July 18 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 715 – Muhammad bin Qasim, Umayyad general (b. 695)
  • 1100 – Godfrey of Bouillon, Frankish knight (b. 1016)
  • 1300 – Gerard Segarelli, Italian founder of the Apostolic Brethren (b. 1240)
  • 1488 – Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
  • 1591 – Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)
  • 1608 – Joachim III Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
  • 1610 – Caravaggio, Italian artist (b. 1573)
  • 1639 – Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)
  • 1695 – Johannes Camphuys, Dutch Governor-General (b. 1634)
  • 1698 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
  • 1721 – Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
  • 1730 – François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
  • 1756 – Pieter Langendijk, Dutch dramatist and poet (b. 1683)
  • 1792 – John Paul Jones, American navy commander (b. 1747)
  • 1817 – Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
  • 1863 – Robert Gould Shaw, American military officer (b. 1837)
  • 1872 – Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
  • 1884 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
  • 1892 – Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
  • 1899 – Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer (b. 1832)
  • 1916 – Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
  • 1918 – Princess Elisabeth of Hesse (b. 1864)
  • 1925 – Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal and Archbishop (b. 1840)
  • 1937 – Julian Bell, English poet (b. 1908)
  • 1938 – Marie of Romania (b. 1875)
  • 1944 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet and author (b. 1870)
  • 1948 – Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
  • 1949 – Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
  • 1952 – Jack Earle, American actor (b. 1906)
  • 1952 – Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
  • 1953 – Lucy Booth, English daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
  • 1954 – Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
  • 1966 – Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
  • 1968 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
  • 1968 – Manfred Toeppen, American water polo player (b. 1887)
  • 1969 – Mary Jo Kopechne, American teacher and secretary (b. 1940)
  • 1973 – Jack Hawkins, English actor (b. 1910)
  • 1982 – Lionel Daunais, Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
  • 1984 – Grigori Kromanov, Estonian film and theatre director (b. 1926)
  • 1985 – Shahnawaz Bhutto, Pakistani son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (b. 1958)
  • 1985 – Louisa Ghijs, Belgian actress (b. 1902)
  • 1988 – Nico, German singer-songwriter, actress, and model (b. 1938)
  • 1988 – Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1924)
  • 1989 – Donnie Moore, American baseball player (b. 1954)
  • 1989 – Marika Nezer, Greek actress (b. 1906)
  • 1989 – Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (b. 1967)
  • 1990 – Yoon Boseon, South Korean politician and activist, 4th President of South Korea (b. 1897)
  • 1990 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (b. 1896)
  • 1990 – Gerry Boulet, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician (Offenbach) (b. 1946)
  • 1990 – Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian and writer (b. 1918)
  • 1995 – Srinagarindra, Thai wife of Mahidol Adulyadej (b. 1900)
  • 1995 – Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
  • 1997 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
  • 1999 – Meir Ariel, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
  • 2001 – Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1945)
  • 2001 – James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
  • 2001 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle designer and engineer (b. 1920)
  • 2002 – Victor Emery, English physicist (b. 1933)
  • 2004 – Paul Foot, English journalist (b. 1937)
  • 2004 – Émile Peynaud, French wine maker (b. 1912)
  • 2005 – William Westmoreland, American military officer (b. 1914)
  • 2005 – Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
  • 2007 – Jerry Hadley, American tenor (b. 1952)
  • 2007 – John Kronus, American wrestler (b. 1969)
  • 2007 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
  • 2008 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (b. 1944)
  • 2009 – Henry Allingham, English super-centenarian (b. 1896)
  • 2009 – Jill Balcon, English actress (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Robert Creamer, American writer and editor (b. 1922)
  • 2012 – Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Lithuanian-Israeli rabbi (b. 1910)
  • 2012 – Jean François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor and producer (b. 1942)
  • 2012 – Hafez Makhlouf, Syrian military officer (b. 1971)
  • 2012 – Frank "Pancho" Martin, Cuban-American horse trainer (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Jack Matthews, Welsh rugby player (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – Dawoud Rajiha, Syrian politician (b. 1947)
  • 2012 – Assef Shawkat, Syrian politician (b. 1950)
  • 2012 – Hasan Turkmani, Syrian politician (b. 1935)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “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)

    “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)