Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 18 May today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for May 18
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on May 18
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 526 | Pope John I (b. 470) |
| 893 | Stephen I of Constantinople (b. 867) |
| 932 | Ma Shaohong, general of Later Tang |
| 947 | Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty |
| 978 | Frederick I, duke of Upper Lorraine |
| 1065 | Frederick, Duke of Lower Lorraine (b. c. 1003) |
| 1096 | Minna of Worms, Jewish martyr killed during the Worms massacre (1096) |
| 1160 | Eric Jedvardsson (King Eric IX) of Sweden (since 1156); (b. circa 1120) |
| 1297 | Nicholas Longespee, Bishop of Salisbury |
| 1401 | Vladislaus II of Opole (b. 1332) |
| 1410 | Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1352) |
| 1550 | Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (b. 1498) |
| 1551 | Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian painter (b. 1486) |
| 1675 | Stanisſaw Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian (b. 1623) |
| 1675 | Jacques Marquette, French-American missionary and explorer (b. 1637) |
| 1692 | Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (b. 1617) |
| 1721 | Maria Barbara Carillo, victim of the Spanish Inquisition (b.1625) |
| 1733 | Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (b. 1761) |
| 1780 | Charles Hardy, English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1714) |
| 1781 | Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian-Indian rebel leader (b. 1742) |
| 1792 | Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730) |
| 1795 | Robert Rogers, English colonel (b. 1731) |
| 1799 | Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and publisher (b. 1732) |
| 1800 | Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729) |
| 1807 | John Douglas, Scottish bishop and scholar (b. 1721) |
| 1808 | Elijah Craig, American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (b. 1738) |
| 1844 | Richard McCarty, American lawyer and politician (b. 1780) |
| 1853 | Lionel Kieseritzky, Estonian-French chess player (b. 1806) |
| 1867 | Clarkson Stanfield, English painter (b. 1793) |
| 1889 | Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823) |
| 1900 | Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813) |
| 1908 | Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823) |
| 1909 | Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860) |
| 1909 | George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828) |
| 1910 | Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841) |
| 1910 | Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821) |
| 1911 | Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860) |
| 1922 | Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) |
| 1941 | Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863) |
| 1943 | ſnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (b. 1883) |
| 1947 | Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883) |
| 1955 | Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875) |
| 1956 | Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895) |
| 1958 | Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and critic (b. 1881) |
| 1963 | Ernie Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1939) |
| 1968 | Frank Walsh, Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (b. 1897) |
| 1971 | Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908) |
| 1973 | Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880) |
| 1974 | Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885) |
| 1975 | Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (b. 1908) |
| 1980 | Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption: Reid Blackburn, American photographer and journalist (b. 1952) David A. Johnston, American volcanologist and geologist (b. 1949) |
| 1980 | Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (b. 1956) |
| 1981 | Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908) |
| 1981 | William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908) |
| 1987 | Mahdi Amel, Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (b. 1936) |
| 1989 | Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder and author (b. 1921) |
| 1990 | Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936) |
| 1995 | Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (b. 1903) |
| 1995 | Alexander Godunov, Russian-American ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949) |
| 1995 | Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist and historian (b. 1911) |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933) |
| 1998 | Obaidullah Aleem, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1939) |
| 1999 | Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1954) |
| 1999 | Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911) |
| 2000 | Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian-American composer and musicologist (b. 1946) |
| 2001 | Irene Hunt, American author and illustrator (b. 1907) |
| 2004 | Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1927) |
| 2006 | Jaan Eilart, Estonian geographer, ecologist, and historian (b. 1933) |
| 2007 | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) |
| 2008 | Joseph Pevney, American actor and director (b. 1911) |
| 2008 | Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (b. 1942) |
| 2009 | Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954) |
| 2012 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German opera singer and conductor (b. 1925) |
| 2012 | Peter Jones, English-Australian drummer and songwriter (b. 1967) |
| 2012 | Alan Oakley, English bicycle designer, designed the Raleigh Chopper (b. 1927) |
| 2013 | Aleksei Balabanov, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1959) |
| 2013 | Jo Benkow, Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1924) |
| 2013 | Steve Forrest, American actor (b. 1925) |
| 2013 | David McMillan, American football player (b. 1981) |
| 2013 | Lothar Schmid, German chess player (b. 1928) |
| 2014 | Dobrica ĿosiĿ, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921) |
| 2014 | Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist and academic (b. 1929) |
| 2014 | Kaiketsu Masateru, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1948) |
| 2014 | Chukwuedu Nwokolo, Nigerian physician and academic (b. 1921) |
| 2014 | Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (b. 1946) |
| 2015 | Halldór Ásgrímsson, Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1947) |
| 2015 | Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (b. 1926) |
| 2015 | T. J. Moran, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1930) |
| 2015 | Jean-François Théodore, French businessman (b. 1946) |
| 2017 | Roger Ailes, American businessman (b. 1940) |
| 2017 | Jacque Fresco, American engineer and academic (b. 1916) |
| 2017 | Chris Cornell, American singer (b. 1964) |
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