Deaths on 18 June
2000s
James Chance
2024
American musician (1953–2024)
Anouk Aimée
2024
French actress (1932–2024)
Yoyong Martirez
2024
Filipino basketball player (1946–2024)
Willie Mays
2024
American baseball player (1931–2024)
Shahzada Dawood
2023
Pakistani businessman and philanthropist (1975–2023)
Hamish Harding
2023
British businessman (1964–2023)
Paul-Henri Nargeolet
2023
French naval officer and explorer (1946–2023)
Stockton Rush
2023
American businessman (1962–2023)
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
2022
Danish politician (1941–2022)
Adibah Noor
2022
Malaysian singer, actress and master of ceremonies (1970–2022)
Vera Lynn
2020
English singer and entertainer (1917–2020)
XXXTentacion
2018
American rapper and singer-songwriter (1998–2018)
Big Van Vader
2018
American professional wrestler and football player (1955–2018)
Jimmy Wopo
2018
American rapper (1997–2018)
Jeppiaar
2016
Indian politician and educationist (1931–2016)
Phil Austin
2015
American comedian and writer (1941–2015)
Ralph J. Roberts
2015
American businessman (1920-2015)
Danny Villanueva
2015
American football player and broadcasting executive (1937–2015)
Allen Weinstein
2015
American historian (1937–2015)
Stephanie Kwolek
2014
American chemist who invented Kevlar (1923–2014)
Johnny Mann
2014
American conductor (1928–2014)
Claire Martin (writer)
2014
Canadian writer
Vladimir Popovkin
2014
Russian general (1957–2014)
Horace Silver
2014
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
Brent F. Anderson
2013
American politician and electrical engineer
Alastair Donaldson
2013
Garde Gardom
2013
Canadian politician (1924–2013)
Michael Hastings (journalist)
2013
American journalist and author (1980–2013)
David Wall (dancer)
2013
English ballet dancer (1946–2013)
Horacio Coppola
2012
Argentine photographer (1906–2012)
Lina Haag
2012
Tom Maynard
2012
Welsh cricketer
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín
2012
Peruvian politician and a Prime Minister
Alketas Panagoulias
2012
Greek footballer and manager
William Van Regenmorter
2012
American politician from Michigan
Yelena Bonner
2011
Human rights activist in the Soviet Union (1923–2011)
Frederick Chiluba
2011
Former President of Zambia (1991–2002)
Clarence Clemons
2011
American saxophonist (1942–2011)
Trent Acid
2010
American professional wrestler (1980–2010)
José Saramago
2010
Portuguese novelist (1922–2010)
Okan Demiriş
2010
Turkish composer
Jean Delannoy
2008
French actor and film director (1908–2008)
Tasha Tudor
2008
American illustrator and writer (1915–2008)
Hans Steinbrenner (sculptor)
2008
German painter and sculptor (1928–2008)
Bernard Manning
2007
English comedian (1930–2007)
Hank Medress
2007
Musical artist
Georges Thurston
2007
Canadian singer and author (1951–2007)
Vincent Sherman
2006
American film director (1906–2006)
Joseph Zobel
2006
Martiniquai writer (1915–2006)
Syed Mushtaq Ali
2005
Indian cricketer (1914 – 2005)
Manuel Sadosky
2005
Argentine mathematician, civil servant and author
Larry Doby
2003
American baseball player (1923–2003)
Nancy Marchand
2000
American actress (1928–2000)
1900s
Felix Knight
1998
American actor (1908–1998)
Lev Kopelev
1997
Soviet author and dissident
Endel Puusepp
1996
Estonian pilot in Soviet service
Craig Rodwell
1993
American gay rights activist
Kofoworola Abeni Pratt
1992
20th-century Nigerian nurse; first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria
Peter Allen (musician)
1992
Australian singer-songwriter (1944–1992)
Mordecai Ardon
1992
Israeli painter (1896–1992)
I. F. Stone
1989
American investigative journalist, writer, and author (1907–1989)
Frances Scott Fitzgerald
1986
American journalist (1921–1986)
Paul Colin (artist)
1985
French artist
Alan Berg
1984
American talk radio show host (1934–1984)
Djuna Barnes
1982
American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892–1982)
John Cheever
1982
American novelist and short story writer (1912–1982)
Curd Jürgens
1982
German-Austrian stage and film actor (1915–1982)
Terence Fisher
1980
British film director and film editor (1904–1980)
André Leducq
1980
French cyclist (1904–1980)
Walter C. Alvarez
1978
American medical doctor (1884–1978)
Hugo Bergmann
1975
Israeli philosopher (1883–1975)
Júlio César de Mello e Souza
1974
Brazilian mathematician (1895–1974)
Georgy Zhukov
1974
Soviet military leader (1896–1974)
Thomas Gomez
1971
American actor (1905–1971)
Paul Karrer
1971
Swiss organic chemist (1889–1971)
Geki (racing driver)
1967
Italian racing driver (1937–1967)
Beat Fehr
1967
Swiss racing driver
Giorgio Morandi
1964
Italian painter (1890–1964)
Pedro Armendáriz
1963
Mexican actor (1912–1963)
Ethel Barrymore
1959
American actress (1879–1959)
Edward Brooker
1948
Australian politician (1891–1948)
Shigematsu Sakaibara
1947
Japanese officer, war criminal 1898–1947
Florence Bascom
1945
American professor of geology (1862–1945)
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
1945
American lieutenant general (1886–1945)
Ilias Degiannis
1943
Greek naval officer and resistance leader (1912–1943)
Arthur Pryor
1942
American bandleader, composer, virtuoso trombonist in the Sousa Band (1869–1942)
Gaston Doumergue
1937
President of France from 1924 to 1931
Maxim Gorky
1936
Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
Roald Amundsen
1928
Norwegian polar explorer (1872–1928)
Olga Constantinovna of Russia
1926
Queen of Greece from 1867 to 1913
Jacobus Kapteyn
1922
Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri
1921
Indian Islamic scholar
Titu Maiorescu
1917
Romanian literary critic and politician (1840 - 1917)
Max Immelmann
1916
German World War I flying ace (1890–1916)
Carmine Crocco
1905
Italian brigand and revolutionary (1830–1905)
Samuel Butler (novelist)
1902
English novelist and critic (1835–1902)
1800s
Descendants of Queen Victoria
1866
Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck
1860
German general, diplomat, and writer (1783–1860)
William Cobbett
1835
English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist (1763–1835)
Robert Hett Chapman
1833
US Presbyterian minister (1771-1833)
Thomas Picton
1815
British Army officer (1758–1815)
Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma
1804
Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla from 1771 to 1796
Before 1800
François Buzot
1794
French politician (1760–1794)
James Murray (British Army officer, born 1721)
1794
British Army officer and colonial administrator (1721–1794)
Adam Gib
1788
Scottish Presbyterian minister (1714–1788)
Johann Ulrich von Cramer
1772
German judge, legal scholar and Enlightenment philosopher
Gerard van Swieten
1772
Dutch physician (1700–1772)
Ambrose Philips
1749
17th/18th-century English poet and politician
John Aislabie
1742
English politician (1670–1742)
Michel Richard Delalande
1726
French composer and organist (1657–1726)
Tom Brown (satirist)
1704
English translator and satirist
Jeanne Mance
1673
17th-century French nurse and settler in Quebec, New France
Christoph Scheiner
1650
Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer (1573–1650)
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
1629
Dutch admiral (1577–1629)
Robert Crowley (printer)
1588
English stationer, poet, writer, and clergyman
Rogier van der Weyden
1464
Early Netherlandish painter (c. 1399 – 1464)
Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria
1333
14th-century Bavarian nobleman
Alfonso III of Aragon
1291
King of Aragon and Valencia from 1285 to 1291
Theresa of Portugal, Queen of León
1250
Queen of León from 1191 to 1195
Emperor Chūkyō
1234
Emperor of Japan in 1221
Elisabeth of Schönau
1164
German Benedictine visionary
Sophia of Hungary, Duchess of Saxony
1095
Duchess consort of Saxony
Zhang Hao (general)
908
Leo III the Isaurian
741
Byzantine emperor from 717 to 741