June 30 - Deaths

Deaths

• 350 – Nepotianus, Roman ruler
• 1181 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
• 1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, German monk and bishop (b. 1185)
• 1364 – Arnošt of Pardubice, Polish Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
• 1538 – Charles II, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
• 1579 – Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1506)
• 1607 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
• 1660 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
• 1666 – Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
• 1670 – Princess Henrietta of England (b. 1644)
• 1704 – John Quelch, English pirate (b. 1665)
• 1708 – Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
• 1709 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
• 1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general and politician, founder of the U.S. state of Georgia (b. 1696)
• 1796 – Abraham Yates, American politician (b. 1724)
• 1857 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
• 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher, writer, and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
• 1882 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
• 1890 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
• 1913 – Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (b. 1873)
• 1917 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
• 1919 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)
• 1932 – Bruno Kastner, German actor (b. 1890)
• 1934 – Karl Ernst, German nazi officer (b. 1904)
• 1934 – Erich Klausener, German politician (b. 1885)
• 1934 – Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German politician, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862)
• 1934 – Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
• 1934 – Gregor Strasser, German nazi politician (b. 1892)
• 1941 – Yefim Fomin, Soviet political commissar (b. 1909)
• 1943 – Carlo Wieth, Danish actor (b. 1885)
• 1949 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (b. 1868)
• 1953 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian sportsman and civil servant (b. 1874)
• 1954 – Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1873)
• 1956 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (b. 1880)
• 1959 – José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1961 – Lee De Forest, American inventor, invented the audion tube (b. 1873)
• 1966 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906)
• 1971 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
• 1971 – Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter and director (b. 1900)
• 1971 – Georgi Dobrovolski Soviet astronaut (b. 1928)
• 1971 – Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
• 1971 – Viktor Patsayev Soviet astronaut (b. 1933)
• 1971 – Vladislav Volkov Soviet astronaut (b. 1935)
• 1973 – Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (b. 1903)
• 1974 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
• 1976 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1984 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)
• 1993 – Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, composer, and actor (Beyond) (b. 1962)
• 1993 – George McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1995 – Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet astronaut (b. 1921)
• 1995 – Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)
• 1995 – Phyllis Hyman, American singer-songwriter and actress(b. 1949)
• 1996 – Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1932)
• 1997 – Larry O'Dea, Australian wrestler (b. 1944)
• 2001 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1924)
• 2001 – Joe Henderson, American saxophonist (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Chico Xavier, Brazilian author and medium (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Buddy Hackett, American comedian and actor (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Robert McCloskey, American writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Jamal Abro, Pakistani writer (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Robert Gernhardt, German writer (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
• 2009 – Robert DePugh, American activist (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer (b. 1977)
• 2011 – Barry Bremen, American businessman (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Richard Eardley, American politician (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Miguel S. Demapan, American jurist (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Yomo Toro, Puerto Rican musician and television host (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Ivan Sekyra, Czech rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, director and screenwriter (b. 1952)