June 24 - Deaths

Deaths

• 238 – Maximinus Thrax, Roman Emperor (b. 173)
• 803 – Higbald of Lindisfarne, English bishop
• 1314 – Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, English military commander (b. 1291)
• 1314 – Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, English soldier, Lord Warden of the Marches (b. 1274)
• 1398 – Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty (b. 1328)
• 1439 – Frederick IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1382)
• 1519 – Lucrezia Borgia, Italian wife of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (b. 1480)
• 1520 – Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)
• 1604 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English peer and courtier (b. 1550)
• 1637 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
• 1643 – John Hampden, English politician (b. 1595)
• 1766 – Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678)
• 1778 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714)
• 1803 – Matthew Thornton, Irish-American politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)
• 1817 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician (b. 1734)
• 1835 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1769)
• 1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (b. 1837)
• 1908 – Grover Cleveland, American politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (b. 1837)
• 1909 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
• 1922 – Walther Rathenau, German industrialist, politician, and writer, Foreign Minister of Germany (b. 1867)
• 1931 – Otto Mears, Russian-American railroad builder and entrepreneur (b. 1840)
• 1931 – Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1880)
• 1935 – Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1890)
• 1946 – Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
• 1947 – Emil Seidel, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (b. 1864)
• 1968 – Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (b. 1924)
• 1976 – Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1883)
• 1977 – André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
• 1978 – Robert Charroux, French writer (b. 1909)
• 1984 – Clarence Campbell, Canadian 3rd president of the National Hockey League (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
• 1989 – Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1937)
• 1991 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American novelist (b. 1917)
• 1991 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (b. 1899)
• 1997 – Don Hutson, American football player (b. 1913)
• 1997 – Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Vera Atkins, Romanian-English intelligence officer (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine singer-songwriter {b. 1973}
• 2000 – David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Pierre Werner, Luxembourgian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (b. 1987)
• 2004 – Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter and author (b. 1957)
• 2005 – Yedidia Shofet, Iranian rabbi (b. 1908)
• 2005 – Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Patsy Ramsey, American mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956)
• 2007 – Byron Baer, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Derek Dougan, Irish footballer (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Natasja Saad, Danish rapper and singer (b. 1974)
• 2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Ira Tucker, American singer (The Dixie Hummingbirds) (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Ed Thomas, American educator and football coach (b. 1951)
• 2011 – Tomislav Ivić, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Darrel Akerfelds, American baseball player (b. 1962)
• 2012 – Gad Beck, German educator, author, and Holocaust survivor (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Jean Cox, American tenor (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Franz Crass, German singer (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Youssef Dawoud, Egyptian actor (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Ted Luckenbill, American basketball player (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (b. 1988)
• 2012 – Ann C. Scales, American lawyer, educator, and activist (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Rudolf Schmid, German bishop (b. 1914)