Notable Deaths on June 18

June 18 has 125 recorded notable deaths across history, from 741 to 2026. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

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2018 — XXXTentacion

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Notable Deaths 125 source records 741 – 2026

Major events on June 18

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  1. 1837 St. Joseph Mutiny: African soldiers in the 1st West India Regiment – led by former slave trader Daaga – launch a rebellion in the British colony of Trinidad in an attempt to escape to Africa. Source
  2. 2006 The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1, is launched. Source

Did you know about XXXTentacion

Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, professionally known as XXXTentacion, was an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer.

Did you know about Georgy Zhukov

During World War II, Zhukov served as deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces under leader Joseph Stalin, and oversaw some of the Red Army's most decisive victories.

Did you know about Willie Mays

Willie Howard Mays Jr., nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 major league seasons.

Did you know about Nancy Marchand

Known for her performances on stage and screen, her accolades include four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nomination for a Tony Award.

Did you know about Maxim Gorky

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and proponent of socialism.


More major people who died on June 18

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

1974 Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Zhukov

Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (born 1896)
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Soviet military leader who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Zhukov served as deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces under leader Joseph Stalin, and oversaw some of the Red Army's most decisive victories. He also served at various points as Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defence, and a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Politburo).
2024 Willie Mays

Willie Mays

American baseball player (born 1931)
Willie Howard Mays Jr., nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 major league seasons. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Mays was a five-tool player who began his career in the Negro leagues, playing for the Birmingham Black Barons, and spent the rest of his career in the National League (NL), playing for the New York / San Francisco Giants and New York Mets.
2000 Nancy Marchand

Nancy Marchand

American actress (born 1928)
Nancy Lou Marchand was an American actress. Known for her performances on stage and screen, her accolades include four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nomination for a Tony Award.
1936 Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky

Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1868)
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he travelled widely across the Russian Empire, changing jobs frequently; these experiences would later influence his writing. He associated with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both mentioned by Gorky in his memoirs.
2026 Tay Keith

Tay Keith

American record producer (born 1996)
Brytavious Lakeith Chambers, known professionally as Tay Keith, was an American record producer. He produced eleven Billboard Hot 100 top ten hits, including the 2018 singles "Look Alive" by BlocBoy JB and "Nonstop" by Drake, which peaked at five and two on the chart, respectively. He has produced four number-one hits in the chart: "Sicko Mode" (2018) and "4x4" (2025) by Travis Scott, and "Jimmy Cooks" (2022) and "First Person Shooter" (2023) by Drake. His 2023 single "Pound Town 2" marked his first entry on the chart as a lead artist.
2020 Vera Lynn

Vera Lynn

English singer who was the "Forces' Sweetheart" in World War II (born 1917)
Dame Vera Margaret Lewis, known professionally as Vera Lynn, was an English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were popular during World War II. She is honorifically known as the "Forces' Sweetheart", having given outdoor concerts for the troops in Egypt, India, and Burma during the war as part of the Entertainments National Service Association. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography wrote of Lynn, "Her reassuring voice and mastery of radio made her the forces' sweetheart in the Second World War—a connection she fostered with her ongoing commitment to veterans and memory of the war." The songs most associated with her include "We'll Meet Again", "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover" and "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square".
1928 Roald Amundsen

Roald Amundsen

Norwegian pilot and explorer (born 1872)
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
2018 Big Van Vader (also known as Vader) American professional wrestler (born 1955)

Big Van Vader (also known as Vader) American professional wrestler (born 1955)

Leon Allen White, better known by his ring names Big Van Vader or simply Vader, was an American professional wrestler and professional football player. During his career, he performed for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Catch Wrestling Association (CWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), and Pro Wrestling Noah during the 1990s and 2000s. He is widely regarded as the greatest super-heavyweight professional wrestler of all time.
1992 Peter Allen

Peter Allen

Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1944)
Peter Allen was an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer, known for his flamboyant stage persona, energetic performances, and lavish costumes. Allen's songs were made popular by many recording artists, including Elkie Brooks, Melissa Manchester and Olivia Newton-John, including Newton-John's first chart-topping hit "I Honestly Love You", and the chart-topping and Academy Award-winning "Arthur's Theme " by Christopher Cross.
2010 José Saramago

José Saramago

Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor.
1982 John Cheever

John Cheever

American novelist and short story writer (born 1912)
John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer", and he also wrote five novels: The Wapshot Chronicle , The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella, Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).
2007 Bernard Manning

Bernard Manning

English comedian and actor (born 1930)
Bernard John Manning was an English comedian and nightclub owner. He gained a high profile on British television during the 1970s, appearing on shows such as The Comedians and The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club. His act became controversial as attitudes changed, with the result that Manning was rarely seen on television in the last few decades of his career. However, he continued to perform at live venues until his death.
2024 Anouk Aimée

Anouk Aimée

French actress (born 1932)
Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus, known professionally as Anouk Aimée or Anouk, was a French film actress who appeared in 70 films from 1947 until 2019. Having begun her film career at age 14, she studied acting and dance in her early years, besides her regular education. Although the majority of her films were French, she also made films in Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany, along with some American productions.
1984 Alan Berg

Alan Berg

American lawyer and radio host (born 1934)
Alan Harrison Berg was an American talk radio show host in Denver, Colorado. He had outspoken atheistic and liberal views and a confrontational interview style.
1959 Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

American actress (born 1879)
Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore-Drew family of actors. Barrymore was a stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre". She received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, winning for None but the Lonely Heart (1944).
1963 Pedro Armendáriz

Pedro Armendáriz

Mexican-American actor (born 1912)
Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings was a Mexican actor. With the actresses Dolores del Río and María Félix, he was one of the best-known Latin American movie stars of the 1940s and 1950s. He won the Ariel Award for Best Actor twice, for The Pearl (1948) and Soledad's Shawl, a year after its 1952 release.
2023 Notable victims of the Titan submersible implosion:

Notable victims of the Titan submersible implosion:

George Hamish Livingston Harding was a British businessman, pilot and adventurer based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He was the founder of Action Group and was chairman of Action Aviation, an international aircraft brokerage company with headquarters in Dubai. A member of The Explorers Club, he visited the South Pole several times, descended to the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench, travelled into space, and held three Guinness World Records.
1945 Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.

Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.

American general (born 1886)
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II who served in the Pacific Theater. As commanding general of Alaska Defense Command, Buckner commanded American-Canadian forces in the Aleutian Islands campaign, including the Battle of Attu and the Kiska Expedition. Following that assignment, he was promoted to command the Tenth Army, which conducted the amphibious invasion of the Japanese island of Okinawa in 1945. He was killed during the closing days of the Battle of Okinawa by enemy artillery fire, making him the highest-ranking United States military officer lost to enemy fire during World War II.
2003 Larry Doby

Larry Doby

American baseball player and manager (born 1923)
Lawrence Eugene Doby was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball's color barrier and the first black player in the American League. A native of Camden, South Carolina, and three-sport all-state athlete while in high school in Paterson, New Jersey, Doby accepted a basketball scholarship from Long Island University. At 17 years of age, he began his professional baseball career with the Newark Eagles as the team's second baseman. Doby joined the United States Navy during World War II. His military service complete, Doby returned to baseball in 1946, and along with teammate Monte Irvin, helped the Eagles win the Negro League World Series.
2011 Clarence Clemons

Clarence Clemons

American saxophonist (born 1942)
Clarence Anicholas Clemons Jr., also known as The Big Man, was an American saxophonist. From 1972 until his death in 2011, he was the saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band.
1986 Frances Scott Fitzgerald

Frances Scott Fitzgerald

American journalist (born 1921)
Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald was an American writer and journalist and the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She graduated from Vassar College and worked for The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and other publications. She became a prominent member of the Democratic Party.
741 Leo III the Isaurian

Leo III the Isaurian

Byzantine emperor (born 685)
Leo III the Isaurian, also known as the Syrian, was the first Byzantine emperor of the Isaurian dynasty from 717 until his death in 741. He put an end to the Twenty Years' Anarchy, a period of great instability in the Byzantine Empire between 695 and 717, marked by the rapid succession of several emperors, along with ending the continual defeats and territorial losses the Byzantines had suffered during the 7th century. He successfully defended the Empire against the invading Umayyads and forbade the veneration of icons.
2023 Notable victims of the Titan submersible implosion:

Notable victims of the Titan submersible implosion:

Paul-Henri Nargeolet was a French deep sea explorer and Titanic expert. Known as "Mr. Titanic", Nargeolet was one of five people who died aboard the submersible Titan when it imploded on 18 June 2023 near the wreck of the Titanic.
1866 Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1864)

Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1864)

Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901. She and her prince consort, Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, became the ancestors of many members of European royalty.
2013 Michael Hastings

Michael Hastings

American journalist and author (born 1980)
Michael Mahon Hastings was an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone, and reporter for BuzzFeed. He was raised in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and he attended New York University. Hastings rose to prominence with his coverage of the Iraq War for Newsweek in the 2000s. After his fiancée Andrea Parhamovich was killed in an ambush, Hastings wrote his first book, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story (2008), a memoir about his relationship with Parhamovich and the insurgency that took her life.
1982 Curd Jürgens

Curd Jürgens

German-Austrian actor and director (born 1915)
Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was best known for playing a Luftwaffe General based upon Ernst Udet in Des Teufels General. His English-language roles include James Bond villain Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Éric Carradine in And God Created Woman (1956), and Professor Immanuel Rath in The Blue Angel (1959), and a war-weary U-boat captain in The Enemy Below (1957).
1902 Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

English novelist, satirist, and critic (born 1835)
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted.
1464 Rogier van der Weyden

Rogier van der Weyden

Flemish painter (born 1400)
Rogier van der Weyden, initially Roger de la Pasture, was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits. He was highly successful in his lifetime; his paintings were exported to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others, Philip the Good, Burgundian nobility, and foreign aristocrats. By the latter half of the 15th century, he had eclipsed Jan van Eyck in popularity. However his fame lasted only until the 17th century, and largely due to changing taste, he was almost totally forgotten by the mid-18th century. His reputation was slowly rebuilt during the 200 years that followed; today he is known, with Robert Campin and Van Eyck, as the third of the three great Early Netherlandish artists, and widely as the most influential Northern painter of the 15th century.
1815 Thomas Picton

Thomas Picton

Welsh-English general and politician (born 1758)
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. He fought in the Napoleonic Wars and died at Waterloo. According to the historian Alessandro Barbero, Picton was "respected for his courage and feared for his irascible temperament". The Duke of Wellington called him "a rough foul-mouthed devil as ever lived", but found him capable.
1982 Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes

American novelist, journalist, and playwright (born 1892)
Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.
1804 Maria Amalia

Maria Amalia

Duchess of Parma (born 1746)
Maria Amalia was duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla by marriage to Ferdinand I, Duke of Parma. She was born an archduchess of Austria as the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. Upon her arrival in Parma in 1769 until the death of her husband in 1802, she was the de facto ruler of the duchy. Between the 9th and 22st of October 1802, she served as official regent of Parma after the death of her husband.
2014 Horace Silver

Horace Silver

American pianist and composer (born 1928)
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.
1916 Max Immelmann

Max Immelmann

German lieutenant and pilot (born 1890)
Max Immelmann PLM was a German World War I flying ace. He was a pioneer in fighter aviation and is often mistakenly credited with the first aerial victory using a synchronized gun, which was in fact achieved on 1 July 1915 by the German ace Kurt Wintgens. Immelmann was the first aviator to receive the Pour le Mérite, colloquially known as the "Blue Max" in his honour, being awarded it at the same time as Oswald Boelcke. His name has become attached to a common flying tactic, the Immelmann turn, and remains a byword in aviation. He is credited with 15 aerial victories.
1835 William Cobbett

William Cobbett

English farmer and journalist (born 1763)
William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign activity, and raise wages, with the goal of easing poverty among farm labourers and small land holders. Cobbett backed lower taxes, saving, reversing commons enclosures and returning to the gold standard. He opposed borough-mongers, sinecurists, bureaucratic "tax-eaters" and stockbrokers. His radicalism furthered the Reform Act 1832 and gained him one of two newly created seats in Parliament for the borough of Oldham. His polemics range from political reform to religion, including Catholic emancipation. His best known book is Rural Rides. He argued against Malthusianism, saying economic betterment could support global population growth.
2024 James Chance

James Chance

American musician (born 1953)
James Siegfried was an American saxophonist, keyboard player, and singer. A key figure in no wave, he played a combination of improvisational jazz-like music and punk in the New York music scene from the late 1970s on, in such bands as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Chance and the Contortions, James White and the Blacks, The Flaming Demonics, James Chance & the Sardonic Symphonics, James Chance and Terminal City, and James Chance and Les Contortions.
2015 Ralph J. Roberts

Ralph J. Roberts

American businessman, co-founded Comcast (born 1920)
Ralph Joel Roberts was an American businessman who was the founder of Comcast, serving as its CEO for 46 years and as its chairman emeritus until his death in 2015.
1947 Shigematsu Sakaibara

Shigematsu Sakaibara

Japanese admiral (born 1898)
Shigematsu Sakaibara was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Japanese garrison commander on Wake Island during World War II, and a convicted war criminal.
1673 Jeanne Mance

Jeanne Mance

French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (born 1606)
Jeanne Mance was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hospital, the Hotel-Dieu de Montreal, in 1645. She returned twice to France to seek financial support for the hospital. After providing most of the care directly for years, in 1657 she recruited three sisters of the Religieuses hospitalieres de Saint-Joseph and continued to direct operations of the hospital. During her era, she was also known as Jehanne Mance by the French, and as Joan Mance by the English.
2011 Frederick Chiluba

Frederick Chiluba

Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (born 1943)
Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba was a Zambian politician who was the second president of Zambia from 1991 to 2002. Chiluba, a trade union leader, won the country's multi-party presidential election in 1991 as the candidate of the Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD), defeating long-time President Kenneth Kaunda. He was re-elected in 1996. As he was unable to run for a third term in 2001, former Vice President Levy Mwanawasa instead ran as the MMD candidate and succeeded him. After leaving office, Chiluba was the subject of a long investigation and trial regarding alleged corruption; he was eventually acquitted in 2009.
2005 Mushtaq Ali

Mushtaq Ali

Indian cricketer (born 1914)
Syed Mushtaq Ali was an Indian cricketer, a right-handed opening batsman who holds the distinction of scoring the first overseas Test century by an Indian player when he scored 112 against England at Old Trafford in 1936. Mushtaq Ali was noted for his graceful batting style and a flair which often cost him his wicket by being over-adventurous too soon in an innings. He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995, the highest honour bestowed by the BCCI on a former player. He batted right-handed and bowled slow left-arm orthodox spin. He bowled frequently enough in domestic matches to be classified as an all-rounder but only occasionally in Test matches.
1629 Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Dutch admiral (born 1577)
Piet Pieterszoon Hein was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War. Hein was the first and the last to capture a large part of a Spanish treasure fleet which transported huge amounts of gold and silver from Spanish America to Spain. The amount of silver taken was so large that it resulted in the rise of the price of silver worldwide and the near bankruptcy of Spain.
1945 Florence Bascom

Florence Bascom

American geologist and educator (born 1862)
Florence Bascom was a pioneer American woman geologist and educator. Bascom was the second woman to earn a PhD in geology in the United States. She received her PhD in 1893 from Johns Hopkins University and was the first woman to earn a PhD at the institution in any field. In 1896 Bascom became the first woman to work for the United States Geological Survey. Bascom also founded the department of geology at Bryn Mawr College where she trained many leading women geologists.
1794 James Murray

James Murray

Scottish-English general and politician, 20th Governor of the Province of Quebec (born 1721)
General James Murray was a British army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the Province of Quebec from 1764 to 1768 and governor of Minorca from 1778 to 1782. Born in Ballencrieff, East Lothian, Murray served in the War of Jenkins' Ear, War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years' War. He came to prominence during the French and Indian War and following the conflict's end in 1763 began serving as the new governor of the newly-founded British colony of Quebec. His administration was noted for its successes, being marked by positive relationships with French Canadians, who were reassured of the traditional rights and customs. Murray died in Battle, East Sussex in 1794.
2016

Jeppiaar

Indian educationist, founder and chancellor of Sathyabama University (born 1931)
Dr. Jeppiaar, also known as Jeppiaar Jesuadimai and J. P. R., was an Indian politician, educationist, and industrialist. He was born in Muttom near Nagercoil, Travancore Cochin Presidency, now the Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu.
2014 Claire Martin

Claire Martin

Canadian author (born 1914)
Claire Martin, was the pseudonym of the Canadian writer Claire Montreuil. She wrote mainly in French. Her novels often have themes of women's liberation and erotic relationships. Martin frequently revealed her devotions toward the "Frenchness" and Quebec nationalism as saying "I prefer to be of Quebec." or "I feel closer to love as a French-Canadian." In her works, Quebec and French-Canadian are portrayed as well-educated and living well. Martin focused her writing style on risks and illnesses of love, and wrote with prejudice and social conventions. Her works are characterized by purity and crafty use of language.
2006 Vincent Sherman

Vincent Sherman

American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906)
Vincent Sherman was an American director and actor who worked in Hollywood. His movies include Mr. Skeffington (1944), Nora Prentiss (1947), and The Young Philadelphians (1959).
2011 Yelena Bonner

Yelena Bonner

Russian activist (born 1923)
Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist, activist and 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic blunt honesty and courage.
1993 Craig Rodwell

Craig Rodwell

American activist, founded the Oscar Wilde Bookshop (born 1940)
Craig L. Rodwell was an American gay rights activist known for founding the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop on November 24, 1967 - the first bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors - and as the prime mover for the creation of the New York City gay pride demonstration. Rodwell, who was already an activist when he participated in the 1969 Stonewall uprising, is considered by some to be the leading gay rights activist in the early, pre-Stonewall, homophile movement of the 1960s.
1922 Jacobus Kapteyn

Jacobus Kapteyn

Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1851)
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but had two preferential directions: the two star streams. This discovery was later reinterpreted as evidence for galactic rotation. Kapteyn also suggested that these stellar velocities could be used to find the amount of non-luminous matter in the galaxy, which his student, Jan Oort, measured in 1932, referring to it as "invisible matter".
2015 Allen Weinstein

Allen Weinstein

American historian and academic (born 1937)
Allen Weinstein was an American historian, educator, and federal official who served in several different offices. Under the Reagan administration, he was cofounder of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in 1983. He served as the Archivist of the United States from February 16, 2005, until his resignation on December 19, 2008. After his resignation, he returned to the International Foundation for Electoral Systems as a senior strategist and was a visiting faculty member at the University of Maryland.
2012 Tom Maynard

Tom Maynard

Welsh cricketer (born 1989)
Thomas Lloyd Maynard was a Welsh professional cricketer who played for Glamorgan and Surrey, and was selected for the England Lions tour to Bangladesh. On the night of his death, he was stopped by police in Wimbledon for erratic driving, and fled across rail tracks at Wimbledon Park tube station, where he was electrocuted and then hit by a train. The son of former England batsman Matthew Maynard, he was regarded as a highly promising young player.
1742 John Aislabie

John Aislabie

English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1670)
John Aislabie, of Studley Royal, near Ripon, Yorkshire, was a British politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 to 1721. He was of an independent mind, and did not stick regularly to the main parties. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of the South Sea Bubble and his involvement with the Company led to his resignation and disgrace.
1967 Geki

Geki

Italian race car driver (born 1937)
"Geki" was the racing pseudonym of Giacomo Russo, who was a racing driver from Italy. An experienced driver in the Italian lower formulae, he also participated in three Formula One Italian Grands Prix from 1964 to 1966, failing to qualify for the 1964 race, driving a Brabham for Rob Walker. For his two Grand Prix starts, he drove for Team Lotus. He scored no championship points.
2014 Vladimir Popovkin

Vladimir Popovkin

Russian general (born 1957)
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Popovkin was a Russian statesman and military figure. He was a commander of the Russian Space Forces, then First Deputy Defense Minister of Russia, then General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency. He had the military rank of General of the Army and the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
1234 Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (born 1218)

Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (born 1218)

Emperor Chūkyō was the 85th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned only two months in 1221, and he was not officially listed amongst the emperors until 1870 because of doubts caused by the length of his reign. The Imperial Household Agency recognizes Kujō no misasagi (九條陵) near Tōfuku-ji in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto as his tomb.
1996 Endel Puusepp

Endel Puusepp

Estonian-Soviet military pilot and politician (born 1909)
Endel Karlovich Puusepp was a Soviet bomber pilot of Estonian origin who completed over 30 nighttime strategic bombing campaigns during World War II. He was a recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award for flying a high-ranking delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington, D.C., and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front.
1749 Ambrose Philips

Ambrose Philips

English poet and politician (born 1674)
Ambrose Philips was an English poet and politician. He feuded with other poets of his time, resulting in Henry Carey bestowing the nickname "Namby-Pamby" upon him, which came to mean affected, weak, and maudlin speech or verse.
1942 Arthur Pryor

Arthur Pryor

American trombonist, bandleader, and politician (born 1870)
Arthur Willard Pryor was a trombone virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band. He was a prolific composer of band music, his best-known composition being "The Whistler and His Dog". In later life, he became a Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who served on the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders during the 1930s.
1992 Kofoworola Abeni Pratt

Kofoworola Abeni Pratt

the first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria (born 1910)
Chief Kofoworola Abeni Pratt Hon. FRCN was a Nigerian nurse who was one of the first notable black nurses to work in Britain's National Health Service. She subsequently became vice-president of the International Council of Nurses and the first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria, working in the Federal Ministry of Health.
1726 Michel Richard Delalande

Michel Richard Delalande

French organist and composer (born 1657)
Michel Richard Delalande [de Lalande] was a French Baroque composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV. He was one of the most important composers of grands motets. He also wrote orchestral suites known as Simphonies pour les Soupers du Roy and ballets.
1788 Adam Gib

Adam Gib

Scottish religious leader (born 1714)
Adam Gib was a Scottish religious leader, head of the Antiburgher section of the Scottish Secession Church. He reportedly wrote his first covenant with God in the blood of his own veins. Gib was born in the parish of Muckhart, in southern Perthshire on 15 April 1714.
1921 Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri

Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri

Indian Islamic scholar and author (born 1867)
ʿAbd al-Awwal Jaunpūrī was an Indian Muslim scholar, religious preacher, educationist, poet and author. Described by Muhammad Mojlum Khan as one of the "most gifted and outstanding" of Karamat Ali Jaunpuri's many children, he displayed an important role leading his father's founded Taiyuni reformist movement in Bengal.
1164 Elisabeth of Schönau

Elisabeth of Schönau

German Benedictine visionary (born c. 1129)
Elisabeth of Schönau was a German Benedictine visionary. She was an abbess at the Schönau Abbey in the Duchy of Nassau, and reportedly experienced numerous religious visions, for which she became widely sought after by many powerful men as far away as France and England.
1772 Gerard van Swieten

Gerard van Swieten

Dutch-Austrian physician and reformer (born 1700)
Gerard van Swieten was a Dutch physician who from 1745 was the personal physician of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and transformed the Austrian health service and medical university education. He was the father of Gottfried van Swieten, patron of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
2022 Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

Danish politician, minister of foreign affairs (born 1941)
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen was a Danish politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark in the Conservative-led Poul Schlüter Administration from 1982 to 1993. He was leader of the Danish Liberal Party Venstre from 1984 to 1998 and President of the European Liberals 1995–2000.
2007 Georges Thurston

Georges Thurston

Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1951)
Georges Thurston was an Afro-Québécois singer, author and composer and radio show host. He was known as Boule Noire since 1975 and worked in the music industry as a solo artist for nearly 30 years and as part of musical groups for five years.
1948 Edward Brooker

Edward Brooker

English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (born 1891)
William Edward Brooker was a Labor Party politician. He became the interim Premier of Tasmania on 19 December 1947 while Robert Cosgrove was facing corruption charges. He died on 18 June 1948, shortly after returning the premiership to Cosgrove on 24 February 1948.
2012 Alketas Panagoulias

Alketas Panagoulias

Greek footballer and manager (born 1934)
Alketas 'Alkis' Panagoulias was a Greek association football player and manager. He managed the national teams of both Greece and the United States. He also managed several clubs, including Aris, his birthplace team, and Olympiacos with whom he won three Alpha Ethniki championships.
1974 Júlio César de Mello e Souza

Júlio César de Mello e Souza

Brazilian mathematician and academic (born 1896)
Júlio César de Mello e Souza, was a Brazilian writer and mathematics teacher. He was well known in Brazil and abroad for his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen name of Malba Tahan, a fictitious Persian scholar.
1250 Theresa of Portugal

Theresa of Portugal

Queen of León
Theresa of Portugal was Queen of Léon as the first wife of her first cousin King Alfonso IX of León. When her marriage was annulled because of consanguinity, she retired to a convent. She was beatified in 1705.
1917 Titu Maiorescu

Titu Maiorescu

Romanian critic and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (born 1840)
Titu Liviu Maiorescu was a Romanian literary critic, politician and founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century.
1980 André Leducq

André Leducq

French cyclist (born 1904)
André Leducq was a French cyclist who won the 1930 and 1932 Tours de France. He also won a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the team road race event and the 1928 Paris–Roubaix.
2013 David Wall

David Wall

English ballet dancer (born 1946)
David Richard Wall CBE was an English ballet dancer of The Royal Ballet, where he was promoted to the rank of principal at the age of 21, the youngest in company history at the time.
1291 Alfonso III of Aragon (born 1265)

Alfonso III of Aragon (born 1265)

Alfonso III, called the Liberal and the Free, was king of Aragon and Valencia, and count of Barcelona from 1285 until his death. He conquered the Kingdom of Majorca between his succession and 1287.
1998 Felix Knight

Felix Knight

American actor and tenor (born 1908)
William Felix Knight, was an American tenor, actor, and vocal teacher, best known for his role as Tom-Tom in the 1934 Laurel and Hardy holiday musical film Babes in Toyland.
2008 Hans Steinbrenner

Hans Steinbrenner

German sculptor (born 1928)
Hans Theodor Steinbrenner was a German painter and sculptor based in Frankfurt who focused on abstract figures in wood and stone. Many of his works are in public space.
1971 Paul Karrer

Paul Karrer

Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
Paul Karrer was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and British chemist Norman Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937.
1860 Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck

Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck

German army officer and writer (born 1783)
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck was a German lieutenant general, diplomat and military writer. He wrote several major military-political works and military histories, which were very pro-Napoleon.
1905 Carmine Crocco

Carmine Crocco

Italian soldier (born 1830)
Carmine Crocco, known as Donatello or sometimes Donatelli, was an Italian brigand. Initially a soldier for the Bourbons, he later fought in the service of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
2005 Manuel Sadosky

Manuel Sadosky

Argentinian mathematician and academic (born 1914)
Manuel Sadosky was an Argentine mathematician, civil servant and author who was born in Buenos Aires to Jewish Russian immigrants who had fled the pogroms in Europe.
1978 Walter C. Alvarez

Walter C. Alvarez

American physician and author (born 1884)
Walter Clement Alvarez was an American physician of Spanish descent. He authored several dozen books on medicine, and wrote introductions and forewords for many others.
2013 Brent F. Anderson

Brent F. Anderson

American engineer and politician (born 1932)
Brent F. Anderson was an American politician and electrical engineer who served as the fourth mayor of West Valley City, Utah, from 1987 until 1994.
2012

Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín

Peruvian general and politician, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (born 1919)
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín was a Peruvian politician who was Prime Minister of Peru from January 31, 1973 to February 1, 1975. He was Foreign Minister. He served in both positions during the military dictatorship of President Juan Velasco Alvarado. Mercado had considerable influence on the foreign policy of the Velasco regime. Velasco was a critic of U.S. foreign policy towards Peru. He was a critic of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, arguing that it led to the dependence of Latin American states on the United States.
2012

William Van Regenmorter

American businessman and politician (born 1939)
William Van Regenmorter was a Republican politician from Ottawa County, Michigan. He served as the representative of Michigan's 55th district from 1982 to 1990 and the 74th district from 2002 to 2006. Between those terms, from 1990 to 2002, he served as senator of the 22nd district. He authored Michigan's Crime Victims Rights Act, which has served as the national model for victims' rights. He also authored and passed two successful amendments to the Michigan Constitution.
2006

Joseph Zobel

Martinique-French author (born 1915)
Joseph Zobel is the Martinican author of several novels and short-stories in which social issues are at the forefront. Although his most famous novel, La Rue Cases-Nègres, was published some twenty years after the great authors of Negritude published their works, Zobel was once asked if he considered himself "the novelist of Negritude". The novel was adapted for the screen by Euzhan Palcy in 1983 as Sugar Cane Alley.
908

Zhang Hao

general of Yang Wu
Zhang Hao was a guard commander for late Chinese Tang dynasty warlord Yang Xingmi the Prince of Wu, who was the military governor (jiedushi) of Huainan Circuit, and Yang Xingmi's son Yang Wo early in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Along with fellow guard commander Xu Wen, he took over reins of the Hongnong state by effectively putting Yang Wo under physical control. In 908, fearing that Yang Wo was about to seize power back and kill them, they assassinated him first. However, they then turned on each other, and Zhang was killed by Xu, who then took sole rein of Hongnong.
2015

Danny Villanueva

American football player and broadcaster, co-founded Univision (born 1937)
Daniel Dario Villanueva was an American football player and a television and Major League Soccer (MLS) executive. Villanueva played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) as a placekicker and punter for the Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys. Villanueva, who was of Mexican American descent, played college football for the New Mexico State Aggies.
1095

Sophia of Hungary (born c. 1050)

Sophia of Hungary, a member of the royal Árpád dynasty, was a Margravine of Istria and Carniola from about 1062 until 1070, by her first marriage with Margrave Ulric I, as well as Duchess of Saxony from 1072 until her death, by her second marriage with Duke Magnus Billung.
1588

Robert Crowley

English minister and poet (born 1517)
Robert Crowley, was a stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman among Marian exiles at Frankfurt. He seems to have been a Henrician Evangelical in favour of a more reformed Protestantism than the king and the Church of England sanctioned.
2022

Adibah Noor

Malaysian actress, singer, master of ceremonies (born 1970)
Adibah Noor Mohamed Omar was a Malaysian singer, actress and master of ceremonies. She made her start in the entertainment industry in 1995 and had gone on to star in films such as Sepet and Gubra.
2013

Alastair Donaldson

Scottish bass player (born 1955)
Alastair Donaldson was a Scottish multi-instrumentalist, and was the bassist for the Scottish punk/pop band the Rezillos, for whom he played under the stage name of William Mysterious.
2024

Yoyong Martirez

Filipino basketball player (born 1946)
Rosalio Dy Martires, also known as Yoyong Martirez, was a Filipino basketball player, actor, politician and comedian. He was the 6th Vice Mayor of Pasig.
1333

Henry XV

Duke of Bavaria (born 1312)
Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria, as duke of Lower Bavaria also called Henry III,.
1650 Christoph Scheiner

Christoph Scheiner

German priest, physicist, and astronomer (born 1575)
Christoph Scheiner was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt.
1704

Tom Brown

English author and translator (born 1662)
Thomas Brown was an English translator and satirist, largely forgotten today save for a four-line gibe that he may have written concerning John Fell.
1772 Johann Ulrich von Cramer

Johann Ulrich von Cramer

German jurist and scholar (born 1706)
Johann Ulrich von Cramer was an eminent German judge, legal scholar, and Enlightenment philosopher.
1794 François Buzot

François Buzot

French lawyer and politician (born 1760)
François Nicolas Léonard Buzot was a French politician and leader of the French Revolution.
1833

Robert Hett Chapman

American minister, missionary, and academic (born 1771)
Robert Hett Chapman was a Presbyterian minister and missionary and the second president of the University of North Carolina.
1926 Olga Constantinovna of Russia

Olga Constantinovna of Russia

Queen consort of the Hellenes (born 1851)
Olga Constantinovna of Russia was Queen of Greece as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920.
1937 Gaston Doumergue

Gaston Doumergue

French politician, 13th President of France (born 1863)
Pierre Paul Henri Gaston Doumergue was a French politician who served as President of France from 1924 to 1931.
1943

Elias Degiannis

Greek commander (born 1912)
Ilias Degiannis was a Greek navy officer Resistance leader during the Axis occupation of Greece.
1964 Giorgio Morandi

Giorgio Morandi

Italian painter (born 1890)
Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes.
1967

Beat Fehr

Swiss race car driver (born 1942)
Claude Beat Fehr was a Swiss racing driver.
1971 Thomas Gomez

Thomas Gomez

American actor (born 1905)
Thomas Gomez was an American actor.
1975 Hugo Bergmann

Hugo Bergmann

German-Israeli philosopher and author (born 1883)
Hugo Bergmann was an Israeli philosopher, born in Prague.
1980 Terence Fisher

Terence Fisher

English director and screenwriter (born 1904)
Terence Fisher was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films.
1985

Paul Colin

French illustrator (born 1892)
Paul Colin born in Nancy, France, died in Nogent-sur-Marne. Colin was a prolific master illustrator of Decorative Arts posters. Alexandre-Marie Colin was a relative.
1989 I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone

American journalist and author (born 1907)
Isadore Feinstein Stone was an American investigative journalist, writer, and author.
1992 Mordecai Ardon

Mordecai Ardon

Polish-Israeli painter and educator (born 1896)
Mordecai Ardon was an Israeli painter.
1997 Lev Kopelev

Lev Kopelev

Ukrainian-German author and academic (born 1912)
Lev Zalmanovich (Zinovyevich) Kopelev was a Soviet author and dissident.
2007 Hank Medress

Hank Medress

American singer and producer (born 1938)
Henry "Hank" Medress was an American singer and record producer, best known for his taking part in the American band The Tokens.
2008 Jean Delannoy

Jean Delannoy

French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1908)
Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.
2008 Tasha Tudor

Tasha Tudor

American author and illustrator (born 1915)
Tasha Tudor was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.
2010

Okan Demiriş

Turkish composer (born 1942)
Okan Demiriş was a Turkish composer. He was married to the soprano Leyla Demiris.
2010 Trent Acid

Trent Acid

American wrestler (born 1980)
Michael Verdi, best known by his ring name Trent Acid, was an American professional wrestler.
2012 Horacio Coppola

Horacio Coppola

Argentinian photographer and director (born 1906)
Horacio Coppola was an Argentine photographer and filmmaker, and the husband of the German photographer Grete Stern.
2012 Lina Haag

Lina Haag

German author and activist (born 1907)
Lina Haag née Jäger was a German anti-Nazi activist and author.
2013 Garde Gardom

Garde Gardom

Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (born 1924)
Garde Basil Gardom, was a Canadian politician, lawyer, and the 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
2014 Johnny Mann

Johnny Mann

American singer-songwriter and conductor (born 1928)
John Russell Mann was an American arranger, composer, conductor, entertainer, singer, and recording artist.
2014 Stephanie Kwolek

Stephanie Kwolek

American chemist and engineer (born 1923)
Stephanie Louise Kwolek was a Polish-American chemist known for inventing Kevlar. Her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years.
2015 Phil Austin

Phil Austin

American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1941)
Philip Baine Austin was an American comedian and writer, best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre.
2018 Jimmy Wopo

Jimmy Wopo

American rapper (born 1997)
Travon DaShawn Frank Smart, better known by his stage name Jimmy Wopo, was an American rapper.
2023 Notable victims of the Titan submersible implosion:

Notable victims of the Titan submersible implosion:

Shahzada Dawood was a Pakistani businessman.
2023 Notable victims of the Titan submersible implosion:

Notable victims of the Titan submersible implosion:

Richard Stockton Rush III was an American businessman who was the co-founder and chief executive officer of OceanGate, a deep-sea exploration company.

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