What happened on June 1 ?
Deaths
195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China
193 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b.133)
1434 - King Wladislaus II of Poland
1571 - John Story, English Catholic (martyred)
1616 - Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
1625 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
1639 - Melchior Franck, German composer
1660 - Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred)
1710 - David Mitchell, British admiral (b. 1642)
1740 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
1769 - Edward Holyoke, American President of Harvard University (b. 1689)
1795 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (b. 1744)
1815 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1853)
1823 - Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770)
1826 - Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor and philanthropist (b. 1740)
1841 - David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b. 1785)
1846 - Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
1864 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812)
1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
1873 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
1879 - Napoléon Eugène Louis John Joseph, called Napoleon IV, the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1856)
1927 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
1941 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (b. 1873)
1943 - Leslie Howard (actor), English actor (b. 1893)
1946 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (b. 1914)
1954 - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (b. 1869)
1959 - Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
1960 - Lester Patrick, Canadian hockey player (b. 1883)
1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (b. 1906)
1965 - Earl "Curly" Lambeau, American football coach (b. 1898)
1966 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873)
1968 - Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880)
1969 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1904)
1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (b. 1892)
1973 - Mary Kornman, American actress (b. 1915)
1979 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1904)
1980 - Rube Marquard, baseball player (b. 1886)
1981 - Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (b. 1883)
1981 - Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
1983 - Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)
1985 - Richard Greene, British actor (b. 1918)
1987 - Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (b. 1921)
1991 - David Ruffin, American signer (The Temptations) (b. 1941)
1994 - Frances Heflin, American actress (b. 1923)
1998 - Darwin Joston, American actor (b. 1937)
1999 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (b. 1910)
2001 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (shot) (b. 1949)
2001 - King Birendra of Nepal (assassinated) (b. 1945)
2001 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2002 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
2004 - William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922)
2005 - George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
2006 - RocÃo Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
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