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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 1601–1900 1901–present 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).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 will be introduced in western Germany and West Berlin. Over the next six days, Communists increasingly restrict access to Berlin.[4] 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 .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 two minutes after takeoff from London's 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.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.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 miners takes place at Orgreave , South Yorkshire , during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike .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.[5] 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 .2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.2018 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka .[6] Births Pre-1600 1601–1900 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 and educator (d. 1809)1717 – Johann Stamitz , Czech violinist and composer (d. 1757)1757 – Ignaz Pleyel , Austrian-French pianist and composer (d. 1831)1757 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas , Argentine lawyer and politician 1st Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (d. 1833) 1769 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh , Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (d. 1822)1799 – William Lassell , English astronomer and merchant (d. 1880)1812 – Ivan Goncharov , Russian journalist and author (d. 1891)1815 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen , German general (d. 1881)1816 – Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte , French daughter of Napoleon (d. 1907)1816 – Jung Bahadur Rana , Nepali ruler (d. 1877) 1833 – Manuel González Flores , Mexican general and President (1880-1884) (d. 1893)[8] 1834 – Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie , French philosopher and academic (d. 1895)1839 – William H. Seward Jr. , American general and banker (d. 1920)1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran , French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1922)1850 – Richard Heuberger , Austrian composer and critic (d. 1914)1854 – E. W. Scripps , American publisher, founded the E. W. Scripps Company (d. 1926)1857 – Henry Clay Folger , American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Folger Shakespeare Library (d. 1930)1858 – Andrew Forsyth , Scottish-English mathematician and academic (d. 1942)1858 – Hector Rason , English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1927) 1862 – Carolyn Wells , American novelist and poet (d. 1942)[9] 1863 – George Essex Evans , English-Australian poet and author (d. 1909)1868 – Miklós Horthy , Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (d. 1957)1870 – Édouard Le Roy , French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1954)1877 – James Montgomery Flagg , American painter and illustrator (d. 1960)1881 – Zoltán Halmay , Hungarian swimmer (d. 1956)1882 – Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgarian compositor and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1949)1884 – Édouard Daladier , French captain and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1970)1886 – George Mallory , English lieutenant and mountaineer (d. 1924)1886 – Alexander Wetmore , American ornithologist and paleontologist (d. 1978) 1887 – Tancrède Labbé , Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1956)1896 – Blanche Sweet , American actress (d. 1986)1897 – Martti Marttelin , Finnish runner (d. 1940)1900 – Vlasta Vraz , Czech-American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser (d. 1989)1901–present 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)[10] 1901 – Llewellyn Rees , English actor (d. 1994) 1902 – Louis Alter , American musician (d. 1980)1902 – Paavo Yrjölä , Finnish decathlete (d. 1980) 1903 – Jeanette MacDonald , American actress and singer (d. 1965)1903 – Raymond Radiguet , French author and poet (d. 1923) 1904 – Keye Luke , Chinese-American actor (d. 1991)1904 – Manuel Rosenthal , French conductor and composer (d. 2003) 1905 – Eduard Tubin , Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1982)1907 – Frithjof Schuon , Swiss-American metaphysicist, philosopher, and author (d. 1998)1908 – Bud Collyer , American actor and game show host (d. 1969)1908 – Stanley Knowles , American-Canadian academic and politician (d. 1997) 1908 – Nedra Volz , American actress (d. 2003) 1910 – Dick Foran , American actor and singer (d. 1979)1910 – Avon Long , American actor and singer (d. 1984) 1910 – Ray McKinley , American singer, drummer, and bandleader (d. 1995) 1912 – Glenn Morris , American decathlete (d. 1974)1913 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow , Canadian soldier and surgeon (d. 2005)1913 – Sammy Cahn , American pianist and composer (d. 1993) 1913 – Sylvia Porter , American economist and journalist (d. 1991) 1913 – Françoise Loranger , Canadian playwright and producer (d. 1995) 1913 – Robert Mondavi , American winemaker and philanthropist (d. 2008) 1913 – Oswald Teichmüller , German mathematician (d. 1943) 1914 – E. G. Marshall , American actor (d. 1998)1914 – Efraín Huerta , Mexican poet (d.1982) 1915 – Red Adair , American firefighter (d. 2004)1915 – Robert Kanigher , American author (d. 2002) 1915 – Alice T. Schafer , American mathematician (d. 2009) 1916 – Julio César Turbay Ayala , Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (d. 2005)1917 – Richard Boone , American actor, singer, and director (d. 1981)1917 – Jack Karnehm , English snooker player and sportscaster (d. 2002) 1917 – Erik Ortvad , Danish painter and illustrator (d. 2008) 1918 – Alf Francis , West Prussia-born, English motor racing mechanic and race car constructor (d. 1983)1918 – Jerome Karle , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) 1918 – Franco Modigliani , Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003) 1919 – Jüri Järvet , Estonian actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)1920 – Ian Carmichael , English actor and singer (d. 2010)1920 – Aster Berkhof , Belgian author and academic (d. 2020) 1922 – Claude Helffer , French pianist and educator (d. 2004)1924 – George Mikan , American basketball player and coach (d. 2005)1925 – Robert Beadell , American composer and educator (d. 1994)1926 – Philip B. Crosby , American businessman and author (d. 2001)1926 – Allan Sandage , American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 2010) 1926 – Tom Wicker , American journalist and author (d. 2011) 1927 – Eva Bartok , Hungarian-English actress (d. 1998)1927 – Paul Eddington , English actor (d. 1995) 1928 – Michael Blakemore , Australian actor, director, and screenwriter1928 – David T. Lykken , American geneticist and academic (d. 2006) 1929 – Jürgen Habermas , German sociologist and philosopher1929 – Tibor Rubin , Hungarian-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 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 (d. 2016) 1933 – Colin Brumby , Australian composer and conductor (d. 2018 )[11] 1933 – Tommy Hunt , American singer 1934 – Brian Kenny , English general (d. 2017)1934 – Mitsuteru Yokoyama , Japanese author and illustrator (d. 2004) 1934 – Barack Obama Sr. , Kenyan economist (d. 1982)[12] 1936 – Denny Hulme , New Zealand race car driver (d. 1992)1936 – Ronald Venetiaan , Surinamese politician, 6th President of Suriname 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 (d. 2006) 1937 – Vitaly Zholobov , Ukrainian colonel, engineer, and astronaut 1938 – Kevin Murray , Australian footballer and coach1939 – Lou Brock , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 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 and academic (d. 2013)1942 – Roger Ebert , American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (d. 2013) 1942 – Pat Hutchins , English author and illustrator (d. 2017) 1942 – Thabo Mbeki , South African politician, 23rd President of South Africa 1942 – Paul McCartney , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1942 – Richard Perry , American record producer 1942 – Carl Radle , American bass player and producer (d. 1980) 1942 – Nick Tate , Australian actor and director 1942 – Hans Vonk , Dutch conductor (d. 2004) 1943 – Barry Evans , English actor (d. 1997)1943 – Raffaella Carrà , Italian singer, dancer, and actress (d. 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 (d. 2010)[13] 1946 – Bruiser Brody , American wrestler (d. 1988) 1946 – Fabio Capello , Italian footballer and manager 1946 – Maria Bethânia , Brazilian singer 1946 – Gordon Murray , British automobile designer[14] 1947 – Ivonne Coll , Puerto Rican-American model and actress, Miss Puerto Rico 1967 1947 – Bernard Giraudeau , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 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 (d. 2010) 1950 – Rod de'Ath , Welsh drummer and producer (d. 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 (d. 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 (d. 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 (d. 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-American 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 (d. 2003)1964 – Patti Webster , American publicist and author (d. 2013) 1966 – Kurt Browning , Canadian figure skater, choreographer, and sportscaster1966 – Troy Kemp , Bahamian high jumper 1968 – Frank Müller , German decathlete1969 – Haki Doku , Albanian cyclist1969 – Christopher Largen , American journalist and author (d. 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[15] [16] 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 (d. 2015) 1975 – Marie Gillain , Belgian actress1975 – Aleksandrs Koļinko , Latvian footballer 1975 – Martin St. Louis , Canadian ice hockey player 1976 – Blake Shelton , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1978 – Wang Liqin , Chinese table tennis player1979 – 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 1980 – Tara Platt , American actress, producer, and screenwriter 1981 – Clint Newton , American-Australian rugby league player1981 – 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 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 [17] 1994 – Sean McMahon , Australian rugby player1994 – Takeoff , American rapper 1995 – Maxim Kovtun , Russian figure skater1996 – Alen Halilović , Croatian footballer1996 – Niki Wories , Dutch figure skater 1997 – Katharina Hobgarski , German tennis player1997 – Latrell Mitchell , Australian rugby league player 1999 – Trippie Redd , American rapperDeaths Pre-1600 1601–1900 1629 – Piet Pieterszoon Hein , Dutch admiral (b. 1577)1650 – Christoph Scheiner , German priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1575)1673 – Jeanne Mance , French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (b. 1606)[20] 1704 – Tom Brown , English author and translator (b. 1662)1726 – Michel Richard Delalande , French organist and composer (b. 1657)1742 – John Aislabie , English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1670)1749 – Ambrose Philips , English poet and politician (b. 1674)1772 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer , German jurist and scholar (b. 1706)1772 – Gerard van Swieten , Dutch-Austrian physician and reformer (b. 1700) 1788 – Adam Gib , Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)1794 – François Buzot , French lawyer and politician (b. 1760)1794 – James Murray , Scottish-English general and politician, 20th Governor of the Province of Quebec (b. 1721) 1804 – Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma (b. 1746)[21] 1815 – Thomas Picton , Welsh-English general and politician (b. 1758)1833 – Robert Hett Chapman , American minister, missionary, and academic (b. 1771)1835 – William Cobbett , English farmer and journalist (b. 1763)[22] 1860 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck , German army officer and writer (b. 1783)1866 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)1901–present 1902 – Samuel Butler , English novelist, satirist, and critic (b. 1835)1905 – Carmine Crocco , Italian soldier (b. 1830)1916 – Max Immelmann , German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1890)1917 – Titu Maiorescu , Romanian critic and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1840)1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn , Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1851)1926 – Olga Constantinovna of Russia , Queen consort of the Hellenes (b. 1851)[23] 1928 – Roald Amundsen , Norwegian pilot and explorer (b. 1872)1936 – Maxim Gorky , Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1868)1937 – Gaston Doumergue , French politician, 13th President of France (b. 1863)1942 – Arthur Pryor , American trombonist, bandleader, and politician (b. 1870)1943 – Elias Degiannis , Greek commander (b. 1912)1945 – Florence Bascom , American geologist and educator (b. 1862)[24] 1945 – Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. , American general (b. 1886) 1947 – Shigematsu Sakaibara , Japanese admiral (b. 1898)1948 – Edward Brooker , English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1891)1959 – Ethel Barrymore , American actress (b. 1879)1963 – Pedro Armendáriz , Mexican-American actor (b. 1912)1964 – Giorgio Morandi , Italian painter (b. 1890)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 , Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889) 1974 – Júlio César de Mello e Souza , Brazilian mathematician and academic (b. 1896)1974 – Georgy Zhukov , Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1896) 1975 – Hugo Bergmann , German-Israeli philosopher and author (b. 1883)1978 – Walter C. Alvarez , American physician and author (b. 1884)1980 – Terence Fisher , English director and screenwriter (b. 1904)1980 – André Leducq , French cyclist (b. 1904) 1982 – Djuna Barnes , American novelist, journalist, and playwright (b. 1892)1982 – John Cheever , American novelist and short story writer (b. 1912) 1982 – Curd Jürgens , German-Austrian actor and director (b. 1915) 1984 – Alan Berg , American lawyer and radio host (b. 1934)1985 – Paul Colin , French illustrator (b. 1892)1986 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald , American journalist (b. 1921)1989 – I. F. Stone , American journalist and author (b. 1907)1992 – Kofoworola Abeni Pratt , the first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria (b. 1910)[25] 1992 – Peter Allen , Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944) 1992 – Mordecai Ardon , Polish-Israeli painter and educator (b. 1896) 1993 – Craig Rodwell , American activist, founded the Oscar Wilde Bookshop (b. 1940)1996 – Endel Puusepp , Estonian-Soviet military pilot and politician (b. 1909)1997 – Lev Kopelev , Ukrainian-German author and academic (b. 1912)1998 – Felix Knight , American actor and tenor (b. 1908)2000 – Nancy Marchand , American actress (b. 1928)2003 – Larry Doby , American baseball player and manager (b. 1923)2005 – Mushtaq Ali , Indian cricketer (b. 1914)2005 – Manuel Sadosky , Argentinian mathematician and academic (b. 1914) 2006 – Vincent Sherman , American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)2006 – Joseph Zobel , Martinique-French author (b. 1915) 2007 – Bernard Manning , English comedian and actor (b. 1930)2007 – Hank Medress , American singer and producer (b. 1938) 2007 – Georges Thurston , Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1951) 2008 – Jean Delannoy , French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)2008 – Tasha Tudor , American author and illustrator (b. 1915) 2008 – Hans Steinbrenner , German sculptor (b. 1928) 2010 – Trent Acid , American wrestler (b. 1980)2010 – José Saramago , Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922) 2010 – Okan Demiriş , Turkish composer (b. 1942) 2011 – Yelena Bonner , Russian activist (b. 1923)[26] 2011 – Frederick Chiluba , Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943) 2011 – Clarence Clemons , American saxophonist (b. 1942) 2012 – Horacio Coppola , Argentinian photographer and director (b. 1906)2012 – Lina Haag , German author and activist (b. 1907) 2012 – Tom Maynard , Welsh cricketer (b. 1989) 2012 – Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín , Peruvian general and politician, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1919) 2012 – Alketas Panagoulias , Greek footballer and manager (b. 1934) 2012 – William Van Regenmorter , American businessman and politician (b. 1939) 2013 – Brent F. Anderson , American engineer and politician (b. 1932)2013 – Alastair Donaldson , Scottish bass player (b. 1955) 2013 – Garde Gardom , Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (b. 1924) 2013 – Michael Hastings , American journalist and author (b. 1980) 2013 – David Wall , English ballet dancer (b. 1946) 2014 – Stephanie Kwolek , American chemist and engineer (b. 1923)[27] 2014 – Johnny Mann , American singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1928) 2014 – Claire Martin , Canadian author (b. 1914) 2014 – Vladimir Popovkin , Russian general (b. 1957) 2014 – Horace Silver , American pianist and composer (b. 1928)[28] 2015 – Phil Austin , American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1941)2015 – Ralph J. Roberts , American businessman, co-founded Comcast (b. 1920) 2015 – Danny Villanueva , American football player and broadcaster, co-founded Univision (b. 1937) 2015 – Allen Weinstein , American historian and academic (b. 1937) 2016 – Jeppiaar , Indian educationist, founder and chancellor of Sathyabama University (b. 1931)2018 – XXXTentacion , American rapper (b. 1998)[29] [30] 2018 – Big Van Vader (also known as Vader) American professional wrestler (b. 1955) 2018 – Jimmy Wopo , American rapper (b. 1997)[30] 2020 – Vera Lynn , English singer who was the "Forces' Sweetheart" in World War II (b. 1917)[31] Holidays and observances Autistic Pride Day (International )Christian feast day : Foundation Day (Benguet) Human Rights Day (Azerbaijan) National Day (Seychelles) [32] Queen Mother's Birthday (Cambodia) Waterloo Day (United Kingdom)References ^ DeVries, Kelly (2011). Joan of Arc: A Military Leader . Stroud: History Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-752-46061-1 . ^ James, William (2002) [1827]. 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