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Famous People Who Died in June 1975

Eisaku Satō (1901-1975)

Jun 2 Prime Minister of Japan (1963-72) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1974), dies of a stroke at 74

  • Jun 3 Oswald "Ozzie" Nelson, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies from cancer at 69
  • Jun 3 Satō Eisaku, Japanese Prime Minister (1964-72), (Nobel Peace Prize 1974), dies at 74
  • Jun 4 Evelyn Brent, American actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75
  • Jun 5 Kenneth Horne, British writer and playwright (Fools Rush In; The Coming-Out Party), dies of cancer at 75
  • Jun 5 Paul Keres, Estonian and Soviet chess player, dies at 59
  • Jun 6 Larry Blyden, actor (Joe & Mabel, What's My Line), dies at 49
  • Jun 8 Murray Leinster [William Fitzgerald Jenkins], American science-fiction author (Time Tunnel; Land of the Giants), dies at 78
  • Jun 9 David Frederick Barlow, English composer, dies at 48
  • Jun 11 Floro Ugarte, Argentine composer (From My Land; Saika), and educator, dies at 90
  • Jun 12 Alfred Kurella, German author and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Germany, dies at 80
  • Jun 14 Clancy Cooper, American actor (Enchanted Forest, Girls in Chains), dies at 68
  • Jun 14 Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (b. 1902)
  • Jun 16 Don Robey, American record label executive and record producer, dies at 71
  • Jun 17 Sid Gordon, American baseball player, dies at 57
  • Jun 18 Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king

Sam Giancana (1908-1975)

Jun 19 American mobster and boss of the Chicago Outfit (1957-66), dies of multiple gunshot wounds at 67

  • Jun 20 Daniel Ayala Pérez, Mexican violinist, conductor, and composer, dies at 68
  • Jun 21 Heinz Lau, German composer, dies at 49
  • Jun 23 William Hansen, American actor (1776, Pinky, Side Street, Homebodies), dies at 64
  • Jun 26 St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei, dies of cardiac arrest at 73
  • Jun 28 Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
  • Jun 28 Rod Serling, American screenwriter and TV host (The Twilight Zone; Night Gallery), dies after multiple heart attacks at 50
  • Jun 28 Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
  • Jun 29 Jerry Verno, British actor (River of Unrest, Ourselves Alone, Sweeney Todd), dies at 79
  • Jun 29 Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter, dies at 28 of a heroin overdose