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  Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70 on November - 18.   

1305  On November - 18 death of john II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)   

1559  On November - 18 death of cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)   

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

1603  Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61 on November - 18.   

1630  Death of Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried on November - 18.   

1678  On November - 18 giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36   

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

1771  Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73 on November - 18.   

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

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

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 November - 18.   

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

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

1841  On November - 18 georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77   

1851  Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1852  On this day in history anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60   

1883  On this day in history wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies   

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

1887  On November - 18 eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81   

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

1904  On this day in history justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies   

1911  Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies on this day in history.   

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 November - 18.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1946  On November - 18 donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86   

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

1742  On this day in history birth of felix Maximo Lopez, composer   

1772  Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer was born on this day in history.