Famous Deaths on June 18

Piet Heyn (1577-1629)

Dutch privateer who captured a Spanish silver fleet and admiral who became a folk hero, shot by cannonball during a skirmish with privateers at 51

1667 Louise Henriette, daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, dies at 39
1669 Abraham Crijnssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname, dies

Jeanne Mance (1606-1673)

French-Canadian settler who founded the first hospital in North America (Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal), dies at 66

1686 Johann Quirsfeld, German composer, dies at 43
1704 Thomas "Tom" Brown, English translator and writer of satire (Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London), dies at 41
1726 Michel-Richard Delalande, French organist and baroque composer (De Profundis), dies at 68
1742 John Aislabie, English politician (Chancellor of the Exchequer), dies at 71
1749 Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
1772 Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician (Austrian Empress Maria Theresa's personal physician), dies at 72
1772 Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher, dies at 65
1788 Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader, dies at 74
1794 James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
1799 Johann Andre, German composer, dies at 58
1815 Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
1815 Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1758)
1817 Joannes Siberg, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1801-05), dies
1821 Charles Hague, English composer, dies at 52
1824 Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1790-1801), dies at 55
1835 William Cobbett, English journalist and author, dies at 72
1850 Antoni Weinert, Polish flutist and composer, dies at 99
1853 Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies of tuberculosis at 29
1858 Lakshmi Bai, Indian Queen of the princely state of Jhansi in North India and leader of the Indian Mutiny (1857-58), dies at 23
1859 Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, Swiss composer, dies at 65
1866 Jacob Abels, Dutch painter, dies at 62
1871 George Grote, British historian (History of Greece), dies at 76
1876 August Rockel, German composer, dies at 61
1880 John Augustus Sutter, Swiss-American immigrant (established Sutter's Fort in what is now Sacramento, where gold was first discovered in California), dies at 77
1884 Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine political theorist and writer (Crime of War), dies at 74
1886 Joannes Paredis, Belgian Bishop of Roermond, dies at 90
1898 George Ulyett, English cricket all-rounder (25 Tests; 949 runs, 50 wickets), dies from pneumonia at 46
1902 Samuel Butler, English author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh), dies at 66
1905 Hermann Lingg, German poet and playwright, dies at 85
1909 Learmont Drysdale, Scottish composer, dies at 42
1911 Franjo Ksaver Kuhač, Croatian composer who collected and published 1,600 folk songs, dies at 76
1916 Helmuth von Moltke, German General (German Chief of Staff at start of WWI), dies at 67
1916 Max Immelmann, German pilot (1st flying ace of WWI), shot down over Northern France at 25
1917 Eufemio Zapata, Mexican revolutionary and brother of Emiliano Zapata, killed at 44 by Sidronio Comancho after Zapata became drunk and beat and insulted his father
1921 Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Uruguayan writer (Nativa, Lanza y Sable), dies at 70
1921 Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological and writer (Kantkennis), dies at 37
1922 John Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (studied the Milky Way), dies at 71
1925 Robert M. La Follette, American lawyer and presidential candidate (Progressive), dies at 70
1926 Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Queen consort of the Hellenes as the wife of King George I, dies at 74

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)

Norwegian polar explorer who led the 1st expedition to the South Pole, dies in a plane crash while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic at 55

1934 Francisco Lacerda, Portuguese composer, conductor, and musicologist, dies at 65
1935 August Reusner, German composer, dies at 64

Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)

Russian playwright and author (Mother and The Lower Depths), dies at 68

1937 Al Boasberg, American vaudeville, radio and film comedy writer (Jack Benny; Bob Hope; The Marx Brothers), dies of a heart attack at 44
1937 Gaston Doumergue, 60th Prime Minister of France (1913-14 and 1934) and 1st protestant French President (1924-31), dies at 73
1939 Frans "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas), dies at 73
1942 Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
1942 Arthur Pryor, American band composer and trombone player, dies at 71
1942 John Kubris, Czech paratrooper in WWII (killed Nazi head of Bohemia Reinhard Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid), dies as the result of battle wounds at 28
1945 Florence Bascom, American geologist and 1st woman hired by the US Geological Survey, dies at 82
1945 Harold C. Roberts, American commandant 22nd regiment marines (3 Navy Crosses), dies in battle during Okinawa campaign at 46
1945 Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr, American Lieutenant General of 10th Army, dies in action during Battle of Okinawa at 58
1947 Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral, hanged for war crimes at 48
1948 Edward Brooker, British politician (interim Premier of Tasmania, Dec 1947-Feb 1948), dies of a pulmonary edema at 57
1952 Efim Bogoljubov, Russian-German chess player, dies at 63
1952 Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone, dies at 63
1954 Albert Patterson, American politician and attorney, asassinated in Phenix City, Alabama, shortly after his designation as the Democratic candidate for Alabama Attorney General, at 60
1955 Walter Rein, German composer, dies at 61
1955 Willy Burkhard, Swiss composer, dies at 55
1958 Douglas Jardine, English cricket batsman (22 Tests, 1 x 100, 10 x 50, HS 127; England's Bodyline Series captain; Oxford Uni CC, Surrey CCC, MCC), dies at 57
1959 Ethel Barrymore [Blythe], American actress (None but the Lonely Heart), dies at 79
1961 Eddie Gaedel, American baseball pinch-hitter (shortest player in MLB history 3' 7"; St. Louis Browns), dies after mugging at 36
1962 George Sargent, English golfer (US Open 1909), dies at 79
1962 Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor and composer (Bruckner), dies at 82
1963 Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (From Russia With Love, Fort Apache), commits suicide at 51
1964 Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, Georgian conductor and composer (Bol’shoy Theatre, 1931-62), dies at 58
1965 George Melachrino, English composer, dies at 56
1967 Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
1967 Giacomo Russo, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
1967 William Tracy, American actor (To the Shores of Tripoli, The Shop Around the Corner), dies at 49
1971 Paul Karrer, Swiss organic chemist (Nobel 1937), dies at 82
1971 Thomas Gomez, American actor (Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout), dies after a car accident at 65
1973 Fritz Mahler, Austrian composer, dies at 71
1973 Roger Delgado, English actor (Doctor Who, Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enough for June), dies in a road accident at 55
1973 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer (1st major Dutch radio broadcaster AVRO), dies at 84

Georgy Zhukov (1896-1974)

Russian deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Army during WWII (Battles of Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin) and Minister of Defense, dies at 77

1974 Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (The Man Who Counted), dies at 79
1975 Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
1978 Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
1980 André Leducq, French cyclist (Tour de France 1930, 32; Olympic gold road race 1924), dies at 76
1980 Terence Fisher, English film director (Hammer Films), dies at 76
1981 Richard Goolden, British actor (Two Days to Live, School for Husbands), dies at 86
1982 Curd Jürgens [Curt Jurgens], German-born Austrian actor (Enemy Below, Longest Day), dies of an acute heart attack at 66
1982 Djuna Barnes, American author (Nightwood), dies at 80
1982 John Cheever, American writer (Wapshot Chronicle, Pulitzer), dies at 70
1982 Roberto Calvi, Italian banker and director (Banco Ambrosiano), hangs himself at 62
1983 Luther Tucker, American blues guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 57
1984 Alan Berg, American radio talk show host, dies after being shot by White Nationalists at 50
1985 Paul Colin, French poster designer, dies at 92
1986 Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921)
1987 Bruce Marshall, Scottish writer, dies at 87
1989 I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
1990 Dennis Dyer, South African cricketer (scored 96 3 Tests for South Africa), dies at 76
1991 Joan Caulfield, American model and actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69
1992 Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)
1992 Peter Allen, entertainer (Legs Diamond), dies of aids at 48
1994 Jack Harkness, British rose grower (R. Harkness & Co. Ltd), dies at 75
1995 Arthur John Howard, British actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso, Glass Cage), dies at 85
1995 Charles Martin, cartoonist, dies at 85
1996 Miriam Gideon, American composer, dies at 89
1996 Pierre Chany, French cycling journalist (49 x Tour de France; L'Équipe), dies of pleurisy at 73
1997 Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
1998 Charles Korvin [Geza Korvin Karpathi], Austrian actor (Berlin Express, Ship of Fools), dies at 90
2000 Nancy Marchand, American actress (The Sopranos, Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant), dies at 71

Jack Buck (1924-2002)

American sports announcer (St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 77

2002 Walter Villa, Italian motorcycle road racer (250cc world champion 1974, 75, 76; 350cc 1976; Harley-Davidson), dies from a heart attack at 58

Larry Doby (1924-2003)

American Baseball HOF outfielder (MLB All-Star 1949–55; World Series 1948; AL HR leader 1952, 54; 1st African-American in AL; Cleveland Indians), dies of cancer at 79

2005 J.J. Pickle, American politician (Rep-D-Texas, 1963-95), dies at 91
2005 Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
2005 Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (prolific batsman of 30's & 40's), dies at 90
2006 Richard Stahl, American actor (Howard-It's a Living), dies at 74
2006 Vincent Sherman, American film director (Mr. Skeffington), dies at 99
2007 Bernard Manning, British comedian, dies at 76
2007 Georges Thurston, Canadian R&B and reggae musician and singer (Boule Noire), dies of cancer at 55
2007 Henry "Hank" Medress, American singer (The Tokens - "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"), and record producer (The Chiffons; Tony Orlando & Dawn), dies of lung cancer at 68
2008 Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908)
2008 Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984)
2008 Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and children's books author (Pumpkin Moonshine, Corgiville Fair), dies at 92
2010 French general (WWII, First Indochina War, Algerian War), dies at 94

José Saramago (1922-2010)

Portuguese writer, novelist (Blindness, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ) and Nobel laureate, dies of leukemia at 87

2010 Trent Acid, American professional wrestler (b.1980)
2011 Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist, known as "The Big Man" (The E-Street Band), dies of complications from a stroke (b. 1942); flags in New Jersey are lowered to half-mast
2011 Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (1991-2001), dies at 68

Yelena Bonner (1923-2011)

Soviet dissident and wife of Andre Sakharov, dies of heart failure at 88 [1]

2012 Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach, dies at 78
2012 Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor (A Hard Day's Night, Help!), dies from prostate cancer at 82 [1]
2013 Gene Freese, American MLB player, dies from complications of back surgery at 79
2014 Johnny Mann, American music director (Johnny Mann Stand Up & Cheer), dies at 85
2014 Michael Frederick, Barbadian cricketer (one Test WI v England 1954, scored 0 & 30), dies at 87
2015 Ralph J Roberts, American businessman and founder of Comcast, dies of natural causes at 95
2016 Paul Cox, Dutch-born Australian director (Lonely Hearts), dies at 76
2016 Peter Feuchtwanger, German piano teacher, musicologist, and composer (Studies in Eastern Idiom; Introduction and Ragas for 8 Violas and cello), dies at 85
2017 Hope Ryden, American wildlife activist and photographer, dies at 87
2017 Lord Joffe [Joel Goodman Joffe], South African-born British lawyer (instructing solicitor for Nelson Mandela’s defence team) and businessman, dies at 85
2018 Barry McDaniel, American lyric baritone (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1962-99), dies at 87
2018 Leon White [Big Van Vader], American professional wrestler (WWF, AJPW), dies at 63
2018 Walter Bahr, American soccer midfielder (19 caps) and coach (Penn State), dies of complications broken hip at 91

XXXTentacion (1998-2018)

American rapper and singer-songwriter, shot to death during a robbery at 20

2020 Arturo Chaires, Mexican soccer defender (22 caps; C.D. Guadalajara), dies at 83
2020 Lynford "Hux" Brown, Jamaican session and touring guitarist (Jimmy Cliff; Paul Simon; Toots and the Maytals), dies at 75
2020 Tibor Benedek, Hungarian water polo player (Olympic gold 2000, 04, 08; World C'ship gold 2003) and coach (Hungary 2013-16), dies from pancreatic cancer at 47
2020 Vera Lynn, British popular music singer, known as 'the Forces' Sweetheart' ("We'll Meet Again"; "The White Cliffs of Dover"), dies at 103
2021 Giampiero Boniperti, Italian soccer striker (38 caps; Juventus 443 games), executive (chairman Juventus) and politician (deputy in European Parliament), dies from heart failure at 92
2022 Mark Shields, American political journalist and commentator (PBS NewsHour, 1988-2020; CNN Capitol Gang, 1998-2005), dies of kidney failure at 85