What happened on June 18 ?

1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)

1291 - King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)

1464 - Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter

1588 - Robert Crowley, English printer and poet

1629 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (b. 1577)

1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer

1673 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606)

1680 - Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)

1704 - Tom Brown, English satirist (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 judge and philosopher (b. 1706)

1772 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (b. 1700)

1788 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)

1794 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1760)

1794 - James Murray, British military officer and administrator

1815 - Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1758)

1815 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)

1835 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)

1902 - Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)

1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)

1915 - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho

1928 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)

1936 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868)

1937 - Gaston Doumergue, French statesman (b. 1863)

1959 - Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)

1963 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)

1971 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)

1973 - Roger Delgado, British actor (b. 1918)

1974 - Georgy Zhukov, Soviet General during WWII (b. 1896)

1982 - John Cheever, American author (b. 1912)

1982 - Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915)

1984 - Alan Berg, American radio talk show host (murdered)

1992 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)

1992 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and songwriter (b. 1944)

1997 - Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)

2000 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)

2002 - Jack Buck, baseball announcer (b. 1924)

2003 - Larry Doby, baseball player (b. 1923)

2005 - Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)

2006 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (b. 1906)