Famous Deaths on 18th July

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640 - Arnulf, bishop of Metz (614-640)/politician, dies at about 58
715 - Muhammad bin Qasim (b. 695)
1100 - Godfried IV van Bouillon, count of Antwerp, dies
1374 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69
1488 - Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
1544 - René van Chalon, viceroy of Holland, dies in battle at 25
1591 - Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster, dies at 40
1608 - Joachim III Frederik, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 61
1610 - Michelangelo Merisi, Italian artist (b. 1573)
1639 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German prince and general (b. 1604)
1642 - Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, gov of Ft Emmerik/Heusden, dies
1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer, dies at 74
1695 - Joannes Camphuys, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 61
1698 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
1710 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter, dies at 36
1721 - Jean Antoine Watteau, French painter, dies
1730 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
1735 - Johann Krieger, composer, dies at 83
1792 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
Novelist Jane Austen (1817) 1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist, dies at 41
1831 - Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72
1833 - Joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63
1854 - Abbas Hilmi I, viceroy of Egypt, dies at about 41
1863 - William Dorsey Pender, US Confederate gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
1872 - Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66
1884 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
1892 - Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son), dies at 83
1894 - Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75
1898 - Emil Hartmann, composer, dies at 62
1899 - Horatio Alger Jr, American clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies
1901 - Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer, dies at 79
1902 - John White, composer, dies at 47
1908 - Jaime Nuno, composer, dies at 83
1915 - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53
1916 - Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
1918 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864)
1925 - Louis Nazaire Bégin, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1840)
1937 - Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
1938 - Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35
1939 - Witold Maliszewski, composer, dies at 65
1941 - Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer, dies at 80
1944 - George A Hartland, English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at 60
1944 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74
1948 - Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
1949 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
1950 - Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (The Nation), dies at 64
1952 - Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
1952 - Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (b. 1906)
1953 - Lucy Booth, Daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
American Gangster George Machine Gun Kelly (1954) 1954 - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster, dies at 59
1956 - Willem J A Kerncamp, Dut overseas minister (Islam & Woman), dies at 57
1958 - Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84
1958 - John Gobau, Flem/Dutch actor (Death of Business Traveller), dies at 67
1961 - Kit Guard, dies of cancer at 67
1963 - A H C Cooper, South African cricketer (Test v England 1914), dies
1965 - Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer, dies at 64
1966 - Bobby Fuller, rocker (I Fought the Law), found dead at 22
1966 - German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44
1967 - Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-87), dies at 66
1968 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1969 - Barbara Pepper, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57
1970 - Lucien H d'Azambuja, Fren astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86
1973 - Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62
1975 - Federico Ghisi, composer, dies at 74
1980 - Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (3 Tests for India 1932-34, 108 runs), dies
1981 - Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch para-psychologist, dies at 87
1982 - Lionel Daunais, French-Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
1984 - James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds
1985 - Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
1986 - Stanley Rous, British soccer official, dies at 91
1987 - Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer, dies at 87
1988 - Nico, US model/pop singer (Velvet Underground), dies at 43
1989 - Donnie Moore, pitcher (Angels), shoots himself at 35
1989 - Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam), is shot by a fan at 21
1990 - Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies at 78
1990 - Karl Menninger, psychatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer
1990 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
1990 - Gerry Boulet, Quebec rock singer (b. 1946)
1991 - Andre Cools, Belgian budget minister, murdered at 63
1991 - Harold Butler, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1947-48, 12 wkts), dies
1992 - Jan Pelleboer, Dutch meteorologist, dies
1992 - Mollie Parnis, fashion designer (Mamie Eisenhower), dies
1992 - Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies), dies at 88
1992 - Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies
1993 - Jean Negulesco, director (3 Coins in a Fountain), dies at 93
1993 - John Beck, US producer (Harvey, Singing Nun), dies at 83
1993 - Robert Davis, dies of emphysema at 76
1993 - Sergei Y Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut, dies in accident at 35
1993 - Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies
1994 - Gottfried Reinhardt, [Goldmann], German/US director, dies at 83
1995 - Fabio Casartelli, Italian olympian (Oly-gold-92), dies at 24
1996 - Hans Fellner, bookseller, dies at 71
1997 - Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer (Shoemaker-Levy comet), dies at 69
2001 - James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
2001 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)
2002 - Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933)
2004 - Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
2004 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (b. 1912)
2005 - William Westmoreland, American military officer (b. 1914)
2005 - Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2007 - George Caiazzo, American professional wrestler
2007 - Jerry Hadley, American opera singer, (b. 1952)
2007 - Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
2008 - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (b. 1944)
2009 - Henry Allingham, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1896)
2012 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, dies from kidney problems at 69