September 18 - Deaths

Deaths

• 96 – Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
• 887 – Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
• 1180 – King Louis VII of France (b. 1120)
• 1598 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
• 1630 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
• 1663 – St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)
• 1675 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
• 1721 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (b. 1664)
• 1722 – André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
• 1783 – Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (b. 1707)
• 1783 – Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
• 1792 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (b. 1704)
• 1806 – Patrick Cotter O'Brien, first known eight-foot-tall person (b. 1760)
• 1827 – Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (b. 1789)
• 1830 – William Hazlitt, English essayist (b. 1778)
• 1860 – Joseph Locke, English railway builder and civil engineer (b. 1805)
• 1872 – King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826)
• 1891 – William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
• 1896 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819)
• 1905 – George MacDonald, Scottish writer and minister (b. 1824)
• 1909 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist (b. 1850)
• 1911 – Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician (b. 1862)
• 1924 – Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (b. 1846)
• 1931 – Geli Raubal, Adolf Hitler's niece (b. 1908)
• 1931 – Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c.1806)
• 1939 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
• 1944 – Robert G. Cole American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (b. 1915)
• 1949 – Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1953 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
• 1956 – Adélard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
• 1959 – Benjamin Péret, French surrealist author (b. 1899)
• 1961 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General and distinguished economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905)
• 1964 – Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)
• 1964 – Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (b. 1880)
• 1967 – John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1970 – Jimi Hendrix, American musician (b. 1942)
• 1977 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1980 – Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist (b. 1890)
• 1986 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (b. 1923)
• 1987 – Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14^th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
• 1994 – Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
• 1995 – Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)
• 1997 – Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Charlie Foxx, American singer (b. 1939)
• 2001 – Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Margita Stefanovic, Yugoslav and Serbian musician best known as a keyboardist for the Serbian rock band Ekatarina Velika. (b. 1959)
• 2003 – Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Russ Meyer, American film director (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)
• 2006 – Edward J. King, 66^th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Pepsi Tate Welsh bassist (tigertailz) (b. 1965)
• 2008 – Ron Lancaster, American-born football player (b. 1938)