Famous Deaths on 18 Nov

Famous Deaths on 18 Nov

1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
1785 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
1797 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
1814 - William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
1889 - William Allingham, Irish author
1922 - Marcel Proust, French novelist (b. 1871)
1941 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1941 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
1941 - Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
1952 - Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)
1962 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
1965 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (b. 1888)
1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (b. 1888)
1969 - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
1972 - Danny Whitten, American musician and songwriter (b. 1943)
1976 - Man Ray, American artist (b. 1890)
1977 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (b. 1897)
1977 - Victor Francen, Belgian actor (b. 1888)
1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (suicide) (b. 1931)
1978 - Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman (b. 1925)
1979 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player (b. 1901)
1980 - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
1982 - Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (b. 1959)
1984 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (b. 1907)
1986 - Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
1987 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (cancer) (b. 1934)
1991 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913)
1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (b. 1907)
1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
1999 - Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
2002 - James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
2003 - Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
2004 - Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
2005 - Harold J. Stone, American actor (b. 1911)