Welcome to Today in History for Friday, July 18, 2008.
Famous Deaths for Yesterday in History ...
0640 - Arnulf, bishop of Metz (614-640)/politician, dies at about 58 1100 - Godfried IV van Bouillon, count of Antwerp, dies 1374 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69 1544 - Ren‚ 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 1639 - Bernard, duke of Saksen-Weimar (Rheinfelden), dies 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 1710 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Ital painter, dies at 36 1721 - Jean Antoine Watteau, French painter, dies 1735 - Johann Krieger, composer, dies at 83 1817 - Jane Austen, writer, dies 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 Ju rez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66 1892 - Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook and Son), dies at 83 1894 - Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75 1898 - Emil Hartmann, composer, dies at 62 1899 - Horatio Alger Jr, Amer 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 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 1949 - V¡tezslav Augustin R Nov k, Slovak composer (Profundis), dies at 78 1950 - Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (The Nation), dies at 64 1956 - Willem J A Kerncamp, Dut overseas minister (Islam and Woman), dies at 57 1958 - John Gobau, Flem/Dutch actor (Death of Business Traveller), dies at 67 1958 - Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84 1961 - Kit Guard, dies of cancer at 67 1963 - A H C Cooper, S Africa 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 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 1984 - James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds 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 - Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam), is shot by a fan at 21 1989 - Donnie Moore, pitcher (Angels), shoots himself at 35 1990 - Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies at 78 1990 - Karl Menninger, psychatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer 1991 - Andr‚ Cools, Belgian budget minister, murdered at 63 1991 - Harold Butler, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1947-48, 12 wkts), dies 1992 - Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies 1992 - Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies), dies at 88 1992 - Mollie Parnis, fashion designer (Mamie Eisenhower), dies 1992 - Jan Pelleboer, Dutch meteorologist, dies 1993 - Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies 1993 - Sergei Y Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut, dies in accident at 35 1993 - Robert Davis, dies of emphysema at 76 1993 - John Beck, US producer (Harvey, Singing Nun), dies at 83 1993 - Jean Negulesco, director (3 Coins in a Fountain), dies at 93 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
