September 18:: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 96 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)


• 887 - Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)


• 1180 - King Louis VII of France (b. 1120)


• 1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)


• 1630 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)


• 1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)


• 1675 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)


• 1721 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (b. 1664)


• 1722 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)


• 1783 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (b. 1707)


• 1783 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)


• 1792 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (b. 1704)


• 1806 - Patrick Cotter O'Brien, first known eight-foot-tall person (b. 1760)


• 1827 - Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (b. 1789)


• 1830 - William Hazlitt, English essayist (b. 1778)


• 1860 - Joseph Locke, English railway builder and civil engineer (b. 1805)


• 1872 - King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826)


• 1891 - William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)


• 1896 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819)


• 1905 - George MacDonald, Scottish writer and minister (b. 1824)


• 1911 - Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician (b. 1862)


• 1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (b. 1846)


• 1931 - Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)


• 1939 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)


• 1944 - Robert G. Cole American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (b. 1915)


• 1949 - Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890)


• 1953 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)


• 1956 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892)


• 1959 - Benjamin Péret, French surrealist author


• 1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General and distinguished economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905)


• 1964 - Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)


• 1964 - Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (b. 1880)


• 1967 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)


• 1970 - Jimi Hendrix, American musician (b. 1942)


• 1977 - Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)


• 1980 - Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist (b. 1890)


• 1986 - Pat Phoenix, English actress (b. 1923)


• 1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)


• 1995 - Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)


• 1997 - Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer (b. 1920)


• 2001 - Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927)


• 2002 - Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)


• 2002 - Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)


• 2003 - Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)


• 2003 - Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)


• 2004 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)


• 2004 - Russ Meyer, American film director (b. 1922)


• 2005 - Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)


• 2006 - Edward J. King, 66^th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)


• 2007 - Pepsi Tate Bassist from the glam-rock band, tigertailz (b. 1965)