June 18

June 18 is the 169th day of the year (170th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 196 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang Dynasty rule over China.
• 1053 – Battle of Civitate: Three thousand horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.
• 1178 – Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
• 1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
• 1429 – French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
• 1633 – Charles I, is crowned King of Scots at St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh
• 1684 – The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
• 1757 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
• 1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
• 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1799 – Action of 18 June 1799: A frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Perrée is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith
• 1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on Great Britain, Canada, and Ireland.
• 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
• 1830 – French invasion of Algeria.
• 1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
• 1859 – First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
• 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
• 1887 – The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
• 1900 – Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
• 1908 – Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
• 1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.
• 1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
• 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
• 1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
• 1935 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
• 1940 – Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
• 1940 – "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.
• 1945 – William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
• 1946 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
• 1953 – The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
• 1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
• 1954 – Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
• 1972 – Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
• 1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
• 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
• 1983 – Mona Mahmudnizhad together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her Bahá'í Faith.
• 1984 – A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike.
• 1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
• 2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
• 2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.

Births

• 1269 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (d. 1298)
• 1318 – Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
• 1466 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
• 1511 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor, designed the Ponte Santa Trinita (d. 1592)
• 1517 – Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
• 1521 – Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu (d. 1577)
• 1662 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland, English son of Charles II of England (d. 1730)
• 1667 – Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
• 1673 – Antoni Lliteres Carrió, Spanish composer (d. 1747)
• 1677 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1726)
• 1716 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d. 1809)
• 1717 – Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1757)
• 1757 – Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French pianist and composer (d. 1831)
• 1757 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentinian lawyer and politician (d. 1833)
• 1769 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (d. 1822)
• 1799 – William Lassell, English astronomer (d. 1880)
• 1812 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (d. 1891)
• 1815 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (d. 1881)
• 1816 – Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, French daughter of Napoleon (d. 1907)
• 1816 – Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepali ruler (d. 1877)
• 1834 – Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher and academic (d. 1895)
• 1839 – William H. Seward, Jr., American general (d. 1920)
• 1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1922)
• 1850 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (d. 1914)
• 1854 – E. W. Scripps, American publisher, founded the E. W. Scripps Company (d. 1926)
• 1857 – Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Folger Shakespeare Library (d. 1930)
• 1858 – Andrew Forsyth, British mathematician (d. 1942)
• 1863 – George Essex Evans, English-Australian poet (d. 1909)
• 1868 – Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (d. 1957)
• 1870 – Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1954)
• 1877 – James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (d. 1960)
• 1881 – Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1949)
• 1884 – Édouard Daladier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1970)
• 1886 – George Mallory, English mountaineer (d. 1924)
• 1886 – Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (d. 1978)
• 1887 – Tancrède Labbé, Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1956)
• 1891 – Mae Busch, Australian-American actress (d. 1946)
• 1895 – Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1896 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Martti Marttelin, Finnish runner (d. 1940)
• 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1901 – Llewellyn Rees, English actor (b. 1994)
• 1902 – Paavo Yrjölä, Finnish decathlete (d. 1980)
• 1903 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
• 1904 – Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (d. 1991)
• 1904 – Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
• 1905 – Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1982)
• 1907 – Frithjof Schuon, Swiss-American metaphysicist, philosopher, and author (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (d. 1969)
• 1908 – Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian politician (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1910 – Dick Foran, American actor and singer (d. 1979)
• 1910 – Avon Long, American actor and singer (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Ray McKinley, American singer, drummer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Glenn Morris, American decathlete and actor (d. 1974)
• 1913 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian surgeon (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Sylvia Porter, American economist and journalist (d. 1991)
• 1913 – Françoise Loranger, Canadian playwright and producer (d. 1995)
• 1913 – Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (d. 2008)
• 1914 – E. G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1915 – Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
• 1915 – Robert Kanigher, American author (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician, 25th President of Colombia (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Richard Boone, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1981)
• 1917 – Jack Karnehm, English sportscaster (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Erik Ortvad, Danish painter (d. 2008)
• 1917 – Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
• 1919 – Jüri Järvet, Estonian actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Ian Carmichael, English actor and singer (d. 2010)
• 1920 – John B. Heilman, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Matthew Ianniello, American mobster (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Lode Van Den Bergh, Belgian writer
• 1922 – Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Lois Ramsey, Australian actress
• 1923 – Jean Delumeau, French historian and academic
• 1924 – George Mikan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Robert Arthur, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1925 – Robert Beadell, American composer and educator (d. 1994)
• 1926 – Philip B. Crosby, American businessman and author (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Tom Wicker, American journalist (d. 2011)
• 1927 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born English actress (d. 1998)
• 1927 – Paul Eddington, English actor (d. 1995)
• 1928 – Michael Blakemore, Australian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1928 – David T. Lykken, American geneticist and academic (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Ann Mara, American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
• 1931 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazilian politician, 34th President of Brazil
• 1931 – K. S. Sudarshan, Indian politician (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet and educator
• 1934 – Brian Kenny, English general
• 1934 – Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese illustrator (d. 2004)
• 1935 – Hugh McColl, American banker
• 1936 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (d. 1992)
• 1936 – Barack Obama, Sr., Kenyan economist (d. 1982)
• 1936 – Ronald Venetiaan, Surinamese politician, 6th President of Suriname
• 1937 – Wray Carlton, American football player
• 1937 – Del Harris, American basketball player and coach
• 1937 – Jay Rockefeller, American politician
• 1937 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and historian (d. 2006)
• 1937 – Vitaly Zholobov, Ukrainian colonel, engineer, and astronaut
• 1938 – Eddie Jones, American businessman (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Kevin Murray, Australian footballer and coach
• 1939 – Lou Brock, American baseball player
• 1939 – Jean-Claude Germain, Canadian author, journalist, and historian
• 1939 – Brooks Firestone, American businessman and politician
• 1940 – Michael Sheard, Scottish actor (d. 2005)
• 1941 – Paul Mayersberg, English director and screenwriter
• 1941 – Delia Smith, English chef and author
• 1942 – John Bellany, Scottish painter (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Pat Hutchins, English author and illustrator
• 1942 – Thabo Mbeki, South African politician, 23rd President of South Africa
• 1942 – Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 – Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos) (d. 1980)
• 1942 – Nick Tate, Australian actor
• 1942 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
• 1943 – Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, and actress
• 1944 – Sandy Posey, American singer
• 1946 – Russell Ash, English author
• 1946 – Bruiser Brody, American wrestler (d. 1988)
• 1946 – Fabio Capello, Italian footballer and manager
• 1946 – Luan Peters, English actress and singer
• 1946 – Gordon Murray, South African race car designer
• 1947 – Ivonne Coll, Puerto Rican model and actress, Miss Puerto Rico 1967
• 1947 – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1947 – Linda Thorson, Canadian actress
• 1948 – Philip Jackson, English actor
• 1948 – Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler (d. 1972)
• 1948 – Éva Marton, Hungarian soprano
• 1949 – Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
• 1949 – Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Poland
• 1949 – Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (d. 2010)
• 1949 – Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican singer-songwriter (The Tartans) (d. 1999)
• 1950 – Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer and producer (d. 2014)
• 1950 – Annelie Ehrhardt, German hurdler
• 1950 – Mike Johanns, American politician, 38th Governor of Nebraska
• 1950 – Jackie Leven, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Doll by Doll) (d. 2011)
• 1951 – Mohammed Al-Sager, Kuwaiti journalist and politician
• 1951 – Miriam Flynn, American actress
• 1951 – Ian Hargreaves, English journalist and academic
• 1951 – Stephen Hopper, Australian botanist
• 1951 – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (d. 2014)
• 1952 – Tiiu Aro, Estonian physician and politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs
• 1952 – Denis Herron, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1952 – Carol Kane, American actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress and model
• 1952 – Lee Soo-man, South Korean singer and businessman, founded S.M. Entertainment
• 1953 – Raimo Aas, Estonian radio host
• 1953 – Derek Deane, English dancer and choreographer
• 1953 – Peter Donohoe, English pianist and educator
• 1953 – Vladislav Terzyul, Ukrainian mountaineer (d. 2004)
• 1955 – Ed Fast, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1956 – Brian Benben, American actor
• 1957 – Ralph Brown, English actor
• 1957 – Ray Cochrane, Northern Irish jockey and sports agent
• 1957 – Andrea Evans, American actress
• 1957 – Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1957 – Richard Powers, American author
• 1958 – Peter Altmaier, German politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany
• 1959 – Johnny Lee Clary, American wrestler and Ku Klux Klan leader (d. 2014)
• 1960 – Barbara Broccoli, American director and producer
• 1960 – Steve Murphy, Canadian journalist
• 1961 – Oz Fox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Stryper, SinDizzy, and Bloodgood)
• 1961 – Dzintar Klavan, Estonian footballer
• 1961 – Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan-American baseball player
• 1961 – Angela Johnson, American author and poet
• 1961 – Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter (Yazoo and The Vandals)
• 1961 – Randy Spears, American pornographic actor and director
• 1962 – Jeff Mills, American DJ and producer (Underground Resistance)
• 1962 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (d. 2009)
• 1962 – Lisa Randall, American physicist and academic
• 1963 – Bruce Smith, American football player
• 1964 – Uday Hussein, Iraqi son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
• 1965 – Andrew Grainger, British actor
• 1966 – Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater
• 1966 – Troy Kemp, Bahamian high jumper
• 1968 – Frank Müller, German decathlete
• 1969 – Haki Doku, Albanian cyclist
• 1969 – Christopher Largen, American journalist and author
• 1969 – Vito LoGrasso, American wrestler
• 1970 – Robin Christopher, American actress
• 1970 – Ivan Kozák, Slovak footballer
• 1970 – Greg Yaitanes, American director and producer
• 1971 – Gaute Kivistik, Estonian journalist and author
• 1971 – Jason McAteer, English-Irish footballer and manager
• 1972 – Anu Tali, Estonian pianist and conductor
• 1973 – Julie Depardieu, French actress
• 1973 – Stephen Thomas Erlewine, American music critic and author
• 1973 – Ray LaMontagne, American singer-songwriter
• 1973 – Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
• 1973 – Matt Parsons, Australian rugby league player
• 1973 – Gavin Wanganeen Australian rules footballer
• 1974 – Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, Turkish actor
• 1974 – Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer and manager
• 1974 – Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer and coach (d. 2015)
• 1975 – Jamel Debbouze, French-Moroccan actor and producer
• 1975 – Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
• 1975 – Aleksandrs Koļinko, Latvian footballer
• 1975 – Martin St. Louis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Blake Shelton, American singer
• 1978 – Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
• 1979 – Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
• 1979 – Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Antonio Gates, American football player
• 1980 – David Giuntoli, American actor
• 1980 – Sergey Kirdyapkin, Russian race walker
• 1980 – Craig Mottram, Australian runner
• 1980 – Antero Niittymäki, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1981 – Ella Chen, Taiwanese singer and actress
• 1981 – Marco Streller, Swiss footballer
• 1982 – Nadir Belhadj, French-Algerian footballer
• 1982 – Marco Borriello, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Billy Slater, Australian rugby league player
• 1983 – Cameron Smith, Australian rugby league player
• 1983 – Josh Santana, Filipino singer
• 1984 – Janne Happonen, Finnish ski jumper
• 1984 – Ronnie Stam, Dutch footballer
• 1985 – Chris Coghlan, American baseball player
• 1986 – Edgars Eriņš, Latvian decathlete
• 1986 – Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
• 1987 – Omar Arellano, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – O.T. Genasis, Belizean-American rapper
• 1988 – Elini Dimoutsos, Greek footballer
• 1989 – Renee Olstead, American actress and singer
• 1990 – Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Sandra Izbașa, Romanian gymnast
• 1990 – Christian Taylor, American triple jumper
• 1990 – Mitsuki Tanimura, Japanese actress
• 1996 – Alen Halilović, Croatian footballer
• 1996 – Niki Wories, Dutch figure skater
• 1997 – Max Records, American actor

Deaths

• 741 – Leo III the Isaurian, Byzantine emperor (b. 685)
• 1234 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (b. 1218)
• 1291 – Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
• 1464 – Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1400)
• 1588 – Robert Crowley, English clergyman and poet (b. 1517)
• 1629 – Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch admiral (b. 1577)
• 1650 – Christoph Scheiner, German priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1575)
• 1673 – Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (b. 1606)
• 1704 – Tom Brown, English author (b. 1662)
• 1726 – Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
• 1742 – John Aislabie, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1670)
• 1749 – Ambrose Philips, English poet and politician (b. 1674)
• 1772 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German jurist and scholar (b. 1706)
• 1772 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician (b. 1700)
• 1788 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
• 1794 – François Buzot, French politician (b. 1760)
• 1794 – James Murray, Scottish-English general and politician (b. 1721)
• 1815 – Thomas Picton, Welsh-English general and politician (b. 1758)
• 1833 – Robert Hett Chapman, American minister, missionary, and academic (b. 1771)
• 1835 – William Cobbett, English farmer and journalist (b. 1763)
• 1866 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
• 1902 – Samuel Butler, English author and poet (b. 1835)
• 1905 – Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (b. 1830)
• 1915 – Eufemio Zapata, Mexican brother of Emiliano Zapata (b. 1873)
• 1916 – Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1890)
• 1917 – Titu Maiorescu, Romanian critic and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1840)
• 1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
• 1928 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
• 1936 – Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868)
• 1937 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (b. 1863)
• 1942 – Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, bandleader, and politician (b. 1870)
• 1943 – Elias Degiannis, Greek commander (b. 1912)
• 1945 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., American general (b. 1886)
• 1947 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
• 1952 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German singer (b. 1888)
• 1959 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (b. 1912)
• 1967 – Geki, Italian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 1967 – Beat Fehr, Swiss race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1971 – Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1971 – Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1973 – Roger Delgado, English actor (b. 1918)
• 1974 – Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and author (b. 1896)
• 1974 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
• 1975 – Hugo Bergmann, German-Israeli philosopher and author (b. 1883)
• 1978 – Walter C. Alvarez, American physician and author (b. 1884)
• 1980 – Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1980 – André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1982 – Djuna Barnes, American journalist, author, and poet (b. 1892)
• 1982 – John Cheever, American author (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor and director (b. 1915)
• 1984 – Alan Berg, American lawyer and radio host (b. 1934)
• 1985 – Paul Colin, French illustrator (b. 1892)
• 1986 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American journalist and author (b. 1921)
• 1989 – I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944)
• 1992 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
• 1993 – Craig Rodwell, American activist, founded the Oscar Wilde Bookshop (b. 1940)
• 1997 – Lev Kopelev, Russian author (b. 1912)
• 2000 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Jack Buck, American sportscaster (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Ernest Martin, American murderer (b. 1960)
• 2004 – Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1972)
• 2005 – Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Manuel Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Vincent Sherman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 2007 – Bernard Manning, English comedian and actor (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Hank Medress, American singer and producer (The Tokens) (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Georges Thurston, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Jean Delannoy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 2008 – Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984)
• 2008 – Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2010 – Trent Acid, American wrestler (b. 1980)
• 2010 – José Saramago, Portuguese journalist, author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Yelena Bonner, Russian activist (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)
• 2011 – Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist and actor (E Street Band) (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Horacio Coppola, Argentinian photographer and director (b. 1906)
• 2012 – Lina Haag, German author and activist (b. 1907)
• 2012 – Ghazala Javed, Pakistani singer (b. 1988)
• 2012 – Tom Maynard, Welsh cricketer (b. 1989)
• 2012 – Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín, Peruvian politician, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor (b. 1929)
• 2012 – William Van Regenmorter, American politician (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Brent F. Anderson, American engineer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Alastair Donaldson, Scottish bass player (The Rezillos and Silly Wizard) (b. 1955)
• 2013 – Garde Gardom, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Michael Hastings, American journalist and author (b. 1980)
• 2013 – Dave Petitjean, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Claudio Rocchi, Italian singer-songwriter and bass player (Stormy Six) (b. 1951)
• 2013 – David Wall, English ballet dancer (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Claire Martin, Canadian author (b. 1914)
• 2014 – Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (b. 1957)
• 2014 – Horace Silver, American pianist and composer (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

• Autistic Pride Day (International)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Bernard Mizeki (Anglican and Episcopal Church)
  • Elizabeth of Schönau
  • Gregorio Barbarigo
  • Leontius, Hypatius and Theodulus
  • Marina the Monk (Maronite Church, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)
  • June 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Evacuation Day (Egypt)
• Foundation Day (Benguet)
• Human Rights Day (Azerbaijan)
• National Day (Seychelles)
• Queen Mother's Birthday (Cambodia)
• Waterloo Day (United Kingdom)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada