October 18 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 325 – Emperor Ming of Jin (b. 299)
  • 1035 – Sancho III of Navarre (b. 992)
  • 1101 – Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (b. 1053)
  • 1141 – Leopold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1108)
  • 1382 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician (b. 1331)
  • 1417 – Pope Gregory XII (b. 1326)
  • 1480 – Uhwudong, Korean dancer and poet (b. 1440)
  • 1503 – Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
  • 1541 – Margaret Tudor, English wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489)
  • 1545 – John Taverner, English composer and organist (b. 1490)
  • 1558 – Mary of Hungary (b. 1505)
  • 1564 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
  • 1570 – Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese priest (b. 1517)
  • 1604 – Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
  • 1646 – Isaac Jogues, French missionary and priest (b. 1607)
  • 1667 – Fasilides, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1603)
  • 1678 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
  • 1739 – António José da Silva, Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (b. 1705)
  • 1744 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660)
  • 1770 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby, English soldier (b. 1721)
  • 1775 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
  • 1817 – Etienne Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
  • 1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
  • 1865 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
  • 1886 – Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
  • 1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American inventor (b. 1808)
  • 1892 – William W. Chapman, American politician (b. 1808)
  • 1893 – Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
  • 1911 – Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
  • 1921 – Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
  • 1931 – Thomas Edison, American inventor, invented the light bulb (b. 1847)
  • 1932 – Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
  • 1941 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
  • 1942 – Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
  • 1948 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
  • 1959 – Boughera El Ouafi, French runner (b. 1898)
  • 1961 – Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)
  • 1965 – Henry Travers, English actor (b. 1874)
  • 1965 – Larry Thorne, American soldier (b. 1919)
  • 1966 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (b. 1878)
  • 1966 – S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (b. 1867)
  • 1973 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (b. 1886)
  • 1973 – Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
  • 1973 – Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (b. 1899)
  • 1975 – Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
  • 1976 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet (b. 1895)
  • 1977 – Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides
    • Andreas Baader, German left-wing militant leader (b. 1943)
    • Gudrun Ensslin, German left-wing militant leader (b. 1940)
    • Jan-Carl Raspe, German left-wing militant (b. 1944)
  • 1978 – Ramón Mercader, Spanish assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
  • 1982 – Dwain Esper, American director (b. 1892)
  • 1982 – Pierre Mendès France, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
  • 1982 – John Robarts, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
  • 1982 – Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
  • 1983 – Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish economist and author (b. 1897)
  • 1983 – Willie Jones, American baseball player (b. 1925)
  • 1984 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
  • 1984 – Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
  • 1987 – Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
  • 1988 – Frederick Ashton, Ecuadorian dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
  • 2000 – Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
  • 2000 – Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
  • 2002 – Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer and actor (Roman and the Four Steps) (b. 1950)
  • 2003 – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish journalist, author, and critic (b. 1939)
  • 2003 – Preston Smith, American politician, 40th Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
  • 2004 – Veerappan, Indian criminal and murderer (b. 1945)
  • 2005 – John Hollis, English actor (b. 1931)
  • 2005 – Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
  • 2005 – Bill King, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
  • 2006 – Mario Francesco Pompedda, Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
  • 2006 – Anna Russell, English-Canadian singer and actress (b. 1911)
  • 2007 – Alan Coren, English journalist and author (b. 1938)
  • 2007 – William J. Crowe, American admiral and diplomat (b. 1925)
  • 2007 – Vincent DeDomenico, American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (b. 1915)
  • 2007 – Lucky Dube, South African singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
  • 2008 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (b. 1945)
  • 2009 – Adriaan Kortlandt, Dutch ethologist (b. 1918)
  • 2010 – Marion Brown, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
  • 2012 – E. K. Fretwell, American academic (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Marvin Lambert, American wrestler (b. 1977)
  • 2012 – Mihály Lukács, Hungarian politician (b. 1954)
  • 2012 – Thomas Madigage, South African footballer and coach (b. 1970)
  • 2012 – Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – George Mattos, American pole vaulter (b. 1929)
  • 2012 – Albert Lee Ueltschi, American pilot, founded FlightSafety International (b. 1917)
  • 2012 – David S. Ware, American saxophonist (b. 1949)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)