History Deaths on April 18

Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)

#Erasmus_Darwin

Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)

#Albert_Einstein

Marie-Josephte Corriveau, Canadian murderer (b. 1733)

#Marie-Josephte_Corriveau

Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (b. 1994)

#Dylan_Tombides

Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)

#Isoroku_Yamamoto

Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (b. 1900)

#Ernie_Pyle

Agallianos Kontoskeles, Byzantine commander and rebel leader

#Agallianos_Kontoskeles

Stephen Lekapenos, co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire

#Stephen_Lekapenos

Bruno Sammartino, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1935)

#Bruno_Sammartino

Galdino della Sala, Italian archdeacon and saint

#Galdino_della_Sala

John Foxe, English historian and author (b. 1516)

#John_Foxe

Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)

#Irving_Cummings

Pierre Desproges, French journalist and actor (b. 1939)

#Pierre_Desproges

Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican engineer (b. 1917)

#Guillermo_González_Camarena

Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1895)

#Marcel_Pagnol

Fujiwara no Atsutada, Japanese nobleman and poet (b. 906)

#Fujiwara_no_Atsutada

Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (b. 1920)

#Kamisese_Mara

Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)

#Wilhelm_von_Grumbach

Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (b. 1803)

#Justus_von_Liebig

Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and politician (b. 1495)

#Luigi_Alamanni

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (b. 1914)

#Thor_Heyerdahl

Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)

#Ben_Hecht

Marcel Dassault, French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (b. 1892)

#Marcel_Dassault

George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Welsh judge and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1648)

#George_Jeffreys,_1st_Baron_Jeffreys

Theobald of Bec, French-English archbishop (b. 1090)

#Theobald_of_Bec

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)

#Gertrude_Vanderbilt_Whitney

Goran Švob, Croatian philosopher and author (b. 1947)

#Goran_Švob

K. D. Wentworth, American author (b. 1951)

#K._D._Wentworth

Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (b. 1826)

#Gustave_Moreau

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)

#Charles_Pratt,_1st_Earl_Camden

Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)

#Óscar_Carmona

Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)

#Aleksander_Mitt

John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (b. 1620)

#John_Graunt

John Leland, English poet and historian (b. 1502)

#John_Leland_(antiquary)

Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (b. 1872)

#Maurice_Gamelin

Arvid Horn, Swedish general and politician (b. 1664)

#Arvid_Horn

Æthelred I, king of Northumbria

#Æthelred_I_of_Northumbria

Erwin Waldner, German footballer (b. 1933)

#Erwin_Waldner

Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1732)

#Johan_Wilcke

Louis Feuillée, French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (b. 1660)

#Louis_Feuillée

Juris Alun?ns, Latvian philologist and linguist (b. 1832)

#Juris_Alun?ns

Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)

#Tatya_Tope

Brian Priestman, English conductor and academic (b. 1927)

#Brian_Priestman

Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1858)

#Vladimir_Serbsky

Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)

#Jozef_Tiso

George Bryant, American archer (b. 1878)

#George_Bryant_(archer)

John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)

#John_Ambrose_Fleming

Julius Caesar, English judge and politician (b. 1557)

#Julius_Caesar_(judge)

Meyer Jacobstein, American academic and politician (b. 1880)

#Meyer_Jacobstein

Savina Petrilli, Italian religious leader (b. 1851)

#Savina_Petrilli

Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (b. 1761)

#Jeanne-Elisabeth_Chaudet

Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)

#Arturo_Frondizi

Dick Clark, American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (b. 1929)

#Dick_Clark

Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)

#Luis_Martín

Terry Sanford, American lieutenant and politician, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)

#Terry_Sanford

Dale Winton, British television presenter (b. 1955)

Vic Albury, Major League pitcher (b. 1947)

Aleah Stanbridge, Swedish singer (b. 1977)

Roger Lobo, Macanese-Hong Kong businessman and politician (b. 1923)

David McClarty, Northern Irish politician (b. 1951)

Eduard Kosolapov, Russian footballer (b. 1976)

Sanford Jay Frank, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1954)

Guru Dhanapal, Indian director and producer (b. 1959)

Anne Williams, English activist (b. 1951)

Steuart Pringle, English general (b. 1928)

Cordell Mosson, American bass player (b. 1952)

René Lépine, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929)

Germaine Tillion, French ethnologist and anthropologist (b. 1907)

Iccho Itoh, Japanese politician (b. 1945)

Mercedes Palomino, Spanish-born Quebec actor and theatre director (b. 1913)

Sam Mills, American football player and coach (b. 1959)

Edgar F. Codd, English-American soldier, pilot, and computer scientist (b. 1923)

Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)

Edward Barker, English cartoonist (b. 1950)

Bernard Edwards, American bass player and producer (b. 1952)

Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)

Oktay R?fat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright (b. 1914)

Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)

Percy Smith, English footballer and manager (b. 1880)

Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)

Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)

Simonds d'Ewes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1602)

Polydore Vergil, English historian (b. 1470)

Dionysius II, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch

Perfectus, Spanish monk and martyr