Famous Deaths on 18th April

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680 - Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies
1161 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
1504 - Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52
1530 - Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43
1552 - John Leland, antiquary, dies
1556 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61
1558 - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
1567 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63
1587 - John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies
1610 - Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63
1612 - Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian, dies
1636 - Julius Caesar, English judge
1650 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian (b. 1602)
1674 - John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620)
1679 - Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies
1684 - Gonzales Cocx, [Coques], painter, dies
1689 - George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge, dies
1690 - Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian fieldmarshal, dies
1710 - Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 75
1732 - Louis Feuillée, French explorer (b. 1660)
1794 - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
1796 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
1800 - John Evangelist Schreiber, composer, dies at 84
1800 - Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies
1807 - Erasmus Darwin, physician writer and botanist (Influence), dies (b. 1731)
1818 - Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch lawyer, dies at 59
1824 - Edward Jones, composer, dies at 72
1830 - Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer, dies at 62
1845 - Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77
1853 - William King, US VP, dies a month after his inauguration
1854 - Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84
1855 - Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter, dies
1861 - Heinrich August Neithardt, composer, dies at 67
1867 - Robert Smirke, architect, dies
1871 - Omar Pasha, [Michael Lats], Croatian governor, dies at 64
1873 - Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69
1879 - Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies
1883 - Agnes Tyrrell, composer, dies at 36
1898 - Gustave Moureau, painter, dies
1906 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
1917 - Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17), dies at 73
1917 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
1919 - Enny Vrede, [Maria M Muller], Dutch actress, drowns at 35
1921 - Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering), dies at 70
1925 - Charles Ebbets, Pres (Dodgers), dies
1928 - Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer, dies at 58
1935 - Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90
1935 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
1936 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56
1936 - Seaborn M Denson, composer, dies at 82
1938 - Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, dies
1939 - Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88
1940 - Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies
1940 - Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies
1941 - ... Korysis, PM of Greece, commits suicide
1942 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875)
1943 - I Yamamoto, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1944 - Cécile Chamindale, composer, dies
1945 - Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44
1945 - John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies
1945 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
1947 - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51
1949 - Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher, dies
1949 - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
1951 - António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
1955 - Don Blackie, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1928-29), dies at 46
1955 - Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70
Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (1955) 1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1958 - Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French generalissmo (WW I, WW II), dies at 85
1958 - Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies), dies
1959 - Irving Cummings Sr, actor/director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70
1960 - Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66
1963 - Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death
1963 - Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
1964 - Albe Vidakovic, composer, dies at 49
1964 - Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
1965 - Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
1967 - Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
1969 - Piotr F Scharoff, Russ/Italian actor/director (Chechov), dies at 82
1971 - Masao Oki, composer, dies at 69
1974 - Betty Compson, actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at 77
1974 - Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79
1975 - Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet), chansonnier/director, dies at 38
1976 - Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78
1976 - Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer (b. 1911)
1983 - Alan Melville, cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies
1984 - John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81
1986 - Marcel Dassault, [Bloch], French airplane builder, dies at 94
1988 - Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
1990 - Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87
1990 - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1992 - Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at 54 of cancer
1993 - Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76
1993 - Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
1994 - Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
1995 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies
1996 - Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner, dies at 62
1996 - Michael Leander Farr, record producer, dies at 55
1996 - Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80
1996 - Robert William Paine, architect, dies at 88
1997 - Edward Barker, cartoonist, dies at 46
1998 - Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
2002 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2003 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)
2004 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920)
2005 - Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
2007 - Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki (b. 1945)
2009 - Stephanie Parker, Welsh actress (b. 1987)
2011 - Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (b. 1985)
2012 - Dick Clark, American radio and television personality, dies from a heart attack at 82