Deaths on 3 June
2000s
Jim Marshall (defensive end)
2025
American football player (1937–2025)
Shigeo Nagashima
2025
Japanese baseball player and manager (1936–2025)
Edmund White
2025
American writer (1940–2025)
Brigitte Bierlein
2024
Chancellor of Austria from 2019 to 2020
William Russell (English actor)
2024
English actor (1924–2024)
F. Lee Bailey
2021
American criminal defense attorney (1933–2021)
Muhammad Ali
2016
American boxer and activist (1942–2016)
Avi Beker
2015
Svyatoslav Belza
2014
Gopinath Munde
2014
Indian politician (1949–2013)
Atul Chitnis
2013
Józef Czyrek
2013
Polish politician (1928–2013)
Frank Lautenberg
2013
American politician (1924–2013)
Carol Ann Abrams
2012
American film producer (1942–2012)
Roy Salvadori
2012
British racing driver (1922–2012)
Brian Talboys
2012
New Zealand deputy prime minister (1975–1981)
James Arness
2011
American actor (1923–2011)
Andrew Gold
2011
American singer, musician and songwriter (1951–2011)
Bhajan Lal
2011
6th Chief Minister of Haryana
Jack Kevorkian
2011
American pathologist and euthanasia activist (1928–2011)
Jan van Roessel
2011
Dutch footballer (1925–2011)
Rue McClanahan
2010
American actress (1934–2010)
David Carradine
2009
American actor (1936–2009)
Koko Taylor
2009
American blues singer (1928–2009)
Clinton Jones (priest)
2006
American priest and gay rights activist
Harold Cardinal
2005
Canadian politician
Felix de Weldon
2003
Austrian sculptor (1907–2003)
Lew Wasserman
2002
American studio executive and talent agent
Anthony Quinn
2001
Mexican-American actor (1915–2001)
1900s
Dennis James
1997
American television personality (1917–1997)
Puig Aubert
1994
France international rugby league footballer & coach
Yeoh Ghim Seng
1993
Singaporean politician (1918–1993)
Robert Morley
1992
English actor (1908–1992)
Brian Bevan
1991
Australian rugby league footballer
Katia and Maurice Krafft
1991
French volcanologists
Katia and Maurice Krafft
1991
French volcanologists
Lê Văn Thiêm
1991
Vietnamese scientist
Robert Noyce
1990
American physicist and entrepreneur (1927–1990)
Ruhollah Khomeini
1989
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
Will Sampson
1987
American actor (1933–1987)
Anna Neagle
1986
English stage and film actress and singer (1904–1986)
Carleton S. Coon
1981
American anthropologist (1904–1981)
Archibald Hill
1977
British physiologist (1886–1977)
Roberto Rossellini
1977
Italian film director (1906–1977)
Ozzie Nelson
1975
American actor, band leader, television producer and director (1906–1975)
Eisaku Satō
1975
Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972
Michael Gaughan (Irish republican)
1974
Provisional IRA hunger striker (1949–1974)
Jean Batmale
1973
French footballer (1895-1973)
Heinz Hopf
1971
German mathematician (1894–1971)
Hjalmar Schacht
1970
German politician, banker, and economist (1877–1970)
George Edwin Cooke
1969
American soccer player
Kâzım Orbay
1964
3rd Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces from 1944 to 1946
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1964
Finnish writer (1888–1964)
Edmond Decottignies
1963
French weightlifter
Pope John XXIII
1963
Head of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963
Nâzım Hikmet
1963
Turkish communist poet, playwright and novelist (1902–1963)
Samuel Rocke
1963
Australian politician
Mikhail Kalinin
1946
Soviet politician (1875–1946)
John Flanagan (hammer thrower)
1938
American hammer thrower
William Muldoon
1933
American wrestler (1852–1933)
Li Yuanhong
1928
Fourth President of the Republic of China
Franz Kafka
1924
Austrian and Czech writer (1883–1924)
Coenraad Hiebendaal
1921
Dutch rower
John Maxwell (golfer)
1906
American golfer (1871–1906)
Vital-Justin Grandin
1902
Catholic bishop
Mary Kingsley
1900
English ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer (1862–1900)
1800s
Johann Strauss II
1899
Austrian composer (1825–1899)
Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal
1894
German jurist (1812–1894)
Christian Wilberg
1882
German painter
Ludwig Ritter von Köchel
1877
Austrian musicologist and writer (1800–1877)
Georges Bizet
1875
French composer (1838–1875)
Okada Izō
1865
Japanese samurai (1838–1865)
Stephen A. Douglas
1861
American politician and lawyer (1813–1861)
Julius Reubke
1858
German musician (1834–1858)
Nikolay Karamzin
1826
Russian writer, historian, poet and critic (1766–1826)
Before 1800
Thomas Hutchinson (governor)
1780
American colonial official (1711–1780)
Morgan Llwyd
1659
Welsh Puritan
William Harvey
1657
English physician (1578–1657)
Manuel de Faria e Sousa
1649
Portuguese historian and poet
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk
1640
English nobleman and politician (1584–1640)
Sanada Yukimura
1615
Japanese samurai warrior (1567–1615)
John Aylmer (bishop)
1594
English bishop (1521–1594)
Wolf Huber
1553
Austro-German painter, printmaker and architect
Juan de Zumárraga
1548
15/16th-century Spanish Franciscan prelate; first bishop and Inquisitor of Mexico
Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah
1511
Maliki scholar of Islamic law (d. 1511)
Loukas Notaras
1453
Byzantine writer and official
Leopold IV, Duke of Austria
1411
Austrian Habsburg ruler (1371–1411)
William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
1397
Earl of Salisbury
Guaimar IV of Salerno
1052
11th-century Lombard prince
Staurakios (eunuch)
800
Byzantine court official (died 800)
Simeon of the Olives
734
8th century Syriac Orthodox bishop
Liang Shidu
628
Chinese agrarian leader and general (died 628)