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Born as Stella Nkolombe in District Six of Cape Town in 1930, she trained as a nurse at South Africa's first hospital to treat black Africans, earning a general nursing and a midwifery certification
Notable Deaths on June 30
97 people
350 – 2025
June 30 has seen 97 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 350 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2020 — Stella Madzimbamuto
Zimbabwean activist (born 1930)
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From 1956 to 1959, she worked as a general nurse at the Harare Central Hospital
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In 1959, her husband, Daniel Madzimbamuto, was detained as a political prisoner
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He would remain in detention until 1974, while she financially supported the family.
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Stella Madzimbamuto was a South African-born Zimbabwean nurse and plaintiff in the landmark legal case of Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke
Roman ruler
Nepotianus, sometimes known in English as Nepotian, was a member of the Constantinian dynasty who reigned as a short-lived usurper of the Roman Empire. He ruled the city of Rome for twenty-eight days, before being…
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5th Earl of Chester, Welsh politician (born 1147)
Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester, also written Hugh de Kevelioc or Hugh de Kevilioc, was an Anglo-Norman magnate who was active in England, Wales, Ireland and France during the reign of King Henry II of England.
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1181
German monk and bishop (born 1185)
Adolf of Osnabrück, O.Cist, was born in Tecklenburg about 1185, a member of the family of the Counts of Tecklenburg in the Duchy of Westphalia. During his lifetime, he became known as the "Almoner of the Poor", and is…
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1224
French courtier
Pierre de la Broce or de la Brosse was a royal favorite and councilor during the early reign of Philip III of France.
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1278
English noblewoman (born 1290)
Eleanor de Clare, suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan was a powerful Anglo-Welsh noblewoman who married Hugh Despenser the Younger, the future favourite of Edward II of England, and was a granddaughter of Edward I of…
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1337
Czech archbishop (born 1297)
Arnošt of Pardubice was the first Archbishop of Prague. He was also an advisor and diplomat to Emperor Charles IV.
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1364
German humanist and Hebrew scholar (born 1455)
Johann Reuchlin, sometimes called Johannes, was a German Catholic humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew, whose work also took him to modern-day Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and France. Most of Reuchlin's career…
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1522
Duke of Guelders (born 1467)
Charles II was a member of the House of Egmond who ruled as Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen from 1492 until his death. He had a principal role in the Frisian peasant rebellion and the Guelders Wars.
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1538
Italian cardinal and historian (born 1538)
Caesar Baronius CO was an Italian Oratorian, cardinal and historian of the Catholic Church. His best-known works are his Annales Ecclesiastici, which appeared in 12 folio volumes (1588–1607). He is under consideration…
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1607
French painter (born 1590)
Simon Vouet was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and…
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1649
English minister and mathematician (born 1575)
William Oughtred, also Owtred, Uhtred, etc., was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman. After John Napier discovered logarithms and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales upon which slide rules are…
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1660
1666
Henrietta of England was the youngest child of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France. She was Duchess of Orléans through her marriage to Philippe I, Duke of Orléans.
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1670
English pirate (born 1665)
John Quelch was an English pirate who had a lucrative but very brief career of about one year. His chief claim to historical significance is that he was the first person to be tried for piracy outside England under…
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1704
Tekle Haymanot I, throne name Le`al Sagad was Emperor of Ethiopia from 27 March 1706 until his death in 1708, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of Iyasu I and Empress Malakotawit. He is often…
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1708
Welsh botanist, linguist, and geographer (born 1660)
Edward Lhuyd, also known as Edward Lhwyd and by other spellings, was a British scientist, geographer, historian and antiquary. He was the second Keeper of the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, and published the…
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1709
English general and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Georgia (born 1696)
Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe was a British Army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North America. As a social reformer, he hoped…
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1785
American lawyer and politician (born 1724)
Abraham Yates Jr. was an American lawyer, civil servant, and pamphleteer from Albany, New York.
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1796
French zoologist and paleontologist (born 1802)
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology, palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology.
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1857
American preacher and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (born 1841)
Charles Julius Guiteau was an American office seeker who assassinated 20th United States president James A. Garfield in 1881. A failed lawyer suffering from mental illness, Guiteau delusionally believed he had played a…
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1882
German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (born 1827)
Alberto Henschel was a German-born Brazilian photographer born in Berlin. Considered the hardest-working photographer and businessman in 19th-century Brazil, with offices in Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and São…
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1882
American organist and composer (born 1819)
Samuel Parkman Tuckerman was an American composer.
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1890
American painter (born 1829)
Thomas Hill was an American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the Californian landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
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1908
French fencer (born 1873)
Simon Alphonse Kirchhoffer was a French fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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1913
American correspondent, author, and poet (born 1847)
Eunice Gibbs Allyn was an American correspondent, author, songwriter, illustrator, and painter. She intended to become a teacher, but her mother dissuaded her so she remained at home, entering into society, and writing…
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1916
French painter and illustrator (born 1861)
Antonio de La Gándara was a French painter, pastellist and draughtsman of the Belle Époque.
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1917
Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader (born 1825)
Dadabhai Naoroji was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar, and writer who played a role in both Indian and British public life. He was among the founding members of the Indian National Congress and served as…
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1917
3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1842)
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, was a British physicist and hereditary peer who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 for his discovery of argon.
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1919
German actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1890)
Richard Otto Bruno Kastner was a German stage and film actor, screenwriter, and film producer whose career was most prominent in the 1910s and 1920s during the silent film era. Kastner was one of the most popular…
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1932
German soldier and SA commander (born 1904)
Karl Gustav Ernst was an SA-Gruppenführer who, from March 1933, was the SA commander in Berlin. Prior to joining the Nazi Party, he had been a hotel bellhop and a bouncer at gay nightclubs. He was one of the chief…
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1934
German soldier and politician (born 1885)
Erich Klausener was a German Catholic politician and Catholic martyr in the "Night of the Long Knives", a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of…
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1934
German lawyer and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (born 1862)
Gustav Ritter von Kahr was a German jurist and right-wing politician. During his career, he was district president of Upper Bavaria, Bavarian minister president and, from September 1923 to February 1924, Bavarian state…
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1934
German lieutenant, politician, and early leader of the Nazi Party (born 1892)
Gregor Strasser was a German politician and early leader of the Nazi Party. Along with his younger brother Otto, he was a leading member of the party's left-wing faction, which brought them into conflict with the…
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1934
German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (born 1882)
Kurt Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann von Schleicher was a German military officer and the penultimate chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic. A rival for power with Adolf Hitler, Schleicher was assassinated by…
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1934
Belarusian politician (born 1909)
Yefim Moiseyevich Fomin was a Soviet political commissar. He is known for his part in the 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress, during which the German Army captured and immediately executed him.
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1941
Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (born 1875)
Aleksander Tõnisson VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence.
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1941
Turkish-Swiss sociologist and academic (born 1879)
Sultanzade Mehmed Sabahaddin was an Ottoman prince, sociologist, and intellectual. Because of his threat to the ruling House of Osman, of which he was a member, and his political activity and push for democracy in the…
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1948
French financier and polo player (born 1868)
Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, also known as Baron Édouard de Rothschild was an aristocrat, French financier and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France.
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1949
Finnish wrestler and coach (born 1884)
Yrjö Erik Mikael Saarela was a Finnish wrestler who won Olympic gold and a world championship.
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1951
Swedish author and illustrator (born 1874)
Elsa Beskow was a famous Swedish author and illustrator of children's books. Among her better known books are Tale of the Little Little Old Woman and Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender.
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1953
Brazilian footballer and civil servant (born 1874)
Charles William Miller was a Brazilian sportsman, who is considered to be the father of football in Brazil. Miller founded São Paulo Athletic Club (SPAC), one of the oldest sports clubs in Brazil, and founded the Liga…
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1953
Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1873)
Andrass Samuelsen was a Faroese politician and member of the Union Party. He was the first Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands after the autonomy of the Faroe Islands in 1948 (Heimastýrislógin).
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1954
Norwegian actor (born 1880)
Thorleif Brinck Lund was a Norwegian stage and film actor of the silent film era.
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1956
Mexican philosopher and politician (born 1882)
José Vasconcelos Calderón, called the "cultural caudillo" of the Mexican Revolution, was an important Mexican writer, philosopher, lawyer, and politician. He is one of the most influential and controversial…
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1959
American inventor, invented the audion tube (born 1873)
Lee de Forest was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and early pioneer in electronics of fundamental importance. He invented the first practical electronic amplifier,
the three-element "Audion" triode vacuum…
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1961
Italian race car driver (born 1906)
Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. Farina won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in its inaugural 1950 season with Alfa Romeo, and won…
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1966
English author of detective fiction (born 1904)
Margery Louise Allingham was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.
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1966
German zoologist (born 1893)
Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus was a German zoologist, occupant of the chair of zoology at the University of São Paulo from 1936 to 1963, and co-founder of the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo.
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1968
Bulgarian footballer (born 1943)
Georgi Asparuhov Rangelov, nicknamed Gundi, was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker.
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1971
American director and screenwriter (born 1900)
Herbert J. Biberman was an American screenwriter and film director. He was one of the Hollywood Ten and directed Salt of the Earth (1954), a film barely released in the United States, about a zinc miners' strike in…
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1971
Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1, but died of asphyxiation because of…
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1971
Bulgarian footballer (born 1938)
Nikola Todorov Kotkov, nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker.
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1971
Kazakh engineer and astronaut (born 1933)
Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and was part of the third space crew to die during a space flight. On board the space station Salyut 1 he operated the Orion 1 Space…
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1971
Russian engineer and astronaut (born 1935)
Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions. The second mission terminated fatally. Volkov and the two other crew members were asphyxiated on reentry, the only…
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1971
English journalist and author (born 1904)
Nancy Freeman-Mitford was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist who was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period. She wrote several novels about…
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1973
Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (born 1903)
Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, CSsR was a Ukrainian religious priest of the Redemptorists and a prelate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is considered a martyr in the Catholic Church, due to his death in 1973 of…
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1973
Civil rights activist (born 1904)
Alberta Christine Williams King was an American civil rights organizer best known as the wife of Martin Luther King Sr.; and as the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and also as the grandmother of Martin Luther King…
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1974
American baseball player and umpire (born 1898)
Frederick "Firpo" Marberry was an American right-handed starting and relief pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1923 to 1936, most notably with the Washington Senators. The sport's first prominent reliever, he has…
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1976
American author and playwright (born 1905)
Lillian Florence Hellman was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway as well as her communist views and political activism. She was blacklisted after her…
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1984
Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (born 1933)
Haruo Ignacio Remeliik was the first President of Palau from 2 March 1981 until his assassination on 30 June 1985. He is buried at Kloulklubed in his home state of Peleliu. Remeliik was of mixed Japanese and Palauan…
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1985
Ukrainian general and astronaut (born 1921)
Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. From 1972 to 1987, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
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1995
American actor and voice artist (born 1906)
Gale Gordon was an American character actor who was Lucille Ball's longtime television foil, particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television sitcom…
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1995
Greek footballer and manager (born 1932)
Lakis Petropoulos was a Greek football player who played as midfielder for Panathinaikos and a later manager.
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1996
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1924)
Chester Burton Atkins, nicknamed "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was a fingerpicking guitar player, arranger and producer who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, created the Nashville sound, the…
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2001
American saxophonist and composer (born 1937)
Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and very occasional flute player. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for…
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2001
Brazilian medium and author (born 1910)
Chico Xavier or Francisco Cândido Xavier, born Francisco de Paula Cândido, was a popular Brazilian philanthropist and spiritist medium. During a period of 60 years, he wrote over 490 books and several thousand letters…
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2002
American actor and comedian (born 1924)
Buddy Hackett was an American comedian and comic actor. Known for his raunchy material, heavy appearance and thick New York City accent, his notable roles include Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man (1962), Benjy…
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2003
American author and illustrator (born 1915)
John Robert McCloskey was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He both wrote and illustrated eight picture books, and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association for the year's…
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2003
Australian rugby league player (born 1916)
Eddie Burns was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach of the mid 20th century. A New South Wales representative prop-forward, he played for the Canterbury-Bankstown club of the NSWRFL Premiership, later…
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2004
Indian librarian and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Delhi (born 1943)
Sahib Singh Verma was an Indian politician. He served as the 4th Chief Minister of Delhi (1996–1998) and Union Labour Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He was a member of 13th Lok Sabha, Parliament of India…
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2007
German dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1940)
Philippine "Pina" Bausch was a German dancer and choreographer who was a significant contributor to a neo-expressionist dance tradition now known as Tanztheater. Bausch's approach was noted for a stylised blend of dance…
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2009
American actor and singer (born 1933)
George Harvey Presnell was an American actor and singer. He began his career in the mid-1950s as a classical baritone, singing with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States.
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2009
14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (born 1942)
Michael Edward Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, was a British-Australian farmer, who is most noted because of the 2004 documentary Britain's Real Monarch, which alleged he was the rightful monarch of England…
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2012
Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (born 1915)
Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi,…
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2012
American journalist and author (born 1966)
Michael Jay Ybarra was an American journalist, author and adventurer whose non-fiction work appeared in various national publications. In 2004, his book about McCarthyism, Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and…
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2012
Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge (born 1917)
Alan Robertson Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway ERD QC was a British judge, barrister and author who sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative life peer.
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2013
Nigerian politician (born 1963)
Akpor Pius Ewherido was a Nigerian politician. He was elected Senator for Delta Central Senatorial District in the April 2011 national elections, running on the Democratic People's Party (DPP) platform.
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2013
American educator and politician (born 1942)
Kathryn Morrison was an American educator and Democratic Party politician who was the first woman to be elected to serve in the Wisconsin Senate. Morrison was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and graduated from Madison East…
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2013
Nigerian footballer (born 1968)
Thompson Oliha was a Nigerian professional footballer who played as a midfielder for clubs in Africa and Europe during an injury-shortened career.
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2013
Australian politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (born 1920)
Sir Keith Douglas Seaman was Governor of South Australia from 1 September 1977 until 28 March 1982. He was the second successive governor to have been a minister of religion, Seaman being a minister in then recently…
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2013
American businessman (born 1925)
John Francis "Frank" Cashen was an American Major League Baseball general manager. He was an executive when the Baltimore Orioles won the 1966 World Series and 1970 World Series, while also winning three consecutive AL…
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2014
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930)
Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Known for his dramatic comedies that often dealt with modern social issues, he was nominated for five Academy Awards for Bob & Carol…
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2014
Montenegrin lawyer and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Montenegro (born 1960)
Željko Šturanović was a Montenegrin politician who was the Prime Minister of Montenegro from 2006 until his resignation in 2008.
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2014
American general (born 1934)
Lieutenant General Charles Wilson Bagnal was a United States Army officer. He was commander of the United States Army Western Command, from 1985 to 1989. Previously he was Deputy Commanding General for Training of the…
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2015
English-American computer scientist and academic (born 1945)
Robert Berriedale Keith Dewar was an American computer scientist and educator. He helped to develop programming languages and compilers and was an outspoken advocate of freely licensed open-source software. He was a…
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2015
Canadian physician and academic (born 1956)
Arthur Thomas Porter IV was a Canadian physician and hospital administrator.
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2015
American author and illustrator (born 1925)
Leonard Starr was an American cartoonist, comic book artist, and advertising artist, best known for creating the newspaper comic strip On Stage and reviving Little Orphan Annie.
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2015
English television presenter (born 1933)
Barry Leslie Norman was a British film critic, television presenter and journalist. He presented the BBC's cinema review programme, Film..., from 1972 to 1998.
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2017
French lawyer and politician (born 1927)
Simone Veil was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for human dignity and European…
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2017
Canadian rapper (born 1996)
Jahvante Jahqwane Sheldon Smart, known professionally as Smoke Dawg, was a Canadian rapper from Toronto, Ontario. He was a part of hip hop collective Halal Gang alongside Mustafa the Poet, Puffy L'z, Safe, and Mo-G who…
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2018
Indian Film Director and Producer (born 1971)
Raj Kaushal was an Indian director, producer who was active during the 1990s and mid 2000s. He was married to actress and TV presenter Mandira Bedi. He died on 30 June 2021 due to a heart attack.
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2021
English actor (born 1937)
Kenneth Colley was a British film and television actor whose career spanned over 60 years. He came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return…
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2025
American author and illustrator (born 1951)
James Charles Shooter was an American writer, editor and publisher in the comics industry. Beginning his career writing for DC Comics at the age of 14, he had a successful but controversial run as editor-in-chief at…
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2025
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Notable deaths
Who died on June 30?
Stella Madzimbamuto — African nurse, Zimbabwean nationalist, civil rights and women's rights activist
FeaturedStella Madzimbamuto
Death year2020
Known forBorn as Stella Nkolombe in District Six of Cape Town in 1930, she trained as a nurse at South Africa's first hospital to treat black Africans, earning a general nursing and a midwifery certification
Deaths on this date97 (350 – 2025)
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