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)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “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)

    “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)