June 2 - Deaths

Deaths

• 891 – Al-Muwaffaq, Abbasid regent (b. 842)
• 910 – Richilde of Provence (b. 845)
• 1418 – Catherine of Lancaster, Spanish wife of Henry III of Castile (b. 1373)
• 1567 – Shane O'Neill, Irish king of the O'Neill dynasty (b. 1530)
• 1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (b. 1525)
• 1693 – John Wildman, English soldier and politician (b. 1621)
• 1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
• 1716 – Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
• 1720 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (b. 1648)
• 1754 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1680)
• 1761 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
• 1785 – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
• 1806 – William Tate, English painter (b. 1747)
• 1833 – Simon Byrne, Irish boxer (b. 1806)
• 1853 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English soldier (b. 1777)
• 1865 – Ner Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
• 1875 – Józef Kremer, Polish philosopher (b. 1806)
• 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary and poet (b. 1848)
• 1881 – Émile Littré, French lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1801)
• 1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (b. 1807)
• 1901 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
• 1929 – Enrique Gorostieta, Mexican soldier (b.1889)
• 1933 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
• 1937 – Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
• 1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1942 – Bunny Berigan, American singer, trumpeter, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers) (b. 1908)
• 1947 – John Gretton, British businessman 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 actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
• 1961 – George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
• 1962 – Vita Sackville-West, English writer and gardener (b. 1892)
• 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 – Albert Lamorisse, French director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1970 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver and designer (b. 1937)
• 1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
• 1974 – Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese race car driver (b. 1949)
• 1976 – Kenneth Mason, English geographer (b. 1887)
• 1976 – Juan José Torres, Bolivian politician and military leader, 61st President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
• 1977 – Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (b. 1952)
• 1977 – Stephen Boyd, Irish actor (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1982 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Rafi Khawar, Pakistani actor and model
• 1983 – Stan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
• 1984 – Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
• 1987 – Anthony de Mello, Indian priest and psychotherapist (b. 1931)
• 1987 – Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (b. 1910)
• 1987 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
• 1988 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, producer, and director (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Philip Dunne, American director and writer (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1994 – David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
• 1996 – John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
• 1996 – Ray Combs, American comedian, actor, and game show host (b. 1956)
• 1996 – Leon Garfield, English author (b. 1921)
• 1996 – Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
• 1997 – Doc Cheatham, American trumpeter, singer, and bandleader (McKinney's Cotton Pickers) (b. 1905)
• 1998 – Junkyard Dog, American wrestler (b. 1952)
• 1999 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
• 2000 – Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist, politician, and educator (b. 1927)
• 2000 – Gerald James Whitrow, English mathematician and historian (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
• 2001 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Hugo van Lawick, Dutch filmmaker and photographer (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Loyd Sigmon, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Chloe Jones, American porn actress (b. 1975)
• 2005 – Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
• 2005 – Melita Norwood, English civil servant and spy (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Keith Smith, English rugby player (b. 1952)
• 2006 – Vince Welnick, American keyboardist (The Grateful Dead, The Tubes, and Missing Man Formation) (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Huang Ju, Chinese politician (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Kentarō Haneda, Japanese pianist and composer (b. 1949)
• 2008 – Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Mel Ferrer, American actor, director and producer (b. 1917)
• 2009 – David Eddings, American writer (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Willem Duys, Dutch television host and producer (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Oliver, Congolese chimpanzee (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Avraham Botzer, Israeli navy commander (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Adolfo Calero, Nicaraguan businessman and leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Richard Dawson, English-American actor, comedian, and game show host (b. 1932)
• 2012 – LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player (b. 1940)
• 2012 – David C. Garrett, Jr., American businessman (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Jan Gmelich Meijling, Dutch politician (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Frazier Mohawk, American record producer and photographer, and publicist (b. 1941)