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, dies at 53
- 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, dies at 64
- 1868 Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Serbia (1839-42,1860-68), murdered at 44
- 1896 Amelia Dyer, English murderer of 300 infants, hanged at Newgate Prison, London (b. 1829)
- 1898 Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language.
- 1901 Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
- 1902 Auguste Schmidt, German teacher and feminist, dies at 68
- 1902 Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
- 1903 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies at 72
- 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
- 1926 Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, dies at 73
- 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, Dutch sculptor and resistance fighter, executed at 28
- 1944 Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
- 1947 Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
- 1949 Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
- 1958 Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist, teacher and playwright (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 78
- 1959 Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
- 1971 Virginia Eames, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 82
- 1973 William M. Inge, American 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, Austrian 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 moral philosopher, dies at 73
- 2003 Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
- 2003 Sylvius Gerald Marie Rozendal, Premier of Netherland's Antilles, dies at 74
- 2005 Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
- 2007 Charley Harper, American modernist artist, dies of pneumonia at 84
- 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
June in History
Why an American Bought London Bridge
An iconic piece of Olde England was just what an American oil tycoon wanted for his new township in the Arizona desert. Did he get what he was after?
June 7, 1761
France's Biggest-Ever Bank Robbery
Its vault was thought to be impregnable, but the bank had not reckoned on the ingenuity of a determined thief who died on this day, with the loot still missing.
June 8, 1989
A Beautiful Day in Moscow
Often depicted as grey and formal, the comrades of Soviet Russia let their hair down and held their first beauty pageant, changing the life of one schoolgirl.
June 12, 1988
Cricket's T20 is Born. Howzat!?
Cricketing enthusiasts are fearful for the future of Test matches. The seeds of doubt were sewn on this day when the furiously fast T20 format was introduced.
June 13, 2003