Alexander the Great
323 BC Alexander the Great, Macedonian king, dies from either fever or excessive wine at 32, (or the 11th June)

Alexander the Great
- 1075 Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)
Frederick Barbarossa
1190 Frederick Barbarossa, King of Germany (1152-90) and Holy Roman Emperor (1155-90), drowns at 67 or 68

Frederick Barbarossa
- 1247 Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, archbishop Toledo/advisor Alfonso VIII, dies
- 1424 Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
- 1552 Alexander Barclay, English poet
- 1560 Mary of Guise [Mary of Lorraine], pro-French Queen of Scots (1538-42) and Regent of Scotland (1554-60), dies of dropsy at 44
- 1580 Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies
- 1584 Francois-Hercule de Valois, French crown prince, dies at 28
- 1588 Valentin Weigel, German mystic, dies
- 1607 John Popham, English politician
- 1654 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 58
- 1680 Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
- 1727 George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover, King of England, dies at 67
- 1735 Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
- 1776 Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
- 1791 Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
- 1831 Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
- 1834 Antonius van Gils, RC theologist (against Relief), dies at 75
- 1836 André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
- 1839 Nathaniel Pryor, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies
- 1849 Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)
- 1868 Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Sweden, murdered
- 1896 Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
- 1898 Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language.
- 1901 Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
- 1902 Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68
- 1902 Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
- 1903 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies
- 1906 Richard John Seddon, longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand, dies at 61
- 1909 Edward Everett Hale, American clergyman and author (Man without a Country), dies at 87
- 1912 Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
- 1923 Pierre Loti, [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer, dies
- 1924 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists
- 1926 Antonio Gaudi y Cornet, Spanish architect, dies
- 1930 Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
Robert Borden
1937 Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada, dies at 82

Robert Borden
- 1941 Marcus Garvey, US African American leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52
- 1942 Jean François van Royen, Sect-Gen of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63
- 1942 Stanley Lupino, English comic (Cheer Up, Over She Goes), dies at 48
- 1944 French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed
- 1944 Gerrit Jan van der Veen [Wolffensperger], Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 41 (b. 1902)
- 1944 Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28
- 1944 Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
- 1946 Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20
- 1947 Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
- 1949 Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
- 1958 Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
- 1959 Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
- 1971 Virginia Eames, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 82
- 1973 William M Inge, US playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60
- 1974 Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/baron Culloden, dies at 74
- 1986 Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
- 1988 Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer
- 1991 Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), dies
- 1992 Otto FAH van Nispen, mayor of Pannerden/MP (KVP), dies at 85
- 1992 Zak Hernández, American soldier (b. 1973)
- 1993 Alice Reinhart, entertainer, dies at 83
- 1994 Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Back seat of a '38 Dodge), dies at 66
- 1994 Mary Maxwell Gates, American businesswoman, philanthropist and mother of Bill Gates, dies of breast cancer at 64
- 1994 Edward Keinholz, American artist and sculptor, dies at 66
- 1995 Ernest Anderson, publicist, dies at 85
- 1995 Masaya Hanai, Japanese businessman, dies at 82
- 1995 Ernest Flatt, American choreographer (Carol Burnett Show), dies at 76
- 1996 Hugh Burnton Mitchell, US senator, dies at 89
- 1996 Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter, dies at 89
- 1996 Norman Lambert, British restaurateur, dies at 63 (b. 1933)
- 1996 Uno Chiyo, Japanese writer (Confessions of Love), dies at 98
- 1998 Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
Hafez al-Assad
2000 Hafez al-Assad, General and President of Syria (1971-2000), dies of a heart attack at 69

Hafez al-Assad
John Gotti
2002 John Gotti, American mafia gangster and head of the Gambino family, dies of throat cancer at 61

John Gotti
- 2002 Benjamin Ward, 1st African American NYC Police Commissioner, dies at 75
- 2003 Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
- 2003 Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
- 2003 Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
- 2005 Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
- 2007 Charley Harper, American modernist artist, dies of pneumonia at 84
- 2008 Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-Soviet writer, dies of lung and kidney failure at 79
- 2008 Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet-Kyrgyz author and best-known figure in Kyrgyzstan's literature (Jamila),dies of pneumonia at 79
- 2010 Metropolitan Basil Schott, Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (b. 1939)
- 2011 Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish politician and minister dies of cancer at 52
- 2011 Jeanne Bice, American entrepreneur (Quacker Factory clothes), dies of cancer at 71
- 2013 Barbara Vucanovich, American politician, dies at 91
- 2016 Margaret Heldt, American hairdresser who created the Beehive, dies at 98
- 2017 Samuel V. Wilson, American ex-director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former Army lieutenant general, dies of lung cancer at 93