Isabelle Belance, 50, music teacher at Harold Washington College and a member of Beatles cover band, the Cavern Kittens; June 18, in Chicago, of cancer.
H.A. “Red” Boucher, 88, Alaska’s first elected lieutenant governor; June 19, in Anchorage.
John Callaway, 72, Chicago public television broadcaster and longtime host of WTTW’s Chicago Tonight program; June 23, in Racine, Wis., of a heart attack.
Jean Dausset, 92, Nobel prize-winning French immunologist and pioneer behind organ transplants and mapping of the human genome; June 6, on Mallorca, Spain, of natural causes.
Richard Eastman, 92, longtime English professor and dean at North Central College in Naperville; June 17, in Naperville.
Farrah Fawcett, 62, actress best known as a star of the 1970s show “Charlie’s Angels”; June 25, in Los Angeles, of anal cancer.
Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, 57, physician who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole a decade ago; June 23, in Southwick, Mass., after a recurrence of the disease.
Khaled Hussein, 73, Palestinian man who helped plan the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship during which an American passenger was killed; June 22, in Benevento, Italy.
Michael Jackson, 50, record-breaking, sensationally gifted “King of Pop” who emerged from childhood superstardom to become the entertainment world’s most influential singer and dancer — and the tabloid world’s most disturbing celebrity; June 25, in Los Angeles, apparently of cardiac arrest.
Stephen Kustra, 37, son of former Illinois Lt. Gov. Robert Kustra; June 19, in San Francisco, of cancer.
Ed McMahon, 86, loyal “Tonight Show” sidekick who bolstered boss Johnny Carson with guffaws and the trademark opener “H-e-e-e-e-e-ere’s Johnny!” for 30 years; June 23, in Los Angeles, after years of health problems.
Tomoji Tanabe, 113, the world’s oldest man; June 19, in Miyakonojo, Japan.
