December 18 - Deaths

Deaths

• 821 – Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans
• 1133 – Hildebert, French writer (b. 1055)
• 1290 – King Magnus I of Sweden (b. 1240)
• 1442 – Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371)
• 1476 – Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)
• 1495 – King Alfonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
• 1591 – Marigje Arriens, Dutch suspected witch (b. ca. 1520)
• 1692 – Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626)
• 1737 – Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker (b. 1644)
• 1787 – Francis William Drake, British Admiral and territorial governor (b. 1724)
• 1787 – Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)
• 1799 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b. 1725)
• 1803 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (b. 1744)
• 1829 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (b. 1744)
• 1843 – Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British statesman (b. 1748)
• 1848 – Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician and priest (b. 1781)
• 1869 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (b. 1829)
• 1880 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician (b. 1793)
• 1892 – Richard Owen, English biologist (b. 1804)
• 1922 – Carl Meyer, British banker and mining magnate (b. 1851)
• 1927 – Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian Revolutionary (b. 1897)
• 1936 – Andrija Mohorovičić, Austro-Hungarian-born Croatian seismologist (b. 1857)
• 1944 – Alexander Cudmore, American soccer player (b. 1888)
• 1950 – Johnny Hyde, Russian-born American talent agent (b. 1895)
• 1968 – Joan Tabor, American film and television actress (b. 1932)
• 1969 – Charles Dvorak, American track and field athlete (b. 1878)
• 1971 – Bobby Jones, American golfer (b. 1902)
• 1971 – Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
• 1973 – Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani orator and philosopher (b. 1908)
• 1974 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player (b. 1887)
• 1975 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist (b. 1900)
• 1977 – Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player (b. 1921)
• 1980 – Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politician and Premier (b. 1904)
• 1980 – Gabrielle Robinne, French actress (b. 1886)
• 1982 – Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (b. 1916)
• 1984 – Aris Maliagros, Greek actor (b. 1895)
• 1985 – Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)
• 1987 – Konrad "Conny" Plank, German record producer and musician (b. 1940)
• 1990 – Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (b. 1914)
• 1991 – George Abecassis, English Formula 1 driver (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Mark Goodson, American game show producer (b. 1915)
• 1993 – Sam Wanamaker, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1994 – Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Brian Brockless, English organist (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computing pioneer (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (b. 1904)
• 1997 – Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
• 1998 – Lev Dyomin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
• 1999 – Robert Bresson, French film director (b. 1907)
• 2000 – Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952)
• 2000 – Randolph Apperson Hearst, son of William Randolph Hearst; father of Patricia Hearst (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer and songwriter (b. 1959)
• 2001 – Gilbert Bécaud, French singer (b. 1927)
• 2001 – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (b. 1901)
• 2001 – Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Wayne Owens, American politician (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (b. 1905)
• 2006 – Mike Dickin, British radio broadcaster (b. 1943)
• 2006 – Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author and political activist (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Gerald Le Dain, Canadian Supreme Court Justice (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Jack Linkletter, American television host; son of Art Linkletter (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Bill Strauss, American writer (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Alan Wagner, American opera critic (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Majel Barrett, American actress; widow of Gene Roddenberry (b. 1932)
• 2008 – W. Mark Felt, American Watergate figure (b. 1913)
• 2010 – Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 2010 – Tasso Kavadia, Greek actress (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and economist (b. 1940)
• 2010 – James Pickles, English jurist and columnist (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist and classical scholar (b. 1913)
• 2011 – Václav Havel, playwright, philosopher and dissident, last president of Czechoslovakia, and the first president of the Czech Republic (b. 1936)