Famous Deaths In November - 18

0942  On November - 18 odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies  

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

1170  On this day in history 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  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 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  Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36 on November - 18.  

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

1771  On November - 18 giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73  

1785  On November - 18 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 this day in history death of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)  

1814  On this day in history death of william Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)  

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

1827  On November - 18 wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24  

1841  On November - 18 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  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 November - 18.  

1887  Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

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 November - 18.  

1911  Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies on November - 18.  

1917  Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43 on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1929  On this day in history henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78  

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

1946  On this day in history donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86  

1950  Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

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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 November - 18 birth of eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686)  

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

1727  Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773) was born on this day in history.  

1736  On November - 18 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.