Deaths June 30 | History by KabAstro

Moctezuma II (c. 1466-1520)

Aztec emperor (1502-20), killed either by the Spanish or stoned to death by his own people

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, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
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
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, US Confederate brigadier general, dies of wounds from the Battle of Savage's Station at 48
1882 Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman, dies at 55

Charles J. Guiteau (1841-1882)

American assassin of US President James A. Garfield, hanged at 40

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 Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies
1905 John Hay, American politician and statesman who was a private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and US Secretary of State (1898-1905), dies at 66
1914 Bai Long [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies

John William Strutt (1841-1919)

3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and discoverer of argon (Nobel Prize 1904), dies at 76

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, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
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
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 Velychkovsky, Ukrainian Bishop and Catholic Martyr, dies under Soviet imprisonment at 70
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

Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

American playwright, (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes), dies at 79

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

David McCampbell (1910-1996)

US Navy captain, fighter pilot, and Medal of Honor recipient (WWII, Pacific theatre, downed 34 Japanese planes), 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 guitarist (Me & My Guitar), dies 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 one-armed outfielder (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
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

Yitzhak Shamir (1915-2012)

Israeli Prime Minister (1983–84, 1986–1992) and Zionist, dies from Alzheimer's disease 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 Leonard Starr, American comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan 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
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 guitarist (The Animals, 1966-68), and producer; later known as Antion Vikram Singh, he created Sikhi devotional and Hawaiian music, dies 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