Famous Deaths in June 2005

Jun 1 George Mikan, American Basketball Hall of Fame center (4-time NBA All Star 1951-54), dies of diabetes complications at 80

Jun 6 Anne Bancroft [Anna Italiano], American actress, director, screenwriter and singer (Graduate, Miracle Worker), dies from uterine cancer at 73

Jun 6 Dana Elcar, American actor (Peter Thornton- MacGyver), dies of pneumonia at 77
Jun 6 Maya Kopitseva, Russian painter of the Leningrad school, dies at 81
Jun 10 Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
Jun 11 VVasco Gonçalves, Portuguese army officer and 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (1974-75), dies at 84
Jun 11 Ron Randell, Australian actor (Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera), dies at 86
Jun 12 Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918)
Jun 13 Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)

Jun 13 Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer, dies at 91
Jun 13 Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
Jun 13 David Diamond, American composer (Paderewski Prize-1943), dies at 89
Jun 14 Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
Jun 14 Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (b. 1924)
Jun 15 Suzanne Flon, French actress (One Deadly Summer, Moulin Rouge), dies of gastroenteritis at 87
Jun 16 Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
Jun 17 Sam Loeb, comic book writer (b. 1988)
Jun 17 Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum), dies at 42
Jun 18 Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
Jun 18 Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
Jun 18 J.J. Pickle, American politician (Rep-D-Texas, 1963-95), dies at 91

Jun 20 Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer and Nobel laureate (handheld calculator, integrated circuit), dies at 81

Jun 20 Larry Collins, American writer, dies at 75
Jun 21 Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
Jun 23 Shana Alexander, American columnist (b. 1926)
Jun 23 Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (b. 1925)
Jun 24 Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
Jun 24 Hakham Yedidia Shofet, Former chief rabbi of Iran (b. 1908)
Jun 25 John Fiedler, American Actor (b. 1925)
Jun 26 Richard Whiteley, British television game show host (b. 1943)
Jun 27 Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
Jun 27 Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector
Jun 27 John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
Jun 27 Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
Jun 27 Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
Jun 28 Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
Jun 30 Christopher Fry, English playwright (The Lady's Not for Burning), dies at 97