34 Famous Deaths in June 1979

Jun 6 Jack Haley, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), dies of a heart attack at 80

Jun 7 Forrest [Asa Earl] Carter, American author and segregationist speech writer, dies at 53
Jun 8 Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79
Jun 8 Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61
Jun 9 Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
Jun 11 August Maes, Flemish actor and director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85

Jun 11 John Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], American actor (Green Berets, True Grit), dies of stomach cancer at 72

Jun 13 Darla Hood, American child actress (Little Rascals, The Bat), dies from acute hepatitis at 47
Jun 15 Ernst Meister, writer, dies at 67

Jun 16 Ben Weber, American composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62
Jun 16 Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich, writer, dies at 77
Jun 16 Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
Jun 16 Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
Jun 17 Lou Frizzell, American actor and music director (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 59
Jun 17 Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, dies at 91
Jun 19 Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
Jun 21 Julian Orchard, actor (Perfect Friday, Bless this House), dies at 49
Jun 21 Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)
Jun 22 Emory Parnell, St Paul Minn, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 85
Jun 22 Julius Sommer, dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton Ohio
Jun 22 Louis Chiron, Monégasque racing drive, dies at 79
Jun 25 Philippe Halsman, American portrait photographer, dies at 73
Jun 26 Charles Clore, financier, dies
Jun 28 Paul Dessau, German composer and conductor (Adventures of Casanova, Never Trust a Woman), dies at 84
Jun 29 Ben Barnett, Australian cricketer (4 Tests for Australia 1938), dies at 71
Jun 29 Lowell George, American rock vocalist and guitarist (Mothers of Invention, Little Feat), dies at 34
Jun 30 Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72

Famous Deaths in June 1979