June 25 - Deaths

Deaths

• 253 – Pope Cornelius
• 635 – Emperor Gāozǔ, first Emperor of the Chinese Táng Dynasty (b. 566)
• 1134 – King Niels of Denmark (b. 1064)
• 1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
• 1483 – Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
• 1522 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
• 1533 – Mary Tudor, English-born Queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
• 1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
• 1593 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
• 1634 – John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
• 1638 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
• 1665 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)
• 1669 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
• 1673 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, Captain-Lieutenant of the Musketeers of the Guard under Louis XIV of France (b. c. 1611)
• 1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
• 1686 – Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
• 1715 – Jean du Casse, French admiral (b. 1646)
• 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
• 1792 – Thomas Peters, one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone (b. 1738)
• 1798 – Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
• 1822 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)
• 1838 – François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
• 1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
• 1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
• 1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
• 1870 – David Heaton, American Congressional Representative (b. 1823)
• 1875 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
• 1876 – George Armstrong Custer, American Army officer (b. 1839)
• 1876 – Thomas Custer, American Army officer, two-time Medal of Honor recipient, brother of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1845)
• 1876 – Boston Custer, American guide, forager, packer and scout, brother of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1848)
• 1876 – James C. Calhoun, American Army Lieutenant, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1845)
• 1876 – Myles Keogh, Irish soldier of fortune, veteran of the American Civil War (b. 1840)
• 1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
• 1884 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
• 1916 – Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
• 1918 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player (b. 1867)
• 1937 – Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
• 1944 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican mariachi singer (b. 1906)
• 1948 – William C. Lee, U.S. Army general, known as the "father of the U.S. Airborne" (b. 1895)
• 1949 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
• 1959 – Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (b. 1938)
• 1960 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
• 1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
• 1972 – Jan Matulka, American painter (b. 1890)
• 1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
• 1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
• 1979 – Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
• 1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
• 1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
• 1985 – Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
• 1987 – Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)
• 1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born American guitarist (Anthym, What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
• 1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer (b. 1940)
• 1992 – Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
• 1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Sir Arthur Snelling, British ambassador (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber Kabyle singer (b. 1956)
• 1999 – Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)
• 2002 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2003 – Lester Maddox, American politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
• 2005 – John Fiedler, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Mahasti, Iranian singer (b. 1946)
• 2007 – J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer and teacher (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Lyall Watson, South African anthropologist and writer (b.1939)
• 2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Michael Jackson, American singer and pop icon (b. 1958)
• 2009 – Sky Saxon, American singer (The Seeds) (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Anil Wilson, Indian educationist (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Yasmine, Belgian singer (b. 1972)
• 2010 – Alan Plater, English playwright (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Richard B. Sellars, American business executive (b. 1915)