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List of celebrities and famous people who died on June 2nd

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2009 - 2000

Famous deaths on June 2nd for the celebrities who died in the years 2009 - 2000

2009
  • United States -- Sci-fi author (Belgariad, Malloreon)

2008
  • Mel Ferrer

    Elberon, New Jersey -- Actor (Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor)

20072006
  • English rugby player (Born 1952).

  • American keyboard player (Grateful Dead the Tubes and Missing Man Formation). (d. 2006).

2005200320012000

1999 - 1990

Famous deaths on June 2nd for the celebrities who died in the years 1999 - 1990

19991997
  • American trumpet player and bandleader (McKinney’s Cotton Pickers). (d. 1997).

19961994199319921990
  • Rex Harrison

    British actor who is internationally recognized on film and stage. He has won an Academy Award and three Tony Awards. New York Theater Critics Award, A Golden Globe Award and Order of Merit of the Italian Public. Over 40 movies and plays have featured him, including the iconic role of Professor Henry Higgins from "My Fair Lady".

  • The Intel Corporation was co-founded by an American businessman and inventor.

  • Jack Gilford

    Actor Cracker Jacks, dies at 82

  • Fredericks of Hollywood founder, who dies at the age of 76.

  • An English television and radio presenter. In the 1960s and 1970s he presented news programs for BBC North West England. He was also known for presenting Jeux Sans FrontiA"res and It's a Knockout. His later career was dominated by football reporting on BBC radio. His personality has been described by him as "eccentric", erudite and egotistical" which is a unique …

1989 - 1980

Famous deaths on June 2nd for the celebrities who died in the years 1989 - 1980

19891988
  • Indian filmmaker, producer, and director of Hindi cinema. He is also known as "The Show Man". He won two National Film Awards, nine Filmfare Awards in India and was a two-time nominee at the Palme d'Or Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Awaara (1951), and Boot Polish (1954). Time magazine ranked his performance in Awaara as one of …

  • 1945-1949), and dies at the age of 85.

1987198619841983
  • Canadian folk musician and songwriter (d.83)

1979 - 1970

Famous deaths on June 2nd for the celebrities who died in the years 1979 - 1970

1979
  • Actor, Ellen Queen, dies from liver cancer at 45

1977
  • Stephen Boyd

    Irish-born actor. He was a handsome, but not very strong, leading man who is best known for his roles as a historical hero in "The Fall of the Roman Empire," 1964 and "The Bible," 1966. His career high was in "Ben-Hur," in 1959. Boyd was a star in "The Oscar," 1966, and he also played in several B-grade foreign productions …

  • Actor (Great Gildersleeve Ichabod & Me), is killed at 77

  • German footballer (Born 1952)

  • Swiss composer / organist, dies at 91

19761975
  • Prime Minister of Japan (1964-71 Nobel 1974), is killed at 74

1974197219711970
  • French filmmaker, cinematographer, director, and producer. He was one of the most important moguls of his time with films like "Crin Blanc," Le Ballon Rouge," and "Le Voyage en Ballon".

  • Egyptian-Italian soldier journalist, poet (d. 1970).

1969 - 1960

Famous deaths on June 2nd for the celebrities who died in the years 1969 - 1960

1969196819671962
  • Slovic writer (Service Girls).

  • A gifted and complex British poet, novelist, as well as a world-renowned horticulturist. Sackville was a member the famed Bloomsbury Group and wrote over 50 books of poetry, short stories and novels. Later, she would write a weekly column about gardening for The Observer. Her son Nigel Nicolson published her diary "Portrait of a Marriage", shortly after her death. It …

  • Writer dies at age 70

1961

1959 - 1950

Famous deaths on June 2nd for the celebrities who died in the years 1959 - 1950

19561951
  • French philosopher dies at 83

  • American composer, author, pianist, and educator. From 1903-1909, he was an English professor at Amherst College. Columbia University followed in 1909-1937. During his tenure, he created General Honors Course. This course later became the foundation of the influential Great Books movement. His works include novel, criticism, essays, and more than 100 books. His most famous essay was The Moral Obligation …

1950

1949 - 1940

Famous deaths on June 2nd for the celebrities who died in the years 1949 - 1940

1949194819471942
  • American musician, trumpeter and bandleader in the swing of 1930s. Along with Roy Eldridge and Louis Armstrong, he may have been the most important white trumpet-player of all time. Bunny was a gifted musician with a wonderful tone and a large range. He brought excitement to every gig he played. Bunny's low notes are as memorable as his higher register, …

1941
  • Lou Gehrig

    At 37 years old, the 1st baseman (New York Yankee) dies in ALS at Riverdale, New York

1940

1939 - 1930

Famous deaths on June 2nd for the celebrities who died in the years 1939 - 1930

19371933

1929 - 1920

Famous deaths on June 2nd for the celebrities who died in the years 1929 - 1920

1927
  • Composer dies at 85

  • Architect (De Hooge Vuursche), dies at 67

  • American homicide suspect in the brutal killings of her parents. Their bodies were discovered hacked beyond recognition at Fall River on 8/04/1892. Lizzie was held in prison for almost a year before her trial. It lasted 13 days before she was acquitted on 6/20/1893. Many of the evidence was unadmissible, and it was generally believed that Lizzie was an upper-class, …

1909 - 1900

Famous deaths on June 2nd for the celebrities who died in the years 1909 - 1900

19081901
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