Day of the year
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
Pre-1600
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. 1920 – The Troubles in Ulster (1920–1922) begin with a week of sectarian violence in Derry .[6] 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.1948 – Britain, France and the United States announce that on June 21, the Deutsche Mark [7] 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 .1958 – Benjamin Britten 's one-act opera Noye's Fludde Aldeburgh Festival .[8] 1965 – Vietnam War : The United States Air Force uses B-52 bombers to attack guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam .1972 – Staines air disaster : One hundred eighteen people are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes minutes after takeoff from London's Heathrow Airport .[9] 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.[10] 1983 – Mona Mahmudnizhad , together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith , 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 striking miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire , during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike .[11] 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 .1998 – Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec , Canada, killing 11.[12] 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 .[13] 2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.2018 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka .[14] 2023 – Titan OceanGate Expeditions , imploded while attempting to view the wreck of the Titanic , killing all five people on board including OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush in the North Atlantic Ocean .[15]
Births
Pre-1600
1667 – Ivan Trubetskoy , Russian field marshal (died 1750)1673 – Antonio de Literes , Spanish composer (died 1747)1677 – Antonio Maria Bononcini , Italian cellist and composer (died 1726)1716 – Joseph-Marie Vien , French painter and educator (died 1809)1717 – Johann Stamitz , Czech violinist and composer (died 1757)1757 – Ignaz Pleyel , Austrian-French pianist and composer (died 1831)1757 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas , Argentine lawyer and politician 1st Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (died 1833) 1769 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh , Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (died 1822)1799 – William Lassell , English astronomer and merchant (died 1880)1812 – Ivan Goncharov , Russian journalist and author (died 1891)1815 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen , German general (died 1881)1816 – Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte , French daughter of Napoleon (died 1907)1816 – Jung Bahadur Rana , Nepali ruler (died 1877) 1833 – Manuel González Flores , Mexican general and President (1880-1884) (died 1893)[17] 1834 – Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie , French philosopher and academic (died 1895)1839 – William H. Seward Jr. , American general and banker (died 1920)1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran , French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1922)1850 – Richard Heuberger , Austrian composer and critic (died 1914)1854 – E. W. Scripps , American publisher, founded the E. W. Scripps Company (died 1926)1857 – Henry Clay Folger , American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Folger Shakespeare Library (died 1930)1858 – Andrew Forsyth , Scottish-English mathematician and academic (died 1942)1858 – Hector Rason , English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (died 1927) 1862 – Carolyn Wells , American novelist and poet (died 1942)[18] 1863 – George Essex Evans , English-Australian poet and author (died 1909)1868 – Miklós Horthy , Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (died 1957)1870 – Édouard Le Roy , French mathematician and philosopher (died 1954)1877 – James Montgomery Flagg , American painter and illustrator (died 1960)1881 – Zoltán Halmay , Hungarian swimmer (died 1956)1882 – Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgarian compositor and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (died 1949)1884 – Édouard Daladier , French captain and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1970)1886 – George Mallory , English lieutenant and mountaineer (died 1924)1886 – Alexander Wetmore , American ornithologist and paleontologist (died 1978) 1887 – Tancrède Labbé , Canadian businessman and politician (died 1956)1896 – Blanche Sweet , American actress (died 1986)1897 – Martti Marttelin , Finnish runner (died 1940)1900 – Vlasta Vraz , Czech-American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser (died 1989)
1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918)[19] 1901 – Llewellyn Rees , English actor (died 1994) 1902 – Louis Alter , American musician (died 1980)1902 – Paavo Yrjölä , Finnish decathlete (died 1980) 1903 – Jeanette MacDonald , American actress and singer (died 1965)1903 – Raymond Radiguet , French author and poet (died 1923) 1904 – Keye Luke , Chinese-American actor (died 1991)1904 – Manuel Rosenthal , French conductor and composer (died 2003) 1905 – Eduard Tubin , Estonian composer and conductor (died 1982)1907 – Frithjof Schuon , Swiss-American metaphysicist, philosopher, and author (died 1998)1908 – Bud Collyer , American actor and game show host (died 1969)1908 – Stanley Knowles , American-Canadian academic and politician (died 1997) 1908 – Nedra Volz , American actress (died 2003) 1910 – Dick Foran , American actor and singer (died 1979)1910 – Avon Long , American actor and singer (died 1984) 1910 – Ray McKinley , American singer, drummer, and bandleader (died 1995) 1912 – Glenn Morris , American decathlete (died 1974)1913 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow , Canadian soldier and surgeon (died 2005)1913 – Sammy Cahn , American pianist and composer (died 1993) 1913 – Sylvia Porter , American economist and journalist (died 1991) 1913 – Françoise Loranger , Canadian playwright and producer (died 1995) 1913 – Robert Mondavi , American winemaker and philanthropist (died 2008) 1913 – Oswald Teichmüller , German mathematician (died 1943) 1914 – E. G. Marshall , American actor (died 1998)1914 – Efraín Huerta , Mexican poet (died 1982) 1915 – Red Adair , American firefighter (died 2004)1915 – Robert Kanigher , American author (died 2002) 1915 – Alice T. Schafer , American mathematician (died 2009) 1916 – Julio César Turbay Ayala , Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (died 2005)1917 – Richard Boone , American actor, singer, and director (died 1981)1917 – Jack Karnehm , English snooker player and sportscaster (died 2002) 1917 – Erik Ortvad , Danish painter and illustrator (died 2008) 1918 – Alf Francis , West Prussia-born, English motor racing mechanic and race car constructor (died 1983)1918 – Jerome Karle , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013) 1918 – Franco Modigliani , Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2003) 1919 – Jüri Järvet , Estonian actor and screenwriter (died 1995)1920 – Ian Carmichael , English actor and singer (died 2010)1920 – Aster Berkhof , Belgian author and academic (died 2020) 1922 – Claude Helffer , French pianist and educator (died 2004)1924 – George Mikan , American basketball player and coach (died 2005)1925 – Robert Beadell , American composer and educator (died 1994)1926 – Philip B. Crosby , American businessman and author (died 2001)1926 – Allan Sandage , American astronomer and cosmologist (died 2010) 1926 – Tom Wicker , American journalist and author (died 2011) 1927 – Eva Bartok , Hungarian-English actress (died 1998)1927 – Paul Eddington , English actor (died 1995) 1928 – Michael Blakemore , Australian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2023)1928 – David T. Lykken , American geneticist and academic (died 2006) 1929 – Jürgen Habermas , German sociologist and philosopher1929 – Tibor Rubin , Hungarian-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2015) 1931 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso , Brazilian sociologist, academic, and politician, 34th President of Brazil 1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate1932 – Geoffrey Hill , English poet and academic (died 2016) 1933 – Colin Brumby , Australian composer and conductor (died 2018)[20] 1933 – Tommy Hunt , American singer (died 2025)[21] 1934 – Brian Kenny , English general (died 2017)1934 – Mitsuteru Yokoyama , Japanese author and illustrator (died 2004) 1934 – Barack Obama Sr. , Kenyan economist (died 1982)[22] 1936 – Denny Hulme , New Zealand race car driver (died 1992)1936 – Ronald Venetiaan , Surinamese politician, 6th President of Suriname (died 2025) 1937 – Del Harris , American basketball player and coach1937 – Jay Rockefeller , American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of West Virginia 1937 – Bruce Trigger , Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and historian (died 2006) 1937 – Vitaly Zholobov , Ukrainian colonel, engineer, and astronaut 1938 – Kevin Murray , Australian footballer and coach1939 – Lou Brock , American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2020)1939 – Jean-Claude Germain , Canadian historian, author, and journalist 1939 – Brooks Firestone , American businessman and politician 1941 – Roger Lemerre , French footballer and manager1941 – Paul Mayersberg , English director and screenwriter 1941 – Delia Smith , English chef and author 1942 – John Bellany , Scottish painter (died 2013)[23] 1942 – Roger Ebert , American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (died 2013) 1942 – Pat Hutchins , English author and illustrator (died 2017) 1942 – Thabo Mbeki , South African politician and 2nd President of South Africa 1942 – Paul McCartney , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1942 – Richard Perry , American record producer (died 2024)[24] 1942 – Carl Radle , American bass player and producer (died 1980) 1942 – Nick Tate , Australian actor and director 1942 – Hans Vonk , Dutch conductor (died 2004) 1943 – Barry Evans , English actor (died 1997)1943 – Raffaella Carrà , Italian singer, dancer, and actress (died 2021) 1943 – Éva Marton , Hungarian soprano and actress 1944 – Bruce DuMont , American broadcaster and political analyst1944 – Sandy Posey , American pop/country singer 1946 – Russell Ash , English journalist and author (died 2010)[25] 1946 – Bruiser Brody , American wrestler (died 1988) 1946 – Fabio Capello , Italian footballer and manager 1946 – Maria Bethânia , Brazilian singer 1946 – Gordon Murray , British automobile designer[26] 1947 – Ivonne Coll , Puerto Rican-American model and actress, Miss Puerto Rico 1967 1947 – Bernard Giraudeau , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2010) 1947 – Linda Thorson , Canadian actress 1948 – Philip Jackson , English actor1948 – Sherry Turkle , American academic, psychologist, and sociologist 1949 – Chris Van Allsburg , American author and illustrator1949 – Jarosław Kaczyński , Polish lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Poland 1949 – Lech Kaczyński , Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (died 2010) 1950 – Rod de'Ath , Welsh drummer and producer (died 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 (died 2011) 1951 – Mohammed Al-Sager , Kuwaiti journalist and politician1951 – 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 (died 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 educator1955 – Ed Fast , Canadian lawyer and politician1956 – Brian Benben , American actor and producer1956 – John Scott , English organist and conductor (died 2015) 1957 – Miguel Ángel Lotina , Spanish footballer and manager1957 – 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 producer1960 – Barbara Broccoli , American director and producer1960 – Steve Murphy , Canadian journalist 1961 – Oz Fox , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1961 – Andrés Galarraga , Venezuelan baseball player 1961 – Angela Johnson , American novelist and poet 1961 – Alison Moyet , English singer-songwriter 1962 – Lisa Randall , American physicist and academic1963 – Dizzy Reed , American keyboard player and songwriter1963 – Bruce Smith , American football player 1964 – Uday Hussein , Iraqi commander (died 2003)1964 – Patti Webster , American publicist and author (died 2013) 1966 – Kurt Browning , Canadian figure skater, choreographer, and sportscaster1966 – Troy Kemp , Bahamian high jumper 1966 – Dexter Romweber , American musician (died 2024)[27] 1967 – Clifton Campbell , American sprinter[28] 1968 – Frank Müller , German decathlete1969 – Haki Doku , Albanian cyclist1969 – Christopher Largen , American journalist and author (died 2012) 1970 – Katie Derham , English journalist1970 – Ivan Kozák , Slovak footballer 1970 – Greg Yaitanes , American director and producer 1971 – Kerry Butler , American actress and singer1971 – Jason McAteer , English-Irish footballer and manager 1971 – Nathan Morris , American soul singer 1971 – Nigel Owens , Welsh rugby referee and TV presenter[29] 1972 – Anu Tali , Estonian pianist and conductor1972 – Wikus du Toit , South African actor, director, and composer 1973 – Julie Depardieu , French actress1973 – 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 manager1974 – Sergey Sharikov , Russian fencer and coach (died 2015) 1975 – Marie Gillain , Belgian actress1975 – Aleksandrs Koliņko , Latvian footballer 1975 – Martin St. Louis , Canadian ice hockey player 1976 – Blake Shelton , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1978 – Wang Liqin , Chinese table tennis player1978 – Tara Platt , American actress, producer, and screenwriter 1979 – Yumiko Kobayashi , Japanese voice actress and singer1979 – Ivana Wong , Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress 1980 – Antonio Gates , American football player1980 – Sergey Kirdyapkin , Russian race walker 1980 – Craig Mottram , Australian runner 1980 – Antero Niittymäki , Finnish ice hockey player 1981 – Scooter Braun , American music executive1981 – Clint Newton , American-Australian rugby league player 1981 – Marco Streller , Swiss footballer 1982 – Nadir Belhadj , French-Algerian footballer1982 – Marco Borriello , Italian footballer 1982 – Nathan Cavaleri , Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1983 – Billy Slater , Australian rugby league player1983 – Cameron Smith , Australian rugby league player 1984 – Nanyak Dala , Canadian rugby player1985 – Chris Coghlan , American baseball player1985 – Alex Hirsch , American animator and television producer 1986 – Edgars Eriņš , Latvian decathlete1986 – Richard Gasquet , French tennis player[30] 1986 – Richard Madden , Scottish actor[31] 1987 – Omar Arellano , Mexican footballer1987 – Moeen Ali , English cricketer 1988 – Elini Dimoutsos , Greek footballer1988 – Josh Dun , American musician 1989 – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang , French-born Gabonese footballer1989 – Chris Harris Jr. , American football player 1990 – Luke Adam , Canadian ice hockey player1990 – 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[32] 1994 – Sean McMahon , Australian rugby player1994 – Takeoff , American rapper (died 2022)[33] [34] 1995 – Maxim Kovtun , Russian figure skater1996 – Alen Halilović , Croatian footballer1996 – Niki Wories , Dutch figure skater 1997 – Katharina Hobgarski , German tennis player[35] [36] 1997 – Latrell Mitchell , Australian rugby league player 1999 – Choi Ye-won , South Korean singer and actress[37] 1999 – Trippie Redd , American rapper
Deaths
Pre-1600
1629 – Piet Pieterszoon Hein , Dutch admiral (born 1577)1650 – Christoph Scheiner , German priest, physicist, and astronomer (born 1575)1673 – Jeanne Mance , French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (born 1606)[40] 1704 – Tom Brown , English author and translator (born 1662)1726 – Michel Richard Delalande , French organist and composer (born 1657)1742 – John Aislabie , English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1670)1749 – Ambrose Philips , English poet and politician (born 1674)1772 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer , German jurist and scholar (born 1706)1772 – Gerard van Swieten , Dutch-Austrian physician and reformer (born 1700) 1788 – Adam Gib , Scottish religious leader (born 1714)1794 – François Buzot , French lawyer and politician (born 1760)1794 – James Murray , Scottish-English general and politician, 20th Governor of the Province of Quebec (born 1721) 1804 – Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma (born 1746)[41] 1815 – Thomas Picton , Welsh-English general and politician (born 1758)1833 – Robert Hett Chapman , American minister, missionary, and academic (born 1771)1835 – William Cobbett , English farmer and journalist (born 1763)[42] 1860 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck , German army officer and writer (born 1783)1866 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1864)
1902 – Samuel Butler , English novelist, satirist, and critic (born 1835)1905 – Carmine Crocco , Italian soldier (born 1830)1916 – Max Immelmann , German lieutenant and pilot (born 1890)1917 – Titu Maiorescu , Romanian critic and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (born 1840)1921 – Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri , Indian Islamic scholar and author (born 1867)[43] 1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn , Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1851)1926 – Olga Constantinovna of Russia , Queen consort of the Hellenes (born 1851)[44] 1928 – Roald Amundsen , Norwegian pilot and explorer (born 1872)1936 – Maxim Gorky , Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1868)1937 – Gaston Doumergue , French politician, 13th President of France (born 1863)1942 – Arthur Pryor , American trombonist, bandleader, and politician (born 1870)1943 – Elias Degiannis , Greek commander (born 1912)1945 – Florence Bascom , American geologist and educator (born 1862)[45] 1945 – Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. , American general (born 1886) 1947 – Shigematsu Sakaibara , Japanese admiral (born 1898)1948 – Edward Brooker , English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (born 1891)1959 – Ethel Barrymore , American actress (born 1879)1963 – Pedro Armendáriz , Mexican-American actor (born 1912)1964 – Giorgio Morandi , Italian painter (born 1890)1967 – Geki , Italian race car driver (born 1937)1967 – Beat Fehr , Swiss race car driver (born 1942) 1971 – Thomas Gomez , American actor (born 1905)1971 – Paul Karrer , Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889) 1974 – Júlio César de Mello e Souza , Brazilian mathematician and academic (born 1896)1974 – Georgy Zhukov , Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (born 1896) 1975 – Hugo Bergmann , German-Israeli philosopher and author (born 1883)1978 – Walter C. Alvarez , American physician and author (born 1884)1980 – Terence Fisher , English director and screenwriter (born 1904)1980 – André Leducq , French cyclist (born 1904) 1982 – Djuna Barnes , American novelist, journalist, and playwright (born 1892)1982 – John Cheever , American novelist and short story writer (born 1912) 1982 – Curd Jürgens , German-Austrian actor and director (born 1915) 1984 – Alan Berg , American lawyer and radio host (born 1934)1985 – Paul Colin , French illustrator (born 1892)1986 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald , American journalist (born 1921)1989 – I. F. Stone , American journalist and author (born 1907)1992 – Kofoworola Abeni Pratt , the first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria (born 1910)[46] 1992 – Peter Allen , Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1944) 1992 – Mordecai Ardon , Polish-Israeli painter and educator (born 1896) 1993 – Craig Rodwell , American activist, founded the Oscar Wilde Bookshop (born 1940)1996 – Endel Puusepp , Estonian-Soviet military pilot and politician (born 1909)1997 – Lev Kopelev , Ukrainian-German author and academic (born 1912)1998 – Felix Knight , American actor and tenor (born 1908)2000 – Nancy Marchand , American actress (born 1928)2003 – Larry Doby , American baseball player and manager (born 1923)2005 – Mushtaq Ali , Indian cricketer (born 1914)2005 – Manuel Sadosky , Argentinian mathematician and academic (born 1914) 2006 – Vincent Sherman , American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906)2006 – Joseph Zobel , Martinique-French author (born 1915) 2007 – Bernard Manning , English comedian and actor (born 1930)2007 – Hank Medress , American singer and producer (born 1938) 2007 – Georges Thurston , Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1951) 2008 – Jean Delannoy , French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1908)2008 – Tasha Tudor , American author and illustrator (born 1915) 2008 – Hans Steinbrenner , German sculptor (born 1928) 2010 – Trent Acid , American wrestler (born 1980)2010 – José Saramago , Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922) 2010 – Okan Demiriş , Turkish composer (born 1942) 2011 – Yelena Bonner , Russian activist (born 1923)[47] 2011 – Frederick Chiluba , Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (born 1943) 2011 – Clarence Clemons , American saxophonist (born 1942) 2012 – Horacio Coppola , Argentinian photographer and director (born 1906)2012 – Lina Haag , German author and activist (born 1907) 2012 – Tom Maynard , Welsh cricketer (born 1989) 2012 – Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín , Peruvian general and politician, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (born 1919) 2012 – Alketas Panagoulias , Greek footballer and manager (born 1934) 2012 – William Van Regenmorter , American businessman and politician (born 1939) 2013 – Brent F. Anderson , American engineer and politician (born 1932)2013 – Alastair Donaldson , Scottish bass player (born 1955) 2013 – Garde Gardom , Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (born 1924) 2013 – Michael Hastings , American journalist and author (born 1980) 2013 – David Wall , English ballet dancer (born 1946) 2014 – Stephanie Kwolek , American chemist and engineer (born 1923)[48] 2014 – Johnny Mann , American singer-songwriter and conductor (born 1928) 2014 – Claire Martin , Canadian author (born 1914) 2014 – Vladimir Popovkin , Russian general (born 1957) 2014 – Horace Silver , American pianist and composer (born 1928)[49] 2015 – Phil Austin , American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1941)2015 – Ralph J. Roberts , American businessman, co-founded Comcast (born 1920) 2015 – Danny Villanueva , American football player and broadcaster, co-founded Univision (born 1937) 2015 – Allen Weinstein , American historian and academic (born 1937) 2016 – Jeppiaar , Indian educationist, founder and chancellor of Sathyabama University (born 1931)2018 – XXXTentacion , American rapper (born 1998)[50] [51] 2018 – Big Van Vader (also known as Vader) American professional wrestler (born 1955) 2018 – Jimmy Wopo , American rapper (born 1997)[51] 2020 – Vera Lynn , English singer who was the "Forces' Sweetheart" in World War II (born 1917)[52] 2022 – Uffe Ellemann-Jensen , Danish politician, minister of foreign affairs (born 1941)[53] 2022 – Adibah Noor , Malaysian actress, singer, master of ceremonies (born 1970)[54] [55] 2023 – Notable victims of the Titan submersible implosion[56] 2024 – James Chance , American musician (born 1953)[57] 2024 – Anouk Aimée , French actress (born 1932)[58] 2024 – Yoyong Martirez , Filipino basketball player (born 1946)[59] 2024 – Willie Mays , American baseball player (born 1931)[60]
Holidays and observances
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