What Happened In 18th January In History

Famous Deaths in History for January 18th

• Year 52 » Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician (b. 93 BC)
• Year 474 » Leo I the Thracian, Byzantine emperor (b. 401)
• Year 1213 » Tamar of Georgia (b. 1160)
• Year 1367 » Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
• Year 1425 » Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
• Year 1471 » Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
• Year 1586 » Margaret of Parma (b. 1522)
• Year 1677 » Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch administrator, founded Cape Town (b. 1619)
• Year 1803 » Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
• Year 1849 » Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (b. 1752)
• Year 1862 » John Tyler, American politician, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
• Year 1873 » Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
• Year 1878 » Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
• Year 1886 » Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
• Year 1892 » Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
• Year 1896 » Charles Floquet, French politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
• Year 1923 » Wallace Reid, American actor (b. 1891)
• Year 1936 » Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• Year 1936 » Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)
• Year 1940 » Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865)
• Year 1945 » Hermann Braun, American-German actor (b. 1918)
• Year 1951 » Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary (b. 1867)
• Year 1952 » Curly Howard, American actor and singer (b. 1903)
• Year 1954 » Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
• Year 1955 » Saadat Hassan Manto, Pakistani author (b. 1912)
• Year 1956 » Konstantin Päts, Estonian politician, 1st President of Estonia (b. 1874)
• Year 1963 » Hugh Gaitskell, English politician (b. 1906)
• Year 1966 » Kathleen Norris, American author (b. 1880)
• Year 1967 » Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
• Year 1969 » Dada Lekhraj, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1884)
• Year 1969 » Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
• Year 1970 » David O. McKay, American religious leader, 9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
• Year 1971 » Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (b. 1914)
• Year 1975 » Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
• Year 1978 » Walter H. Thompson, English bodyguard (b. 1890)
• Year 1978 » Carl Betz, American actor (b. 1921)
• Year 1978 » Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher and author (b. 1919)
• Year 1980 » Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
• Year 1984 » Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Belarusian general and politician (b. 1902)
• Year 1984 » Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1915)
• Year 1985 » Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
• Year 1989 » Bruce Chatwin, English author (b. 1940)
• Year 1990 » Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
• Year 1993 » Eleanor Hibbert, English author (b. 1906)
• Year 1993 » Dionysios Zakythinos, Greek historian, academic, and politician (b. 1905)
• Year 1994 » Denis Henry Desty, English chromatographer (b. 1923)
• Year 1995 » Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• Year 1995 » Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1937)
• Year 1996 » N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1923)
• Year 1997 » Paul Tsongas, American politician (b. 1941)
• Year 1997 » Adriana Caselotti, American voice actress and singer (b. 1916)
• Year 1998 » Dan Georgiadis, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• Year 2000 » Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
• Year 2001 » Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Congolese politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
• Year 2001 » Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
• Year 2003 » Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (b. 1907)
• Year 2003 » Ed Farhat, American wrestler (b. 1924)
• Year 2005 » Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
• Year 2005 » Pez Whatley, American wrestler (b. 1951)
• Year 2006 » Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
• Year 2007 » Brent Liles, American bass player (Agent Orange (band) known as Agent Orange and Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
• Year 2008 » John Stroger, American politician (b. 1929)
• Year 2008 » Frank Lewin, American composer and theorist (b. 1925)
• Year 2008 » Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman (b. 1927)
• Year 2009 » Tony Hart, English television host (b. 1925)
• Year 2009 » Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (b. 1931)
• Year 2009 » Bob May (actor) called Bob May, American actor (b. 1939)
• Year 2009 » Danai Stratigopoulou, Greek singer (b. 1913)
• Year 2009 » Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
• Year 2010 » Robert B. Parker, American author (b. 1932)
• Year 2010 » Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer-songwriter and accordion player (Mountain City Four and Kate and Anna McGarrigle) (b. 1946)
• Year 2011 » Sargent Shriver, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to France (b. 1915)
• Year 2012 » Yuri Rasovsky, American playwright and producer, founded The National Radio Theater of Chicago (b. 1944)
• Year 2012 » Georg Lassen, German captain (b. 1915)
• Year 2012 » Anthony Gonsalves, Indian composer (b. 1927)
• Year 2012 » Mel Goldstein, American meteorologist (b. 1945)
• Year 2012 » Ray Finch, English potter (b. 1914)
• Year 2012 » Tom Cowie, English businessman (b. 1922)
• Year 2012 » Karen Brazell, American author and academic (b. 1938)
• Year 2013 » Morné van der Merwe, South African rugby player (b. 1973)
• Year 2013 » Theodore Stern, American academic (b. 1912)
• Year 2013 » Jacques Sadoul, French author (b. 1934)
• Year 2013 » Ron Nachman, Israeli politician (b. 1942)
• Year 2013 » Lewis Marnell, Australian skateboarder (b. 1982)
• Year 2013 » Jon Mannah, Australian rugby player (b. 1989)
• Year 2013 » Jim Horning, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1942)
• Year 2013 » Sean Fallon (footballer) known as Sean Fallon, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• Year 2013 » Walmor Chagas, Brazilian actor (b. 1930)
• Year 2013 » Peter Boyle (footballer born 1951) or Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager (b. 1951)
• Year 2014 » Takao Iwami, Japanese journalist (b. 1935)
• Year 2014 » Andy Graver, English footballer (b. 1927)
• Year 2014 » Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (Toto (band) Toto, Angel (band) Angel, and LeRoux (band) LeRoux) (b. 1951)
• Year 2014 » Komla Dumor, Ghanaian-English journalist (b. 1972)
• Year 2014 » Michael Botmang, Nigerian politician, 17th List of Governors of Plateau State or Governor of Plateau State (b. 1938)
• Year 2014 » Robert A. Alberty, American chemist and academic (b. 1921)
• Year 2014 » Kathryn Abbe, American photographer (b. 1919)
• Year 2014 » Sarah Marshall (British film actress) or Sarah Marshall, English-American actress (b. 1933)