June 1 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 70 BC – An earthquake in Shandong, China, kills 6,000 people.
- 193 – Roman Emperor Marcus Didius is killed in his big house.
- 1204 - King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
- 1215 - Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under control of Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending in the Battle of Zhongdu.
- 1252 - Alfonso X of Castile is elected King of Castile and Leon.
- 1283 – Treaty of Rheinfelden – Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
- 1298 - Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian order in the Battle of Turaida.
- 1485 – Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
- 1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
- 1533 – Henry VIII of England's new wife, Anne Boleyn, is crowned as queen.
- 1535 - Combined forces loyal to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
- 1648 - Second English Civil War: The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone.
- 1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to be the last religious martyr in North America.
- 1679 - The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumlog.
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
- 1792 – Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the United States, with Isaac Shelby as its first Governor.
- 1794 - "Battle of the Glorious First of June" is fought, as the first naval battle between Great Britain and France.
- 1796 – Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States.
- 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the United States Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- 1813 – The United States Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, "Don't give up the ship".
- 1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
- 1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
- 1847 – Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
- 1855 – American adventurer William Walker defeats Nicaragua and brings back slavery.
- 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Fairfax Oaks Court House takes place, in which the first Confederate combat casualty occurs.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Both sides claim victory.
- 1868 - The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1869 – Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, received a patent for his electric voting machine.
- 1879 – Eugène Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France is killed in the Zulu Wars.
- 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1898 – The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
1901 – 2000
- 1907 – Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded either for a county cricket match or a single day's bowling, and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
- 1909 – The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world's fair opens in Seattle, Washington.
- 1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the United Kingdom.
- 1916 - Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- 1918 – World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins –
- 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills at least 85 people.
- 1922 – Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
- 1925 – Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played the first game in his record streak of 2,130 games in a row, an endurance record in Major League Baseball that stood until Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in 1995.
- 1926 - In Poland, the National Assembly elects Ignacy Moscicki as President.
- 1932 - Franz von Papen becomes Chancellor of Germany.
- 1935 – First driving tests introduced in Britain.
- 1938 – Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
- 1938 – Protective baseball helmets were worn by people with bats for the very first time.
- 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete ends – Crete gives in to Germany.
- 1943 – A not soldier flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all on the plane, including actor Leslie Howard.
- 1954 – The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time. Archived 2005-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- 1958 – Charles de Gaulle is brought out of resting to lead France by order for six months.
- 1960 - New Zealand's first official television broadcast is transmitted.
- 1963 - Kenya gains internal self-rule.
- 1967 – The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
- 1973 - The military proclaims Greece a republic.
- 1974 - The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
- 1974 – Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK kills 28 people.
- 1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
- 1978 - The 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina begins. The staging of the World Cup in Argentina is controversial, due to the military dictatorship in power at the time.
- 1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, ousting Ian Smith and changing its name to Zimbabwe
- 1980 – The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
- 1988 - A mining accident in Stolzenbach, Hesse, then-West Germany, kills 51 miners. 6 survive and are rescued on June 4.
- 1989 – Oba Chandler murders an Ohio family on their Florida vacation by drowning them in Tampa Bay.
- 1990 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation's stockpiles.
- 1990 - Karl-Marx-Stadt, in then-East Germany, changes its name back to Chemnitz.
- 1993 - Dobrinja mortar attack, west of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, kills 13 people and injures 133, as Serb mortar shells hit during a football game.
- 1994 – South Africa re-joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1999 - American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes at Little Rock National Airport in Arkansas, killing 11 people.
- 2000 – The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
From 2001
- 2001 - Several members of Nepal's royal family, including King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, are killed in a massacre. Crown Prince, Dipendra of Nepal, is believed to have carried out the attack, and dies of his injuries on June 4.
- 2001 - A Hamas suicide bombing kills 21 people at a disco in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- 2002 - The Germany national football team scores its highest FIFA World Cup win, defeating the Saudi Arabia national football team 8-0 in a group match.
- 2003 – The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.
- 2005 – Voters in the Netherlands reject the proposed EU Constitution.
- 2008 – A fire at Universal Studios Hollywood destroys 118,000 to 175,000 copies of master tapes.
- 2009 – Air France Flight 447: An Air France plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Brazil, killing all 228 people on board.
- 2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 2011 – Sepp Blatter is controversially re-elected as FIFA President.
- 2014 - FIFA, the governing body of world football, is embroiled in a corruption scandal after reports of irregularities when Qatar won the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup in 2010.
- 2015 - A ship carrying over 458 people sinks on the Yangtze River in Hubei province, China, killing 400 people.
- 2016 - The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world, opens in Switzerland after around 20 years of building work.
- 2017 - President Donald Trump announces the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement.
- 2018 - A coalition government consisting of the Five Star Movement and the League Party takes office in Italy, with Giuseppe Conte as Prime minister.
- 2018 - Mariano Rajoy is removed from office as Prime minister of Spain by a parliamentary vote of no confidence; Pedro Sánchez replaces him.
- 2019 - Nayib Bukele becomes President of El Salvador.
- 2019 - Liverpool F.C. defeats Tottenham Hotspur F.C. 2-0 in the second UEFA Champions League final between two English clubs.
Births
Up to 1800
- 719 – Yang Yuhuan, Chinese princess and consort (d. 756)
- 1076 – Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
- 1134 - Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (d. 1158)
- 1300 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Salisbury, son of King Edward I of England (d. 1338)
- 1455 - Anne of Savoy (d. 1480)
- 1480 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (d. 1550)
- 1503 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567)
- 1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician (d. 1612)
- 1633 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
- 1637 - Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
- 1754 - Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este (d. 1806)
- 1771 – Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839)
- 1790 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
- 1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French military engineer and physicist (d. 1832)
1801 – 1900
- 1801 – Brigham Young, American Mormon leader (d. 1877)
- 1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
- 1814 - Charles Anderson, 27th Governor of Ohio (d. 1895)
- 1815 – King Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
- 1819 - Francis V, Duke of Modena (d. 1875)
- 1825 - John Hunt Morgan, American general (d. 1864)
- 1831 - John Bell Hood, American general (d. 1879)
- 1833 – John Marshall Harlan, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1911)
- 1843 – Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
- 1844 - Vasily Polenov, Russian painter (d. 1921)
- 1850 - Sami Frashëri, Albanian writer (d. 1904)
- 1875 - Carl Severing, German politician (d. 1952)
- 1878 – John Masefield, English novelist and poet (d. 1967)
- 1879 - Max Emmerich, American athlete and gymnast (d. 1956)
- 1882 - Nicolae Bivol, Moldovan politician (d. 1940)
- 1889 - James Daugherty, American painter, illustrator and writer (d. 1974)
- 1889 – Charles Kay Ogden, book writer who created the idea of Basic English (d. 1957)
- 1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
- 1898 – Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992)
1901 – 1950
- 1901 – Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
- 1905 - Robert Newton, English stage and movie actor (d. 1956)
- 1907 – Frank Whittle, English aircraft engineer (d. 1996)
- 1912 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1987)
- 1917 – William Standish Knowles, American chemist (d. 2012)
- 1921 - Nelson Riddle, American arranger, composer and bandleader (d. 1985)
- 1922 – Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
- 1922 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1922 - Joan Copeland, American actress
- 1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
- 1926 - Richard Schweiker, American politician (d. 2015)
- 1928 – Bob Monkhouse, British comedian (d. 2003)
- 1928 - Steve Dodd, Australian actor (d. 2014)
- 1928 - Larry Zeidel, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
- 1928 – Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
- 1929 - Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981)
- 1930 - Kei Kumai, Japanese director (d. 2007)
- 1930 - Richard Levins, American scientist (d. 2016)
- 1930 – Edward Woodward, British actor (d. 2009)
- 1931 - Hal Smith, American baseball player (d. 2014)
- 1933 - Sandy D'Alemberte, American lawyer, professor and politician (d. 2019)
- 1933 – Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985)
- 1933 – Charles Wilson, American politician (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Pat Boone, American singer
- 1935 – Norman Foster, British architect
- 1935 – Hazel Dickens, American singer, songwriter and musician
- 1937 - Colleen McCullough, Australian author (d. 2015)
- 1937 – Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
- 1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor
- 1938 – Carlo Caffarra, Italian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bologna and cardinal (d. 2017)
- 1940 - Kip Thorne, American theoretical physicist
- 1941 - Toyo Ito, Japanese architect
- 1941 - Alexander V. Zakharov, Russian physicist and astronomer
- 1942 - Fernando Atzori, Italian boxer
- 1942 - Eric Nagler, Canadian children’s musician
- 1944 - Robert Powell, British actor
- 1945 - Frederica von Stade, American operatic mezzo-soprano
- 1946 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor
- 1947 - Jan Harvey, British actress
- 1947 – Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
- 1947 – Ronnie Wood, British musician (Rolling Stones)
- 1947 - Ron Dennis, British businessman
- 1948 - Powers Boothe, American actor (d. 2017)
- 1948 - Aruna Shanbaug, Indian nurse (d. 2015)
- 1950 - Tim Bishop, American politician
- 1950 - Gemma Craven, Irish actress and singer
1951 – 1975
- 1952 - Senol Gunes, Turkish football manager
- 1953 - Ronnie Dunn, American country musician
- 1953 - Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, English actor and peer
- 1953 – David Berkowitz, American serial killer (Son of Sam)
- 1955 - Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2016)
- 1955 - Tony Snow, American journalist (d. 2008)
- 1956
- François Chérèque, French labor unionist (d. 2017)
- Lisa Hartman-Black, American Actress & singer
- Peter Tomka, Slovakian jurist & diplomat
- 1958 - Nambaryn Enkhbayar, 3rd President of Mongolia
- 1959 - Alan Wilder, English singer, musician, producer and composer
- 1959 – Martin Brundle, British racecar driver
- 1960 – Simon Gallup, British musician (The Cure)
- 1960 - Vladimir Krutov, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
- 1960 - Sergey Kuznetsov, Soviet-Russian footballer
- 1960 - Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician
- 1960 - Einar Vilhjálmsson, Icelandic javelin thrower
- 1961 – Paul Coffey, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1961 - Peter Machajdik, Slovakian-German composer
- 1963 – Mike Joyce, British musician (The Smiths)
- 1965 – Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
- 1965 – Nigel Short, British chess player
- 1965 - Olga Nazarova, Russian athlete
- 1966 - Abel Balbo, Argentine footballer
- 1967 - Roger Sanchez, American producer and DJ
- 1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
- 1968 - Karen Mulder, Dutch model and singer
- 1968 - Jeff Hackett, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 - Mathias Rust, German pilot
- 1970 – Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
- 1970 - Andrea Fay Friedman, American actress
- 1971 - Mario Cimarro, Cuban-American actor
- 1971 - Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist
- 1972 – Daniel Casey, English actor
- 1973 – Adam Garcia, Australian actor
- 1973 – Heidi Klum, German model
- 1973 - René Zagger, English actor
- 1974 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
- 1974 – Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
- 1974 - Sarah Teather, British politician
- 1975 - Kate Magowan, American actress
- 1975 - Frauke Petry, German chemist and politician
From 1976
- 1976 - Marlon Devonish, British athlete
- 1977 - Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
- 1977 - Danielle Harris, American actress
- 1977 - Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
- 1980 - Oliver James, British musician and actor
- 1981 - Amy Schumer, American comedienne, writer and actress
- 1981 - Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan-American baseball player
- 1982 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
- 1983 - Hannah Bardell, Scottish politician
- 1984 – Naidangiin Tuvshinbayar, Mongolian athlete
- 1984 - Jean Beausejour, Chilean footballer
- 1984 - Stéphane Sessègnon, Beninese footballer
- 1985 – Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
- 1985 - José Fernando Cuadrado, Colombian footballer
- 1985 - Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian runner
- 1986 - Dayana Mendoza, Venezuelan model
- 1986 - Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer
- 1987 - Juan Hernández, Mexican footballer
- 1987 – Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
- 1988 – Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
- 1988 – Javier Hernández Balcázar, Mexican footballer
- 1989 - Samuel Inkoom, Ghanaian footballer
- 1990 - Bianca Perie, Romanian hammer thrower
- 1992 - Jenna McDougall, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1992 - Kira Plastinina, Russian fashion designer
- 1996 - Tom Holland, English actor
- 2000 - Willow Shields, American actress
- 2003 - Emjay Anthony, American actor and model
- 2004 - Krisia Todorova, Bulgarian singer
Deaths
Up to 1900
- 195 BC – Gaozu of Han of China (born 256 BC or 247 BC)
- 193 – Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
- 657 - Pope Eugene I
- 1432 - Dan II of Wallachia
- 1434 – Wladislaus II of Poland (b. 1362)
- 1571 - John Story, English martyr (b. 1504)
- 1616 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
- 1660 – Mary Dyer, English-born Quaker (b. 1611)
- 1740 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
- 1769 - Edward Holyoke, American clergyman (b. 1689)
- 1795 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
- 1823 - Louis-Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770)
- 1826 - Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
- 1830 - Swaminarayan, Indian Hindu figure (b. 1751)
- 1841 – Nicolas Appert, French inventor (b. 1749)
- 1846 – Pope Gregory XVI (born 1765)
- 1864 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1820)
- 1868 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (born 1791)
- 1872 - James Gordon Bennett, American newspaper publisher (b. 1795)
- 1873 - Joseph Howe, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1804)
- 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (born 1848)
- 1879 – Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial of France (b. 1856)
- 1899 - Klaus Groth, German poet and writer (b. 1819)
1901 – 2000
- 1904 - George Frederic Watts, English painter (b. 1817)
- 1927 - Lizzie Borden, American suspected murderess (b. 1860)
- 1927 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861)
- 1938 – Odon V. Horvath, Austro-Hungarian writer (b. 1901)
- 1941 - Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English writer (b. 1884)
- 1943 – Leslie Howard, English actor (born 1893)
- 1946 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (born 1882)
- 1948 – Sonny Boy Williamson, American blues musician (born 1914)
- 1952 – John Dewey, American philosopher (born 1859)
- 1955 - Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle (b. 1872)
- 1959 – Sax Rohmer, English writer (born 1883)
- 1960 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1883)
- 1965 - Curly Lambeau, American football player and coach (b. 1898)
- 1966 – Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (born 1873)
- 1968 – Helen Keller, American humanitarian (born 1880)
- 1969 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (born 1904)
- 1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (born 1892)
- 1979 – Werner Forssmann, German physician (born 1904)
- 1980 – Rube Marquard, American Baseball Hall of Famer (born 1886)
- 1981 – Carl Vinson, United States Congressman (born 1883)
- 1983 – Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Belgian royal (b. 1903)
- 1983 - Anna Seghers, German writer (b. 1900)
- 1985 - Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
- 1987 - Rashid Karami, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1921)
- 1991 – David Ruffin, American singer (b. 1941)
- 1994 – Frances Heflin, American soap opera actress (born 1923)
- 1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India (born 1913)
- 1998 - Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (born 1919)
- 1999 – Christopher Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (born 1910)
- 2000 - Tito Puente, American musician and composer (born 1923)
From 2001
- 2001 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace (b. 1920)
- 2001 – King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945) (shot)
- 2001 – Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949) (shot)
- 2002 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
- 2004 – William Manchester, American biographer and novelist (b. 1922)
- 2004 – Satomi Mitarai, Japanese student, murdered by a classmate
- 2005 – George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
- 2008 – Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
- 2009 - Silvio Barbato, Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer (b. 1959) (Air France Flight 447)
- 2010 – Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (b. 1906)
- 2011 – Haleh Sahabi, Iranian human rights activist (b. 1957)
- 2014 - Ann B. Davis, American actress (b. 1926)
- 2014 - Karlheinz Hackl, Austrian actor (b. 1949)
- 2014 - Jay Lake, American author (b. 1964)
- 2015 - Joan Kirner, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (b. 1938)
- 2015 - Shone An, Taiwanese singer and actor (b. 1983)
- 2015 - Nobutaka Machimura, Japanese politician (b. 1944)
- 2015 - Charles Kennedy, Scottish politician, former leader of the Liberal Democrats (b. 1959)
- 2015 - Jacques Parizeau, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of Quebec (b. 1930)
- 2015 - Nicholas Liverpool, 6th President of Dominica (b. 1934)
- 2015 - Jean Ritchie, American folk singer (b. 1922)
- 2015 - Kirill Pokrovsky, Russian composer (b. 1962)
- 2016 - Razak Khan, Indian actor (b. 1954)
- 2016 - Roger Enrico, American businessman (b. 1944)
- 2016 - Boyce F. Martin, Jr., American judge (b. 1935)
- 2017 - Roy Barraclough, English actor (b. 1935)
- 2017 - Tankred Dorst, German playwright (b. 1925)
- 2017 - Alois Mock, Austrian politician (b. 1934)
- 2017 - Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentine golfer (b. 1923)
- 2017 - Jack McCloskey, American basketball player (b. 1925)
- 2017 - J. B. Dauda, Sierra Leonean politician (b. 1942)
- 2017 - Sonja Sutter, German actress (b. 1931)
- 2017 - José Greci, Italian actress (b. 1941)
- 2017 - Rosa Taikon, Swedish activist, silversmith and actress (b. 1926)
- 2018 - Poldy Bird, Argentine writer (b. 1941)
- 2018 - Jean-Claude Boulard, French politician (b. 1943)
- 2018 - Eddy Clearwater, American blues singer (b. 1935)
- 2018 - Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author (b. 1934)
- 2018 - Hilmar Hoffmann, German film and culture academic (b. 1925)
- 2018 - John Julius Norwich, English historian (b. 1929)
- 2018 - William Edward Phipps, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2018 - Bob Clotworthy, American diver (b. 1931)
- 2018 - Rockin' Rebel, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
- 2018 - Dhiraj Choudhury, Indian painter (b. 1936)
- 2018 - Razan al-Najjar, Pakistani nurse (b. 1996)
- 2019 - Leah Chase, American chef (b. 1923)
- 2019 - John Meyers, English radio executive (b. 1959)
- 2019 - José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
- 2019 - Michel Serres, French philosopher, theorist and writer (b. 1930)
- 2019 - Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesian First Lady (b. 1952)
- 2023 - Anna Shay, American socialite, businesswoman and television personality (Bling Empire) (b. 1961)
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