August 18 - Deaths

Deaths

• 353 – Decentius, Roman usurper
• 472 – Ricimer, Roman general
• 849 – Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian
• 1227 – Genghis Khan, Khagan of Mongol Empire
• 1258 – Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea
• 1276 – Pope Adrian V
• 1318 – Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (b. c. 1268)
• 1430 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)
• 1503 – Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
• 1559 – Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
• 1563 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
• 1613 – Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
• 1620 – Wanli, Emperor of China (b. 1563)
• 1634 – Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
• 1642 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
• 1645 – Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608)
• 1683 – Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
• 1707 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (b. 1640)
• 1712 – Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
• 1765 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
• 1809 – Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728)
• 1815 – Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
• 1842 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
• 1850 – Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
• 1919 – Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841)
• 1940 – Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
• 1942 – Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (b. 1888)
• 1943 – Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1945 – Subhas Chandra Bose popularly known as Netaji, Indian independence movement leader (b. 1897)
• 1949 – Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
• 1952 – Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit saint (b. 1901)
• 1963 – Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
• 1981 – Anita Loos, American screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
• 1990 – Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
• 1990 – B.F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904)
• 1992 – Christopher McCandless, subject of the book Into the Wild (b. 1968)
• 1994 – Martin Cahill, The General, infamous Dublin criminal (b. 1949)
• 1998 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950)
• 1998 – Nelly's, Greek photographer (b. 1899)
• 2001 – David Peakall, British scientist (b. 1931)
• 2002 – Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
• 2004 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Hiram Fong, former U.S. Senator from Hawaii (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
• 2005 – Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (b. 1959)
• 2006 – Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Kim Dae-jung,15th President of South Korea (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Robert Novak, American journalist and commentator (b. 1931)
• 2010 – Hal Connolly, American Athlete and hammer thrower (b.1931)
• 2010 – Scott Davis, American Announcer of Track and Field (b.1943)
• 2010 – Benjamin Kaplan, copyright scholar