June 18 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1234 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
• 1291 – King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
• 1464 – Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399 or 1400)
• 1588 – Robert Crowley, English printer and poet (b. c. 1517)
• 1629 – Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (b. 1577)
• 1650 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (b. 1573 or 1575)
• 1673 – Jeanne Mance, French settler of New France, founder of Montreal and of Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, the first hospital in North America (b. 1606)
• 1680 – Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
• 1704 – Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
• 1726 – Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
• 1742 – John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670)
• 1749 – Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
• 1772 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German jurist and philosopher (b. 1706)
• 1772 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born Austrian physician (b. 1700)
• 1788 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious figure (b. 1714)
• 1794 – François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary figure (b. 1760)
• 1794 – James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
• 1815 – Thomas Picton, British general (b. 1758)
• 1815 – Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
• 1833 – Robert Hett Chapman, American religious figure and educator (b. 1771)
• 1835 – William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
• 1858 – Rani Lakshmibai, Indian Freedom Fighter (b. 1835)
• 1866 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
• 1889 – Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (b. 1855)
• 1902 – Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
• 1915 – Eufemio Zapata, brother of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (b. 1873)
• 1916 – Max Immelmann, German flying ace (b. 1890)
• 1917 – Titu Maiorescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1840)
• 1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
• 1928 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
• 1936 – Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868)
• 1937 – Gaston Doumergue, French statesman (b. 1863)
• 1942 – Arthur Pryor, American trombonist and bandleader (b. 1870)
• 1943 – Elias Degiannis, Greek navy officer and resistance fighter (b. 1912)
• 1947 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
• 1959 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
• 1967 – Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
• 1967 – Giacomo "Geki" Russo, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
• 1971 – Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1971 – Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1889)
• 1973 – Roger Delgado, British actor (b. 1918)
• 1974 – Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
• 1974 – Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (b. 1896)
• 1975 – Hugo Bergmann, Czech-born German and Israeli Jewish philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1978 – Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
• 1980 – André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1980 – Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
• 1982 – John Cheever, American author (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 – Alan Berg, American radio talk show host (b. 1934)
• 1985 – Paul Colin, French poster designer (b. 1892)
• 1986 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1921)
• 1989 – I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
• 1992 – Peter Allen, Australian singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1997 – Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
• 2000 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Jack Buck, American baseball announcer (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Larry Doby, American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Ernest Martin, American convicted murderer (b. 1960)
• 2005 – Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Vincent Sherman, American film director (b. 1906)
• 2007 – Bernard Manning, British comedian (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908)
• 2008 – Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984)
• 2010 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Trent Acid, American professional wrestler (b.1980)