Notable people who died on June 3 include: Liang Shidu, Simeon of the Olives, Staurakios, Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno, William de Montagu.

Notable Deaths on June 3

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Edmund White, American novelist, memoirist and essayist (born 1940)

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American novelist, memoirist and essayist (born 1940)

June 3 has seen 92 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 628 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 92 people 628 – 2025

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His writing, noted for intimate depth and literary elegance, includes the semi-autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), and The Farewell Symphony (1997)

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He also co-authored The Joy of Gay Sex (1977), promoting sex-positive discourse.

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Edmund Valentine White III was an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and essayist

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A pioneering figure in LGBTQ and especially gay literature after the Stonewall riots, he wrote with rare candor about gay identity, relationships, and sex

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His work emerged as part of an increasingly solidified and visible LGBTQ community, helping to reshape public narratives at a time when coming out was still a dangerous, even radical act

Liang Shidu

Chinese rebel leader

Liang Shidu was a claimant to title of Emperor of China who rebelled against the rule of the Chinese Sui dynasty near the end of the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui. Liang Shidu claiming the title of Emperor of Liang with…

628

Simeon of the Olives

Syriac bishop of Harran

Simeon of the Olives was a Syriac Orthodox bishop of Harran from Ḥabsenus in the eight century. He is attributed to have built or rebuilt several churches and monasteries in the region around Nisibis, such as the Mor…

734

Staurakios

Byzantine general

Staurakios was a Byzantine Greek eunuch official, who rose to be one of the most important and influential associates of Byzantine empress Irene of Athens. He effectively acted as chief minister during her regency for…

800

Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno

Guaimar IV was Prince of Salerno (1027–1052), Duke of Amalfi (1039–1052), Duke of Gaeta (1040–1041), and Prince of Capua (1038–1047) in Southern Italy over the period from 1027 to 1052. He was an important figure in the…

1052

William de Montagu

2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (born 1328)

William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, 4th Baron Montagu, King of Mann, KG was an English nobleman and commander in the English army during King Edward III's French campaigns in the Hundred Years War. He was one of the…

1397

Leopold IV

Duke of Austria (born 1371)

Leopold IV of Austria, Duke of Further Austria, was an Austrian Habsburg Duke of the Leopoldinian Line, known as "the Fat".

1411

Loukas Notaras

last megas doux of the Byzantine Empire

Loukas Notaras was a Byzantine Greek statesman who served as the last megas doux or grand duke and the last mesazon of the Byzantine Empire, under emperors John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI Palaiologos.

1453

Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah

Islamic scholar, author of the Oran fatwa

Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah al-Maghrawi al-Wahrani was a Maghrebi Maliki scholar of Islamic law, active in North Africa from the end of the fifteenth century until his death. He was identified as the author of the…

1511

Juan de Zumárraga

Spanish-Mexican archbishop (born 1468)

Juan de Zumárraga, OFM was a Spanish Basque Franciscan prelate and the first Bishop of Mexico. He was also the region's first inquisitor. He wrote Doctrina breve, the first book published in the Western Hemisphere by a…

1548

Wolf Huber

Austrian painter, printmaker and architect (born 1485)

Wolf Huber was an Austrian- German painter, printmaker, and architect, who worked in Passau, Germany for most of his life as a leading member of the Danube school.

1553

John Aylmer

English bishop and scholar (born 1521)

John Aylmer was an English bishop, constitutionalist and a Greek scholar.

1594

Sanada Yukimura

Japanese samurai (born 1567)

Sanada Nobushige , also known as Sanada Yukimura , was a Japanese samurai warrior of the Sengoku period. He was especially known as the leading general on the defending side of the Siege of Osaka. Yukimura was called…

1615

Theophilus Howard

2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1584)

Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, was an English nobleman and politician.

1640

Manuel de Faria e Sousa

Portuguese historian and poet (born 1590)

Manuel de Faria e Sousa was a Portuguese historian and poet who frequently wrote in Spanish.

1649

William Harvey

English physician and academic (born 1578)

William Harvey was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as…

1657

Morgan Llwyd

Welsh minister and poet (born 1619)

Morgan Llwyd was a Puritan Fifth Monarchist and Welsh-language poet and prose author.

1659

Thomas Hutchinson

American businessman and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (born 1711)

Thomas Hutchinson was an American merchant, politician, historian, and colonial administrator who repeatedly served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years leading up to the American Revolution. He…

1780

Nikolay Karamzin

Russian historian and poet (born 1766)

Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was a Russian historian, writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for his fundamental History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history.

1826

Julius Reubke

German pianist and composer (born 1834)

Friedrich Julius Reubke was a German composer, pianist and organist associated with the school of Romanticism. A pupil of Franz Liszt, his small œuvre includes the Sonata on the 94th Psalm in C minor, renowned as one of…

1858

Stephen A. Douglas

American lawyer and politician, 7th Secretary of State of Illinois (born 1813)

Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. A Democrat, he served in the United States Senate for fourteen years and defeated Abraham Lincoln to win reelection in 1858, a campaign known…

1861

Okada Izō

Japanese samurai (born 1838)

Okada Izō was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, feared as one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period. He was a member of Tosa Kinnoto in his hometown, Tosa Domain. Izō and Tanaka Shinbei…

1865

Georges Bizet

French pianist and composer (born 1838)

Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most…

1875

Ludwig Ritter von Köchel

Austrian botanist, composer, and publisher (born 1800)

Ludwig Ritter von Köchel was an Austrian musicologist, writer, composer, botanist, and publisher. He is best known for cataloguing the works of Mozart and originating the 'KV-numbers' by which they are known.

1877

Christian Wilberg

German painter and illustrator (born 1839)

Christian Wilberg was a German painter.

1882

Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal

German lawyer and jurist (born 1812)

Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal was a German jurist and the son of Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal.

1894

Johann Strauss II

Austrian composer and educator (born 1825)

Johann Baptist Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas, as well as a violinist. He composed over 500 waltzes,…

1899

Mary Kingsley

English explorer and author (born 1862)

Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English explorer, travel writer, and ethnographic observer known for her journeys through West Africa and for her influential writings on African societies and colonial policy.

1900

Vital-Justin Grandin

French-Canadian bishop and missionary (born 1829)

Vital-Justin Grandin was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop. He has been labelled as a key architect of the Canadian Indian residential school system by contemporary news sources, which has been considered an instrument…

1902

John Maxwell

American golfer (born 1871)

John Riley Maxwell was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

1906

Coenraad Hiebendaal

Dutch rower and physician (born 1879)

Coenraad Christiaan Hiebendaal was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Amsterdam, which won the silver medal in the coxed fours final B. Coenraad Hiebendaal…

1921

Franz Kafka

Czech-Austrian lawyer and author (born 1883)

Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the…

1924

Li Yuanhong

Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (born 1864)

Li Yuanhong (Chinese: 黎元洪; pinyin: Lí Yuánhóng; Wade–Giles: Li2 Yüan2-hung2; courtesy name 宋卿; Sòngqīng; Sung4-ch'ing1; October 19, 1864 – June 3, 1928) was a prominent Chinese military and political leader of the Qing…

1928

William Muldoon

American wrestler (born 1852)

William Muldoon was an American Greco-Roman wrestling champion, a physical culturist, and the first chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. He once wrestled a match that lasted over seven hours.

1933

John Flanagan

Irish-American hammer thrower and tug of war competitor (born 1873)

John Joseph Flanagan was an Irish-American three-time Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw, winning in 1900, 1904, and 1908.

1938

Mikhail Kalinin

Russian civil servant and politician (born 1875)

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the nominal head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 until his resignation in 1946. From 1926 until his death,…

1946

Edmond Decottignies

French weightlifter (born 1893)

Edmond Decottignies was a French weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Comines.

1963

Pope John XXIII (born 1881)

Pope John XXIII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963.

1963

Nâzım Hikmet

Turkish poet, author, and playwright (born 1902)

Mehmed Nâzım Ran, commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet, was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements". Described as a "romantic…

1963

Samuel Rocke

Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia (born 1874)

Samuel Matthew Rocke was an Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1917 to 1921, representing the seat of South Fremantle.

1963

Kâzım Orbay

Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (born 1887)

Mehmet Kâzım Orbay was a Turkish general and Speaker of the house. He served as the 3rd Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces.

1964

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)

Frans Eemil Sillanpää was a Finnish writer. In 1939, he became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with…

1964

George Edwin Cooke

American soccer player (born 1883)

George Edwin Cooke was an American amateur soccer player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in St. Louis, Missouri.

1969

Hjalmar Schacht

Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (born 1877)

Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht was a German economist, banker, politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank during the Weimar…

1970

Heinz Hopf

German-Swiss mathematician and academic (born 1894)

Heinz Hopf was a German mathematician who worked on the fields of dynamical systems, topology and geometry.

1971

Jean Batmale

French footballer and manager (born 1895)

Jean Batmale was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for the France national team at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics.

1973

Michael Gaughan

Irish Republican died on hunger strike (born 1949)

Michael Gaughan was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker who died in 1974 in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, England. Gaughan was one of 22 Irish republicans to die while on hunger strike in…

1974

Ozzie Nelson

American actor and bandleader (born 1906)

Oswald George Nelson was an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and bandleader. He originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, a radio and television series with his wife Harriet and two sons David…

1975

Eisaku Satō

Japanese and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1901)

Eisaku Satō was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972. He was the third longest-serving and longest-uninterrupted–serving Japanese prime minister. Satō is best remembered for…

1975

Archibald Hill

English physiologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)

Archibald Vivian Hill, better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel…

1977

Roberto Rossellini

Italian director and screenwriter (born 1906)

Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as…

1977

Carleton S. Coon

American anthropologist and academic (born 1904)

Carleton Stevens Coon was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his scientific racist theories concerning the parallel evolution of human races, which were…

1981

Anna Neagle

English actress and singer (born 1904)

Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox, known professionally as Anna Neagle, was an English stage and film actress, singer, and dancer.

1986

Will Sampson

American actor and painter (born 1933)

William Sampson Jr. was a Muscogee Nation painter, actor, and rodeo performer. He is best known for his performance as the apparently mute Chief Bromden in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as Crazy…

1987

Ruhollah Khomeini

Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (born 1900)

Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew…

1989

Robert Noyce

American physicist and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation (born 1927)

Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He was also credited with the…

1990

Brian Bevan

Australian rugby league player (born 1924)

Brian Eyrl Bevan, also known by the nickname of "Wing Wizard", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He became the only player ever to be inducted into both the…

1991

Katia Krafft

French volcanologist and geologist (born 1942)

Catherine Joséphine "Katia" Krafft and her husband, Maurice Paul Krafft were French volcanologists and filmmakers who died in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Nagasaki, Japan, on 3 June 1991. The Kraffts became well…

1991

Maurice Krafft

French volcanologist and geologist (born 1946)

1991

Lê Văn Thiêm

Vietnamese mathematician and academic (born 1918)

Lê Văn Thiêm was a Vietnamese scientist. Together with Hoàng Tụy, he is considered the father of Vietnam Mathematics society. He was the first director of the Vietnam Institute of Mathematics, and the first Headmaster…

1991

Robert Morley

English actor and screenwriter (born 1908)

Robert Adolph Wilton Morley was an English actor who enjoyed a lengthy career in both Britain and the United States. He was frequently cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment, often in…

1992

Yeoh Ghim Seng

Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (born 1918)

Yeoh Ghim Seng was a Singaporean politician who served as Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore between 1970 and 1988.

1993

Puig Aubert

German-French rugby player and coach (born 1925)

Puig Aubert, is often considered the best French rugby league footballer of all time. Over a 16-year professional career he would play for Carcassonne, XIII Catalan, Celtic de Paris and Castelnaudary winning five French…

1994

Dennis James

American actor and game show host (born 1917)

Dennis James was an American television personality, philanthropist, and commercial spokesman. Until 1976, he had appeared on TV more times and for a longer period than any other television star. Alternately referred to…

1997

Anthony Quinn

Mexican-American actor and producer (born 1915)

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca, known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican and American actor. He was known for his portrayal of earthy, passionate characters "marked by a brutal and elemental virility" in over 100…

2001

Lew Wasserman

American talent agent and manager (born 1913)

Lewis Robert Wasserman was an American businessman and talent agent, described as "the last of the legendary movie moguls" and "arguably the most powerful and influential Hollywood titan in the four decades after World…

2002

Felix de Weldon

Austrian-American sculptor, designed the Marine Corps War Memorial (born 1907)

Felix Weihs de Weldon was an Austrian sculptor. His most famous pieces include the United States Marine Corps War Memorial in the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, US, and the Malaysian National Monument (1966) in…

2003

Harold Cardinal

Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1945)

Harold Cardinal was a Cree writer, political leader, teacher, negotiator, and lawyer. Throughout his career he advocated, on behalf of all First Nation peoples, for the right to be "the red tile in the Canadian mosaic."

2005

Clinton Jones

American Episcopal priest and gay rights activist (born 1916)

Canon Clinton Robert Jones Jr. was an Episcopal priest and gay rights activist based in Hartford, Connecticut.

2006

David Carradine

American actor (born 1936)

David Carradine was an American actor and director, whose career included over 200 major and minor roles in film, television and on stage. He was widely known to television audiences as the star of the series Kung Fu…

2009

Koko Taylor

American singer (born 1928)

Koko Taylor was an American singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues, and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", she was known for her rough, powerful vocals. Over…

2009

Rue McClanahan

American actress (born 1934)

Eddi-Rue McClanahan was an American actress, primarily known for her work in television sitcoms. She portrayed Vivian Harmon on Maude (1972–1978), Aunt Fran Crowley on Mama's Family (1983–1984), and Blanche Devereaux on…

2010

James Arness

American actor and producer (born 1923)

James King Arness was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the series Gunsmoke. He has the distinction of having played the role of Dillon in five decades: 1955 to 1975 in the…

2011

Andrew Gold

American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger (born 1951)

Andrew Maurice Gold was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who influenced much of the Los Angeles-dominated pop/soft rock sound in the 1970s. Gold performed on scores of records…

2011

Bhajan Lal

Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Haryana (born 1930)

Bhajan Lal was a politician and three-time chief minister of the Indian state of Haryana. He became the Chief Minister for the first time in 1979, was re-elected in 1982, and became the chief minister for the third time…

2011

Jack Kevorkian

American pathologist, author, and activist (born 1928)

Murad Jacob Kevorkian, also known by the nickname "Dr. Death", was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in…

2011

Jan van Roessel

Dutch footballer (born 1925)

Jan van Roessel was a Dutch footballer who played as a forward.

2011

Carol Ann Abrams

American producer, author, and academic (born 1942)

Carol Ann Abrams was an American television and film producer. She and her husband, television producer Gerald W. Abrams, are the parents of film director and producer J. J. Abrams and screenwriter Tracy Rosen. Abrams…

2012

Roy Salvadori

English racing driver and manager (born 1922)

Roy Francesco Salvadori was a British racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1952 to 1962. In endurance racing, Salvadori won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1959 with Aston Martin.

2012

Brian Talboys

New Zealand journalist and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1921)

Sir Brian Edward Talboys was a New Zealand politician who served as the seventh deputy prime minister of New Zealand for the first two terms of Robert Muldoon's premiership. If the abortive "Colonels' Coup" against…

2012

Atul Chitnis

German-Indian technologist and journalist (born 1962)

Atul Chitnis was an Indo-German consulting technologist. He was one of the organizers of FOSS.IN, which was one of Asia's free and open source software (FOSS) conferences.

2013

Józef Czyrek

Polish economist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1928)

Józef Czyrek was a Polish politician who served as the minister of foreign affairs of the People's Republic of Poland from 1980 to 1982.

2013

Frank Lautenberg

American soldier and politician (born 1924)

Frank Raleigh Lautenberg was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as United States Senator from New Jersey from 1982 to 2001, and again from 2003 until his death in 2013. He was originally…

2013

Svyatoslav Belza

Russian journalist, author, and critic (born 1942)

Svyatoslav Igorevich Belza was a Soviet Russian literary and musical scholar, critic and essayist, and a prominent TV personality who's launched and hosted several TV programs aimed at popularizing classical music,…

2014

Gopinath Munde

Indian politician, 3rd Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1949)

Gopinathrao Pandurang Munde known as "Loknete Munde Saheb" was an Indian politician and statesman from the state of Maharashtra. He was the strongest mass-leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) known for his…

2014

Avi Beker

Israeli political scientist and academic (born 1951)

Avi Beker was an Israeli writer, statesman, and academic. Beker served as secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress from 4 October 2001 to 14 October 2003.

2015

Muhammad Ali

American boxer (born 1942)

Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "the Greatest", he is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He held the Ring…

2016

F. Lee Bailey

American attorney (born 1933)

Francis Lee Bailey Jr. was an American criminal defense attorney and author of The Defense Never Rests.

2021

Brigitte Bierlein

former Austrian chancellor (born 1949)

Brigitte Bierlein was an Austrian jurist who served as President of the Constitutional Court from 2018 to 2019 and as Chancellor of Austria from 2019 to 2020. An independent, she was the first woman to hold either…

2024

William Russell

English actor (born 1924)

William Russell Enoch was an English actor who performed as both Russell Enoch and William Russell. His career on stage and screen spanned over seven decades and he first achieved prominence in the title role of the…

2024

Jim Marshall

American football player (born 1937)

James Lawrence Marshall was an American professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for 20 seasons, primarily with the Minnesota Vikings. He recovered an NFL career-record…

2025

Shigeo Nagashima

Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1936)

Shigeo Nagashima was a Japanese professional baseball player and manager. Nagashima first began playing baseball in elementary school, before playing at his high school in Chiba Prefecture, part of Kanto Region, just…

2025

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Herzog and Lachenal Conquer Annapurna — June 3, 1950

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Known forA pioneering figure in LGBTQ and especially gay literature after the Stonewall riots, he wrote with rare candor about gay identity, relationships, and sex

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Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest. Wikipedia →

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