Famous Deaths Happened In November - 18
Wednesday, 20 August 2025
0942 Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies on this day in history.
1154 On this day in history death of adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
1170 Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70 on this day in history.
1305 On this day in history death of john II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
1559 On this day in history death of cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1590 On November - 18 death of george Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
1603 Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61 on this day in history.
1630 Death of Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried on November - 18.
1678 Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36 on this day in history.
1724 On November - 18 death of bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
1771 On this day in history giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73
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 Death of Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719) on November - 18.
1814 Death of William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745) on this day in history.
1822 On this day in history anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66
1827 Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24 on this day in history.
1841 On this day in history georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77
1851 On this day in history ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80
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 this day in history.
1887 Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81 on November - 18.
1889 William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68 on November - 18.
1904 On November - 18 justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies
1911 On November - 18 alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies
1917 On this day in history henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43
1918 On November - 18 reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies
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 this day in history.
1929 Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78 on November - 18.
1941 Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77 on this day in history.
1946 On November - 18 donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86
1950 Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60 on November - 18.
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