June 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 555 – Pope Vigilius (b. c. 500)
• 1329 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (b. 1274)
• 1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
• 1394 – Anne of Bohemia, English wife of Richard II of England (b. 1367)
• 1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1577)
• 1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German writer (b. 1606)
• 1711 – Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
• 1779 – William Warburton, English critic and bishop (b. 1698)
• 1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
• 1821 – Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian leader of the Wallachian uprising of 1821 (b. 1780)
• 1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
• 1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
• 1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
• 1859 – David Cox, English painter (b. 1783)
• 1866 – Chief Seattle, Native American leader
• 1879 – William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist (b. 1836)
• 1896 – Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
• 1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
• 1915 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman, banker and philanthropist, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (b. 1822)
• 1916 – Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
• 1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
• 1931 – Viktor Schwanneke, German director and actor (b. 1880)
• 1933 – Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian poet (b. 1875)
• 1936 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
• 1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1942 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
• 1945 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)
• 1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
• 1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)
• 1963 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1966 – Jean Arp, German artist and poet (b. 1886)
• 1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1967 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
• 1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1970 – E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
• 1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1979 – Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)
• 1980 – Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (b. 1883)
• 1980 – Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
• 1988 – Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1989 – Chico Landi, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Bill France, Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
• 1995 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 1918)
• 1996 – Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
• 1999 – Paco Stanley, Mexican television host (b. 1942)
• 2001 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
• 2001 – Betty Neels, English novelist (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Lilian, Princess of Réthy (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian politician, 5th Vice President of India (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Wayne Cody, American sportscaster (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
• 2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist (b. 1966)
• 2006 – John Tenta, Canadian wrestler (b. 1963)
• 2008 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Hugh Hopper, English bassist and composer (The Wilde Flowers and Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
• 2009 – Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Stuart Cable, Welsh singer and drummer (Stereophonics) (b. 1970)
• 2010 – Omar Rayo, Colombian artist (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Adriana Xenides, Australian television host (b. 1956)
• 2011 – Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
• 2011 – Nataraja Ramakrishna, Indian dancer and composer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – John T. Cunningham, American journalist, historian, and writer (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi military officer (b. 1957)
• 2012 – John Medlin, American businessman (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Nolan Miller, American fashion designer (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Lil Phat, American rapper (b. 1992)
• 2012 – J. Michael Riva, American production designer (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Chuck Share, American basketball player (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Phillip V. Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist and educator (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Bob Welch, American singer-songwriter and musician (Paris and Fleetwood Mac) (b. 1945)