June 10 - Deaths

Deaths

• 323 BC – Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (b. 356 BC)
• 1075 – Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
• 1190 – Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
• 1424 – Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
• 1552 – Alexander Barclay, English poet (b. c. 1476)
• 1556 – Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
• 1580 – Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (b. c. 1524)
• 1607 – John Popham, English politician (b. 1531)
• 1654 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
• 1680 – Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
• 1692 – Bridget Bishop, English-born American alleged witch, the first person to be convicted and executed during the Salem witch trials(b. c. 1632)
• 1735 – Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
• 1776 – Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
• 1791 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
• 1831 – Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
• 1836 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
• 1849 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)
• 1896 – Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
• 1898 – Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language (birth year unknown)
• 1899 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
• 1901 – Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
• 1902 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
• 1909 – Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
• 1912 – Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
• 1918 – Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)
• 1923 – Pierre Loti, French sailor (b. 1850)
• 1924 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian Socialist politician (b. 1885)
• 1926 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish/Catalan architect (b. 1852)
• 1929 – Hélène Smith, French psychic (b. 1861)
• 1930 – Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
• 1934 – Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
• 1937 – Robert Borden, 8^th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
• 1940 – Marcus Garvey, American civil rights activist (b. 1887)
• 1944 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
• 1946 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
• 1947 – Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
• 1949 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
• 1958 – Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
• 1959 – Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
• 1963 – Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (b. 1936)
• 1967 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
• 1971 – Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
• 1973 – William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
• 1973 – Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
• 1974 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
• 1976 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1873)
• 1982 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director and actor (b. 1945)
• 1982 – Addie "Micki" Harris, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1940)
• 1986 – Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
• 1988 – Louis L'Amour, American author (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Vercors, French writer (b. 1902)
• 1992 – Zak Hernández, American soldier (b. 1970)
• 1992 – Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (b. 1931)
• 1993 – Les Dawson, English comedian (b. 1934)
• 1996 – George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
• 1998 – Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
• 1998 – Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
• 2001 – Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970)
• 2001 – Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)
• 2002 – John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
• 2003 – Donald Regan, American Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
• 2003 – Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Ray Charles, American musician (b. 1930)
• 2004 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
• 2005 – Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Augie Auer, American-born New Zealand meteorologist and TV presenter (b. 1940)
• 2008 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-born Soviet writer (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Tenniel Evans, English actor (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Metropolitan Basil Schott, Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (b. 1939)