July 1 - Deaths

Deaths

• 552 – Totila, Ostrogoth king
• 868 – Ali al-Hadi, Muslim 10th of the Twelve Imams (b. 828)
• 1109 – Alfonso VI of León and Castile (b. 1040)
• 1277 – Baibars, Egyptian Sultan (b. 1223)
• 1592 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547)
• 1614 – Isaac Casaubon, French scholar (b. 1559)
• 1622 – William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, English politician (b. 1575)
• 1681 – Oliver Plunkett, Irish Archbishop of Armagh and saint (b. 1629)
• 1708 – Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
• 1774 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (b. 1705)
• 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English statesman (b. 1730)
• 1784 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
• 1819 – Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
• 1839 – Mahmud II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1785)
• 1860 – Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800)
• 1863 – John Fulton Reynolds, American general (b. 1820)
• 1894 – Allan Pinkerton, American detective (b. 1819)
• 1896 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and writer (b. 1811)
• 1905 – John Hay, American statesman, diplomat, author, and journalist, 37th United States Secretary of State (b. 1838)
• 1925 – Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866)
• 1942 – Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish writer (b. 1857)
• 1944 – Carl Mayer, Austrian screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1944 – Tanya Savicheva, Russian writer (b. 1930)
• 1948 – Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904)
• 1950 – Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (b. 1865)
• 1950 – Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American architect, designed Cranbrook Educational Community (b. 1873)
• 1958 – Scott Leary, American freestyle swimmer (b. 1881)
• 1961 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
• 1964 – Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875)
• 1965 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
• 1966 – Frank Verner, American athlete (b. 1883)
• 1967 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian (b. 1888)
• 1968 – Fritz Bauer, German judge (b. 1903)
• 1971 – William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1974 – Juan Perón, Argentine military officer and politician, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Anneliese Michel, German woman who was said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
• 1978 – Kurt Student, German general (b. 1890)
• 1981 – Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
• 1981 – Rushton Moreve, American bassist and songwriter (Steppenwolf) (b. 1948)
• 1983 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher, designed the Montreal Biosphère (b. 1903)
• 1984 – Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian educator (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Snakefinger, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Residents and Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers) (b. 1949)
• 1991 – Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
• 1992 – Franco Cristaldi, Italian film producer (b. 1924)
• 1992 – Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau politician (b. 1933)
• 1994 – Merriam Modell, American novelist (b. 1908)
• 1995 – Wolfman Jack, American radio host (b. 1938)
• 1996 – William T. Cahill, American politician (b. 1904)
• 1996 – Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model (b. 1954)
• 1996 – Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (b. 1942)
• 1997 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1997 – Charles Werner, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
• 1999 – Edward Dmytryk, Canadian director (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Forrest Mars, Sr., American businessman, created M&M's and the Mars bar (b. 1904)
• 1999 – Guy Mitchell, American singer (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Sarah Payne, English murder victim (b. 1992)
• 2000 – Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Nǃxau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Herbie Mann, American flutist (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (b. 1909)
• 2004 – Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (Four Tops) (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (Change) (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Mel Galley, English guitarist (Whitesnake, Trapeze, Finders Keepers, and Phenomena) (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Mark Dean Schwab, American rapist and murderer (b. 1968)
• 2009 – Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (b. 1952)
• 2009 – Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
• 2009 – Onni Palaste, Finnish writer (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Mollie Sugden, English actress (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Don Coryell, American football coach (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Arnold Friberg, American illustrator (b. 1913)
• 2010 – Geoffrey Hutchings, English actor (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Ilene Woods, American actress (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Leslie Brooks, American actress (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Peter E. Gillquist, American archpriest (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Mike Hershberger, American baseball player (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Ossie Hibbert, Jamaican musician and producer (The Aggrovators and The Revolutionaries) (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Evelyn Lear, American soprano (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Alan G. Poindexter, American navy officer and astronaut (b. 1961)
• 2012 – Jack Richardson, American writer (b. 1934)