Historical Deaths

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - June 14, 2026

1996 Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor, dies at 91

1982 Marie Rambert, [Cyviam Ramberg], Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94

1995 Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47

1962 Anna Sleasers, first Boston Strangler victim

1994 Lionel Grigson, professor of Jazz, dies at 52

1993 Vincent T Hamlin, cartoonist (Alley Oop), dies at 93

1911 Johan Severin Svendsen, composer, dies at 70

1991 Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter, dies at 84

1927 Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris), dies at 79

1752 Daniel Marot, French/Neth, architect/engraver, dies at about 88

1994 Marianne Kunvari, writer, dies at 81

1986 Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, dies in NY at 67

1801 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London

1986 Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies at 81

1994 Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries

1750 Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer, dies at 47

1965 Guido Guerrini, composer, dies at 74

1891 Nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77

1995 Roger Joseph Zelazny, sci-fi writer, dies of cancer at 60

1936 Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies

1907 Bob McLeod, cricketer (bro of Charlie, 6 Tests for Aus 1891-93), dies

1994 Mark Alexander Lees, rowing Coach, dies at 38

1960 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 67

1991 Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83

1964 [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, actor/director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81

1987 Les Favell, cricketer (757 runs for Australia), dies

1994 Michel Vitold, Russian/French actor (Madame et le Mort), dies at 78

1974 Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer, dies at 81

1977 Robert Middleman, actor (Barney-Monroes), dies at 66

1944 JoaquЎn Alvarez Quint‚ro, Spanish playwright (El Patio), dies at 71

1996 Thomas Edward Montgomery, drummer, dies at 73

1828 Charles, Duke of Prussia, dies at 70

1941 Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (John Knox), dies at 74

1789 Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61

1997 Richard Jaeckel, actor (Starman, The Dark), dies of cancer at 70

1948 Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer, dies at 79

1933 Albert Ross Parsons, composer, dies at 85

1982 Marjorie Bennett, actress (Blossom-Dobie Gillis), dies at 87 of cancer

1994 Harry "Little" Caesar, blues singer/actor (City Heat), dies at 66

1907 A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies

1989 Pete de Freitas, drummer (Echo & the Bunnyman), dies

1144 Aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist, dies at 69

1940 Ernst Weiб, writer, dies at 57

1995 Gesualdo Bufalino, novelist, dies at 74

1709 Gottfried Wegner, composer, dies at 65

1960 Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer, dies at 57

1962 Mykhaylo Verikivsky, composer, dies at 65

1727 Cornelis Cruys, Norwegian/Dutch admiral, dies at 70

1934 D„ubler, writer, dies at 57

1978 Theodore Karyotakis, composer, dies at 74

1948 John Blackwood McEwen, composer, dies at 80

1968 Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51

1752 Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer, dies at 57

1997 Henry C Gordon, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 71

1994 Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther, Moon River), dies at 70

1968 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66

1944 Robert H Iseley, US pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle

1885 Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuelan publisher on Cura‡ao, dies at 58

1800 Jean-Baptiste Kl‚ber, French general/architect, murdered at 47

1951 Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73

1594 Orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61

1994 Marcel Mouloudji, French actor/chansonnier (Le D‚serteur), dies at 71

1928 Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist, dies

1994 Denys Hay, historian, dies at 78

1938 William W Campbell, US astronomer (Stellar Motions), dies at 76

1873 Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92

1944 Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist, dies at 78

1828 Charles Augustus, grand duke of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach, dies

1986 Jorge Luis Borges, Arg author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86

1349 GЃnther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44

1864 Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt

1594 Roland de Lassus, composer, dies

1920 Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies

1995 Gordon Greig, journalist, dies at 63

1977 Alan Reed, actor (Fred Allen)/voice (Fred Flintstone), dies at 69

1995 Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, television producer, dies at 69

1965 H V Kaltenborn, newscaster (Who Said That?), dies at 86

1744 Andre Campra, composer, dies at 83

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