Franco Zeffirelli – June 15

Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, who received his first Oscar nomination in 1969 for Romeo and Juliet (1968), then went on to direct classics such as The Champ (1979), Hamlet (1990), Jane Eyre (1996), and Tea with Mussolini (1999), died at his home in Rome on June 15, 2019 at the age of 96 of natural causes.