What happened on June 2 ?

829 - Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)

1418 - Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile

1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain

1581 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland

1693 - John Wildman, English soldier and politician

1701 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)

1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter

1754 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)

1761 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)

1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)

1865 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)

1875 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)

1881 - ÿmile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)

1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807)

1901 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)

1933 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)

1941 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)

1948 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (b. 1897)

1948 - Karl Brandt, Personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)

1956 - Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)

1961 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)

1962 - Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (b. 1892)

1967 - Benno Ohnesorg, German student of Romance languages and literature (b. 1940)

1969 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)

1970 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and manufacturer (b. 1937)

1970 - Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)

1977 - Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)

1979 - Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)

1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)

1986 - Aurel Joliat, Professional hockey player (b. 1901)

1987 - Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (b. 1910)

1987 - Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)

1990 - Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908)

1990 - Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)

1992 - Phillip Dunne, American film director (b. 1908)

1993 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)

1996 - Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956)

1996 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (b. 1921)

1996 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)

1997 - Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1905)

1998 - Sylvester Ritter ("Junkyard Dog"), American professional wrestler (b. 1953)

1999 - Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)

2000 - Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)

2000 - Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)

2001 - Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)

2001 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)

2003 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)

2005 - Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)

2005 - Melita Norwood, British secretary and spy (b. 1912)

2006 - Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)