Notable Deaths - 1918
1918 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
Sijbe K Bakker, vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at 42 |
Jan 6 |
Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72 |
Jan 8 |
Michael Hertz, composer, dies at 73 |
Jan 8 |
Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827) |
Jan 8 |
Johannes Pääsuke, Karujaht Pärnumaal |
Jan 9 |
Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844) |
Jan 9 |
Émile Reynaud, Pauvre Pierrot |
Jan 13 |
Junie McCree, Enigma |
Jan 17 |
Scheel Vandel, Capital Execution |
Jan 24 |
George Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (b. 1871) |
Jan 26 |
Franklin Ritchie, The Undertow |
Jan 28 |
John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician/soldier, dies of pneumonia at 45 |
Jan 28 |
John McCrae, What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? |
Feb 2 |
John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 59 |
Feb 2 |
John L. Sullivan, The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight |
Feb 6 |
Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies at 55 |
Feb 6 |
Gustav Klimt, |
Feb 7 |
Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, composer, dies at 68 |
Feb 9 |
Emiel van der Straeten, [Delrue], Flemish playwright, dies at 30 |
Feb 10 |
Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842) |
Feb 10 |
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 84 |
Feb 15 |
Vernon Castle, The Whirl of Life |
Feb 17 |
Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian PM (1896-1911), dies |
Feb 20 |
Conrad Diehl, Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession |
Feb 21 |
Hedwig Lachmann, Salome |
Feb 22 |
Billy Madden, The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight |
Feb 22 |
Terry McGovern, The Gans-McGovern Fight |
Feb 23 |
Lord Brassey, The Melbourne Cup |
Mar 1 |
Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer, dies at 64 |
Mar 2 |
Jacob H. Smith, The 17th Infantry, U.S.A. |
Mar 4 |
Eugene D'Harcourt, composer, dies at 58 |
Mar 9 |
[Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53 |
Mar 9 |
Frank Wedekind, Pandora's Box |
Mar 12 |
Adolf Mérey, A szobalány |
Mar 13 |
Karel Stecker, composer, dies at 57 |
Mar 13 |
William Courtleigh, actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at 26 |
Mar 13 |
William Courtleigh Jr., Neal of the Navy |
Mar 14 |
Lillian Cook, The Blue Bird |
Mar 14 |
Henryk Grubinski, Sad bozy |
Mar 15 |
Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82 |
Mar 15 |
Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24 |
Mar 15 |
Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24 |
Mar 15 |
George Alexander, Masks and Faces |
Mar 15 |
José White, The Lost City |
Mar 16 |
Harry James Smith, A Tailor Made Man |
Mar 18 |
Willem Coenen, composer, dies at 80 |
Mar 19 |
Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73 |
Mar 20 |
Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828) |
Mar 23 |
Cesar Cortinas, composer, dies at 27 |
Mar 23 |
Barry O'Neil, Life's Whirlpool |
Mar 24 |
Theophile Ysaye, composer, dies at 53 |
Mar 24 |
Mike Donovan, Train vs. Donovan |
Mar 24 |
Chung Ling Soo, |
Mar 25 |
Claude Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55 |
Mar 25 |
Claude Debussy, The Usual Suspects |
Mar 26 |
Caesar A Cui, Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83 |
Mar 28 |
Otis Turner, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
Apr 1 |
Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer, dies at 64 |
Apr 5 |
Paul Vidal de la Blanche, French geographer, dies at 73 |
Apr 8 |
Lucjan Rydel, Zaczarowane kolo |
Apr 11 |
Arthur Ochse, cricketer (WW I played for S Afr in 1889 aged 19), dies |
Apr 13 |
Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870) |
Apr 13 |
Lavr Kornilov, |
Apr 19 |
William Hope Hodgson, Matango |
Apr 20 |
Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricketer (1 Test for SA), dies |
Apr 20 |
Alexander Girardi, Der Millionenonkel |
Apr 21 |
"Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25 |
Apr 21 |
Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], German pilot dies after his plane his shot down at 25 |
Apr 21 |
Manfred von Richthofen, |
Apr 23 |
Percy Thomson Dean, lt-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies |
Apr 28 |
Gavrilo Princip, |
Apr 29 |
Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22 |
Apr 30 |
Mary Maurice, A Mother's Devotion; or, The Firing of the Patchwork Quilt |
May 3 |
Charlie Soong, Christian Missionary |
May 4 |
William Hinckley, The Children in the House |
May 5 |
Georges Ohnet, Her Sister's Rival |
May 8 |
Russell Bassett, One of the Finest |
May 9 |
George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866) |
May 14 |
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841) |
May 16 |
Eusapia Palladino, Napolitan, dies at 64 |
May 17 |
William L. Abingdon, Manon Lescaut |
May 18 |
Toivo Kuula, composer, dies at 34 |
May 18 |
Toivo Kuula, Säädyllinen murhenäytelmä |
May 19 |
Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885) |
May 19 |
S. Rankin Drew, The Reward |
May 21 |
Algot Untola, Flame Top |
May 24 |
Evan Williams, American oratorio tenor |
May 27 |
Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies at 80 |
May 30 |
Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies |
May 30 |
Jessie Shirley, The Man Hater |
Jun 1 |
Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer, dies at 83 |
Jun 1 |
Jaroslav Novotny, composer, dies at 32 |
Jun 2 |
Benjamin Chapin, Under the Stars |
Jun 4 |
Charles W. Fairbanks, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales Decorating the Monument of Champlain and Receiving Addresses of Welcome from the Mayor of Quebec, the Governor General of Canada and Vice President Fairbanks, Representative of the United States |
Jun 10 |
Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer, dies at 76 |
Jun 10 |
Arrigo Boito, Otello |
Jun 10 |
Richard Voß, Zwei Menschen |
Jun 12 |
Boleslaw Leszczynski, Zaczarowane kolo |
Jun 13 |
Grand Duke Michael, |
Jun 15 |
Charles J. Ross, The Senator |
Jun 16 |
Fraser Tarbutt, Mary Moreland |
Jun 17 |
Derek Barber, CEO (Countryside Commission), dies |
Jun 25 |
Jake Beckley, baseball player (b. 1867) |
Jun 26 |
Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) |
Jun 26 |
Peter Rosegger, Blessings of the Earth |
Jul 2 |
Mohammed V Resjad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18), dies |
Jul 3 |
Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844) |
Jul 3 |
Aladár Fodor, A pesti riporter |
Jul 3 |
Sultan Mehmed V, Hearst-International News Pictorial, No. 52 |
Jul 6 |
Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies |
Jul 6 |
John Purroy Mitchel, Animated Weekly, No. 43 |
Jul 12 |
Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864) |
Jul 14 |
Paul Cinquevalli, Cannon Ball Juggling |
Jul 17 |
Aleksei N Romanov, son and heir of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 13 |
Jul 17 |
Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death at 46 |
Jul 17 |
Anastasia Nikolaevna, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 17 |
Jul 17 |
Botkin, personal physician of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
Jul 17 |
Charitonov, cook of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
Jul 17 |
Demidova, lady in waiting of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
Jul 17 |
Maria Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
Jul 17 |
Nicholas II Alexandrovich, last Tsar of Russia, executed at 50 |
Jul 17 |
Olga Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
Jul 17 |
Tatyana Romanova, daughter of RussianTsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
Jul 17 |
Trupp, lackey of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death |
Jul 17 |
Grand Duchess Marie, |
Jul 17 |
Grand Duchess Anastasia, |
Jul 17 |
Grand Duchess Olga, De kongelige skal fotograferes |
Jul 17 |
Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov, |
Jul 17 |
Grand Duchess Tatiana, De kongelige skal fotograferes |
Jul 17 |
Tsarina Alexandra, Scene from the Coronation of the Czar of Russia |
Jul 17 |
Tsar Nicholas II, Scene from the Coronation of the Czar of Russia |
Jul 18 |
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864) |
Jul 19 |
Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa), dies |
Jul 22 |
Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898) |
Jul 24 |
Edgar L. Davenport, Four Feathers |
Jul 25 |
Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentine poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies |
Jul 25 |
Franiska zu Reventlow, writer, dies at 47 |
Jul 26 |
Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies |
Jul 29 |
Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863) |
Jul 30 |
Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies |
Jul 30 |
Joyce Kilmer, American poet, dies at 31 |
Jul 30 |
Joyce Kilmer, Melody Time |
Jul 31 |
Peter Nansen, Lille Klaus og store Klaus |
Aug 1 |
John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854) |
Aug 3 |
Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41 |
Aug 8 |
Gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright, dies at 38 |
Aug 10 |
Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897) |
Aug 12 |
Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872) |
Aug 12 |
Anna Held, Elevating an Elephant |
Aug 12 |
Arnold Christensen, H.P. hænger paa 'en |
Aug 15 |
Peter Gast, composer, dies at 64 |
Aug 17 |
Jacob Gallinger, Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession |
Aug 18 |
Lillian Peacock, Lemonade Aids Cupid |
Aug 22 |
Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868) |
Aug 28 |
Arthur Playfair, Judged by Appearances |
Aug 29 |
Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51 |
Aug 29 |
Max Dauthendey, The Ring of the Empress |
Aug 31 |
Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I), dies at 36 |
Sep 3 |
Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed |
Sep 4 |
Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51) |
Sep 7 |
William Hutchinson, Small Town Stuff |
Sep 12 |
George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845) |
Sep 16 |
Márta Szentgyörgyi, Selim Nuno, a börzecézár |
Sep 17 |
Cardinal Farley, But the Greatest of These Is Charity |
Sep 17 |
Loyd Wheaton, A Charge of the Insurgents |
Sep 18 |
Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer, dies at 33 |
Sep 19 |
Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer, dies at 56 |
Sep 20 |
Prins Erik, De kongelige skal fotograferes |
Sep 21 |
Hal August, The Romance of an Actor |
Sep 25 |
John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul, dies at 80 |
Sep 25 |
Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857) |
Sep 28 |
Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858) |
Sep 28 |
Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896) |
Sep 28 |
True Boardman, Tarzan of the Apes |
Sep 28 |
Eduard von Keyserling, Wellen |
Oct 2 |
Edwin Arden, The Eagle's Nest |
Oct 2 |
Nelly De Heer, Toffe jongens onder de mobilisatie (deel 1) |
Oct 4 |
Eric Hudson, Romeo and Juliet |
Oct 5 |
Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies |
Oct 5 |
John J. Williams, Marse Covington |
Oct 5 |
Roland Garros, Who Killed the Red Baron? |
Oct 7 |
C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70 |
Oct 7 |
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Atonement |
Oct 8 |
Mikhail Alekseyev, |
Oct 9 |
Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60 |
Oct 9 |
Mogens Enger, Wenn die Lawinen stürzen |
Oct 10 |
Lawrence Peyton, Martin Eden |
Oct 12 |
Madison C. Peters, The Way of the Cross |
Oct 13 |
Gerrit Engelke, German writer (Briefer der Liebe), dies |
Oct 15 |
Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (b. circa 1838) |
Oct 16 |
Felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29 |
Oct 16 |
Felix Arndt, Behind the Candelabra |
Oct 17 |
Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb South African batsman 1905-12), dies |
Oct 17 |
Arthur Moon, Going to the Dogs |
Oct 18 |
Charles Crozat Converse, There Will Be Blood |
Oct 19 |
Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WW I), dies at 34 |
Oct 19 |
Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887) |
Oct 19 |
Harold Lockwood, Tess of the Storm Country |
Oct 20 |
Gyula Török, A kis lord |
Oct 20 |
Gyula Török, A zöldköves gyürü |
Oct 22 |
Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891) |
Oct 22 |
Myrtle Gonzalez, The Show Down |
Oct 22 |
Julian L'Estrange, The Girl with the Green Eyes |
Oct 23 |
John H. Collins, Children of Eve |
Oct 24 |
Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86 |
Oct 24 |
Einar Zangenberg, Hunting the Game of a Large City |
Oct 24 |
Donna Drew, The Ghost Girl |
Oct 24 |
Charles Lecocq, La petite mariée |
Oct 27 |
George Binns, The Camera Cure |
Oct 28 |
Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845) |
Oct 28 |
Walt Rosenberg, Taifun |
Oct 29 |
Paul West, A Mormon Maid |
Oct 31 |
Egon Schiele, Austria painter/graphic artist, dies at 28 |
Oct 31 |
Stephen Tisza, Hungarian PM (-1917), assassinated by soldiers |
Oct 31 |
Burrell Barbaretto, Our Mutual Girl, No. 9 |
Nov 3 |
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857) |
Nov 4 |
Wilfred Owens, anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25 |
Nov 4 |
Wilfred Owen, Drumhead |
Nov 5 |
Hôgetsu Shimamura, Katyusha no uta |
Nov 5 |
William Shea, Auld Robin Gray |
Nov 6 |
W.B. Pearson, Hell's Crater |
Nov 9 |
Guillaume Apollinaire, [Kostrowitsky], Fr poet (Alcools), dies at 38 |
Nov 9 |
Guillaume Apollinaire, What Every Frenchwoman Wants |
Nov 9 |
Tessie Harron, Hearts of the World |
Nov 11 |
Victor Adler, Austrian neurologist/foreign minister, dies |
Nov 11 |
George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892) |
Nov 13 |
Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Fries author, dies at 28 |
Nov 14 |
Robert A. Van Wyck, Admiral Dewey and Mayor Van Wyck Going Down Riverside Drive |
Nov 15 |
Georges Antoine, composer, dies at 26 |
Nov 16 |
J.H. Deuntzer, Kong Christian IX modtager storhertug Friedrich-Franz |
Nov 17 |
Wayland Trask, Fatty and Mabel Adrift |
Nov 18 |
Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies |
Nov 19 |
Joseph F. Smith, Latter-Day Saint Leaders: Past and Present |
Nov 26 |
Charlie McLeod, cricketer (all-rounder for Australia 1894-1905), dies |
Nov 26 |
Andrée Lumière, Baby's Dinner |
Nov 28 |
Alexis Contant, composer, dies at 60 |
Nov 29 |
Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Helten), dies at 40 |
Nov 30 |
Kenneth S. Goodman, The Game of Chess |
Dec 1 |
Margit Kaffka, Hangyaboly |
Dec 2 |
Margit Kaffka, writer, dies at 38 |
Dec 2 |
Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868) |
Dec 2 |
Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac |
Dec 6 |
Charles Gunn, Framing Framers |
Dec 6 |
Ida Nielsen, The Divine Law |
Dec 11 |
Ivan Cankar, Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at 42 |
Dec 11 |
Ivan Cankar, Idealist |
Dec 14 |
Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, murdered |
Dec 14 |
G. Harold Percival, The False Faces |
Dec 17 |
Lionel Bradshaw, How Green Paid the Rent |
Dec 18 |
Henryk Jarecki, composer, dies at 72 |
Dec 21 |
Hobey Baker, |
Dec 22 |
Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83 |
Dec 24 |
Carlo Møller, Min Svigerinde fra Amerika |
Dec 26 |
Bertram Luard-Selby, composer, dies at 65 |
Dec 27 |
Birt Acres, Rough Sea at Dover |
Dec 28 |
George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies |
Dec 28 |
Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865) |
Dec 29 |
Jode Mullally, The Blood of His Fathers |
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