Deaths in History 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

1704 Thomas "Tom" Brown, English translator and writer of satire (Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London), dies at 41
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)
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
1824 Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1790-1801), dies at 55
1835 William Cobbett, English journalist and author, dies at 72
1853 Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies
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
1866 Jacob Abels, Dutch painter, dies at 62
1871 George Grote, British historian (History of Greece), dies at 76
1880 John Sutter, German-Swiss-American colonist who established Sutter's Fort in what is now Sacramento and 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
1902 Samuel Butler, English author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh), dies at 66
1916 Helmuth von Moltke, German chief general of staff, 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

Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)

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

1937 Gaston Doumergue, 60th Prime Minister of France (1913-14 and 1934) and 1st protestant French President (1924-31), dies at 73
1942 Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
1942 John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies 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
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
1971 Paul Karrer, Swiss organic chemist (Nobel 1937), dies at 82
1973 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder 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)
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
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)
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 Charles Martin, cartoonist, dies at 85
1997 Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
2005 J.J. Pickle, American politician (Rep-D-Texas, 1963-95), dies at 91
2005 Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
2008 Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and children's books author (Pumpkin Moonshine, Corgiville Fair), dies at 92

José Saramago (1922-2010)

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

2011 Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (1991-2001), dies at 68
2011 Yelena Bonner, Soviet dissident and wife of Andre Sakharov, dies of heart failure at 88 [1]
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
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