Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 18

1897  Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1899  On this day in history john William Glover, composer, dies at 84   

1911  Alberto Randegger, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1918  Henryk Jarecki, composer, dies at 72 on December - 18.   

1919  Horatio William Parker, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1928  Lucien Capet, composer, dies at 55 on December - 18.   

1931  Death of John T "Legs" Diamond, US gangster, murdered at 35 on this day in history.   

1932  On this day in history eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist/revisionist, dies at 82   

1935  Juan V Gomez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies on this day in history.   

1936  On this day in history death of andrija Mohorovičić, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav seismologist (b. 1857)   

1937  On December - 18 s S Schultz, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies   

1939  On this day in history matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51   

1942  Charlie Walker, cricketer (Aust tourist to England 1930, 1938), dies on this day in history.   

1948  Death of Janet Fay, hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers on December - 18.   

1959  On this day in history dorothy L Sayers, writer, dies at 66   

1963  On this day in history winifried P I Zillig, German composer/conductor (Opfer), dies at 58   

1966  Gene Gauntier, dies in Cuernavaca Mexico on December - 18.   

1971  On December - 18 aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russ editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61   

1973  On this day in history giulio Cesare Brero, composer, dies at 64   

1974  Death of Harry Hooper, American baseball player (b. 1887) on this day in history.   

1975  Death of Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist (b. 1900) on this day in history.   

1976  George Emmett, cricketer (Engld opener v Aust Old Trafford 1948), dies on this day in history.   

1977  On December - 18 cyril Ritchard, actor (Peter Pan), dies at 80   

1980  Death of Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers heart attack at 76 on this day in history.   

1981  On December - 18 death of mehmet Shehu, PM Albania (1954-81)/"US-Russ spy", commits suicide   

1982  On this day in history raymond Emery, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v WI 1952, 46 runs, 2 wkts), dies   

1985  On December - 18 death of xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)   

1986  On this day in history mamo Clark, actor (1 Million BC, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), dies   

1987  Death of Conny Plank, German record producer and musician (b. 1940) on December - 18.   

1990  Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87 on this day in history.   

1991  June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73 on this day in history.   

1992  Dana Andrews, actor (Best Years of Our Lifes), dies at 83 on December - 18.   

1993  Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at 74 on December - 18.   

1994  Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor/director, dies at 71 on December - 18.   

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1507  ÅŒuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551) was born on December - 18.   

1562  On this day in history birth of philipp Dulichius, composer   

1569  On this day in history birth of jakob Hassler, composer   

1602  Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650) was born on this day in history.   

1610  Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist was born on December - 18.   

1620  Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668) was born on this day in history.   

1633  Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, baptised was born on December - 18.   

1633  On December - 18 birth of willem van de Velde the Young, Dutch seascape painter, baptised