Deaths on 23 June
2000s
Rebekah Del Rio
2025
American singer-songwriter (1967–2025)
John Clark (footballer, born 1941)
2025
Scottish footballer (1941–2025)
John McAfee
2021
British and American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
Ralph Stanley
2016
American bluegrass musician and singer (1927–2016)
Miguel Facussé Barjum
2015
Honduran businessman (1924–2015)
Nirmala Joshi
2015
Indian Religious sister and former Superior (1934–2015)
Dick Van Patten
2015
American actor (1928–2015)
Nancy Garden
2014
American fiction writer (1938–2014)
Euros Lewis
2014
Welsh cricketer
Paula Kent Meehan
2014
American actress
Bobby Bland
2013
American blues and soul singer and musician (1930–2013)
Gary David Goldberg
2013
American screenwriter and producer (1944–2013)
Frank Kelso
2013
American admiral (1933–2013)
Kurt Leichtweiss
2013
German mathematician
Richard Matheson
2013
American author and screenwriter (1926–2013)
Darryl Read
2013
Musical artist (1951–2013)
Sharon Stouder
2013
American swimmer (1948–2013)
James Durbin
2012
British statistician and econometrician
Brigitte Engerer
2012
French pianist (1952–2012)
Alan McDonald (Northern Ireland footballer)
2012
Northern Irish footballer (1963–2012)
Frank Chee Willeto
2012
American politician and Navajo code talker (1925–2012)
Walter J. Zable
2012
American businessman and entrepreneur (1915–2012)
Peter Falk
2011
American actor (1927–2011)
Dennis Marshall (footballer, born 1985)
2011
Costa Rican footballer (1985–2011)
Fred Steiner
2011
American composer, conductor, orchestrator, film historian and arranger
John Burton (diplomat)
2010
Australian diplomat and academic (1915–2010)
Raymond Berthiaume
2009
Musical artist
Ed McMahon
2009
American television announcer (1923–2009)
Jerri Nielsen
2009
American ER physician (1952–2009)
Claudio Capone
2008
Italian voice actor (1952–2008)
Arthur Chung
2008
President of Guyana from 1970 to 1980
Marian Glinka
2008
Polish actor and bodybuilder
Rod Beck
2007
American baseball player (1968–2007)
Aaron Spelling
2006
American film and television producer (1923–2006)
Harriet (tortoise)
2006
Tortoise from the Galápagos Islands (1830–2006)
Shana Alexander
2005
American journalist (1925–2005)
Manolis Anagnostakis
2005
Greek poet and critic
Pedro Alcázar
2002
Panamanian boxer (1975–2002)
Peter Dubovský (footballer)
2000
Slovak footballer (1972–2000)
1900s
Maureen O'Sullivan
1998
Irish actress (1911–1998)
Betty Shabazz
1997
American educator and wife of Malcolm X (1935–1997)
Andreas Papandreou
1996
Prime Minister of Greece (1981–1989; 1993–1996)
Ray Lindwall
1996
Australian cricketer and rugby league footballer (1921–1996)
Roger Grimsby
1995
American TV news journalist (1928–1995)
Jonas Salk
1995
American inventor of the polio vaccine (1914–1995)
Anatoly Tarasov
1995
Russian ice hockey player and coach
Eric Andolsek
1992
American football player (1966–1992)
Harindranath Chattopadhyay
1990
Indian poet (1898–1990)
Werner Best
1989
German jurist and SS general (1903–1989)
Sanjay Gandhi
1980
Indian politician (1946–1980)
Clyfford Still
1980
American painter (1904–1980)
Gerry Birrell
1973
British racing driver (1944–1973)
Roscoe Turner
1970
20th-century American aviator
Volmari Iso-Hollo
1969
Athletics competitor
Boris Vian
1959
French writer and musician (1920–1959)
Hidir Lutfi
1959
Iraqi poet
Reinhold Glière
1956
Russian and Soviet composer (1875–1956)
Salih Omurtak
1954
4th Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces from 1946 to 1949
Albert Gleizes
1953
French painter (1881–1953)
Giuseppina Tuissi
1945
Italian partisan and communist (1923–1945)
Bhaktivinoda Thakur
1914
Indian spiritual leader (1838–1914)
1800s
William Fox (New Zealand politician)
1893
Premier of New Zealand (1812–1893)
Theophilus Shepstone
1893
British South African statesman
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
1891
German physicist (1804–1891)
Samuel Newitt Wood
1891
American politician
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
1881
German botanist
Ivan Kireyevsky
1856
Russian philosopher (1806–1856)
Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este
1848
Countess von Arco
James Mill
1836
Scottish intellectual (1773–1836)
Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet
1832
Scottish geologist and geophysicist
Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida
1811
Portuguese writer (1740–1811)
Mathurin Jacques Brisson
1806
French zoologist and natural philosopher
Before 1800
Mikael Sehul
1779
Nobleman and central figure of Zemene Mesafint in Ethiopia (1692–1784)
Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz
1775
German soldier, adventurer and writer (1692–1775)
Mark Akenside
1770
English poet and physician (1721–1770)
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
1733
Swiss paleontologist (1672–1733)
John Mill (theologian)
1707
English theologian
William Coventry
1686
17th-century English statesman
William Louis, Duke of Württemberg
1677
Duke of Württemberg from 1674 to 1677
Mashita Nagamori
1615
Japanese feudal lord (1545–1615)
Shimizu Muneharu
1582
Japanese military commander for the Mōri Clan (1537 – 1582)
Dragut
1565
Ottoman corsair, naval commander, and governor (1485–1565)
Pedro de Mendoza
1537
Spanish conquistador (1499–1537)
Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut
1356
Holy Roman Empress (1328–1347) and Countess of Hainaut (r. 1345–1356)
Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi
1343
Catholic cardinal
Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
1324
Anglo-French nobleman (c. 1270 – 1324)
Henry de Bohun
1314
English knight
Henry Probus
1290
High Duke of Poland
Constance of Aragon, Holy Roman Empress
1222
Holy Roman Empress from 1220 to 1222
Adalbert I of Mainz
1137
German Catholic cleric (died 1137)
Henry I, Margrave of Austria
1018
Margrave of Austria from 994 to 1018
Lothair Udo I, Count of Stade
994
Count of Stade (950–994)
Feng Yanji
960
Li Congyi
947
Consort Dowager Wang
947
Chinese politician and concubine (died 947)
AD 679
679
Calendar year
AD 79
79
Calendar year