Over 500 famous people dies in June 2016

June 1

• Agostino Coletto, 88, Italian racing cyclist.
• Roger Enrico, 71, American businessman (PepsiCo, DreamWorks).
• Razak Khan, 65, Indian film actor (Baadshah, Hello Brother, Akhiyon Se Goli Maare)
• Wang Jui, 85, Taiwanese actor

June 2

• Donny Everett, 19, American baseball player (Vanderbilt Commodores), drowned.
• Yevhen Lemeshko, 85, Ukrainian football coach.^[19]
• Abderrahmane Meziani, Algerian footballer (USM Alger).
• Willis Pyle, 101, American animator (Pinocchio, Bambi, Mr. Magoo).
• Brian Reidy, 77, New Zealand rugby league player (Auckland, national team).
• Freddie Wadling, 64, Swedish singer and songwriter.

June 3

• Muhammad Ali, 74, American boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1960), three-time WBC world heavyweight champion (1964, 1974, 1978), septic shock.
• Balu Anand, 61, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Szabolcs Baranyi, 72, Hungarian tennis player.
• Henry Childs, 65, American football player (New Orleans Saints), heart attack.
• Mac Cocker, 74, English-born Australian radio presenter (2JJ, 105.7 ABC Darwin).
• Murray Murrell, 93, Australian football player (Collingwood).
• Luis Salom, 24, Spanish motorcycle racer, race collision.
• Dave Swarbrick, 75, British folk musician and singer-songwriter (Fairport Convention), emphysema.

June 4

• Gil Bartosh, 86, American football player and coach.
• Phyllis Curtin, 94, American soprano.
• Sulabha Deshpande, 79, Indian actress.
• Nicky Jennings, 70, English footballer (Portsmouth, Exeter City).
• Erich Linemayr, 83, Austrian football referee.
• Carmen Pereira, 79, Bissau-Guinean politician, acting President (1984).
• Alan Rathbone, 57, English rugby league player (Bradford, Warrington).
• Bill Richmond, 94, American screenwriter and producer (The Carol Burnett Show, The Nutty Professor, Three’s Company).
• William Wright, 85, American author.

June 5

• Loretta Abbott, 83, American dancer and choreographer.
• Aleksei Zharkov, 68, Russian actor, liver disease.

June 6

• Rhoda Blumberg, 98, American author.
• Theresa Poh Lin Chan, 72, Singaporean writer and actress, lung cancer.
• Harry Gregory, 72, English footballer.

June 7

• Johnny Brooks, 84, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Brentford).
• Tanju Gürsu, 77, Turkish actor and film director.
• Leonard Hill, 68, American television executive and writer, property developer.
• Stephen Keshi, 54, Nigerian football player (Anderlecht, Strasbourg) and manager (national team), heart attack.
• Elayne Rapping, 77, American writer, breast cancer.
• Sean Rooks, 46, American basketball player (Dallas Mavericks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Los Angeles Lakers).
• Bryan Wiedmeier, 56, American sports executive (Miami Dolphins, Cleveland Browns, NFL Management Council), brain cancer.

June 8

• Pierre Aubert, 89, Swiss politician, President (1983, 1987).
• Sascha Lewandowski, 44, German football manager (Bayer Leverkusen, Union Berlin).
• Marina Malfatti, 83, Italian actress (The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, Black Killer).

June 9

• Hamza Ali, 20, English cricketer (Hampshire), drowning.
• E. Edward Jones, 85, American minister and civil rights activist.
• James Lewis, 85, American politician, member of the Indiana Senate (1974–1978, 1986–2010) and House of Representatives (1970–1972).
• Brooks Thompson, 45, American basketball player (Orlando Magic) and coach (UTSA Roadrunners), multiple organ failure.

June 10

• Shuaibu Amodu, 58, Nigerian football coach (Nigeria national football team).
• Christina Grimmie, 22, American singer-songwriter (Find Me) and talent show participant (The Voice), shot.
• Habib, 63, Iranian singer, heart attack.
• Margaret Vinci Heldt, 98, American hairstylist, creator of the beehive hairstyle.
• John Horgan, 66, Irish hurler (Cork).
• Gordie Howe, 88, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers), four-time Stanley Cup winner.
• Mimmo Palmara, 87, Italian actor (A Long Ride from Hell, Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis, Hercules Unchained).

June 11

• Stacey Castor, 48, American convicted murderer.
• Inder Malhotra, 86, Indian journalist (The Guardian), editor (The Statesman, The Times of India) and columnist (The Indian Express).
• Andy Page, 32, Australian bodybuilder.
• Trudi Roth, 86, Swiss actress.

June 12

• Abdullah Ahmad, 79, Malaysian newspaper editor (New Straits Times), journalist and politician, cancer.
• Michelle Cliff, 69, Jamaican-born American writer, liver failure.
• Gordon Connell, 93, American actor.
• Earl Faison, 77, American football player (San Diego Chargers).
• Curley Johnson, 80, American football player (New York Jets), Super Bowl winner (1969).
• Achyut Lahkar, 85, Indian actor and playwright.
• Tom Leppard, 80, British tattooed man.
• Omar Mateen, 29, American mass murderer (2016 Orlando nightclub shooting), shot.
• Fabrizio Pirovano, 56, Italian motorcycle road racer.
• Adrian Posse, 67, Argentine composer, producer, and industry executive.
• George Voinovich, 79, American politician, Senator from Ohio (1999–2011), Governor of Ohio (1991–1998), Mayor of Cleveland (1980–1989).
• Janet Waldo, 96, American actress and voice artist (The Jetsons, The Flintstones, Wacky Races).
• Chris Warren, 49, American musician (WWF).

June 13

• Anahid Ajemian, 92, American violinist.
• Uriah Asante, 24, Ghanaian footballer (Hearts of Oak), heart attack.
• Fred Caruso, 41, American writer and director (The Big Gay Musical), suicide.
• Randy Jones, 72, British-born American jazz musician (Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Maynard Ferguson).

June 14

• Lidia Biondi (it), 75, Italian actress (Eat Pray Love, Casanova, Rome).
• Anatol Dumitraș, 60, Moldovan singer, cancer.
• Melvin Dwork, 94, American interior designer and gay rights activist.
• Ronnie Claire Edwards, 83, American actress (The Waltons, The Dead Pool, Designing Women).
• Samantha Edwards, 37, American beauty pageant contestant, Miss North Dakota USA (2003).
• Anatoli Grishin, 76, Russian sprint canoeist, Olympic champion (1964).
• Ann Morgan Guilbert, 87, American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Nanny, Grumpier Old Men), cancer.
• OJB Jezreel, 49, Nigerian singer and record producer.
• Samuel Mumbengegwi, 73, Zimbabwean politician.
• Ken Orr, 77, American software engineer.
• Irma Roy, 84, Argentine actress and politician, national deputy (1995–2005).
• Yumi Shirakawa, 79, Japanese actress (Rodan, The Mysterians, The H-Man).

June 15

• Nicholas Clinch, 85, American mountain climber, cancer.
• Claude Confortès, 88, French actor (War of the Buttons).
• Lois Duncan, 82, American writer (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Hotel for Dogs, Who Killed My Daughter?).
• Richard O. Linke, 98, American talent manager and producer (Andy Griffith).
• Peter Pastorelli, 76, American production and location manager (American Psycho, Midnight Run, Presumed Innocent).

June 16

• Bill Berkson, 76, American poet and art critic, heart attack.
• Peter Corrigan, 80, Welsh sports journalist (The Daily Mail, The Sun), esophageal cancer.
• Manimala Devi, 84, Indian actress (Kaa).
• Wayne Dowd, 74, American politician, member of the Arkansas Senate (1978–2000), cancer.
• Jimmy England, 67, American basketball player (University of Tennessee), multiple myeloma.
• Luděk Macela, 65, Czech footballer, Olympic gold medalist (1980).
• Irving Moskowitz, 88, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Anil Saxena, 65, Indian actor.
• Jerome Teasley, 67, American drummer.
• Charles Thompson, 98, American pianist.

June 17

• Rubén Aguirre, 82, Mexican actor (El Chavo del Ocho, El Chapulín Colorado, Chespirito), pneumonia.
• Attrell Cordes, 46, American rhythm and blues singer (P.M. Dawn), renal disease.
• Peter Feuchtwanger, 85, German-born British pianist, composer and piano teacher.
• Bud Gregory, 90, Canadian politician.
• Mary Ann King, 82, American television host (Romper Room).
• Sam Beaver King, 90, Jamaican-born British political activist, Mayor of Southwark (1983), co-founder of the Notting Hill Carnival.
• Reidar Kvaal, 100, Norwegian WWII military officer.
• Ron Lester, 45, American actor (Varsity Blues, Popular, Good Burger), liver and kidney failure.
• Dennis Opatrny, 77, American journalist (San Francisco Examiner), cancer.
• Loretto Petrucci, 86, Italian racing cyclist.
• Tenor Fly, English rapper and ragga vocalist.

June 18

• Mircea Chiorean (ro), 83, Romanian physician and university professor, co-founder of SMURD.
• Nae Cosmescu (ro), 75, Romanian theatre and television director.
• Paul Cox, 76, Dutch-born Australian film director (My First Wife, A Woman’s Tale, Exile), liver cancer.
• Susana Duijm, 79, Venezuelan beauty queen, Miss World winner (1955).
• Alejandro Jano Fuentes, 45, American singer (La Voz… México), shot.
• Graham Gibbons, 96, Bermudian businessman and politician, Mayor of Hamilton, Bermuda (1972–1988).
• Bill Ham, 79, American band manager (ZZ Top).
• Jim Harrison, 80, American writer and artist, heart attack.
• Sverre Kjelsberg, 69, Norwegian musician (The Pussycats).
• William J. Livsey, 85, American army general.
• Vittorio Merloni, 83, Italian entrepreneur and industrialist, founder of Indesit Company.
• Lateef Titilope, Nigerian actor, stomach ulcer.

June 19

• Ho Fan, 84, Chinese photographer, film director and actor, pneumonia.
• David Johnson, 83, Australian-born American business executive (Campbell Soup Company).
• Randolph Vigne, 87, South African political activist.
• Bob Williamson, 67, British songwriter and comedian.
• Anton Yelchin, 27, Soviet-born American actor (Star Trek, Alpha Dog, Fright Night), blunt traumatic asphyxia.

June 20

• Ann Atwater, 80, American civil rights activist.
• Fiqre Crockwell, 30, Bermudian cricket player, shot.
• Eamonn Dolan, 48, Irish football player and coach, cancer.
• Benoîte Groult, 96, French journalist, writer and feminist activist.
• Goro Hasegawa (ja), 83, Japanese game inventor (Othello).
• William Craig Rice, 61, American academic.
• James Victor, 76, American actor (Zorro).

June 21

• Guda Anjaiah, 60, Indian poet, singer and lyricist.
• Robin Cooper, 76, New Zealand Māori health and education leader.
• Karl Dallas, 85, British journalist, author and campaigner, cancer.
• Dan Daniel, 82, American radio personality (WMCA, WYNY, WCBS).
• Bryan Edwards, 85, British footballer (Bolton Wanderers).
• Jack Fuller, 69, American journalist and publisher (Tribune Publishing), cancer.
• Wayne Jackson, 74, American musician (The Mar-Keys, The Memphis Horns), heart failure.
• Pierre Lalonde, 75, Canadian singer and television host.
• Yamura López, 22, Nicaraguan beauty queen, Miss World Nicaragua, astrocytoma.
• Kenworth Moffett, 81, American art curator (Boston Museum of Fine Arts), museum director (Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale) and writer.
• Freddy Powers, 84, American musician, Parkinson’s disease.
• Ellen Soeteber, 66, American newspaper editor (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), infection.

June 22

• John William Ashe, 61, Antiguan diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (2013–2014), heart attack.
• Vasily Bochkaryov, 67, Russian politician.
• Jim Boyd, 60, American singer-songwriter.
• Leo Brennan, 90, Irish musician, founder of Leo’s Tavern.
• Marc Allan Feldman, 56, American politician.
• Steve French, 56, American gospel singer (Kingdom Heirs).
• Mike Hart, 72, British singer-songwriter.
• David J. Hickson, 85, British organisational theorist.
• Andrzej Kondratiuk, 79, Polish film director (Hydrozagadka), screenwriter, actor and cinematographer.
• Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, 71, Turkish theologian and politician.
• Hassan Rabeh, 25, Palestinian dancer, suicide by jumping.

June 23

• Michael Herr, 76, American author (Dispatches) and screenwriter (Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now).
• Shirley Fenton Huie, 91, Australian author.
• Jin Yaqin, 91, Chinese actress (You and Me), cancer.
• Shelley Moore, 84, British-born American jazz singer.
• Peter Morley, 91, German-born British filmmaker.
• Stuart Nisbet, 82, American actor (Casino, In the Heat of the Night, Bewitched).
• Ralph Stanley, 89, American bluegrass musician (The Stanley Brothers), Grammy winner (2002), skin cancer.

June 24

• Charles Chaynes, 90, French composer.
• Tony Feher, 60, American sculptor, liver cancer.
• James Lee, 36, American football player (Green Bay Packers), complications from diabetes.
• Oscar Obert, 85, American handball player.
• Bernie Worrell, 72, American musician (Parliament-Funkadelic), lung cancer.

June 25

• Raymond Bateman, 88, American politician, New Jersey state senator (1968–1978).
• Nicole Courcel, 84, French actress (Rendezvous in July, Sundays and Cybele).
• Bill Cunningham, 87, American fashion photographer (The New York Times).
• Maurice G. Dantec, 57, French science fiction writer and musician.^[402]
• Manfred Deix (de), 67, Austrian caricaturist, cartoonist, and graphic designer.
• Silvia Fenz (de), 75, Austrian actress.
• Giuseppe Ferrara, 83, Italian film director (The Moro Affair, One Hundred Days in Palermo, Giovanni Falcone).
• Jim Hickman, 79, American baseball player (New York Mets, Chicago Cubs).
• Peter Hutton, 71, American film director, cancer.
• Ben Patterson, 82, American artist and musician.
• Elliot Wolff, 61, American songwriter and music producer.

June 26

• Austin Clarke, 81, Canadian novelist (The Polished Hoe).
• Kristiina Elstelä, 73, Finnish actress.
• Barbara Goldsmith, 85, American author, heart failure.
• Samuel L. Green Jr., 89, American pastor and bishop (Church of God in Christ).
• Donna Kelley, 66, American news anchor and journalist (KARN).
• Kim Sung-min, 43, South Korean actor (Miss Mermaid), suicide by hanging.
• Kavalam Narayana Panicker, 88, Indian dramatist, theatre director and poet.
• Mike Pedicin, 98, American jazz bandleader.
• John J. Santucci, 85, American lawyer and politician, New York state senator (1968–1976).
• William C. Waterhouse, 74, American mathematician.
• Rostislav Yankovsky, 86, Belarusian film and stage actor, People’s Artist of the USSR (1978).

June 27

• Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, 83, Danish composer, cancer.
• Harry Halbreich, 85, Belgian musicologist.
• David Heath, 85, American photographer.
• Simon Ramo, 103, American engineer, businessman and author.
• Mack Rice, 82, American songwriter (“Mustang Sally”, “Respect Yourself”) and singer, complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
• Bud Spencer, 86, Italian actor (They Call Me Trinity, Watch Out, We’re Mad!, Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure) and swimmer.
• Amar Suloev, 40, Armenian mixed martial artist, stomach cancer.
• Silvia Tennenbaum (de), 88, American author.
• Alvin Toffler, 87, American writer and futurist (Future Shock, The Third Wave).
• Hassan Younes, 73, Syrian actor.

June 28

• Leland Bardwell, 94, Irish poet, novelist and playwright.
• Xerxes Desai, 79, Indian executive (Titan).
• Theo Dilissen, 62, Belgian basketball player and businessman.
• Allan Greenshields, 90, Australian football player (Carlton, St Kilda).
• André Guelfi, 97, French racing driver (Formula One).
• Darell Koons, 91, American painter.
• Scotty Moore, 84, American guitarist (Elvis Presley).
• Fabiane Niclotti, 31, Brazilian model, Miss Universo Brasil 2004.
• Zurlon Tipton, 26, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), shot.

June 29

• Elechi Amadi, 82, Nigerian writer.
• Margaret Bakkes, 84, South African author.
• Irving Gottesman, 85, American psychologist.
• Carl Haas, 86, American car racing team owner.
• Jan Hettema, 82, South African cyclist and rally driver, shot.
• Rolando Howell, 34, American basketball player (University of South Carolina, Pallacanestro Varese, Unicaja).
• Ojo Maduekwe, 71, Nigerian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007–2010).
• Christine Picavet, 65, French-born American artist, cancer.
• Veena Sahasrabuddhe, 67, Indian singer and composer.
• Vasyl Slipak, 41, Ukrainian opera singer, shot.
• K. G. Subramanyan, 92, Indian artist.
• Rob Wasserman, 64, American musician (David Grisman Quintet, RatDog, Lou Reed), cancer.
• Xu Jiatun, 100, Chinese politician and dissident, Governor of Jiangsu (1977–1979).

June 30

• Franz Cibulka, 69, Austrian composer.
• Don Friedman, 81, American jazz pianist.
• Gian Corrado Gross, 74, Italian swimmer.
• Juan Habichuela, 83, Spanish flamenco guitarist.
• Sir Geoffrey Hill, 84, British poet.
• Gordon Murray, 95, British puppeteer and television producer (Trumpton, Camberwick Green, Chigley).
• Joe Scott, 90, American football player (New York Giants).