Famous Deaths on June 25 ·

15 May 2024, 00:00

June 25 Calendar

1686 Simon Ushakov, Russian icon painter (b. 1626)
1710 Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer and historian, dies at 74
1715 Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral and governor (Battle of Málaga), dies ta 68
1743 Václav Matyáš Gurecký, Bohemian composer dies at 37
1767 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late baroque composer, dies at 86
1785 Pierre Talon, French composer and cellist, dies at 63
1785 Pieter Kintsius, Dutch VOC supercarga, chief on Macau, dies at 53
1792 Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder (b. 1738)
1798 Thomas Sandby, English architect (Royal Academy's 1st professor of Architecture), dies at about 77
1804 Georges Cadoudal, Breton politician and royalist who plotted to overthrow Napoleon, executed at 33
1822 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German Romantic writer, judge and composer (Undine), dies at 46
1830 Ephraim McDowell, American physician and surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery), dies at 58
1838 François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French Army general, dies at 64
1840 Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general and politician who was part of the 1812 Triumvirate in the Netherlands, dies at 82
1860 Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, The Māori King, dies at Ngāruawāhia, New Zealand

1861 Abdulmejid I, 31st Sultan of Ottoman Empire, dies at 38
1866 Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist, dies at 63
1868 Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse), dies at 88
1868 Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (bioelectricity), dies at 57
1875 Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor, dies at 78
1876 Boston Custer, brother of George Armstrong Custer, dies at Battle of the Little Bighorn at 27

United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars, dies at the Battle of Little Bighorn aged 36

1876 James C. Calhoun, American soldier, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer, dies at the Battle of the Little Bighorn at 30
1876 John Patton, American trumpeter, dies at the Battle of the Little Bighorn at 24 or 25
1876 Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
1876 Myles Keogh, US officer, dies at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
1876 Thomas W. Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
1882 François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
1884 Hans Rott, Austrian composer, dies at 25
1896 Emile A. H. Seipgens, Dutch novice priest, beer brewer, poet and writer (The Chaplain Bardelo), dies at 58
1896 Lyman Trumbull, U.S. Senator from Illinois (1855-73), dies at 82
1897 Margaret Oliphant, Scottish novelist and biographer (Beleaguered City), dies at 69
1898 Ferdinand J. Cohn, German botanist and publicist, dies at 70
1906 Stanford White, American architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit at 52
1912 Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch-British painter, dies at 76
1912 Louis Antoine, Belgian miner and sect leader, dies at about 65

American artist (The Gross Clinic), dies at 71

1918 Jake Beckley, American Baseball HOF first baseman (23,767 putouts MLB record; career .308 hitter; Pittsburgh Alleghenys/Pirates; NY Giants; Cincinnati Reds; St. Louis Cardinals), dies of heart disease at 50
1929 Georges Courteline [Moineau], French playwright, dies at 71
1937 Colin Clive, British actor (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Mad Love), dies from complications of tuberculosis at 37
1939 Richard Seaman, British auto racer (German GP 1938), dies in a race accident in Belgian Grand Prix at 26
1942 Hans Lietzman, German theologist and church historian, dies at 67
1944 Lucha Reyes [María de Luz Flores], Mexican mariachi singer ("Guadalajara"), dies of barbiturate intoxication at 38
1948 William C. Lee, U.S. general 'Father of the US Airboure', dies at 53
1949 Buck Freeman, American baseball outfielder (World Series 1903; HR leader 1899, 1903; AL RBI leader 1902, 03; Boston Americans), dies at 77
1952 Alec Ross, Scottish golfer (US Open 1907), dies at 72
1953 Algy Gehrs, Australian cricketer (6 Tests for Australia 1904-11), dies at 72
1954 Eduard M. Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Civil Code), dies at 74
1956 Ernest J. King, US fleet admiral, Chief of Naval Operations, dies at 77
1959 Charles Starkweather, American spree killer, executed by electric chair at 20
1960 Tommy Corcoran, American baseball shortstop (MLB shortstop game assist record 14), dies at 91
1960 Walter Baade, German-American astronomer (Andromeda), dies at 67
1961 John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian aviator, dies at 74
1961 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson, US politician, 1st US elected women governor, Governor of Texas (1925-27, 1933-35), dies at 86
1962 Ephraim Lisitsky, American Hebrew poet, dies (b. 1885)
1964 Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect and furniture designer (Sonsbeek Pavilion), dies at 76

1971 Charles Vildrac, French author, poet and playwright (La Brouille, Michel Auclair, Notes sur la technique poétique), dies at 88
1971 John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician (Nobel Peace Prize 1949 - Father of the Food and Agriculture Organization), dies at 90 [1]
1972 Nat Fleischer, American boxing writer (established Ring Magazine), dies at 84
1974 Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 81

American singer, Academy Award-winning lyricist ("Moon River"; "That Old Black Magic"; "And the Angels Sing": Come Rain Or Come Shine"), and record label executive (Capitol Records), dies from an inoperable brain tumor at 66 [1]

1977 Endre Szervánszky, Hungarian composer (Dark Heaven Requiem), dies at 65
1977 Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guides, dies at 88
1977 Petko Staynov, Bulgarian composer and pianist, dies at 80
1978 Barry Brown, American actor (Frederick Winterbourne-Daisy Miller), dies at 27
1978 Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered
1979 Philippe Halsman, American portrait photographer, dies at 73
1983 Alberto Evaristo Ginastera, Argentine composer (Panambi), dies at 67
1983 Oddbjørn Hagen, Norwegian nordic skier (Olympic gold cross country individual 1936; World C'ship gold 1934, 35), dies at 75
1984 Michel Foucault, French philosopher and historian (History of Sexuality), dies of AIDS at 57
1985 Connie "Pee Wee" Crayton, American R&B and blues guitarist and singer ("Do Unto Others"), dies of a heart attack at 70
1985 Morris Mason, American convicted rapist and murderer, executed by electric chair at 31
1986 Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet, dies at 63
1987 Boudleaux Bryant, American country music and pop songwriter, usually with wife Ffelice ("Love Hurts"; "Bye Bye Love"; "Wake Up Little Susie"; All I Have To Do Is Dream"), dies of cancer at 67
1988 Axis Sally [Mildred E Gillars], US nazi propagandist (WWII), dies
1988 Hillel Slovak, Israeli musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
1990 Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Australian composer (Triad), dies at 77
1992 James Stirling, Scottish architect (Neue Staatsgalerie, 1981 Pritzker Prize), dies at 66
1992 Jerome Brown, American defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagle), dies in car crash at 27
1993 Miroslav Klega, Czech composer (Pantomime Suite), dies at 67
1994 Louis-Robert Casterman, Belgian publisher (Kuifje), dies at 74
1995 Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (Nobel Prize 1951 for work building earliest particle accelerator), dies at 91
1995 Warren Earl Burger, American judge, US Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78
1996 Nicholas John, English National Opera's dramaturge, dies at 43
1996 Ray Howard-Jones, Welsh artist, dies at 93
1996 Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (b. 1914)

1997 William Lyle Woratzeck, American convicted killer, executed in Arizona at 51
1997 Ziggy Talent, American saxophonist and novelty singer (Vaughn Monroe Orchestra - "Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long"), dies at 85
1998 Lounès Matoub, Kabylian singer-songwriter, guitar and mandole player, and Berber rights activist, assassinated by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) at 42
1998 Richard Bales, American composer (National Gallery of Art orchestra), dies at 83
1999 Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)
1999 Fred Trump, American real estate developer and father of Donald Trump, dies of pneumonia while suffering from Alzheimer's disease at 93
2001 Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 53
2002 Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2003 Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (1967-71), dies at 87
2005 John Fiedler, American stage and screen actor (The Bob Newhart Show - "Mr. Peterson"; The Odd Couple - "Vinnie"; 12 Angry Men), dies of cancer at 80
2006 Arif Mardin, Turkish-American music producer (Atlantic Records, Aretha Franklin, Bee Gees), dies of cancer at 74
2006 Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect and WWII resistance fighter, dies at 88
2007 Alida Bosshardt, Dutch Salvation Army officer (worked with Prostitutes in Amsterdam's red light district), dies at 94
2007 J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer (Houston Astros, Rice University, US Track & Field) and teacher, dies from leukemia at 74
2007 Mahasti, Persian singer (b. 1946)
2007 Nina Vyroubova, Russian-French ballerina (Pavlova Prize 1957), dies at 86
2008 Alla Kazanskaya, Russian stage and film actress (Burnt by the Sun), dies at 88

American actress (Charlie's Angels, The Burning Bed), dies of cancer at 62

2009 Sky Saxon [Richard Marsh], American rocker (The Seeds - "Pushin' To Hard"), dies from heart and renal failure at 71
2010 Alan Plater, English playwright and screenwriter, dies of cancer at 75
2010 Richard B. Sellars, American business executive (b. 1915)
2011 Goff Richards, British brass band music composer and arranger
2011 Margaret Tyzack, English actress (b. 1931)
2014 Harry Hookway, Chief Executive of the British Library (1973-84), dies at 93
2015 Patrick Macnee, British actor (The Avengers, Magnum, P.I., Sherlock Holmes), dies at 93
2016 Bill Cunningham, American fashion photographer (The New York Times), dies at 87
2016 Jim Hickman, American baseball utility (MLB All Star 1970 Chicago Cubs; 1st NY Met to hit for cycle), dies at 79
2016 Peter Hutton, American filmmaker (Study of a River), dies at 71
2017 Bill Dana [William Szathmary], American comedian, characters actor (José Jiménez) and screenwriter (The Nude Bomb, The Bill Dana Show), dies at 92
2017 George "Skip" Homeier, American actor (Boys Ranch, Beachhead, Dan Raven, Interns), dies of spinal myelopathy at 86
2017 Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician (Leader of the Scottish National Party), dies at 79
2018 Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer (Doppelspiel), dies at 81
2018 Paul Gérin-Lajoie, French Canadian politician (Minister of Education), dies at 98
2019 Ken Behring, American real estate developer, NFL team owner (Seattle Seahawks, 1988-97), and philanthropist dies at 91
2020 John Kennedy Sr., Australian Rules Football coach (Australian Football Hall of Fame legend; VFL Premiership 1961, 71, 76; Hawthorn FC; North Melbourne FC), dies at 91
2020 Marga Richter, American classical pianist and composer (Landscapes of the Mind; Out of Shadows and Solitude), dies at 93
2021 Jack Ingram, American auto racer (NASCAR Busch Series champion 1982, 1985), dies at 84
2021 Marcos Ferrufino, Bolivian soccer defender (9 caps; Bolívar 252 games) and manager (San José, Real Potosí), dies from COVID-19 at 58
2022 Bill Woolsey, American swimmer (Olympic gold men's 4×200m freestyle relay 1952, silver 1956), dies at 87
2022 Javier Cárdenas, Mexican soccer midfielder (12 caps; CD Guadalajara 215 games), dies at 69
2022 Russell Watt, New Zealand rugby union wing (9 Tests; Otago, Southland, Wellington), dies at 86
2023 John B. Goodenough, American materials scientist (lithium-ion battery), solid-state physicist and Nobel laureate in chemistry, dies at 100
2023 Wilhelm Büsing, German equestrian (Olympic silver team eventing, bronze Individual eventing 1952) and coach (Olympics 1956, 60, 64), dies at 102
2024 "Papa” John DeFrancesco, American Hammond B-3 jazz organist (Doodlin'), dies at 83 [1]
2024 Bill Cobbs [Wilbert F. Cobbs], American actor (Night at the Museum; The Color of Money; I'll Fly Away; Star Trek: Enterprise), dies at 90 [1]
2024 Jewel Brown, American jazz and blues singer (Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong's All-Stars), dies of colon cancer at 86
2024 Sika Anoa'i, American pro wrestler (WWF Tag Team C'ship x 3 with brother Afa as the Wild Samoans), dies at 79

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Famous Deaths on June 25

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