1896) June 2 – Roger C. Slaughter, American lawyer and U.S. Representative from Missouri (b. 1905) June 3 – Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Soviet chess player (b. 1912) June 4 Smokey Harris, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1890) Mamerto Urriolagoitía, 43rd President of Bolivia (b. 1895) June 5 – Larry Cabrelli, American football player and assistant coach Philadelphia Eagles (b. 1917) June 7 – Abdul Rahman Hashim, Malaysian Inspector-General of Police (b. 1925) June 9 Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890) Katharine Cornell, Berlin-born, American stage actress, writer, theatre owner, and producer (b. 1893) Carlo Pisacane, Italian actor (b. 1889) June 10 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 11th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1900) June 11 Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883) Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898) June 12 – André Marie, French Radical politician, 65th Prime Minister of France (b. 1897) June 14 – Knud Jeppesen, Danish musicologist, composer, and songwriter (b. 1892) June 15 – Kevin Gately, English mathematics student at University of Warwick involved in the Red Lion Square disorders (b. 1953) June 16 Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (b. 1894) Mauritz Hugo, Swedish-born American film and television actor (b. 1909) June 17 Pamela Britton, American actress (b. 1923) Austin Gunsel, 3rd commissioner of the National Football League (b. 1909) June 18 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet Army marshal and Minister of Defence (b. 1896) June 21 – Katsutaro Kouta, Japanese female geisha and ryūkōka singer (b. 1904) June 22 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892) June 23 – Calvin B. Hoover, noted U.S. economist and professor (b. 1897) June 24 – József Juhász, Hungarian stage and film actor (b. 1908) June 25 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893) June 26 – Ernest Gruening, American journalist, Governor of Alaska Territory from 1939 to 1953, and United States Senator from 1959 to 1969 (b. 1887) June 27 – Fred DeStefano, American football player and physician; who won the National Football League title with the Chicago Cardinals of 1925 (b. 1900) June 28 Vannevar Bush, American engineer, inventor and science administrator (b. 1890) Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923) June 29 – José Maria Ferreira de Castro, Portuguese writer and journalist (b. 1898) June 30 – Alberta Williams King, American civil rights champion, wife of Martin Luther King, Sr., and mother of Martin Luther