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Famous People Who Died in June 1947

  • Jun 2 Herman Darewski, Polish-British stage and light music composer (The Better 'Ole), and conductor, dies at 64
  • Jun 6 Norman Reid, cricketer (Test S Af v Aust 1921-22, 11 & 6, 2-63), dies
  • Jun 8 Tom O'Brien, American actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56
  • Jun 9 Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, Polish politician (President of Poland in-exile 1939-47), dies at 62
  • Jun 10 Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
  • Jun 11 David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts, dies at 74
  • Jun 12 Jazeps Medins, Latvian composer, dies at 70
  • Jun 16 Jean-Francois Capart, Belgian Egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86

Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947)

Jun 17 American editor and publisher for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, dies at 62

  • Jun 18 Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral, hanged for war crimes at 48
  • Jun 19 Willem H. Fly, Dutch typographer/co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84

Bugsy Siegel (1906-1947)

Jun 20 American gangster who built casinos in Las Vegas, shot dead by a sniper in Beverly Hills at 41

  • Jun 24 Emil Seidel, German-American politician (36th Mayor of Milwaukee), dies at 82
  • Jun 28 Stanislav K Neumann, Czech poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72