Famous Deaths on 18th September

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31 - Sejanus, Roman head of praetorian guard, executed
96 - Domitian, Roman emperor, dies
887 - Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
993 - Arnulf vanf Gent, Westfries earl (988-93), dies in battle
1137 - Erik II Eimune, [Onvergetelijke], king of Denmark (1134-37), murdered
1180 - Louis VII, King of France, dies
1261 - Koenraad van Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1426 - Hubert [Huybrecht] van Eyck, painter, dies
1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
1630 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)
1675 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
1684 - Jan A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Ystroom), dies at 37
1721 - Matthew Prior, poet/diplomat, dies
1722 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
1735 - Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51
1775 - Andrew Foulis, bookseller/printer, dies
1783 - Leonhard Euler, mathematician, dies
1783 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
1792 - Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies
1797 - Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies
1806 - Patrick Cotter O'Brien, first known eight-foot-tall person (b. 1760)
1818 - Olaf Swaertz, botanist, dies
1827 - Robert Pollok, poet, dies
1830 - William Hazlitt, critic/essayist, dies
1831 - Peter Hansel, composer, dies at 60
1857 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer, dies at 72
1860 - Casimiro de Abreu, Brazilians poet (Primaveras), dies
1860 - Joseph Locke, railway engineer, dies
1872 - Charles XV Louis E, king of Sweden/Norway (1859-72), dies
1890 - Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor/playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67
1891 - William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
1896 - Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies
1903 - Isidor Vorobchievici, composer, dies at 67
1903 - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer, dies at 79
1904 - Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies
1905 - George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80
1911 - Russian Premier Peter Stolypin (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged 49
1918 - Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer, dies at 33
1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism), dies
1929 - Hermann Gradener, composer, dies at 85
1931 - Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)
1934 - Marie Shotwell, actress (Sally of the Sawdust), dies at 54
1939 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
1939 - Gwen John, Welsh painter, dies aged 63
1944 - Anthony Stefanich, British boxer/captain, killed in Arnhem
1944 - Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (1933-39), dies at 75
1944 - Hubert Ahaus, chaplin (Godsrijk), dies at 67
1944 - Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem
1944 - Robert Cole, US lt-colonel, dies in battle at Best
1945 - Blind Willie Johnson American blues/spiritual singer and guitarist (b. 1897)
1949 - Frank Morgan, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies at 59
1951 - John Douglas Cockcroft, physicist, dies
1952 - Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Dreamy), dies
1953 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
1956 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
1960 - A J Evans, cricketer (only England Test v Aus 1921), dies
1961 - Dag Hammarskjoeld, UN Sect Gen, dies in an air crash over Congo at 56
1962 - Therese Neumann, German stigma, dies at 64
1964 - Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (The Plough and the Stars), dies at 84
1964 - Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)
1966 - Fernand Lamy, composer, dies at 85
1966 - Jeno Vecsey, composer, dies at 57
1967 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1968 - Franchot Tone, actor (Advise & Consent, Dark Waters), dies at 63
1968 - Francis McDonald, actor (Will-Adv of Champion), dies at 77
1968 - Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 65
1969 - Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, composer, dies at 66
Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix (1970) 1970 - Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), dies of an overdose at 27
1973 - Nora Nicholson, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow), dies at 80
1974 - Edna Best, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape), dies at 74
1975 - Pamela Brown, actress (Cleopatra, Beckett, Night Digger), dies at 58
1977 - Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
1979 - Gene Kelly, sportscaster (Sportsreel), dies at 60
1980 - K A Porter, writer, dies at 90
1994 - Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies at 44
1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis star (Davis Cup 1979), dies at 40
1995 - Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73
1995 - Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London), dies at 64
1995 - Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist, dies at 47
1995 - Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)
1996 - Spiro Theodore Agnew, US VP (1969-73), dies at 77
1997 - Harry Brian Boyne, journalist, dies at 87
1997 - Jimmy Witherspoon, singer, dies at 65
2001 - Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927)
2002 - Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)
2002 - Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
2003 - Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
2003 - Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
2004 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
2004 - Russ Meyer, American film director (b. 1922)
2005 - Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)
2006 - Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
2007 - Pepsi Tate Bassist from the glam-rock band, tigertailz (b. 1965)
2012 - Jack Kralick, American MLB pitcher, dies from complications from strokes at 77
2012 - Steve Sabol, American filmmaker, dies from brain cancer at 69