Deaths in History on June 1

Tokugawa Ieyasu

1616 Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese Shogun who founded the first Tokugawa Shogunate and united Japan, dies from natural causes

1625 Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
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
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 (b. 1657)
1769 Edward Holyoke, American academic and 9th President of Harvard University, dies at 79
1795 Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
1815 Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1853)
1823 Louis Nicholas Davout, French fieldmarshal, 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 Q Marr, US Confederate captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse, the first Confederate death of the war
1864 Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of African Americans, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
1864 Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812)

James Buchanan

1868 James Buchanan, 15th US President (1857-61), dies at 77

James Gordon Bennett

1872 James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (New York Herald), dies at 76

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
1910 Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon and etcher, dies at 91
1912 Daniel Burnham, American architect and urban designer (built skyscrapers), dies at 65

Lizzie Borden

1927 Lizzie Borden, American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents, dies at 66

1927 J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
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 Vladislav Vančura, Czech writer (Rozmarné léto), dies 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
1948 Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
1951 Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian, dies at 85

John Dewey

1952 John Dewey, American philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92

1954 Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (Pelle Erobreren), dies at 84
1959 Sax Rohmer [Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward], English author (Dr Fu Manchu novels), (b. 1883)
1960 Paula Hitler, sister of Adolf Hitler (b. 1896)

Adolf Eichmann

1962 Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmbannführer, Holocaust organizer), hanged in Israel at 56

Helen Keller

1968 Helen Keller, 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
1970 Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (Hermeticism) and journalist, dies at 82

Reinhold Niebuhr

1971 Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologist (Nature & Destiny of Man), dies at 78

1973 Harvey S Firestone Jr, US tire manufacturer, dies at 75
1976 Pierre Balledux, Dutch stage manager and resistance fighter, dies at 89
1979 Werner Forssmann, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies at 74
1980 Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
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
1987 Errol W Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
1987 Rashid Karami, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65
1992 Louise Hoff, entertainer, dies at 69
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 Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader, dies at 58
1996 Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, sixth President of India (1977-82), dies at 83
1996 Fernand Schokweiler, judge, dies at 60
1996 Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon, dies at 85
1996 Stephen Jones, art historian, dies at 41
1997 Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet politician (Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union 1980-85), dies at 92
1999 Christopher Cockerell, English engineer and inventor (Hovercraft), dies at 88
2001 Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
2001 King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
2001 Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2004 William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922)
2008 Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
2008 Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, dies at 71
2010 Lt. Gen. William H. Ginn, Jr., U.S. Air Force officer (b.1928)
2014 Ann B. Davis, American actress, dies from a subdural hematoma from a fall at 88
2015 Charles Kennedy, British politician (Liberal Democrat leader 1999-2006), dies at 55
2018 Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author, first female president of Smith College, dies at 83

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