Famous people died in June - page 27

Jorge Luis Borges was a famous Argentine poet, best known for his magical realism style of writing

Anthony de Mello was an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist

Nora Ephron was an American journalist, essayist, screenwriter, novelist and blogger

William Sydney Porter, more famous by his pen name O

Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian politician, historian and philosopher who is widely known as a founder of modern political science.

Muhammad Ali was a legendary boxer who became the first and only three-time lineal World Heavyweight Champion

Matthew Henry was an English Presbyterian minister

Maria Mitchell was the first professional female astronomer in the United States

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prominent American Poet

Lou Gehrig was a charismatic American baseball player after whom the ‘Gehrig’s disease’, which took his life, was named