Famous Deaths on 18 Apr

Famous Deaths on 18 Apr

1161 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
1552 - John Leland, English antiquarian (b. 1502)
1556 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (b. 1495)
1558 - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
1567 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
1636 - Julius Caesar, English judge
1650 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian (b. 1602)
1674 - John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620)
1689 - George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice (b. 1648)
1732 - Louis Feuillée, French explorer (b. 1660)
1794 - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
1796 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
1802 - Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
1873 - Justus von Liebig, German chemist (b. 1803)
1898 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
1906 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
1917 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
1935 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
1936 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (b. 1879)
1942 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875)
1943 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral. (b. 1884)
1945 - John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (b. 1849)
1945 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
1945 - Prince William of Wied, sovereign Prince of Albania (b.1876)
1947 - Josef Tiso, Slovakian leader (b. 1887), Nazi collaborator and puppet ruler.
1949 - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
1951 - António Ã"scar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1958 - Maurice Gamelin, French general (b. 1872)
1963 - Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
1964 - Ben Hecht, American writer (b. 1894)
1965 - Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
1967 - Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
1974 - Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and filmmaker (b. 1895)
1976 - Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer (b. 1911)
1988 - Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
1990 - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1992 - Benny Hill, British comedian (b. 1924)
1993 - Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
1995 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (b. 1908)
1996 - Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
1996 - Bernard Edwards, American record producer (b. 1952)
1998 - Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
2002 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
2003 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)
2004 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920)
2005 - Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
2007 - Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki (b. 1945)