Famous Deaths In November - 18

0942  Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies on this day in history.  

1154  Death of Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092) on this day in history.  

1170  On November - 18 albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70  

1305  On this day in history death of john II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)  

1559  Death of Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474) on November - 18.  

1590  Death of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528) on November - 18.  

1603  On November - 18 elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61  

1630  On November - 18 death of esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried  

1678  Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36 on this day in history.  

1724  Death of Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685) on this day in history.  

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1771  Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1785  Death of Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725) on this day in history.  

1796  Catharina II, "The Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67 on November - 18.  

1797  On this day in history death of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)  

1814  Death of William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745) on this day in history.  

1822  On November - 18 anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66  

1827  Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24 on November - 18.  

1841  On this day in history georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77  

1851  Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80 on November - 18.  

1852  Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60 on November - 18.  

1883  On November - 18 wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies  

1886  On this day in history chester A Arthur, 21st pres (1881-85), dies in NY at 56  

1887  On this day in history eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81  

1889  William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68 on November - 18.  

1904  Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies on this day in history.  

1911  On this day in history alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies  

1917  Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43 on November - 18.  

1918  On November - 18 reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies  

1919  Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies on November - 18.  

1922  On November - 18 marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51  

1929  Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78 on this day in history.  

1941  On this day in history walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77  

1946  Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86 on November - 18.  

1950  On this day in history gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60  

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1522  Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568) was born on November - 18.  

1527  On this day in history birth of luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor  

1630  On this day in history birth of eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686)  

1680  On this day in history birth of jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer  

1727  On this day in history birth of philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)  

1736  On this day in history birth of carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer  

1742  Felix Maximo Lopez, composer was born on this day in history.  

1772  Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer was born on November - 18.