Famous Deaths on 18 Jul

Famous Deaths on 18 Jul

1100 - Godfrey of Bouillon, Protector of the Holy Sepulcher
1488 - Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
1591 - Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)
1608 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
1610 - Michelangelo Merisi, Italian artist (b. 1573)
1639 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)
1695 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)
1698 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
1721 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
1730 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
1792 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
1863 - Robert Gould Shaw, American military officer (b. 1837)
1872 - Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
1884 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
1892 - Thomas Cook, English travel agent (b. 1808)
1899 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer (b. 1832)
1916 - Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
1918 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864)
1925 - Louis Nazaire Bégin, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1840)
1937 - Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
1944 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet and author (b. 1870)
1948 - Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
1949 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
1952 - Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (b. 1906)
1952 - Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
1953 - Lucy Booth, Daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
1954 - Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
1966 - Bobby Fuller, American rock singer (b. 1942)
1968 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne, American Robert F. Kennedy campaign worker (b. 1940)
1973 - Jack Hawkins, English film actor (b. 1910)
1982 - Lionel Daunais, French-Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
1985 - Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
1988 - Nico, German model and singer (b. 1938)
1989 - Donnie Moore, American baseball player (b. 1954)
1989 - Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (b. 1967)
1990 - Gerry Boulet, Quebec rock singer (b. 1946)
1990 - Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (b. 1896)
1990 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
1990 - Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (b. 1918)
1995 - Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
1995 - Srinagarindra, Mother of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (b. 1900)
1997 - Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
2001 - James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
2001 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)
2002 - Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933)
2004 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (b. 1912)
2004 - Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
2005 - William Westmoreland, American military officer (b. 1914)
2005 - Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2007 - George Caiazzo, American professional wrestler
2007 - Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
2007 - Jerry Hadley, American opera singer, (b. 1952)
2008 - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (b. 1944)
715 - Muhammad bin Qasim (b. 695)