Deaths Date 1963 June | History by KabAstro

Jun 2 Century Milstead, American College Football Hall of Fame tackle (Yale; NFL C'ship 1927, NY Giants), dies at 62

John XXIII (1881-1963)

Jun 3 Italian priest and 261st Pope (1958-63), dies of stomach cancer at 81

Jun 3 Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (Tosun Pasa, The Passenger), dies at 61
Jun 3 Paul Maxey, American actor (The Narrow Margin, Till the Clouds Roll By), dies from a heart attack at 56
Jun 5 Donat Raymond, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame builder (head Canadian Arena Company, Montreal Forum rebuilt in 1968) and politician, dies at 83
Jun 6 William Baziotes, American painter (abstract expressionist), dies at 50
Jun 7 ZaSu Pitts, American actress (Life With Father; Dames; Wedding March), dies at 69
Jun 9 Vasyl Barvinsky, Ukrainian pianist, composer, conductor, musicologist ("Béla Bartók in Lviv"), and teacher (Lysenko Higher Institute of Music, 1915-48), dies at 75
Jun 10 Anita King, American stunt driver (1st woman to drive across the US unaccompanied) and actress (Tender Loving Care), dies of a heart attack at 74
Jun 10 Jack Root, Czech-American boxer (First world light heavyweight champion 1903), dies from a heart attack at 87
Jun 11 Thích Quảng Đức, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon at the age of 65-66
Jun 12 Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80

Jun 12 American civil rights activist and NAACP official, shot and assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi at 37

Jun 17 Alain F B Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough, dies at 79
Jun 17 John Cowper Powys, British writer and critic (Wood & Stone, Wolf Solent), dies at 90
Jun 17 John Whiting, British actor, dramatist and critic (PT Raiders, The Devils, The Good Companions), dies of cancer at 45
Jun 18 Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (From Russia With Love, Fort Apache), commits suicide at 51
Jun 20 Gordon Jones, American character actor (The Green Hornet; Flying Tigers; Abbott & Costello), dies from a heart attack at 52
Jun 20 Joseph Self, American murderer, executed by hanging in Walla Walla, Washington at 32; last state execution until 1990
Jun 20 Ralph Sanford, American actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64
Jun 20 Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician, dies at 64
Jun 22 Maria Tănase, Romanian singer of traditional and popular music (b. 1913)
Jun 24 Jud Wilson, American Baseball HOF infielder (NgL World Series 1943, 44; Baltimore Black Sox, Homestead Grays, Philadelphia Stars), dies at 67
Jun 26 Obe Postma, Frisian poet (Fan wjerklank en bisinnen / Of resonance and reflection), naturalist, and historian, dies at 95
Jun 28 John 'Home Run' Baker, American Baseball HOF third baseman (World Series 1910, 11, 13; AL HR leader 1911–14; AL RBI leader 1912, 13; Philadelphia A's), dies at 77