June 18 - Deaths

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, English general (b. 1758)
  • 1833 – Robert Hett Chapman, American minister and missionary (b. 1771)
  • 1835 – William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
  • 1866 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
  • 1902 – Samuel Butler, English writer (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)
  • 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, English director (b. 1904)
  • 1980 – André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
  • 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 – 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)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)