January 18 - Deaths

Deaths

• 52 BC – Publius Clodius Pulcher (b. 93 BC)
• 474 – Leo I the Thracian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
• 1213 – Queen Regnant Tamar of Georgia (b. c. 1160)
• 1367 – King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
• 1425 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
• 1471 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
• 1586 – Margaret of Parma, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
• 1677 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)
• 1803 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
• 1862 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
• 1873 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
• 1878 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
• 1886 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
• 1892 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious figure (b. 1819)
• 1896 – Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
• 1923 – Wallace Reid, American actor (b. 1891)
• 1936 – Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)
• 1936 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
• 1940 – Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)
• 1945 – Hermann Braun, American-born German actor (b. 1918)
• 1951 – Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary (b. 1867)
• 1952 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
• 1954 – Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
• 1955 – Saadat Hassan Manto,Pakistan short story writer (b. 1912)
• 1963 – Hugh Gaitskell, English politician (b. 1906)
• 1966 – Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
• 1967 – Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
• 1969 – Dada Lekhraj, founding father of Brahma Kumaris (b. 1884)
• 1969 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
• 1970 – David O. McKay, American religious figure (b. 1873)
• 1971 – Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (b. 1914)
• 1975 – Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1978 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher and writer (b. 1919)
• 1978 – Carl Betz, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
• 1978 – Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective (b. 1890)
• 1980 – Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
• 1984 – Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
• 1985 – Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
• 1990 – Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
• 1993 – Eleanor Hibbert, English writer (b. 1906)
• 1994 – Denis Henry Desty, English scientist and inventor (b. 1923)
• 1995 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
• 1996 – Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (b. 1923)
• 1997 – Paul Tsongas, American politician (b. 1941)
• 2000 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
• 2001 – Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Ed Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
• 2006 – Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange and Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
• 2008 – Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)
• 2008 – John Stroger, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2009 – Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Nora Kovach, Hungarian-born American ballerina (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Bob May, American actor (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Sargent Shriver, American politician (b. 1915)