1972

• 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
• 656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
• 860 – Byzantine–Rus’ War: A fleet of about 200 Rus’ vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople.
• 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.
• 1265 – A draft Byzantine–Venetian treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, but is not ratified by Doge Reniero Zeno.
• 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.
• 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.
• 1799 – Action of 18 June 1799: A frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Perrée is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith.
• 1812 – The United States declaration of war upon the United Kingdom is signed by President James Madison, beginning the War of 1812.
• 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.
• 1822 – Constantine Kanaris blows up the Ottoman navy’s flagship at Chios, killing the Kapudan Pasha Nasuhzade Ali Pasha.
• 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 Cixi 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).
• 1935 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
• 1940 – Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle.
• 1940 – The “Finest Hour” speech is delivered 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.
• 1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
• 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 – Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état.
• 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 people are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes two minutes after take off from London’s 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.
• 1982 – Italian banker Roberto Calvi’s body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
• 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 over her religious beliefs.
• 1984 – A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners’ strike.
• 1994 – The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
• 2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
• 2007 – The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters.
• 2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
• 2018 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.

Births on June 18

• 1269 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (d. 1298)
• 1318 – Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
• 1332 – John V Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1391)
• 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)
• 1667 – Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
• 1673 – Antonio de Literes, Spanish composer (d. 1747)
• 1677 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1726)
• 1716 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter and educator (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 1st Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (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 and merchant (d. 1880)
• 1812 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian journalist and 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)
• 1833 – Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and President (1880-1884) (d. 1893)
• 1834 – Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher and academic (d. 1895)
• 1839 – William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (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, Scottish-English mathematician and academic (d. 1942)
• 1858 – Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1927)
• 1862 – Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet (d. 1942)
• 1863 – George Essex Evans, English-Australian poet and author (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 compositor and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1949)
• 1884 – Édouard Daladier, French captain and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1970)
• 1886 – George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (d. 1924)
• 1886 – Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (d. 1978)
• 1887 – Tancrède Labbé, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1956)
• 1896 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Martti Marttelin, Finnish runner (d. 1940)
• 1900 – Vlasta Vraz, Czech-American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser (d. 1989)
• 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1901 – Llewellyn Rees, English actor (d. 1994)
• 1902 – Louis Alter, American musician (d. 1980)
• 1902 – Paavo Yrjölä, Finnish decathlete (d. 1980)
• 1903 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Raymond Radiguet, French author and poet (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 academic and 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 (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Glenn Morris, American decathlete (d. 1974)
• 1913 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Sammy Cahn, American pianist and composer (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 and philanthropist (d. 2008)
• 1913 – Oswald Teichmüller, German mathematician (d. 1943)
• 1914 – E. G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Efraín Huerta, Mexican poet (d.1982)
• 1915 – Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
• 1915 – Robert Kanigher, American author (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Alice T. Schafer, American mathematician (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Richard Boone, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1981)
• 1917 – Jack Karnehm, English snooker player and sportscaster (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Erik Ortvad, Danish painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Alf Francis, West Prussia-born, English motor racing mechanic and race car constructor (d. 1983)
• 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 – Lode Van Den Bergh, Belgian author and academic
• 1922 – Claude Helffer, French pianist and educator (d. 2004)
• 1924 – George Mikan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2005)
• 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 and author (d. 2011)
• 1927 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-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 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
• 1929 – Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazilian sociologist, academic, and politician, 34th President of Brazil
• 1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic (d. 2016)
• 1933 – Colin Brumby, Australian composer and conductor (d. 2018)
• 1933 – Tommy Hunt, American singer
• 1934 – Brian Kenny, English general (d. 2017)
• 1934 – Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 2004)
• 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 – Del Harris, American basketball player and coach
• 1937 – Jay Rockefeller, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of West Virginia
• 1937 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and historian (d. 2006)
• 1937 – Vitaly Zholobov, Ukrainian colonel, engineer, and astronaut
• 1938 – Kevin Murray, Australian footballer and coach
• 1939 – Lou Brock, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1939 – Jean-Claude Germain, Canadian historian, author, and journalist
• 1939 – Brooks Firestone, American businessman and politician
• 1941 – Roger Lemerre, French footballer and manager
• 1941 – Paul Mayersberg, English director and screenwriter
• 1941 – Delia Smith, English chef and author
• 1942 – John Bellany, Scottish painter and academic (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 – Richard Perry, American record producer
• 1942 – Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (d. 1980)
• 1942 – Nick Tate, Australian actor and director
• 1942 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
• 1943 – Barry Evans, English actor (d. 1997)
• 1943 – Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, and actress
• 1944 – Bruce DuMont, American broadcaster and political analyst
• 1944 – Sandy Posey, American pop/country singer
• 1946 – Russell Ash, English journalist and author (d. 2010)
• 1946 – Bruiser Brody, American wrestler (d. 1988)
• 1946 – Fabio Capello, Italian footballer and manager
• 1946 – Maria Bethânia, Brazilian singer
• 1947 – Ivonne Coll, Puerto Rican-American 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 – Éva Marton, Hungarian soprano and actress
• 1948 – Sherry Turkle, American academic, psychologist, and sociologist
• 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 (d. 1999)
• 1950 – Rod de’Ath, Welsh drummer and producer (d. 2014)
• 1950 – Annelie Ehrhardt, German hurdler
• 1950 – Mike Johanns, American lawyer and politician, 28th United States Secretary of Agriculture
• 1950 – Jackie Leven, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
• 1951 – Mohammed Al-Sager, Kuwaiti journalist and politician
• 1951 – Miriam Flynn, American actress and comedian
• 1951 – Ian Hargreaves, English-Welsh journalist and academic
• 1951 – Stephen Hopper, Australian botanist and academic
• 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
• 1952 – Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Lee Soo-man, South Korean singer and businessman, founded S.M. Entertainment
• 1953 – Peter Donohoe, English pianist and educator
• 1955 – Ed Fast, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1956 – Brian Benben, American actor and producer
• 1956 – John Scott, English organist and conductor (d. 2015)
• 1957 – Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1957 – Richard Powers, American novelist
• 1958 – Peter Altmaier, German jurist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany
• 1958 – Gary Martin, British voice actor and actor
• 1959 – Joe Ansolabehere, American animation screenwriter and producer
• 1960 – Barbara Broccoli, American director and producer
• 1960 – Steve Murphy, Canadian journalist
• 1961 – Oz Fox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1961 – Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan-American baseball player
• 1961 – Angela Johnson, American novelist and poet
• 1961 – Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Lisa Randall, American physicist and academic
• 1963 – Dizzy Reed, American keyboard player and songwriter
• 1963 – Bruce Smith, American football player
• 1964 – Uday Hussein, Iraqi commander (d. 2003)
• 1964 – Patti Webster, American publicist and author (d. 2013)
• 1966 – Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater, choreographer, and sportscaster
• 1966 – Troy Kemp, Bahamian high jumper
• 1968 – Frank Müller, German decathlete
• 1969 – Haki Doku, Albanian cyclist
• 1969 – Christopher Largen, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
• 1970 – Katie Derham, English journalist
• 1970 – Ivan Kozák, Slovak footballer
• 1970 – Greg Yaitanes, American director and producer
• 1971 – Kerry Butler, American actress and singer
• 1971 – Jason McAteer, English-Irish footballer and manager
• 1971 – Nathan Morris, American soul singer
• 1972 – Anu Tali, Estonian pianist and conductor
• 1972 – Wikus du Toit, South African actor, director, and composer
• 1973 – Julie Depardieu, French actress
• 1973 – Stephen Thomas Erlewine, American author and music critic
• 1973 – Ray LaMontagne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – Alexandra Meissnitzer, Austrian skier
• 1973 – Matt Parsons, Australian rugby league player
• 1973 – Gavin Wanganeen Australian footballer and coach
• 1974 – Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer and manager
• 1974 – Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer and coach (d. 2015)
• 1975 – Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
• 1975 – Aleksandrs Koļinko, Latvian footballer
• 1975 – Martin St. Louis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Blake Shelton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1978 – Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
• 1979 – Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1979 – Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
• 1980 – Antonio Gates, American football player
• 1980 – Sergey Kirdyapkin, Russian race walker
• 1980 – Craig Mottram, Australian runner
• 1980 – Antero Niittymäki, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1980 – Tara Platt, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1981 – Clint Newton, American-Australian rugby league player
• 1981 – Marco Streller, Swiss footballer
• 1982 – Nadir Belhadj, French-Algerian footballer
• 1982 – Marco Borriello, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Nathan Cavaleri, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1983 – Billy Slater, Australian rugby league player
• 1983 – Cameron Smith, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 – Nanyak Dala, Canadian rugby player
• 1985 – Chris Coghlan, American baseball player
• 1985 – Alex Hirsch, American animator and television producer
• 1986 – Edgars Eriņš, Latvian decathlete
• 1986 – Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
• 1987 – Omar Arellano, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Moeen Ali, English cricketer
• 1988 – Elini Dimoutsos, Greek footballer
• 1988 – Josh Dun, American musician
• 1989 – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, French-born Gabonese footballer
• 1989 – Chris Harris Jr., American football player
• 1990 – Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Sandra Izbașa, Romanian gymnast
• 1990 – Derek Stepan, American ice hockey player
• 1990 – Christian Taylor, American triple jumper
• 1993 – Dennis Lloyd, Israeli musician, producer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
• 1994 – Sean McMahon, Australian rugby player
• 1994 – Takeoff, American rapper
• 1995 – Maxim Kovtun, Russian figure skater
• 1996 – Alen Halilović, Croatian footballer
• 1996 – Niki Wories, Dutch figure skater
• 1997 – Katharina Hobgarski, German tennis player
• 1997 – Latrell Mitchell, Australian rugby league player
• 1999 – Trippie Redd, American rapper

Deaths on June 18

• 741 – Leo III the Isaurian, Byzantine emperor (b. 685)
• 908 – Zhang Hao, general of Yang Wu
• 1095 – Sophia of Hungary (b. c. 1050)
• 1164 – Elisabeth of Schönau, German Benedictine visionary (b. c. 1129)
• 1234 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (b. 1218)
• 1250 – Theresa of Portugal, Queen of León
• 1291 – Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
• 1333 – Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1312)
• 1464 – Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1400)
• 1588 – Robert Crowley, English minister 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 and translator (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 and reformer (b. 1700)
• 1788 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
• 1794 – François Buzot, French lawyer and politician (b. 1760)
• 1794 – James Murray, Scottish-English general and politician, 20th Governor of the Province of Quebec (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)
• 1860 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (b. 1783)
• 1866 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
• 1902 – Samuel Butler, English novelist, satirist, and critic (b. 1835)
• 1905 – Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (b. 1830)
• 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 pilot and explorer (b. 1872)
• 1936 – Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (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 – Florence Bascom, American geologist and educator (b. 1862)^[10]
• 1945 – Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (b. 1886)
• 1947 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
• 1948 – Edward Brooker, English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1891)
• 1959 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (b. 1912)
• 1964 – Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (b. 1890)
• 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, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1974 – Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and academic (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 novelist, journalist, and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1982 – John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (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 (b. 1921)
• 1989 – I. F. Stone, American journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Kofoworola Abeni Pratt, the first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria  (b. 1910)
• 1992 – Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944)
• 1992 – Mordecai Ardon, Polish-Israeli painter and educator (b. 1896)
• 1993 – Craig Rodwell, American activist, founded the Oscar Wilde Bookshop (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Endel Puusepp, Estonian-Soviet military pilot and politician (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Lev Kopelev, Ukrainian-German author and academic (b. 1912)
• 1998 – Felix Knight, American actor and tenor (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (b. 1923)
• 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)
• 2006 – Joseph Zobel, Martinique-French author (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Bernard Manning, English comedian and actor (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Hank Medress, American singer and producer (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Georges Thurston, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Jean Delannoy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 2008 – Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Trent Acid, American wrestler (b. 1980)
• 2010 – José Saramago, Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Okan Demiriş, Turkish composer (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Yelena Bonner, Russian activist (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)
• 2011 – Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Horacio Coppola, Argentinian photographer and director (b. 1906)
• 2012 – Lina Haag, German author and activist (b. 1907)
• 2012 – Tom Maynard, Welsh cricketer (b. 1989)
• 2012 – Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín, Peruvian general and politician, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1934)
• 2012 – William Van Regenmorter, American businessman and politician (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Brent F. Anderson, American engineer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Alastair Donaldson, Scottish bass player (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 – 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)
• 2015 – Phil Austin, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 2015 – Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman, co-founded Comcast (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Danny Villanueva, American football player and broadcaster, co-founded Univision (b. 1937)
• 2015 – Allen Weinstein, American historian and academic (b. 1937)
• 2016 – Jeppiaar, Indian educationist, founder and chancellor of Sathyabama University (b. 1931)
• 2018 – XXXTentacion, American rapper (b. 1998)
• 2018 – Big Van Vader (also known as Vader) American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
• 2018 – Jimmy Wopo, American rapper (b. 1997)
• 2020 – Vera Lynn, English singer who was the “Forces’ Sweetheart” in World War II (b. 1917)

Holidays and observances on June 18

• Autistic Pride Day (International)
• Christian feast day:
  • Bernard Mizeki (Anglican and Episcopal Church)
  • Elisabeth of Schönau
  • Gregorio Barbarigo
  • Leontius, Hypatius and Theodulus
  • Marina the Monk (Maronite Church, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)
  • Mark and Marcellian
  • June 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Foundation Day (Benguet)
• Human Rights Day (Azerbaijan)
• National Day (Seychelles)
• Queen Mother’s Birthday (Cambodia)
• Waterloo Day (United Kingdom)