page_title: 2017 in the United States
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 in the United States / Deaths / June
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Roger Smith as Mister Roberts from the television program of the same name.
context_page_description: Events in the year 2017 in the United States.
context_section_description: June 1
  Jack McCloskey, basketball player, coach, and executive (b. 1925)
  Charles Simmons, author (b. 1924)
  June 2
  Gordon Christian, ice hockey player (b. 1927)
  Iakovos Garmatis, Greek-born Eastern Orthodox metropolitan (b. 1928)
  Jack O'Neill, businessman (b. 1923)
  Herm Starrette, baseball player (b. 1936)
  June 3
  David Choby, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1947)
  Sara Ehrman, political activist (b. 1919)
  James E. Martin, educator and university president (b. 1932)
  Jimmy Piersall, baseball player (b. 1929)
  Lawrence Weed, physician and educator (b. 1923)
  June 4
  Thomas C. Perry, businessman and politician (b. 1941)
  Roger Smith, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
  Jack Trout, business and marketing theorist (b. 1935)
  June 5
  Kathryn Stripling Byer, poet (b. 1944)
  Victor Gold, journalist and political consultant (b. 1928)
  Marilyn Hall, Canadian-born television and theatre producer (b. 1927)
  William Krisel, Chinese-born architect (b. 1924)
  Rita Riggs, costume designer (b. 1930)
  June 6
  John Bower, skier (b. 1940)
  Walter Noll, German-born mathematician (b. 1925)
  June 7
  James Hardy, football player (b. 1985)
  Holy Bull, Thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1991)
  Robert S. Leiken, political scientist (b. 1939)
  Earl Lestz, film and television executive (b. 1939)
  Patsy Terrell, politician (b. 1962)
  June 8
  Ervin A. Gonzalez, lawyer (b. 1960)
  Glenne Headly, actress (b. 1955)
  Norro Wilson, country musician, songwriter, and producer (b. 1938)
  June 9
  Vic Edelbrock Jr., businessman (b. 1936)
  Adam West, actor (b. 1928)
  John C. Yoder, judge and politician (b. 1951)
  June 10
  Herma Hill Kay, law professor and academic administrator (b. 1934)
  Jerry Nelson, astronomer (b. 1944)
  Grace Berg Schaible, lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
  Samuel V. Wilson, U.S. Army general; Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency 1976–77 (b. 1923)
  June 11
  Herman T. Costello, politician (b. 1920)
  David Fromkin, lawyer and historian (b. 1932)
  Rosalie Sorrels, folk singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
  June 12
  Morton N. Cohen, author and literary scholar (b. 1921)
  David W. Frank, thespian and educator (b. 1949)
  Jim Galton, business executive (b. 1924)
  Marvin Herman Shoob, U.S. federal judge (b. 1923)
  June 13
  Philip Gossett, musicologist (b. 1941)
  A. R. Gurney, playwright and novelist (b. 1930)
  Hansel, Thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1988)
  June 14
  Arthur J. Jackson, U.S. Marine Corps officer and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1924)
  Don Matthews, football player and CFL coach (b. 1939)
  June 15
  David L. Armstrong, politician (b. 1941)
  Bill Dana, comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
  Phyllis A. Kravitch, federal judge (b. 1920)
  June 16
  John G. Avildsen, film director (b. 1935)
  Stephen Furst, actor and film and television director (b. 1955)
  Curt Hanson, politician (b. 1943)
  June 17
  Elias Burstein, physicist (b. 1917)
  Gailanne Cariddi, politician (b. 1953)
  Larry Grantham, football player (b. 1938)
  Thara Memory, jazz trumpeter (b. 1949)
  Venus Ramey, Miss America winner, farmer, and activist (b. 1924)
  June 18
  Hans Breder, German-born artist and educator (b. 1935)
  Tony Liscio, football player (b. 1940)
  Chris Murrell, jazz and gospel singer (b. 1956)
  Simon Nelson, mass murderer (b. 1931)
  June 19
  Tony DiCicco, soccer player and coach (b. 1948)
  Otto Warmbier, college student and North Korea detainee (b. 1994)
  June 20
  Roger D. Abrahams, folklorist (b. 1933)
  Prodigy, rapper (b. 1974)
  June 21
  Belton Richard, Cajun accordionist (b. 1939)
  Robert M. Shoemaker, U.S. Army general (b. 1924)
  Howard Witt, actor (b. 1932)
  June 22
  Richard Benson, photographer, printer, and educator (b. 1943)
  Frank Kush, football player and coach (b. 1929)
  Keith Loneker, football player and actor (b. 1971)
  Sheila Michaels, feminist and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
  John R. Quinn, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1929)
  John E. Sarno, physician and writer (b. 1923)
  Sandy Tatum, attorney and golf administrator (b. 1920)
  June 23
  Gabe Pressman, television journalist (b. 1924)
  Meir Zlotowitz, Orthodox Jewish rabbi, author, and translator (b. 1943)
  June 24
  Loren Janes, stuntman (b. 1931)
  Parker Lee McDonald, judge (b. 1924)
  June 25
  Hal Fryar,
caption: Roger Smith
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