Famous Deaths on 18 Oct

Famous Deaths on 18 Oct

1035 - Sancho III of Navarre
1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)
1141 - Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
1417 - Pope Gregory XII
1503 - Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
1545 - John Taverner, English composer
1558 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
1604 - Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
1646 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607)
1667 - Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia
1678 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
1739 - Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
1744 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1770 - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
1775 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
1865 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)
1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
1893 - Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
1911 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
1932 - Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
1941 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 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, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
1961 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
1965 - Henry Travers, British actor (b. 1874)
1966 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
1966 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (b. 1878)
1973 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
1973 - Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (b. 1899)
1975 - Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
1976 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (b. 1895)
1977 - Jan-Carl Raspe (b. 1944)
1977 - Gudrun Ensslin (b. 1940)
1977 - Andreas Baader (b. 1943)
1977 - Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides
1978 - Ramón Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
1982 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
1982 - Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (b. 1907)
1982 - Dwain Esper, American film director (b. 1892)
1982 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
1983 - Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
1983 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (b. 1897)
1984 - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
2000 - Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
2000 - Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922)
2002 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950)
2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
2003 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
2003 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
2004 - Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945)
2005 - Bill King, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)
2005 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
2005 - John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931)
2006 - Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929)
2006 - Anna Russell, English music satirist (b. 1911)
2007 - Alan Coren, English writer and satirist (b. 1938)
2007 - William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (b. 1925)
2007 - Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2007 - Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)