Notable people who died on June 22 include: Hasdrubal Barca, Paulinus of Nola, Gebhard, Gerhard I, Qian Hongzuo.

Notable Deaths on June 22

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Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (born 1956)

79 people 207 BC – 2025

June 22 has seen 79 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 207 BC – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1997 — Ted Gärdestad

Swedish singer-songwriter (born 1956)

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In 1978, Gärdestad released his first English-language album, Blue Virgin Isles, which did not have success internationally, as his predecessor albums had in his home country.

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Gärdestad began his acting career in 1966 and began playing music in 1971, signing with Polar Music

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As Polar Music's best-selling solo artist, he continued to work with the group members throughout the 1970s, releasing three more albums Ted (1973), Upptåg (1974) and Franska Kort (1976), which were moderately successful

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Ted Arnbjörn Gärdestad, known internationally as Ted, was a Swedish singer, songwriter, and actor

Hasdrubal Barca

Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War (born 245 BC)

Hasdrubal Barca, a latinization of ʿAzrubaʿal son of Hamilcar Barca, was a Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War. He was the brother of Hannibal and Mago Barca.

-207

Paulinus of Nola

Christian bishop and poet (born 354)

Paulinus of Nola born Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus, was a Roman poet, writer, senator, and bishop. He attained the ranks of suffect consul and governor of Campania, but, prompted by the counsels of his Hispanic…

431

Gebhard

Frankish nobleman

Gebhard of Lahngau, of the Conradine dynasty, son of Odo, count of Lahngau, and Judith, was himself count of Wetterau (909–910) and Rheingau (897–906) and then duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).

910

Gerhard I

Frankish nobleman

Gerhard I of Metz was count of Metz. He was the son of Adalhard, count of Metz, himself son of Adalard the Seneschal and a daughter of Matfried, count of Eifel.

910

Qian Hongzuo

king of Wuyue (born 928)

Qian Hongzuo, courtesy name Yuanyou (元祐), also known by his temple name as King Chengzong of Wuyue (吳越成宗), was the third king of Wuyue during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of China.

947

Leo Passianos

Byzantine general

Leo Passianos was the Byzantine general sent by the Catapan of Italy Leo Tornikios Kontoleon to fight the Lombard rebel Melus of Bari in 1017. He is not to be confused with the other Passianos killed in Melus' first…

1017

Roger I of Sicily

Norman nobleman (born 1031)

Roger I, nicknamed "Roger Bosso" and "Grand Count Roger", was a Norman nobleman who became the first Grand Count of Sicily from 1071 to 1101.

1101

Innocent V

pope of the Catholic Church (born 1225)

Pope Innocent V, born Pierre de Tarentaise, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 21 January to 22 June 1276. A member of the Order of Preachers, he acquired a reputation as an effective…

1276

Aimone

Count of Savoy (born 1291)

Aymon, Count of Savoy (1291–1343), also known as Aymon the Peaceful, was a nobleman who ruled the County of Savoy from 1329 until his death in 1343. He was a member of the House of Savoy, a prominent European noble…

1343

Jamshīd al-Kāshī

Persian astronomer and mathematician (born 1380)

Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Masʿūd al-Kāshī was a Persian astronomer and mathematician during the reign of Tamerlane.

1429

Leonardo Loredan

Italian politician, 76th Doge of Venice (born 1436)

Leonardo Loredan was a Venetian nobleman and statesman who reigned as the 75th Doge of Venice from 1501 until his death in 1521. As a wartime ruler, he was one of the most important doges in the history of Venice. In…

1521

John Fisher

English bishop and saint (born 1469)

John Fisher was an English Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1504 to 1535 and as chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is honoured as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church.

1535

James Whitelocke

English judge and politician, Chief Justice of Chester (born 1570)

Sir James Whitelocke SL was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1622.

1632

Johann von Aldringen

Austrian field marshal (born 1588)

Johann Reichsgraf von Aldringen was a Luxemburger who served in the armies of the Spanish Habsburgs and later the Austrian Habsburgs, especially during the Thirty Years' War.

1634

Katherine Philips

Anglo-Welsh poet (born 1631)

Katherine or Catherine Philips, also known as "The Matchless Orinda", was an Anglo-Welsh royalist poet, translator, and woman of letters. She achieved renown as a translator of Pierre Corneille's Pompée and Horace, and…

1664

Josiah Child

English merchant, economist, and politician (born 1630)

Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet, was an English economist, merchant and politician. He was an economist proponent of mercantilism and governor of the East India Company. He led the company in the Anglo-Mughal War.

1699

Matthew Henry

Welsh minister and author (born 1662)

Matthew Henry was a British Nonconformist and Presbyterian minister and author who was born in Wales but spent much of his life in England. He is best known for the six-volume biblical commentary Exposition of the Old…

1714

Carlo Zimech

Maltese priest and painter (born 1696)

Don Carlo Zimech was a Maltese priest and painter. He was born within a well-off family in Żebbuġ on mainland Malta. In his later life, he retired to Nadur, Gozo, possibly because of health problems. He died in his…

1766

Lars Ingier

Norwegian road manager, land owner, and mill owner (born 1760)

Lars Ingier was a Norwegian military officer, road manager, land owner and mill owner.

1828

Heber C. Kimball

American religious leader (born 1801)

Heber Chase Kimball was an American religious leader who was a pioneer in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Church of the Latter Day Saints, and as first…

1868

Rudecindo Alvarado

Argentinian general (born 1792)

Rudecindo Alvarado was an Argentine general. He fought in the military campaigns of Manuel Belgrano, and in the Army of the Andes. He was governor of Mendoza. He left the country during the rule of Juan Manuel de Rosas,…

1872

Howard Staunton

English chess player (born 1810)

Howard Staunton was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant. He promoted a…

1874

Pierre Ossian Bonnet

French mathematician and academic (born 1819)

Pierre Ossian Bonnet was a French mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, including the Gauss–Bonnet theorem.

1892

Alexandre-Antonin Taché

Canadian archbishop and missionary (born 1823)

Alexandre-Antonin Taché was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order, author, and the first Archbishop of Saint Boniface in Manitoba, Canada.

1894

Francis Lubbock

American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas (born 1815)

Francis Richard Lubbock was a businessman, slaveholder, and politician from the American South who played a significant role in Texas history. A South Carolina native, he was a key player in Texas politics, serving as…

1905

Ștefan Octavian Iosif

Romanian poet and translator (born 1875)

Ștefan Octavian Iosif was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian poet and translator.

1913

Felix Klein

German mathematician and academic (born 1849)

Felix Christian Klein was a German mathematician, mathematics educator and historian of mathematics, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and the associations between geometry…

1925

A. B. Frost

American illustrator and painter (born 1851)

Arthur Burdett Frost, usually cited as A. B. Frost, was an American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer. He is best known for his illustrations of Br'er Rabbit and other characters in the Joel…

1928

Armand Fallières

French politician, 9th President of France (born 1841)

Clément Armand Fallières was a French statesman who was President of France from 1906 to 1913.

1931

Tim Birkin

English racing driver and lieutenant (born 1896)

Sir Henry Ralph Stanley Birkin, 3rd Baronet, known as Tim Birkin, was a British racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s.

1933

Szymon Askenazy

Polish historian and diplomat (born 1866)

Szymon Askenazy was a Jewish-Polish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school.

1935

Moritz Schlick

German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (born 1882)

Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johann Nelböck, in 1936.

1936

C. J. Dennis

Australian poet and author (born 1876)

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915). Alongside his contemporaries…

1938

Monty Noble

Australian cricketer and sportscaster (born 1873)

Montague Alfred Noble was an Australian cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. A right-hand batsman, right-handed bowler who could deliver both medium pace and off-break bowling, capable fieldsman and…

1940

August Froehlich

German priest and activist (born 1891)

August Froehlich was an Upper Silesian Roman Catholic priest. In his pastoral activity he opposed National Socialism. He campaigned in the name of German Catholics and of Polish forced labourers. He died in Dachau…

1942

Isamu Chō

Japanese general (born 1895)

Isamu Chō was a Japanese officer in the Imperial Japanese Army known for his support of ultranationalist politics and involvement in a number of attempted coup d'états in pre-World War II Japan.

1945

Mitsuru Ushijima

Japanese general (born 1887)

Mitsuru Ushijima was a Japanese general who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. He was the commanding general of the 32nd Army, which fought in the Battle of Okinawa during the final stages of…

1945

Walter de la Mare

English poet, short story writer and novelist (born 1873)

Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his psychological horror short fiction,…

1956

Hermann Brill

German educator and politician, 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (born 1895)

Dr. Hermann Louis Brill was a German resistance fighter, doctor of law and politician (SPD).

1959

Havank

Dutch journalist and author (born 1904)

Havank, pseudonym of Hendrikus Frederikus (Hans) van der Kallen, was a Dutch writer, journalist and translator. He published over 30 crime novels and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Dutch detective…

1964

David O. Selznick

American screenwriter and producer (born 1902)

David O. Selznick was an American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive who produced Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both of which earned him an Academy Award for Best Picture. He also won…

1965

Thaddeus Shideler

American hurdler (born 1883)

Thaddeus Rutter Shideler was an American hurdler who competed in the early twentieth century. He competed in athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the 110 meters hurdles. Fred Schule won the…

1966

Judy Garland

American actress and singer (born 1922)

Judy Garland was an American actress, singer, and vaudevillian whose career spanned four decades. She is known for her artistic range and strong contralto voice, working in a variety of genres including musicals,…

1969

Đặng Thùy Trâm

Vietnamese surgeon and author (born 1942)

Đặng Thùy Trâm was a Vietnamese doctor. She worked as a battlefield surgeon for the People's Army of Vietnam and Vietcong during the Vietnam War. Her wartime diaries, which chronicle the last two years of her life,…

1970

Darius Milhaud

French composer and educator (born 1892)

Darius Milhaud was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and Brazilian…

1974

Jacqueline Audry

French director and screenwriter (born 1908)

Jacqueline Audry was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful female director of post-war France.

1977

Peter Laughner

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)

Peter Laughner was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.

1977

Louis Chiron

Monégasque race car driver (born 1899)

Louis Alexandre Chiron was a Monégasque racing driver who competed in rallies, sports car races, and Grands Prix.

1979

Joseph Cohen

British solicitor, property developer, cinema magnate and Jewish community leader (born 1889)

Joseph Cohen (1889–1980) was a solicitor and property developer in Birmingham, England, and was chairman and managing director of the Jacey Cinemas chain. He was also a prominent figure in Birmingham's Jewish community.

1980

Joseph Losey

American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909)

Joseph Walton Losey III was an American film and theatre director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States. Blacklisted by…

1984

Fred Astaire

American actor and dancer (born 1899)

Fred Astaire was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years. He is widely regarded as the "greatest popular-music dancer of…

1987

Dennis Day

American singer and actor (born 1916)

Dennis Day was an American actor, comedian, and singer. He was of Irish descent.

1988

Ilya Frank

Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)

Ilya Mikhailovich Frank was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in…

1990

Pat Nixon

American educator, 37th First Lady of the United States (born 1912)

Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th U.S. president. From 1953 to 1961, she had been the second lady of the United States when her…

1993

Leonid Derbenyov

Russian poet and songwriter (born 1931)

Leonid Petrovich Derbenyov was a Russian poet and lyricist widely regarded as one of the stalwarts of the 20th century Soviet and Russian pop music.

1995

Al Hansen

American sculptor and author (born 1927)

Alfred Earl "Al" Hansen was an American artist. He was a member of Fluxus, a movement that originated on an artists' collective around George Maciunas.

1995

Gérard Pelletier

Canadian journalist and politician (born 1919)

Gérard Pelletier was a Canadian politician, dipolmat and journalist from Quebec best known for his association with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau that started decades before their entries to the political…

1997

Vasil Bykaŭ

Belarusian war novelist (born 1924)

Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ was a Belarusian dissident and opposition politician, junior lieutenant, and author of novels and novellas about World War II. A significant figure in Soviet and Belarusian literature and civic…

2003

Bob Bemer

American computer scientist and engineer (born 1920)

Robert William Bemer was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

2004

Mattie Stepanek

American poet and author (born 1990)

Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek, known as Mattie J.T. Stepanek, was an American author and motivational speaker. He published seven books of poetry and essays on peace, several of which appeared on The New York Times…

2004

Erik Parlevliet

Dutch field hockey player (born 1964)

Erik Robert Parlevliet was a Dutch field hockey player, who earned a total number of 155 caps, scoring 47 goals.

2007

Natalia Bekhtereva

Russian neuroscientist and psychologist (born 1924)

Natalia Petrovna Bekhtereva was a Soviet and Russian neuroscientist and psychologist who developed neurophysiological approaches to psychology, such as measuring the impulse activity of human neurons. She was a…

2008

George Carlin

American comedian, actor, and author (born 1937)

George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author. He was known for his dark comedy and reflections on politics, English, psychology, religion, and taboo subjects.

2008

Dody Goodman

American actress and dancer (born 1914)

Dody Goodman was an American character actress. She played the mother of the title character in the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, her distinctive high-pitched voice announcing the show's title at the…

2008

Coşkun Özarı

Turkish footballer and coach (born 1931)

Coşkun Özarı was a Turkish football player and coach.

2011

Juan Luis Galiardo

Spanish actor and producer (born 1922)

Juan Luis Galiardo Comes was a Spanish television, theater and film actor.

2012

Henning Larsen

Danish architect, designed the Copenhagen Opera House (born 1925)

Henning Larsen was a Danish architect. He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh and the Copenhagen Opera House.

2013

Allan Simonsen

Danish race car driver (born 1978)

Allan Weel Simonsen was a Danish racing driver, born in Odense. He died after a crash during the third lap of the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans.

2013

Fouad Ajami

Lebanese-American author and academic (born 1945)

Fouad A. Ajami was a Lebanese-born American professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He was a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

2014

Rama Narayanan

Indian director and producer (born 1949)

Rama Narayanan was an Indian film director and film producer. In the 1980s, he was known as a director who specialized in shooting commercial films in which animals played vital roles, while in the 1990s, several of his…

2014

James Horner

American composer and conductor (born 1953)

James Roy Horner was an American composer and conductor. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside…

2015

Mao Kobayashi

Japanese newscaster and actress (born 1982)

Mao Kobayashi was a Japanese freelance newscaster and actress. She was also one of Fuji TV's weathercasters.

2017

Quett Masire

Botswanan politician (born 1926)

Ketumile Quett Joni Masire, GCMG, was the second and longest-serving president of Botswana, in office from 1980 to 1998. He was given an honorary knighthood of the Grand Cross of Saint Michael and Saint George by Queen…

2017

Vinnie Paul

American musician (born 1964)

Vincent Paul Abbott was an American musician best known for being the drummer and co-founder of the heavy metal band Pantera. He also co-founded Damageplan in 2003 with his younger brother, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, and…

2018

Bruton Smith

American racetrack promoter (born 1927)

Ollen Bruton Smith was an American motorsports executive and businessman. He was best known as the owner of two public companies, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) and Sonic Automotive. Smith held the positions of vice…

2022

Yves Coppens

French anthropologist (born 1934)

Yves Coppens was a French anthropologist and co-discoverer of "Lucy". A graduate from the University of Rennes and the Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and also…

2022

Harry Markowitz

American Nobel economist (born 1927)

Harry Max Markowitz was an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

2023

Arnaldo Pomodoro

Italian sculptor (born 1926)

Arnaldo Pomodoro was an Italian sculptor based in Milan. His signature works are Sphere Within Sphere, bronze spheres with smooth exterior and broken interiors. They are displayed in public spaces such as the United…

2025

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Ted Gärdestad — Swedish musician

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Known forGärdestad began his acting career in 1966 and began playing music in 1971, signing with Polar Music

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