June 3 - Deaths

Deaths

• 800 – Staurakios, Byzantine chief minister
• 1395 – Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
• 1397 – William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English nobleman and commander (b. 1328)
• 1411 – Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1371)
• 1548 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish bishop (b. 1468)
• 1594 – John Aylmer, English bishop and scholar (b. 1521)
• 1615 – Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
• 1640 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
• 1657 – William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
• 1649 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
• 1659 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher and writer (b. 1619)
• 1780 – Thomas Hutchinson, American businessman, historian, and politician (b. 1711)
• 1826 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
• 1858 – Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
• 1861 – Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
• 1865 – Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
• 1875 – Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
• 1877 – Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian writer, composer, and publisher (b. 1800)
• 1882 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
• 1894 – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1812)
• 1899 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
• 1906 – John Maxwell, American golfer (b. 1871)
• 1921 – Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower (b. 1879)
• 1924 – Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
• 1928 – Li Yuanhong, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
• 1933 – William Muldoon, American wrestler (b. 1852)
• 1938 – John Flanagan, Irish born-American athlete (b. 1873)
• 1946 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (b. 1875)
• 1955 – Barbara Graham, American criminal and convicted murderer (b. 1923)
• 1963 – Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
• 1963 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1969 – George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
• 1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1971 – Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
• 1973 – Dory Funk, American wrestler (b. 1919)
• 1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor, bandleader, producer, and director (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, 39th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1901)
• 1977 – Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (b. 1906)
• 1986 – Anna Neagle, English actress (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Will Sampson, American actor and artist (b. 1933)
• 1989 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (b. 1902)
• 1989 – John McCauley, Canadian ice hockey referee (b. 1944)
• 1990 – Stiv Bators, American singer, guitarist, actor, and composer (The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church) (b. 1949)
• 1990 – Robert Noyce, American physicist, businessman and inventor, co-founded the Intel Corporation (b. 1927)
• 1991 – Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1942)
• 1991 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
• 1991 – Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Puig Aubert, French rugby player (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Dennis James, American actor and game show host (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Quorthon, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
• 2004 – Frances Shand Kydd, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Harold Cardinal, Canadian political leader, educator, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Johnny Grande, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1932)
• 2009 – Sam Butera, American saxophone player (b. 1927)
• 2009 – David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Koko Taylor, American singer (b. 1928)
• 2010 – John Hedgecoe, English photographer (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
• 2011 – James Arness, American actor (d. 1923)
• 2011 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Wax) (b. 1951)
• 2011 – Jack Kevorkian, American physician, pathologist, author, and activist (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Jan van Roessel, Dutch footballer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Carol Ann Abrams, American producer, author, and educator (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Andy Hamilton, Jamaican-English saxophonist and composer (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Rajsoomer Lallah, Mauritian lawyer and judge (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Roy Salvadori, English race car driver and manager (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer (b. 1934)