Historical Deaths

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - June 10, 2026

1839 Nathaniel Pryor, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies

1247 Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, archbishop Toledo/advisor Alfonso VIII, dies

1692 ?, 1st witch is hanged in Salem Mass

1995 Masaya Hanai, businessamn, dies at 82

1985 Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68

1968 Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65

1976 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian/US fur trader/movie producer, dies at 103

1953 Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer, dies at 73

1954 Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87

1967 Spencer Tracy, US actor (7th Cross, Father ot Bride), dies at 67

1996 Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter, dies at 89

1942 Jean Van Royen, Sect-Gen of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63

1963 Anita King, actress (Tender Loving Care), dies of heart attack at 74

1981 Russell "Lucky" Hayden, actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68

1923 Pierre Loti, [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer, dies

1934 Frederick Delius, English composer (Suite Florida), dies at 72

1944 Gerrit Jan van der Veen, [Wolffensperger], resister, executed at 41

1883 Carl Gradener, composer, dies at 71

1941 Marcus Garvey, US black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52

1995 Ernest Anderson, publicist, dies at 85

1924 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists

1556 Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, dies

1800 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53

1992 Peter Von Zerneck, actor (Foreign Affair), dies at 84

1991 Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), dies

1944 Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28

1996 Uno Choyo, writer, dies at 98

1903 Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated

1944 French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed

1560 Mary de Guise, queen-mother of Scotland

1654 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 58

1989 Richard Quine, director/actor (Babes on Broadway), dies at 68

1893 Elek Erkel, composer, dies at 49

1980 Denys Morkel, S Afr cricketer (batsman scored 663 runs 1927-32), dies

1994 Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Back seat of a '38 Dodge), dies at 66

1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, dies of drug overdose at 36

1923 Gustav Enestr”m, Swedish historian, dies at 70

1942 Ross Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman 1937), dies

1918 Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer, dies at 76

1628 Floris I, count of Holland, dies

1993 Arleen Aug‚r, US soprano (Matth„us Passion), dies at 53

1995 Ron Morrisby, cricketer (prolific batsman for Tasmania 1931-52), dies

1941 Herschel Mayall, actor (Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 78

1903 Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated

1834 Antonius van Gils, RC theologist (against Relief), dies at 75

1902 Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68

1946 Jack Johnson, 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident

1971 Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61

1992 Hachidal Nakamura, composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure

1996 Norman Lambert, British restuarateur, dies

1868 Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Sweden, murdered

1967 Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76

1985 George Chandler, actor (Lassie), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87

1190 Frederik I van Hohenstaufen "Barbarossa", German King, dies

1996 Hugh Burnton Mitchell, US senator, dies at 89

1946 Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20

1584 Fran‡ois-Hercule de Valois, French crown prince, dies at 28

1993 Alice Reinhart, entertainer, dies at 83

1964 Louis Gruenberg, composer, dies at 79

1836 Andr‚ M AmpЉre, French mathematician/physicist (Amp), dies

1993 Alexis Smith, actress (Constant Nymph), dies of cancer at 72

1982 Addie "Micki" Harris, US singer (Shirelles-Mama Said), dies at 42

1580 LuЎs Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies

1987 Elizabeth Hartman, actress (Fixer, Patch of Blue), dies at 45

1992 Otto FAH van Nispen, mayor of Pannerden/MP (KVP), dies at 85

1949 Sigrid Undset, Norse author (Olav Audunssнn, Nobel 1928), dies at 67

1903 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies

1974 Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/baron Culloden, dies at 74

1993 Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), shoots himself at 77

1588 Valentin Weigel, German mystic, dies

1973 William M Inge, US playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60

1849 Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer, dies at 63

1996 Jo Van Fleet, actress (Seize the Day, Cinderella), dies at 75

1994 Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates, dies at 64

1943 Abd al-Azir al-Hasan VI, sultan of Morocco (1894-1907), dies at с62

1971 Virginia Eames, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 82

1926 Antonio Gaudi y Cornet, Spanish architect, dies

1969 Frank Lawton, actor (David Copperfield, Skin Game), dies at 64

1988 Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer

1899 Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44

1727 George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/king of England, dies at 67

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