Did you know
Tony Gwynn was a 15-time All-Star and won seven Silver Slugger Awards and five Gold Glove Awards.
Notable Deaths on June 16
2014 — Tony Gwynn
American baseball player and coach (born 1960)
June 16 has 110 recorded notable deaths across history, from 840 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
110 source records
840 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on June 16
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- 1981 US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor. Source
- 2012 China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module. Source
- 1925 Artek, the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, is established. Source
- 2015 American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming election. Source
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Tyrrell's career began in theater in New York City in the 1960s in Broadway and off Broadway productions.
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Hugh the Great played an active role in bringing King Louis IV of France back from England in 936.
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, as its general manager; in 1923 he became its managing director, and in 1927 he was employed as the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation created under a royal charter.
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Charles Napier Sturt was a British officer and explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia.
More major people who died on June 16
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2012
Susan Tyrrell
American actress (born 1945)
Susan Tyrrell was an American character actress. Tyrrell's career began in theater in New York City in the 1960s in Broadway and off Broadway productions. Her first film was Shoot Out (1971).
956
Hugh the Great
Frankish nobleman (born 898)
Hugh the Great was the duke of the Franks and count of Paris. He was the most powerful magnate in France. Son of King Robert I of France and Beatrice of Vermandois, Hugh was Margrave of Neustria.
1971
John Reith
1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (born 1889)
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
1869
Charles Sturt
Indian-English botanist and explorer (born 1795)
Charles Napier Sturt was a British officer and explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia.
1961
Marcel Junod
Swiss physician and anesthesiologist (born 1904)
Marcel Junod was a Swiss medical doctor and one of the most accomplished field delegates in the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
1993
Lindsay Hassett
Australian cricketer and soldier (born 1913)
Arthur Lindsay Hassett was an Australian cricketer who played for Victoria and the Australian national team. The diminutive Hassett was an elegant middle-order batsman, described by Wisden as, "...
1981
Thomas Playford IV
Australian politician, 33rd Premier of South Australia (born 1896)
Sir Thomas Playford was an Australian politician from the state of South Australia. He served as Premier of South Australia and leader of the Liberal and Country League (LCL) from 5 November 1938 to 10 March 1965.
1929
Vernon Louis Parrington
American historian and scholar (born 1871)
Vernon Louis Parrington was an American literary historian, scholar, and college football coach.
1902
Ernst Schröder
German mathematician and academic (born 1841)
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ernst Schröder was a German mathematician mainly known for his work on algebraic logic.
1952
Andrew Lawson
Scottish-American geologist and academic (born 1861)
Andrew Cowper Lawson was a Scots-born Canadian geologist who became professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley.
2011
Östen Mäkitalo
Swedish engineer and academic (born 1938)
Östen Mäkitalo was a Swedish electrical engineer. He is considered to be one of the most important developers in modern times together with Laila Ohlgren, both engineers at Telia.
1918
Bazil Assan
Romanian engineer and explorer (born 1860)
Bazil George Assan was a Romanian engineer, explorer and economist. Belonging to a wealthy family in Bucharest, Assan was an important figure in the industrialization of the Kingdom of Romania.
1858
John Snow
English epidemiologist and physician (born 1813)
John Snow was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene.
2026
Daveigh Chase
American actress (born 1990)
Daveigh Elizabeth Chase was an American actress. She began her career as a child in the psychological thriller film Donnie Darko (2001) and in the blockbuster horror film The Ring (2002).
1944
George Stinney
wrongfully convicted African-American teenager (born 1929)
George Junius Stinney Jr. was an African American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14 after being convicted, during an unfair trial, for the murders of two white girls – 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and…
1969
Harold Alexander
1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (born 1891)
Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, was a British Army officer who served in both of the world wars.
1626
Christian
Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (born 1599)
Christian the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, known as der tolle Halberstädter, was a German Protestant military leader during the early years of the Thirty Years' War.
2024
Ludwig Adamovich Jr.
Austrian constitutional scholar (born 1932)
Ludwig Karl Adamovich, commonly known as Ludwig Adamovich Jr., was an Austrian constitutional scholar, civil servant, and educator.
1974
Amalie Sara Colquhoun
Australian landscape and portrait painter (born 1894)
Amalie Sara Colquhoun was an Australian landscape and portrait painter who is represented in national and state galleries.