Deaths on 2 June
2000s
Larry Allen
2024
American football player (1971–2024)
Rob Burrow
2024
English rugby league footballer (1982–2024)
David Levy (Israeli politician)
2024
Israeli politician (1937–2024)
Janis Paige
2024
American actress and singer (1922–2024)
Peter Sallis
2017
English actor (1921–2017)
Fernando de Araújo (East Timorese politician)
2015
President of East Timor (1963–2015)
Irwin Rose
2015
American biologist
Ivica Brzić
2014
Yugoslav and Serbian football manager and player
Nikolay Khrenkov
2014
Russian bobsledder (1984–2014)
Alexander Shulgin
2014
American chemist and recreational drug explorer (1925–2014)
Mario Bernardi
2013
Canadian conductor and pianist
Chen Xitong
2013
Chinese politician
Mandawuy Yunupingu
2013
Australian musician (1956–2013)
Adolfo Calero
2012
Nicaraguan politician (1931–2012)
Richard Dawson
2012
British actor (1932–2012)
LeRoy Ellis
2012
American basketball player (1940–2012)
Kathryn Joosten
2012
American actress (1939–2012)
David Eddings
2009
American fantasy writer (1931–2009)
Bo Diddley
2008
American guitarist and singer (1928–2008)
Mel Ferrer
2008
American actor, director and producer (1917–2008)
Kentarō Haneda
2007
Japanese pianist, composer and arranger
Huang Ju
2007
Chinese politician (1938–2007)
Keith Smith (rugby)
2006
England dual-code rugby international footballer
Lucien Cliche
2005
Canadian politician (1916–2005)
Gunder Gundersen
2005
Norwegian Nordic combined skier
Samir Kassir
2005
Lebanese journalist (1960-2005)
Melita Norwood
2005
British civil servant and Soviet spy (1912–2005)
Freddie Blassie
2003
American professional wrestler and manager (1918–2003)
Alma Ricard
2003
Canadian businesswoman (1906–2003)
Hugo van Lawick
2002
Dutch film director (1937–2002)
Imogene Coca
2001
American comic actress (1908–2001)
Joey Maxim
2001
American boxer
Svyatoslav Fyodorov
2000
Russian physician (1927–2000)
John Schlee
2000
American professional golfer
Gerald James Whitrow
2000
British mathematician and historian of science
1900s
Junior Braithwaite
1999
Jamaican musician
Doc Cheatham
1997
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader (1905–1997)
Helen Jacobs
1997
American tennis player (1908–1997)
John Alton
1996
American-Hungarian cinematographer (1901–1996)
Leon Garfield
1996
English writer (1921–1996)
Ray Combs
1996
American game show host (1956–1996)
David Stove
1994
Australian philosopher (1927–1994)
Johnny Mize
1993
American baseball player (1913–1993)
Tahar Djaout
1993
Algerian writer (1954–1993)
Philip Dunne (writer)
1992
American screenwriter, film producer & director (1908–1992)
Ahmed Arif
1991
Turkish poet
Rex Harrison
1990
English actor (1908–1990)
Ted à Beckett
1989
Australian cricketer
Raj Kapoor
1988
Indian actor, director and producer (1924–1988)
Anthony de Mello (Jesuit priest)
1987
Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist
Sammy Kaye
1987
American bandleader and songwriter (1910–1987)
Andrés Segovia
1987
Spanish guitarist (1893–1987)
Aurèle Joliat
1986
Canadian professional ice hockey player (1901-1986)
Stan Rogers
1983
Canadian folk musician (1949–1983)
Ray Stehr
1983
Australian RL coach and former Australia international rugby league footballer
Fazal Elahi Chaudhry
1982
President of Pakistan from 1973 to 1978
Shah Abdul Wahhab (born 1894)
1982
Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (1894–1982)
Jim Hutton
1979
American actor (1934–1979)
Santiago Bernabéu (footballer)
1978
Spanish footballer (1895–1978)
Albert Bittlmayer
1977
German footballer
Stephen Boyd
1977
Northern Irish actor (1931–1977)
Kenneth Mason (geographer)
1976
British geographer (1887–1976)
Juan José Torres
1976
50th President of Bolivia
Hiroshi Kazato
1974
Japanese racing driver
Orhan Kemal
1970
Turkish novelist (1914–1970)
Albert Lamorisse
1970
French filmmaker, film producer, and writer (1922–1970)
Bruce McLaren
1970
New Zealand racing driver and motorsport executive (1937–1970)
Giuseppe Ungaretti
1970
Italian poet and writer (1888–1970)
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
1970
Spanish poet, anarchist, feminist (1895–1970)
Leo Gorcey
1969
American actor (1917–1969)
André Mathieu
1968
Canadian pianist and composer
Killing of Benno Ohnesorg
1967
1967 West German police beating of a student
Vita Sackville-West
1962
English writer and gardener (1892–1962)
George S. Kaufman
1961
American playwright, theater director and producer (1889–1961)
Lyda Borelli
1959
Italian actress (1884–1959)
Jean Hersholt
1956
Danish-American actor (1886–1956)
Naum Torbov
1952
Bulgarian architect
Viktor Brack
1948
Nazi war criminal (1904–1948)
Karl Brandt
1948
German physician and Nazi criminal (1904–1948)
Karl Gebhardt
1948
German physician, war criminal, SS-Gruppenführer (1897–1948)
Waldemar Hoven
1948
Nazi German physician and war criminal (1903–1948)
Wolfram Sievers
1948
German war criminal (1905–1948)
John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton
1947
British politician
Bunny Berigan
1942
American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1908–1942)
Lou Gehrig
1941
American baseball player (1903–1941)
Louis Vierne
1937
French organist and composer (1870–1937)
Frank Jarvis (athlete)
1933
American athlete
Enrique Gorostieta
1929
Mexican general (1890–1929)
Hüseyin Avni Lifij
1927
Turkish painter(1886–1924)
George Leslie Mackay
1901
First Presbyterian missionary to northern Taiwan
1800s
Giuseppe Garibaldi
1882
Italian patriot and general (1807–1882)
Émile Littré
1881
19th-century French lexicographer and philosopher
Józef Kremer
1875
Ner Middleswarth
1865
American politician (1783–1865)
Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre
1853
British Army general
William Tate (painter)
1806
English painter (1747–1806)
Before 1800
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves
1785
French mathematician (1713–1785)
Jonas Alströmer
1761
Swedish agriculture and industry pioneer (1685–1761)
Ebenezer Erskine
1754
Scottish minister
Ogata Kōrin
1716
Japanese visual artist (1658–1716)
Madeleine de Scudéry
1701
French writer (1607–1701)
John Wildman
1693
English politician and soldier (died 1693)
Bernard of Wąbrzeźno
1603
Catholic Polish priest and Benedictine monk
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton
1581
Regent of Scotland during the minority of King James VI
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
1572
English politician and nobleman (1536 or 1538–1572)
Shane O'Neill (Irish chieftain)
1567
16th-century Irish leader
Álvaro de Luna
1453
15th-century Spanish knight and politician
Catherine of Lancaster
1418
Queen of Castile and León from 1390 to 1406
Rhys ap Maredudd
1292
Royal member of Deheubarth (died 1292)
Peter I, Count of Urgell
1258
Jure uxoris Count of Urgell
John of Oxford
1200
12th-century Bishop of Norwich
Richilde of Provence
910
Carolingian empress from 875 to 877
Al-Muwaffaq
891
Abbasid prince and military leader (843–891)
Pope Eugene I
657
Head of the Catholic Church from 654 to 657