May 31 - Deaths

Deaths

• 455 – Petronius Maximus, Roman emperor
• 1076 – Waltheof of Northumbria, Anglo-Danish nobleman (b. 1050)
• 1162 – Géza II of Hungary (b. 1130)
• 1246 – Isabella of Angoulême (b. 1188)
• 1349 – Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell, English politician (b. 1297)
• 1408 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358)
• 1410 – Martin of Aragon (b. 1356)
• 1495 – Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (b. 1415)
• 1558 – Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505)
• 1567 – Guido de Bres, Belgian theologian (b. 1522)
• 1594 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518)
• 1680 – Joachim Neander, German theologian, writer, and educator (b. 1650)
• 1740 – Frederick William I of Prussia (b. 1688)
• 1747 – Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
• 1799 – Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715)
• 1809 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1732)
• 1809 – Jean Lannes, French marshal (b. 1769)
• 1831 – Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (b. 1757)
• 1832 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
• 1837 – Joseph Grimaldi, English actor and comedian, created the clown (b. 1779)
• 1846 – Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780)
• 1847 – Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor (b. 1780)
• 1848 – Eugénie de Guérin, French writer (b. 1805)
• 1908 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French-Canadian poet (b. 1839)
• 1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (b. 1821)
• 1931 – Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French-Canadian cardinal (b. 1866)
• 1931 – Willy Stöwer, German artist (b. 1864)
• 1945 – Odilo Globocnik, Austrian SS officer (b. 1904)
• 1954 – Antonis Benakis, Greek politician and art collector (b. 1873)
• 1957 – Stefanos Sarafis, Greek army officer (b. 1890)
• 1957 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (b. 1882)
• 1960 – Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890)
• 1961 – Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
• 1962 – Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (b. 1874)
• 1962 – Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi official (b. 1906)
• 1967 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer, pianist, and arranger (b. 1915)
• 1970 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 1972 – Walter Freeman, American physician and neurologist (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Jacques Monod, French biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
• 1977 – William Castle, American director (b. 1914)
• 1978 – József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
• 1983 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer (b. 1895)
• 1985 – Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
• 1986 – Jane Frank, American artist (b. 1918)
• 1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
• 1987 – John Abraham, Indian director (b. 1937)
• 1992 – Walter Neugebauer, Croatian writer and illustrator (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Francis Lynch, American politician (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Herva Nelli, Italian soprano (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist and writer (b. 1920)
• 1997 – James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (b. 1905)
• 1998 – Charles Van Acker, Belgian race car driver (b. 1912)
• 2000 – Tito Puente, American musician and producer (b. 1923)
• 2000 – Johnnie Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
• 2001 – Arlene Francis, American actress (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Robert Quine, American guitarist (Richard Hell and the Voidoids and Material) (b. 1941)
• 2004 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Ryan Bennett, American sportscaster (b. 1970)
• 2006 – Miguel Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Millvina Dean, English survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (b. 1912)
• 2009 – George Tiller, American physician (b. 1941)
• 2009 – Danny La Rue, Irish-English actor and singer (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor (b. 1911)
• 2010 – Brian Duffy, English photographer and producer (b. 1933)
• 2010 – William A. Fraker, American cinematographer (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Rubén Juárez, Argentine singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Benjamin Lees, American composer (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Merata Mita, New Zealand director, producer, and writer (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Jonas Bevacqua, American fashion designer, co-founded Lifted Research Group (b. 1977)
• 2011 – Conrado Estrella, Sr., Filipino politician (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Derek Hodge, U.S. Virgin Islander politician and lawyer (b. 1941)
• 2011 – Keith Irvine, Scottish-American interior designer (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Hans Keilson, German-Dutch novelist, poet, and psychoanalyst (b. 1909)
• 2011 – John Martin, English admiral (b. 1918)
• 2011 – Adolfas Mekas, Lithuanian-American director (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Andy Robustelli, American football player (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Philip Rose, American director and producer (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Ezzatollah Sahabi, Iranian scholar, humanitarian, activist, and politician (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Hugh Stewart, English editor and producer (b. 1910)
• 2011 – Grant Sullivan, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Ram Man Trishit, Nepali songwriter (b. 1941)
• 2011 – Sølvi Wang, Norwegian actress and singer (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Jennifer Worth, English nurse and author (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Farid Habib, Lebanese politician (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Randall B. Kester, American attorney and judge (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Mark Midler, Russian fencer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Orlando Woolridge, American basketball player (b. 1959)