June 3 - Deaths

Deaths

• 800 – Staurakios, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire
• 1395 – Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
• 1397 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
• 1411 – Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
• 1548 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
• 1594 – John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
• 1615 – Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
• 1640 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
• 1657 – William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
• 1649 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
• 1659 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
• 1780 – Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
• 1826 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
• 1858 – Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
• 1861 – Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
• 1865 – Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
• 1875 – Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
• 1877 – Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
• 1882 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
• 1894 – Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
• 1899 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
• 1924 – Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
• 1928 – Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
• 1933 – William Muldoon, American wrestler (b. 1852)
• 1955 – Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
• 1963 – Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
• 1963 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877)
• 1971 – Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
• 1973 – Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
• 1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
• 1977 – Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
• 1983 – Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Pakistani actor
• 1986 – Anna Neagle, British actress (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Will Sampson, American actor and artist (b. 1933)
• 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1900)
• 1989 – John McCauley, hockey official (b. 1945)
• 1990 – Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
• 1990 – Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
• 1991 – Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1942)
• 1991 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
• 1991 – Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
• 2005 – Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932)
• 2009 – David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Koko Taylor, American blues musician (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Sam Butera, American jazz musician (b. 1927)
• 2010 – John Hedgecoe, English photographer (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)