Notable Deaths on April 18th
April 18th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
680 |
Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies |
1161 |
Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury |
1504 |
Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52 |
1530 |
Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43 |
1552 |
John Leland, antiquary, dies |
1556 |
Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61 |
1558 |
Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent |
1567 |
Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 |
1587 |
John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies |
1610 |
Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63 |
1612 |
Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian, dies |
1636 |
Julius Caesar, English judge |
1650 |
Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian (b. 1602) |
1674 |
John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620) |
1679 |
Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies |
1684 |
Gonzales Cocx, [Coques], painter, dies |
1689 |
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge, dies |
1690 |
Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian fieldmarshal, dies |
1710 |
Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 75 |
1732 |
Louis Feuillée, French explorer (b. 1660) |
1794 |
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714) |
1796 |
Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732) |
1800 |
John Evangelist Schreiber, composer, dies at 84 |
1800 |
Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies |
1807 |
Erasmus Darwin, physician writer and botanist (Influence), dies (b. 1731) |
1818 |
Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch lawyer, dies at 59 |
1824 |
Edward Jones, composer, dies at 72 |
1830 |
Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer, dies at 62 |
1845 |
Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77 |
1853 |
William King, US VP, dies a month after his inauguration |
1854 |
Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84 |
1855 |
Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter, dies |
1861 |
Heinrich August Neithardt, composer, dies at 67 |
1867 |
Robert Smirke, architect, dies |
1871 |
Omar Pasha, [Michael Lats], Croatian governor, dies at 64 |
1873 |
Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69 |
1877 |
Franz Hanfstaengl, Lust for Life |
1879 |
Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies |
1883 |
Agnes Tyrrell, composer, dies at 36 |
1898 |
Gustave Moureau, painter, dies |
1906 |
Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846) |
1917 |
Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17), dies at 73 |
1917 |
Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858) |
1919 |
Enny Vrede, [Maria M Muller], Dutch actress, drowns at 35 |
1921 |
Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering), dies at 70 |
1925 |
Charles Ebbets, Pres (Dodgers), dies |
1925 |
Ray Grey, Down on the Farm |
1926 |
Tom Mowbray, The Brass Bottle |
1928 |
Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer, dies at 58 |
1934 |
Connie Ediss, A Warm Corner |
1934 |
John James Blaine, Some Opinions on Hoover Board's Dry Law Report |
1935 |
Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90 |
1935 |
Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884) |
1935 |
Sam Godfrey, Torch Singer |
1936 |
Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56 |
1936 |
Seaborn M Denson, composer, dies at 82 |
1936 |
Ottorino Respighi, The Tree of Life |
1938 |
Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, dies |
1939 |
Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88 |
1939 |
Theo Mann-Bouwmeester, Frauenmoral |
1939 |
Bertha Kalich, Love and Hate |
1939 |
Zygmunt Mayflauer, Krzyk |
1940 |
Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies |
1940 |
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies |
1940 |
Robert Hale, What Happened to Harkness? |
1940 |
Florrie Forde, Say It with Flowers |
1940 |
Norman Selby, Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl |
1940 |
Carl Lauritzen, The End of the World |
1941 |
... Korysis, PM of Greece, commits suicide |
1942 |
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875) |
1942 |
Frederick Vogeding, Ulbo Garvema |
1942 |
Joseph Stringer, My Doggone Destiny |
1942 |
Lizzie McCall, The Other Girl |
1943 |
I Yamamoto, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies |
1943 |
Leon Farey, The Gold Rush |
1943 |
Julius Brammer, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
1943 |
Isoroku Yamamoto, Price for Peace |
1944 |
Cécile Chamindale, composer, dies |
1944 |
Harry Keenan, The Toast of Death |
1945 |
Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44 |
1945 |
John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies |
1945 |
Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900) |
1945 |
Ernie Pyle, Story of G.I. Joe |
1946 |
Enoch O. Van Pelt, Dynamite Dan |
1947 |
Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51 |
1947 |
Maria Reisenhofer, Der Liebeskäfig |
1947 |
Jozef Tiso, |
1947 |
Benny Leonard, The Jazz Fight |
1948 |
Piotr Zajlich, Blanc et noir |
1949 |
Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher, dies |
1949 |
Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888) |
1949 |
Henry Schuster, The Great McGinty |
1949 |
Davy Burnaby, On the Air |
1949 |
Will Hay, Oh, Mr. Porter! |
1950 |
Wilhelm Scharrelmann, Hochzeit im Haifisch |
1951 |
António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869) |
1951 |
Arthur H. Vandenberg, Universal Newsreel |
1951 |
Amanda Lindner, I by Day, You by Night |
1952 |
Art Dupuis, The Last of the Mohicans |
1952 |
Charles Waldron Jr., For You I Die |
1953 |
Roland Asher, The Sawmill |
1954 |
Ralph Gomez, Road to Rio |
1955 |
Don Blackie, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1928-29), dies at 46 |
1955 |
Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70 |
1955 |
Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (b. 1879) |
1955 |
Albert Einstein, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy |
1956 |
Jamesson Shade, Cover Up |
1956 |
James MacColl, This Is the Army |
1957 |
Kosti Aaltonen, Vihreä kulta |
1957 |
Walter Young, Delinquent Parents |
1958 |
Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French generalissmo (WW I, WW II), dies at 85 |
1958 |
Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies), dies |
1958 |
John Garside, Parliament of Science |
1958 |
Edward H. Plumb, Dumbo |
1958 |
Noah Young, Safety Last! |
1959 |
Irving Cummings Sr, actor/director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70 |
1959 |
Émile Ronet, The Love of a Woman |
1959 |
Irving Cummings, Curly Top |
1960 |
Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66 |
1961 |
Robert Haines, Citizen Kane |
1963 |
Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death |
1963 |
Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880) |
1964 |
Albe Vidakovic, composer, dies at 49 |
1964 |
Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71 |
1965 |
Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917) |
1967 |
Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913) |
1968 |
Bob Mark, Lost in Space |
1969 |
Piotr F Scharoff, Russ/Italian actor/director (Chechov), dies at 82 |
1971 |
Masao Oki, composer, dies at 69 |
1974 |
Betty Compson, actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at 77 |
1974 |
Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79 |
1975 |
Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet), chansonnier/director, dies at 38 |
1976 |
Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78 |
1976 |
Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer (b. 1911) |
1976 |
James Drake, Target Earth |
1978 |
Ann Morrison, General Hospital |
1978 |
Charles Edwards, The Unusual Honeymoon |
1979 |
Alfonso Sánchez Tello, Two Mules for Sister Sara |
1980 |
Stig Cederholm, Åsa-Nisse |
1980 |
Hans Werner, Kiss Me Casanova |
1981 |
William H. O'Brien, Let Us Be Gay |
1981 |
A. Downs, Sullivan's Travels |
1981 |
Maurice Downs, 'Sheba, Baby' |
1981 |
Hisashi Yokomori, The Bad Sleep Well |
1982 |
Nina Popelíková, Certova nevesta |
1983 |
Alan Melville, cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies |
1983 |
Marc Wilder, The Tender Trap |
1984 |
John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81 |
1984 |
Sandy Haver, The Mask |
1984 |
John Lee Mahin, Scarface |
1984 |
Arvi Kivimaa, Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen |
1984 |
Leopold Lindtberg, The Village |
1985 |
Herbert Kuchenbuch, Storm Over Mont Blanc |
1985 |
Walter Decker, A Guy Named Joe |
1985 |
Dorothy Frere, Porn Yesterday |
1986 |
Marcel Dassault, [Bloch], French airplane builder, dies at 94 |
1986 |
Joey Yale, The Private Pleasures of John C. Holmes |
1986 |
Marcel Dassault, Jamais avant le mariage |
1986 |
Antonio Lauro, Candy Regentag |
1987 |
Alfeo Bocchicchio, Angels Belong in Heaven |
1987 |
Jane Hall, These Glamour Girls |
1987 |
Eduardo Alcaraz, Zorro: The Gay Blade |
1987 |
Stewart Garner, Arson Squad |
1987 |
Kenneth Cook, Wake in Fright |
1988 |
Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939) |
1988 |
John Parrish, The Ten Commandments |
1988 |
Raymond Vogel, La mer et les jours |
1988 |
Linda Batista, É de Chuá |
1988 |
Oktay Rifat, Çil horoz |
1988 |
Pierre Desproges, Nazis dans le métro |
1989 |
Vlasta Matulová, Nezbedný bakalár |
1989 |
Barbara Fritchie, Thunder Mountain |
1989 |
Ruth Berle, Lucy Meets the Berles |
1990 |
Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87 |
1990 |
Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921) |
1990 |
Victoria O'Keefe, Episode #1.6 |
1990 |
Frédéric Rossif, Mourir à Madrid |
1990 |
Gory Guerrero, Santo contra los zombies |
1990 |
Robert D. Webb, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef |
1990 |
Louis Bandy, Asylum of Satan |
1991 |
Martin Hannett, Rust and Bone |
1991 |
Fredy Ripers, Las cartas de Alou |
1991 |
Heino Jürisalu, Ott kosmoses |
1991 |
George Gibson, The Wizard of Oz |
1991 |
Alain Saury, Carve Her Name with Pride |
1991 |
Leon Selznick, The Phantom Planet |
1991 |
Rudolf Keijser, Vårat gäng |
1991 |
Sheldon Jones, Game 4 |
1992 |
Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at 54 of cancer |
1992 |
Kenneth Earl, The Big Trees |
1992 |
Rudy Geldhof, De bossen van Vlaanderen |
1993 |
Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76 |
1993 |
Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917) |
1993 |
Dame Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor and printmaker dies of cancer aged 62 |
1993 |
Werner Pochath, Flatfoot in Africa |
1993 |
Gloria Clark, Diary of a Madman |
1993 |
Elisabeth Frink, These Are the Damned |
1993 |
Bernie Wayne, Raging Bull |
1994 |
Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32 |
1994 |
Jack Holland, The Last Laugh |
1994 |
Bondo Goginava, Treasure |
1995 |
Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies |
1995 |
Roza Makagonova, Vernye serdtsa |
1995 |
Florindo Andreolli, Pagliacci |
1995 |
Loup Durand, Entrusted |
1995 |
Eileen Burns, Ask Me Again |
1995 |
Delania Raffino, Summer Heat |
1995 |
Chuck Painter, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
1996 |
Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner, dies at 62 |
1996 |
Michael Leander Farr, record producer, dies at 55 |
1996 |
Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80 |
1996 |
Robert William Paine, architect, dies at 88 |
1996 |
Bernard Edwards, Toy Story 3 |
1996 |
Mike Leander, Pirate Radio |
1996 |
Jalal Moghadam, Samad and Foolad Zereh, the ogre |
1996 |
Fabio Inghirami, Knots |
1996 |
Ismael Fernandes, Meus Filhos, Minha Vida |
1996 |
Piet Hein, Piet Heins univers |
1996 |
Fred G. Sullivan, The Beer Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking |
1997 |
Edward Barker, cartoonist, dies at 46 |
1997 |
Georgia Schmidt, Goin' South |
1997 |
Don Pietro, The Lost Chance |
1998 |
Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917) |
1998 |
Ray Alchin, The Private War of Lucinda Smith |
1998 |
Nélson Gonçalves, Moleque Tião |
1998 |
Terry Garvin, The Wrestling Queen |
1998 |
Bill Edmondson, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
1998 |
Robert Heasley, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. |
1999 |
Constance Edney, It's Christmas Time in the City |
1999 |
Raymond Caillava, Les clandestines |
1999 |
Gian Carlo Rota, Race for the Superbomb |
1999 |
Herman Miller, Coogan's Bluff |
1999 |
Vicente Escrivá, Balarrasa |
2000 |
Margaret Caroline Falor, Pied Piper Malone |
2000 |
Charles Stafford, Seven Sinners |
2000 |
Cliff Cunningham, Untamed Heart |
2000 |
José Garcimore, Carlos |
2000 |
Tony Frank, Lone Star |
2000 |
Erzsi Pártos, Goose Boy |
2001 |
Krzysztof Bukowski, Czytajac Sienkiewicza na pustyni Negev |
2001 |
Khurshid Begum, Moorti |
2002 |
Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (Kon Tiki expedition) (b. 1914) |
2002 |
Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938) |
2002 |
Declan Langan, Erotic Images |
2002 |
Bert Avery, Grace & Favour: A Portrait of Gloucestershire CCC |
2002 |
Ed McDaniel, Starrcade |
2002 |
Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki |
2003 |
Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923) |
2003 |
Toni Hagen, Mönche, Tänzer und Soldaten |
2003 |
Emil Loteanu, Queen of the Gypsies |
2003 |
Aaron Wolf, Think Fast, Mr. Moto |
2004 |
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920) |
2004 |
David Clarke, The Narrow Margin |
2004 |
Norton Mockridge, Teacher's Pet |
2004 |
Abdel-Aziz Rantissi, Episode dated 24 March 2004 |
2004 |
Tzila Dagan, Episode #1.6 |
2004 |
Frances Rafferty, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood |
2004 |
Werner Schumacher, Stuttgarter Blüten |
2004 |
Olga Druce, The Enemy from Within |
2005 |
Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959) |
2005 |
Ryan Effner, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child |
2005 |
Kenneth Schermerhorn, The Nutcracker |
2005 |
John Patton Jr., The Color Purple |
2005 |
Sam Mills, Super Bowl XXXVIII |
2005 |
Brenton Swift, Halloween 5 |
2006 |
Krystian Buszkiewicz, Nowy Jork, czwarta rano |
2006 |
Henri Duparc, Le sixième doigt |
2006 |
Michal Maryniarczyk, Camera Buff |
2006 |
Aída Alberti, Cuando en el cielo pasen lista |
2007 |
Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki (b. 1945) |
2007 |
Dick Vosburgh, The Rory Bremner Show |
2007 |
Pieke Dassen, August loopt weg |
2007 |
Joseph Saleh, Savages |
2008 |
Peter Howard, Annie |
2008 |
Jarkko Rantanen, Kirjailija Helteen kevät |
2008 |
Isao Yatsu, Dark Water |
2008 |
Kay Linaker, Drums Along the Mohawk |
2008 |
Bud Stone, The Projectionist |
2008 |
Hans-Joachim Aderhold, Zugverkehr unregelmäßig |
2008 |
Joy Page, Casablanca |
2008 |
Cathleen Keller, Egypt: Land of Mummies |
2009 |
Stephanie Parker, Welsh actress (b. 1987) |
2009 |
Stephanie Parker, Movement |
2009 |
Yvon Bourges, Reporters |
2009 |
Paul Löwinger Jr., Der Hausfreund |
2009 |
Peter Dennis, Shrek |
2009 |
Alexi Carrington, I Just Fucked Your Mother |
2009 |
Silvia Grohs Martin, Prisoner of Paradise |
2010 |
Paul Bisciglia, Asterix in Britain |
2010 |
Tom Fleming, Mary, Queen of Scots |
2010 |
Thomas H. Connell, Bellini's I Puritani |
2010 |
Sheila K. Adams, Psycho II |
2010 |
Michael Adams, Catch Me If You Can |
2010 |
Mario DaRe, Episode #5.35 |
2010 |
Rani Dubé, Gandhi |
2010 |
Allen Swift, Mad Monster Party? |
2011 |
Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (b. 1985) |
2011 |
Andrzej Piszczatowski, Episode #1.49 |
2011 |
Pattie Chapman, Grand Opening |
2011 |
Stefanie Mühle, Duett in Bonn |
2011 |
Ivica Vidovic, WR: Mysteries of the Organism |
2011 |
Bob Kelly, Cop Hater |
2011 |
William Donald Schaefer, ..And Justice for All |
2011 |
Pilar Bauman, Inkorrekt(e)s |
2012 |
Dick Clark, American radio and television personality, dies from a heart attack at 82 |
2012 |
Dick Clark, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind |
2012 |
Tina De Mola, March's Child |
2012 |
Naum Shopov, Toplo |
2012 |
Hillman Curtis, Soldiers |
2012 |
Ireneusz Bogajewicz, The Red Violin |
2012 |
Robert O. Ragland, Grizzly |
2013 |
Storm Thorgerson, English graphic designer, dies from cancer at 69 |
2013 |
Elisabeth Scherer, Now or Never |
2013 |
Storm Thorgerson, Drug-Taking and the Arts |
2013 |
Vytautas Sapranauskas, Redirected |
2013 |
Pat Kennedy, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files |
2013 |
Cordell Mosson, Coffee and Cigarettes |
2013 |
Aldo De Luca, Naftalina |
2014 |
Habib Boulares, Yusra |
2014 |
Sandy Frank, Episode #1.9 |
2014 |
John Cabrera, Conan the Barbarian |
2014 |
Paul Wurtzel, Pilot |
2014 |
Antonín Molcík, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven |
2015 |
K. Srinivasa Chakravarthy, Little Soldiers |
2015 |
Aleksandr Blok, Smert v pryamom efire |
2017 |
Director of China's 'Journey to the West', Yang Jie, dies aged 88 |
2017 |
Legendary Internet and computer pioneer Robert W Taylor dies aged 85 |
2018 |
Carl Kasell, longtime NPR newscaster, dies at 84 |
2018 |
Barbara Bush, former first lady and matriarch of Bush family, dies at 92 |
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