Famous people died in June - page 4

Billy Preston was an American ace keyboardist who became famous as one of the top session musicians

Sir Arthur Harden was a famous English biochemist

Edith Dircksey Cowan (née Brown) was an Australian politician and social campaigner

Kenneth Geddes Wilson was an American theoretical physicist and a pioneer in leveraging computers for studying particle physics

Carlos Gardel was a French Argentine singer and composer best known for his classic tangos

Karl Brandt was a German physician who served as Adolf Hitler’s personal physician

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, better known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian author

King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev was the 11th king of Nepal

Stephanie Kwolek was an American chemist whose research work led to the development of the synthetic fiber, Kevlar

Elmina Wilson was the first woman to receive a four-year civil engineering degree (BSCE) from Iowa State University (ISU)