Famous people died in June - page 5

Ernest Walton

Ernest Walton

Ernest Walton was an Irish physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Crockcroft for their work on splitting the atomic nucleus

IrishOctober 6, 1903126 views

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet , essayist and journalist

ItalianFebruary 8, 1888142 views

Johannes Stark

Johannes Stark was a German scientist who won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Stark Effect

GermanApril 15, 1874155 views

Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset was Norwegian novelist and a Nobel Prize winner

NorwegianMay 20, 1882155 views

Kurt Waldheim

Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian politician and diplomat, who served as Secretary General of the United Nations and the President of Austria

AustrianDecember 21, 1918135 views

Salvatore Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian poet, author, critic and translator

ItalianAugust 20, 1901136 views

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of United States and the first one to be elected from the Democratic Party

AmericanMarch 15, 1767176 views

Frédéric Passy

Frederic Passy was an economist and a peace activist who received the first Nobel Peace Prize along with Henri Durant

FrenchMay 20, 1822171 views

Belle Boyd

Isabella Maria Boyd renowned as Belle Boyd was one of the most notorious Confederate spies during the ‘American Civil War’

AmericanMay 9, 1844156 views

Bertha von Suttner

Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner was a Czech-Austrian pacifist who became the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize

AustrianJune 9, 1843229 views