Deaths in History on June 7

555 Vigilius, Italian Pope (537-55), dies

Robert the Bruce (1274-1329)

King of Scots (1306-1329) and national hero, dies at 54

1337 William the Good, Count of Hainaut and Earl of Holland and Zealand, dies at about 49
1358 Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England and wife of Richard II, dies at 28
1492 Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (1447-92), dies at 64
1549 Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded
1555 Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76
1618 Thomas West, 3rd & 12th Baron De La Warr, English Jamestown colonist and Governor of Virginia, dies at 40
1626 Anne of Saint Bartholomew, Flemish Roman Catholic nun, dies at 76
1667 Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried
1672 Willem J van Gendt, admiral/governor of Breda, dies at about 37
1710 Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV (1661-67), dies at 65
1711 Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
1754 Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish, architect (Amalienborg Square), dies at 52
1779 William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
1799 Increase Sumner, American politician (5th Governor of Massachusetts), dies at 52
1800 Willem Arnold Alting, Dutch governor-general of Dutch East Indies (1780-97), dies at 75
1810 Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1814 Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician and Master of Marsch, dies at 71
1821 Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)
1826 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1840 Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69
1847 Adolph Gopel, German mathematician, dies at 35
1854 Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1859 David Cox, English painter (Treatise on Landscape Paint), dies at 73
1862 William B. Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, at 42
1866 Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1871 Thomas Jackson Rodman, American military inventor of the rodman gun and perforated-cake gunpowder, dies on duty at 54
1877 Winand Staring, Dutch geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68
1890 Reuben Lindsay Walker, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 63
1896 Wyatt Eaton, Canadian-American artist, dies from tuberculosis at 47
1899 Augustin Daly, American playwright and theatrical manager, dies at 60
1899 William Stephen Walker, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 77
1906 Johan P. Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74
1911 Maurice Rouvier, French statesman and Prime Minister of France (1905-06), dies at 69
1916 Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1925 Camille Flammarion, French astronomer, Mars researcher and popularizer of astronomy, dies at 83
1927 Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (10th Premier of Quebec), dies at 79
1927 Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
1928 Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered
1935 Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
1935 Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Russian botanist (more than 300 new types of fruit), dies at 79
1936 Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer, dies at 60
1938 Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies
1942 Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer, dies at 38
1945 Nishida Kitaro, Japanese philosopher (Kyoto School), dies at 74
1951 Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals, hanged

Alan Turing (1912-1954)

British mathematician and computer scientist pioneer (Turing Machine), commits suicide at 41 (b. 1912)

1956 Julien Benda, Fren philosopher/writer (La trahison des clercs), dies
1957 Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies
1961 Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies
1965 Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (Bauernpassion), dies
1966 (Hans) "Jean" Arp, German-French sculptor, artist and poet, dies at 78
1967 Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (decidability of various algebraic groups), dies at 57

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

American poet (Enough Rope), short story writer and satirist (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), dies at 73

E. M. Forster (1879-1970)

English writer and novelist (Maurice, Passage to India), dies at 91

1973 Christine Lavant, Austrian poet and writer (Das Kind), dies at 57
1974 Émilie Charmy, French avant-garde artist, dies at 96
1978 Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1967, dies at 80
1979 Forrest [Asa Earl] Carter, American author and segregationist speech writer, dies at 53
1980 Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)

Henry Miller (1891-1980)

American writer (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn), dies of circulatory complications at 88

1983 Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried
1987 John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73
1989 Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist, dies
1991 Antoine Blondin, French writer (L'Europe buissonnière), dies at 69
1994 Dennis Potter, British TV dramatist (The Singing Detective, Karaoke, Midnight Movie), dies of cancer at 59
1994 Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered
1994 Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist, dies at 42
1994 Vincent Nsengijumva, Rwandan archbishop of Kigali, murdered
1995 Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
1995 Wijnie Jabaaij, Dutch politician (PvdA), dies at 56
1996 José María Valverde, Spanish philosopher, poet and translator (La espera, Historia de la literatura universal), dies at 70
1996 Noel Walton Bott, British engineer (father of wave energy), dies at 88
1996 Percy Edwards, English entertainer (known for his animal impressions), dies at 88
1996 Robert Kidd, British marine geoscientist (International Deep Sea Drilling Programme), dies at 49
1996 [Francis] Max Factor, American CEO of Max Factor Cosmetics, dies at 91
1998 Thomas Narcejac, French writer (Vertigo), dies at 89
1999 Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer, dies at 56
2001 Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
2002 Lilian Baels, Princess of Réthy, English 2nd wife of Belgian king Leopold III, dies at 85
2004 William Cramond, Scottish psychiatrist and vice-chancellor (Stirling University), dies at 83
2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born Mujahid (b. 1966)
2008 Mustafa Khalil, 40th Prime Minister of Egypt (1978-80), dies at 87
2010 Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (b. 1928)
2011 Jorge Semprún, Spanish-French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z), dies at 87
2012 Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist and three time Nobel Prize nominee (hominid fossil sites), dies at 86
2013 Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (1981-84), dies from lung cancer at 84
2014 Norman Willis, English union leader (General Secretary of the UK's Trades Union Congress), dies at 81
2015 Michael Oliver, British cardiologist (linked cholesterol with coronary artery disease), dies at 89
2018 David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist best known for his war photography, dies at 102
2018 Peter Stringfellow, English nightclub owner (Stringfellows), dies at 77
2020 Michael Beavis, British RAF officer, deputy Commanding-in-Chief (Allied Forces Central Europe), dies at 90