Famous Deaths on 18th November

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942 - Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies
1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
1170 - Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70
1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
1603 - Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61
1630 - Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried
1678 - Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36
1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
1771 - Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73
1785 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
1797 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
1814 - William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
1822 - Anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66
1822 - George Knowil Jackson, composer, dies at 65
1827 - Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24
1841 - Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77
1851 - Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80
1852 - Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60
1883 - Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies
1886 - Chester A Arthur, 21st pres (1881-85), dies in NY at 56
1887 - Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81
1887 - Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86
1887 - Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80
1889 - William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68
1904 - Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies
1911 - Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies
1917 - Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43
1918 - Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies
1919 - Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies
1922 - Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
1929 - Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
1941 - Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77
1941 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
1941 - Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
1946 - Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86
1946 - John King, cricketer (scored 60 & 4 in only Test Eng v Aus 1909), dies
1950 - Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
1951 - John H Van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice, dies at 57
1951 - Vaclav Kalik, composer, dies at 60
1951 - William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer, dies at 66
1952 - Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56
1958 - Sivert Samuelson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1910), dies
1962 - Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Niels Bohr (1962) 1962 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77
1965 - Henry A Wallace, VP (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77
1966 - Bela Tardos, composer, dies at 56
1966 - Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, dies
1968 - Walter Wanger, US producer (Cleopatria), dies at 74
1969 - Joseph P Kennedy, JFK/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Mass, at 81
1969 - Leon Jongen, composer, dies at 85
1969 - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
1970 - Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires), dies at 56
1971 - Junior Parker, rocker, dies during brain operation at 44
1972 - Danny Whitten, rocker, dies of a drug overdose
1972 - Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer, dies at 90
1976 - Man Ray, US artist (Dada), dies at 86
1977 - Victor Francen, actor (J'Acusse, San Antonio), dies at 89
1977 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (b. 1897)
1978 - Jim Jones, US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide
1978 - Leo J Ryan, (Rep-Cal) & 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 member
1979 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player (b. 1901)
1980 - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
1982 - Donald Dillaway, actor (Min & Bill, Platinum Blonde), dies at 78
1982 - H Kipphardt, writer, dies at 60
1984 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (b. 1907)
1986 - Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
1987 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (5x Tour de France), dies at 53
1989 - Henry de Vries, painter/poet (Toovertuin), dies
1990 - Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist, dies
1991 - Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78
1992 - Dorothy Kirsten, US soprano, dies from stroke at 82
1992 - Herman Musaph, psychiatrist/sexologist/co-founder (NVSH), dies
1992 - Superman, fictional character, killed by Doomsday at 54
1993 - Fritz Feld, actor (Errand Boy, Promises Promises), dies at 93
1994 - Cab[ell] Calloway, US band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86
1994 - Chris Joyce, photographer, dies at 51
1994 - Michael [George] Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet), dies at 77
1995 - Miron Grindea, literary editor, dies at 86
1995 - Ted Sannella, square dance caller, dies of cancer
1996 - David Herbert, publisher, dies at 69
1996 - John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72
1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
1999 - Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
2002 - James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
2003 - Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
2004 - Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
2005 - Harold J. Stone, American actor (b. 1911)
2009 - Red Robbins, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2010 - Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (b. 1937)
2012 - Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian Woman Grandmaster of chess, dies from brain cancer at 55