Famous Deaths on 18 Aug

Famous Deaths on 18 Aug

1227 - Genghis Khan, Khagan of Mongol Empire
1258 - Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea
1276 - Pope Adrian V
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 - Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
1559 - Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
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)
1645 - Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608)
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 (b. 1708)
1809 - Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728)
1815 - Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
1842 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
1850 - Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
1919 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841)
1940 - Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
1942 - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (b. 1888)
1943 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
1949 - Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
1952 - Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit saint (b. 1901)
1963 - Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
1981 - Anita Loos, American screenwriter (b. 1889)
1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
1990 - B.F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904)
1990 - Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
1992 - John Sturges, American film director (b. 1911)
1994 - Martin Cahill, The General, infamous Dublin criminal (b. 1949)
1998 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950)
2001 - David Peakall, British scientist (b. 1931)
2002 - Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (b. 1918)
2003 - Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
2004 - Hiram Fong, former U.S. Senator from Hawaii (b. 1906)
2004 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
2005 - Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
2005 - Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (b. 1959)
2006 - Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
2006 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
2007 - Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff (b. 1938)
353 - Decentius, Roman usurper
472 - Ricimer, Roman general
849 - Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian