June 7 - Deaths

Deaths

555 – Pope Vigilius (b. c. 500)
1329 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (b. 1274)
1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 – Anne of Bohemia, English wife of Richard II of England (b. 1367)
1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1577)
1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German writer (b. 1606)
1711 – Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
1779 – William Warburton, English critic and bishop (b. 1698)
1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1821 – Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian leader of the Wallachian uprising of 1821 (b. 1780)
1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1859 – David Cox, English painter (b. 1783)
1866 – Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1879 – William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist (b. 1836)
1896 – Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
1915 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman, banker and philanthropist, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (b. 1822)
1916 – Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
1931 – Viktor Schwanneke, German director and actor (b. 1880)
1933 – Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian poet (b. 1875)
1936 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
1942 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
1945 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)
1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)
1963 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
1965 – Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)
1966 – Jean Arp, German artist and poet (b. 1886)
1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1967 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)
1970 – E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1979 – Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)
1980 – Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (b. 1883)
1980 – Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
1988 – Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
1989 – Chico Landi, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1907)
1992 – Bill France, Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (b. 1909)
1993 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
1995 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 1918)
1996 – Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
1999 – Paco Stanley, Mexican television host (b. 1942)
2001 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
2001 – Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
2001 – Betty Neels, English novelist (b. 1910)
2002 – Lilian, Princess of Réthy (b. 1916)
2002 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian politician, 5th Vice President of India (b. 1912)
2002 – Wayne Cody, American sportscaster (b. 1936)
2003 – Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist (b. 1966)
2006 – John Tenta, Canadian wrestler (b. 1963)
2008 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
2008 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster (b. 1921)
2009 – Hugh Hopper, English bassist and composer (The Wilde Flowers and Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
2009 – Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
2010 – Stuart Cable, Welsh singer and drummer (Stereophonics) (b. 1970)
2010 – Omar Rayo, Colombian artist (b. 1928)
2010 – Adriana Xenides, Australian television host (b. 1956)
2011 – Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
2011 – Nataraja Ramakrishna, Indian dancer and composer (b. 1923)
2012 – John T. Cunningham, American journalist, historian, and writer (b. 1915)
2012 – Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi military officer (b. 1957)
2012 – John Medlin, American businessman (b. 1933)
2012 – Nolan Miller, American fashion designer (b. 1933)
2012 – Lil Phat, American rapper (b. 1992)
2012 – J. Michael Riva, American production designer (b. 1948)
2012 – Chuck Share, American basketball player (b. 1927)
2012 – Phillip V. Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist and educator (b. 1925)
2012 – Bob Welch, American singer-songwriter and musician (Paris and Fleetwood Mac) (b. 1945)

Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)