Famous Deaths on June 1

Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)

Japanese Shogun who founded the first Tokugawa Shogunate and united Japan, dies from natural causes

1625 Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
1639 Melchior Franck, German composer
1660 Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge, French engineer and Governor of New France (1648-51, acting 1657-58), buried at 47 or 48 [1]
1660 Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred) - hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1676 Creutz, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
1676 Uggla, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
1699 Jean Rousseau, French composer and viol player, dies at 54
1710 David Mitchell, Scottish admiral in the British Royal navy (b. 1642)
1713 Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34
1729 Matthaeus de Cock, governor general of Dutch Indies (1725-29), dies at about 65
1740 Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (reasonable orthodoxy), dies at 83
1763 Johann Caspar Vogler, German composer, dies at 67
1769 Edward Holyoke, American academic and 9th President of Harvard University, dies at 79
1795 Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
1810 Johann Paul Wessely [Jan Pavel Veselý], Czech violinist and composer, dies at 47
1815 Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1853)
1823 Louis-Nicholas Davout, French military commander under Napoleon (Marshall of the Empire, defeated Prussians at Battle of Auerstädt), dies at 53
1826 Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
1830 Sahajanand Swami, believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal body. (b. 1781)
1841 David Wilkie, British painter, dies at 55
1846 Gregory XVI [Bartolomeo Alberto Mauro Cappellari], Pope (1831-1846), dies at 80
1861 John Quincy Marr, US Confederate captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse, the first Confederate death of the war at 36
1864 Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812)
1864 Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of African Americans, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
1867 Karl von Staudt, German mathematician (projective geometry), dies at 69

James Buchanan (1791-1868)

15th US President (1857-61), dies at 77

James Gordon Bennett (1795-1872)

American newspaper publisher (New York Herald), dies at 76 [1]

1873 Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (3rd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia), dies at 68
1876 Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary, dies at 28
1879 Napoléon IV, Prince Imperial, Head of the House of Bonaparte (1873-79), killed in action during the Anglo-Zulu war at 23
1909 Giuseppe Martucci, composer, dies at 53
1910 Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon and etcher, dies at 91
1912 Daniel Burnham, American architect and urban designer (built skyscrapers), dies at 65
1918 Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer, dies at 83
1918 Jaroslav Novotny, Czech composer, dies at 32
1925 Lucien Guitry, French actor (La Dame aux camélias), dies at 64
1926 Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer, dies at 64
1927 J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)

Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)

American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her mother forty whacks), dies of pneumonia at 66

1935 Alberto Cametti, Italian composer, dies at 64
1938 Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian writer (A Child of Our Time), dies at 36
1941 Hugh S Walpole, British novelist and playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40), dies at 57
1942 Ernest Pingoud, Finnish composer, dies at 53
1942 Vladislav Vančura, Czech writer (Rozmarné léto), dies at 50
1943 Leslie Howard [Stainer], British actor (Gone With The Wind; Of Human Bondage), dies after Nazis shoot down his plane at 50
1943 Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
1946 Ion Antonescu, Romanian soldier and authoritarian politician, is executed after having been convicted of war crimes
1946 Leo Slezak, Moravian dramatic tenor and actor (Othello; Zirkus Saran; Husaren heraus), dies from a heart attack at 72
1948 Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
1948 Sonny Boy Williamson I [John Lee], American blues musician (Down & Out Blues), dies at 34
1951 Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer and historian, dies at 85

John Dewey (1859-1952)

American philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92

1954 Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (Pelle Erobreren), dies at 84
1955 F Melius Christiansen, composer, dies at 84
1959 Sax Rohmer [Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward], English author (Dr Fu Manchu novels), dies at 76
1960 Lester Patrick, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman (6 x Stanley Cups as player, coach and manager), dies from a heart attack at 76
1960 Paula Hitler, Austrian-German sister of dictator Adolf Hitler, dies at 64

Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962)

German Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmbannführer, Holocaust organizer), hanged in Israel at 56

1964 Rutkowski Bronislaw, Belarusian organist, pedagogue, and composer, dies at 66

Curly Lambeau (1898-1965)

American Pro Football Hall of Fame halfback, coach (founder, first coach Green Bay Packers), dies of a heart attack at 67

1966 Papa Jack Laine, American musician and pioneering bandleader, dies at 92

Helen Keller (1880-1968)

American political activist, author (The Story of My Life) and lecturer, who was the 1st deaf-blind person to earn a BA, dies at 87

1968 [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57
1969 Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (Olympic gold 5,000m 1928; 500m, 5,000m 10,000m 1936), dies at 65
1969 Michiyo Tsujimura, Japanese agricultural scientist and biochemist (components of green tea), dies at 81
1969 Stan Brenders, Belgian jazz pianist and bandleader, dies at 65
1970 Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (Hermeticism) and journalist, dies at 82

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)

American theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man), dies at 78

1973 Harvey S. Firestone Jr, American tire manufacturer, dies at 75
1973 Helen Parkhurst, American educator (The Dalton Plan), dies at 86
1973 Mary Kornman, American actress ("Our Gang" shorts; The Desert Trail; Queen of the Jungle; Swing It, Professor), dies at 57
1973 Walter Greaza, American actor (Treasury Man; Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 76
1976 Pierre Balledux, Dutch stage manager and resistance fighter, dies at 89
1979 Jack Mulhall, American actor and producer (The Three Musketeers, The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand), dies at 91
1979 Werner Forssmann, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies at 74
1980 Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)

Rube Marquard (1886-1980)

American Baseball HOF pitcher (NL wins leader 1912; NL strikeout leader 1911; no-hitter 1915; NY Giants), dies at 93

1981 Carl Vinson, American politician (38th Dean of the United States House of Representatives, 1961-65), dies at 97
1981 Naim Chadir, PLO-representative in Brussels, murdered
1982 Hendrik Algra, Dutch teacher, journalist, and politician (ARP), dies
1983 Anna Seghers [Netty Reiling], German author (The 7th Cross), dies at 82
1983 Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies
1984 Nate Nelson, American singer (Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You), dies at 52
1985 Richard Greene, English stage and screen actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood), dies of cardiac arrest at 66
1987 Errol W Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
1987 Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (elected Prime Minister 8 times between 1958-87), assassinated by a bomb rigged in his helicopter at 65
1988 Leon Belasco [Leonid Simeonovich Berladsky], Russian actor (Lucky Partners, My Sister Eileen), dies at 85
1989 Aurelio Lampredi, Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer (Ferrari), dies at 71
1990 Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies
1991 David Ruffin, American soul musician and early lead singer for The Temptations (My Girl; Ain't Too Proud to Beg), dies of a drug overdose at 50
1992 Howard Ralston, actor (Pollyana), dies
1992 Louise Hoff, entertainer, dies at 69
1994 Frances Heflin, American actress (All My Children, The Skin of Our Teeth), dies of lung cancer at 73
1994 Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered
1994 Wim van der Grinten, Dutch lawyer and KVP politician (State Secretary of Economic Affairs), dies at 80
1995 Prudence Hyman, English dancer, dies at 80
1995 Tony Clegg, English property trader (Montleigh), dies at 58
1996 Alan Blakley, British guitarist and record producer (The Tremeloes - "Here Comes My Baby"; "Silence Is Golden"), dies of cancer at 54
1996 Don Grolnick, American jazz pianist, composer and session musician (Brecker Brothers; Linda Ronstadt; James Taylor), dies of non-Hodgkin lymphoma at 48
1996 Fernand Schokweiler, judge, dies at 60
1996 Michael Fox, American actor (Perry Mason, Quincy, Dallas, Bold & the Beautiful), dies at 75
1996 Robert Arthur Hughes, English surgeon and Presbyterian missionary, dies at 85
1996 Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, sixth President of India (1977-82), dies at 83
1996 Stephen Jones, English art historian, dies of cancer at 41
1997 Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet politician (Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union 1980-85), dies at 92
1998 Darwin Joston, American actor (Assault on Precinct 13), dies at 60
1999 Christopher Cockerell, English engineer and inventor (Hovercraft), dies at 88
1999 Mr. Prospector, American thoroughbred racehorse and breeding stallion (most influential sire of his generation), dies of complications from colic at 29
2001 Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal (1972-2001), killed by his son Dipendra in the Nepalese Royal Massacre at 55
2001 Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), dies of prostate cancer at 81
2001 Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, killed by her son Dipendra in the Nepalese Royal Massacre at 51

Hansie Cronje (1969-2002)

South African cricket batsman and captain (68 Tests, 3,714 runs, 43 wickets; 188 ODIs; life ban for match-fixing 2000), dies in a plane crash at 32

2003 Johnny Hopp, American baseball outfielder, first baseman (MLB All-Star 1946; World Series 1942, 44, 50, 51; St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 86
2004 William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922)

George Mikan (1924-2005)

American Basketball Hall of Fame center (NBA All Star 1951-54; NBL MVP 1948; Minneapolis Lakers), dies of diabetes complications at 80

2006 Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress, dies at 59
2007 Arn Shein, American sports writer (editor The Daily Item 1949-74), dies at 78
2007 Tony Thompson, American singer-songwriter in R&B group Hi-Five, dies at 31
2008 Alton Kelley, American graphic artist, known for concert posters and album cover art (Grateful Dead -"Workingman's Dead"; Steve Miller Band - "Book of Dreams"), dies at 67
2008 Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
2008 Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, dies at 71
2009 Vincent O'Brien, Irish racehorse trainer (6 x Epsom Derby; 2 x British champion trainer; only British Triple Crown winner, Nijinsky 1970), dies at 92
2010 Lt. Gen. William H. Ginn, Jr., U.S. Air Force officer (b.1928)
2014 Ann B. Davis, American stage and screen actress (Bob Cummings Show - "Schultzy"; The Brady Bunch - "Alice"), dies from subdural hematoma incurred in a fall at 88
2014 Valentin Mankin, Ukrainian yachtsman (Olympic gold, USSR, Finn class 1968), dies at 75
2015 Charles Kennedy, British politician (Liberal Democrat leader 1999-2006), dies at 55
2015 Jean Ritchie, American folk singer, dies at 92
2017 Jack McCloskey, American basketball coach (Portland Trail Blazers 1972-74) and executive (GM Detroit Pistons NBA C'ship 1989, 90), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 91
2017 Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentine golfer (British Open 1967; US Masters 1968 runner-up), dies at 94
2018 Eddy Clearwater [Edward Harrington], American blues musician (West Side Strut), dies of heart failure at 83
2018 Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author, first female president of Smith College, dies at 83
2019 José Antonio Reyes, Spanish soccer left wing (Spain 21 caps; Sevilla, Atlético Madrid, Arsenal), dies in a car crash at 35
2020 Lee Grosscup, American football quarterback (NY Jets, NY Titans) and sportscaster (college football analyst ABC; Cal Berkeley), dies at 83
2020 Myroslav Skoryk, Ukrainian contemporary classical composer (Carpathian Rhapsody), and pedagogue, dies at 81
2020 Pat Dye, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (East Carolina, Wyoming, Auburn; record 153–62–5), dies from COVID-19 at 80
2021 Adnan Al Sharqi, Lebanese soccer manager (Lebanon 1974–76, 1987–93, 2006–08; Ansar 11 x league titles), dies from cancer at 79
2021 Vince Promuto, American football guard (Pro Bowl 1963, 64; Washington Redskins), dies of congestive heart failure at 82
2023 Cynthia Weil, American songwriter ("We Got Get Out Of This Place"; "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"; "On Broadway"; "He's So Shy"), dies at 82 [1]