April 18 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1161 – Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1552 – John Leland, English antiquarian (b. 1502)
• 1556 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (b. 1495)
• 1567 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
• 1558 – Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
• 1636 – Julius Caesar, English judge
• 1650 – Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian (b. 1602)
• 1674 – John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620)
• 1689 – George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, British Chief Justice (b. 1648)
• 1732 – Louis Feuillée, French explorer (b. 1660)
• 1763 – Marie-Josephte Corriveau, Canadian convicted murderer (b. 1733)
• 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)
• 1859 – Tantya Tope, Indian Revolutionary and General (b. 1814)
• 1873 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist (b. 1803)
• 1898 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
• 1904 – Sumner Paine, American shooter (b. 1868)
• 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)
• 1938 – George Bryant, American archer (b. 1978)
• 1942 – Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
• 1942 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor, art patron, and collector, founder of Whitney Museum of American Art (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 – William, Prince of Albania (b. 1876)
• 1947 – Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest, politician, and Nazi collaborator (b. 1887)
• 1949 – Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
• 1951 – António Óscar Carmona, Portuguese politician, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
• 1955 – Albert Einstein, German physicist (b. 1879)
• 1958 – Maurice Gamelin, French general (b. 1872)
• 1959 – Irving Cummings, American actor and film director (b. 1888)
• 1963 – Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
• 1964 – Ben Hecht, American writer (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor and engineer (b. 1917)
• 1967 – Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
• 1974 – Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and director (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer of the Suez Canal nationalization (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Marcel Dassault, French aircraft industrialist (b.1892)
• 1988 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
• 1990 – Gory Guerrero, American wrestler (b. 1921)
• 1990 – Victoria O'Keefe, British actress (b. 1969)
• 1992 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian and actor (b. 1917)
• 1993 – Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Arturo Frondizi, Argentine politician, President of Argentina (b. 1908)
• 1995 – Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
• 1996 – Bernard Edwards, American bass player and record producer (Chic) (b. 1952)
• 1998 – Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2003 – Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
• 2007 – Iccho Itoh, Japanese politician, mayor of Nagasaki (b. 1945)
• 2009 – Stephanie Parker, Welsh actress (b. 1987)
• 2011 – Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (b. 1985)
• 2012 – Dick Clark, American television host and businessman (b. 1929)
• 2012 – K. D. Wentworth, American author (b.1951)