June 30 - Deaths

Deaths

• 350 – Nepotianus, Roman usurper
• 1181 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
• 1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, German monk and bishop (b. 1185)
• 1364 – Arnošt of Pardubice, Polish-born Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
• 1538 – Charles, Duke of Guelders, Dutch nobleman (b. 1467)
• 1579 – Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary (b. 1506)
• 1607 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
• 1660 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
• 1666 – Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
• 1670 – Henrietta Anne of England, daughter of King Charles I of England (b. 1644)
• 1704 – John Quelch, English pirate (b. 1665)
• 1709 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
• 1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the State of Georgia (b. 1696)
• 1796 – Abraham Yates, American Congressman (b. 1724)
• 1857 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
• 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
• 1882 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
• 1890 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
• 1917 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
• 1919 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1842)
• 1934 – Night of the Long Knives murders
  • Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
  • Gregor Strasser, former German Nazi politician (b. 1892)
  • Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862)
  • Karl Ernst, German Sturmabteilung-gruppenführer (b. 1904)
  • Erich Klausener, German politician (b. 1885)
• 1953 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian sportsman, the "father of football in Brazil" (b. 1874)
• 1956 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (b. 1880)
• 1959 – José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1961 – Lee DeForest, American inventor (b. 1873)
• 1966 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian Formula One driver, the winner of the first Formula One championship (b. 1906)
• 1971 – Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
• 1971 – Soviet crew of Soyuz 11
  • Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933)
  • Georgi Dobrovolski (b. 1928)
  • Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935)
• 1973 – Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R, Ukrainian-born Canadian Greek-Catholic bishop and martyr (b. 1903)
• 1974 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
• 1976 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1984 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)
• 1993 – George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1993 – Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1962)
• 1995 – Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)
• 1995 – Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1921)
• 1995 – Phyllis Hyman, American jazz vocalist (b. 1949)
• 1997 – Larry O'Dea, Australian professional wrestler (b. 1944)
• 2001 – Chet Atkins, American country guitar player and producer (b. 1924)
• 2001 – Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Chico Xavier, Brazilian spiritist medium (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Buddy Hackett, American comedian (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Jamal Abro, Pakistani writer (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Park Yong-ha, Korean actor and singer (b. 1977)