Deaths on 7 June
2000s
Uriah Rennie
2025
English football referee (1959–2025)
William Anders
2024
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–2024)
The Iron Sheik
2023
Iranian-American professional wrestler and actor (1942–2023)
Christopher Lee
2015
English actor and singer (1922–2015)
Pierre Mauroy
2013
Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984
Richard Ramirez
2013
American serial killer and sex offender (1960–2013)
Phillip Tobias
2012
South African palaeoanthropologist (1925–2012)
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
2006
Jordanian jihadist (1966–2006)
Signe Hasso
2002
Swedish actress (1915–2002)
Víctor Paz Estenssoro
2001
President of Bolivia variously in the 20th century
Betty Neels
2001
British writer
1900s
Hsuan Hua
1995
Chinese Chan Buddhist monk
Bill France Sr.
1992
American racecar driver and NASCAR founder (1909–1992)
Cahit Zarifoğlu
1987
Turkish poet and writer (1940–1987)
Klaudia Taev
1985
Estonian vocal pedagogue
Elizabeth Craig (writer)
1980
Scottish writer and home economist (1883–1980)
Philip Guston
1980
Canadian-American painter and printmaker (1913–1980)
Henry Miller
1980
American novelist (1891–1980)
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
1978
British chemist (1897–1978)
E. M. Forster
1970
English novelist and writer (1879–1970)
Dan Duryea
1968
American actor (1907–1968)
Anatoly Maltsev
1967
Dorothy Parker
1967
American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893–1967)
Jean Arp
1966
German-French sculptor and poet (1886–1966)
Judy Holliday
1965
American actress, singer (1921–1965)
John Willcock
1956
Australian politician
Alan Turing
1954
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
Kitarō Nishida
1945
Japanese philosopher
Alan Blumlein
1942
English electronics engineer (1903–1942)
Jean Harlow
1937
American actress (1911–1937)
Mirko and Stjepan Seljan
1936
Croatian explorers
Dragutin Domjanić
1933
Croatian poet
John Verran
1932
Australian politician (1856–1932)
Archie Birkin
1927
British motorcycle racer (1905–1927)
Edmund James Flynn
1927
Premier of Quebec from 1896 to 1897
William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie
1924
British shipbuilder and businessman (1847–1924)
Patrick Maher (Irish republican)
1921
Irish republican (c.1889–1921)
Edmond Foley
1921
Irish IRA member (1895–1921)
Émile Faguet
1916
French author and literary critic
Charles Reed Bishop
1915
American businessman, politician, and philanthropist (1822–1915)
Maurice Rouvier
1911
French statesman (1842–1911)
1800s
Pavlos Carrer
1896
Greek composer
William Tilbury Fox
1879
English dermatologist
Chief Seattle
1866
Suquamish and Duwamish chief (1790–1866)
Antonio Valero de Bernabé
1863
Puerto Rican general
Patrick Brontë
1861
Irish clergyman and writer (1777–1861)
David Cox (artist)
1859
English landscape painter (1783–1859)
Charles Baudin
1854
French admiral
Norbert Provencher
1853
Canadian clergyman and missionary (1787–1853)
Friedrich Hölderlin
1843
German poet and philosopher (1770–1843)
Frederick William III of Prussia
1840
King of Prussia from 1797 to 1840
Joseph von Fraunhofer
1826
German physicist (1787–1826)
Luigi Schiavonetti
1810
Italian engraver
Before 1800
Benjamin Tupper
1792
American soldier and pioneer (1738–1792)
William Warburton
1779
English writer and critic (1698–1779)
Alexander Spotswood
1740
British army officer and colonial administrator (1676–1740)
Henry Dodwell
1711
Anglo-Irish scholar, theologian and controversial writer
George II Rákóczi
1660
Prince of Transylvania
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
1618
English colonial administrator (1576–1618)
Roderigo Lopes
1594
Portuguese physician (c.1517–1594)
Casimir IV Jagiellon
1492
King of Poland (1447–1492) and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1440–1492)
Anne of Bohemia
1394
Queen of England from 1382 to 1394
Ashikaga Takauji
1358
Japanese Samurai, Daimyo and Military ruler of Japan from 1338 to 1358
Al-Nasir Muhammad
1341
Mamluk Sultan of Egypt from 1293 to 1294
William I, Count of Hainaut
1337
Count of Hainaut from 1304 to 1337
Robert the Bruce
1329
King of Scotland from 1306 to 1329
Lu Wenji
951
Qian Hongzun
940
Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders
929
Countess consort of Flanders
Al-Muntasir
862
11th Abbasid Caliph (r. 861–862)
Pope Vigilius
555
Head of the Catholic Church from 537 to 555