July 18 - Deaths

Deaths

• 715 – Muhammad bin Qasim (b. 695)
• 1100 – Godfrey of Bouillon, Protector of the Holy Sepulcher
• 1488 – Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
• 1591 – Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)
• 1608 – Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
• 1610 – Michelangelo Merisi, Italian artist (b. 1573)
• 1639 – Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)
• 1695 – Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)
• 1698 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
• 1721 – Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
• 1730 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
• 1756 – Pieter Langendijk, Dutch dramatist and poet (b. 1683); other date proposed is July 9 (see)
• 1792 – John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
• 1817 – Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
• 1863 – Robert Gould Shaw, American military officer (b. 1837)
• 1872 – Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
• 1884 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
• 1892 – Thomas Cook, English travel agent (b. 1808)
• 1899 – Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer (b. 1832)
• 1916 – Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1918 – Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864)
• 1925 – Louis Nazaire Bégin, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1840)
• 1937 – Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
• 1938 – Queen 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 – Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
• 1952 – Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (b. 1906)
• 1953 – Lucy Booth, daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
• 1954 – Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
• 1966 – Bobby Fuller, American rock singer (b. 1942)
• 1968 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1969 – Mary Jo Kopechne, American Robert F. Kennedy campaign worker (b. 1940)
• 1973 – Jack Hawkins, English film actor (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Lionel Daunais, French-Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (b. 1958)
• 1988 – Nico, German model and singer (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, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
• 1990 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (b. 1896)
• 1990 – Gerry Boulet, Quebec rock singer (b. 1946)
• 1990 – Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (b. 1918)
• 1995 – Srinagarindra, Mother of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (b. 1900)
• 1995 – Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
• 1997 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
• 2001 – James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
• 2001 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle designer and engineer (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933)
• 2004 – Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (b. 1912)
• 2005 – William Westmoreland, American military officer (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
• 2007 – George Caiazzo, American professional wrestler (b. 1969)
• 2007 – Jerry Hadley, American opera singer, (b. 1952)
• 2007 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
• 2008 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (b. 1944)
• 2009 – Henry Allingham, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1896)
• 2009 – Jill Balcon, British actress (b. 1925)