August 18 - Deaths

Deaths

• 353 – Decentius, Roman usurper
• 440 – Pope Sixtus III
• 472 – Ricimer, Roman general (b. 405)
• 849 – Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian (b. 808)
• 1258 – Theodore II Laskaris, Byzantine-Greek Emperor (b. 1222)
• 1276 – Pope Adrian V (b. 1220)
• 1318 – Clare of Montefalco, Italian nun (b. 1268)
• 1430 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English nobleman (b. 1406)
• 1503 – Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
• 1559 – Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
• 1563 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
• 1613 – Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer, theorist, and writer (b. 1540)
• 1620 – Wanli Emperor of China (b. 1563)
• 1634 – Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
• 1642 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
• 1645 – Eudoxia Streshneva, Russian wife of Michael I of Russia (b. 1608)
• 1683 – Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
• 1707 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician (b. 1640)
• 1712 – Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier (b. 1660)
• 1765 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
• 1809 – Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (b. 1728)
• 1815 – Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
• 1842 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
• 1850 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 – Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 – Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 – Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1942 – Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-American actress (b. 1888)
• 1943 – Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 – Ernst Thälmann, German politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence leader (b. 1897)
• 1949 – Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 – Julien Lahaut, Belgian politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, writer, and saint (b. 1901)
• 1963 – Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
• 1968 – Cy Walter, American pianist (b. 1915)
• 1970 – Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (b. 1943)
• 1981 – Anita Loos, American screenwriter and author (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian (b. 1902)
• 1990 – Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
• 1990 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist, invented the Skinner box (b. 1904)
• 1992 – Christopher McCandless, American adventurer (b. 1968)
• 1994 – Martin Cahill, Irish criminal (b. 1949)
• 1998 – Nelly's, Greek photographer (b. 1899)
• 1998 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950)
• 2001 – David Peakall, English scientist (b. 1931)
• 2002 – Dean Riesner, American screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Tony Jackson, English singer and bass player (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
• 2004 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Hiram Fong, American politician (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
• 2005 – Gao Xiumin, Chinese actress (b. 1959)
• 2006 – George Astaphan, Caribbean physician (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Michael Deaver, American politician (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Kim Dae-jung, South Korean politician, 15th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Rose Friedman, American economist (b. 1910)
• 2009 – Robert Novak, American journalist (b. 1931)
• 2010 – Hal Connolly, American hammer thrower (b. 1931)
• 2010 – Scott Davis, American sportscaster (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Benjamin Kaplan, American scholar and jurist (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Hisham al-Hayali, Iraqi politician
• 2012 – Tayseer al-Mashhadani, Iraqi engineer and politician
• 2012 – John Lynch-Staunton, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Scott McKenzie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Ra. Ki. Rangarajan, Indian journalist and author (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician (b. 1958)