Notable Deaths on August 18th
August 18th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
353 |
Decentius, Roman usurper |
849 |
Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian |
1227 |
Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies |
1236 |
Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies |
1258 |
Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea |
1276 |
Adrian V, [Ottobono Fieschi], Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies |
1318 |
Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268) |
1430 |
Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406) |
1503 |
Alexander VI, [Rodrigo de Borja], Spanish Pope (1492-1503), dies |
1559 |
Paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], Pope (1555-59), dies at 83 |
1563 |
Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530) |
1613 |
Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer |
1620 |
Wanli, Emperor of China (b. 1563) |
1634 |
Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590) |
1642 |
Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575) |
1642 |
Guido Reni, Sister Wendy at the Norton Simon Museum |
1645 |
Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608) |
1652 |
Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter, dies at about 40 |
1683 |
Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625) |
1707 |
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (b. 1640) |
1712 |
Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier |
1765 |
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1745-65) dies at 56 |
1803 |
James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 67 |
1809 |
Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728) |
1811 |
Johann Heinrich Zang, composer, dies at 78 |
1815 |
Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759) |
1840 |
Antony CW Staring, Dutch patriot/poet (Jaromir), dies at 73 |
1842 |
Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779) |
1850 |
H de Balzac, writer, dies at 51 |
1850 |
Honoré de Balzac, La belle noiseuse |
1853 |
Peter Lichtenthal, composer, dies at 73 |
1863 |
Thomas Welsh, US Union brig-general (Antietam), dies at 39 |
1870 |
Felix Salm-Salm, Prussian/US prince/brig-general, dies in battle |
1888 |
Franklin Távora, 0' Cabeleira |
1889 |
Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Kyvadlo, jáma a nadeje |
1894 |
William Charles Levey, composer, dies at 57 |
1896 |
Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer, dies at 88 |
1896 |
F. Crouch, When Brendan Met Trudy |
1901 |
Richard Kleinmichel, composer, dies at 54 |
1905 |
Albert Edelfelt, Albert Edelfelt in the Luxembourg Gardens |
1907 |
John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82 |
1916 |
Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36 |
1916 |
Vilhelm Wiehe, Den farlige leg |
1918 |
Lillian Peacock, Lemonade Aids Cupid |
1919 |
Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841) |
1922 |
William Henry Hudson, Green Mansions |
1925 |
Edward Flanagan, Love on Rollers |
1929 |
Grant Stewart, Arms and the Girl |
1932 |
George Neville, Way Down East |
1933 |
James Williamson, A Photographic Contortion |
1934 |
Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Oakland Tribune), dies at 61 |
1935 |
Spencer Bell, Tenderfeet |
1936 |
Harold Berquist, Timber Terrors |
1938 |
Marvin Loback, The Big Shot |
1939 |
Enrico Serretta, Cura di baci |
1939 |
Robert Neppach, From Morn to Midnight |
1940 |
Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875) |
1940 |
James Lee Davis, Cimarron |
1940 |
Joe Neary, Let 'Er Run |
1941 |
Austin Egen, Tingel-Tangel |
1942 |
Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist, dies at 48 |
1942 |
Allan Sears, The Mystery of the Leaping Fish |
1942 |
Erwin Schulhoff, Volume 1: 2010 |
1942 |
Rafaela Ottiano, Grand Hotel |
1943 |
Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide |
1943 |
Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865) |
1944 |
Ernst "Teddy" Thalmann, leader of German KPD, dies |
1944 |
Ernst Thälmann, |
1946 |
Trem Carr, Swing Parade of 1946 |
1947 |
D.H. Turner, Her American Prince |
1947 |
Vasiliy Zaychikov, We Are from Kronstadt |
1948 |
S. Cartaino Scarpitta, I Give My Love |
1949 |
Paul J Mares, US jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49 |
1949 |
Reimar Kuntze, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City |
1949 |
Paul Mares, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
1950 |
Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered |
1950 |
Gabrielle Enthoven, The Quest of Life |
1951 |
Walter Bloem, Furlough on Parole |
1952 |
Ralph Byrd, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show), dies at 43 |
1952 |
Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit saint (b. 1901) |
1952 |
Ralph Byrd, Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome |
1952 |
Louis Schmidt, Amatørtyvens Hustru |
1954 |
Jimmy Lono, Three Days to Live |
1955 |
Guy Bevier, Tarzan the Tiger |
1956 |
Milton Moore, He Who Gets Slapped |
1957 |
Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer, dies at 41 |
1957 |
Jiri Slavicek, The Golem |
1957 |
Tyyne Jauri, Vieraalla maaperällä |
1957 |
Louis Levy, The 39 Steps |
1958 |
Raymond Narlay, Sacrifice d'honneur |
1958 |
Fritz Arno Wagner, M |
1959 |
Hazel Flint, The Bootleggers |
1960 |
Walter Carlson, Both Barrels Blazing |
1961 |
Learned Hand, Chief judge of US court of Appeals, dies at 89 |
1961 |
Leonhard Frank, writer, dies at 78 |
1961 |
Sonny Lamont, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle |
1961 |
Turan Seyfioglu, The White Hell |
1961 |
Jack Lait Jr., Texas Masquerade |
1962 |
Cleo Ridgely, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama), dies at 68 |
1962 |
Gyula id. Szabó, Merry-Go-Round |
1962 |
Gizi Bogár, Vissza az úton |
1966 |
Isaac Keesing, Dutch founder (System Keesing), dies at 80 |
1966 |
Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle & Blessing), dies at 75 |
1968 |
Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52 |
1969 |
Laci Boldemann, composer, dies at 48 |
1969 |
Mildred Davis, actress (Haunted Spooks), dies of coronary at 68 |
1969 |
Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81 |
1969 |
Mildred Davis, Safety Last! |
1975 |
John Kriza, Lizzie Borden |
1979 |
David Orrick McDearmon, Execution |
1980 |
Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65 |
1980 |
Józef Kostecki, Ogniomistrz Kalen |
1980 |
Debabrata Biswas, The Cloud-Capped Star |
1981 |
Anita Loos, US (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88 |
1981 |
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
1981 |
Bill Koza, My Bodyguard |
1981 |
Robert Russell Bennett, The King and I |
1981 |
Carolina Nabuco, A Sucessora |
1982 |
Beverly Bayne, actress (Romeo & Juliet, Passionate Youth), dies at 87 |
1982 |
Ben Chandler, The Starships Are Coming |
1982 |
Ben Morris, Kiss Me Deadly |
1982 |
Beverly Bayne, Passionate Youth |
1982 |
Jacques Riberolles, The Young Girls of Rochefort |
1983 |
Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902) |
1983 |
Nikolai Alekseyev, Svet dalyokoy zvezdy |
1983 |
Wilho Ilmari, Yli rajan |
1983 |
Antonina Bogdanova, The Cranes Are Flying |
1984 |
Ulrich Baumgartner, Kassbach - Ein Portrait |
1985 |
Maria Kedzierska, Border Street |
1985 |
Levente Sipeki, Az életbe táncoltatott leány |
1985 |
Reg Lever, Scrooge |
1987 |
Shichirô Fukazawa, The Ballad of Narayama |
1988 |
Alexandr V Shchukin, Russian cosmonaut, dies in SU-26 crash at 42 |
1988 |
Frederick Ashton, British choreographer (Cinderella), dies at 83 |
1988 |
Yefim Uchitel, Leningrad v borbe |
1988 |
Frederick Ashton, Tales of Beatrix Potter |
1988 |
Kalevi Honkanen, Osa 4 |
1989 |
Bert Oosterbosch, cyclist, dies |
1989 |
Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian presidential candidate, murdered |
1989 |
Leonard H. Pass, Endless Love |
1989 |
Chrissie White, The Sneeze |
1990 |
B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86 |
1990 |
Raf Reymen, Flemish actor, dies |
1990 |
Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938) |
1990 |
Raf Reymen, Woman Between Wolf and Dog |
1990 |
B.F. Skinner, The Mechanism of Moral Development |
1990 |
Gordon Cole, The Ten Commandments |
1990 |
Grethe Ingmann, Deutsche Schlagerfestival 1963 |
1990 |
Gerry Boulet, Gerry |
1991 |
Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies |
1991 |
George Rowley, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
1991 |
Rick Griffin, Pacific Vibrations |
1991 |
Ann Teeman, Episode dated 3 August 1954 |
1991 |
Rae-Nell Laskey, The Wizard of Oz |
1991 |
David Gale, Re-Animator |
1992 |
Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies |
1992 |
John Stuges, director (Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82 |
1992 |
Christopher McCandless, subject of the book Into the Wild (b. 1968) |
1992 |
Louis DeWitt, The Killing |
1992 |
Christopher Johnson McCandless, Into the Wild |
1992 |
John Sturges, The Great Escape |
1993 |
Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47 |
1993 |
Cassiano Gabus Mendes, Ti Ti Ti |
1993 |
Frederic Nay, Dämon Blut - 2. Teil |
1993 |
Lyudmila Nevzglyad, Heavenly Swallows |
1993 |
Jack Garsha, The Right Stuff |
1993 |
Cor Brak, Waar heb dat nou voor nodig |
1994 |
Gottlob Frick, singer, dies at 88 |
1994 |
John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84 |
1994 |
Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent, dies at 56 |
1994 |
Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, chromatographer, dies at 79 |
1994 |
Gottlob Frick, Die Kluge - Die Geschichte von dem König und der klugen Frau |
1994 |
Clarke Reynolds, Shalako |
1994 |
Mime Fønss, The Performance Will Be Followed by a Dance |
1994 |
Charles Redland, Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn |
1994 |
Ivan Lyons, Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? |
1995 |
James Ackley Maxwell, actor/director (Traitors, Otley), dies at 66 |
1995 |
Sylvester Louis Adams, murderer, dies at 39 |
1995 |
Zofia Zajaczkowska, Pan Tadeusz |
1995 |
Dick Hogan, Rope |
1995 |
James Maxwell, The Evil of Frankenstein |
1995 |
Alex Joffé, The Hotshots |
1995 |
Leonard Bell, Four Rode Out |
1995 |
Knud Holst, Døende idyl - alternativt miljø |
1995 |
Julio Caro Baroja, El país Vasco |
1995 |
Alan Dell, Yeats Country |
1995 |
Donald Bisset, Ragtime |
1995 |
Gunnar Svensson, The Adventures of Picasso |
1996 |
Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, dies at 103 |
1996 |
Hugo Gabriel Gryn, rabbi, dies at 66 |
1996 |
Thoams Eric Evans, dean of St Paul's, dies at 68 |
1996 |
Al Bertino, Rugged Bear |
1997 |
Kuzman Shopov, Heroes of Shipka |
1997 |
Don Knight, Swamp Thing |
1997 |
Jeep Swenson, Batman & Robin |
1998 |
Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (Star Trek), dies of a heart attack at 49 |
1998 |
Jürgen Pooch, Die Venus von Müggensack |
1998 |
Stuart Regen, Leaving Las Vegas |
1998 |
Ralph Peda, The Silver Chalice |
1998 |
Ward 'Pally' Austin, Summer City |
1998 |
Persis Khambatta, Star Trek: The Motion Picture |
1999 |
Hanoch Levin, Floch |
1999 |
Irwin Safchik, Episode dated 31 July 1970 |
1999 |
Don Stott, Logan's Run |
2000 |
Morton Shulman, Episode #1.1 |
2000 |
Willie Pratt, Sensations of 1945 |
2000 |
E.H. Eric, Tokyo yoitoko |
2001 |
David Peakall, British scientist (b. 1931) |
2001 |
Hillel Kook, Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? |
2001 |
Ildar Urmanche, Barankin, bud chelovekom! |
2001 |
Alec Grahame, Cocktails in the Kitchen |
2001 |
Tom Watson, The Winter Guest |
2001 |
Ed Cambridge, Deep Cover |
2001 |
Giovanni Grazzini, Three Sisters |
2001 |
Jack Elliott, The Jerk |
2002 |
Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (b. 1918) |
2002 |
Dean Riesner, Dirty Harry |
2003 |
Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (b. 1938) |
2003 |
Cecilia Callejo, It's a Wonderful World |
2003 |
Henry Büchmann, Olsen-bandens flugt over plankeværket |
2003 |
Zachary Andrew Turner, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father |
2003 |
Tony Jackson, Saturday Night Out |
2003 |
Hans Wilbrink, Dame Kobold |
2003 |
Kevin Oakley, The Iron Giant |
2003 |
Endre Szász, Stars of Eger |
2004 |
Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922) |
2004 |
Hiram Fong, former U.S. Senator from Hawaii (b. 1906) |
2004 |
Keith P. Calden, The Towering Inferno |
2004 |
Hugh Manning, The Elephant Man |
2004 |
Elmer Bernstein, Cape Fear |
2005 |
Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982) |
2005 |
Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (b. 1959) |
2005 |
Martin Eckermann, Episode #1.2 |
2005 |
Jensen Collier, A Little Night Work |
2005 |
Ronaldo Lupo, Tem Boi na Linha |
2005 |
Antonio García de Pedro, We Stand Alone Together |
2005 |
Meredith M. Nicholson, The Amazing Transparent Man |
2005 |
Elza Radzina, Hamlet |
2005 |
Hal Frank, Thief |
2005 |
Henri Génès, The Sucker |
2006 |
Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934) |
2006 |
Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946) |
2006 |
Jeff Tennyson, History on a Bun |
2006 |
Jan Spáta, Respice finem |
2006 |
Fernand Gignac, Les moineau et les Pinson |
2006 |
Stefan Witas, Inspekcja pana Anatola |
2006 |
Lorena Parlee, Cesar's Last Fast |
2006 |
Bertil Malmqvist, De många sängarna |
2006 |
Elk Alves, Meu Japão Brasileiro |
2007 |
Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff (b. 1938) |
2007 |
Magdalen Nabb, The Marshal |
2007 |
Michael Deaver, Week 1 |
2008 |
Jack Robert Ramsey, Possums |
2008 |
Gerhard Branstner, Alarm am See |
2008 |
Missy, Bad Wives |
2008 |
Henry Djanik, Time Masters |
2008 |
Floyd Peters, Minnesota Vikings vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
2008 |
Manny Farber, Negative Space |
2008 |
Jacques Demeure, Portrait-souvenir: Molière |
2008 |
Frantisek Zvarík, The Shop on Main Street |
2008 |
Elmer Willhoite, The All American |
2009 |
Kim Dae-jung,15th President of South Korea (b. 1925) |
2009 |
Robert Novak, American journalist and commentator (b. 1931) |
2009 |
Steve Garfinkel, Signs |
2009 |
Rose Friedman, Free to Choose |
2009 |
Robert D. Novak, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story |
2009 |
Hugo Loetscher, O mein Papa |
2009 |
Fernanda Pivano, The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway |
2009 |
Hanna Bedrynska, W domu |
2009 |
Jerome Hawks, Sasqua |
2009 |
Mehmet Fistik, Auf neuen Wegen (2): Feiertage gibt es nicht |
2009 |
Hildegard Behrens, Tosca |
2009 |
Milan Slavický, Romeo and Juliet |
2009 |
Dae-jung Kim, Dragon Tuka |
2010 |
Hal Connolly, American Athlete and hammer thrower (b.1931) |
2010 |
Scott Davis, American Announcer of Track and Field (b.1943) |
2010 |
Benjamin Kaplan, copyright scholar |
2010 |
Dennis Kevis, Storm |
2010 |
Rina Franchetti, Two Happy Hearts |
2010 |
Mike Cassey, Angel on Fire |
2010 |
Kenny Edwards, 8 Seconds |
2010 |
Joska Pilissy, Le guépiot |
2010 |
Efraim Sevela, Popugay, govoryashchiy na idish |
2010 |
Hal Connolly, Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games |
2011 |
Anatoliy Savchenko, Junior and Karlson |
2011 |
Johnson, Kireedam |
2011 |
Norm Willey, The Complete History of the Philadelphia Eagles |
2011 |
Jun'ichi Takagi, Rampo |
2011 |
Samir Chanda, Rang De Basanti |
2011 |
Ronny, Episode dated 5 November 1974 |
2011 |
Gary Ticehurst, The Matrix Reloaded |
2011 |
Jean Tabary, Iznogoud |
2011 |
Edie Wasserman, The Last Mogul |
2012 |
Scott McKenzie, American singer, dies at 73 |
2012 |
Robert Weldon, Dead Men Tell |
2012 |
Winnie Johnson, Ian Brady: Endgames of a Psychopath |
2012 |
Scott McKenzie, Forrest Gump |
2012 |
George Bowers, From Hell |
2012 |
Ken Walker, Cool World |
2012 |
Alan Bateman, Nancy Wake |
2013 |
Dezső Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player, dies at 85 |
2013 |
Brand Inglis, The Thief, the Gang and Jeremiah |
2013 |
Frank Hopf, Inside Man |
2013 |
Dezso Gyarmati, Puskás Hungary |
2013 |
Zbigniew Czeski, Brunet wieczorowa pora |
2013 |
Rolv Wesenlund, Den siste Fleksnes |
2013 |
Karel Jesátko, Lemonade Joe |
2013 |
Kingsley Colton, Valerie |
2013 |
Albert Murray, Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music |
2013 |
Adela Fernandez, Soy el hijo del gallero |
2014 |
Don Pardo, TV announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live), dies at 96 |
2014 |
Larry Randolph, Chaplin |
2014 |
Colin McQuillan, One Hundred and Eighty: The Tour Documentary |
2014 |
Don Pardo, Jeopardy! |
2014 |
Sam Galbraith, Episode dated 30 October 2003 |
2014 |
Jock MacKelvie, Angel in Love |
2014 |
Ole Hvidman, Nattens engel |
2014 |
Fanny Morweiser, Das Königsstechen |
2014 |
James Alexander Gordon, Episode #6.101 |
2014 |
Charles M. Young, Classic Albums: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols |
2014 |
Néstor D'Alessandro, Trapito |
2015 |
Felicja Blaszynska, Struktura krysztalu |
2015 |
Oleg Durygin, The Bourne Supremacy |
2015 |
Roger Smalley, Fran |
2015 |
Radmila Jovancicevic, The Wounds |
2015 |
András Békés, Parasztbecsület |
2015 |
Louis Stokes, Oswald's Ghost |
2015 |
Bud Yorkin, Start the Revolution Without Me |
2015 |
Ivan Nemtsev, The Dust of Time |
2015 |
Russ Henderson, Someone Waiting |
2015 |
Dean Stock, A Grim Becoming |
2015 |
Rama Messinger, Ha-Lev Shel Amalia |
2015 |
Khalid Al-As'ad, A Force from the Desert |
2016 |
Love Story director Arthur Hiller dies, aged 92 |
2016 |
Nine Inch Nails Keyboardist James Woolley Dies Aged 50 |
2017 |
Former X Games competitor Jason Brown dies at age 46 |
2018 |
Jill Janus, lead singer of metal band Huntress, dies at 43 |
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