November 18 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1154 – Adelaide of Maurienne (b. 1092)
• 1305 – John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
• 1559 – Cuthbert Tunstall, English bishop (b. 1474)
• 1590 – George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1528)
• 1724 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese priest (b. 1685)
• 1785 – Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1725)
• 1797 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
• 1814 – William Jessop, English engineer (b. 1745)
• 1852 – Rose Philippine Duchesne French-American nun and saint (b. 1769)
• 1886 – Chester A. Arthur, American politician, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
• 1889 – William Allingham, Irish poet (b. 1824 or 1828)
• 1909 – Renée Vivien, English-French poet (b. 1877)
• 1922 – Marcel Proust, French author (b. 1871)
• 1940 – Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian (b. 1876)
• 1941 – Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet (b. 1879)
• 1941 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1941 – Chris Watson, Australian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
• 1952 – Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)
• 1962 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1965 – Henry A. Wallace, American politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1888)
• 1969 – Ted Heath, English trombone player and bandleader (b. 1902)
• 1969 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American businessman and diplomat (b. 1888)
• 1972 – Danny Whitten, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crazy Horse) (b. 1943)
• 1976 – Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter (b. 1890)
• 1977 – Victor Francen, Belgian actor (b. 1888)
• 1977 – Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria (b. 1897)
• 1978 – Jim Jones, American cult leader, founded Peoples Temple (b. 1931)
• 1978 – Leo Ryan, American politician (b. 1925)
• 1979 – Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (b. 1901)
• 1980 – Conn Smythe, Canadian soldier and businessman (b. 1895)
• 1984 – Mary Hamman, American author and editor (b. 1907)
• 1986 – Gia Carangi, American model (b. 1960)
• 1987 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (b. 1934)
• 1991 – Gustáv Husák, Slovak-Czech politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist (b. 1936)
• 1994 – Peter Ledger, Australian illustrator (b. 1945)
• 1999 – Paul Bowles, American author (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Doug Sahm, American singer and guitarist (Sir Douglas Quintet and Flaco Jiménez) (b. 1941)
• 2002 – James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
• 2004 – Cy Coleman, American pianist and composer (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Harold J. Stone, American actor (b. 1911)
• 2009 – Red Robbins, American basketball player (b. 1944)
• 2010 – Brian G. Marsden, English astronomer (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Emilio Aragón Bermúdez, Spanish clown, singer, and accordion player (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian-American chess player (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Phoebe Hearst Cooke, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Ian Kirkpatrick, South African rugby player (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Neva Jane Langley, American model, Miss America 1953 (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Philip Ledger, English organist and composer (b. 1937)
• 2012 – William McCarthy, Baron McCarthy, English politician (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Kenny Morgans, Welsh footballer (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Ed Richards, American fencer (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Helmut Sonnenfeldt, German-American politician and scholar (b. 1926)