In October 2015, Ball was sentenced to 32 months in jail after admitting the abuse of 18 young men over a period of 15 years from 1977 to 1992. He was released on licence in February 2017 and died two years later.
Ball died on 21 June 2019 at the age of 87.
Stepan Shakaryan
Stepan Grigori Shakaryan (, 23 October 1935 – 22 June 2019) was an Armenian jazz and classical composer and pianist. He was awarded the People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia in 2017. He was a professor at Yerevan State Conservatory. He was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.
Shakaryan died on 22 June 2019 in Yerevan at the age of 83.
Wibke Bruhns
Wibke Gertrud Bruhns (born Klamroth; 8 September 1938 – 20 June 2019) was a German journalist and author. She was born in Halberstadt, Germany. Bruhns began work in the media at age 22. She became known as the first female news presenter in West German television. She was moderator of the ZDF news program "heute" on 12 May 1971. Throughout her career, she was known for an affair rumor between her and German Chancellor Willy Brandt.
Bruhns died on 20 June 2019 in Berlin at the age of 80.
Joe Sestak
Joseph Ambrose Sestak Jr. (born December 12, 1951) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He represented in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. He was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in 2010.
Sestak was a three-star vice admiral. He was the highest-ranking military official ever elected to the United States Congress at the time of his election.
On June 24, 2019, Sestak announced his candidacy to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2020 election. He ended his campaign on December 1, 2019.
Joe Sestak 2020 presidential campaign
The 2020 American presidential campaign of Joe Sestak, a former representative of Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, began on June 22, 2019.
Sestak entered the race days before the first Democratic presidential debate was held and has not participated in any debates, failing to meet the minimum requirements for eligibility.
He ended his campaign on December 1, 2019.
Molara Ogundipe
Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie (27 December 1940 – 18 June 2019) also known as Molara Ogundipe, was a Nigerian poet, critic, editor, feminist and activist. She was a known African feminist writer who wrote on gender studies and literary theory. She was a social critic. Her best known work was the 1984 anthology "".
Frances Farenthold
Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold (born October 2, 1926) is an American politician, attorney, activist, and educator. She is best known for her two campaigns for the office of Governor of Texas. She was nominated for Vice President of the United States during the 1972 Democratic National Convention.
Lila Cockrell
Lila May Banks Cockrell (January 19, 1922 – August 29, 2019) was an American politician. She was Mayor of San Antonio, Texas from 1975 to 1981 and again from 1989 to 1991. During World War II, she was in the WAVES branch of the United States Navy. She was President of the Dallas and San Antonio chapters of the League of Women Voters during the 1950s. She was born in Fort Worth, Texas.
Cockrell died on August 29, 2019 in San Antonio at the age of 97.
Charles Wyrsch
Charles Wyrsch (July 5, 1920 – June 16, 2019) was a Swiss contemporary artist and painter. He was born in Buochs, Nidwalden. Wyrsch's artistic career was based on the expressive of figurative paintings, which he gave up in favor of abstraction for about ten years, to return to the figurative. Wyrsch died on June 16, 2019 at the age of 98.
David Esterly
David Esterly (May 10, 1944 – June 15, 2019) was an American limewood carver, self-described sculptor and writer. He was known for his naturalistic style of the British carver Grinling Gibbons (1648–1721). He was born in Akron, Ohio.
Esterly’s own carving began as decorative foliage work. He was a guest artist at the American Academy in Rome. He worked on commission for patrons in the United States, Britain, and Europe. His works are at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute in Utica.
In early 2019, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Esterly died at his home in Barneveld, Wisconsin from the disease on June 15, 2019, aged 75.
Heinrich Reichert
Heinrich Reichert (1949 – June 13, 2019) was a Swiss developmental and neurobiologist. He worked at the Biozentrum University of Basel. Reichert investigated the role of neural stem cells in the development of the brain using the fruit fly Drosophila as a model. He discovered a molecular production program followed by stem cells as they develop in the brain.
From 1986 to 1991 he was a faculty member at the University of Geneva before returning to the University of Basel. Reichert remained as a professor at the Zoological Institute until 2006, when he moved to the Biozentrum of the University of Basel where he continued to teach and research.
Reichert died on June 13, 2019 in Basel, Switzerland at the age of 69.
Graham Barnett
Graham Barnett (17 May 1936 – 24 June 2019) was an English footballer. He played as an inside-forward. Barnett was born in Boothen, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England. He began his career with Port Vale in 1956. Then he was sold to Tranmere Rovers four years later. In 1961 he signed with Halifax Town. Then he managed South Coast United.
Barnett died on 24 June 2019 at the age of 83.
Liz Truss
Mary Elizabeth Truss (born 26 July 1975), known as Liz Truss, is a British politician. She is the Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade since July 2019 in Boris Johnson's cabinet. She was the Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2017 to 2019 and Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk since 2010. Truss was born in Oxford. She was educated at the University of Oxford.
She also served as the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord High Chancellor from 2016 to 2017, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2014 to 2016 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Childcare from 2012 to 2014.
Jörg Stübner
Jörg Stübner (23 July 1965 – 24 June 2019) was a German footballer. He played at 47 international caps for East Germany from 1984 to 1990. He was born in Freiberg, then East Germany. He played for Dynamo Dresden from 1983 to 1993.
Stübner died on 24 June 2019 in Dresden, Germany at the age of 53.
Ekrem İmamoğlu
Ekrem İmamoğlu (born 4 June 1970) is a Turkish politician. He was Mayor of Istanbul from 17 April 2019 until 6 May 2019. He was elected in the March 2019 Istanbul mayoral election as the joint Nation Alliance candidate of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the İYİ Party, then he was re-elected on 23 June 2019.
He was formerly the Mayor of Beylikdüzü, a western district of Istanbul, between 2014 and 2019.
2019 Amhara Region coup d'état attempt
On 22 June 2019, factions of the security forces of Ethiopia's Amhara Region attempted a coup d'état against the regional government, during which the President of the Amhara Region, Ambachew Mekonnen, was assassinated.
A bodyguard siding with the nationalist factions assassinated General Se'are Mekonnen – the Chief of the General Staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Force – as well as his aide, Major General Gizae Aberra.
The Prime Minister's Office accused Brigadier General Asaminew Tsige, head of the Amhara region security forces, of leading the plot.
Asaminew remained at large for 36 hours after the attempt. The state media confirmed that he was shot dead by police near Bahir Dar on 24 June, while several of his alleged co-conspirators have been detained.
Following the coup attempt, internet access was shut down nationwide.
Hugh Norman-Walker
Sir Hugh Selby Norman-Walker (17 December 1916 – 28 August 1985) was a British colonial officer. He was the Commissioner of Bechuanaland from 1965 to 1966. He was also the Governor of Seychelles from 1967 to 1969 and the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1969 to 1973.