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On this day — 18 June

Authors who were born or died on this day, ranked by Wikimedia sitelinks.

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Featured author — Died

Roald Amundsen - 1928

Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872–1928)

Featured author — Born

Paul McCartney - 1942

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

Featured author — Died

Maxim Gorky - 1936

Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)

Born on this day

Jürgen Habermas (1929)
103

German sociologist and philosopher (1929–2026)

Roger Ebert (1942)
99

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

Ivan Goncharov (1812)
87

Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)

Isabella Rossellini (1952)
66

Italian-American actress (born 1952)

Richard Madden (1986)
55

Scottish actor (born 1986)

Raymond Radiguet (1903)
48

French writer (1903–1923)

Raffaella Carrà (1943)
46

Italian singer, actress and television presenter (1943–2021)

Carol Kane (1952)
42

American actress (born 1952)

Blake Shelton (1976)
41

American country music singer and television personality

Johann Stamitz (1717)
38

Czech composer and violinist

Josh Dun (1988)
35

American musician and drummer

Jeanette MacDonald (1903)
35

American singer and actress (1903-1965)

Maria Bethânia (1946)
34

Brazilian singer

Frithjof Schuon (1907)
34

Swiss philosopher, poet and painter (1907-1998)

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769)
34

British politician (1769–1822)

Takeoff (1994)
33

American rapper (1994–2022)

Alex Hirsch (1985)
33

American voice actor, animator, writer, storyboard artist, and producer

Richard Powers (1957)
33

American novelist (born 1957)

Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511)
33

Italian architect and sculptor (1511-1592)

Sandra Izbașa (1990)
32

Romanian artistic gymnast

Marie Gillain (1975)
32

Belgian actress

Julie Depardieu (1973)
32

French actress (born 1973)

Lee Soo-man (1952)
30

South Korean businessman and record producer (born 1952)

Blanche Sweet (1896)
29

American actress (1896–1986)

Ignaz Pleyel (1757)
29

Austrian-born French composer and piano builder (1757–1831)

Dizzy Reed (1963)
28

American musician

Trippie Redd (1999)
27

American rapper and singer (born 1999)

Anu Tali (1972)
27

Estonian conductor (born 1972)

Alison Moyet (1961)
27

British singer

E. G. Marshall (1914)
27

American actor (1914-1998)

James Montgomery Flagg (1877)
27

American artist (1877-1960)

Barbara Broccoli (1960)
26

American film producer

Sammy Cahn (1913)
25

American lyricist, songwriter, musician (1913-1993)

Stephen Thomas Erlewine (1973)
24

American music journalist

Bernard Giraudeau (1947)
24

French actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer (1947–2010)

Richard Boone (1917)
24

American actor (1917–1981)

Eduard Tubin (1905)
24

Estonian composer and conductor (1905-1982)

Édouard Le Roy (1870)
24

French mathematician and philosopher (1870-1954)

Philip Jackson (1948)
23

English actor

Joseph-Marie Vien (1716)
23

French painter (1716-1808)

Chris Van Allsburg (1949)
22

US children's writer and illustrator (born 1949)

Linda Thorson (1947)
22

Canadian actress

Keye Luke (1904)
22

American actor (1904–1991)

Gordon Murray (1946)
21

British automobile designer

Brian Benben (1956)
20

actor

Eva Bartok (1927)
20

Hungarian-British actress (1927–1998)

Dick Foran (1910)
20

American actor (1910-1979)

Ottaviano Petrucci (1466)
20

Italian printer

Kane Parsons (2005)
19

American filmmaker

Paul Eddington (1927)
19

British actor (1927–1995)

Richard Heuberger (1850)
19

Austrian composer (1850-1914)

Jüri Järvet (1919)
18

Estonian actor and theatre director (1919-1995)

Gervasio Antonio de Posadas (1757)
18

Argentine politician

Arin (1999)
17

South Korean pop singer, born 1999

Ray LaMontagne (1973)
17

American singer-songwriter

Greg Yaitanes (1970)
17

American film and television director and producer

Éva Marton (1943)
17

opera singer

Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934)
17

Japanese manga artist (1934-2004)

Andrew Courage (1920)
17

British actor (1920-2028)

Tara Platt (1978)
16

American actress

Nick Tate (1942)
16

Australian actor

Geoffrey Hill (1932)
16

English poet (1932–2016)

Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677)
16

Italian cellist and composer

Yumiko Kobayashi (1979)
15

Japanese voice actor and singer

Barry Evans (1943)
15

British actor (1943-1997)

Hans Vonk (1942)
15

Dutch conductor (1942-2004)

Ivonne Coll (1947)
14

Puerto Rican actress

Carl Radle (1942)
14

American bassist (1942–1980)

Philip B. Crosby (1926)
14

American businessman and author

Bud Collyer (1908)
14

American actor (1908–1969)

Nedra Volz (1908)
14

American actress (1908–2003)

Kay Kyser (1906)
14

American bandleader, actor (1905-1985)

Manuel Rosenthal (1904)
14

French composer and conductor (1904-2003)

Ivana Wong (1979)
13

Hong Kong singer and actress

Miriam Flynn (1951)
13

American voice actress

Sandy Posey (1944)
13

American pop singer (1944–2024)

Dennis Lloyd (1993)
12

Israeli singer-songwriter

Richard Perry (1942)
12

American record producer (1942–2024)

Ray McKinley (1910)
12

American jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader (1910-1995)

Antoni Lliteres (1673)
12

Spanish composer (1673-1747)

Kerry Butler (1971)
11

American recording artist; actress and singer

Nathan Morris (1971)
11

singer

Oz Fox (1961)
11

American musician

Peter Donohoe (1953)
11

English pianist

Claude Helffer (1922)
11

French musician (1922–2004)

Aster Berkhof (1920)
11

Belgian writer (1920–2020)

Robert Kanigher (1915)
11

American comic books editor (1915-2002)

Jean-Claude Germain (1939)
9

playwright working in Quebec

Avon Long (1910)
9

American actor (1910-1984)

Carolyn Wells (1862)
9

American humorist, poet, writer of children's works and mystery stories (1862–1942)

Nathan Cavaleri (1982)
8

Australian film actor, musician, guitarist

Pat Hutchins (1942)
8

English children's writer and illustrator (1942–2017)

Erik Ortvad (1917)
8

Danish artist (1917-2008)

E. W. Scripps (1854)
8

American newspaper publisher (1854-1926)

Rod de'Ath (1950)
7

Welsh musician (1950–2014)

Tommy Hunt (1933)
7

American singer (1933–2025)

Efraín Huertas (1914)
7

Mexican poet (1914–1982)

Jackie Leven (1950)
6

Scottish musician, poet (1950-2011)

Michael Blakemore (1928)
6

Australian actor (1928–2023)

Louis Alter (1902)
6

American pianist, songwriter and composer (1902-1980)

Vlasta Vraz (1900)
6

Czech American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser (1900-1989)

Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie (1834)
6

French priest (1834-1895)

Wikus du Toit (1972)
5

South African actor, comedian, composer, and director

Ian Hargreaves (1951)
5

British academic

Colin Brumby (1933)
5

Australian composer

Angela Johnson (1961)
4

American poet, children's writer

Gary Martin (1958)
4

British actor

John Scott (1956)
4

English organist and choirmaster (1956–2015)

Paul Mayersberg (1941)
4

English writer and film director

Tom Wicker (1926)
4

American journalist (1926-2011)

Sylvia Porter (1913)
4

American economist and journalist

George Essex Evans (1863)
4

Australian poet

Joe Ansolabehere (1959)
3

American animation screenwriter

Mohammed Al-Sager (1951)
3

Kuwaiti journalist and politician

John Bellany (1942)
3

Scottish painter (1942-2013)

Françoise Loranger (1913)
3

playwright working in Quebec

Llewellyn Rees (1901)
3

British actor (1901–1994)

Christopher Largen (1969)
2

Author, Filmmaker (1969-2012)

Clifton Campbell (1967)
2

American sprinter (born 1967)

Dexter Romweber (1966)
2

American musician

Russell Ash (1946)
2

British author, publisher and list maker (1946-2010)

Robert Beadell (1925)
2

American composer (1925–1994)

Steve Murphy (1960)
1

Canadian journalist

Bruce DuMont (1944)
1

American political analyst and broadcaster

Died on this day

José Saramago (2010)
135

Portuguese novelist (1922–2010)

Samuel Butler (1902)
70

English novelist and critic (1835–1902)

XXXTentacion (2018)
66

American rapper (1998–2018)

Anouk Aimée (2024)
63

French actress (1932–2024)

Rogier van der Weyden (1464)
61

early Netherlandish painter (c. 1399–1464)

Ethel Barrymore (1959)
57

American actress (1879–1959)

Vera Lynn (2020)
55

British singer (1917–2020)

Djuna Barnes (1982)
49

American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892-1982)

Yelena Bonner (2011)
48

human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov

John Cheever (1982)
46

American novelist and short story writer (1912-1982)

Curd Jürgens (1982)
44

German actor (1915–1982)

Pedro Armendáriz (1963)
42

Mexican actor (1912-1963)

Giorgio Morandi (1964)
41

Italian painter and printmaker (1890–1964)

Carmine Crocco (1905)
37

Italian brigand (1830–1905)

Clarence Clemons (2011)
34

American saxophonist (1942–2011)

Horace Silver (2014)
32

American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)

Nancy Marchand (2000)
32

American actress (1928–2000)

William Cobbett (1835)
32

English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist (1763–1835)

Jean Delannoy (2008)
31

French film director, screenwriter, film editor and actor (1908–2008)

Titu Maiorescu (1917)
31

Romanian literary critic, writer and politician (1840-1917)

Florence Bascom (1945)
28

American geologist (1862–1945)

Michel Richard Delalande (1726)
25

French composer

Vincent Sherman (2006)
23

American film director (1906–2006)

Lev Kopelev (1997)
23

Soviet writer (1912–1997)

Terence Fisher (1980)
23

British film director (1904–1980)

Thomas Gomez (1971)
22

American actor (1905-1971)

Michael Hastings (2013)
20

American journalist (1980–2013)

Hugo Bergmann (1975)
18

Israeli philosopher born in Austria-Hungary (1883-1975)

Mordecai Ardon (1992)
16

painter and stained glass artist (1896-1992)

Paul-Henri Nargeolet (2023)
15

submersible pilot; former head of France's Deep Submersible Program

James Chance (2024)
14

American saxophonist, composer, singer and pianist (1953–2024)

I. F. Stone (1989)
14

American investigative journalist, writer, and author

Peter Allen (1992)
13

Australian singer and songwriter (1944–1992)

Horacio Coppola (2012)
12

Argentine photographer (1906–2012)

Paul Colin (1985)
11

French painter, graphic artist and scenographer, 1892-1985 (1892–1985)

Arthur Willard Pryor (1942)
11

American bandleader, composer, virtuoso trombonist with the Sousa Band (1870–1942)

Manuel Sadosky (2005)
10

Argentine mathematician (1914–2005)

Ambrose Philips (1749)
10

Anglo-Irish poet and politician

Allen Weinstein (2015)
9

American historian

Claire Martin (2014)
9

pseudonym of the Canadian writer Claire Montreuil (1914-2014)

Tasha Tudor (2008)
9

American illustrator and writer (1915-2008)

Craig Rodwell (1993)
9

American gay-rights activist (1940-1993)

Tay Keith (2026)
8

American record producer (1996–2026)

Adibah Noor (2022)
8

Malaysian female singer, actress and host (1970-2022)

Jimmy Wopo (2018)
8

American rapper (1997-2018)

Phil Austin (2015)
8

American comedian and writer (1941-2015)

Bernard Manning (2007)
8

English comedian (1930–2007)

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismark (1860)
8

German military personnel

Felix Knight (1998)
7

American actor (1908–1998)

Frances Scott Fitzgerald (1986)
7

writer, political activist, philanthropist

Hank Medress (2007)
6

American musician (1938–2007)

Johann Ulrich von Cramer (1772)
6

German philosopher

Johnny Mann (2014)
5

American conductor

David Wall (2013)
5

British ballet dancer (1946-2013)

Hans Steinbrenner (2008)
5

German sculptor (1928-2008)

Joseph Zobel (2006)
5

Martiniquais writer (1915-2006)

Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri (1921)
5

Indian Islamic scholar

Tom Brown (1704)
5

English translator and writer of satire

Okan Demiriş (2010)
4

Turkish composer (1942–2010)

Georges Thurston (2007)
2

Canadian singer

Robert Crowley (1588)
1

stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman