Famous Deaths on 18 May

Famous Deaths on 18 May

1401 - Władysław Opolczyk (German: Ladislaus von Oppel, count palatine of Hungary 1367-1372, governor of Halych-Volhynia 1372 - 1378, count palatine of Poland
1450 - Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1397)
1550 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (b. 1498)
1551 - Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1486)
1584 - Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1559)
1675 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (b. 1623)
1675 - Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (b. 1637)
1692 - Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (b. 1617)
1733 - Georg Böhm, German organist (b. 1761)
1780 - Charles Hardy, British governor of Newfoundland
1781 - Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru (b. 1742)
1799 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (b. 1732)
1800 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
1807 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (b. 1721)
1808 - Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor (b. 1738?)
1829 - Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (b. 1803)
1844 - Richard McCarty, American politician (b. 1780)
1889 - Isabella Glyn Dallas, Scottish Shakepearean actress (b. 1823)
1900 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
1909 - George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
1909 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
1910 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (b. 1821)
1910 - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b.1841)
1911 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
1922 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
1927 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (b. 1872)
1941 - Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875)
1956 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
1963 - Ernie Davis, American football player (b. 1939)
1967 - Andy Clyde, American actor (b. 1892)
1971 - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
1973 - Jeannette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1880)
1975 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
1980 - Ian Curtis, English musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (b. 1956)
1980 - Harry Truman, victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1896)
1980 - David A. Johnston, a U.S. Volcanoligist was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1949)
1980 - Reid Blackburn, a photojournalist for National Geographic was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1952)
1981 - William Saroyan, American author (b. 1908)
1981 - Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
1988 - Daws Butler, American voice actor (b. 1916)
1990 - Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)
1992 - Skip Stephenson, American TV personality (b. 1940)
1992 - Marshall Thompson, American actor (b. 1925)
1995 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
1995 - Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
1995 - Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
1997 - Bridgette Andersen, American actress (b. 1975)
1999 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
1999 - Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)
2000 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (b. 1946)
2000 - Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi, Muslim scholar
2002 - Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2003 - Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking crusader (b. 1961)
2003 - Anna Santisteban, Puerto Rican beauty contest organizer (b. 1914)
2004 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1927)
2004 - Serge Turgeon, Quebec actor and union leader (b. 1946)
2006 - Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley's "Naked Guy" (b. 1972)
2007 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (b. 1932)
2007 - Yoyoy Villame, Philippine novelty singer and movie actor (b. 1932)
2008 - Joseph Pevney, American television director