Did you know
Henry Louis Gehrig was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees.
Notable Deaths on June 2
1941 — Lou Gehrig
American baseball player (born 1903)
June 2 has 114 recorded notable deaths across history, from 657 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
114 source records
657 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on June 2
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- 2003 Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. Source
- 2012 Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Source
- 1098 First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later. Source
- 1967 Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran are brutally suppressed, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group 2 June Movement. Source
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Rex Harrison won his first Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as Henry VIII in the Broadway play Anne of the Thousand Days in 1949.
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was an American professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons, primarily with the Dallas Cowboys.
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Trained in surgery, Brandt joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became Adolf Hitler's "escort doctor" (Begleitarzt) in August 1934.
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Brack was sentenced to death in 1947 during the Doctors' Trial and executed by hanging in 1948.
More major people who died on June 2
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1990
Rex Harrison
English actor (born 1908)
Sir Reginald Carey Harrison was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924.
2024
Larry Allen
American football player (born 1971)
Larry Christopher Allen Jr. was an American professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons, primarily with the Dallas Cowboys.
1948
Karl Brandt
German SS officer (born 1904)
Karl Brandt was a German physician and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in Nazi Germany. Trained in surgery, Brandt joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became Adolf Hitler's "escort doctor" (Begleitarzt) in August 1934.
1948
Viktor Brack
German physician (born 1904)
Viktor Hermann Brack was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal and one of the prominent organisers of the involuntary euthanasia programme Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the…
1567
Shane O'Neill
head of the O'Neill dynasty in Ireland (born 1530)
Shane O'Neill was an Irish chieftain of the O'Neill dynasty of Ulster in the mid-16th century. Shane O'Neill's career was marked by his ambition to be the O'Neill—sovereign of the dominant O'Neill family of Tír Eoghain.
2024
David Levy
Israeli politician (born 1937)
David Levy was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1969 and 2006. Levy's ascent to political prominence demonstrated the growing influence of Mizrahi Jews in Israel.
1581
James Douglas
4th Earl of Morton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1525)
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton was a Scottish nobleman. He played a leading role in the murders of Queen Mary's confidant, David Rizzio, and king consort Henry Darnley.
1942
Bunny Berigan
American singer and trumpet player (born 1908)
Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader who rose to fame during the swing era.
1987
Sammy Kaye
American bandleader and songwriter (born 1910)
Sammy Kaye was an American bandleader and songwriter, whose tag line, "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye", became one of the most famous of the Big Band Era.
1996
John Alton
Hungarian-American cinematographer and director (born 1901)
John Alton was an American cinematographer of Hungarian-Austrian origin.
1976
Juan José Torres
Bolivian general and politician, 61st President of Bolivia (born 1920)
Juan José Torres González was a Bolivian socialist politician and military leader who served as the 50th president of Bolivia from 1970 to 1971, when he was ousted in a coup that resulted in the dictatorship of Hugo…
1992
Philip Dunne
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1908)
Philip Ives Dunne was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox.
1956
Jean Hersholt
Danish-American actor and director (born 1886)
Jean Pierre Carl Buron, known professionally as Jean Hersholt, was a Danish-American actor. He is most famous for starring on the CBS radio series Dr.
1970
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Italian soldier, journalist, and academic (born 1888)
Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
1961
George S. Kaufman
American director, producer, and playwright (born 1889)
George Simon Kaufman was an American playwright, theater director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals for the Marx Brothers and others.
2001
Imogene Coca
American actress and comedian (born 1908)
Imogene Coca was an American comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows.
1996
Ray Combs
American game show host (born 1956)
Raymond Neil Combs Jr. was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and game show host. He began his professional career in the late 1970s.
2003
Freddie Blassie
American wrestler and manager (born 1918)
Frederick Kenneth Blassie was an American professional wrestler and manager, known by the ring name "Classy" Freddie Blassie.
2014
Alexander Shulgin
American pharmacologist and chemist (born 1925)
Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin was an American biochemist who synthesized and tested over 200 psychedelic and related chemical compounds.