Died on Tuesday, 3rd June – Famous Deaths

03/06/2025

Jim Marshall, American football player (born 1937)

James Lawrence Marshall was an American professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for 20 seasons, primarily with the Minnesota Vikings. He recovered an NFL career-record 29 opponents' fumbles. He also holds the league career marks for most consecutive starts (270) and most games played (282) by a defensive player. The Vikings retired his No. 70, and he was inducted into the Vikings Ring of Honor.

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Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1936)

Shigeo Nagashima was a Japanese professional baseball player and manager. Nagashima first began playing baseball in elementary school, before playing at his high school in Chiba Prefecture, part of Kanto Region, just before he played as a third baseman for Rikkyo University. After winning the batting title for two straight years in Tokyo Big6 Baseball League, Nagashima made his professional debut in 1958 with the Yomiuri Giants. In his rookie season, he led the Central League in home runs and runs batted in, with 29 and 92 respectively and ultimately received Rookie of the Year honors. With the arrival of Sadaharu Oh in 1959, the two would both become a dual force in being the best hitters in the game that earned the nickname "O-N Cannon" for one of the most dominant dynasties in NPB history, and Nagashima won league MVP five times while being named to the Best Nine Award in every season he played; his four Japan Series MVP award wins is still the most in NPB history. After retiring in 1974, he became as a manager of the Giants from 1975 to 1980, and again from 1993 to 2001; during this time, he won the Japan Series twice.

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Edmund White, American novelist, memoirist and essayist (born 1940)

Edmund Valentine White III was an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and essayist. A pioneering figure in LGBTQ and especially gay literature after the Stonewall riots, he wrote with rare candor about gay identity, relationships, and sex. His work emerged as part of an increasingly solidified and visible LGBTQ community, helping to reshape public narratives at a time when coming out was still a dangerous, even radical act. His writing, noted for intimate depth and literary elegance, includes the semi-autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), and The Farewell Symphony (1997). He also co-authored The Joy of Gay Sex (1977), promoting sex-positive discourse.

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03/06/2024

Brigitte Bierlein, former Austrian chancellor (born 1949)

Brigitte Bierlein was an Austrian jurist who served as President of the Constitutional Court from 2018 to 2019 and as Chancellor of Austria from 2019 to 2020. An independent, she was the first woman to hold either office.

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William Russell, English actor (born 1924)

William Russell Enoch was an English actor who performed as both Russell Enoch and William Russell. His career on stage and screen spanned over seven decades and he first achieved prominence in the title role of the television series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956–1957). In 1963, he was in the original lead cast of BBC1's Doctor Who, playing the role of schoolteacher Ian Chesterton from the show's first episode until 1965.

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03/06/2021

F. Lee Bailey, American attorney (born 1933)

Francis Lee Bailey Jr. was an American criminal defense attorney and author of "The Defense Never Rests."

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03/06/2016

Muhammad Ali, American boxer (born 1942)

Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "the Greatest", he is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He held the Ring magazine heavyweight title from 1964 to 1970, was the undisputed champion from 1974 to 1978, and was the WBA and Ring heavyweight champion from 1978 to 1979. In 1999, he was named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC.

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03/06/2015

Avi Beker, Israeli political scientist and academic (born 1951)

Avi Beker was an Israeli writer, statesman, and academic. Beker served as secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress from 4 October 2001 to 14 October 2003.

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03/06/2014

Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (born 1942)

Svyatoslav Igorevich Belza was a Soviet Russian literary and musical scholar, critic and essayist, and a prominent TV personality who's launched and hosted several TV programs aimed at popularizing classical music, theatre, and ballet, including Music on Air and Masterpieces of the World Music Theatre. Belza has received high-profiled honors in three countries, among them the Russian Order of Merit for the Fatherland, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, and the Ukrainian Order of Saint Nicholas.

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Gopinath Munde, Indian politician, 3rd Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1949)

Gopinathrao Pandurang Munde known as "Loknete Munde Saheb" was an Indian politician and statesman from the state of Maharashtra. He was the strongest mass-leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) known for his charismatic personality and the ability to deliver heartfelt speeches to connect with the audience.

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03/06/2013

Atul Chitnis, German-Indian technologist and journalist (born 1962)

Atul Chitnis was an Indo-German consulting technologist. He was one of the organizers of FOSS.IN, which was one of Asia's free and open source software (FOSS) conferences.

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Józef Czyrek, Polish economist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1928)

Józef Czyrek was a Polish politician who served as the minister of foreign affairs of the People's Republic of Poland from 1980 to 1982.

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Frank Lautenberg, American soldier and politician (born 1924)

Frank Raleigh Lautenberg was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as United States Senator from New Jersey from 1982 to 2001, and again from 2003 until his death in 2013. He was originally from Paterson, New Jersey.

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03/06/2012

Carol Ann Abrams, American producer, author, and academic (born 1942)

Carol Ann Abrams was an American television and film producer. She and her husband, television producer Gerald W. Abrams, are the parents of film director and producer J. J. Abrams and screenwriter Tracy Rosen. Abrams died from cancer.

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Roy Salvadori, English racing driver and manager (born 1922)

Roy Francesco Salvadori was a British racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1952 to 1962. In endurance racing, Salvadori won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1959 with Aston Martin.

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Brian Talboys, New Zealand journalist and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1921)

Sir Brian Edward Talboys was a New Zealand politician who served as the seventh deputy prime minister of New Zealand for the first two terms of Robert Muldoon's premiership. If the abortive "Colonels' Coup" against Muldoon had been successful, Talboys would have become Prime Minister himself.

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03/06/2011

James Arness, American actor and producer (born 1923)

James King Arness was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the series Gunsmoke. He has the distinction of having played the role of Dillon in five decades: 1955 to 1975 in the weekly series, then in Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987) and four more made-for-television Gunsmoke films in the 1990s. In Europe, Arness reached cult status for his role as Zeb Macahan in the Western series How the West Was Won. He was the older brother of actor Peter Graves.

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Andrew Gold, American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger (born 1951)

Andrew Maurice Gold was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who influenced much of the Los Angeles-dominated pop/soft rock sound in the 1970s. Gold performed on scores of records by other artists, especially Linda Ronstadt, and had his own success with the U.S. top 40 hits "Lonely Boy" (1977) and "Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978), as well as the UK top five hit "Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978). In the 1980s, he had further international chart success as one half of Wax, a collaboration with 10cc's Graham Gouldman.

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Bhajan Lal, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Haryana (born 1930)

Bhajan Lal was a politician and three-time chief minister of the Indian state of Haryana. He became the Chief Minister for the first time in 1979, was re-elected in 1982, and became the chief minister for the third time by winning the elections in 1991. He also served as the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Environment and Forests in the Rajiv Gandhi government.

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Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, author, and activist (born 1928)

Murad Jacob Kevorkian, also known by the nickname "Dr. Death", was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". Kevorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He was convicted of murder in 1999.

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Jan van Roessel, Dutch footballer (born 1925)

Jan van Roessel was a Dutch footballer who played as a forward.

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03/06/2010

Rue McClanahan, American actress (born 1934)

Eddi-Rue McClanahan was an American actress, primarily known for her work in television sitcoms. She portrayed Vivian Harmon on Maude (1972–1978), Aunt Fran Crowley on Mama's Family (1983–1984), and Blanche Devereaux on both The Golden Girls (1985–1992) and its spin-off The Golden Palace (1992–1993).

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03/06/2009

David Carradine, American actor (born 1936)

David Carradine was an American actor, director, and producer, whose career included over 200 major and minor roles in film, television and on stage. He was widely known to television audiences as the star of the series Kung Fu (1972–1975), playing Kwai Chang Caine, a peace-loving Shaolin monk traveling through the American Old West.

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Koko Taylor, American singer (born 1928)

Koko Taylor was an American singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues, and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", she was known for her rough, powerful vocals. Over the course of her career, she was nominated for 11 Grammy Awards, winning 1985's Best Traditional Blues Album for her appearance on Blues Explosion.

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03/06/2006

Clinton Jones, American Episcopal priest and gay rights activist (born 1916)

Canon Clinton Robert Jones Jr. was an Episcopal priest and gay rights activist based in Hartford, Connecticut.

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03/06/2005

Harold Cardinal, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1945)

Harold Cardinal was a Cree writer, political leader, teacher, negotiator, and lawyer. Throughout his career he advocated, on behalf of all First Nation peoples, for the right to be "the red tile in the Canadian mosaic."

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03/06/2003

Felix de Weldon, Austrian-American sculptor, designed the Marine Corps War Memorial (born 1907)

Felix Weihs de Weldon was an Austrian sculptor. His most famous pieces include the United States Marine Corps War Memorial in the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, US, and the Malaysian National Monument (1966) in Kuala Lumpur.

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03/06/2002

Lew Wasserman, American talent agent and manager (born 1913)

Lewis Robert Wasserman was an American businessman and talent agent, described as "the last of the legendary movie moguls" and "arguably the most powerful and influential Hollywood titan in the four decades after World War II". His career spanned nearly eight decades from the 1920s to the 2000s; he started working as a cinema usher before dropping out of high school, rose to become the president of MCA Inc. and led its takeover of Universal Pictures, during which time Wasserman "brought about changes in virtually every aspect of show business". In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton. Several years later, he spoke of his ongoing work at Universal to Variety, saying, "I am under contract here for the rest of my life, and I don't think they would throw me out of my office—my name is on the building."

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03/06/2001

Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor and producer (born 1915)

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca, known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican and American actor. He was known for his portrayal of earthy, passionate characters "marked by a brutal and elemental virility" in over 100 film, television and stage roles between 1936 and 2002. He was a two-time Academy Award winner, and was also nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award.

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03/06/1997

Dennis James, American actor and game show host (born 1917)

Dennis James was an American television personality, philanthropist, and commercial spokesman. Until 1976, he had appeared on TV more times and for a longer period than any other television star. Alternately referred to as "The Dean of Game Show Hosts" and the "Godfather of Gameshows", he was the host of television's first network game show, the DuMont Network's Cash and Carry (1946).

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03/06/1994

Puig Aubert, German-French rugby player and coach (born 1925)

Puig Aubert, is often considered the best French rugby league footballer of all time. Over a 16-year professional career he would play for Carcassonne, XIII Catalan, Celtic de Paris and Castelnaudary winning five French championships and four French cups along with representing the France on 46 occasions. His position of choice was at fullback and after his retirement in 1960 he would go on to coach Carcassonne and France along with becoming head French national selector for several years.

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03/06/1993

Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (born 1918)

Yeoh Ghim Seng was a Singaporean politician who served as Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore between 1970 and 1988.

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03/06/1992

Robert Morley, English actor and screenwriter (born 1908)

Robert Adolph Wilton Morley was an English actor who enjoyed a lengthy career in both Britain and the United States. He was frequently cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment, often in supporting roles. In 1939 he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of King Louis XVI in Marie Antoinette.

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03/06/1991

Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league player (born 1924)

Brian Eyrl Bevan, also known by the nickname of "Wing Wizard", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He became the only player ever to be inducted into both the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and British Rugby League Hall of Fame. An Other Nationalities representative wing and the record try scorer in the history of the Rugby League European Championship, Bevan scored a world record 796 tries, mainly for Warrington. In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, he was named on the wing of Australia's Team of the Century (1908–2007). Bevan was the only player chosen in the team who had never represented Australia in a test match.

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Katia Krafft, French volcanologist and geologist (born 1942)

Catherine Joséphine "Katia" Krafft and her husband, Maurice Paul Krafft were French volcanologists and filmmakers who died in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Nagasaki, Japan, on 3 June 1991. The Kraffts became well known as pioneers in the filming, photographing, and recording of volcanoes, often coming within feet of lava flows. Their obituary appeared in the Bulletin of Volcanology. Since their deaths, their work has been featured in two documentary films by Werner Herzog, Into the Inferno (2016) and The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022), and a further film, Fire of Love (2022), depicted their lives, relationship and careers using their archived footage.

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Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist and geologist (born 1946)

Catherine Joséphine "Katia" Krafft and her husband, Maurice Paul Krafft were French volcanologists and filmmakers who died in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Nagasaki, Japan, on 3 June 1991. The Kraffts became well known as pioneers in the filming, photographing, and recording of volcanoes, often coming within feet of lava flows. Their obituary appeared in the Bulletin of Volcanology. Since their deaths, their work has been featured in two documentary films by Werner Herzog, Into the Inferno (2016) and The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022), and a further film, Fire of Love (2022), depicted their lives, relationship and careers using their archived footage.

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Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician and academic (born 1918)

Lê Văn Thiêm was a Vietnamese scientist. Together with Hoàng Tụy, he is considered the father of Vietnam Mathematics society. He was the first director of the Vietnam Institute of Mathematics, and the first Headmaster of Hanoi National University of Education and Hanoi University of Science.

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03/06/1990

Robert Noyce, American physicist and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation (born 1927)

Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He was also credited with the realization of the first monolithic integrated circuit or microchip made with silicon, which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.

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03/06/1989

Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (born 1900)

Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.

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03/06/1987

Will Sampson, American actor and painter (born 1933)

William Sampson Jr. was a Muscogee Nation painter, actor, and rodeo performer. He is best known for his performance as the apparently mute Chief Bromden in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as Crazy Horse in the 1977 western The White Buffalo, as well as his roles as Taylor in Poltergeist II: The Other Side and Ten Bears in 1976's The Outlaw Josey Wales.

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03/06/1986

Anna Neagle, English actress and singer (born 1904)

Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox, known professionally as Anna Neagle, was an English stage and film actress, singer, and dancer.

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03/06/1981

Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist and academic (born 1904)

Carleton Stevens Coon was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his scientific racist theories concerning the parallel evolution of human races, which were widely disputed in his lifetime and are considered pseudoscientific by modern science.

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03/06/1977

Archibald Hill, English physiologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)

Archibald Vivian Hill, better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles.

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Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1906)

Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), and Germany, Year Zero (1948). He is also known for his films starring his then wife Ingrid Bergman, Stromboli (1950), Europe '51 (1952), Journey to Italy (1954), Fear (1954) and Joan of Arc at the Stake (1954).

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03/06/1975

Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (born 1906)

Oswald George Nelson was an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and bandleader. He originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, a radio and television series with his wife Harriet and two sons David and Ricky Nelson.

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Eisaku Satō, Japanese and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1901)

Eisaku Satō was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972. He was the third longest-serving and longest-uninterrupted–serving Japanese prime minister. Satō is best remembered for securing the return of Okinawa in 1972, and for winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974, which stirred controversy. He was a former elite bureaucrat like his elder brother Nobusuke Kishi and a member of the Yoshida school like Hayato Ikeda. Like his predecessor he also supported Keynesian economic policies.

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03/06/1974

Michael Gaughan, Irish Republican died on hunger strike (born 1949)

Michael Gaughan was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker who died in 1974 in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, England. Gaughan was one of 22 Irish republicans to die while on hunger strike in the 20th century.

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03/06/1973

Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (born 1895)

Jean Batmale was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for the France national team at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics.

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03/06/1971

Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (born 1894)

Heinz Hopf was a German mathematician who worked on the fields of dynamical systems, topology and geometry.

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03/06/1970

Hjalmar Schacht, Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (born 1877)

Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht was a German economist, banker, politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank during the Weimar Republic. He was a fierce critic of his country's post-World War I reparations obligations. He was also central in helping create the group of German industrialists and landowners that pushed Hindenburg to appoint the first Nazi-led government.

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03/06/1969

George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (born 1883)

George Edwin Cooke was an American amateur soccer player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in St. Louis, Missouri.

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03/06/1964

Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (born 1887)

Mehmet Kâzım Orbay was a Turkish general and Speaker of the house. He served as the 3rd Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces.

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Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)

Frans Eemil Sillanpää was a Finnish writer. In 1939, he became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature".

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03/06/1963

Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (born 1893)

Edmond Decottignies was a French weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Comines.

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Pope John XXIII (born 1881)

Pope John XXIII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963.

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Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (born 1902)

Mehmed Nâzım Ran, commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet, was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements". Described as a "romantic communist" and a "romantic revolutionary", he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated into more than 50 languages.

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Samuel Rocke, Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia (born 1874)

Samuel Matthew Rocke was an Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1917 to 1921, representing the seat of South Fremantle.

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03/06/1946

Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician (born 1875)

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the nominal head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 until his resignation in 1946. From 1926 until his death, he was a member of the Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

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03/06/1938

John Flanagan, Irish-American hammer thrower and tug of war competitor (born 1873)

John Joseph Flanagan was an Irish-American three-time Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw, winning in 1900, 1904, and 1908.

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03/06/1933

William Muldoon, American wrestler (born 1852)

William Muldoon was an American Greco-Roman Wrestling champion, a physical culturist, and the first chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. He once wrestled a match that lasted over seven hours.

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03/06/1928

Li Yuanhong, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (born 1864)

Li Yuanhong (Chinese: 黎元洪; pinyin: Lí Yuánhóng; Wade–Giles: Li2 Yüan2-hung2; courtesy name 宋卿; Sòngqīng; Sung4-ch'ing1; October 19, 1864 – June 3, 1928) was a prominent Chinese military and political leader of the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China. He was the Provisional Vice President of China from 1912 to 1913 as well as the president of China between 1916 and 1917, and between 1922 and 1923.

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03/06/1924

Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian lawyer and author (born 1883)

Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief fables and aphorisms, which frequently incorporated comedic elements alongside the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists, philosophers, composers, filmmakers, literary historians, religious scholars, and cultural theorists.

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03/06/1921

Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower and physician (born 1879)

Coenraad Christiaan Hiebendaal was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Amsterdam, which won the silver medal in the coxed fours final B. Coenraad Hiebendaal studied at the University of Amsterdam. Later in his life he became a physician.

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03/06/1906

John Maxwell, American golfer (born 1871)

John Riley Maxwell was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

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03/06/1902

Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (born 1829)

Vital-Justin Grandin was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop. He has been labelled as a key architect of the Canadian Indian residential school system by contemporary news sources, which has been considered an instrument of cultural genocide. In June 2021, this led to governments and private businesses to begin removing his name from institutions and infrastructure previously named for him. He served the Church in the western parts of what is now Canada both before and after Confederation. He is also the namesake or co-founder of various small communities and neighbourhoods in what is now Alberta, Canada, especially those of francophone residents.

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03/06/1900

Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author (born 1862)

Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English explorer, travel writer, and ethnographic observer known for her journeys through West Africa and for her influential writings on African societies and colonial policy.

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03/06/1899

Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (born 1825)

Johann Baptist Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas, as well as a violinist. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet.

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03/06/1894

Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (born 1812)

Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal was a German jurist and the son of Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal.

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03/06/1882

Christian Wilberg, German painter and illustrator (born 1839)

Christian Wilberg was a German painter.

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03/06/1877

Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian botanist, composer, and publisher (born 1800)

Ludwig Ritter von Köchel was an Austrian musicologist, writer, composer, botanist, and publisher. He is best known for cataloguing the works of Mozart and originating the 'KV-numbers' by which they are known.

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03/06/1875

Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (born 1838)

Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.

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03/06/1865

Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (born 1838)

Okada Izō was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, feared as one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period. He was a member of Tosa Kinnoto in his hometown, Tosa Domain. Izō and Tanaka Shinbei were active in Kyoto as assassins under the leadership of Takechi Hanpeita.

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03/06/1861

Stephen A. Douglas, American lawyer and politician, 7th Secretary of State of Illinois (born 1813)

Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. As a U.S. senator, he was one of two nominees of the divided Democratic Party to run for president in the 1860 presidential election, representative of the Northern Democrats, and lost to Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois, known for the pivotal Lincoln–Douglas debates. Earlier, Douglas was one of the brokers of the Compromise of 1850, which sought to avert a sectional crisis. To further deal with the volatile issue of extending slavery into the territories, Douglas became the foremost advocate of popular sovereignty, which held that each territory should be allowed to determine whether to permit slavery within its borders. This attempt to address the issue was rejected by both pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates. Standing 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m) tall, Douglas was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short in physical stature but a forceful and dominant figure in politics.

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03/06/1858

Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer (born 1834)

Friedrich Julius Reubke was a German composer, pianist and organist associated with the school of Romanticism. A pupil of Franz Liszt, his small œuvre includes the Sonata on the 94th Psalm in C minor, renowned as one of the finest organ works in the romantic repertoire.

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03/06/1826

Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian and poet (born 1766)

Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was a Russian historian, writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for his fundamental History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history.

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03/06/1780

Thomas Hutchinson, American businessman and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (born 1711)

Thomas Hutchinson was an American merchant, politician, historian, and colonial administrator who repeatedly served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years leading up to the American Revolution. He has been described as "the most important figure on the loyalist side in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts". Hutchinson was a successful merchant and politician who was active at high levels of the Massachusetts colonial government for many years, serving as lieutenant governor and then governor from 1758 to 1774. He was a politically polarizing figure who came to be identified by John Adams and Samuel Adams as a supporter of unpopular British taxes, despite his initial opposition to Parliamentary tax laws directed at the colonies. Hutchinson was blamed by British Prime Minister Lord North for being a significant contributor to the tensions that led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

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03/06/1659

Morgan Llwyd, Welsh minister and poet (born 1619)

Morgan Llwyd was a Puritan Fifth Monarchist and Welsh-language poet and prose author.

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03/06/1657

William Harvey, English physician and academic (born 1578)

William Harvey was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as the specific process of blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the body by the heart.

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03/06/1649

Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (born 1590)

Manuel de Faria e Sousa was a Portuguese historian and poet who frequently wrote in Spanish.

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03/06/1640

Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1584)

Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, was an English nobleman and politician.

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03/06/1615

Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (born 1567)

Sanada Nobushige , also known as Sanada Yukimura , was a Japanese samurai warrior of the Sengoku period. He was especially known as the leading general on the defending side of the Siege of Osaka. Yukimura was called "A Hero who may appear once in a hundred years", "Crimson Demon of War" and "The Last Sengoku Hero". The famed veteran of the invasion of Korea Shimazu Tadatsune called him the "Number one warrior in Japan" (日本一の兵).

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03/06/1594

John Aylmer, English bishop and scholar (born 1521)

John Aylmer was an English bishop, constitutionalist and a Greek scholar.

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03/06/1553

Wolf Huber, Austrian painter, printmaker and architect (born 1485)

Wolf Huber was an Austrian- German painter, printmaker, and architect, who worked in Passau, Germany for most of his life as a leading member of the Danube school.

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03/06/1548

Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish-Mexican archbishop (born 1468)

Juan de Zumárraga, OFM was a Spanish Basque Franciscan prelate and the first Bishop of Mexico. He was also the region's first inquisitor. He wrote Doctrina breve, the first book published in the Western Hemisphere by a European, printed in Mexico City in 1539.

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03/06/1511

Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah, Islamic scholar, author of the Oran fatwa

Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah al-Maghrawi al-Wahrani was an Algerian Maliki scholar of Islamic law, active in the Maghreb from the end of the fifteenth century until his death. He was identified as the author of the 1504 fatwa commonly named the Oran fatwa, instructing the Muslims in Spain about how to secretly practice Islam, and granting comprehensive dispensations for them to publicly conform to Christianity and performing acts normally forbidden in Islam when necessary to survive. Because of his authorship of the fatwa he is often referred to as "the Mufti of Oran", although he likely issued the fatwa in Fez, not in Oran and he did not have any official capacity in either city.

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03/06/1453

Loukas Notaras, last megas doux of the Byzantine Empire

Loukas Notaras was a Byzantine Greek statesman who served as the last megas doux or grand duke and the last mesazon of the Byzantine Empire, under emperors John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI Palaiologos.

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03/06/1411

Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (born 1371)

Leopold IV of Austria, Duke of Further Austria, was an Austrian Habsburg Duke of the Leopoldinian Line, known as "the Fat".

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03/06/1397

William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (born 1328)

William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, 4th Baron Montagu, King of Mann, KG was an English nobleman and commander in the English army during King Edward III's French campaigns in the Hundred Years War. He was one of the Founder Knights of the Order of the Garter.

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03/06/1052

Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno

Guaimar IV was Prince of Salerno (1027–1052), Duke of Amalfi (1039–1052), Duke of Gaeta (1040–1041), and Prince of Capua (1038–1047) in Southern Italy over the period from 1027 to 1052. He was an important figure in the final phase of Byzantine authority in the Mezzogiorno and the commencement of Norman power. He was, according to Amatus of Montecassino, "more courageous than his father, more generous and more courteous; indeed he possessed all the qualities a layman should have—except that he took an excessive delight in women."

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03/06/0800

Staurakios, Byzantine general

Staurakios was a Byzantine Greek eunuch official, who rose to be one of the most important and influential associates of Byzantine empress Irene of Athens. He effectively acted as chief minister during her regency for her young son, Emperor Constantine VI in 780–790, until he was overthrown and exiled by a military revolt in favour of the young emperor in 790. Restored to power by Constantine along with Irene in 792, Staurakios aided her in the eventual removal, blinding, and possible murder of her son in 797. His own position thereafter was threatened by the rise of another powerful eunuch, Aetios. Their increasing rivalry, and Staurakios's own imperial ambitions, were only resolved by Staurakios's death.

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03/06/0734

Simeon of the Olives, Syriac bishop of Harran

Simeon of the Olives was a Syriac Orthodox bishop of Harran from Ḥabsenus in the eight century. He is attributed to have built or rebuilt several churches and monasteries in the region around Nisibis, such as the Mor Loʿozor Monastery.

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03/06/0628

Liang Shidu, Chinese rebel leader

Liang Shidu was a claimant to title of Emperor of China who rebelled against the rule of the Chinese Sui dynasty near the end of the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui. Liang Shidu claiming the title of Emperor of Liang with the aid from Eastern Turkic Khaganate retained the modern northern Shaanxi and western Inner Mongolia region for over a decade, but was gradually weakened by attacks from the Tang dynasty, whose founding emperor Emperor Gaozu and successor Emperor Taizong had eliminated the rival contenders for power one by one, leaving Liang isolated. In 628, with the Eastern Turks in internal turmoil and unable to come to his aid, Emperor Taizong launched another attack on Liang. Liang's cousin Liang Luoren (梁洛仁) assassinated him and surrendered, completing Tang's drive to reunite China after Sui's collapse.

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