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He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924)
Notable Deaths on June 7
71 people
555 – 2025
June 7 has seen 71 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 555 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1970 — E. M. Forster
English novelist, short story writer, essayist (born 1879)
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His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of technological dystopian fiction
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He also co-authored the libretto to Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd (1951)
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Many of his novels examine class differences and hypocrisy
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His views as a humanist are at the heart of his work.
555
Abbasid caliph (born 837)
Abu Ja'far Muḥammad ibn Ja'far ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Muntasir biʾLlāh, better known by his regnal title al-Muntasir biʾLlāh was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 861 to 862, during the "Anarchy at Samarra".…
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862
929
heir apparent of Wuyue (born 925)
Qian Hongzun (錢弘僔), formally Heir Apparent Xiaoxian, was an heir apparent to the throne of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Wuyue during most of the reign of his father Qian Yuanguan, but did not…
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940
951
Scottish king (born 1274)
Robert I, popularly known as Robert the Bruce, was King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329. Robert led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England. He fought successfully during his…
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1329
1337
Egyptian sultan (born 1285)
Al-Malik an-Nasir Nasir ad-Din Muhammad ibn Qalawun, commonly known as an-Nasir Muhammad, or by his kunya: Abu al-Ma'ali or as Ibn Qalawun (1285–1341) was the ninth Mamluk sultan of the Bahri dynasty who ruled Egypt…
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1341
Japanese shōgun (born 1305)
Ashikaga Takauji also known as Minamoto no Takauji was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate. His rule began in 1338, beginning the Muromachi period of Japan, and ended…
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1358
English queen (born 1366)
Anne of Bohemia, also known as Anne of Luxembourg, was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II. A member of the House of Luxembourg, she was the daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of…
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1394
Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 (born 1427)
Casimir IV Jagiellon was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 until his death in 1492. He was one of the most active Polish-Lithuanian rulers; under him, Poland defeated the Teutonic Knights in…
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1492
physician of Queen Elizabeth I (born 1525)
Roderigo Lopes was a Portuguese physician who served as a physician-in-chief to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 1581 until his death by execution, having been found guilty of plotting to poison her. A Portuguese…
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1594
3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1577)
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr was an English colonial administrator for whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named. A member of the…
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1618
Prince of Transylvania (born 1621)
George II Rákóczi, was a Hungarian nobleman, Prince of Transylvania (1648–1660), the eldest son of George I and Zsuzsanna Lorántffy.
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1660
Irish scholar and theologian (born 1641)
Henry Dodwell was an Anglo-Irish scholar, theologian and controversial writer.
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1711
Moroccan-American colonial and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (born 1676)
Major-General Alexander Spotswood was a British army officer, explorer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1710 to 1722. After an unsatisfactory military career, in 1710 he was…
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1740
English bishop and critic (born 1698)
William Warburton was an English writer, literary critic and churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1759 until his death. He edited editions of the works of his friend Alexander Pope, and of William Shakespeare.
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1779
American general and surveyor (born 1738)
Benjamin Tupper was an American soldier in the French and Indian War, and an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, achieving the rank of brevet brigadier general. Subsequently, he served…
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1792
Italian engraver and etcher (born 1765)
Luigi Schiavonetti was an Italian reproductive engraver and etcher.
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1810
German optician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1787)
Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass, an achromatic telescope, and objective lenses. He developed diffraction grating and also invented the…
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1826
Frederick William III was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, when the empire was dissolved.
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1840
German lyric poet and author (born 1770)
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Particularly due to his…
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1843
Canadian missionary and bishop (born 1787)
Joseph-Norbert Provencher was a Canadian clergyman and missionary and one of the founders of the modern province of Manitoba. He was the first Bishop of Saint Boniface and was an important figure in the history of the…
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1853
French admiral (born 1792)
Charles Baudin, was a French admiral, whose naval service extended from the First Empire through the early days of the Second Empire.
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1854
1859
Anglo-Irish priest and author (born 1777)
Patrick Brontë was an Irish Anglican clergyman and author who spent most of his adult life in England. One of ten children from a very poor family, he managed to secure a scholarship to study theology at St John's…
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1861
Latin American liberator (born 1790)
Antonio Vicente Miguel Valero de Bernabé Pacheco, a.k.a. The Liberator from Puerto Rico, was a Puerto Rican military leader. Trained in Spain, he fought with the Spanish Army to expel the French leader, Napoleon, from…
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1863
American tribal chief (born 1780)
Seattle was a leader of the Duwamish and Suquamish peoples. A leading figure among his people, he pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, forming a personal relationship with Doc Maynard. The city of Seattle,…
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1866
English dermatologist and academic (born 1836)
William Tilbury Fox was an English dermatologist.
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1879
Greek composer (born 1829)
Pavlos Carrer or Pavlos Carreris, was a Greek composer, one of the leaders of the Ionian art music school and the first to create national operas and national songs on Greek plots, Greek librettos and verses, as well as…
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1896
French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1842)
Maurice Rouvier was a French statesman of the "Opportunist" faction, who twice served as the Prime Minister of France. He is best known for his financial policies and his unpopular policies designed to avoid a rupture…
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1911
American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (born 1822)
Charles Reed Bishop was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist in Hawaii. Born in Glens Falls, New York, he sailed to Hawaii in 1846 at the age of 24, and made his home there, marrying into the royal…
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1915
French author and critic (born 1847)
Auguste Émile Faguet was a French author and literary critic.
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1916
executed Irish republican (born 1889)
Patrick Maher was a member of the Irish Republican Army executed in Mountjoy Prison. He was 32 years old at the time of his death.
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1921
executed Irish republican (born 1897)
Edmond Foley, sometimes known as Edmund or Edward, was a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who was hanged in Mountjoy Prison on 7 June 1921. Together with nine other men executed by hanging during the War of…
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1921
1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1847)
William James Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie was a leading British shipbuilder and businessman. He was chairman of Harland & Wolff, shipbuilders, between 1895 and 1924, and also served as Lord Mayor of Belfast between 1896…
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1924
English motorcycle racer (born 1905)
Charles Archibald Cecil Birkin was an English motorcycle racer, brother of Tim Birkin, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s.
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1927
Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (born 1847)
Edmund James Flynn was a Canadian lawyer, politician and the tenth premier of Quebec, from 1896 to 1897.
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1927
English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (born 1856)
John Verran was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He served as premier of South Australia from 1910 to 1912, the second member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to hold the position.
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1932
Croatian lawyer, judge, and poet (born 1875)
Dragutin Milivoj Domjanić was a Croatian poet. He is well known for his work of Domjanic and the poems Fala and Popevke sam slagal.
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1933
1936
American actress and singer (born 1911)
Jean Harlow was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of "bad girl" characters, she was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the pre-Code era of American cinema. Often…
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1937
English engineer (born 1903)
Alan Dower Blumlein was an English electronics engineer, notable for his many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereophonic sound, television and radar. He received 128 patents and was considered one…
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1942
Japanese philosopher and academic (born 1870)
Kitarō Nishida was a Japanese moral philosopher, philosopher of mathematics and science, and religious scholar. He was the founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. He graduated from the…
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1945
English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1912)
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science,…
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1954
Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (born 1879)
John Collings Willcock was an Australian politician. He was the premier of Western Australia from 1936 to 1945, holding office as state leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was a member of the Western…
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1956
American actress and singer (born 1921)
Judy Holliday was an American actress, comedian, and singer.
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1965
1966
Russian mathematician and academic (born 1909)
Anatoly Ivanovich Maltsev was born in Misheronsky, near Moscow, and died in Novosibirsk, USSR. He was a mathematician noted for his work on the decidability of various algebraic groups. Malcev algebras, as well as…
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1967
American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (born 1893)
Dorothy Parker was an American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction. Based in New York, she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
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1967
American actor and singer (born 1907)
Dan Duryea was an American actor in film, stage, and television. Known for portraying villains, he had a long career in a variety of leading and secondary roles.
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1968
English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS was a British chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.
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1978
Scottish journalist and economist (born 1883)
Elizabeth Josephine Craig, MBE, FRSA was a Scottish journalist, home economist and a notable author on cookery.
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1980
Canadian-American painter and educator (born 1913)
Philip Guston was a Canadian and American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction," and is now…
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1980
American novelist and essayist (born 1891)
Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blends character study, social…
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1980
Estonian opera singer and educator (born 1906)
Klaudia Taev was an Estonian vocal pedagogue.
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1985
Turkish poet and author (born 1940)
Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu was a Turkish poet and writer.
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1987
American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (born 1909)
William Henry Getty France was an American businessman and racing driver. He was also known as Bill France Sr. or Big Bill. He is best known for founding and managing NASCAR, a sanctioning body of American-based stock…
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1992
1995
Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (born 1907)
Ángel Víctor Paz Estenssoro was a Bolivian politician who served as the 45th president of Bolivia for three nonconsecutive and four total terms from 1952 to 1956, 1960 to 1964 and 1985 to 1989. He ran for president…
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2001
English nurse and author (born 1910)
Betty Neels was a prolific British writer of over 134 romance novels, beginning in 1969 and continuing until her death. Her work is known for being particularly chaste.
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2001
2002
Jordanian militant (born 1966)
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, born Ahmad Fadeel Nazal al-Khalayleh, was a Jordanian militant jihadist who ran a training camp in Afghanistan. He became known after going to Iraq and masterminding a series of bombings,…
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2006
South African paleontologist and academic (born 1925)
Phillip Vallentine Tobias was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was best known for his work at South Africa's hominid fossil sites. He…
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2012
French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1928)
Pierre Mauroy was a French politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001 and President of the Socialist…
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2013
American serial killer and sex offender (born 1960)
Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez, better known as Richard Ramirez, was an American serial killer, sex offender and burglar whose killing spree occurred in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of…
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2013
English actor (born 1922)
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was an English actor and singer. In a career spanning over 60 years, he became known as an actor with tremendous screen presence and a deep and commanding voice who often portrayed…
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2015
Iranian-American wrestler and actor (born 1942)
Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, better known by his ring name the Iron Sheik, was an Iranian and American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, as well as an actor. To date he is the only Iranian-born champion in WWE…
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2023
American astronaut and lunar explorer (born 1933)
William Alison Anders was a United States Air Force (USAF) major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. In December 1968, he was a member of the crew of Apollo 8, the first…
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2024
English Association Football Referee (born 1959)
Uriah Duddley Rennie was a British football referee. He was the first black referee to officiate in the Premier League, and officiated over 300 Premier League matches between 1997 and 2008. Outside of football, he was a…
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2025
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Who died on June 7?
E. M. Forster — English novelist and writer (1879–1970)
FeaturedE. M. Forster
Death year1970
Known forHe is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924)
Deaths on this date71 (555 – 2025)
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