October 18 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1035 – Sancho III of Navarre
• 1101 – Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)
• 1141 – Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
• 1382 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331)
• 1417 – Pope Gregory XII
• 1503 – Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
• 1541 – Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
• 1545 – John Taverner, English composer
• 1558 – Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
• 1564 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
• 1570 – Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
• 1604 – Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
• 1646 – Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607)
• 1667 – Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1603)
• 1678 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
• 1739 – Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
• 1744 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1660)
• 1770 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
• 1775 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
• 1817 – Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
• 1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)
• 1865 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
• 1886 – Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
• 1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
• 1892 – William W. Chapman, American politician (b. 1808)
• 1893 – Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
• 1911 – Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
• 1921 – King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1931 – Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
• 1932 – Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
• 1941 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7^th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
• 1942 – Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
• 1948 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1959 – Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
• 1961 – Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
• 1965 – Henry Travers, British actor (b. 1874),
• 1966 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (b. 1878)
• 1966 – Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
• 1973 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
• 1973 – Walt Kelly, American cartoonist, (Pogo) (b. 1913)
• 1973 – Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (b. 1899)
• 1975 – Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1976 – Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides
• 1977 – Andreas Baader (b. 1943)
• 1977 – Gudrun Ensslin (b. 1940)
• 1977 – Jan-Carl Raspe (b. 1944)
• 1978 – Ramón Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
• 1982 – Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
• 1982 – Dwain Esper, American film director (b. 1892)
• 1982 – Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (b. 1907)
• 1982 – John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
• 1983 – Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
• 1983 – Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (b. 1897)
• 1984 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
• 1984 – Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
• 2000 – Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
• 2000 – Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
• 2002 – Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950)
• 2003 – Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945)
• 2005 – John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Bill King, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Mario Francesco Pompedda, cardinal (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Anna Russell, English music satirist (b. 1911)
• 2007 – Alan Coren, English writer and satirist (b. 1938)
• 2007 – William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Dee Dee Warwick, American soul singer (b. 1945)
• 2010 – Marion Brown, American jazz musician (b. 1931)