March 18 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 235 – Alexander Severus, Roman emperor (b. 208)
  • 978 – King Edward the Martyr of England
  • 1227 – Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)
  • 1314 – Jacques DeMolay, Frankish noble, the 23rd Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. 1244)
  • 1583 – King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
  • 1584 – Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530)
  • 1675 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
  • 1689 – John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607)
  • 1696 – Robert Charnock, English conspirator
  • 1715 – William Fraser, 12th Lord Saltoun. Scottish patriot politician and landowner. (b. 1654)
  • 1745 – Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
  • 1746 – Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718)
  • 1768 – Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)
  • 1781 – Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727)
  • 1823 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (b. 1753)
  • 1835 – Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)
  • 1845 – Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (b. 1774)
  • 1871 – Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born mathematician and logician (b. 1806)
  • 1898 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
  • 1907 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)
  • 1913 – King George I of Greece (b. 1845)
  • 1918 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (b. 1847)
  • 1933 – Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italian prince, mountaineer and explorer (b. 1873)
  • 1936 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime minister of Greece (b. 1864)
  • 1939 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader (b. 1859)
  • 1941 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
  • 1945 – William Grover-Williams, British racing driver (b. 1903)
  • 1947 – William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
  • 1962 – Walter W. Bacon, American politician (b. 1880)
  • 1963 – Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)
  • 1964 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (b. 1870)
  • 1965 – King Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1920)
  • 1965 – Jack Quinlan, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)
  • 1969 – Barbara Bates, American actress (b. 1925)
  • 1973 – Lauritz Melchior, Danish-born opera singer (b. 1890)
  • 1975 – Alain Grandbois, Quebec poet (b. 1900)
  • 1976 – Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1893)
  • 1977 – Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician (b. 1938)
  • 1977 – José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1944)
  • 1978 – Leigh Brackett, American author (b. 1915)
  • 1978 – Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)
  • 1980 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
  • 1983 – King Umberto II of Italy, (b. 1904)
  • 1984 – Charlie Lau, American baseball player (b. 1933)
  • 1986 – Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914)
  • 1988 – Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917)
  • 1990 – Robin Harris, American actor and comedian (b. 1953)
  • 1993 – Kenneth E. Boulding, American economist and activist (b. 1910)
  • 1995 – Robin Jacques, British illustrator (b. 1920)
  • 1996 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
  • 1999 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (b. 1905)
  • 2000 – Eberhard Bethge, German theologian (b. 1909)
  • 2001 – John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935)
  • 2002 – R. A. Lafferty, American writer (b. 1914)
  • 2002 – Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)
  • 2003 – Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)
  • 2003 – Adam Osborne, British computer pioneer (b. 1939)
  • 2004 – Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (b. 1927)
  • 2006 – Michael Attwell, British actor (b. 1943)
  • 2006 – Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930)
  • 2006 – Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer (b. 1922)
  • 2007 – Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer (b. 1948)
  • 2008 – Andrew Britton, British-born American novelist (b. 1981)
  • 2008 – Anthony Minghella, British film director (b. 1954)
  • 2008 – Geoffrey Pearson, Canadian diplomat and author (b. 1927)
  • 2009 – Natasha Richardson, English actress (b. 1963)
  • 2009 – Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian blogger
  • 2010 – Fess Parker, American actor (b. 1924)
  • 2011 – Warren Christopher, American diplomat and politician (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – King George Tupou V of Tonga (b. 1948)


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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “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)

    “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)