Famous Deaths on June 30

• 350 Nepotianus, Roman usurper (ruled Rome for 28 days), killed on orders of rival Magnentius
• 1181 Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
• 1224 Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)

• 1347 John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English politician, supporter of Edward II and the last Warenne earl of Surrey, dies at 61
• 1364 Arnošt of Pardubice, 1st and last Archbishop of Prague and advisor to Emperor Charles IV, dies at 67

• 1538 Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelder and Earl of Zutphen, dies at 70
• 1607 Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian, dies at 68
• 1649 Simon Vouet, French painter to the court of Louis XIII, dies at 59
• 1655 Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman and lawyer, dies at 81
• 1660 William Oughtred, English mathematician (invented early slide rule), dies at 86
• 1662 Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, Dutch portrait painter, buried at about 64
• 1666 Adam Krieger, German organist, kapellmeister, and composer, dies at 32
• 1666 Alexander Brome, English Royalist poet (wrote drinking songs against Rump Parliament), dies
• 1670 Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England and Duchess of Orléans, dies at 26
• 1685 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55
• 1704 John Quelch, English pirate, hanged for piracy in Boston at 38
• 1708 Tekle Haymanot I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1706-08), stabbed to death by courtiers at 24
• 1709 Edward Lhuyd, Welsh naturalist (Illustrations of the Figured Stones of Britain), dies at about 49
• 1785 James Oglethorpe, English military officer, philanthropist and founder of the US colony of Georgia, dies at 88
• 1792 Francesco Antonio Rosetti, Bohemian double-bassist and composer, dies at abour 42 [birthdate uncertain, c. 1750]
• 1796 Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman, dies at 71
• 1816 Paul Hamilton, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and Secretary of the Navy (1809-12), dies at 53
• 1817 Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
• 1819 Ernst Ludwig Gerber, German organist, composer and musicologist, dies at 72
• 1839 Johan Olof Wallin, Swedish poet and archbishop (Dead Angel), dies at 59
• 1857 Alcide d’Orbigny, French naturalist, dies at 54
• 1862 Richard Griffith, American Confederate brigadier general, dies of wounds from the Battle of Savage’s Station at 48
• 1874 James Cantey, Brigadier General of the Confederate Army, dies at 55
• 1882 Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman, dies at 55

• 1883 Benjamin Franklin Sands, American admiral for the Union Navy, dies at 72
• 1889 Eugenio Terziani, Italian composer and music director (Teatro Apollo; La Scala), dies at 64
• 1890 Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American sacred music composer, dies at 71
• 1899 E. D. E. N. [Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte] Southworth, American novelist (The Hidden hand, Retribution), dies at 79 [1] [2]
• 1899 Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies

• 1914 Bai Long [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies
• 1917 Antonio de La Gandara, French painter of the Belle Époque, dies at 55

• 1920 Lena Christ, German writer (The Rumplhanni), commits suicide at 38
• 1923 Claude Terrasse, French operetta composer (Ubu Roi; Miss Alice des P.T.T), dies at 56
• 1924 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet and writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42
• 1930 Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist known for leadership in the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, dies at 85
• 1934 Erich Klausener, Catholic politician killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1885)
• 1934 Ernst Röhm, German army officer and chief organizer of Adolf Hitler’s Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung, or SA; Brownshirts), executed at 46
• 1934 Gregor Strasser, German political activist and NSDAP-Reich organization leader, murdered during the Night of the Long Knives at 42
• 1934 Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria killed during the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1862)
• 1934 Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered during the Night of the Long Knives at 29
• 1934 Kurt von Schleicher, German politician (German Chancellor 1932-33), murdered by the Nazi SS during the Night of the Long Knives at 52
• 1935 Bill Brockwell, English cricketer (British all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies at 70
• 1938 Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61
• 1942 Arnoldus Johannes Hubertus Aerts, Dutch bishop of New Guinea, executed at 62
• 1946 Michael Zadora, American composer and pianist, dies at 64
• 1948 Karl Wolfskehl, German Jewish writer, dies at 78
• 1953 Charles William Miller, Brazilian sportsman (founder São Paulo Athletic Club; father of soccer & rugby union in Brazil), dies at 78
• 1953 Elsa Beskow, Swedish children’s author and illustrator (Tale of the Little Little Old Woman), dies at 79
• 1953 Göte Carlid, Swedish composer (Eine kleine Teemusik), dies at 32
• 1953 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director and theorist (Mother, Deserter), dies of a heart attack at 60
• 1959 José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1959 Lazare Saminsky, Russian-American composer, dies at 76
• 1960 Clarence Cameron White, American concert violinist, and composer (Elegy; Ouanga!), dies from cancer at 79
• 1961 Lee de Forest, American inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87
• 1962 Caspar Neher, Austrian-German set designer and librettist, dies at 65
• 1965 Bessie Barriscale, American actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks), dies at 81
• 1965 William Dudley Pelley, American fascist activist and leader of the Silver Legion in America, dies at 75
• 1966 Giuseppe Farina, Italian auto racer (World F1 champion 1950), dies in a domestic car accident at 59
• 1966 Margery Allingham, English detective writer (one of ‘four ‘Queens of Crime’), dies at 62
• 1968 John Gough, American actor (Smooth as Satin, In the Land of the Tortilla, Circus Kid), dies at 73
• 1969 Jan Evangelista Zelinka, Czech composer (Meluzina), dies at 76
• 1971 Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies in outer space aboard Soyuz 11 at 43
• 1971 Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
• 1971 Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies in outer space aboard Soyuz 11 at 38
• 1971 Vladislav Volkov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), dies in outer space aboard Soyuz 11 at 35
• 1973 Elmer Layden, College Football Hall of Fame fullback (Notre Dame legendary 4-horsemen, 1st NFL Commissioner), dies at 70
• 1973 Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a Cold Climate), one of the Mitford sisters, dies of cancer at 68
• 1973 Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, Ukrainian Catholic bishop and martyr who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001, dies at 70 of injuries sustained during Soviet imprisonment [1]
• 1974 Alberta King, American mother of Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in church at 69
• 1974 Vannevar Bush, American engineer (developed 1st electronic analogue computer) and science administrator, dies at 84
• 1976 Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (Washington Senators), dies at 77
• 1979 Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72
• 1980 Virginia Brown Faire, American silent film actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies at 76
• 1983 Bo Gentry [Robert Ackoff] American songwriter (“Mony, Mony”), and record producer (Tommy James), dies at 41
• 1983 Mary Livingstone [Sadya Marcowitz/Marks], American radio actress, comedienne, and wife of Jack Benny (The Jack Benny Program), dies of heart disease at 78

• 1985 James Dewar, Canadian inventor and baker (Twinkie cake), dies at 88
• 1987 Federico Mompou, Spanish composer, dies at 94
• 1987 Jackie Fields, American featherweight boxer (2x World Welterweight Champion, Olympic gold 1924), dies at 79
• 1987 King Donovan, actor and director (Enforcer, Perfect Furlough), dies
• 1987 Thor Thorvaldsen, Norwegian yachtsman (Olympic gold dragon class 1948, 52), dies at 78
• 1990 Dudu Pukwana [Mtutuzel], South African saxophonist and composer, dies at 51
• 1992 Doug Delauder, American actor, dies at 41
• 1992 Jim Alaimo, American vocalist, dies after heart surgery at 53
• 1992 Nico Booken, Dutch director (Jewish Labor Social), dies at 72
• 1993 Spanky McFarland, American actor (Our Gang; The Little Rascals), dies suddenly at age 64
• 1994 Nicholas Warner, English test Pilot for Airbus, dies in Airbus Industrie A330-321 test flight crash at 51
• 1995 Barney Simon, South African theatre director and writer, dies at 63
• 1995 Gale Gordon [Charles Thomas Aldrich, Jr], American actor and comedian (Our Miss Brooks; Dennis The Menace; The Lucy Show; Here’s Lucy), dies from lung cancer at 89
• 1995 Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
• 1995 Jorge Peixinho, Portuguese pianist, composer, and conductor, dies at 45
• 1995 Phyllis Hyman, American jazz singer (Prime of My Life), commits suicide at 45
• 1995 Sicco Mansholt, Dutch politician, (President of the Commission of Europe 1972-1973), dies at 86

• 1996 Hugh Henry Home Popham, British aviator, writer and poet, dies at 76
• 1996 Jef Maes, Belgian composer and violinist, dies at 91
• 1996 Norman Aldridge, English toxicologist (solved global poisoning mysteries), dies at 76
• 1997 Albus Dumbledore [Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore], fictional character, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, dies at 115
• 1997 Larry O’Day, Australian wrestler, dies of cancer at 53
• 1999 Clifford Charles Butler, English physicist (hyperon and meson types of particles) and vice chancellor of Loughborough University, dies at 77
• 1999 Édouard Boubat, French photographer, dies at 75
• 2001 Chet Atkins, American country-pop-rockabilly-jazz finger-picking guitarist dies of colon cancer at 77
• 2001 Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist, dies at 64
• 2002 Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
• 2002 Pete Gray [Wyshner], American baseball outfielder (First of three one-armed men to play MLB; St Louis Browns), dies at 87
• 2003 Buddy Hackett [Leonard Hacker], American comedian and actor (God’s Little Acre; The Music Man; The Love Bug), dies of heart disease at 78
• 2003 Robert McCloskey, American children’s book writer and illustrator (Make Way For Ducklings), dies at 88
• 2004 Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer, dies at 80
• 2004 Rosalinde Hurley, British pathologist, medical administrator, and lawyer, dies at 74 [1]
• 2005 Christopher Fry, English playwright (The Lady’s Not for Burning), dies at 97
• 2006 Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
• 2007 Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
• 2009 Harve Presnell, American actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 75
• 2009 Pina Bausch, German choreographer and dancer, dies at 68
• 2010 Elliott Kastner, American film producer (Bobo, Big Sleep), dies at 80
• 2010 Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor, and K-pop and J-pop singer, takes his own life at 32
• 2011 Barry Bremen, American sports imposter and businessman (b. 1947)
• 2011 David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander), dies at 86

• 2013 Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, British judge and author, dies at 96
• 2014 Bob Hastings, American actor, dies from prostate cancer at 89
• 2014 Paul Mazursky, American film director and screenwriter, dies from pulmonary cardiac arrest at 84
• 2015 Eddy Louiss, French jazz Hammond B3 organist (Double Six), dies at 74
• 2015 Leonard Starr, American comic strip cartoonist (Annie), dies at 89
• 2016 Geoffrey Hill, English poet, dies at 84
• 2017 Simone Veil, French politician (first female President of the European Parliament 1979-82), dies at 89
• 2019 Doug Ford, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (successful NSW of 50’s), dies at 90
• 2019 Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist who pioneered chaos theory, dies at 74
• 2020 Aleksandr Kabanov, Russian water polo player (Olympic gold 1972, 80; World C’ship gold 1975, 82) and coach (Russian men’s & women’s teams), dies at 72
• 2020 Alfred Kotey, Ghanaian boxer (WBO Bantamweight C’ship 1994-95), dies of complications from a stroke at 52
• 2021 Inge Danielsson, Swedish soccer midfielder (17 caps; Ifö/Bromölla IF, Helsingborgs IF, AFC Ajax, IFK Norrköping), dies at 80
• 2021 Janet Moreau Stone, American athlete (Olympic gold 4x100m relay 1952), dies at 93
• 2021 Vic Briggs, British-American guitarist (The Animals, 1966-68), and producer; later known as Antion Vikram Singh, he created Sikhi devotional and Hawaiian music, dies of cancer at 76
• 2022 Bill Squires, American track & field coach (Greater Boston Track Club: Bill Rodgers, Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, Greg Meyer; Boston State College 1965-78), dies at 89
• 2023 Vahidin Musemić, Bosnian soccer striker (17 caps Yugoslavia; FK Sarajevo, OGC Nice), dies at 76

June 30 Highlights