Historical Deaths

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - April 18, 2025

1921 Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering), dies at 70

1879 Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies

1938 Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, dies

1974 Betty Compson, actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at 77

1940 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies

1996 Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner, dies at 62

1996 Robert William Paine, architect, dies at 88

1995 Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies

1935 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90

1830 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer, dies at 62

1976 Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78

1969 Piotr F Scharoff, Russ/Italian actor/director (Chechov), dies at 82

1964 Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71

1552 John Leland, antiquary, dies

1963 Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death

1800 Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies

1867 Robert Smirke, architect, dies

1996 Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80

1883 Agnes Tyrrell, composer, dies at 36

1975 Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet), chansonnier/director, dies at 38

1941 ... Korysis, PM of Greece, commits suicide

1955 Albert Einstein, German/US physicist (E=MCэ), dies

1971 Masao Oki, composer, dies at 69

1945 Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44

1684 Gonzales Cocx, [Coques], painter, dies

1949 Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher, dies

1958 Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French generalissmo (WW I, WW II), dies at 85

1690 Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian fieldmarshal, dies

1960 Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66

1936 Seaborn M Denson, composer, dies at 82

1689 George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge, dies

1955 Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70

1997 Edward Barker, cartoonist, dies at 46

1925 Charles Ebbets, Pres (Dodgers), dies

1917 Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, gov-gen of Belg (1914-17), dies at 73

1993 Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76

1861 Heinrich August Neithardt, composer, dies at 67

1818 Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch lawyer, dies at 59

1955 Don Blackie, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1928-29), dies at 46

1898 Gustave Moureau, painter, dies

1996 Michael Leander Farr, record producer, dies at 55

1990 Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87

1854 Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84

1943 I Yamamoto, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies

1986 Marcel Dassault, [Bloch], French airplane builder, dies at 94

1959 Irving Cummings Sr, actor/director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70

1994 Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32

1984 John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81

1845 Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77

1504 Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52

1567 Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63

1945 John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies

1679 Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies

1936 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56

0680 Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies

1974 Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79

1556 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61

1824 Edward Jones, composer, dies at 72

1807 Erasmus Darwin, physician/writer (Influence), dies

1710 Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 75

1860 Count Istv n Sz‚chenyi, statesman, commits suicide

1947 Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51

1905 Juan Valera bon Alcal  Galiano, Sp author (Pepita Jim‚nez), dies at 80

1610 Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63

1958 Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies), dies

1873 Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69

1855 Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter, dies

1940 Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies

1612 Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian, dies

1928 Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer, dies at 58

1874 David Livingstone, buried in Westminster Abbey

1587 John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies

1800 John Evangelist Schreiber, composer, dies at 84

1964 Albe Vidakovic, composer, dies at 49

1983 Alan Melville, cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies

1992 Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at 54 of cancer

1939 Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88

1853 William King, US VP, dies a month after his inauguration

1871 Omar Pasha, [Michael Lats], Croatian governor, dies at 64

1944 C‚cile Chamindale, composer, dies

1530 Fran‡ois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43

1919 Enny Vrede, [Maria M MЃller], Dutch actress, drowns at 35

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