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Helen Keller then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan.
Notable Deaths on June 1
1968 — Helen Keller
American author and activist (born 1880)
June 1 has 114 recorded notable deaths across history, from 195 BC to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
114 source records
195 BC – 2025
Today in history
Major events on June 1
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- 1990 Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production. Source
- 1918 World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. Source
- 1670 In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Source
- 1412 The Treaty of Lubowla between the kingdoms of Hungary and Poland is confirmed with one of the largest and magnificent royal meetings and feasts ever held in Buda. King Sigismund of Hungary host king Władysław II Jagiełło while several thousand nobles attend. Source
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Adolf Eichmann participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
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08 m), 245 lb (111 kg) Mikan was one of the pioneers of professional basketball.
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Cronje also led South Africa to win the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy, the first major ICC title the country has won in international cricket.
More major people who died on June 1
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1962
Adolf Eichmann
German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer, key organizer of the Holocaust (born 1906)
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.
1616
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Japanese shogun (born 1543)
Tokugawa Ieyasu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
2005
George Mikan
American basketball player and coach (born 1924)
George Lawrence Mikan Jr., nicknamed "Mr. Basketball", was an American professional basketball player for the Chicago American Gears of the National Basketball League (NBL) and the Minneapolis Lakers of the NBL, the…
2002
Hansie Cronje
South African cricketer (born 1969)
Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje was a South African international cricketer and captain of the South Africa national cricket team in the 1990s.
1965
Curly Lambeau
American football player and coach, founded the Green Bay Packers (born 1898)
Earl Louis "Curly" Lambeau was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL).
1981
Carl Vinson
American lawyer and politician (born 1883)
Carl Vinson was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years and was influential in the 20th century expansion of the U.S. Navy.
2015
Joan Kirner
Australian educator and politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria (born 1938)
Joan Elizabeth Kirner was an Australian politician who was the 42nd Premier of Victoria, serving from 1990 to 1992.
1833
Oliver Wolcott Jr.
American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury, 24th Governor of Connecticut (born 1760)
Oliver Wolcott Jr. was an American politician and judge. He was the second United States secretary of the treasury, a judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit, and the 24th governor of…
1354
Kitabatake Chikafusa (born 1293)
Kitabatake Chikafusa was a Japanese court noble and writer of the 14th century who supported the Southern Court in the Nanboku-cho period, serving as advisor to five Emperors.
1938
Ödön von Horváth
Croatian-French author and playwright (born 1901)
Edmund Josef von Horváth was an Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who wrote in German, and went by the nom de plume Ödön von Horváth.
1954
Martin Andersen Nexø
Danish-German journalist and author (born 1869)
Martin Andersen Nexø was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement or more precisely "Det Folkelige Gennembrud" - the popular breakthrough - 1890s-1920, a movement dominated by…
1971
Reinhold Niebuhr
American theologian and academic (born 1892)
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an American Mainline Protestant theologian in the Reformed tradition, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30…
1983
Prince Charles
Count of Flanders (born 1903)
Prince Charles, Count of Flanders was a member of the Belgian royal family who served as regent of Belgium from 1944 until 1950, while a judicial commission investigated his elder brother, King Leopold III of Belgium,…
1908
Allen Butler Talcott
American painter (born 1867)
Allen Butler Talcott was an American landscape painter. After studying art in Paris for three years at Académie Julian, he returned to the United States, becoming one of the first members of the Old Lyme Art Colony in…
1941
Hugh Walpole
New Zealand-English author (born 1884)
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing.
2012
Pádraig Faulkner
Irish educator and politician, 19th Irish Minister of Defence (born 1918)
Pádraig Faulkner was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1980 to 1981, Minister for Defence 1979 to 1980, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and Minister for Tourism and…
1434
King Wladislaus II of Poland
Jogaila, later Władysław II Jagiełło, was Grand Duke of Lithuania beginning in 1377 and King of Poland from 1386 until his death.
1925
Thomas R. Marshall
American politician, 28th Vice President of the United States (born 1854)
Thomas Riley Marshall was the 28th vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson.
1815
Louis-Alexandre Berthier
French general and politician, French Minister of War (born 1753)
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Neuchâtel et Valangin, prince de Wagram was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.