June 18

June 18 in recent years

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2023 (Sunday)

2022 (Saturday)

2021 (Friday)

2020 (Thursday)

2019 (Tuesday)

2018 (Monday)

2017 (Sunday)

2016 (Saturday)

2015 (Thursday)

June 18 is the 169th day of the year (170th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 196 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang Dynasty rule over China.
• 1053 – Battle of Civitate: 3,000 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.
• 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.
• 1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
• 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1799 – Action of 18 June 1799: a frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Perrée is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith
• 1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• 1830 – French invasion of Algeria.
• 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 Longyu 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).
• 1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
• 1935 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
• 1940 – Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
• 1940 – "Finest Hour" speech 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. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
• 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 Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
• 1954 – Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
• 1972 – Staines air disaster – 118 are killed when a plane crashes two minutes after take off from London 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.
• 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 because of her Bahá'í Faith.
• 1984 – A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners' strike.
• 1994 – The Troubles: the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) open fire inside a pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, killing six civilians and wounding five.
• 1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
• 2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat 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.
• 2012 – Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud is appointed Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

Births

• 1269 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (d. 1298)
• 1318 – Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
• 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)
• 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 (d. 1809)
• 1757 – Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
• 1757 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (d. 1833)
• 1769 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Anglo-Irish politician (d. 1822)
• 1812 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (d. 1891)
• 1815 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (d. 1881)
• 1834 – Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher (d. 1895)
• 1839 – William H. Seward, Jr., American general (d. 1920)
• 1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1922)
• 1850 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (d. 1914)
• 1854 – E.W. Scripps, American journalist and publisher (d. 1926)
• 1857 – Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library (d. 1930)
• 1863 – George Essex Evans, Australian poet (d. 1909)
• 1868 – Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (d. 1957)
• 1870 – Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1954)
• 1877 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (d. 1960)
• 1881 – Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician (d. 1949)
• 1884 – Édouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)
• 1886 – George Mallory, British mountaineer (d. 1924)
• 1886 – Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)
• 1887 – Tancrède Labbé, Quebec politician and businessman (d. 1956)
• 1891 – Mae Busch, Australian actress (d. 1946)
• 1895 – Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1896 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
• 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1903 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
• 1904 – Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (d. 1991)
• 1904 – Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
• 1907 – Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (d. 1969)
• 1908 – Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1910 – Dick Foran, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1910 – Ray McKinley, American singer, drummer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (d. 1995)
• 1913 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist (d. 1991)
• 1913 – Françoise Loranger, Canadian playwright and radio producer (d. 1995)
• 1913 – Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (d. 2008)
• 1914 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1915 – Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
• 1915 – Robert Kanigher, American comic book writer and editor (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)
• 1917 – Jack Karnehm, British snooker commentator (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Erik Ortvad, Danish painter (d. 2008)
• 1917 – Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1918 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
• 1920 – Ian Carmichael, English actor (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Matthew Ianniello, American mobster (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Jean Delumeau, French historian
• 1924 – George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Robert Arthur, American film actor (d. 2008)
• 1925 – Robert Beadell, American composer (d. 1994)
• 1926 – Philip B. Crosby, American quality consultant and author (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Allan Sandage, American astronomer (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Tom Wicker, American journalist (d. 2011)
• 1927 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-English actress (d. 1998)
• 1927 – Paul Eddington, English actor (d. 1995)
• 1928 – David T. Lykken, American scientist (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
• 1931 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazilian politician, 34th President of Brazil
• 1931 – K. S. Sudarshan, Indian nationalist (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – Geoffrey Hill, British poet
• 1934 – Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese artist (d. 2004)
• 1935 – Hugh McColl, American banker
• 1936 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand Formula One World Champion (1967), (d. 1992)
• 1936 – Barack Obama, Sr., Kenyan economist (d. 1982)
• 1936 – Ronald Venetiaan, Surinamese politician, President of Suriname
• 1937 – Wray Carlton, American football player
• 1937 – Del Harris, American basketball coach
• 1937 – Jay Rockefeller, American politician
• 1937 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and ethnohistorian (d. 2006)
• 1937 – Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet astronaut
• 1938 – Eddie Jones, American football executive (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Kevin Murray, Australian footballer
• 1939 – Lou Brock, American baseball player
• 1939 – Jean-Claude Germain, French-Canadian author, journalist, and historian
• 1939 – Brooks Firestone, American businessman and politician
• 1940 – Michael Sheard, English actor (d. 2005)
• 1941 – Delia Smith, English chef
• 1942 – Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Thabo Mbeki, South African politician, 23rd President of South Africa
• 1942 – Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Beatles, The Quarrymen, and The Fireman)
• 1942 – Carl Radle, American musician and producer (Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos) (d. 1980)
• 1942 – Nick Tate, Australian actor
• 1942 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
• 1943 – Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, and actress
• 1944 – Sandy Posey, American singer
• 1946 – Russell Ash, British author
• 1946 – Bruiser Brody, American wrestler (d. 1988)
• 1946 – Fabio Capello, Italian footballer and manager
• 1947 – Ivonne Coll, Puerto Rican actress
• 1947 – Bernard Giraudeau, French film director (d. 2010)
• 1947 – Linda Thorson, Canadian actress
• 1948 – Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler (d. 1972)
• 1948 – Éva Marton, Hungarian soprano
• 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 and musician (The Tartans) (d. 1999)
• 1950 – Mike Johanns, American politician, 28th United States Secretary of Agriculture
• 1950 – Jackie Leven, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Doll by Doll) (d. 2011)
• 1951 – Mohammed Al-Sager, Kuwaiti journalist and politician
• 1952 – Denis Herron, Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender
• 1952 – Carol Kane, American actress
• 1952 – Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
• 1952 – Lee Soo-man South Korean singer and businessman, founded S.M. Entertainment
• 1953 – Vladislav Terzyul, Ukrainian mountaineer (d. 2004)
• 1955 – Edward Fast, Canadian politician
• 1956 – Brian Benben, American actor
• 1957 – Andrea Evans, American actress
• 1957 – Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1957 – Richard Powers, American novelist
• 1958 – Peter Altmaier, German politician
• 1960 – Ralph Brown, English actor
• 1960 – Steve Murphy, Canadian journalist
• 1961 – Oz Fox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Stryper, SinDizzy, and Bloodgood)
• 1961 – Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1961 – Angela Johnson, American poet and children's author
• 1961 – Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter (Yazoo and The Vandals)
• 1962 – Lisa Randall, American theoretical physicist
• 1962 – Jeff Mills, American DJ and producer (Underground Resistance)
• 1962 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (d. 2009)
• 1963 – Dizzy Reed, American musician, composer, and actor (Guns N' Roses and Johnny Crash)
• 1963 – Bruce Smith, American football player
• 1964 – Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
• 1965 – Kim Dickens, American actress and model
• 1966 – Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater
• 1969 – Haki Doku, Albanian para-cyclist
• 1969 – Christopher Largen, American author
• 1969 – Vito LoGrasso, American wrestler
• 1969 – Pål Pot Pamparius, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
• 1970 – Robin Christopher, American actress
• 1970 – Ivan Kozák, Slovak footballer
• 1970 – Greg Yaitanes, American director
• 1971 – Mara Hobel, American actress
• 1971 – Kerry Butler, American actress
• 1971 – Jason McAteer, English-Irish footballer
• 1971 – Nathan Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
• 1972 – Wikus du Toit, South African actor, director, and composer
• 1972 – Michal Yannai, Israeli actress and model
• 1973 – Julie Depardieu, French actress
• 1973 – Ray LaMontagne, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1973 – Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
• 1974 – Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer and manager
• 1975 – Jem, Welsh singer-songwriter
• 1975 – Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer
• 1975 – Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
• 1975 – Aleksandrs Koļinko, Latvian footballer
• 1975 – Martin St. Louis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Alana de la Garza, American actress
• 1976 – Blake Shelton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 – Witte Wartena, Dutch artist
• 1977 – Majed Moqed, Saudi hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 (d. 2001)
• 1978 – Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
• 1979 – Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
• 1979 – Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Antonio Gates, American football player
• 1980 – David Giuntoli, American actor
• 1980 – Craig Mottram, Australian runner
• 1980 – Colin Munroe, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1980 – Antero Niittymäki, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1980 – Tara Platt, American actress
• 1981 – Ella Chen, Taiwanese singer and actress (S.H.E)
• 1981 – Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987)
• 1982 – Nadir Belhadj, French-Algerian footballer
• 1982 – Marco Borriello, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Billy Slater, Australian rugby player
• 1983 – Cameron Smith, Australian rugby player
• 1984 – Nanyak Dala, Canadian rugby player
• 1984 – Mateus Galiano da Costa, Angolan footballer
• 1984 – Ronnie Stam, Dutch footballer
• 1984 – Janne Happonen, Finnish ski jumper
• 1984 – Kissy Sell Out, English DJ and producer
• 1985 – Chris Coghlan, American baseball player
• 1985 – Gia Johnson, British fashion model
• 1986 – Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
• 1987 – Omar Arellano, Mexican footballer
• 1988 – Elini Dimoutsos, Greek footballer
• 1989 – Renee Olstead, American actress & singer
• 1990 – Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Sandra Izbaşa, Romanian gymnast
• 1990 – Christian Taylor, American jumper
• 1991 – Willa Holland, American actress
• 1991 – Rei Okamoto, Japanese model and actress
• 1996 – Jade-Lianna Peters, Chinese-American voice actress
• 1997 – Max Records, American actor
• 2004 – Giuliano Stroe, Romanian bodybuilder and gymnast
• 2006 – Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg

Deaths

• 741 – Leo III the Isaurian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 685)
• 1234 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (b. 1218)
• 1291 – Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
• 1464 – Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 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. 1575)
• 1673 – Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse, founder of Montreal and Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (b. 1606)
• 1704 – Tom Brown, English writer (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-Austrian physician (b. 1700)
• 1788 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious figure (b. 1714)
• 1794 – François Buzot, French politician (b. 1760)
• 1794 – James Murray, English military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
• 1815 – Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
• 1815 – Thomas Picton, British army general (b. 1758)
• 1833 – Robert Hett Chapman, American minister and missionary (b. 1771)
• 1835 – William Cobbett, British journalist and author (b. 1763)
• 1858 – Rani Lakshmibai Indian queen (b. 1828)
• 1866 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
• 1902 – Samuel Butler, British poet (b. 1835)
• 1905 – Carmine Crocco, Italian brigand (b. 1830)
• 1915 – Eufemio Zapata, Mexican brother of Emiliano Zapata (b. 1873)
• 1916 – Max Immelmann, German flying ace (b. 1890)
• 1917 – Titu Maiorescu, Romanian critic and politician, 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, bandleader, and politician (b. 1870)
• 1943 – Elias Degiannis, Greek navy officer (b. 1912)
• 1945 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., American lieutenant general during World War II (b. 1886)
• 1947 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
• 1959 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
• 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, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1973 – Roger Delgado, English actor (b. 1918)
• 1974 – Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer and educator (b. 1896)
• 1974 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet soldier, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
• 1975 – Hugo Bergmann, German-Israeli philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1978 – Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
• 1980 – Terence Fisher, British director (b. 1904)
• 1980 – André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1982 – Djuna Barnes, American writer (b. 1892)
• 1982 – John Cheever, American author (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 – Alan Berg, American radio host (b. 1934)
• 1985 – Paul Colin, French artist (b. 1892)
• 1986 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American writer and journalist (b. 1921)
• 1989 – I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)
• 1992 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
• 1997 – Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
• 2000 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Jack Buck, American sportscaster (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Larry Doby, American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Ernest Martin, American murderer (b. 1960)
• 2004 – Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1972)
• 2005 – Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Vincent Sherman, American director (b. 1906)
• 2007 – Bernard Manning, English comedian (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Hank Medress, American singer and record producer (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Georges Thurston, Canadian singer, composer, and author (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908)
• 2008 – Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984)
• 2008 – Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2010 – Trent Acid, American wrestler (b. 1980)
• 2010 – José Saramago, Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Yelena Bonner, Russian activist, wife of Andrei Sakharov (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)
• 2011 – Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist and actor (E Street Band) (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Horacio Coppola, Argentine photographer and filmmaker (b. 1906)
• 2012 – Lina Haag, German activist (b. 1907)
• 2012 – Brian Hibbard, Welsh actor and singer (The Flying Pickets) (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Ghazala Javed, Pakistani singer (b. 1988)
• 2012 – Tom Maynard, Welsh cricketer (b. 1989)
• 2012 – Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín, Peruvian politician, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Jim Packard, American radio host and producer (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Salem Ali Qatan, Yemeni military officer
• 2012 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor (b. 1929)
• 2012 – William Van Regenmorter, American politician (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances

• Autistic Pride Day (International)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Elizabeth of Schönau
  • Leontius, Hypatius and Theodulus
  • June 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Evacuation Day (Egypt)
• Foundation Day (Benguet)
• National Day (Seychelles)
• Waterloo Day (United Kingdom)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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