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Notable Deaths on June 13
June 13 has 85 recorded notable deaths across history, from 220 to 2026. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
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220 – 2026
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- 313 The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia. Source
- 1774 Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves. Source
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A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human, are considered modern classics.
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1645
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese samurai (born 1584)
Miyamoto Musashi was a Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer, who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 duels. Musashi is considered a kensei of Japan. He was the founder of the Niten Ichi-ryū style of swordsmanship. In his final years, Musashi authored The Book of Five Rings and Dokkōdō.
2021
Ned Beatty
American actor (born 1937)
Ned Thomas Beatty was an American actor. In a career that spanned five decades, he appeared in more than 160 film and television roles. Throughout his career, Beatty gained a reputation for being "the busiest actor in Hollywood".
2008
Tim Russert
American journalist and lawyer (born 1950)
Timothy John Russert was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a senior vice president at NBC News and Washington bureau chief, and also hosted an eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview program. He was a frequent correspondent and guest on NBC's The Today Show and Hardball. Russert covered several presidential elections, and he presented the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey on the NBC Nightly News during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Time magazine included Russert in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. Russert was posthumously revealed as a 30-year source for syndicated columnist Robert Novak.
1948
Osamu Dazai
Japanese author (born 1909)
Shūji Tsushima , known by his pen name Osamu Dazai , was a Japanese writer. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human, are considered modern classics.
1987
Geraldine Page
American actress (born 1924)
Geraldine Sue Page was an American actress. With a career that spanned four decades across film, stage, and television, Page was the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for four Tony Awards.
2010
Jimmy Dean
American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (born 1928)
Jimmy Ray Dean was an American country music singer, songwriter, television host, actor and businessman. He was the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand as well as the spokesman for its TV commercials, and his likeness and voice continue to be used in advertisements after his death.
1918
Michael Alexandrovich
Russian Grand Duke (born 1878)
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas II. He was designated Emperor of Russia after his brother abdicated in 1917 and proclaimed him "Emperor Michael II", but Michael declined to take power a day later.
2014
Chuck Noll
American football player and coach (born 1932)
Charles Henry Noll was an American professional football player and head coach. Regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, his sole head coaching position was for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1969 to 1991. When Noll retired after 23 years, only three other head coaches in NFL history had longer tenures with one team.
2024
Angela Bofill
American R&B singer (born 1954)
Angela Tomasa Bofill was an American singer, songwriter and composer. A New York native, she began her professional career in the mid-1970s and is most known for singles such as "This Time I'll Be Sweeter", "Angel of the Night", and "I Try". Her career spanned over four decades.
1965
Martin Buber
Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (born 1878)
Martin Buber was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship.
1993
Deke Slayton
American soldier, pilot and astronaut (born 1924)
Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton was an American Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts. He went on to become NASA's first chief of the Astronaut Office and director of Flight Crew Operations, responsible for NASA crew assignments.
2006
Charles Haughey
Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (born 1925)
Charles James Haughey was an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach three times between 1979 and 1992, when he was leader of Fianna Fáil. Over a forty-year career, Haughey was the most complex and divisive figure in late 20th-century Ireland. After his retirement, the disclosure of millions of pounds in secret payments from businessmen damaged his reputation.
2009
Mitsuharu Misawa
Japanese professional wrestler (born 1962)
Mitsuharu Misawa was a Japanese professional wrestler and promoter. He spent most of his career with All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he became the promotion's leading wrestler during the 1990s, before founding Pro Wrestling Noah in 2000. Misawa was one of AJPW's Four Heavenly Kings , alongside Toshiaki Kawada, Kenta Kobashi, and Akira Taue; their matches became closely associated with AJPW's ōdō, or King's Road, style.
2012
Mehdi Hassan
Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer for Lollywood (born 1927)
Mehdi Hassan Khan, known as Mehdi Hassan, was a Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer of great renown. Known as Shahenshah-e-Ghazal, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of ghazal singing. Known for his "haunting" baritone voice, Hassan is credited with bringing ghazal singing to a worldwide audience. He is unique for his melodic patterns and maintaining integrity of the ragas in an innovative way.
1980
Walter Rodney
Guyanese historian and activist (born 1942)
Walter Anthony Rodney was a Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. His notable works include How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, first published in 1972. He was assassinated in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1980.
1951
Ben Chifley
Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1885)
Joseph Benedict Chifley was the 16th prime minister of Australia, serving from 1945 to 1949. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and was notable for defining Australia's post-war reconstruction efforts, enacting social and immigration reforms and advancing the nationalisation of critical industries.
1972
Stephanie von Hohenlohe
Austrian-German spy (born 1891)
Stephanie Julianne von Hohenlohe was an Austrian princess by her marriage to the diplomat Prince Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, a member of the noble Hohenlohe family. She was born a commoner, allegedly of Jewish family background.
220
Xiahou Dun
Chinese general
Xiahou Dun, courtesy name Yuanrang, was a Chinese military general and politician serving under the warlord Cao Cao during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. He served for a few months under Cao Cao's successor, Cao Pi, before his death. As one of Cao Cao's most trusted generals, Xiahou Dun aided the warlord in his campaigns against Lü Bu, Liu Bei, Sun Quan and others.
1931
Kitasato Shibasaburō
Japanese medical doctor and bacteriologist (born 1851)
Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong during an outbreak in 1894, almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin.
2003
Malik Meraj Khalid
Pakistani lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1916)
Malik Meraj Khalid was a Pakistani barrister, politician and Marxist philosopher who served as the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from 1996 to 1997. He also served as the chief minister of Punjab from 1972 to 1973. He was one of the original philosophers and founders of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
1861
Henry Gray
English anatomist and surgeon (born 1827)
Henry Gray was an English anatomist and surgeon most notable for publishing the book Gray's Anatomy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) at the age of 25.
2026
Roger Cook
New Zealand-born British investigative journalist (born 1943)
Roger James Cook was an Australian and British investigative journalist and television broadcaster. In 1998 he received a BAFTA special award "for 25 years of outstanding quality investigative reporting", for his programme The Cook Report.
2015
Buddy Boudreaux
American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1917)
John Landry “Buddy” Boudreaux was an American big band and jazz musician. He played saxophone and clarinet. Starting in 1934, he directed and played in a number of bands that toured the southern United States and drew nationally known performers to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The State-Times newspaper called him "the city’s sound of big band". His bands backed such artists as Andy Williams, Bernadette Peters, Doc Severinsen, Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Burt Bacharach, Johnny Mathis, The Four Tops, Bob Hope, George Burns and Joan Rivers. He opened shows for Tony Bennett, Tony Orlando, Louise Mandrell, The Beach Boys and Bill Cosby. He was co-author—with his barber, Michael T. Abadie—of “My Baton Rouge,” which in 1998 was declared the city's official song.
1348
Juan Manuel
Spanish prince (born 1282)
Don Juan Manuel was a Spanish medieval writer, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile, son of Manuel of Castile and Beatrice of Savoy. He inherited from his father the great Lordship of Villena, receiving the titles of Lord, Duke and lastly Prince of Villena. He married three times, choosing his wives for political and economic convenience, and worked to match his children with partners associated with royalty. Juan Manuel became one of the richest and most powerful men of his time, coining his own currency as the kings did. During his life, he was criticised for choosing literature as his vocation, an activity thought inferior for a nobleman of such prestige.
1984
António Variações
Portuguese singer-songwriter (born 1944)
António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro was a Portuguese singer and songwriter. Despite his short-lived career due to his premature death at the age of thirty-nine, using the stage name of António Variações, he became one of the most culturally significant performing artists of recent Portuguese history. His recorded works blended contemporary music genres with traditional Portuguese rhythms and melodies, creating music which for many is symbolic of the liberalization that occurred in Portuguese society after the Carnation Revolution of 1974. The original and provocative nature of his recorded works has led to him being widely recognized as one of the most innovative artists in the recent history of Portuguese popular music.
1904
Nikiforos Lytras
Greek painter and educator (born 1832)
Nikiforos Lytras was a Greek painter. He was born in Tinos and trained in Athens at the School of Arts. In 1860, he won a scholarship to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. After completing these studies, he became a professor at the School of Arts in 1866, a position he held for the rest of his life. He remained faithful to the precepts and principles of the Munich School, while paying greatest attention both to ethnographic themes and portraiture. His most famous portrait was of the royal couple, Otto and Amalia, and his most well-known landscape a depiction of the region of Lavrio.
1784
Henry Middleton
American farmer and politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (born 1717)
Henry Middleton was an American politician and planter from South Carolina. A member of the colonial legislature, during the American Revolution he attended the First Continental Congress and served as that body's president for four days in 1774 after the passage of the Continental Association, which he signed. He left the Second Continental Congress before it declared independence. Back in South Carolina, he served as president of the provincial congress and senator in the newly created state government. After his capture by the British in 1780, he accepted defeat and returned to the status of a British subject until the end of the war.
2014
Mahdi Elmandjra
Moroccan economist and sociologist (born 1933)
Mahdi Elmandjra was a Moroccan futurologist, economist and sociologist. He is one of the founders of the International Federation for Future Studies (Futuribles). He predicted a number of events, the most important of which was the clash of civilisations in his book "The first civilisation war" in 1992, that is, before Samuel Huntington, who used the same concept in his book "The clash of civilisations" issued in 1996. Mahdi Elmandjra also predicted the occurrence of the "Arab Spring", which he referred to in his writings under the name of "Intifada".
1930
Henry Segrave
American-English racing driver (born 1896)
Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold both titles simultaneously and the first person to travel at over 200 miles per hour (320 km/h) in a land vehicle. He died in an accident in 1930 shortly after setting a new world water speed record on Windermere in the Lake District, England. The Segrave Trophy was established to commemorate his life.
2014
Robert Peters
American poet, playwright and critic (born 1924)
Robert Louis Peters was an American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor. He held a PhD in Victorian literature. Born in an impoverished rural area of northern Wisconsin in 1924, his poetry career began in 1967 when his young son Richard died unexpectedly of spinal meningitis. The book commemorating this loss, Songs for a Son, was selected by poet Denise Levertov to be published by W. W. Norton in 1967. Songs for a Son began a flood of poetry.
976
Mansur I
Samanid emir
Abu Salih Mansur, better known as Mansur I (منصور) was amir of the Samanids from 961 to 976. The son of Nuh I, his reign was characterized by weak rule and perpetual financial troubles. Mansur was notably the first Samanid ruler to the use title of King of Kings (Shahanshah), most likely as a response to his rival, the Buyid ruler Adud al-Dawla, who likewise used the title. He is also known by the sobriquet Amīr-i Sadid.
2014
Gyula Grosics
Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1926)
Gyula Grosics was a Hungarian football goalkeeper who played 86 times for the Hungary national football team and was part of the "Golden Team" of the 1950s. Regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, he was thought to be the first goalkeeper to play as the sweeper-keeper. Grosics was nicknamed "Black Panther", because he wore black clothing while playing. He won a gold medal in football at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
1997
Nguyen Manh Tuong
Vietnamese lawyer and academic (born 1909)
Nguyễn Mạnh Tường (1909–1997) was a Vietnamese lawyer and intellectual. He was known to be one of the active participators in the Nhân Văn affair in the mid-1950s which saw many intellectuals demanding freedom and democracy in communist-led North Vietnam. After he criticised the disastrous land reform campaign in 1956, he was stripped of all positions he held in the government and was forced to retire from practicing law.
1943
Kočo Racin
Macedonian author and activist (born 1908)
Kosta Apostolov Solev, primarily known by his pen name Kočo Racin, was a Macedonian poet, writer and communist who is considered a founder of modern Macedonian literature. He is also regarded as a founder of modern Macedonian poetry. Racin wrote in prose too and created some significant works with themes from history, philosophy, and literary critique. He also wrote in Serbian and Bulgarian.
2005
David Diamond
American pianist and composer (born 1915)
David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music. He is considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation. Many of his works are tonal or modal. His early compositions are typically triadic, often with widely spaced harmonies, giving them a distinctly American tone, but some of his works are consciously French in style. His later style became more chromatic.
2015
Mike Shrimpton
New Zealand cricketer and coach (born 1940)
Michael John Froud Shrimpton was a New Zealand cricketer and coach. A middle-order batsman and leg-spinner, he played 10 Test matches for New Zealand between 1963 and 1974, but was never able to establish himself in the side. He played for Central Districts in New Zealand domestic cricket from 1961–62 to 1979–80, except for 1974–75, when he played for Northern Districts.
1256
Tankei
Japanese sculptor (born 1173)
Tankei was a Japanese sculptor of the Kei school, which flourished in the Kamakura period. He was the student of and eldest son of the master sculptor Unkei. He was also the teacher, and uncle of the sculptor Kōen, who would collaborate with his works, and would succeed him as head of the Kei School upon his death in 1256.
1939
Arthur Coningham
Australian cricketer (born 1863)
Arthur Coningham was an Australian cricketer who played in one Ashes Test match at Melbourne in 1894 in which he took a wicket with his very first ball. He took 2 for 17 in England's first innings but failed to add to that tally in the second.
2012
Graeme Bell
Australian pianist, composer and bandleader (born 1914)
Graeme Emerson Bell, AO, MBE was an Australian Dixieland and classical jazz pianist, composer and band leader. According to The Age, his "band's music was hailed for its distinctive Australian edge, which he describes as 'nice larrikinism' and 'a happy Aussie outdoor feel'".
1636
George Gordon
1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (born 1562)
George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, 6th Earl of Huntly was a Scottish nobleman who took a leading role in the political and military life of Scotland in the late 16th century, and around the time of the Union of the Crowns.
2013
Albert White Hat
American educator and activist (born 1938)
Albert White Hat was a teacher of the Lakota language, and an activist for Sičháŋǧu Lakȟóta traditional culture. He translated the Lakota language for Hollywood movies, including the 1990 movie Dances with Wolves, and created a modern Lakota orthography and textbook.
2005
Álvaro Cunhal
Portuguese academic and politician (born 1913)
Álvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal was a Portuguese communist revolutionary, writer and politician. He was one of the major opponents of the corporatist regime of the Estado Novo. He served as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) from 1961 to 1992.
1036
Ali az-Zahir
Fatimid caliph (born 1005)
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥākim, better known with his regnal name al-Ẓāhir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh, was the seventh Imam–caliph of the Fatimid dynasty (1021–1036). Al-Zahir assumed the caliphate after the disappearance of his father al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.
1979
Demetrio Stratos
Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1945)
Efstratios Dimitriou, known professionally as Demetrio Stratos, was a Greek-Italian vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music researcher, best known as the co-founder, frontman and lead singer of the Italian progressive rock band Area – International POPular Group.
1965
David Drummond
Australian farmer and politician (born 1890)
David Henry Drummond was an Australian politician and farmer. He was a member of the Country Party and served in both the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1920–1949) and the Australian House of Representatives (1949–1963).
1846
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès
French geographer and author (born 1767)
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès was a French geographer, author and translator, best remembered in the English speaking world for his translation of German ghost stories Fantasmagoriana, published anonymously in 1812, which inspired Mary Shelley and John William Polidori to write Frankenstein and The Vampyre respectively. He was one of the founding members of the Société de Géographie, a member of the Société Asiatique, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, American Philosophical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Legion of Honour. He had a mountain named after him near Yos Sudarso Bay in New Guinea, as well as a sandbank near French Island, Australia, and a street in Le Havre.
1661
Henry Carey
2nd Earl of Monmouth, English politician (born 1595)
Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, KB, known as Sir Henry Carey between 1616 and 1626 and as Lord Leppington between 1626 and 1639, was an English nobleman and translator.
1957
Irving Baxter
American high jumper and pole vaulter (born 1876)
Irving Knott Baxter was an American athlete, who won the gold medal in both the men's high jump and the pole vault at the 1900 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France.
2013
Sam Most
American flute player and saxophonist (born 1930)
Samuel Most was an American jazz flutist, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, based in Los Angeles. He was "probably the first great jazz flutist", according to jazz historian Leonard Feather.
1881
Joseph Škoda
Czech medical doctor and dermatologist (born 1805)
Joseph Škoda was an Austrian physician, medical professor and dermatologist. Together with Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, he was the founder of the Modern Medical School of Vienna.
1898
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (born 1840)
Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1892 to 1898.
2012
Sam Beddingfield
American pilot and engineer (born 1933)
Samuel T. Beddingfield was an American test pilot and a pioneering aerospace engineer and who had a long career with NASA during its crewed space programs.
1665
Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer
Dutch admiral (born 1604)
Egbert Bartholomeuszoon Kortenaer or Egbert Meussen Cortenaer was an admiral of the United Provinces of the Netherlands who was killed in the Battle of Lowestoft.
2014
Jim Keays
Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)
James Keays Jr. was a Scottish-born Australian musician who fronted the rock band The Masters Apprentices as singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonica-player from 1965 to 1972 and subsequently had a solo career. He also wrote for a music newspaper, Go-Set, as its Adelaide correspondent in 1970 and its London correspondent in 1973.
1998
Alfred Gerrard
English sculptor and academic (born 1899)
Alfred Horace "Gerry" Gerrard RBS was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture there from 1949 to 1968, where he taught a number of well-known sculptors.
2013
David Deutsch
American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (born 1929)
David Deutsch was an American advertising executive and artist. He founded David Deutsch Associates, now known as Deutsch Inc., in 1969. He served as the agency's CEO from 1969 until 1989, when he handed control of the company to his son, Donny Deutsch.
1958
Edwin Keppel Bennett
English poet and academic (born 1887)
Edwin Keppel Bennett, noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel, was an English writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic. He served as the president of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge between 1948 and 1956.
2004
Ralph Wiley
American journalist and author (born 1952)
Ralph Heygood Wiley Jr. was an American sports journalist who wrote for Sports Illustrated and ESPN's Page 2. He was well known for his distinctive literary tone and his writings on race in America.
2002
Maia Wojciechowska
Polish-American author (born 1927)
Maia Teresa Wojciechowska was a Polish-American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. Her first book and two books for adults were published under her married name Maia Rodman.
2007
Walid Eido
Lebanese judge and politician (born 1942)
Walid Eido was a member of the Future Movement, Lebanese political movement and a member of the Lebanese Parliament. He was also a member of the March 14 Coalition.
995
Fujiwara no Michikane
Japanese nobleman (born 961)
Fujiwara no Michikane, was a Japanese statesman of the Heian period.
1231
Anthony of Padua
Portuguese priest and saint (born 1195)
Anthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.
1432
Uko Fockena
Frisian chieftain (born c. 1408)
Uko Fockena was an East Frisian chieftain of Moormerland and Emsigerland.
1550
Veronica Gambara
Italian poet (born 1485)
Veronica Gambara was an Italian poet and politician. She was the ruler of the County of Correggio from 1518 until 1550.
1762
Dorothea Erxleben
first German female doctor (born 1715)
Dorothea Christiane Erxleben was a German medical doctor who became the first woman doctor of medicine in Germany.
1886
Ludwig II
king of Bavaria (born 1845)
Ludwig II, also called the Swan King or the Fairy Tale King, was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886.
1894
John Cox Bray
Australian politician, 15th Premier of South Australia (born 1842)
Sir John Cox Bray was a prominent South Australian politician and the first native-born Premier of South Australia (1881–1884).
1917
Louis-Philippe Hébert
Canadian sculptor (born 1850)
Louis-Philippe Hébert was a Canadian sculptor. He is considered one of the best sculptors of his generation.
1943
Sava Kovačević
Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander and People's Hero of Yugoslavia (born 1905)
Sava Kovačević was a Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander during World War II, and one of the heroes of the communist Partisan movement.
1969
Pralhad Keshav Atre
Indian journalist, director and producer (born 1898)
Pralhad Keshav Atre, popularly known as Āchārya Atre, was a Marathi writer, poet, educationist, founder–editor of Maratha, and orator.
1972
Georg von Békésy
Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian-American biophysicist.
1981
Olivério Pinto
Brazilian zoologist and medical doctor (born 1896)
Olivério Mário de Oliveira Pinto was a Brazilian zoologist and physician.
1986
Benny Goodman
American clarinet player, songwriter and bandleader (born 1909)
Benjamin David Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing".
1989
Fran Allison
American television personality and puppeteer (born 1907)
Frances Helen Allison was an American television and radio comedienne, personality, and singer.
1993
Gérard Côté
Canadian runner (born 1913)
Gérard Côté, was a Canadian marathon runner and a four-time winner of the Boston Marathon.
1994
Nadia Gray
Romanian-French actress (born 1923)
Nadia Gray was a Romanian film actress.
1998
Birger Ruud
Norwegian ski jumper (born 1911)
Birger Johannes Ruud was a Norwegian ski jumper and alpine skier.
1998
Reg Smythe
English cartoonist (born 1917)
Reginald Smyth was a British cartoonist who created the popular, long-running Andy Capp comic strip.
2002
John Hope
American navigator and meteorologist (born 1919)
John Raymond Hope was an American meteorologist who specialized in hurricane forecasting and was an on-air personality on The Weather Channel.
2009
Fathi Yakan
Lebanese scholar and politician (born 1933)
Fathi Yakan was an Islamic cleric who held a seat in the parliament of Lebanon in 1992. He was born in Tripoli.
2012
Jože Humer
Slovenian composer and translator (born 1934)
Jože Humer was a Slovenian composer, choirmaster, lyricist, translator, and cultural organiser.
2012
Roger Garaudy
French philosopher and author (born 1913)
Roger Garaudy was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982.
2015
Sergio Renán
Argentinian actor, director and screenwriter (born 1933)
Sergio Renán was an Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter.
2024
Benji Gregory
American child actor (born 1978)
Benjamin Gregory Hertzberg was an American actor best known for playing Brian Tanner on the 1986–1990 NBC sitcom ALF.