Deaths on 1 July
2000s
Alex Delvecchio
2025
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1931–2025)
Jimmy Swaggart
2025
American television evangelist (1935–2025)
Ismail Kadare
2024
Albanian writer (1936–2024)
Robert Towne
2024
American screenwriter, producer, director and actor (1934–2024)
Dilano van 't Hoff
2023
Dutch racing driver (2004–2023)
Louis Andriessen
2021
Dutch composer and pianist (1939–2021)
Bogusław Schaeffer
2019
Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist (1929–2019)
Robin Hardy (film director)
2016
British film director and writer (1929–2016)
Val Doonican
2015
Irish singer (1927–2015)
Czesław Olech
2015
Polish mathematician (1931–2015)
Nicholas Winton
2015
British banker and humanitarian (1909–2015)
Jean Garon
2014
Canadian politician (1938–2014)
Stephen Gaskin
2014
American activist (1935–2014)
Bob Jones (police commissioner)
2014
British politician and police commissioner (1955-2014)
Anatoly Kornukov
2014
Soviet general (1942–2014)
Walter Dean Myers
2014
American children's book author (1937–2014)
Sidney Bryan Berry
2013
US Army general officer
Charles Foley (inventor)
2013
American inventor
William H. Gray III
2013
American politician (1941–2013)
Peter E. Gillquist
2012
American writer and priest
Ossie Hibbert
2012
Musical artist
Evelyn Lear
2012
American operatic soprano
Alan G. Poindexter
2012
American test pilot and astronaut (1961–2012)
Jack Richardson (writer)
2012
American dramatist
Don Coryell
2010
American football coach (1924–2010)
Arnold Friberg
2010
American illustrator and painter
Ilene Woods
2010
American actress (1929–2010)
Karl Malden
2009
American actor (1912–2009)
Onni Palaste
2009
Mollie Sugden
2009
English actress (1922–2009)
Mel Galley
2008
British guitarist (1948–2008)
Ryutaro Hashimoto
2006
Prime Minister of Japan from 1996 to 1998
Robert Lepikson
2006
Estonian politician, businessman and rally driver/co-driver
Fred Trueman
2006
English cricketer (1931–2006)
Renaldo Benson
2005
American musician (1936–2005)
Gus Bodnar
2005
Canadian ice hockey player (1923–2005)
Luther Vandross
2005
American singer (1951–2005)
Peter Barnes (playwright)
2004
English playwright and screenwriter (1931–2004)
Marlon Brando
2004
American actor (1924–2004)
Todor Skalovski
2004
Macedonian composer, choir and orchestra conductor
Herbie Mann
2003
American jazz flutist (1930–2003)
Nikolay Basov
2001
Soviet physicist
Jean-Louis Rosier
2001
French racing driver
Walter Matthau
2000
American actor (1920–2000)
1900s
Edward Dmytryk
1999
American film director (1908–1999)
Forrest Mars Sr.
1999
American businessman (1904–1999)
Sylvia Sidney
1999
American actress (1910–1999)
Sola Sierra
1999
Chilean human rights activist
Robert Mitchum
1997
American actor (1917–1997)
Charles Werner
1997
American cartoonist (1909–1997)
William T. Cahill
1996
American politician (1912–1996)
Margaux Hemingway
1996
American fashion model and actress (1954–1996)
Steve Tesich
1996
Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright and novelist (1942–1996)
Wolfman Jack
1995
American DJ and music TV host (1938–1995)
Ian Parkin
1995
English musician (1949–1995)
Merriam Modell
1994
American novelist (1908–1994)
Franco Cristaldi
1992
Italian film producer (1924–1992)
Michael Landon
1991
American actor and filmmaker (1936–1991)
Jurriaan Schrofer
1990
Dutch graphic designer
Moshé Feldenkrais
1984
Israeli engineer (1904–1984)
Buckminster Fuller
1983
American philosopher, architect and inventor (1895–1983)
Carlos de Oliveira
1981
Portuguese poet and novelist (1921 - 1981)
Kurt Student
1978
German general (1890–1978)
Juan Perón
1974
President of Argentina (1946–1955, 1973–1974)
Lawrence Bragg
1971
Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer (1890–1971)
Learie Constantine
1971
West Indian cricketer and politician
Fritz Bauer
1968
German judge (1903–1968)
Gerhard Ritter
1967
German historian (1888–1967)
Frank Verner
1966
American long-distance runner
Wally Hammond
1965
English cricketer (1903–1965)
Robert Ruark
1965
American novelist
Pierre Monteux
1964
French and American conductor (1875–1964)
Purushottam Das Tandon
1962
Indian freedom fighter
Bidhan Chandra Roy
1962
Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1950 to 1962
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
1961
French writer (1894–1961)
Tadeusz Borowski
1951
Polish writer and journalist
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
1950
Swiss composer, musician, and educator (1865–1950)
Eliel Saarinen
1950
Finnish and American architect (1873–1950)
Achille Varzi
1948
Italian racing driver (1904–1948)
Carl Mayer
1944
Austrian screenwriter
Tanya Savicheva
1944
Russian diarist and victim of the Siege of Leningrad
Willem Arondeus
1943
Dutch painter, writer and member of the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance
Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich
1942
Irish writer and politician (1856–1942)
Ernst Röhm
1934
German Nazi and military officer (1887–1934)
Erik Satie
1925
French composer and pianist (1866–1925)
Harriet Quimby
1912
American aviation pioneer (1875–1912)
John Hay
1905
American statesman (1838–1905)
1800s
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1896
American abolitionist and author (1811-1896)
Thomas Francis Meagher
1887
Irish nationalist and American Union army officer (1823–1867)
Allan Pinkerton
1884
Scottish-American detective and spy (1819–1884)
John F. Reynolds
1863
Career officer of the United States Army
Charles Goodyear
1860
American inventor (1800–1860)
Mahmud II
1839
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 to 1839
Lyncoya Jackson
1828
Creek Indian child adopted by Andrew Jackson
Public Universal Friend
1819
American preacher (1752–1819)
Before 1800
Charles, Prince of Soubise
1787
French Royal Army officer and courtier (1715–1787)
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
1784
German composer and musician (1710–1784)
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
1782
Prime Minister of Great Britain (1765–1766; 1782)
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland
1774
English peer and politician (1705–1774)
William Jones (mathematician)
1749
Welsh mathematician (1675–1749)
Ahmed III
1736
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1703 to 1730
Oliver Plunkett
1681
Irish Catholic archbishop and saint (1625–1681)
William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle
1622
English peer, discoverer of the Gunpowder Plot (1575–1622)
Isaac Casaubon
1614
European classical scholar and philologist (1559–1614)
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
1592
Italian composer
Lady Saigō
1589
Consort of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1552–1589)
John Bradford
1555
English Reformer and martyr (1510–1555)
Joan of England (died 1348)
1348
14th-century English princess
María de Molina
1321
Queen of Castile and León from 1284 to 1295
Narathihapate
1287
King Sithu IV of Pagan
Baybars
1277
Sultan of Egypt and Syria from 1260 to 1277
Chagatai Khan
1242
Second son of Genghis Khan and Börte (1183–1242)
Hōjō Yoshitoki
1224
2nd Shikken of the Kamakura shogunate
Alfonso VI of León and Castile
1109
King of León (1065–1109), Castile (1072–1109), and Galicia (1071–1109)
Queen Heonjeong
992
Korean queen (fl. 10th century)
Totila
552
King of the Ostrogoths from 541 to 552