Famous Deaths In November - 18

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

1154  On November - 18 death of adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)  

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

1305  Death of John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239) on November - 18.  

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 this day in history.  

1603  On this day in history elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61  

1630  Death of Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried on this day in history.  

1678  On this day in history giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36  

1724  On November - 18 death of bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)  

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1771  On this day in history giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73  

1785  On this day in history death of louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)  

1796  Catharina II, "The Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1797  On November - 18 death of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)  

1814  Death of William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745) on November - 18.  

1822  Anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66 on November - 18.  

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

1841  Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77 on November - 18.  

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  Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies on this day in history.  

1886  Chester A Arthur, 21st pres (1881-85), dies in NY at 56 on November - 18.  

1887  Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81 on November - 18.  

1889  William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1904  Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies on November - 18.  

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

1917  On this day in history henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43  

1918  Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies on this day in history.  

1919  Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies on this day in history.  

1922  Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51 on November - 18.  

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

1941  Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77 on November - 18.  

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

1950  On November - 18 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  Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor was born on this day in history.  

1630  Eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686) was born on November - 18.  

1680  On November - 18 birth of jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer  

1727  On November - 18 birth of philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)  

1736  On November - 18 birth of carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer  

1742  On November - 18 birth of felix Maximo Lopez, composer  

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