Famous Deaths for Year 1918

Months in Year 1918: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 127 of 127

Jan 2nd - Sijbe K Bakker, vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at 42
Jan 6th - Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72
Jan 8th - Michael Hertz, composer, dies at 73
Jan 8th - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
Jan 9th - Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
Jan 24th - George Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (b. 1871)
Jan 28th - John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician, dies
Feb 2nd - John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 59
Feb 6th - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies at 55
Feb 7th - Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, composer, dies at 68
Feb 9th - Emiel van der Straeten, [Delrue], Flemish playwright, dies at 30
Feb 10th - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
Feb 10th - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 84
Feb 17th - Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian PM (1896-1911), dies
Mar 1st - Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer, dies at 64
Mar 4th - Eugene D'Harcourt, composer, dies at 58
Mar 9th - [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53
Mar 13th - Karel Stecker, composer, dies at 57
Mar 13th - William Courtleigh, actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at 26
Italian Pacifist Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (Feb 10th) Mar 15th - Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82
Mar 15th - Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
Mar 15th - Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
Mar 18th - Willem Coenen, composer, dies at 80
Mar 19th - Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73
Mar 20th - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)
Mar 23rd - Cesar Cortinas, composer, dies at 27
Mar 24th - Theophile Ysaye, composer, dies at 53
Mar 25th - Claude Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55
Mar 26th - Caesar A Cui, Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83
Apr 1st - Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer, dies at 64
Apr 5th - Paul Vidal de la Blanche, French geographer, dies at 73
Apr 11th - Arthur Ochse, cricketer (WW I played for S Afr in 1889 aged 19), dies
Apr 13th - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
Apr 20th - Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricketer (1 Test for SA), dies
Composer Claude Debussy (Mar 25th) Apr 21st - "Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25
Apr 21st - Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], German pilot dies after his plane his shot down at 25
Apr 23rd - Percy Thomson Dean, lt-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies
Apr 29th - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22
May 3rd - Charlie Soong, Christian Missionary
May 9th - George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
May 14th - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
May 16th - Eusapia Palladino, Napolitan, dies at 64
May 18th - Toivo Kuula, composer, dies at 34
May 19th - Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
May 27th - Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies at 80
May 30th - Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
Jun 1st - Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer, dies at 83
Jun 1st - Jaroslav Novotny, composer, dies at 32
Jun 10th - Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer, dies at 76
Fighter Ace The Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen) (Apr 21st) Jun 17th - Derek Barber, CEO (Countryside Commission), dies
Jun 25th - Jake Beckley, baseball player (b. 1867)
Jun 26th - Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
Jul 2nd - Mohammed V Resjad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18), dies
Jul 3rd - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
Jul 6th - Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies
Jul 12th - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
Jul 17th - Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II, executed at 13
Jul 17th - Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death at 46
Jul 17th - Anastasia N Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicholas, executed at 17
Jul 17th - Botkin, personal physician of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
Jul 17th - Charitonov, cook of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
Jul 17th - Demidova, lady in waiting of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
Jul 17th - Maria Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
Jul 17th - Nicolas II Aleksandrovitch, last tsar of Russia, executed at 50
Jul 17th - Olga Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
Jul 17th - Tatyana Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
Jul 17th - Trupp, lackey of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
Jul 18th - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864)
Jul 19th - Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa), dies
Jul 22nd - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898)
Jul 25th - Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentine poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies
Jul 25th - Franiska zu Reventlow, writer, dies at 47
Jul 26th - Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies
Jul 29th - Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
Jul 30th - Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies
Poet Joyce Kilmer (Jul 30th) Jul 30th - Joyce Kilmer, American poet, dies at 31
Aug 1st - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
Aug 3rd - Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41
Aug 8th - Gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright, dies at 38
Aug 10th - Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
Aug 12th - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872)
Aug 15th - Peter Gast, composer, dies at 64
Aug 22nd - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
Aug 29th - Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51
Aug 31st - Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I), dies at 36
Sep 4th - Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51)
Sep 12th - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
Sep 18th - Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer, dies at 33
Sep 19th - Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer, dies at 56
Sep 25th - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul, dies at 80
Sep 25th - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
Sep 28th - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
Sep 28th - Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
Oct 5th - Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies
Oct 7th - C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70
Oct 9th - Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60
Oct 13th - Gerrit Engelke, German writer (Briefer der Liebe), dies
Oct 15th - Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (b. circa 1838)
Oct 16th - Felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29
Oct 17th - Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb South African batsman 1905-12), dies
Oct 19th - Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WW I), dies at 34
Oct 19th - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
Oct 22nd - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)
Oct 24th - Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86
Oct 28th - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
Oct 31st - Egon Schiele, Austria painter/graphic artist, dies at 28
Oct 31st - Stephen Tisza, Hungarian PM (-1917), assassinated by soldiers
Nov 3rd - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
Nov 4th - Wilfred Owens, anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25
Nov 9th - Guillaume Apollinaire, [Kostrowitsky], Fr poet (Alcools), dies at 38
Nov 11th - Victor Adler, Austrian neurologist/foreign minister, dies
Nov 11th - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892)
Nov 13th - Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Fries author, dies at 28
Nov 15th - Georges Antoine, composer, dies at 26
Nov 18th - Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies
Nov 26th - Charlie McLeod, cricketer (all-rounder for Australia 1894-1905), dies
Nov 28th - Alexis Contant, composer, dies at 60
Nov 29th - Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Helten), dies at 40
Dec 2nd - Margit Kaffka, writer, dies at 38
Dec 2nd - Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868)
Dec 11th - Ivan Cankar, Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at 42
Dec 14th - Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, murdered
Dec 18th - Henryk Jarecki, composer, dies at 72
Dec 22nd - Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83
Dec 26th - Bertram Luard-Selby, composer, dies at 65
Dec 28th - George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
Dec 28th - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865)