] – [[John Howard Northrop]], American biochemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1891) *[[1988]] – [[Hjördis Petterson]], Swedish actress (b. 1908) * 1988 – [[Ernst Ruska]], German physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1906) *[[1989]] – [[Arseny Tarkovsky]], Russian poet and translator (b. 1907) *[[1990]] – [[Robert B. Meyner]], American lawyer and politician, 44th [[Governor of New Jersey]] (b. 1908) *[[1991]] – [[Leopold Nowak]], Austrian musicologist and theorist (b. 1904) *[[1992]] – [[Uncle Charlie Osborne]], American fiddler (b. 1890) *[[1998]] – [[Minoo Masani]], Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1905) *[[2000]] – [[Kazimierz Leski]], Polish engineer and pilot (b. 1912) * 2000 – [[Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch]], Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th [[Governor of Hong Kong]] (b. 1917) * 2000 – [[Maurice Richard]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1921) *[[2002]] – [[Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson]], Scottish historian (b. 1909)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ewan |first1=Elizabeth L. |last2=Innes |first2=Sue |last3=Reynolds |first3=Sian |last4=Pipes |first4=Rose |title=Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen |date=27 June 2007 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-2660-1 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |language=en}}</ref> *[[2003]] – [[Luciano Berio]], Italian composer and educator (b. 1925) *[[2006]] – [[Rob Borsellino]], American journalist (b. 1949) * 2006 – [[Paul Gleason]], American actor (b. 1939) * 2006 – [[Craig Heyward]], American football player (b. 1966) *[[2007]] – [[Izumi Sakai]], Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1967) * 2007 – [[Gretchen Wyler]], American actress and dancer (b. 1932) * 2007 – [[Ed Yost]], American inventor, created the modern [[hot air balloon]] (b. 1919) *[[2008]] – [[Franz Künstler]], Hungarian soldier (b. 1900) *[[2009]] – [[Thomas M. Franck]], American lawyer and academic (b. 1931) * 2009 – [[Clive Granger]], Welsh-American economist and academic, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1934) * 2009 – [[Mona Grey]], British nursing administrator; Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer (b. 1910) * 2009 – [[Abram Hoffer]], Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (b. 1917) * 2009 – [[Gérard Jean-Juste]], Haitian-American priest and theologian (b. 1946) * 2009 – [[Carol Anne O'Marie]], American nun and author (b. 1933) * 2009 – [[William Refshauge]], Australian soldier and physician (b. 1913) * 2009 – [[Paul Sharratt]], English-American television host (b. 1933) *[[2010]] – [[Payut Ngaokrachang]], Thai animator and director (b. 1929) *[[2011]] – [[Jeff Conaway]], American actor and singer (b. 1950) * 2011 – [[Margo Dydek]], Polish-American basketball player (b. 1974) * 2011 – [[Gil Scott-Heron]], American singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1949) *[[2012]] – [[Simeon Daniel]], Nevisian educator and politician, 1st [[Premier of Nevis]] (b. 1934) * 2012 – [[Friedrich Hirzebruch]], German mathematician and academic (b. 1927) * 2012 – [[Anahit Perikhanian]], Russian-born Armenian Iranologist (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = PERIKHANIAN, ANAHIT | last = Ambartsumian | first = Arthur | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/perikhanian-anahit | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica | year = 2014 }}</ref> * 2012 – [[David Rimoin]], Canadian-American geneticist and academic (b. 1936) *[[2013]] – [[Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri]], Indian politician (b. 1917) * 2013 – [[Bill Pertwee]], English actor (b. 1926) * 2013 – [[Abdoulaye Sékou Sow]], Malian politician, [[List of heads of government of Mali|Prime Minister of Mali]] (b. 1931) *[[2014]] – [[Robert Genn]], Canadian painter and author (b. 1936) * 2014 – [[Helma Sanders-Brahms]], German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940) * 2014 – [[Roberto Vargas]], Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1929) * 2014 – [[Massimo Vignelli]], Italian-American graphic designer (b. 1931) *[[2015]] – [[Erik Carlsson]], Swedish rally driver (b. 1929)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11651975/Erik-Carlsson-rally-driver-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11651975/Erik-Carlsson-rally-driver-obituary.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Erik Carlsson, rally driver – obituary|date=4 June 2015|website=The Telegraph|access-date=14 June 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Nils Christie]], Norwegian sociologist, criminologist, and author (b. 1928) * 2015 – [[Andy King (footballer, born 1956)|Andy King]], English footballer and manager (b. 1956)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hunter |first=Andy |date=2015-05-27 |title=Everton hero Andy King dies at the age of 58 |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/27/andy-king-everton-dies-mk-dons-west-bromwich |access-date=2023-08-01 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Michael Martin (philosopher)|Michael Martin]], American philosopher and academic (b. 1932) *[[2017]] – [[Gregg Allman]], American musician, singer and songwriter (b. 1947)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2017/music/people-news/gregg-allman-dies-dead-69-southern-rock-1202446640|title=Gregg Allman, Southern Rock Pioneer, Dies at 69|last=Morris|first=Chris|date=May 27, 2017|work=Variety|access-date=May 27, 2017}}</ref> *[[2018]] – [[Gardner Dozois]], American science fiction author and editor (b. 1947)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/gardner-dozois-70-acclaimed-science-fiction-editor-20180529.html|title=Gardner Dozois, 70, acclaimed science fiction editor|last=Graham|first=Kristen A.|date=29 May 2018|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Larry Kramer]], American playwright, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist (b. 1935)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/larry-kramer-dead.html |title=Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84 |first=Daniel |last=Lewis |work=The New York Times |date=May 27, 2020 |access-date=May 27, 2020 }}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[Poul Schlüter]], former Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1929)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2021-05-28-poul-schluter-er-doed|title=Poul Schlüter er død – TV 2|date=28 May 2021}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Elizabeth MacRae]], American actress (b. 1936)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-30 |title=Elizabeth MacRae, 'General Hospital' and 'Gomer Pyle' actor, dies at 88 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-05-29/elizabeth-macrae-actor-general-hospital-gomer-pyle-dies-88 |access-date=2024-06-01 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> *2024 – [[Bill Walton]], American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1952)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sandomir |first=Richard |date=2024-05-27 |title=Bill Walton, N.B.A. Hall of Famer and Broadcasting Star, Dies at 71 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/sports/basketball/bill-walton-dead.html |access-date=2024-05-28 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * <!--Please do not add non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. 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