August 18 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 353 – Decentius, Roman usurper
  • 440 – Pope Sixtus III
  • 472 – Ricimer, Roman general (b. 405)
  • 849 – Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian (b. 808)
  • 1258 – Theodore II Laskaris, Byzantine-Greek Emperor (b. 1222)
  • 1276 – Pope Adrian V (b. 1220)
  • 1318 – Clare of Montefalco, Italian nun (b. 1268)
  • 1430 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English nobleman (b. 1406)
  • 1503 – Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
  • 1559 – Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
  • 1563 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
  • 1613 – Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer, theorist, and writer (b. 1540)
  • 1620 – Wanli Emperor of China (b. 1563)
  • 1634 – Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
  • 1642 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
  • 1645 – Eudoxia Streshneva, Russian wife of Michael I of Russia (b. 1608)
  • 1683 – Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
  • 1707 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician (b. 1640)
  • 1712 – Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier (b. 1660)
  • 1765 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
  • 1809 – Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (b. 1728)
  • 1815 – Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
  • 1842 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
  • 1850 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
  • 1886 – Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
  • 1919 – Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded Seagram Company (b. 1841)
  • 1940 – Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
  • 1942 – Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-American actress (b. 1888)
  • 1943 – Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
  • 1944 – Ernst Thälmann, German politician (b. 1886)
  • 1945 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence leader (b. 1897)
  • 1949 – Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
  • 1950 – Julien Lahaut, Belgian politician (b. 1884)
  • 1952 – Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, writer, and saint (b. 1901)
  • 1963 – Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
  • 1968 – Cy Walter, American pianist (b. 1915)
  • 1970 – Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (b. 1943)
  • 1981 – Anita Loos, American screenwriter and author (b. 1889)
  • 1983 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian (b. 1902)
  • 1990 – Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
  • 1990 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist, invented the Skinner box (b. 1904)
  • 1992 – Christopher McCandless, American adventurer (b. 1968)
  • 1994 – Martin Cahill, Irish criminal (b. 1949)
  • 1998 – Nelly's, Greek photographer (b. 1899)
  • 1998 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950)
  • 2001 – David Peakall, English scientist (b. 1931)
  • 2002 – Dean Riesner, American screenwriter (b. 1918)
  • 2003 – Tony Jackson, English singer and bass player (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
  • 2004 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
  • 2004 – Hiram Fong, American politician (b. 1906)
  • 2005 – Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
  • 2005 – Gao Xiumin, Chinese actress (b. 1959)
  • 2006 – George Astaphan, Caribbean physician (b. 1946)
  • 2006 – Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
  • 2007 – Michael Deaver, American politician (b. 1938)
  • 2009 – Kim Dae-jung, South Korean politician, 15th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
  • 2009 – Rose Friedman, American economist (b. 1910)
  • 2009 – Robert Novak, American journalist (b. 1931)
  • 2010 – Hal Connolly, American hammer thrower (b. 1931)
  • 2010 – Scott Davis, American sportscaster (b. 1943)
  • 2010 – Benjamin Kaplan, American scholar and jurist (b. 1911)
  • 2012 – Hisham al-Hayali, Iraqi politician
  • 2012 – Tayseer al-Mashhadani, Iraqi engineer and politician
  • 2012 – John Lynch-Staunton, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
  • 2012 – Scott McKenzie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
  • 2012 – Ra. Ki. Rangarajan, Indian journalist and author (b. 1927)
  • 2012 – Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician (b. 1958)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)