Notable Deaths in June 2026

Bob Weir

Founding member and guitarist of the Grateful Dead

Complications from cancer

Victor Willis

Original lead singer of the Village People — "Y.M.C.A."

James Van Der Beek

Actor — Dawson's Creek, Varsity Blues

Colorectal cancer

Nathalie Baye

French actress, César Award winner

Complications from Lewy body dementia

Alex Zanardi

Racing driver and Paralympic champion

Scott Adams

Creator of Dilbert comic strip

Prostate cancer

Jesse Jackson

Civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate

François Englert

Nobel Prize in Physics (2013) — Higgs boson theory